FATE\Deus Decipit

Chapter 29: When Heavens Clash

11:50pm, Atop the Athenian Acropolis

Aaron found himself inexplicably beset with an unshakable sense of dread. Heping, some twenty feet in front of him, looked up with the same expression, her laughter falling off as if stolen from her. Rider moved swiftly, seizing his Master into the crook of his arm and leaping away from the epicenter of the falling colossus.

The Marble Giant fell like a meteor in the space between Aaron and Heping, the axe cutting into the ground, the stone and gravel exploding among a cloud of crackling lightning as the thunder, which had been so distant before, tore the earth asunder in less than a moment. Time slowed in this moment, as if each bolt of lightning were dancing around the marble giant and reaching towards Aaron, beckoning him into the release of death...

Rider took Aaron in his arms to the front of the Parthenon in his single bound, turning sharply to face the front of the Acropolis.

-Just in time to see the colossus charging them, matching their speed with ease, with his axe bared towards them in mid-swing.

Rider jumped vertically, allowing Berserker to go under him, before kicking off the back of his head and charging into the distance like a comet, covering ungodly ground in mere seconds before landing on a distant mountain and setting Aaron down.

"Remain hither, mine Master."

Overcome with fear and sensation, Aaron could only nod with bated breath.

Rider nodded back, and charged back towards the Acropolis, a streak of gold on the black skyline, the shadow of the colossus visible even from here, the full moon behind him. He could vaguely make out the crashing of Lancer's rake.

.....

Berserker's axe was held above the pig's head. Pigsy could only quiver helplessly as the colossus moved with speed that it shouldn't possess, without even enough time to bring his rake into a defensive position. Just as Lancer accepted his incoming death, Rider, the golden comet that he was, came between them and planted both feet squarely in Berserker's marble teeth. For the second time in either fight between the two, Berserker budged. The force and speed of Rider's kick sent Berserker's head back, breaking his attack. Rider rode the head as it went back, bending his knees and gathering golden bands of light around his shins. The moment Berserker faced the sky, he jumped up a second time, doubling down on his attack and sending the colossus firmly out of footing.

-Rider flew up into the sky like a rocket.

Berserker turned with feline agility, landing on all fours. He looked to the sky to see the golden comet that had used its face as a trampoline. He charged with electricity, his thunderous aura building with his rage.

-Eclipsing the moon, Rider turned in the air as he lost his momentum, spreading his body wide and gazing down on the colossus below. Light coursed through his fingers, forming into a long spear of ethereal gold.

Berserker prepared to chase Rider into the sky, building energy in his legs as deafening thunder encompassed the hill-

And stopped.

Around Berserker's legs was a long, bronze chain ending in a golden rake. It bound his legs to one another and locked them in place by binding the shins and thighs.

"Hahahaha! Good luck breaking the Divine-Iron chains of Heaven, asshole! Rehehee!"

The thunder grew in intensity, colored by sudden bursts from his thighs as Berserker used all his divine strength to try and break the chains that bound him, as if out of spite for the pig's gloating.

-The light in Rider's hands began to solidify, ribbons of gold circling the tip as the whole spear started to change hue, darkening to a blue color.

Berserker grabbed the chain that bound his leg, and pulled in an wide motion, yanking Lancer up and threatening to slam him against the ground. But as the now-flying pig began to arc-