Son of Jashin (Naruto/Percy Jackson)

Chapter 31: Grand Finale: Finale

Shin'en found himself overwhelmed. Percy's speed, enhanced through the tremendous pain and agony that his body was enduring and the Inner Gates, was too much, even for all the heightened abilities granted through Beta Mode and the Mangekyou.

Breaking out into sweat and taking several bruise-inducing hits, Shin'en adjusted strategy from simple brawling and trying to out muscle his opponent to martial arts technique. Redirecting strikes, blocking them, dodging. It worked for a little bit, Shin'en's tremendous experience and overwhelming taijutsu knowledge giving him an edge in the close-quarters arena, but Percy's sheer power, the sheer amount of chakra running through him, gave him the raw strength and speed to eventually outmatch Shin'en, and then it was back to square one.

But the Abyss was enthralled.

He registered neither pain nor injury, only exhilaration. Fun, grinning, having a good time. All of this and more. Shin'en was having a blast with this kid. Being able to simply roll over every person he ever fought got a little boring, so having someone to not only match him, but outpace him...always brought a smile to his face.

At least, whenever he was in the mood for a good fight.

More often than not, he just wanted to kill the target and move on.

But things that are fun can really get boring after a while, and so adjustment was needed to keep things fresh and interesting. So Shin'en threw up his Susano'o for a quick spell to create some thinking time. Though that thinking time was rapidly interrupted by Percy striking the large chakra construct, and actually cracking it in some places. Shin'en got annoyed with that and smacked Percy away like a fly, but the psychotic little thing pushed off the air and nosedived into solid chakra, and the game resumed.

But Shin'en enough time to spice things up.

By opening up three of his Inner Gates.

His hair rose around him, violent winds blasted from him, his skin turned red, a green aura of chakra-infused sweat shrouded him, pushing the black miasma out to a second aura, with the lightning still dancing around his body. The ground cratered, and small rocks levitated around him before crumbling to dust.

It was a slugfest from there.

Punches, kicks, throws, flips, blocks, you know how fight scenes of this magnitude go. It's really difficult to write that kind of a fight scene, especially when all the action is basically the same thing. It actually gets tedious for an author to write the same thing repeatedly, that's why there's film and TV for this sort of thing.

Anyway, with his increased physical prowess, Shin'en was more than a match for Percy, and his experience combined well with his power, and he easily took the upper hand in the fight. The problem was that pain was Percy's steroid, and any hit he took, every bone that got broke, added more to his chakra. Percy even used his Dead Bone Pulse to make his ribs break out of his skin, spikes erupt from his spine, bone from his legs and arms, and he even made little horns sprout from his skull. The bones breaking through his skin was excruciating, and boosted his chakra to absolutely horrifying levels...so Shin'en opened more Gates until he was three away from the Gate of Death, which he could open without fear of dying due to the nature of Body Activation Jutsu.

Their strikes rang like thunder and their speed surpassed lightning. They didn't get fast enough to start circumventing the planet, but their fight was more like Saitama and Boros. Super fast, super powerful, craters, shockwaves, air cones, the works. Running on the air itself, sending physical attacks that created pressurized streams of air strong enough to push through solid stone. The speed of sound was easily surpassed, and the shockwaves of their connected hits splintered the earth for dozens of meters.