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Chapter 5 - A tough decision

Ares turns to dust and disappears into thin air. Arthur gathers a part of the spear that was shattered. The gods full of anger insult him and other gods remain calm, on the other hand the humans shout with emotion the victory of Arthur.

Zeus breaks a crystal goblet containing his favorite wine.

— "I must go, to go for the next fighter."

— "Zeus, don't get angry eh... You know well that this could happen." comments the god Apollo.

— "Shut up!" enraged Zeus shouts. "Well, supreme god" mocking tone.

Arthur leaves the battlefield and enters the hallway that belongs to Ares. There Vral welcomes him happy of his victory. Excalibur disappears and Friel appears.

— "Not bad boy" comments Vral. "I see you took a liking to him, just like a regular colleague eh" comments Friel.

In the distance a goddess is seen, it is Athena. She angrily runs up to Arthur and hits him.

— Why?...Why...What..." she sobs and disconsolates. Vral and Friel leave the place to leave them alone.

— Why did you kill him?!... If I hadn't .... If he hadn't participated..." she cries.

Arthur embraces her tenderly "I promised your brother that I would take care of you now". Athena slaps Arthur's face "You're not Ares!" "I know" replies Ares. 

— "Although it may not seem like it, at one time I considered him a companion who could understand me. It was a strange feeling of friendship." He answers truthfully.

— "You killed him!... You are a murderer..." She cries and screams with all the pain in her chest for losing her brother.

Arthur hugs her again to comfort her, and thinks about how Ares would do it. He proceeds to hug her as if she were his little sister. "I'm sorry... It's something I had to do... I would have preferred to have killed an evil god... But unfortunately the good guys are the ones who lose..." he looks pitifully at Athena.

Athena looks up and sees her brother reflected in Arthur when he protected her, she feels safe. "I won't forgive you... But..." she hugs him tightly.

Arthur pulls out the piece of the spear he picked up. "Here, the tip of your brother's spear. He would have wanted you to have it."

Athena smiles; her pink lips glow with the warm voice of hers, and Arthur feels a reassuring thrill in his heart but falls to his knees.

Arthur is exhausted from the fight he had, so Athena carries him on her shoulders to a place where he can be healed.

A dark-haired young man with short wavy hair, piercing eyes and a big smile welcomes them.

— "Oh, Athena and... Arthur, right? Come in."

— "Thank you, Horus" Athena says to him. "You're welcome, if he's hurt all the more reason to help, besides my mother would say the same" "Of course she would Horus" I reply a goddess.

— "Isis!" he jumps for joy at the sight of the goddess Isis. "Isis...the goddess of wisdom?" Arthur asks.

Isis begins with the treatment, repairing the broken bones. One by one, then continuing with the deep wounds. If finger can't be restored so she leaves it the same.

— "You will have to rest. Athena take care of him, Horus you will stay in charge of the site, they speak to me from the council of gods." Sighs Isis "I hope they are not going to ask me to participate, I will still refuse, I am a neutral goddess" smiles Isis and leaves.

On the way to the site Isis meets Hermes. 

— "Where are you heading Isis?" Hermes asks and Isis answers "Towards the council" with doubt Hermes says to Isis "Strange, you should not participate, according to me I should follow Ra. Well, I must go and talk to Vral".

Isis thinks about what Hermes said "Ra? Well it wouldn't be strange... But..."

An entity stalks her in the shadows and disappears. She arrives at the place where the god Zeus, the god Poseidon, the goddess Hera and the god Amaterasu are.

On the ground was the god Ra, unable to move, looking at Zeus with hatred.

—I... I swear... I'll kill you... I'll fucking kill you..." Isis scared tries to push the gods away but Zeus hits her hard and grabs her by the hair cutting her neck.

— "Zeus... Let him go... I beg you" Isis pleads.

— "I will do it in exchange for your participation. Your magic is powerful enough, I can't pass up the chance to take the victory."

— "Why me? I am not a goddess who is for combat, I am the goddess of Health. Ask Ishtar for help better." 

Zeus kicks Ra, and Amaterasu slowly warms Ra's arm. "You should accept."

— "Why are you with Zeus, Amaterasu?" sobs asks the god.

— "For fun" he laughs in Isis' face. "Will you accept, or do you want me to make him fried chicken?"

— "Isis... Just go... Leave me here, whatever."

Hera approaches Isis to slap her and drag her by the hair.

— "Isis dear, agree or do you want me to kill your precious son." Isis indignantly and in complete submission accepts.

— "I will" The gods leave the council room, Isis immediately heals herself with a spell and disappears Ra's burns.

— "I'm sorry, Isis" Ra says humiliated, "Don't worry, I'm sorry. I made the decision anyway," Isis replies.

Isis thinks about what she did, but she would do her best to protect her son.

Meanwhile in another place, in the hall of the valkyries.

— "Vral, are you here?" shouts Hermes.

— "But just look who is here!" says a beautiful valkyrie with a fighter's body and long hair as black as night. It is Brunhilde.

— "Brun... Well, do you know where Vral is?" asks Hermes.

— "Here I am, did you bring what I asked for?"

— "Of course I did, and you did your thing I guess."

They both hand over a sheet with possible candidates for the fights.

— "Wow, that's quite a few."

— "Ah yes, Vral. The second bout is likely to be Isis. I have a bad feeling." Hermes comments with a shudder.

— "I expected that, so there's no choice, I'll pick the girl who knows peace," comments Vral.

Hermes looks at his sheet and looks at several names and sees the one that says "Jeanne D'Arc, interesting. Well I'll let the gods know."

Back to where Horus is. 

— "Mmm... Book of medicine spells... It's up there, I can't believe it's a little small. Well it's just grabbing the ladder."

A girl with short hair a little above her shoulders, but almost reaching her shoulders, jumps up in a graceful way and grabs the book Horus wanted.

— "Did you want this book?" the young girl who left Horus in shock, asked him that with a smile and a charming look.

— "Uh... Yes... Thank you" he gets shy.

— "I come to deliver this book, it's a combat area book" he hands the book to Horus. "Oh, okay."

The girl leaves the place, with a determined but rather pleasant look on her face.

After a few minutes after that, her mother Isis returns. "Mother, I saw a cute human girl, I know I shouldn't think that way about humans but..." She looks at her mother.

— "Mother are you okay?" he asks curious.

— "Oh Horus, I was thinking. It's just that I will participate in the next round." Horus exclaims "Why?!" Horus doesn't accept it.

— "The council decides who fights, I can't turn it down and besides, Anubis isn't currently here, so I couldn't ask him for help."

— "But mother..." Horus with his eagle eyes, looks at a wound that his mother did not heal by mistake. 

— "Was it Zeus?..." with Rage Horus clenches his fists and asks his mother again "Was it Zeus?"

Isis simply hugs him and says "I will win, so we can both be at ease."

The list that god Hermes gives Vral leaves her a little dubious of her choices.

Zeus, Apollo, Asclepio, Hermes, Aphrodite, Freya, Odin, Loki, Thor, Anubis, Susano no Mikoto, Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi, Raijin, Artemis, Ishtar, Isis, Anubis, Ananke, Shiva, Angra Mainyu, Kuan Yin, Inti and huichilopoztli.

— Huichilopoztli eh... That round is lost. The same for Amaterasu. And the next one is Isis, but Jeanne should be able to beat her." Vral is frustrated.

— "Eugine... You will be Jeanne's partner."

The stands screamed with Euphoria. Humans and gods shouted loudly, for the start of the fight. 

The commentator hushes the audience.

— The second round of Ragnarok begins, in this round the gods have to choose the combat arena.

The arena changes to a cleaner one with various light mountains and the occasional flowering pond.

— On the side of the gods, there is a beautiful, kind goddess, the goddess that many worship. She prefers to stay away from combat, but if provoked she will do her best. The goddess of Motherhood, Fertility, Health... The goddess Isis!"

The gods of all mythologies applaud, only the three remain silent Aztecs, Greeks and Egyptians.

Isis enters in her typical garb, with those black touches with gold and blue. She wears her most precious jewels and her best make-up. She is in her best moment of beauty.

— On the side of humanity, a woman who brought faith and motivation to the French people in the 100 years war. A woman of a strong character, and an indisputable beauty. She dressed as a man in order to participate in the war, one of the most important women in history. Jeanne D'Arc!"

Jeanne enters the field in her armor and spear with a flag that has a human on it in the shape of sticks. This represents the flag of humanity.

Her elegant hair the wind waves it, and Horus in the distance sees his mother's combat. With all his rage contained, because if he loses his Mother, he will kill Zeus at any cost, but otherwise he will do it anyway.

— "Begin!"

Jeanne without blinking throws her spear towards Isis' direction, and Isis with a defensive spell blocks it, but in a blink of an eye she reaches it and hits, but Isis blocks it with her spell.

— Second Combat: Jeanne D'Arc vs Isis —

Winner: ????

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