Raijin wore a scowl as he stood across from Akuro, thin bolts of lightning zipping around his body.
Akuro took a step forward, his Aura Cloak darkening and becoming more solidified as it took a more defined shape. His eyes turned crimson and his pupils became thin white slits while obsidian scales grew over his skin and large black horns grew from his head. His aura grew outward in chaotic wisps of shadow around his body, giving an illusion of black wings wings growing from his back.
"Enough talk." He said, his tone cold like blades of ice cutting through the air. "Get ready old man... 'cuz here I come."
Akuro hunched over, his hands on the ground as if he were about to pounce like a wild beast, and then the ground below him erupted, the stone shattering into small pebbles as cracks were etched into the ground when he kicked off, launching himself at Raijin.
As Akuro drew close, Raijin raised his hand, a wall of gold light blocking Akuro, who collided into it feet first before he spun himself in the air, black talons of aura swinging towards Raijinin from the side, forcing him to block it, but as he did it left him open on the opposite side. Akuro leapt at this opening, twisting his body and spinning his leg around so his heel crashed into Raijin's skull, violently knocking his body down to the side, somersaulting across the ground.
Raijin managed to regain his footing, skidding to a stop, but as he did, Akuro held both hands above his head, aura being pulled into his hands and condensing down to a point. Raijin knew this attack, it was Akuro's Dark Implosion, and he just had to gain distance to avoid it.
The Thunder god began to backpedal away from Akuro as fast as he could. Akuro grinned as he did this, then his hands grasped around the aura he'd gathered and a large black sword took shape in his hands that he then swung through the air, its density and pressure so intense that the swing practically moved in slow motion.
Raijin leapt upwards, avoiding the wave of energy that was released from the attack, and when the wave of aura struck the ground and the far wall, that entire side of the chasm was split, a massive crack being engraved into the cave, causing the entire are to quake as rocks fell from the ceiling.
As he looked down at the massive crevice in the cavern, Raijin couldn't help but be impressed by Akuro's growth in power. It was unbelievable how fast he'd come to power, and now he was having to kill his own creation. Ironic.
Raijin raised his hand, rearing the spear back, a bright blue light emitting from the blade. Then he twisted his whole body, launching the spear forward, a shockwave being blasted through the air from the force of the throw as the spear streaked through the air like a fallen star. Akuro leapt back, the spear making impact with the ground where he was, the entire surrounding area erupting in blue electricity, rocks and boulders were torn from the earth and sent up into the air around the spear as it burrowed itself into the ground.
Raijin then flashed into sight behind Akuro, his palm hitting against Akuro's back, gold lightning swallowing his body before he was sent rolling across the ground and crashing into the wall.
"You don't seem to understand." Raijin spoke as he walked towards the Infinite Arashi.
"Get what?" Akuro growled as he got to his feet, spitting blood from his mouth.
"The gods have lived for millions of years. We know more than you could ever know in ten lifetimes." The god said, his hand grasping the spear, electricity starving between the handle and his fingers as he did. "Do you honestly think you could kill all of us? And even if you did, what would happen after?"
"If the gods disappeared the world and our fates would be in our own hands." Akuro answered. "We would actually have control over our own lives."
"Except that you already do." Raijin said. "When we tossed you weaklings down into the mid realm, we left your future in your own hands. Even when we created the Deities, we told you humanities fate was up you. Yet you act like we enslave you."
"In our hands?" Akuro spat, "You call reviving us and manipulating us to kill our own kind free will?"
"Manipulating? What are you talking about, boy? We had no part in any negative choices you made. Humans are naturally drawn towards conflict, it's in your nature. We never did anything wrong, so why do you want our end?"
"Because..." Akuro hissed, "you toss us down here and expect us to know what to do, you let us suffer, yet you never do anything about it, you only laugh and say 'oh well' because in the end you want us to die."
"So are you saying you want us to take control? Because the only way to stop violence and suffering is to control the humans, after all the suffering is self caused, is it not? Humans suffer by their own hands, or the hands of their own kind. Tell me I'm wrong."
Akuro grit his teeth, his memory going back to his father. In the end, that was his father who killed Hope... not the Gods... but even so, he knew how corrupt they were. They create and don't nurture their creations.
"You abandoned your creations." Akuro said. "Instead of guiding us like parents, as you should've as the gods who made us, you left us to rot in conflict and self destruction."
"Again, that's your own actions. We had no part in your pain." Raijin spoke, waving his hand as four bolts of lightning rushed at Akuro, who knocked them aside with his own aura.
"But you still deceive, you toy with us, our lives are little more than a show that you all sit and watch for entertainment."
"So? We created you, we have the right." Raijin said. "Again, your purpose was to serve us. That's the whole point of your creation, to pray to us and worship us."
"You really expect mankind to worship gods who abandoned them?"
"It's the whole reason we made you."