Tláloc had remained motionless, floating in the sky, since his program stopped whenever the threat disappeared. But he quickly began moving again when he saw that all the water in Tlálocan was boiling and emanating an enormous amount of steam.
“Is she still alive?” Chalchiuhtlicue wondered. “That is impossible!” she shouted.
Steam filled all of Tlálocan’s grounds with mist, an act Tláloc quickly answered by making a rain of lightning fall over the ocean while saying:
“Kiauitlatomitl (Lightning Storm).”
But Tania did not come out. That made the tlaloques approach the ocean to see where the goddess was. But just as one of them drew near, it was quickly decapitated.
The small monster’s body decomposed and fused with the earth again, while the other tlaloques looked at their companion’s corpse.
The creatures turned furiously toward the ocean and summoned their jars once more.
“I thought you couldn’t express emotions,” Tania’s voice was heard behind the tlaloques. They turned and saw the Punic goddess, but she was not in her manticore transformation. However, she was completely surrounded by steam.
The three tlaloques threw their jars to the ground, but they were stopped by the mist covering the planet.
“That is dangerous,” Tania said. “I will not allow you to do that again.”
Then Tania launched an attack into the air, saying:
“Rashp Sapan (Silver Claw).”
From the mist, hundreds of steam claws emerged and swiftly tore the creatures apart, killing them and turning them back into earth.
“I see,” Chalchiuhtlicue said to herself. “She is combining fire with water. That is why she was able to cut through the wet skin of the tlaloques.”
The Punic goddess then turned to look at Tláloc. The god was flying above her, wrapped in the thick mist the goddess had created with her smoke emanation.
Two branches appeared on the Toltec god’s staff, making it take the shape of a cross. At that exact moment, Tláloc began generating an extremely powerful electric attack, while golden sparks emanated from his entire body.
However, before he could do anything, steam claws emerged from the mist and tore into the Toltec god’s body. Despite the damage, the god did not lose his composure and continued floating above Tania.
Then Tania felt something cold on her cheek. The goddess touched her face and saw that it was a snowflake. At that moment, the sky began snowing harder and harder.
The earth began to cool and harden, and the water that had been boiling began to cool and calm. However, Tania’s steam attacks, which were created from the dense mist, stopped as the steam began settling in the lower part of the sky.
“I see. He cooled the sky so my steam would descend under its own weight, because of his freezing air,” Tania said worriedly, just as she saw Tláloc pointing his electric staff at her again.
Tania flew toward the terrible Toltec god, steam emanating from her body. But at a certain distance, she began to see the steam disperse as she entered the center of Tláloc’s freezing air.
“Iluikatloayan (Heaven's Door)!” Tláloc shouted, and the heavens opened completely, revealing terrifying images of death and destruction. Images of drowned children appeared, while other images of lightning destroying people and entire cities passed before the Punic goddess’s eyes. Tania tried not to pay attention to the terrifying images, which looked like carved reliefs.
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However, before the goddess could do anything, a radiance emanated from the great celestial opening Tláloc had invoked, breaking Tania’s totema and making her fall to the ground covered in wounds and vomiting blood.
“Her water and fire powers are not balanced,” Chalchiuhtlicue said. “That is why she cannot overcome Tláloc’s cold power.”
Tania crashed to the ground, creating an enormous crater with the impact, so strong that it destroyed a large part of the city of Tlálocan. Nevertheless, despite the damage and her broken totema, Tania stood up again, while steam once more surrounded the goddess’s body.
“My water power cannot equal my fire power,” Tania thought as she closed her eyes and tried to calm herself. “Because I listened to that idiot, I have never been able to use my water powers properly.”
Tláloc pointed his staff at Tania once again, and this time shouted:
“Tlatekuinalohuey (Great lightning).”
The god made a gigantic electric sphere appear at the tip of his staff.
Tania then summoned a sphere of fire in her left hand and another of water in her right, then joined them together with great effort. From the great clash of energy, the figure of a lioness made of steam appeared.
The goddess then shouted:
“Malka ’Arsha Sapán (Silver Lioness Queen)!”
With a movement of her arms, Tania sent the steam feline toward Tláloc’s attack.
The two attacks collided, while all of Tlálocan trembled and the sky darkened. However, Tláloc’s freezing air descended more and more, and Tania’s steam lioness began losing its shape.
“Balance. I must find balance,” Tania told herself. But no matter how hard she tried, she remembered Sekhmet’s words, and her water power weakened.
Tláloc’s gigantic thunder began destroying Tania’s attack, advancing slowly toward the goddess, who watched with concern.
“Hey, you!” Chalchiuhtlicue shouted at Tania. “That attack will destroy Tlálocan. You must stop it!”
“I’m trying!” Tania shouted.
“Usually, the power of those illusions is blocked enough to prevent them from destroying their planets,” the Toltec water goddess said. “But you are forcing him to take those measures. If you do not stop him, we will both die here.”
“Then let me concentrate, damn it!” Tania shouted furiously as she tried to stop Tláloc’s attack. For a brief instant, however, her power grew and momentarily stopped the enormous electric sphere.
Tania became thoughtful for a moment as she contemplated that brief increase in power.
“My water power is instinctive,” Tania said. “What limits it is rationalizing it, because I cannot stop thinking about that idiot who put those ideas in my head.”
At that moment, the Punic goddess struck her own head with her fist, and her forehead was bathed in blood.
“What is wrong with that lunatic?” Chalchiuhtlicue wondered.
But it was not enough. Tania began striking her forehead again and again. Streams of blood fell to the ground and evaporated because of the immense heat the goddess was generating in the planet’s lower region.
“Stop doing that, you idiot!” Chalchiuhtlicue shouted.
But at that moment, Tania turned toward Tláloc. The weak steam holding back the enormous electric sphere began growing more and more. Suddenly, the steam covering the lower region surged upward violently toward Tláloc.
The electric sphere was then covered by a layer of steam, and the steam crushed it. At that exact moment, Tania’s bracelet shone intensely and shattered completely.
Tania’s eyes glowed, and the steam that had trapped Tláloc in a kind of smoke sphere generated a drill inside and impaled the Toltec god. At the same time, the steam formed multiple knives that tore into the deity.
All the smoke concentrated into the sphere imprisoning Tláloc and exploded, making the illusion of the Toltec god vanish. The heat ceased, and Tania withdrew her transformation and fell to her knees on the ground.
A small blue sphere fell before the Punic goddess, and she picked it up.
“That is the proof that you triumphed in this Heaven,” Chalchiuhtlicue said, still surprised as she emerged from her hiding place.
“Aren’t you an illusion too?” Tania asked, her gaze cautious as she prepared her steam claw.
“No, no. I am the only goddess who remained in Ilhuicatl Iohtlatoquiliz,” the Toltec goddess replied. “I could not defeat you even if I wanted to.”
Tania then saw that Tul’s bracelet had broken, something Chalchiuhtlicue also noticed.
“That bracelet had the power of the barrier that exists in Anáhuac, did it not?” the Toltec goddess asked.
“That is what Tul told me,” Tania replied.
“This is the first time in my life that I have seen a god destroy one with divine power,” the goddess replied. “I am certain the barrier in the human world should no longer affect you.”
Tania then smiled.
“That was always the idea from the beginning,” she replied.