Tul continued her constant sacred-energy attack against the goddess Citlallicue. Her face began to show frustration as she saw the Toltec goddess resisting the attack without any difficulty.
The stars in the sky began to shine with great intensity. When Tul saw them, she realized it was the same celestial arrangement as on Earth.
Then the stars of Orion’s Belt shone red as Citlallicue said:
“Niquin notsa: Mamalhuaztli (I Summon You: Mamalhuaztli).”
At that moment, the stars of Orion’s Belt took the shape of two white sticks with crimson ornaments. Citlallicue leapt into the sky, ignoring Tul’s attack, and took the celestial sticks. Then the goddess, still in the sky, assumed a combat stance, and the sticks lit up like torches.
Tul canceled her technique and turned to look at the Toltec goddess, who began spinning the staffs in her hands while creating circular flames in the sky.
Citlallicue immediately descended toward Tul and tried to attack her with her burning staffs, but Tul avoided the attacks without much difficulty, using acrobatic movements.
The rabbit goddess reached into her bag and took out a red sphere. Then she smashed it against the Toltec goddess’s chest while shouting:
“Waak’ k’aak eek’ (Explosive Fire Star)!”
A dull explosion erupted from Citlallicue’s chest, pushing the Toltec goddess far away from Tul’s presence. But the Maya goddess was not yet satisfied.
Tul leapt very high toward the Toltec goddess, who was still in the air from the effect of the previous attack, and, pulling a dark sphere from her bag, smashed it against Citlallicue’s face while shouting:
“Éek ts’aak (Dark Panacea)!”
A black liquid emerged from the shattered dark sphere and soaked the Toltec goddess’s face, while Tul leapt away from her. Citlallicue crashed into the ground, coughing, as her skin began turning yellowish.
“I can reverse the effects of my own medicine with my control over sacred power,” Tul said as she stood.
“My Kili’ich Ja’ can cure almost every disease that afflicts gods, but my Éek ts’aak can cause them,” she explained.
Sores and painful bulbs began appearing all over Citlallicue’s body, while the goddess started vomiting blood and her eyes turned red. Despite being only an illusion, the Toltec goddess screamed in agony under the effects of Tul’s dark medicine.
“This is my ability: Jeel,” Tul said as she showed a white potion and turned it black. “I can reverse the effects of any chemical element.”
The Toltec goddess, still in agony, recited:
“Niquin notsa: Tianquiztli (I Summon You: Market).”
At that moment, in the dark sky, the stars known as the Pleiades began shining green. Then the stars transformed into food and descended toward the Toltec goddess in the form of flashes.
When Citlallicue was bathed in those beams of light, she stood as if nothing had happened, seeming to smile behind her terrible skull mask.
“I see. She used a healing invocation and got rid of all the diseases I caused in her body,” Tul said while preparing to pull something else from her bag.
Citlallicue raised her right arm and recited:
“Niquin notsa: Xiuhcóatl (I Summon You: Xiuhcóatl).”
Afterward, she raised her left arm and recited:
“Niquin notsa: Colotl Ixayac (I Summon You: Colotl Ixayac).”
The constellations of Taurus, Orion, and Scorpio shone. The first two shone red, and the third green. Then, to the right of the Toltec goddess, a red serpent with the face of a dragon appeared; and to her left, a small green flying man with a scorpion’s tail appeared.
“So, I assume she can summon creatures from the stars,” Tul said worriedly, not removing her hand from her bag.
Citlallicue, with a movement of her flaming staffs, created an incandescent wave that Tul avoided by jumping. But right behind the goddess, the horrible crimson serpent appeared and tried to bite her with jaws full of fire.
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Tul shouted:
“Múuyal Náay (Sleeping Cloud)!”
The goddess pulled sleep powder from her bag and threw it at the reptile’s face. But the stars of the Pleiades fired a green beam at the serpent, making the sleep effect dissipate.
The venomous tail of the scorpion man stung Tul’s back. She screamed in pain and fell from the sky. But before the Maya goddess could crash into the ground, the serpent coiled around her and began crushing her bones while its body surrounded itself in flames.
This is unfair, Tul thought as she suffered under the attack of the gigantic serpent and the scorpion’s venom.
The Maya goddess then began remembering when she lived in Cazumel, in the main temple of Ixchel, the Maya goddess of the moon.
“Look at me, kaansaj! I was able to transform into human form!” Tul said very excitedly as she looked at her teacher seated on her throne.
However, Ixchel only said:
“Uh-huh.”
And she completely ignored the rabbit goddess.
Tul began remembering all the work it had taken to learn the enchantment to take human form, despite having been born in the shape of a rabbit. How difficult it had been to read, to study the written magical formulas in the moon goddess’s library. And literally, her teacher had ignored her disciple’s efforts.
“How could you climb onto my shoulder in such a grotesque form?” Ixchel asked in an indifferent voice.
“I thought you would be proud of me, kaansaj,” the rabbit goddess said, disappointed.
But Ixchel said nothing. She remained seated on her throne inside a very dark room.
Tul withdrew and took her original form again, that of a small white rabbit. Even in her animal form, she looked very sad and depressed.
For some reason, ever since Tul was born, she had always had dreams and desires that her other siblings did not. She had learned to read and speak Maya. With that knowledge, she had learned medicine and how to use her divine powers to create a large dimensional pocket.
One day, she came into contact with books from north of Mayapán. They were from the territories of Waabanakiing. Although the little rabbit did not know how to read those strange letters, she realized they spoke about a rabbit that took human form. The goddess idealized it and tried to do the same.
Since that day, I have never returned to my animal form, Tul thought while continuing to be tortured by the fire serpent. I had even forgotten what my original form was.
Tul then took the form of a rabbit, quickly escaping the great serpent’s grip. Seeing this, the scorpion man began trying to attack Tul with his tail.
The Maya goddess returned to her anthropomorphic form and immediately took medicine to eliminate the effects of the scorpion man’s tail venom. Then the goddess dropped her bag and left it on the ground.
“I can’t use my medicine against someone who can heal automatically,” Tul said. “All I have left is to use my sacred power to fight.”
Tul continued remembering how she watched her teacher’s techniques while she remained still on her shoulder beside another white rabbit on Ixchel’s other shoulder.
“Tu’ul Ujob,” the Maya goddess said. “I need you to concentrate your sacred power and synchronize it with my water power to launch a powerful attack.”
Tul, along with the other rabbit, emanated her sacred power and created a ball of white energy. Ixchel then inserted her hand into the sphere and invoked her water power, creating an enormous circle of energy. With that, the goddess fired a powerful vertical beam of white light.
My kaansaj used her water power to combine it with our sacred power and create a new element, Tul thought while looking at one of her teacher’s magic books. But for me to match her power, I must be able to create water.
Tul worked for years and years to create water with her hand, but it was very complicated. Even so, the goddess never gave up, never surrendered.
Now that I have partially broken the barrier, Tul thought as she looked at the two beasts approaching her, I will be able to use my kaansaj’s most powerful technique.
Tul raised her hands and closed her eyes while lifting her face toward the sky. A white light began illuminating the goddess from above, while around the Maya goddess there was only peace and tranquility.
“The union between the sacred and water is purification,” Tul said, and then calmly recited:
“Túulis Sak (All White).”
Clear lights similar to northern lights spun around Tul. They fell to the ground like waterfalls, and upon touching it, a completely white explosion expanded throughout the entire area, completely destroying the serpent and the scorpion.
The entire region was purified. The sky was now white, just like the grass. The rabbit goddess then calmly walked toward Citlallicue while maintaining a slight smile.
The Toltec goddess made the constellation of Ursa Major shine. Although the stars could not be seen because of Tul’s sacred power, they still shone gold. Suddenly, they descended and covered the Toltec goddess’s body as she said:
“Niquin notsa: Ocelotl (I Summon You: Jaguar).”
When the lights went out, the goddess looked different. She had become a feline. Although she still wore her usual clothing, her appearance was similar to that of a black jaguar. Her body had filled with fur, sharp claws extended from her hands, and her tail swung restlessly.
“That is unfortunate for you,” Tul said as she raised her hand and extended her palm toward the Toltec goddess. “But this world, I can control it at will.”
Citlallicue hurled herself toward Tul to kill her, but the Maya goddess said:
“Sacred power gives life, and water cleanses everything. Do you know what happens if the effect of that is reversed?”
At that moment, Tul said:
“Sak Kíimil (White Death).”
And a white light illuminated the rabbit goddess’s palm.
A white sphere appeared in Citlallicue’s chest, and at that moment, the goddess’s eyes went dark. She fell dead to the ground as she lost her jaguar transformation.
Tul ended her white-fur transformation and returned to her usual state, while her white world disappeared as well.
Citlallicue’s body shone with tremendous power, and then disappeared, leaving only a small dark-blue sphere behind.
“Ch’úupal Tania, thanks to you, I’ve been able to reach this level,” the goddess said with a broad smile, happily clutching the sphere Citlallicue’s body had left behind.