In that moment, attacks from arrows and slings began striking the terrible serpent. It was Otontecutli who had led the troops there, although the god was being carried by two of his men, since he was on the verge of collapsing.
But the attacks were useless. The moment the enormous serpent turned to look at them, even though it had the face of that reptile, it was possible to see the grotesque serpent smile.
“Worry not about anything, Tul-chan,” Susanoo said while continuing to hold the Maya goddess tightly. “Boku-tachi shall destroy that ryujin, and thou shalt be able to resurrect thy teacher.”
Epona, Freyja, Loki, and Anpiel, who were still fighting against the Caxcan soldiers, nodded.
"No meowtter how strong that woman had become, she is still no meowtch for us!" Freyja yelled, while, along Epona, Anpiel and Loki, leaped toward the chicmeca serpent goddess.
At that moment, Cihuacóatl opened her mouth to release her poisonous gas.
“Careful! She’s going to use poisonous gas to attack!” the Norse god shouted.
But Freyja and Anpiel quickly struck the goddess’s jaw, forcing her to close her fangs. However, the goddess did not seem to feel pain, and her face continued wearing a mocking smile.
Then, above the Otomí army, the members of Orniskem, and their allies, dimensional portals appeared. At that moment, everyone realized what the terrible serpent goddess’s true plan was.
“Run!” Tul shouted desperately when she saw poisonous gas begin to pour constantly from the portals.
However, no one could escape, and the gas completely trapped the Otomí army and Orniskem’s allies. Mixcóatl, doing what he could, sealed Tul and Susanoo inside a smoke chamber just before receiving the deadly venom.
Everyone immediately fell, unable to resist the toxin’s power. However, unlike a direct bite, the poisonous gas killed slowly, so the members of Orniskem stood again after that attack. Even so, they were badly hurt and nearly unconscious.
Loki, however, stood more easily than the others and walked toward the grotesque serpent.
“Tannin blood runs in my family,” Loki said. “That makes me more immune to these attacks than the rest of you.”
Then the god smiled.
Loki raised his arms and pointed his staff toward the sky as he said:
“Eyda ævi (Void Century).”
The poisonous smoke disappeared immediately, and everything fell into absolute peace and calm. However, Loki’s bones then cracked as if they were dry branches, and the god fell weakened to the ground.
“Just… finish her now,” the Norse god said as he collapsed.
“You stupid fool, you used that purrhibited technique again,” Freyja said when she saw Loki on the ground.
“Was it like last time?” Epona said. “When you made Coyote’s attack disappear.”
“Indeed,” Loki said. “But this time I did not spend as much energy as I did then. Even so, I won’t be able to fight for a few hours, so it depends on you.”
Susanoo then cut through the wall of the smoke room the Xicallanca god had created to protect them. When he did, he saw that the poison had vanished, but his companions looked quite bad. Worse still, their allies were unconscious on the ground, on the verge of dying from the terrible goddess’s poison.
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Then everyone could hear Cihuacóatl laughing, though her laughter sounded like hissing.
“Have you realized something?” the serpent goddess asked, and then, with her head, she pointed to the Caxcan warriors lying unconscious on the ground.
“There were more than two hundred soldiers here. That means I will finally recover all my power,” Cihuacóatl said.
At that moment, a white light covered the goddess as everyone felt a savage increase in her power. The sky split in half, the earth trembled, and in that dimension, the sun and moon stopped as the heavenly bodies prostrated themselves before the terrible goddess’s power.
“Shall we begin the second round?” Cihuacóatl asked after recovering her power to its maximum.
“You think you intimidate us?” Epona asked the serpent goddess.
Tul, who still could not properly collect herself, received a slap from Freyja.
“Bunny girl, react quick-purr!” the Norse goddess said. “The people here need your cure against the poison, meow.”
Tul then came back to herself, but she could not stop thinking about Ixchel, Tania, Ana, and Menrva. She did not know what to do.
“I have to go to Tamoanchan,” the Maya goddess replied, shaken.
But at that moment, Freyja slapped her again.
“Do not overstep yourself, Freyja-san!” Susanoo said furiously when he saw the Norse goddess’s attitude.
“I want to go help Menrva too, Tul… but we gotta give purriority to the folks who are here!” Freyja shouted nervously.
But then Cihuacóatl interrupted the conversation.
“Do you perhaps believe I cannot repeat the same attack I used earlier?” she asked the members of Orniskem.
At that moment, new dimensional portals appeared over everyone.
“You were able to withstand my first poisonous round, and I congratulate you for that. But now your allies will die, and you will have a slow and painful death,” the serpent goddess said as new poisonous gas poured from the dimensional portals.
But then Tul stood and prayed:
“Túulis Sak (All White).”
At that moment, the poison was nullified by the Maya goddess’s purification technique.
The sky, the earth, the ruins; everything was dyed a whitish color with ribbons of pastel light. The oppression of the poison could no longer be felt, and a fresh, pure scent could be sensed, like that of a spring.
“I swear to you, Cihuacóatl, I have never hated anyone as much as I hate you,” the Maya goddess said angrily, her legs still trembling.
The rabbit goddess’s appearance had changed, taking on her usual snow-white color.
“What did you do?” Cihuacóatl asked, confused.
“I purified this place so your disgusting poison would not take effect,” the Maya goddess replied.
Then the rabbit goddess looked at the ruins of the great pyramid and thought of her friends. Immediately, she looked back at Cihuacóatl defiantly.
“I swear that if they die because you held me here, I will cut you apart piece by piece myself!” Tul said furiously.
“Thou needst not worry about that, Tul-chan,” Susanoo said while brandishing his sword. “Unlike before, we have received the blessing of that god called Tawa.”
“Yes, I’m sure he’ll purrtect Menrva and Ana,” Freyja said as she pointed her spear at Cihuacóatl.
“We will destroy that abomination for you,” Epona said, preparing her legs to fight.
“When we do, you take care of healing all of us, all right?” Anpiel said while readying his macuahuitl.
Tul nodded, and then the four gods hurled themselves toward Cihuacóatl’s head.
“Nonsense! I will not let you bother me!” Cihuacóatl shouted furiously and quickly teleported away.
“She went two hundred meters to your left,” Loki shouted, still lying on the ground.
The gods, who mentally received Loki’s message, quickly turned toward where the goddess would appear, and just as she began to materialize, they attacked her.
Anpiel, Freyja, and Susanoo attacked the terrible serpent goddess’s throat together, making three horrendous cuts that sent blood gushing out. The gods immediately moved away to avoid being poisoned by that fluid.
Finally, Epona, using a powerful kick, struck the serpent goddess’s jaw, tearing off her head in the act.
Mixcóatl and Otontecutli, who were barely conscious, saw that act and were stunned by the great power of their allies.
Anpiel, Susanoo, and Freyja used their weapons to make zigzag cuts across the serpent goddess’s entire body until they reached her stomach, where they found a white sphere.
When Tul saw that sphere, she quickly ran to pull it from the monster’s body. Thanks to her Jeel ability, the goddess turned the poison covering the sphere into water and removed it from the goddess’s stomach.
When she opened it, the rabbit goddess realized that her teacher Ixchel was inside, still alive and very weak. The Maya goddess looked at her disciple and smiled.
“Who would have thought that my silly disciple, the one who ran away from home, would be the one to rescue me?” she said with a smile and tears in her eyes.
Without thinking twice, Tul embraced her teacher with all her strength.
Cihuacóatl’s body fell to the ground, creating an enormous hole when it crashed. The members of Orniskem raised their weapons to celebrate their victory.