First Demonic Dragon

Even though he was having fun talking with his old friend after so long, Mateo quickly hung up the phone and ran to the front of the plane with Apophis hot on his heels.

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The two burst into the cockpit just as the twins did, and they narrowly missed being grazed by a hail of bullets that shot through the window.

Mateo's first instinct was to protect the kids by any means necessary, but imagine his surprise when the dangerous projectiles started floating in a circle.

The large slugs carried themselves over into Apophis' waiting hand where he made them disappear entirely.

"Thank you, brother!" Yemaya smiled. "I was worried those things would get tangled in my hair."

"I guess you're kind of useful… still don't see why you had to come though." Yemaja rolled her eyes as she kept the integrity of the cockpit intact so that they were not at risk for an early death.

Apophis took one of the bullets and tossed it at his sister like a paper-airplane.

Yemaja caught it between her sharp teeth like a German shepherd and crushed it until it resembled tinfoil. She made sure to flip off her brother for good measure.

Mateo was at a near-complete loss for words.

"They're coming back around!" Yemaya warned.

The small fleet of fighter planes that were responsible for the earlier barrage of bullets were now getting ready for the second go around.

Their plane was still flying with relatively minimal damage, but who knew how long it would remain this way with their enemies getting in position to fire again.

Mateo: "A-Alright, I've got-"

Apophis: "Boom."

Bolts of pure divine power fell from the sky and struck down all of the fighter jets into nothing.

The flaming pieces crashed down into the sea where the twins worked in unison to ensure that nothing harmed the sea life living there.

"I think that's all… Hey godfather, do you want to tell us why exactly…"

Apophis' words trailed off when he found Mateo in the corner tracing his finger on the ground.

"'Protect the kids' he said, yea right… Damn monster babies… I didn't even get a chance to look cool as their elder…"

"Uhm… Are you crying..?" Apophis asked.

"N-No!" Mateo wiped his eyes with the sleeve of his coat before turning around.

"What kind of deity are you..? I thought the girls and Straga were the only gods..?"

Before Apophis could answer, the tattoos on the twins started to glow bright blue.

"We're almost there! Can you land us soon?" Yemaya asked the pilot, who was now desperately in need of a change of underwear.

"P-Planes don't exactly work that way, miss…"

"I'll give you a little help, so just do what I tell you."

'H-Help…?'

Yemaya pointed her finger towards a far region of seemingly empty space within the sky.

A blue pulse left her fingertips and traveled for miles in front of them.

The world distorted as if one were peering through a bubble.

When it finally 'popped' there was a new picture that wasn't previously there before.

Millions or maybe billions of birds were flying around in big flocks over a large island sitting atop a cloud.

It appeared to be occupied not with buildings, but with enormous trees large enough to obscure the sun in the sky.

Landing was a bit on the tricky side.

Yemaya used her power to sort of steer the plane towards the landmass and gradually slowed it down without blatantly ripping it apart.

The job was on the pilot to deploy the landing gear, cut the engine, and steer so that they didn't crash into anything on the island.

…It was a rough landing, but the plane somehow made it in one piece.

Though several passengers in the back were thrown from their seats and flung across the room.

But still, it was better than crashing headfirst into the ocean.

The twins excitedly ran out of the plane as if they hadn't almost killed everyone.

Avian creatures of all shapes and sizes were tirelessly flocking towards the site of the crash and inspecting the big metal bird that had fallen from the sky.

But their interest quickly turned into terror as they turned tail and ran away as fast as they could.

Yemaja, who was about to take a selfie with a couple of toucans, turned around angrily at her brother for scaring off her co-stars.

"Look at what you did! They're all scared you're going to eat them, snake boy!"

"No, it's because you were walking and a gust of wind blew. There are some fish smells even they can't stomach."

"I will skin you alive, you sanctimonious son of a bitch!"

"In your dreams, brat."

Their bickering continued while Yemaya picked up a bundle of clouds and held them against her face.

'So nice… maybe I should have expended the effort to come up here before when I was invited.'

Mateo finally emerged from the plane- dizzy, but not damaged in any way.

When the first thing he saw was Apophis and Yemaja arguing while Yemaya rubbed her face on clouds, he began to wonder if maybe he had actually suffered some degree of brain damage after all.

He looked up into the sky to see if he might've had a chance at peering into space since they were above the clouds.

However, he ended up catching sight of something totally different.

"Oye, nĩnos."

"""Yea???"""

"Should the sun be coming as close to us as it is..?"

The three kids looked up and saw that their godfather had a right to be concerned.

The sun did appear to be coming towards them rather quickly… not that it was supposed to move at all in the first place.

"Protect the plane!"

Mateo tossed aside his sword and clasped his hands together tightly.

Magic flowed through his veins and fed off his latent strength until it manifested itself as a wall of physical energy.

Mateo shaped the wall around himself and the plane with time to spare.

But before he could get the barrier to the children, the sun crashed down right in between them; drowning the whole island in golden fire.

Mateo's barrier held, though it did show signs of cracking.

Mateo watched a figure emerge above the flames.

At over 70 meters tall, it was a great golden bird covered in elegant plumage with a razor sharp beak and talons.

It's glorious red eyes stared at Mateo with hate as if he found him to be small and insignificant.

Just as Mateo prepared to wipe that smirk off the face of the giant phoenix, a small ball of water struck it on the beak.

The creature let out an annoyed screech that could easily burst the eardrums of any human who listened to it.

But Apophis, Yemaya, and Yemaja were standing around with blank looks.

Yemaya created another water ball and tossed it at the phoenix again.

"למה כל כך מבאס, זיז? הפרענו את שנת היופי שלך?" (Why so ornery, Ziz? Have we disturbed your beauty sleep?)

The phoenix came to a dead halt. It didn't even move when Yemaya's impromptu water balloon struck it between the eyes.

"…לִויָתָן?" (…Leviathan?)

"בבשר... סוג של." (In the flesh… Kind of.) Yemaya tossed another water balloon at the giant bird.

It's annoyance quickly began to outweigh it's surprise. "היית מפסיק את זה?!" (Would you stop that?!"

"You've been up here above the clouds for all of these millennia doing absolutely nothing. You're overdue for a bit of rain." Yemaja chimed in.

Ziz lowered his head until he was at eye level with the twins.

He shifted his beak back and forth between the two of them and narrowed his eyes even further.

"…What is this?" He asked in English.

"Oh? You actually came down from here to learn a new language?"

"Of course I didn't. My subjects taught it to me. Now answer my question."

Yemaya hugged Yemaja with a cute, innocent smile.

"Obviously this is my twin. Aren't we cute?"

"Not at all. Just one of you was bad enough."

"…" Yemaya continued to smile as a vein bulged in her forehead.

The next thing Mateo saw was his dainty and feminine looking god-daughter punch a ten million year old god-beast in the beak and send it flying.

Ziz crashed into a grove of trees about ten yards away; adamantly squawking to voice his displeasure.

"Do you see! This is what I'm talking about! You unladylike bitch! Never one to use your words and always thinking about striking first!"

Yemaya took a deep breath and composed herself. "It is because you bring this unsightly-ness out of me. I haven't had an incident like that in my new life the entire time I've been gone."

Ziz pulled his massive body out of the trees and burned any lingering leaves out of his feathers.

There was a fist-sized crack in his beak that didn't look like the kind of thing that would heal with a bandaid.

"So I was right… you were gone. Where the hell did you go running off to while the world went to hell."

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Ziz' eyes flashed red and he was suddenly engulfed in a column of fire.

Not ten seconds later, a much smaller and more handsome version stepped out.

"Try me."