Shadow: The Destroyer
Chapter 1
At first there was nothing, no stars, no planets, no universe. There was only an empty space, called the Void. Then a figure was born from nothingness, Chaos, The first protogenoi and the creator of everything. He then bore children, created from his own very essence, called Erebus(Personification of Darkness) Tartarus,(Personification of the Abyss) Nyx,(Personification of the Night) Moros, (Personification of Doom) Ananke,(Personification of Inevitability, Compulsion, Necessity) Chronos,(Personification of Time and Eternity) Ourae,(Personification of Rustic Domains and Mountains) Aether,(Personification of Upper Air) Hemera,(Personification of Day) Gaea,(Personification of the Earth) Oranus,(Personification of the Sky)
From Darkness and the Night, was born Aether,(Personification of Upper Air) and Hemera,(Personification of Day) From Aether and Hemera, was born Thalassa,(Personification of The Sea) From Thalassa and Pontus, Son of Gaea(Personification of the Sea) came Nereus, The Old Seer.
From the Earth and the Sky, was born the Titans. Their names were: Cronus,(Titan of Time) Rhea,(Titaness of Heaven) Oceanus,(Titan of the Sea) Coeus,(Titan of Intelligence) Crius,(Titan of Constellations) Hyperion,(Titan of Light) Iapetus,(Titan of Mortality) Selene,(Titaness of Moon)
Themis,(Titaness of Divine Law) Prometheus,(Titan of Crafty Council and Foresight) Morpheus,(Titan of Sleep and Dreams) Atlas,(Kronos Army General, Titan of Strength and Endurance) Mnemosyne,(Titaness of Memory) and Tethys,(Titaness of the Sea) Also born from them were the Hekatonkheires, three giants each with one hundred arms. As well as the Gigantes, a race of giants.
From the Titan Cronus and the Titaness Rhea, came the 6 Olympians:
Hestia,(The oldest, Goddess of the Hearth and Home) Hades,(Second oldest, God of Wealth, Riches and the Underworld) Demeter,(Third oldest, Goddess of Agriculture)
Poseidon,(Third youngest,God of the Sea) Hera,(Second youngest, Goddess of Marriage and Family) and Zeus,(The youngest, God of the skies) Cronus however, feared that they would overthrow him like he did his father, Ouranus, and ate them immediately after they were born with the exception of Zeus. Rhea disagreed with her husband and hid Zeus soon after he was born, feeding Cronus a rock instead. Seeing how the children were immortal, they grew up in there fathers stomach, and were soon released by Zeus. He disguised himself as his fathers cup bearer, and gave him a mixture of wine and vinegar instead of the usual mead. This made Cronus throw up the rest of his kids. Even with all of the children of the Titan King, Zeus knew they could not win against all of the Titans so he came up with a solution. He ventured in to the conflagrant abyss of Tartarus(the pit, not the primordial) and freed the Hekatonkheires from their fiery prison. The three Brothers, Braires, Cocytus and Gyges gave Zeus the gift of electrokinesis, enabling him to battle his father on relatively even ground. Cronus however, readying for the day he met hi son in battle, unleashed the most fearsome and powerful monster ever, Typhon. He was the first born of Gaea and Tartarus, soon followed by his sister Echidna. They then had a child called Ladon, a hundred headed dragon, who in the future, was given the duty of guarding the The Tree Of Immortality. A wedding gift from Zeus to Hera. It was a tough battle, but eventually the gods defeated Typhon and moved on to the titans. It seemed though that Cronus expected that and set off to find and kill a monster called the Ophiotaurus. It was prophisized by the Morai, the three daughters of Ananke, that whoever killed the beast and sacrificed it entrails in a fire would have the power to destroy a place called Olympus. Mt. Olympus was where the gods resided and Mt. Othrys the titans. In destroying the gods seats of power, the gods would be weakened considerably. He actually succeeded in killing the monster, but before he could sacrifice it, Zeus sent his sacred animal, an eagle, to snatch them away. Eventually, after years of battle on the fields of Thessaly, the Olympians overthrew the titans, and The Big Three, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, drew lots to see who would rule what part of the earth. Zeus drew the sky, Poseidon drew the sea, and Hades the underworld.
Zeus then fell in love with the Titaness Leto, and she bore the twins Phoebe Artemis, also known as the Huntress, and Phoebe was the successor of Selene, thus inheriting the domain of the moon. She was also the goddess of Virginity as she was one, The Hunt, as she had an immortal group of women hunters, forests and hills as she hunts their, Archery and Childbirth, as she helped her mother give birth to her brother Apollo, who was the successor of helios, thus inheriting the domain of the Sun, as well as being the god of archery, music, poetry, prophecy and healing. He had a son called Asclepius, god of medicine.
Zeus also had a daughter with Metis, after he had, following in his fathers footsteps, eaten her. Metis was the Titaness of Knowledge, thus making Zeus have a headache. Pallas Athena was born when his son Hephestus, God of fire and the forge, split his head open with an axe. Athena was born in full battle armour, and was given a shield called Aegis that had the head of medusa imprinted in the metal. Even though it was just an image, the face was so horrible even the mightiest of enemy's had to look away, giving her the advantage in a fight. Hephestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, along with Ares God of war. Athena was the olympian goddess of Wisdom, Crafts and inheriting the domain from her brother, War. Hermes was another son of Zeus, his mother being and Maia, a nymph. He was the god of Messengers, Thieves, Merchants and travellers. As well as being the patron god of shepherds. Aphrodite, however was not the son of an olympian at all. Instead rising from the sea fully grown, being born from the genitals of Oranus, as Gaea castrated him, throwing the genitals in the sea carelessly. Dionysus, was ANOTHER son of Zeus, the result of cheating on his wife Hera, with the mortal Semele. He was originally a mortal, and he invented wine. For his incredible invention that improved the world, Zeus saw fit to make him a god. He was the god of Parties, Winemaking, Madness and had a group of crazy, women followers called the maenads.
They thought that they would rule in a golden age, but a new war was on the horizon. An enemy on Primordial level. Gaea and her children the giants. This was the hardest battle the gods had ever fought, almost being over powered. The Gigantes included: Thoon, Alcyoneus, Aloadae, Antaeus, Aristaeus, Damysus, Enceladus, Porphyrion, Polybytes, Leon, Orion, Syceus and Tityus. All were battled by gods, and demi-gods, almost overpowering them. But when the gods thought nothing could get worse, Gaea awoke from her slumber, and the gods lost all hope. The battle took place on the Phlegraean Fields. In the end, the combined might of all 14 olympians defeated them all, and sent Gaea back to her slumber.
However, the greeks were not the only pagan gods in existence, Osiris is proof of that. He resides in the underworld, and he and hades are mutual friends. Along with the Christian Death, who made the trio of Death Gods complete. GOD and Lucifer were also in existence, along with Christ, prince of heaven. The norse gods were not just a myth either, Odin the all-father, Thor, God of thunder and lightning and Loki, god of tricksters, evil and illusions. As well as his Loki's sons Fenrir, the giant wolf, and jormangundr, the giant snake.
The Olympians thought themselves to be above all other beings, including the protogenoi, and unbeknownst to them, that would be their downfall.