Hi !

Here is my Prologue for my next Fanfiction "The End of the Gods". It's kind of like a little "coming soon" teaser before I post all the chapters- Which will hopefully be some time within the week. It's over 10,000 words at the moment so a lot larger than "A Session With Artemis" - and about 12 chapters long....

Normally I'm very pro-god in the whole Titan Vs Olympian battle, but i thought that it would be fun to write something like this- so here it is :)

So bare with me with the whole "The Gods can't die" thing - if you like 'suspend belief' here (probably not the correct term when dealing with mythical beings)- it is justified later.

Oh and it took me ages to devise an order in which they die....it is different from the order shown here.

Prologue: Chaos

The world was ending. The deathless Gods were fading, their ties to the mortal world severed. The sun's light had long been diminished, and the earth was in darkness. Only the moon, its glow quickly deteriorating, remained. Olympus was destroyed; it had perished in the first attack. Every mortal had been eradicated as the new order was established; the omnipotent Gods looked on in despair. Helpless.

The land lay barren and desolate. Life had long been absent. Demeter had been claimed by death as the final petal had fell from the last flower. As the sun's light failed, Apollo drew his last breath. Artemis sat in a ray of moonlight surrounded by her hunters, death had arrived swiftly for them, painless. The moon's glow faltered, and Artemis collapsed. Her last thoughts were of her brother Apollo, and how she would soon be joining him.

Ares and Athena had died together in a desperate attempt to keep the sky aloft, its burden no longer carried by Atlas. Their attempt failed, and as the sky cascaded into the earth, the two war gods were destroyed completely.

Zeus, Hera and Poseidon had given their lives protecting Olympus from the unstoppable onslaught. The king of the Gods died first, having taken the fatal blow instead of his wife. Her cries filled the air as she grasped his limp form. Poseidon, overwhelmed with anguish ran towards the void, where he was engulfed entirely. As the emptiness raced towards her, Hera raised her arms and embraced her fate.

Dionysus and Hermes had perished along with the human race, trapped in mortal forms. The first wave of destruction had obliterated their shells into dust and their divine power had dissipated in the unnatural tempest.

When her death was imminent, Aphrodite visited her husband in the forges. There was no love in this new world and the Goddess had known her time was coming to an end. She found Hephaestus close to death; they embraced for a moment, before he became lifeless in her arms. She died after gently placing a kiss on his lips.

Even the underworld had not escaped the jaws of death, as Persephone and Hades had died in each other's arms. Its master gone, the realm of the dead disintegrated. The screams of its remaining inhabitants echoed around the abyss.

The world was ending and the Titans had finally got their revenge.

It's almost unbearingly short, but the later chapters certainly will make up for it :)

RedFluffyBanana :D