Previously on Class of The Titans...
Jay: Zana.
Zana: I can't believe you sneaked out on me to beat up monsters and didn't even bother asking me to tag along.
(Zana slings a rock at Kekrops)
Jay: You can't tell anyone about this.
Zana: Hey I saved your butts.
Ray-Ray: I'm Ray-Ray.
Zeus: Mother, where have you been these last 10 years?
(Rhea turns her children into statues)
Rhea: L-little...brother...?
Cronus: Normally this is the part where I finally destroy you, but I have a thousand years worth of catching up with my wife.
Summer was suppose to be fun. Away from that boring prison parents send their kids to so that their kids would learn a few things.
This summer, was by far the best she ever had.
She gets to fight monsters, real, live monsters. Not like the ones in the video games she and her cousin beat up.
Now that she thought about it; Those guys were lame, compared to the real ones.
She even got to meet the gods from her aunt's stories. And they're real to.
And now she's trapped in an ice cage with her cousin... Wait. That's the bad.
Hestia managed to melt the ice surrounding her feet and then melted the cage holding up the heroes. She kept a sullen look as she looked at the petrified forms of her siblings before teleporting everyone back to the sanctuary.
The moment the gods heard the heroes found Rhea, they immediately stopped what they were doing and gathered in the sanctuary.
Every god was there; Eros, Ares, Hermes, Athena, Hercules, Apollo, Artemis, (even) Aphrodite, etc., deep in conversations, asking lots of questions.
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in the middle of the room. When the light died down, Persephone gasped, her face filled with horror.
"HADES!"
The other gods' faces were also filled with shock and horror. As Persephone embraced the petrified form of her husband, a lot of questions echoed throughout the entire room;
"What happened?"
"How could this have happened?"
"Who did this?"
With so much guilt and hesitation, Hestia replied, "Mother...Rhea."
The gods gasped, each expressing their own shock; Chemical from a flask exploded on Dionysus' face, Hephaestus screams like a girl and faints in Aphrodite's arms, Apollo's lyre breaks, etc.
Zana was surprised on seeing so many gods from her aunt's stories. And was so much more surprised when they reacted to Hestia telling them that Rhea turned her own children into statues.
"No!" Ares exclaimed, "Mother Rhea would never... She's the sweetest...(sniff) Just thinking about her... I'm a terrible god!"
Atlanta felt weird when Ares, the god of war, suddenly embraced her, sobbing. She also reacted by patting his back in an awkward manner. She was relieved when Athena took over.
"How can you say that?" Aphrodite sobbed, "How can the most loving and most beautiful goddess in the whole world turn against her own children like that?"
Neil was surprised to hear his mentor saying someone else, other than herself, the goddess of love and beauty, is "the most beautiful and most loving" than her.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, and a mound of earth emerged before taking the form of the earth goddess herself.
"Gaia?" Odie remarked in surprise.
"Gaia?!" Zana remarked excitedly.
Gaia studied the petrified forms of her grandchildren before turning to the one who was still living, "Where's my daughter? And why have I not seen her for the last 10 years?"
"Rhea has been a tree for 10 years?" Archie asked in surprise.
"Well..." Zana began recalling what happened to her and the heroes so far, "First I came here to spend summer vacation with my cousin. The next thing I knew, I was fighting monsters with him and his friends. Then we found this tree, but it wasn't actually a tree. It was Rhea, who didn't remember she was a goddess in the first place."
As Zana expressed her excitement upon discovering that gods and monsters were real, the other gods were surprised to find out that Rhea has been a tree for 10 years.
But why?
The last time she turned into a tree was because she was heavily injured during a war. And she reverted back to her original form after 6 months.
"Then we met this guy Cronus." Zana went on, "Then you guys came along. Then Rhea gets all mad because her kids attacked her."
"WHAT?!"
The gods' shock and disbelief echoed throughout the entire room.
"It's true." Theresa spoke up, "I saw it with my own eyes."
"But... That's impossible." Persephone shook her head, "My Hades would never hurt dear Mommy Rhea."
"Who in their right mind would?" Hermes added, "She's like everyone's favourite mother in the whole wide world. She's my favourite mother in the whole wide world."
"Where is she now?" Athena asked.
The heroes looked at each other with uncertainty. They just don't know how to break the news to them.
"She's with Cronus." Hestia replied for them.
The gods didn't take it well.
They panicked, running and/or screaming all around the room. Some even threw and shatter vases in their moment of shock.
The heroes never saw the gods like this before. Zana had to duck to avoid a vase thrown at her direction.
"They can't be together!" Apollo exclaimed.
"Someone tell them that before they got hitched!" Neil shot back.
Ares screamed, before surprisingly calming down seconds later, "That, and that their reunion will bring catastrophic destruction to this world!"
"That's the exaggerated version. But nevertheless true." Gaia began to reminisce.
She told them it was inappropriate for them to see, but she had to be curious.
Gaia beckoned her youngest daughter to come closer, so that she may see her new-born brother. The young titaness was surprised when her mother placed her new sibling in her arms.
The baby opened his eyes. When he saw his sister, he cooed, reaching his arms out for her. Rhea smiles as she lets him touch her face.
"From the moment Cronus opened his eyes, those two were almost inseparable."
Cronus took down the last of his brothers standing. Pleased with his victory, Ouranus excuses him from their training.
The titan bows at his father in respect before heading into the woods, where she was.
Rhea combs her hair as she sat at the edge of a river. A pair of hands cover her eyes. She giggles before embracing her little brother.
Atlanta, Theresa and Zana awed at the memory. Who knew the megalomaniac used to be so sweet and romantic?
Unfortunately, the boys don't agree.
"Mostly because Ouranus willed it." Gaia continued, "Those two were the youngest of our children, but also the most powerful. More power means more control over all, and Ouranus wanted to keep those two together, just to forever seal his legacy. Until he was overthrown by his own son."
The most powerful... That did not sound good.
Many times have the heroes witnessed Cronus' power almost leading them to their demise.
Rhea... They may had just witnessed her power tonight, but they question how much more of her power has she not revealed to them.
Especially after what she did to her own children.
And if those two are now together...
"Just as clarity check, but didn't Rhea dumped that jerk-face just to save her own kids?" Zana asked.
"She did." Hestia remembered the day Zeus freed her and the rest of their siblings.
The same day Cronus discovered Rhea's betrayal.
"He didn't take it well. Who knows what horrible acts he's inflicting on her this very moment."
