Phaedra looked down from the high wall of the fortress they had been sheltered behind. With Theseus gone, she had only one man left to protect her. Her love had put up a magnificent fight against King Hyperion.

Punch after punch had been rained down upon him, and still he fought back, baffling the evil king. Theseus looked in his eyes as he drove the knife into his neck, as the light faded from Hyperion's eyes, Theseus could feel the very ground shake.

The battle between the Gods and the Titans was not going well.

Zeus looked down at Poseidon, tears forming in his eyes as he watched his brother be torn apart by the Titans. With his last breath he shouted to Zeus,

"DO IT!"

A tear fell, as Zeus used every ounce of his earthly strength to collapse the statues holding up the cavernous cave.

The very mountain collapsed all around him as he grasped Athena in his arms and looked to the heavens, transporting them out in the last second.

As Theseus fell on top of the dead king, his final bit of strength expelled, he felt every cell tingle and suddenly he was surrounded by gold light and the world fell away.

"And yes, I'm with both of them. Or at least, I was. Before his father died."

Her brown eyes fell closed. It had felt good, true, and honest to confess to the priest. Though she had once been a high priestess herself, she handed over that honor when she gave her virginity to Theseus that night before the great battle.

Stavros climbed the rubble strewn stairs, desperate to find his brother in arms and his love, the beautiful Phaedra. If anything had happened to them… he didn't know what he would do.

When he came upon the two dead bodies, he fell to his knees and wept. His brother in arms was dead, even in this victory against the evil king, he had lost his dear friend.

This was how she found him.

Warm hands, silky soft skin, the hands of his lover.

"All is not lost my love. Look."

He looked up at the sound of her voice, and fell back in surprise; Theseus' body was surrounded by a gold glow, before suddenly vanishing.

"He has gone to the heavens, to be among the Gods. They have deemed him worthy of Immortality."

"Because of what he did?"

"Because of why he did it. He sacrificed himself to save all of humanity. That is no small feat."

Her eyes fell closed, and her lips moved in a silent prayer.

Though Stavros had seen much, and even now he could hardly call himself a disbeliever, he still felt wonder and confusion when she prayed.

In his mind, it had taken the Gods much too long to step in and help them. It shouldn't have taken the release of Pure Evil of the Titans to bring about their hand.

A/N: this is sort of a prologue to the story. It was kinda inspired by the end of the movie, like what happened before their son began to see his visions, and what happened directly after the battle and after Theseus is transported to Mount Olympus. I hope you like it! R/R