Part 2
The crashing sound of his door breaking awakened Dénouement in the middle of the night. Four assassins of the king came rushing in. "Get up you scum, you are under arrest for committing treason against our lord, Zeus"! Dénouement tried to free himself but it was a lost cause. He knew what committing treason meant: death. As he was forced out of his house he saw to his confusion the townspeople staring at him as they lined the streets to watch his final exit. He couldn't understand why they would not help him until he saw to his horror that outside his door was Arnaud himself, quickly ducking his head to avoid eye contact. "Arnaud, How could you! I trusted you the people trusted you." "It would never have worked Denouement, or should I say traitor? Besides, look around you did you really think the people were ever on your side? "With a face of despair Dénouement cried out, "Is this how you want to live? With people like these?" As he gestured towards his captors and there informer, Arnaud. "Do you not want to free your children from slavery, or do you wish to not be able to provide food for your family because all of your possessions must go to our so called protector, Zeus?" At those words his captors silenced him with a blow that left him unconscious as they dragged him through the streets toward the castle. With nothing more to see but the doubt of the rightness of their actions placed in their minds, the people slowly returned to their homes.
Cold, Darkness, that's all Dénouement felt as he set down the letters he had been writing in the hell that he had been imprisoned in the last three days. He knew his end was near. His only hope was that maybe, just maybe, his son would fell the same rage in his heart that he himself had felt for his father and would perhaps take to heart these letters that the god king had allowed him to send explaining everything he knew and had learned during his imprisonment. Suddenly the colossal dungeon door opened with a loud creak. The sound echoed on the enormous thirty foot tall ceilings. The dungeon had clearly been mean to keep in something much larger than any human had ever seen before. "So, this is the pathetic mortal scum who tried to challenge my reign!" Laughed the most beautiful yet ugly man Dénouement had ever seen he was tall majestic in his white shining breastplate. Yet despite his beautiful armor he reeked of death and evil. Suddenly it all came together in Dénouements mind. This was the exact god king that his father had described in his letters. The irony of his situation was stunning. Here he was, after 18 longs years of arrangements and resistance everything he had stood was about to be taken away. The god king said to the dungeon guard, "Bring me my sword and take this mortal to the execution room." As he was being dragged to his death through the blood stained passageways he saw creatures so large and menacing that it seemed they would kill you in the blink of an eye if challenged. The guard slammed his head onto the execution wall. As the godking entered the room and received his sword, he screamed out, "I am Zeus, who will stop my power? A mortal? Ha! If you really think you are that great then why don't you prove it?" with that the guard undid his chains and tossed him a sword. As Dénouement raised the sword in his hand he turned from the godking and with all his fury dealt a fatal blow to the guard. With a laugh, the god king said, "Useless creature, as he glanced at the quivering body of his servant, "and to you Dénouement, my friend, now you will face the true test, For who can stand against the powers of a deathless?" Zeus then proceeded to attack dénouement with a furious onslaught. Dénouement, who was not about to give up slashed the godking with a painful, but not mortal blow in the side. "Most impressive," chuckled the godking. "for a mortal that is" as he plunged his sword into Dénouements body. As his mind began to fade to blackness, Dénouement give his last words, "my son, my son will come avenge me, for who can withstand the bloodline?