Titanomachy's end Pt 2: The Harrowing of Tartarus
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3rd POV
Gates of Despair (Underworld)
The three brothers managed to flash themselves directly to the gates of the Underworld. The area around the gates was misty, but the air was surprisingly dry. It scraped the back of their throats like sharp knives. Countless ghostly figures formed from the mist as they proceeded to lunge at the three gods. The ghosts just went through the gods like nothing happened, but it was not so. From each passing ghostly figure, they received memories of how they died. This was closely followed by the pain of their deaths. Worse over were the howling screams they could hear. Each scream chilled their bones.
The voices of the fallen echoed in their minds, "You promised us." They screeched at the gods, their voices heavy and sharp like claws grating their brains. "You lied to us. You said you would protect us."
LIARS! MURDERERS! WE FOUGHT FOR YOU! YOU KILLED US! YOUR LIES KILLED US!
The voices shrieked over and over in their minds, "We fought for you. We fought for your lies. We died for your lies. You killed us. It was you. You left us to our deaths. Why didn't you save us? You did not care for us. You used us for your ends. We were pawns for your lies. Why did you do it why did we die for you? Why was our blood spilt? For your lies" the cried with raspy voices that echoed like sharp nails on a chalk board. The visions and pain of their deaths would not let up on the minds of the three brothers.
The worst was to come. They started to feel the emotions of each and every person that died or saw their families being killed. The feeling of hopelessness resonated in the gods. Poseidon was the hardest hit. The despair ravaged his mind and all he could see were the faces of his children and lover being killed over and over. The visions and the feeling of despair prickled his heart with undiluted grief as he crumpled to the ground sobbing. The visions were unbearable to his weary heart. The other two were just frozen. They felt nothing, just devoid of any joy, happiness, pain, sadness and grief. They were just hollow inside. The visions were close to destroying them completely.
Poseidon steeled his nerve and got up even with the visions still heavy on his psyche. This was only the gates of the underworld and not even the underworld itself and they were already being affected to this extent. He knew they wouldn't survive very long if they were to go without getting the help from someone who has been there before, someone too old and powerful to be affected by the visions.
So Poseidon got down on his knees and swallowed his pride, "O goddesses Gaea, ever present mother of earth hear my plea. Aide us in our time of need" Poseidon prayed to the earth goddess with tears running down his cheeks. "We will never make it without your help"
For a moment nothing happened, but then the earth rumbled. Dust swirled furiously into the shape of a funnel and slowly from the dust cloud an earthen figure formed. The figure was with a definite form besides being humanoid. After a few seconds the shape of beautiful woman formed. She stood tall, proud in front of Poseidon with a neutral expression. She had muddy brown hair with kind, but sad forest green eyes with a hint of violent pink that displayed hint of madness and malice that told Poseidon of the power she held. Her beautiful face was regal, motherly and soft.
The Ancient goddess looked at her grandson expectedly, "Why have you called me here son Kronos and Rhea? What is it that you seek from me?" she asked with deadly seriousness as her eyes flashed violent pink and back to the forest green, Poseidon noticed the change, but he wasn't going to say anything about them to her out of fear. "Speak child"
Poseidon was shaking slightly in fear, "We-we are trying to rescue your children from their prison" he said timidly. "We will never make it and we don't even know where in Tartarus they may be. You are our only hope in finding them."
The goddess's mood perked up with the knowledge of them trying to free her children from the pit they were in. Little did she know that she was the one to imprison them there due to her brother's corrosive powers, "I shall help you grandson, just free them from their cages. I will give you my blessings. This will protect you minds until you reach Tartarus. You Poseidon I will give you a domain over the earth" she said, before she started chanting in the old tongue of the Primordials. Zeus and Hades were freed from their state of immobility and looked at the goddess in shock. "You Poseidon I shall bestow to you dominion over the tremor of the earth. I name you Poseidon god of Earthquakes and Prophecy the seer of fate. They are for having courage enough to pray to me. Now I shall take my leave, but before that, remember to head to the heart of my brother's realm, there you will find the Palace of Night and Darkness. Ask them for assistance or you will fail and I will punish you for your failure, so don't fail me boy, free my children. Goodbye grandson, we shall meet again that much I know."
The goddess' form dispersed into fine dust before disappearing from the brothers. Two of which looked at Poseidon with questioning looks. "Did we miss anything?" asked Zeus who was oddly happy for his brother.
Poseidon nodded at his brother's question, "Yes brother. You and Hades missed much in your state of shock" Poseidon said with a sad and haunted look in his eyes that his brothers shared, "We need to go"
Zeus and Hades just nodded with a word being said. The three brothers approached the gates with caution. The misty ghouls were still going through them in droves, but Gaea's blessing was keeping them out of their minds. The gates opened with a very creaking noise that grated on their nerves. They walked through the gates and instantly felt themselves getting weaker by the second. The knees were buckling and shaking as they felt their energy streaming out. Gaea's blessing was protecting them from the mental effects
They were in the hall of weakness. It was a beautiful passageway with black marbled wall with depictions of cowardice and weakness. There was a large statue of a man weeping holding a child in his arms. The inscription read: Abrax the brave, the spirit of redemption and fortification. He paid for his weakness with the loss of his family by ignoring orders ordained to him by his patron and friend, but redeemed himself by giving up his soul to bring back his family from death's cold uncaring grasp. The three brothers saw a small wooden door with an inscription that said: Passage of the Damned: Entrance to the abyss of Tartarus. The brothers did not have a choice, but to open the door, they all looked scared at what they might find in there in the underworld nearly broke them, what would Tartarus do to them?
Othrys during the battle with Atlas, Perses and Epimetheus
Kronos sat on his obsidian throne with his scythe in hand. He was deep in thought; he couldn't possibly understand why the war with his children was taking so long. He could feel that they were slowly losing their power and Themis had left his side to remain neutral. Prometheus also chose to be neutral in this war. His brother Iapetos was only on his side out of fear of his temper.
'The gods shouldn't be this powerful. Someone powerful is helping them, but who could it be? The only being that could have aided them that is powerful enough to remain hidden is a Primordial, but that is unlikely. Milord Eros would have sensed their power.' Kronos thought as he started having vision of a handsome man with sea green eyes and black hair like his son Poseidon and cheek bones like his wife Rhea or daughter Hera and he guessed it would be Hera rather than Rhea.
Kronos initially thought it might be a coincidence until he saw his wife teaching the boy the mystic arts. The vision shifted to the boy walking with a girl who looked like his female counterpart in that she had the same black hair, but ocean blue eyes and regal cheek bones like him and his daughter Hera. "Come on Perseus, you need to show me how to perfect my spell casting ability and I will teach you how to craft" the girl said. Kronos recognised her as Aphrodite his supposed sister, but the way she looks he knew she was his grandchild. The name she said made Kronos sweat. It was the name of the boy with the powerful sword he saw so long ago.
The vision shifted to the boy Perseus being trained by his wife Rhea along with his sister Aphrodite, "Focus Perseus" Rhea lectured, Kronos was shocked to see this side of her. She had always been nothing, but kind and gentle to everyone. But here she was pushing the boy to his limits. The boy was breathing heavily with Platinum ichor dripping from his mouth, his hands were shaking, but not from fear of losing to his grandmother, but of the unknown. Kronos was shocked to see the boy bleeding the blood of the Protogenoi "I'm waiting Perseus. Attack! And don't try to hit us and just do it. I know you can if you wanted to. You are more powerful than this. You need to embrace it Perseus. Your sister has already embraced her power. You need to do the same child."
Perseus closed his eyes for a moment as his wounds cleared without a mark. When he opened them again, his eyes were filled with a new found resolve, but was still holding back a massive amount of his power that much Kronos could see. Perseus lunged at both his sister and grandmother with his sword raised in an arch. He slashed at his grandmother who blocked his attack with disappointment shining in her eyes. She wanted him to let his power loose, so he could learn to control it. Aphrodite snuck up on her brother while he was still concentrating on their grandmother. She slashed at him, but he was fast enough to parry away the brunt of the slash, but he had a deep gash across his chest.
While he was parrying his sister's blows he failed to notice Rhea sweeping at his legs until he fell to the ground and his sword clattered out of his hand, "Perseus!" Rhea scolded, "Get up and fight boy. How are you going to protect your family if you can't give it everything you have? Embrace the power Chaos gave you boy. Let all out child stop restraining yourself. You need to learn to control it Perseus or you will fall victim to it. Now get up and show me your might. Don't be scared of it, never be scared of who you are, that power hiding within you is a part of you us it Perseus. Now get up and fight boy!"
Perseus hesitantly got up. His breathing was slow, but not laboured as before. His head was still facing the ground. His body was lightly glowing. When he looked at both his sister and grandmother, the floodgates to his power opened. Both Aphrodite and Rhea smiled as they unleashed their power as well. Kronos looked at his Wife in shock. He didn't know she was this powerful. Her aura was even in a vision from the past, it was sending shivers down his spine, but her aura was nothing compared to the girl it was so massive that it was constricting his chest while making him shiver furiously, but the boy's aura was so immense that he felt absolutely nothing, it seemed to go on flow like a waterfall to the point where he felt nothing, but he knew it wasn't nothing. The power in the boy's eyes was frightening, because he will not be bound to any of his domains, his domains will be bound to him.
The girl lunged at such speeds that Kronos couldn't register and by the look of it neither could Rhea. Perseus charged almost as quickly as his sister. Rhea just smiled, "I knew you could do it my grandson" she said trying to sense their auras.
The vision shifted to when Rhea was teaching Perseus how to enchant objects. He saw Perseus crafting a beautiful sword that he been dreaming of for eons. The blade of Atlantis as he heard it was called. The sword at first didn't radiate anything until Rhea told the boy to repeat after her when he was holding the Xiphos. When he was done power flowed out of the boy and into the sword. The boy crumpled to the ground clearly exhausted from the effort, because he passed out a moment later in his grandmother's arms. Rhea carried him to his room. She was smiling at her grandson.
The Visions stopped and a voice resonated in his mind, "That was some of the childhood of Perseus. He will be a threat in the future. He is your grandson. He is the son of your son and daughter Poseidon and Hera. Go outside young one prevent them from taking your little disciple" The voice said to Kronos.
Kronos' eyes widened, "Yes Lord Eros" he said before flashing out of the throne room.
When Kronos flashed outside the room Eros smiled wickedly, "This is going to be fun to watch." He said to himself as he too flashed outside and stood in the shadows. He saw Kronos looking at a piece of charred stone that was crackling with electricity. Kronos looked on into the horizon and sighed as he muttered a few unsavoury words at Ouranos. His eyes shifted to their original gold colour for a moment and exposed a lot of grief and regret. Eros fumed at the sight and started chanting again to change Kronos' eye back to the lighter shade of gold that were filled with malice and evil. "Yes young Kronos, my not so willing servant. I want you to destroy them all, so that I may claim the cosmos for myself"
Eros in his arrogance failed to notice five figures looking at him with disgust. They were all thinking about how could they be related to such evil? Now Kronos who in truth was innocent of all actions he has committed unwillingly was going to suffer. One of the figures looked on with sadness on her face, "O father, how could you be so cruel?" she asked at no one in particular, but the others heard her and they looked equally as sad.
One of the figures who wore a beautiful deep black chiton with eyes that looked like quasars gave her a warm hug, "Don't worry yourself too much child all shall get better in time." She said as she went to the male figure who looked ready for battle, his eyes were like black holes.
The other two figures who both wore white chiton just looked at their older brother in contempt. "Chronos, Ananke. What did you see?" asked the being in the armour.
The two looked at their brother at the same time, "In a time far from the present a great war shall be fought with Eros and we fear our brother Tartarus and sister Gaea shall be on his side" they said in perfect unison and it was giving the others the creeps. "Erebos, Nyx and Thesis. The boy son of Poseidon shall be your lieutenant, but also your equal give him your domains as you have already blessed him at birth and he will fight in your name and for his family. First aide his father in Tartarus, if you do the boy will accept to be your champions, but remember he is your equal"
They flashed away without a word leaving behind waves of darkness.
The doors of Tartarus.
The door of Tartarus opened. They stood there for a while contemplating whether to go in or not. Neither answer was appealing especially for Poseidon who knew if he didn't his son would take it upon himself to go since it was his plan. Poseidon looked at his brothers before stepping through the threshold. Zeus and Hades followed suite moments later albeit reluctantly.
Once they passed through the doors they entered the realm of Tartarus and it was not what they expected. It was not frightening at all. I was pure white. The air was pleasant and the temperature was warm and nice. At first they thought that this was going to be easy until they saw that the whole place was just a still white room that seemed to stretch to the ends of the universe. The place was eerily quiet. There was absolutely no sound and worse the door they came through had disappeared into the white.
Hades tried to talk to his brother, but he found that his voice was muted as was his hearing. The endless stream of white was grating on his nerves. 'Why white? Why not black? This place is not scary or frightening. It's infuriating.' He thought to himself already in delirium. He had only been in Tartarus for five minutes and the pit was already affecting him.
Zeus was faring no better than his brother. He had always been a bit paranoid, but the vast chasm of white was annoying and making him feel like he was being watched. His head was scanning the area frantically, but there was nothing to be see, just the endless white abyss. He closed his eyes for a moment, but then he felt droplets of the coldest water tapping on his forehead chilling his bone. He opened his eyes and placed a hand on his forehead only to feel nothing. The chilling feeling was also gone. He started hyperventilating, because his mind was playing tricks on him.
Poseidon was not affected by the blinding whiteness like his brother, but it was annoying, so he thought of his family. He was in here for them and not for his brothers or for the power they will gain when they overthrow their father. It was for his kids, the ones that have been fighting a war not their own for eleven billion years. He was determined to see it through and also he guessed that his domain of as seer of fate was shielding him from much of the mental effects that plague his brothers. At first Poseidon thought that the whole of Tartarus was an endless white, but in truth the white only stretch for a hundred meters. His brothers were just walking in circles.
Poseidon ran over to his brothers and put a hand on their shoulders and motioned them both to follow him out. He led them to the edge of the whiteness and their eyes widened when they saw that the whiteness had ended, so they hastily walked away from the path. The moment they crossed through the barrier separating the two sections, they felt the temperature increase torturous levels.
The air was thick like syrup, but was not sweet, but rather acidic. The air was dissolving their mortal forms. The sting of pain was mind numbing. They decided to start running as fast as their legs could manage. They ran for five minutes before the temperature changed to a chilling cold that was close to freezing their ichor. The air was no longer thick it was thin, too thin for running, so they stopped and started walking again.
After another five minutes the temperature changed again. It was warm and comforting or it would have been if not for the humidity. The air was so saturated that it was disorientating. Their heads were throbbing due to the humidity. Their breathing became laboured to the point where they just couldn't run anymore. The conditions were changing faster than their bodies can adapt. With the humidity the there scent changed to the scent of rotting flesh that had been left in the sun on a humid day. The scent entered their noses and went all the way to their tongues and stayed there. The taste and smell of the rotting flesh prickled their senses. Their faces paled before turning a shade of green.
After an hour the scent and taste went away, but it was replaced by a savage hunger. A hunger so strong, that they felt their stomach muscles were contracting furiously like woman during labour. They all had tears in their eyes. They were all wondering what they had done to deserve such punishment. The hunger was joined by thirst. Their throats were so dry, that breathing was more painful than the air of acid.
The visions from before they entered the underworld had also returned. The voices were singing with grief of their deaths. For with every scream of pain from the ghouls let out, the three brothers felt like they were being stabbed through the heart. They wanted to curl up in a ball and weep, but they couldn't. They had to keep going.
The air became heavy again with acid that was corroding only their lungs and not their outer bodies. They could see the river Phlegethon, The River of healing. They quickly ran toward the flaming river. When they got to it the flames flared up at them, but they were not hot, but chillingly cold. Poseidon didn't care to wait, so he drank and drank until the contractions ended and his thirst dissipated. Zeus and Hades hurriedly drank after they saw their brother drinking from it.
They all looked better, but the mental scars that they got were taking time to heal, "We need to go to the heart of Tartarus if we are to find them. We need the help of Nyx and Erebos or we will fail." Hades said, he was the smartest of the three Zeus and Poseidon have equal intellectual capabilities. They both nodded.
Zeus got up and started running again, "Come on you two, let's go before the effects ware off" he said gaining speed. The other two looked at each other before running after their brother at godly speeds.
For hours they ran, before they heard a loud shriek. The brothers could hear their heartbeats making whooshing sounds in their ears.
WHIISH! A projectile went past close to their ears. Six black balls of fire erupted from the ceiling of Tartarus and were heading towards them at great speeds. The fireball hit the ground ahead of them. They heard hissing sounds coming from the black flaming balls. With a howl of the balls opened and the dark creatures sprang into the open. They ran like black blurs. Poseidon summoned his xiphos just as one of the creatures slammed into him sending him flying of a few metres away from the others. Claws flashed through the air as one swiped at Zeus who's back was momentarily turned, so dark creature slammed into him with it's claws protruding from his chest.
It's mouth opened wide, teeth bearing down. It laughed again, but not like people laughing when they find something funny. It's laugh was making Zeus' skin prickle. The creature lunged at Poseidon who was moving. One of the creatures leaped at Hades who was slightly more prepared than his brothers. Flashes of light shot from his fingers, but when it hit the creature it just bounced off and tore up the soil in Tartarus. The black soil erupted and fell at speeds at Hades. The soil changed into the form of liquid fire. He managed to duck out of the way in time, but the creature's claws dung deep into the god's shoulder. Hades looked on as his silver ichor flowed out before turning the Platinum of that his nephew and niece have. The creature had managed to knock Hades to the ground.
Laughing in a loud howl, it jumped at Poseidon who was getting back up. The creature was so fast that Hades could barely keep up. The other three creatures snickered at the gods, taunting them to attack. The creature that was leaping at Poseidon was sure that victory was only slash away. Poseidon could feel the air around him being split apart. He lunged so quickly at the creatures that didn't have time to respond. His blades went cleanly through all three creatures so quickly that time seemed to slow down. They dissolved into silver dust, but left a chilling shriek when they faded.
Zeus got up and shot tendrils of lightening at the three creature. They went from laughing and into outrage, but they were too slow in responding. They managed to dodge the tendrils, but they were met with edges of Hades' blade and they too dissolved into silver dust. "That was close" Zeus said with his arm bleeding silver and platinum before settling on Platinum before retuning to silver.
Hades laughed nervously. The day had already taken so much out of him, "Let's keep goi-" he started, but was cut off by WHIISHING sound thatgrazed his cheek as it passed. With a thud a projectile made contact with thigh sweeping him to the floor. Poseidon looked at his brother in shock before two projectile slammed into his shoulders knocking a few metres away.
Zeus brought out his xiphos, but his expression was nervous. His form was flawed. A pair of large silver claws erupted from the ground from behind him. Zeus turned quickly raising his sword in a n arch slicing the creature in two. The creature turned into a pile of gold dust that swirled and around him before erupting into flames. Zeus used his true immortal form to get through the blazing inferno.
Hades got up with ichor pouring out of the wound. He went over to the knocked out Poseidon. He pulled out the projectiles that were lodged in his shoulders. Poseidon howled in pain. Hades help his brother up. Their wounds started healing, but not before they saw three massive black dragons. With every beat of the wings projectiles flew out and hurled at the brothers.
The dragons glared at them before letting out torrents of the fiery breaths. The flames that came out were onyx black and they flowed like pressurised water that stained the air with their liquid black flames. "Zeus, get out of the way" shouted Hades at his distracted brother. Zeus turned to see the stream of fire flowing towards him. Zeus ducked out of the way in time, but failed to notice the dragon rider until he was met with a kick to the chest sending him flying. Zeus used his xiphos to slow himself down and used his godly powers and shot himself at the rider. The two clashed blades for a moment before Zeus realised that he was stronger. He shot tendril of electricity at the rider and it turned to dust. Zeus charged his xiphos with his godly energy and threw it at the dragon. The blade struck the heart of the dragon and it turned into silver dust as it fell
Poseidon charged at one of the black dragons while changing into his godly height. He leaped at the creature with his xiphos charged with godly energy. He swiped at the creature, but it moved out the way. Poseidon used his godly powers to keep him afloat and slashed at the dragon again and this time he cut of it's head. The rider leaped of the dragon hoping to catch Poseidon off guard. The rider shot towards Poseidon with it's blade aimed at his heart. Poseidon saw this and shrunk down to his mortal height. The rider completely messed it's target and was now falling to the ground, but before it hit the ground it burst into black flames. When it touched the ground the flames disappeared. Poseidon saw that the rider was distracted, so he shot towards it at blinding speeds with his xiphos aimed at it's heart. The turned it's attention to Poseidon, but before it could register a blade struck it's heart and it burst into silver dust.
Hades saw the last black dragons, he a stream of light erupted from his fingers again, but this time it did not simply bounce of the creature. It had impact with the dragons head. The dragon fell to the ground with it's rider still clinging on. Hades charged at the two creatures. He tightened his grip on his xiphos. While the dragon was still flaying in pain, he plunged the tip into it's heart and saw it erupt into silver dust leaving it's rider to hit the ground with a thud. Hades wasted no time and cut off it's head.
All three brothers were breathing heavily after the two encounters. They thought that they could have a bit of breather, but hundreds of fireballs like before lit up the skies of Tartarus, "Run!" Zeus shouted at his brother as dozens of dragons and their rider flew toward them. Poseidon and Hades quickly got out of their daze and started running.
The three continued their running to the centre of the pit. The ground beneath them began to change and it was no longer soil, but rather fine jagged glass. They were happy that they were not wearing sandals, but magic reinforced leather boots. They could see just how sharp the grains of the soil were.
The brothers after hours of running saw a large Palace, far bigger and grander that the Atlantean Palace. It was pure black with stars and planets on it. From the sky they saw a huge black chariot being pulled by two shadowy creatures that. The two creatures were didn't look like they were solid, yet there they were pulling a chariot in the sky. The area they were in seemed to get dark by the second. In the chariot there stood three figures. Two of the figures were female and the last was male.
The chariot descended and landed in front of them. The dark shadowy creatures were 60ft tall with the figures inside being 70ft tall. Even in their godly heights the brothers would still be shorter at their 35ft, but it was better than 68ft shorter. The power rolling from all three figures was making Zeus and Hades want to dig a hole and hide. Poseidon had felt power this massive before from his son and dare he say it was more awe-inspiring. Poseidon knew that they were suppressing much of their power. The two dark figures were far more powerful than the woman wearing the blue chiton and their auras felt old, far older than Gaea. 'Nyx and Erebos" he thought
Poseidon quickly descended into a low bow at the, "Your majesties" He greeted with the utmost most respect for the three Primordials. Zeus and Hades also quickly bowed not wanting to offend the three powerful being before them. "Lady Nyx, Lord Erebos and Lady Thesis, it's a pleasure to meet you"
Nyx smiled at the young god. He reminds her so much of her son Aether, always such a polite child, "Rise younglings" she said with a warm smile that they did not expect by the looks of their faces. "Be not scared of me children, I will not bite. In fact we are here to help you find what you seek."
Erebos smiled as he looked at the father of his future lieutenant, "My wife speaks truths. We shall aide you as Gaea has Aided you once before." He said looking at all of them.
"Yes listen to uncle Erebos and Aunt Nyx little godlings" she said kindly, "My father has corrupted the minds of not only my mother Gaea, but my uncle Tartarus. Once you leave with what you came for go to Mount Olympus, there you will find all you need to end the war"
"Now climb aboard" Nyx said to the young gods. All three just climbed into the chariot with saying anything "We will take you to the prison they are in"
Zeus looked at Nyx expectedly, "Milady, why didn't you free them?" he asked and
Nyx just smiled "It was not my place to free them young Zeus" she said with a sly smile while looking at Poseidon. There was no denying where Perseus got his looks from. He was a younger pretty boy version of his father with his mother's royal cheek bones. "There is a reason why we help you now and it is extremely important."
Poseidon shifted nervously when he saw that Nyx was looking at him, "Lord Erebos, why have you stayed out of the war with the Titans?" Poseidon asked. "The war would have ended without much of the bloodshed."
Erebos laughed a loud humourless laugh, "Child, if we fought there would be no universe at all" he said looking at Poseidon whose eyes widened. "We are what the universe is made of. More so Nyx and I were there dark energy and matter that hold everything in place. For us to fight in your war would be disastrous."
The three brothers decided not to ask the Primordials anything. It took them a two minutes to get to the Prison of the children of Gaea and Ouranos. The three brothers looked at the cage with sympathy. It was barely large enough to hold all six of them, but it was not large enough to allow any sort of movement. They screamed in pain and grief.
Poseidon took out his sword and jumped out of the chariot and sliced the cage. Hades followed his brother and did as he did. Zeus not wanting them to have all the glory followed suite. The slashed and hacked at the cage furiously for ten minutes before the cage fell apart revealing six stunned children of the Heavens and Earth.
These being were colossal. The Cyclopes stood at 50ft, but the Hekatonkheires were 110ft tall with a hundred hands. They all stumbled and fell out of where their cage used to be. One of the Hekatonkheires stood and looked at the three brothers with gratitude, "Thank you" he said in the old tongue that only Poseidon took the time to learn it from his mother, because she insisted in teaching his kids how to speak it.
Poseidon smiled while his brothers looked on with clueless expressions, "You are welcome" He said in the old tongue and his brothers had questioning looks that said we expect an answer later. "Please speak in the new language. I fear my brother did not learn the language of the Primordials from our mother."
All six of Gaea's children laughed kindly, "It is fine child we understand. We are forever indebted to you for freeing us from our prison. My name is Briaries and these" he said pointing at his brothers. "My fellow Hekatonkheires are Cottus and Gyges. My Cyclopes brothers are Arges, Brontes and Steropes"
The three Primordials descended from the chariot of night smiling, "Good you succeeded at your mission" Erebos said, "Now it's time you leave Tartarus, it's still nightfall."
The six children our Gaea bowed at the three Primordials, but they stopped them stating that they have no need in bowing to them. The chariot of night grew large until it was large enough to support all of them on it, "Lets go children" Nyx said to them. They all climbed the chariot without a word. Poseidon was the last to climb, but was stopped by Nyx. "Poseidon, we need to talk about your son Perseus. We want him to be our lieutenant, but he must accept freely. We won't force him into anything. He has the soul of a Primordial and as such he will be required to be part of our court in time."
Poseidon looked at Nyx who looked like she was pleading for his help and he could just say no her when she had helped them free the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires, "I will help you convince my son to accept your domains as his own" he said to the Primordial goddess. "I think he would be honoured to be your lieutenant Milady."
Nyx smiled and motioned Poseidon to climb aboard. The shadow creatures that pulled the chariot started moving and they quickly picked up speed. The exited Tartarus faster than they could flash and outside, day was coming. The chariot of night landed in an area where light did not touch it. The three Primordials told the younger gods that their journey with them has come to an end, before the left again on the chariot.
Nyx and Erebos looked at Poseidon and his eye shone with understanding. Poseidon nodded that he will do as asked. "We shall return to you tomorrow, for now go to your family and rest." Erebos said to him in his mind, before they disappeared into the horizon leaving the three brothers with their uncles.
Poseidon snapped his fingers and they disappeared in a flash of light.
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