Battle of the Heavens
I don't own Xena, but I finally own antivirus software, so don't try anything funny.
This chapter has been reedited to conform to a higher standard of quality.
Xena and Callisto entered the main keep. They saw a dejected Hades sitting on his throne staring at the ground. He seemed distant, cold, tired. Hades looked and saw Xena. He asked surprised to see her, "Xena, how did you…?"
Xena replied nonchalantly, "It's all in the wrist. Hades what happened to you?"
Hades told her in full detail. "I was sitting in the underworld judging the next set of souls." He looked squarely at Callisto as if to blame her. "Then it happened. A purple light opened up and I saw him.
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"Who are you" I asked.
He replied "Chaos, God of chaos, trial and choice. I'm here to give you one."
I asked puzzled, "Which is?" Chaos extended out his right hand boldly. "Serve me or not." I scoffed at him. Chaos pulled back his hand. He then said "Well then, I guess I'll have appoint a new lord of the underworld." I felt the ground shaking as the Purple light enveloped everything. The light hit Persephone and she disappeared. I cried out. "No! You bring her back!" I pointed at him.
Chaos shrugged his shoulders as he disappeared. The world spun as I was sucked in behind it. Then everything calmed as I found myself on my throne again. I tried to leave but an energy threw me back. Chaos appeared again laughing, "Wrong choice."
I demanded, "What have you done to Persephone?"
Chaos replied joyfully, "Wouldn't you like to know. That's not why I'm here. I'm here to relieve you of your duties."
I replied defiantly, "Only Zeus can do that."
He smiled as he said, "This is not Zeus's realm anymore. Your in my world. The world of Chaos. God of the underworld, by all the power vested in me by well, myself, I hereby relieve you of your responsibilities, and most of your powers as a god. You shall remain immortal and maintain your strength but nothing more. You shall remain here until I tell you otherwise." A purple light hit me. I felt pain, incredible pain. Then I felt weak, and sick. I asked, "Who shall run the underworld." An image appeared beside Chaos.
Chaos replied pointing to the beast of a man, "This is Gogroitil, he is the new lord of the underworld." I looked at the four armed beast. He stood eight feet tall with large extremely powerful looking arms. He had four horns on his head. His face reminded me of a dragon. My helm of invisibility floated to him. Chaos reformed it to fit his head. They then disappeared, leaving me there and this is where I've been since.
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There was nothing I could do." Hades finished. Callisto said in complete disrespect, "Gods, useless as ever." Hades became enraged but Xena asked him a question to distract him from Callisto, "Is there a way out of this world? Ares said you might be able to figure it out."
Hades replied still enraged, "Ares! I'd be surprised if he wasn't on chaos' side." Xena said "Well he is not, his powers have been stripped to."
Hades replied "I know ways to get out the underworld but out of this place, it wouldn't be easy. Are their any other Gods here?" Xena replied "Aphrodite has been mentioned, that's all I know."
Hades wondered, "What of Zeus?"
Xena said, "According to Ares, he is not here."
Hades said, "Zeus will try to enter this world. With the whole underworld taken from earth, the world should be falling apart. Death can't serve because there is no place to put the souls. At least the Greek part anyway. Xena, get me out of here, I can try to locate and rally the other gods that are here and perhaps we can find away free. But it's Zeus that will have to make things right."
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Zeus and Athena among the few other remaining Gods assembled on Olympus. Zeus, king of the Gods strode down the carpet that led to his throne. He spoke with force. "Today we go and take back what is ours. An evil God has taken my wife, my brother, my children. Your family! Steel yourselves, the pantheon of Greek gods go to war this day!" Zeus opened a portal to the realm of Chaos.
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Xena, Callisto and Hades were outside of the Castle. Hades looked up in shock, "What has he done?"
Callisto replied, "The underworld is now part of the surface world."
Hades replied "By the Gods." Then he looked up in the far east seeing bright blue light. Hades shouted with Joy "My brother comes!"
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Chaos knew he would come. He gathered together several of his deities. He left Gogroitil to deal with Hades who he knew now was free. Anarchy, Deception whom he brought back when Xena killed him, several others as well. He left Aphrodite as his hold on her might not be strong enough in the face of Zeus.
Chaos shouted with joy, "The king of the Gods has come. Let us show him how weak he truly is." Chaos created dragons for them to ride on as the mounted up and headed for the opening in the sky.
Chaos reached the opening in the sky as his dragon breathed fire. Chaos looked upon Zeus with complete disdain, "Your in my world now thunder god!"
Zeus shouted, voice charged with electricity, "You violated our world, stole what rightfully belongs to it and you shout about trespassing?"
Chaos laughed saying, "No, just informing you that you can't win here." A shot of purple light hit Zeus in the face. Zeus sent a thunderbolt back at Chaos nicking him in the shoulder, however Chaos was unaffected.
Athena rode in on a flying chariot with her sword in hand. It shot bright flames at Chaos, however he absorbed the fire. Poseidon with his trident sent rays of blue power at Chaos and his gods. A shot nailed Anarchy's dragon sending him careening to the world below.
Chaos, impassioned shouted, "You can't win here! You can't win!" His brought his hands together and energy emerged in the sky around Zeus and his Gods. Athena barely ducked as her chariot took a difficult hit from the purple energy. Zeus shot his thunderbolts with all his power, aiming at the god of chaos. But it could not stop Chaos as he seemed to feed off the power. Zeus was beaten. Zeus shouted, "Gods, we can do no more good here." They began to retreat.
Chaos was not about to let him get away as his booming voice echoed the heavens, "Oh no you don't thunder god. You came here, so now you'll never leave!" Chaos ditched his dragon and sprouted wings on his back, his body growing ten times his original size. Zeus overpowered by Chaos desperately fought back against the god of chaos and his savage attacks.
Chaos plucked Athena from the air and hit her with his energy taking most of her power as he had done to Ares and Hades and then cast her down to the world below. Zeus shouted enraged, "You bastard! You son of a bitch!"
Chaos shouted back full of power, "True Gods don't have mothers!" Chaos tried to do the same to Zeus as he did to Athena but Zeus used all his power to blind him. Zeus shouted back at Chaos undaunted, "You may have beaten me, but I know how to destroy you!"
Zeus took a lightning bolt and forged it into a sword. He cast it down into the world below and fled through the portal with Poseidon as it closed behind them. Chaos did not see the sword because of his temporary blindness and was thereby unaware that a weapon had been forged that might stop him. He return to his fortress in victorious celebration.
He strode down returning to his normal form when someone came to greet him. She kissed him full on the mouth. Chaos said triumphantly, "Your husband failed Hera."
Hera replied coldly, "He was always weak."
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Hades saw the Purple light regain control of the region. Hades collapsed to the ground beating his fist as he shouted "No! no! This can't be! We are stuck here!"
Xena said severely annoyed by Hades whining, "Shut up! We are not stuck here."
Callisto continued for her "That's the problem with you Gods. Everything is a lost cause when there is still a fight to be had."
Hades wondered, "How can either of you defeat a god?"
Xena replied, "I don't know?"
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Borias and his army were resting. They had long since separated from Evil Xena. He had been seeking a way to stop her, realizing that she has gone to far, but when he learned that it could not be done, he left. As he looked around taking in the sights he saw something glisten in the background. He mounted his horse and went to the shimmering object.
After a few minutes he reached the object that stuck into the ground. It was a shining bluish silver sword with a handle shaped like a lightning bolt. It was both cool and warm to the hand. There was an inscription in it. Borias could not read it as it was in the Mycenaean language. The long lost language of the people from before Greeks that occupied Greece now. Few could understand it anymore.
He held the sword up in the air. It glistened, seeming full of energy. It was one of the most beautiful swords he had ever seen. Borias threw done his old sword and took this beautiful sword for himself.
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Athena lay on the ground knowing not who she was or where she was at. All was lost to her as she stared into the purple sky above. A band of primitive warriors who had seen her fall came to her. They wore animal skins and seemed something out of a previous age. Athena listened to their words as she understand their strange language. A word, Minskat Gudinna meaning fallen goddess. They bowed before her and worshipped her as she came to her feet.
