The deadly alliance
Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordain
When you really look back on Alex, or Prometheus designing humanity, you suddenly realise we are the result of intelligent design by an idiot. That explains so much. But it, ones again makes me wonder about Alex's ungoddlikeness. Sure he's a titan, but you know what I mean. Back to my life!
"So, why doesn't Oranos just curse Zeus then?" I asked.
"Aren't you even in the least bit curious about the thousands of years old curse that has been placed on me?" asked Alex.
"Yeah, but I like thinking in a forward direction." I said. "So why doesn't he?"
Alex gave a harsh smile. "A forward direction. When will humans realise that looking back is just looking forward in another direction?"
"Uh, is that a metaphor, or a simile?" I asked. Nw chec out my mad langausgs skilss.
"The point is Percy," said Alex. "That most people don't realise that whatever has happened has probably happened before. But too your other question. Percy, have you ever wondered why Zeus, who managed to call the first Pegasus out of thin, doesn't create anymore monsters? Or why Hades doesn't simply break the wall between the living and dead and crush Luke's army? Or why Ares doesn't simply use his powers to make Luke's army truly invincible?"
"Uh, because they don't want to?" I asked. Hum. I am saying uh a lot. It's still better than the time I realised that I am, in fact so sexy it hurts and started yelling "Ahh! The pain!" all the time.
"Because it's war. And in these wars all the gods power are focused on crushing the other gods. Or keeping them in check. Its almost a stalemate." said Alex. Ohhh! More chess references. See if you can find the first two!
"Okay." I said. "So no cursing the gods for all eternity then." I said. Annabeth and Thalia were walking towards us. "Have you ever done anything like that?" I asked. "Create stuff out of thin air?"
"Yeah." said Alex. "Those demon dryads. They are the result of my charms on an unsuspecting titansess. Technically they're all supposed to answer to me." Somehow, I always knew Alex would be responsible for a large army of warped devil trees.
So why don't they?" I asked. "Did you give them a bad health plan?"
"Somehow I figure "serve me or die!" doesn't count as a health plan." said Alex opening a can of Coke. Stylishly.
"Hey Seaweed Brain." said Annabeth. Yes! They have given up on making up new nick names for me! "Can we uh, join you?" she cast a look at Alex. It was a different sort of look than she usually gave him. And she's using uh, too!
"Sure." said Alex. "We were discussing the ye olden health plans I gave the dryads."
"Sounds fascinating." said Thalia. "So, we heard you and Percy were talking about when you started making humans."
"You could've asked me that anytime." said Alex, letting his hair fall. I brushed my hair up in stark contrast. No we just need to give each other one of our shoes and wear mismatching shoes. That'll seal our friendship!
"How do you phrase something like that?" asked Thalia. "So, invented any good sentient beings lately?" Unlike sentient beings, some of the anyway, that just wasn't clever.
"What else?" asked Alex, and he looked at Thalia, and the look he gave her was incredible. I saw his eyes but I really didn't want to see them. Ares's eyes were empty sockets with fire, but Alex's eyes were like Dionysus's eyes. They showed bad things. Things that would only appear on a Titanly Guidance 1003 film bad.
"Mr. D told us you were talking about your past." said Annabeth. "We just wanted to know who it is we're supposed to trust." Oh, loved the way she said supposed. It was so….domineering.
Alex sighed. He suddenly seemed older. Really older. "You want to hear my so called story?"
"I would like the know why a smart titan like you." began Annabeth "Would actually be stupid enough to anger Zeus so badly that he puts him in almost perpetual punishment." Ahh. That was probably a pretty huge lapse in judgement.
Alex suddenly raised his head, and now I could see the resemblance between him Hades and Kronos. His face was a picture of controlled rage. He was now also radiating power. I wanted to run and cower, and just stop thinking, my every thought was escaping, just running, running for all I could. And suddenly it just stopped as Alex sighed again. All the campers looked as if they really really wanted to run too but they weren't sitting next to him. Annabeth's face was pale. I wanted to comfort her, but I didn't feel ready to move yet. Thalia was breathing heavily. "You really want to know?" he asked.
"Yes." said Annabeth. Good. I really didn't want to sit through that for nothing. Or for this lousy burger. Common, they're doing overkill with the pickles and there's hardly any cheese. The patty is mediocre at best and the bun should have been thrown out about a day ago. It was still usable but lacked that freshness. Wait, where was I?
"It started with the fall of Kronos." began Alex. "He had fallen, and the world was changing. Kronos was the god of the earth, of fertility." He looked at us. "Not like Demeter. Demeter is with plants. Kronos is with all things. Under his guidance all things lived and thrived. All things." said Alex with a smile.
"Are we talking about unpleasant things?" I asked.
"Depends on your point of view." said Alex. "If you were mortal, you're chances of survival were really bad. Oranos, kept the really bad things like the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires, in Tartuarus. That pissed Gaia off and she got Kronos to kill him. Oranos didn't believe it was safe to have those things running around." said Alex.
"Not all Cyclopes are bloodthirsty." I said. "Some of them are good." True although I hadn't seen Tyson a lot lately, I'm pretty sure he's watching me when I shower.
"But enough of them were to wipe out the old humans." said Alex. "After about a hundred years of fighting and putting the world the way we wanted it, me and Kronos had a conversation. I wanted to bring humanity back, but differently. He said something about me seeing potential in them and that he only sees glorified monkeys." Huh! I'm so not glorified!
" Huh! Percy is so not glorified!" said Annabeth.
"Exactly!" I yelled. Wait, what?
"Anyway." continued Alex. "There was eventually the last great battle before Zeus, and Kronos started to realise the world was changing. He allowed me to start working on humanity. Three hundred thousand years of bad experimentations and drunken adventures." said Alex with a grin. "Good times. Good times."
"Three hundred thousand years?" asked Thalia. "You're that old?"
"Older actually." said Alex. "Anyway, on with my so called life story. I built a workshop of sorts, which Hephaestus has taken over, for designing man. And woman, but Hekate tried to help me with that and we wound up having demon dryad children. I'm just too charming." said Alex with a shake of his head. "Anyway, using some highly enriched loam-
"Please tell me by highly enriched you mean highly enriched from underground minerals or something." said Annabeth. Oh crap. If he didn't it means we were all made from. I don't even want to narrate it. But I must. But I don't wanna. But I MUST! But I don't WANNA! Fine. I'll be that way. Fine. Me too. The other me which is also I.
"Lets go with the or something." said Alex. "And then, the first generation of humans was born. And everything was going according to plan." He sighed. "And then Zeus and Hades and the rest of the true gods were born. If we just hadn't the others than maybe." Alex sure was sighing a lot. Now, I've only ever narrated the word, so I don't know how to pronounce it, but how do I ask someone how to pronounce something I don't know how to pronounce?
"All the gods were captured, except Zeus who was raised on an island. Until eventually, he came and freed his brothers and sisters. And six gods managed to get away from all the titans. Me, Hyperion and Erebus couldn't believe it. We knew it meant the prophecy of Kronos' downfall, and that the age of the titans was probably over. After three hundred thousand years of nothing I was ready for something new." said Alex. "It wasn't boring, my early life." said Alex. "But the titans, beings with powers that could change the world in ways you can't even imagine, hadn't tried a single new thing. Inventing seemed to beyond them. Or maybe." said Alex. "When you live like gods you don't really see the need for advancement. And I had managed to create a race which could invent, which could strive forward, but they wouldn't, not in a world covered in monsters, ruled by titans. The embodiment of foresight. Same thing as civilization. " said Alex suddenly.
"My best friends, Hyperion and Erebus, both disagreed with my decision. Hyperion had too much honour for that kind of thing, and Erebus said we were going to lose and die. He never was one for many words. Epimetheus was the only one I could convince to join me and a lot of good that did him. He's still married to Pandora. Some people think they're wives are difficult but at least they don't unleash unending horror on humanity whenever they're bored."
"Anyway, as you can geuss, the war continued.And the gods were winning. Hyperion fell to Poseidon and Hades killed Erebus. And then Zeus blasted mount edna to Tartarus and it was over. The monsters were locked up, and controlled. And I fell in love." sai dAlex, and for the seventh time I've known him, he seemed embarresed.
"With who?" aksed Thalia.Oh dammit. For the love of all things holy please, please make it so that Alex doesn't have over a thousand years of bad experiances he needs to get off his chest. The potentiol baggage will wow holiday people everywhere.
"Hera." Said Alex. Ah. No wonder Zeus doesn't like him very much. I always thought it was because Alex once called Zeus a doodyhead.
"You gods should have a show called family time." said Thalia. "In case there are some people left who you haven't permanently emotionally scarred yet."
Annabeth, however looked thoughtful. "You loved Hera? Did you meet in the war or something?"
"Ohhhh! Let me guess!" I said. "You were fighting brilliantly, when suddenly you were wounded and you r enemy was about to kill you and Hera came to your rescue and you both admitted you have intense feelings for each other?" Ah, that story sound perfect, but I'll need flashback style narration to do it perfectly.
"Actually, no." said Alex. "She hated me at first and thought I was the stupidest titan who ever lived and a worthless traitor to my own kind. I didn't really notice her until one moon struck night, with the birds singing and the other stuff running around romantically, I woke up inside her palace cover in cake." Alex shook his head. "Still not sure how it happened."
"And you build a relationship on that?" asked Annabeth. Hey, believe me when I say I've heard worse.
" No, that's when I first noticed her." said Alex. "You really don't listen. That's the first time I looked at her and thought she's hot! Anyway, I was courting Demeter at the time so I didn't think too much about it."
"You dated Demeter?" asked Thalia.
"You use the word courted?" I asked.
"Yes, and yeah, but only for lack of a better word. Gods romance is complicated at best." said Alex. "Now, on with the story. I was ready to make my final draft of humans so to speak, so gathering some more highly enriched loam, I started to redesign everything. And that's when I started to fall in love with Hera. She alone cared. All the other gods had the same view as Kronos. Humans would be interesting, but a mere diversion to them. Hera saw the same potential I saw. Together we perfected the design and were ready to summon them. By then, we were pretty much married or something, but the term wasn't invented yet." said Alex.
"I can't imagine you as married." I said. "Maybe as married but unaware of it, but not like a husband." True. I'm sorry, but I just can't picture Alex in holy matrimony.
"And that's when it all began to fall apart. Everything." he said bitterly. " I had made the first modern humans and they turned and looked at me. They just stared. And then, as one, they bowed."
"And Zeus didn't like that?" asked Annabeth. She too seems to have come to the conclusion that myths about that time are not really gonna help, because who was it that wrote them? Either no one or Hades, and you can't expect him to always be sober while writing.
"Zeus, wanted Hera as his wife. Hestia wasn't his type or something and Demeter didn't want anything to do with him, but Hera he liked. He wanted her. And one night he spoke to me. Ordered me never to give humans the right to fire, or other forms of advancement until they are proved to be loyal. And for about two years, everything was fine. Until me and Hera had a bit of a fall out, the kind that wipes out mountains and other minor things, and Zeus comforted her. And I was jealous." said Alex. "Jealous of Zeus."
Alex looked down, and bitterness etched his face. Or his burger was lousy too. I'm so getting those damn nymphs. "So, I stole fire from the sun. And attacked Zeus head on." Okay, did dot know that fact. In hindsight, if any of you are jealous of a god who rules the whole world, then don't attack him head on. Alex did, and look what happened to him. No, if you're jealous be sure to make constant snide comments behind the gods back.
"You attacked Zeus head on?" asked Annabeth. "Without any back up? Directly? That's...original of you." Yep, that's me and Alex, the original suicidal hero guys. But he's immortal so it's not as risky for him, so you should admire me more.
"Yes." said Alex. "Our fight lasted for three days. At the end, I was at Zeus' mercy, about to be sent into limbo or something. Zeus raised his sword, and it was blocked." said Alex.
"By who?" I asked. Sure, Alex wasn't as good as I was at life story narrating, but for a beginner, he was putting on a pretty fine show. Four stars.
"The first son of Hera and Zeus." said Alex. "Ares." Somehow, the entire Ares' cabin's attention was focused on us now.
"Wait, he saved you?" I asked. "Why?"
"Because, Percy." said Alex. "Ares has a sense of honor. It's somewhat twisted and very bad for you if you're his enemy, but he will never turn on his allies. He doesn't care what happens to his enemies, as in you, but he told Zeus that I fought for him, I shouldn't die because of a lapse of judgment. Zeus let me go, but then ordered a council of the gods and you know the rest. I was chained to be chained to a rock for all eternality. Ares was the only one who voted against the punishment." Alex now looked around at the rest of the campers. "Which explains the rest of the gods attitudes. They think I'm the traitor and that Kronos hasn't returned."
"What?" asked Thalia. "Are you telling me the rest of the gods think you're the traitor?"
"Why shouldn't they?" asked Alex. " The only gods who have claimed Zeus has turned is me, the guy who he chained to a rock for a few thousand years, Hades, who he exiled to the underworld, and Mr.D who he exiled to camp. And Artemis, but Apollo keeps arguing with her about it, so no harm done."
"Well, the you designing humanity thing clears quite a few things up. Like Josh for instance." I said.
"Wait, so the gods don't know the titans are back?" asked Annabeth. Hey, now we all know how Harry feels!
" Something like that. They know the titans are back, but they also know Oranos is with me. And he's the king of the titans. Zeus' has attacked and send three on the minor titans back to Tartuarus already. Kronos planned it all. Me being forced to bring Oranos, the only titan who can be called a god, back, both of us attempting to breach Olympus and Luke stopping us. Luke stopping killing Poseidon and letting the rest of the gods think the traitor has fallen."
" What's the difference between titans and gods?" asked Annabeth suddenly. "It has something to due with when Kronos killed Oranos right?" No! It's a repeat!
"Ah so you are interested? Unlike some people..." he gave me a glare. It wasn't wrapped. " Just curses. Any curse that Oranos placed upon the world, can be forced on a titan. And we're a lot vaguer about...stuff." said Alex. " I started out as the embodiment of foresight or advancement or something. Now I got civilization, fire and ridicule." He drank some more coke. "I'm not even sure about the last one. Like Erebus, he was the ruler of darkness and shadow. Hyperion was the embodiment of Observation. Kronos was fertility and Oranos time and the father of the heaven while Gaia was the mother of the earth."
"So that's why Kronos is worried." I said. "The gods and titans are affected by what people believe. Still, it's weird that the other campers haven't said anything about us being traitors."
"But how?" asked Annabeth, who looked really deep in thought. "How can people affect the titans? Most people don't even believe they exist!" Great. Now Alex will probably have even more issues I'll have to clear up.
" As far as I can tell." said Alex "It's the third ingredient. The first humans were made by making clay sculptures and filling them with my power. Then Zeus would breath on them and zap! Instant human. But the final humans, were created a bit differently. See, the old humans, were all called Joe. Don't ask." he said. "The third were all called Jack and then Jodi, but finally, I had an idea. I added the blood of Oranos to the clay. The same blood that gave life to the giants, gave life to the humans. Of course, the giants took a while to find Olympus, but they were pretty tall. Of course afterwards Hephaestus, Athena and Ares altered humans somewhat."
"Why is none of this stuff in the myths?" asked Thalia.
"There was no one there to write it down." said Alex. "Well, except for the titans and they thought I was wasting my time. And there are some other things you wouldn't know about me. Like for instance, in the hundred years war between France and England, the gods kept having to move between England and France. Annoyed them to know end, man I loved that. Anyway, I, was shockingly enough chained to a rock when a daughter of Ares walked past me. I sucked at French and when I yelled " Please cut my chains! Free me from this torment!" She thought I yelled break your country's chains and free them from this torment. Then she run off and led her country to war or something, leaving me chained to the rock. She was called Joan of Arc or something. Meh."
"So..." I said after the long pause that followed. "You have a plan or anything for our impending doom or are we making it up as we go along?"
" Just one." said Alex. "Destroy Zeus, then the other gods will the light and fight with us, against Kronos."
"Right." I said. "There's absolutely no urges for personal vengeance behind that plan. Dear me, yes."
"The plan will work." said Alex. "We're not going to attack him head on this time."
"But still, considering your track record don't you think you should let us help you a bit?" I asked. "Or at least full us in more instead of confusing us al the time?"
"Percy, in three days Luke's army will attack camp half blood. Me, and the rest of the gods will be unable to help. You must stop them." said Alex, calmly throwing responsibility in my direction.
"Me? But I'm only human." I said with my own grin.
"No you're not." said Alex.
"Well, yeah. So, they're going to attack us from all directions or did does thing we fetched actually give us a means of defense?" I asked.
"Only from half blood hill. The rest will be impenetrable, or at least to difficult to casually cross. Besides, Luke is perfectly okay with the notion of over running you with his vastly more experienced and numerically superior army." Okay, as soon as I figure out what numerically means, I'll start a battle plan. It sounds funny though. Like zany. Hee hee.
" Are we going to have any back up at all?" asked Thalia. "Monsters or magic or anything?"
"The Mayneds won't come." said Annabeth suddenly. "They want to remain neutral." Damn. No one tells me these kind of things.
"There are the Cyclopes of course. But few will come. Some of them remember Oranos with distaste." said Alex. "There is however a problem."
"You have no idea where Oranos is right?" said Thalia. "Or is he outta time?" What is about Oranos that inspires lame time jokes?
Alex grinned. "Oranos is currently trying to secure a new alliance, one that might give us enough power to destroy Zeus. Of course, I doubt they'll stay after that. Kronos fought them once before, they will not won't to face him head on again."
"Who? The giants?" asked Annabeth.
"No. The ones you noticed Luke's forgotten about. The Eastern gods." said Alex, grinning like a mad man. I would describe this as, you could've heard a pin drop, but the fire was still burning too loudly for that. Besides, this silence was so loud you almost couldn't hear over it.
"Eastern gods?" I began. "Like, the Norse gods or something?"
"Nah, the Norse gods were the titans. Oranos was Odin, Kronos was Thor, and I was Loki. Though I am pretty confused about where all the dwarves came from." said Alex, who was looking thoughtful.
"But wasn't Loki tied to a tree for all eternity...oh I get it." said Annabeth. "But most of the things just seem wrong."
"Yeah, fifty thousand years and countless handed tales tend to result in that." said Alex. "No, the Eastern Gods are as ancient as me, Kronos and Oranos are, if not older. See, there were four ages before this one. The first two were chiefly were Oranos and the eastern gods divided the world and looked after their independent halves." Okay. Now this was getting scary. So Luke didn't forget about half the world in his evil plot to take over the world.
"Won't Kronos figure that we'll try something like this?" asked Annabeth. Alas, I laugh at his cunning plans and follow my special mantra of screw logic, follow you impulses!
"Yes." said Alex. " But he knows that they won't stay long if the come to help at all. At least Agni and Soma are guaranteed to come, they'll want in on this. With the two of them we might be able to stage a full scale battle."
"We want to fight our overwhelmingly powerful enemies in a full scale battle why?" asked Thalia.
"Because, then all Kronos and Zeus little plots to confuse everyone will be revealed, and everyone will be able to choose their on sides. And then, at last, the fate of the world may begin to be decided." said Alex. "And we will end this."
"So ah, are the Eastern gods uh good or anything like that?" I asked.
"They got on okay with Oranos and Gaia and probably still do, but I don't really know them. When they divided the world they pretty much made it impossible for us to enter each others territory. Like Zeus and Hades and Poseidon did but on a much larger scale. The only time I really saw them was right after Oranos died. They were angered that we dared kill our dad and demanded that we resurrect him and that Kronos steps down from his throne. So me, Atlas, Erebus Hyperion, Hekate, and Themis went with Kronos to talk with them about." Alex grimaced. "Apparently they disagree with our quaint tradition of killing and usurping our dads. So it was us against them. They didn't bring their full strength though and we won. Twice I was cursed. They thought we lost our right to be called Gods. That they we won the right to be called Titans."
"A name he wore with honor for a long time." came a voice in my head. I don't know how, but Alex's very dead brother was talking in my head.
"Did it turn into a fight?" asked Annabeth.
"Pretty much." said Alex. "I don't like talking about it. But the important thing is, they remember Kronos and the straining gods, they won't want them back. They can't help us directly, or at least not for a long time but they'll try to give us a chance." Whoa. Information overload.
"That alliance makes no sense." said Annabeth suddenly.
"Cept that it's perfect." said Alex. Ha! In your face predestined ones!
"No, I mean, how can they get into western civilization? You said they split the world or something?" said Annabeth. Crap. That blows my plan to hide in a basement in Japan to hell.
"Oranos is planning something." said Alex. " He and Dyaus made that rule, they should know how to break it."
"One other thing." said Annabeth. "If they don't like titans, then what will they do about you?" Hey now! That's uncalled for!
Now Alex's grin was failing again. "That is one thing that bother me. Does one act, define what you are for ever?" he asked, and he didn't wait for us to answer. " No and that's why." he took a knife and slashed across his wrist. "This is happening." The thin trail of blood dripped calmly of his arm ruining the lousy burger.
"The edges are gold." I said suddenly. "And for some reason they seem even golder the longer you look at them..." Hmm. I wonder how many carrots, nah, I won't bleed my friend dry.
"I'm turning into some sort of god." said Alex. "Or something like that. Rules are bending and curses are breaking. And mortals are remembering me more than ever. They are begging to question everything, like I hoped they would. They are advancing faster than ever. They have formed a band called Alexisonfire."
"Is that an emo band?" asked Thalia, glancing at Alex wrist.
"Something like that." Said Alex, and in a flash of fire the wound had turned to a black scar. "Right. Now as fun as you might have found my little story, I suggest you go to sleep. Tomorrow is you last day of training before you're all doomed."
" Your morale rising abilities is not strong." I said. Or would that be are?
"Percy, what's Josh doing with that monster ?" asked Annabeth, and indeed my friend Josh was standing incredibly close to a very angry looking dragon. Oh, this won't end well. Or quite possibly, without an M rating.
"I shall taunt you into submission foul beast!" yelled Josh, brandishing a sword in the way you see in the movies. Like you have no idea how to hold it except to look cool, and can't wait for the stunt double to take over.
"Oh yeah, well I eat kids like you for breakfast." Said the dragon, smoke trailing out of his nostrils. Man, he does not look very pleasant.
"Ha! That was an old taunt whereas mine are stunningly original." yelled Josh with pride as if he just seen an incredibly large hole in his enemies armor.
"Uh, josh, that wasn't a taunt. He's a monster. He really does eat kids like you for breakfast." I said.
"Huh. No wonder the amount of dashingly good looking lads have drastically decreased." Said Josh, who looked kind of thoughtful.
"Can I eat him now?" asked the dragon.
"Shouldn't you ask me that?" asked Josh.
"I eat you. Okay?" he asked, and opened his mouth. Man, I'd hat to be Josh right no. Forget fire bad breath is the really bad part of a dragon's arsenal. Or so I've been told.
"Back off dragon." said Thalia irritably. "Why are you here Josh?" she asked. Of him. Weirdly enough.
" I heard you were all doomed. So I made a brave decision Ancient and unique portrait fight!" he brandished a portrait and made to hit someone with it when an invincible force seemed to grip him.
" That's thing the thing I'll never understand about heroes. You fight and die for this?" asked Alex. Me and Annabeth Jumped up and wrenched the portrait out of Josh's hands before he could seriously hurt himself. Alex stood.
"You should go to sleep now. Oranos will be back tomorrow and I think we'll all want to be ready for that.
I shrugged.. Or something. I was kinda wondering about the voice in my head. He said he wouldn't be able to leave the ship. Or something. " "Fine." I said and walked off, trying to digest what I was just told. And that damn lousy burger. Damn you nymphs to Tartuarus where they will hopefully learn culinary skills that are better! I stared numbly at the walls around my cabin and fell asleep without taking my clothes of, to large scale disappointment.
Oh no! Dream scene! There's probably a god of dreams or something, because I always get these weird dreams that allow me to see things. And not the usual dreams. Oh crap, I'm being pulled in...
I was looking over a rock, a tall mountain until I realized it was an open rock face. Or something. It was hard to describe. There stood someone in the middle, and I could somehow feel rather than see who it was. Kronos. He was standing there, looking perfectly calm, in white robes. He held a scythe loosely in his left hand. He also seemed to be waiting for something. Three more people appeared. On was a beautiful pale woman with greenish hair and green robes, who stood directly behind Kronos. The other woman had dark brown hair and wore a pale blue dress thing. She reminded a bit of Artemis. And the guy in the middle. Now he looked tough. Really. Imagine the bulked up ness of Ares mixed with the feeling of power you get from Hades, and you'll begin to understand.
"You're late Prometheus. And you too, Hyperion and Erebus." said Kronos, without turning around, as three more titans arrived. The guy who I guess was called Erebus looked a lot like Hades and held two long knives while the other guy was really muscular with light brown hair. He carried a long bow and had a sling filled with arrows with him. As for the other guy, if Kronos hadn't called him Prometheus, I wouldn't have regoniased him. He was tall and muscular and wore a skirt. He had flowing blond hair. The eyes were the only things that looked anything like the Alex I knew.
"You think they'll come then?" asked the green haired woman.
"Yes, Themis." said Kronos. "They will. But they will not, I suspect, be quite prepared for us." Okay. Ye olden talking.
"You think it's wise, my lord, to pick a fight with them?" asked Prometheus, who now stood in line with the rest of the titans behind Kronos.
"It's not wise." said Kronos. "However, it is unavoidable. I am however surprised you managed to make it through the barrier." His tone was laced with suspicion, and I was falling victim to ye olden talking style. Ye olde school mode or Help! Please!
"The barriers were meant to block gods." said Prometheus. "Not ones such as we." Oh dear Hermes, will someone please go back in time and help with this dialogue!
"Perhaps." said Kronos. "Are you all ready to fight in case this gets out of hand?"
"Yes Kronos." said the tough looking guy. "The titans are ready. We should just hope the ground is too."
A slight frown crossed Kronos' face, but it disappeared as soon as it came. "They come now." Suddenly the vision of the dream changed and I could see five figures landing in front of the titans.
"Ahh, Dyaus." said Kronos. "So good of you to come. Why did you wish to speak with us?"
"I think that can be answered safely by the fact that you chose to arrive armed." said Dyaus, eyeing Kronos with distaste.
"Merely a tradition of honor." said Kronos. "We take great care over such things. Now, what is this misunderstanding you need to clear up?"
"I'll show you the misunderstanding!" yelled one of them, who looked a lot tougher than the rest. He seemed to tremble with rage and lifted a heavily studded mace.
"Peace Varuna." said Dyaus. "I hope you'll excuse him. He has being greatly troubled with the lose of Oranos. As were we all."
"Of course. It was a worrying incident to all of us. I haven't introduced my merry band here have?" Asked Kronos, with a half smile. "My personal general, Lord Atlas, the Ladies Themis and Hekate and of course, Hyperion, Erebus and Prometheus." He gestured at each of the titans in turn. "And your charming attendants would be?"
"Soma, Agni and Vayu ." siad Dyaus. "And you've almost been impaled by Varuna so I think his introductions are unnecessary."
"A pleasure." said Kronos. "Well, now we all know each other, shall we just go on our merry ways?"
Dyaus glared. "The entire world has gone cold since he died, and you still presume to mock everything. You dared to kill him!" he said. "And take his throne. That in itself is unforgivable, un-
"We dared because we care." said Kronos, grinning at Dyaus. "Oranos was torturing some of his own offspring, denying them the light of day, just because they were a bit dangerous. He was cursing the world, stifling us all. He was effectively destroying us all. I think that you should be thanking us, not misplacing blame."
"Boy." said Dyaus, and I'm sorry to say this, but I was really impressed by the way Kronos managed to not run away like a lama after the look Dyaus gave him. "I knew Oranos for longer than you could possible imagine. He had his faults, but he only sought to protect, not to destroy. You are not worthy to be his successor, titan." He spat out the word, like it was filthy thing, and several of the titans now looked angry though all looked a bit scared.
"Alas, we differ of opinion there." said Kronos. "Now, this was a fascinating conversation, you gave me a lot to think about, shall we talk again in another few millennia?'
"No." said Dyaus. "You shall stand down, and bring Oranos back from the darkness."
"Ah. I'm quite afraid that's not happening." said Kronos, raising his scythe. By some invisible order, all the other gods drew their weapons too.
"You will revert to violence?" asked Dyaus. "Very well, as it seems to be the only way you know." he drew his own axe, and the rest of warriors drew their own weapons.
Suddenly Atlas roared, and the fight began. I didn't really see most of it. Mostly I tried to see what Alex was doing. He seemed to be fighting with Vayu and was losing, until Hyperion shot some arrows at him. The air started to churn and the arrows snapped in half, mid flight. Erebus suddenly appeared out of a shadow, and held both knives to Vayu's chest. Golden blood started to trickle, but before he could really do anything Agni appeared with a flaming sword and knocked Erebus off. Alex was grinning now and his own sword shot alight too. Agni turned to stare before grin started to slowly form on his face too.
"In another world we could've been brothers!" yelled Agni as his sword connected with Alex and flames shot everywhere.
Alex grin and they started to fight with relentless speed, fire blazing everywhere. Erebus was still fighting Vayu, and Hyperion seemed to be shooting at everyone. Atlas and Varuna were fighting harder than I would have believed, both pulsing sheer strength, the rocks smashing beneath them. Themis and Hekate were fighting Dyaus who fought back like a snake. He kept disappearing and hitting other titans, giving the gods the advantage. Kronos was fighting differently, and I don't think either of us were sure what he was fighting. Soma, was hard to see, and Kronos was probably concentrating on where Soma was likely to appear next, never mind killing him. The gods were winning. Alex's fighting was heating up, literally, and the rocks were melting around him and Agni. Varuna seemed to be using water in his fight against Atlas, who was looking angrier and angrier. Themis and Hekate just couldn't seem to stop Dyaus. A betting man would probably have gone with the eastern gods. And that's when it happened. Kronos scythe suddenly connected with Soma, leaving a huge gash across her face. He slashed twice more and she was down. The gods howled with rage but that wasn't going to help them. Kronos then started fighting Vayu, who couldn't keep up with both him and Erebus at the same time and began to lose. He fell and Erebus ran to help Alex, while Kronos and Hyperion walked over to Varuna. And then, all Dyaus broke loose.
Literally. He let out a roar of rage, and power echoed through the rock face, and cracks form everywhere. Themis and Hekate, who were closest to him fell first. The rest of them gods and titans alike, fell. I couldn't really see, but I managed to make out Dyaus' grinning.
"Oh well done." said Kronos and his smile froze. Alex also stood up and punched Agni, causing him to slump to the ground. Hyperion and Erebus, who appeared to have hidden behind the now unconscious Atlas, walked over to the middle of the crater, where Dyaus was standing, surrounded by Titans.
"You will leave." said Kronos. "As long as I rule this land, you shall never be allowed to return here." He turned and made to leave, when Dyaus spoke.
"I will not need to interfere." said Dyaus. "For, I now curse you, along with your father, and you shall be murdered and succeeded by your own son, just like you did to your father. I curse you Kronos, unworthy son of Oranos. And you shall now truly strain." He raised his hands, and in a flash of blue light, he and the other gods left.
Prometheus, or Alex, but I didn't think of this guy as him, looked at Kronos. "They'll be back my lord." said Prometheus. "I know it."
"Of that I have no doubt. No doubt at all." said Kronos, and his features seemed to darken, and I woke up.
Author Notes: I apologies for the delay in updating, but Homework and other things kept me from writing a lot. Well that's a lie actually. This is my new longest chapter and I don't think I'll manage one like this again. Thanks for the rewievs.