Chapter 3: The Awakening

Perseus opened his eyes only to see nothing. He turned around and just continued to see nothing but black.

"So, this is how the void looks like, not exactly what I thought it would look like" Perseus thought out loud.

Perseus used his domain over energy to try and figure out what kind of energy is around him, so far he can't recognize what kind of energy is around him. The energy feels old, ancient even. He tried finding the time with his domain over time but that failed him as he couldn't sense the flow of time. He is surprised by how his domains seem to fail him in this unknown area and for once he is at a lost on what to do.

"Hey you!" a random voice shouted at him from where he thought was his left. Perseus turned around and he still did not see anyone nor feel anyone. His senses alerted him to something appearing from above where he was standing, so he rolled to the side and got into a fighting position despite being unarmed.

"Calm down, I was just testing your reflexes. It's better than I expected despite being asleep for a century" A figure came out of no where and placed his arms up in a way of surrender.

Perseus was shocked by this and began thinking how everything must be like on Earth and how his youngest brother damaged the planet.

"Hey I am talking here, notice me!" The figure in front of him shouted trying to get his attention.

"I apologize for that, if you don't mind me asking, who are you and where am I?" Perseus asked the figure.

"How polite! First let me add some light to this place" the figure snapped their fingers and Perseus can finally see and his domains have come back allowing him to sense the time around him and the different energies. He turned and saw the figures in front of him, the continuous surprises still continue.

"Good day Perseus! I am Hemera, Primordial goddess of the Day, and beside me is my husband Aether. Behind us is my mother Nyx and my cousins the three fates" said Hemera gesturing to each one of them.

"Enough stalling Hemera and let's get straight to the reason why we saved him" Nyx told her daughter in an annoyed voice.

"Right! Anyways according to these three" Hemera points to the Fates "You weren't meant to fade, someone interfered and tipped the balance of things because of this the Earth was tipped into what I like to call the Dark Timeline, pretty cool name right?" Hemera looked around for support from her fellow Primordials and was sad when no one said anything.

"Come on guys it's pretty cool! 'The Darkest Timeline' sounds like something out of a poet's mind" Hemera continued trying to get people to agree with her.

"That's it I'm taking over" Nyx said and pushed Hemera to the side.

"Anyways, for the next millennia or so we'll keep you here and train you so that you'll become strong enough to protect your home from the biggest threat you'll ever face. That threat will be other Primordials rising along with the Giants to take the planet back from the Olympians who have been mistreating it. As good as that is their plan is to completely wipe everything clean from the Earth and rebuild from scratch" Nyx explained.

"We will prevent this by a plan we came up with, first is that you have to take back Olympus and reunite them. Good news is that Zeus is not needed for this plan, he is more of a liability than anything. For you to take it back, in the future there will be a prophecy given to them that says the child of the Eldest Gods to reach the age of Sixteen that has the power to destroy Olympus or save it. Knowing them they will think of just Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon, completely forgetting you" Nyx continued.

"Wait! You want me to have a child just for this purpose? I will not accept it. No. I refuse to put this kind of burden into my child. I will not have a child just for the sake of my revenge" Perseus told them.

"But this is the only way for it to happen. All of the other children will fail due to their flaws, Zeus' kids will always crave for more power, Poseidon's kids will forever be loyal to Olympus, and Hades' well I don't really need to explain do I?" Nyx tried to convince Perseus.

"Still this does not justify having a kid just to put this prophecy into my favor. I wanted my first child to be out of love, I am not willing to put my child into this kind of harsh destiny. There has to be another way, maybe convincing a child of Zeus around it, I have practically raised some of Zeus kids in the past I am sure I can do it again" Perseus countered.

"Fine! We will go with that plan. I will explain the rest to you when you reclaim Olympus" Nyx said.

"I assume you will not tell me the rest because it may affect the future?" Perseus asked. The Fates nodded in reply.

"For now, we will begin your training and observe the children of your brothers to find one that possesses the heart and will needed for the plan" Nyx explained.

"If I remember correctly, we share the same domain right? Allow me to be the first one to train you" Nyx told Perseus while the rest of the Primordials teleported away.


A/N: First ever Author's note, I have no idea how these work but I'm going to do it anyways.

First of all I'll say that personally I am not satisfied with this chapter but after several days of trying to come up with something to add or remove here this is what I ended up with. I will probably come back to this in the future and edit it.

Second, I'd like to say that this story was inspired by a Fanfic my friend made me read long ago but I forgot the title and from what I remember it was not finished and has not been updated in years I think. It had a similar concept to this but this story has a lot of differences in it.

Third, I don't really follow an uploading schedule but as much as possible I'll upload a chapter per week.

Next is I need help deciding an important part of the story which is whether I go with the common approach in other FanFics where Thalia is the daughter of Zeus or if I should make her Perseus' daughter instead. Since I have no idea how to make a poll yet I guess just PM me or vote in the reviews your choice

That is all thanks for the support!