It had been 15 days since Gaea was awakened. Octavian was demoted to being an augur, he lost his centurion rank and his self proclaimed Pontifex Maximus. he lost his family a lot of clout during those days, and was lucky to escape execution and even exile. Gaea had brought Nyx, the embodiment of night, and her husband, Erebus, the embodiment of darkness and shadows. at the moment, she was walking around camp, to the silent terror of the campers and nature spirits that were dwelling in the pavilion and around the cabins. Percy, who had gone home for a few days to the enjoyment of his mother, was back at camp, somewhat relaxing with his girlfriend, Annabeth Chase. Somewhat, because it was a tad bit hard, to relax with a primordial around, and two who might pop up at unexpected times. He was still deathly afraid of Nyx looking for them and trying to curse Annabeth and him for their stint in Tartarus. But it was eating at him, he really wanted to ask this question, but he feared being smote on the spot more than his discomfort. Gaea looked at him, and said,
"If you want to ask something, you can ask. I will not smite you for a few questions."
Percy gulped at this, and, after gathering his courage, tentatively asked,
"Why did you want to kill us? the gods and their children, or the mortal world? what would be the difference if the titans or the gigantes ruled the earth? you still would be slumbering." At that, he cringed slightly, but looked up at hearing her chuckle.
"Tell me Perseus, have you ever felt the pollution on the seas? All the filth, all the nuclear wastes deep in the ocean?"
At hearing that, Percy nodded slowly, remembering the pollution he felt in the Hudson and East river, and how terrible it felt. The anger of their gods at him, for being a son of Poseidon. Gaea, seeing that look, said,
"It's basically the same for me. in the past two centuries, I had to feel mortals burrowing in my body, drilling in my skin and destroying nature all around the globe. it was a terrible state to be slumbering in. Besides, whoever said that I was a nice goddess? I am mother Earth, mother of nature, and nature is not exactly nice. Nature is cruel, the strong feeds on the weak, even trees are not exempt from this. So if the gods are weak, what business do they have ruling the world?"
It had been 45 days after the battle, and the children of Nyx and Erebus, which were Aether, primordial of the upper Air that only gods breathec, Hemera, primordial of Day, Thanatos, primordial god of Death, Hypnos, the god of dreams, Nemesis, Goddess of Balance and Revenge, and Thalassa, goddess of the sea, daughter of Aether and Hemera were brought to camp. They had yet to choose the heroes accompanying them to the world of earth bet. Today, Eros was due to arrive, and Nico made himself scarce. He didn't much like Eros, not after getting humiliated back in Split, Dalmatia. So he went to his new boyfriend, Will Solace, and spent the day hiding in the infirmary.
The present Primordials gathered around Gaea for a better briefing of the situation on earth bet. Gaea was chosen to be the watchman of the earths in that branch of the multiverse, so she knew more about the abomination infesting those worlds.
"His true self is hidden from me. In my years of slumber, he managed to land on one of the earth without any intelligent life, and has hidden himself deeply from my sight. I must find his avatar, and destroy it in battle for a chance at a way to his real self. then we can attack him enmasse, and show him the true might of the Primordial Gods."
"Why are you so worked up about this abomination? what's it's difference to the other monsters that roam the void between the stars?" Hemera asked.
"It's because this one doesn't just use the mortals for it's own gain. After exhausting all the potential out of the worlds it's inhabiting, it then destroy every reachable instances of it in the multiverse. Every version of the earth, with all their inhabitants, be they intelligent, or just flora and fauna, it just destroys them to fuel it's escape from the sun's gravity well. All that potential, wasted, because some lawless abomination wants to grow, but is too mindless to grow. it has the intelligence of a particularly smart chicken, and can't be bothered to evolve beyond that and gain the ability of innovation. it's imagination is non-existent, so it uses other, better species to leech from."
"What can we expect on the mortal world when we get to earth bet?"
the thirteen campers accompanying them had been finally chosen, and with them came the rest of the Primordials that were going to that world. Pontus, a god of the sea and son of Gaea, Chronus, primordial god of time, his daughter and son, Ananke and Phanes, Primordials of compelling fate, and light and procreation respectively, and Tartarus, the embodiment of the pit under the earth, were finally here. The air was almost sizzling with all the oppressive presence of the primordial gods, and Frank Zhang was the brave (read: foolish) soul that dared to ask the question.
it has been three months since that fateful day that a nosebleed awakened mother earth. supplies were gathered, and it was time to ready the campers to blend in with the mortals of earth bet.
"the economy is almost destroyed. first because of the occurrence of the supervillains, then because of the abomination named Behemoth, which is a being that controls energy, that first surfaced in Iran, their Iran, and destroyed the oil fields in the khoozestan province."-you could hear the growl in Gaea's voice at this-"The Behemoth, rises from the bowels of the earth, destroys what it wans, and then burrows in the earth again. A few years after that, another being called the Leviathan rose from the sea, attacking sea side cities and sinking islands, which destroyed most of the traffic by the sea, crippling the shipping industry, so much so that only a few small fishing vessels dare go to the seas, and not far from the coasts."- at this, you could hear Percy's knuckles popping from clenching them so hard, not far from the stony expressions of Thalassa and Pontus, the sea gods present.-" After them, came the Simurgh, descending from the skies and bringing madness and plots within plots with her song."- Chronus and Ananke were so rigid that they could be mistaken for statues after hearing about this, and the demigods were getting worried that something could affect their fate like the simurgh does.-" So because of these four things, nations are destabilized, corruption runs rampant in the 1st world countries, supervillain gangs in the street with the police forces almost powerless to stop them, and the three abominations that are called, Endbringers."