The True Gods Chapter 2

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"Blah" speaking

"Blah" thinking

"Blah" mind speak

Ares blinking came out of his long sleep but what in the world had woken him up? The last thing he remembered was finding out that those thrice-dammed Goa'ulds had taken on his and the other Gods identities and turned their loyal followers to slaves. Thus starting a chain of events that almost led to the total destruction of the Gods.

The most annoying thing about it was that if him and the other gods were paying attention it would not have happened in the first place. They had looked after mortals and nurtured them for thousands of years till Humans had grown advanced enough that Zeus declared that they did not need the gods hovering over and interfering with them, so the gods backed up and started paying attention to other things for a couple hundred years. That of course is when the goa'uld came took their places and undid over 1000 years of hard work in less than a decade.

So why did they not stop them when they finally did notice? The thing was that him and the other god gained their energy from the emotions humans put out. So with their followers they had grown used to their follower's energies getting directed directly to them through prayer and when they used their God's name. So they began to grow lazy and never bothered to look for energy in other places or to store it. The Goa'uld came and next thing they know all that energy was directed at these wanna-be's and the gods were zapped dry. They barely had enough energy to put doubt in their most loyal followers minds and to go into a healing sleep and even then they did not believe they would survive until Zeus gave up all his energy and his life to save the others. Even with that some of the lesser Gods died.

But now Ares was awake which meant either he had a very dedicated selfless mortal who had started praying to him suddenly, or a mortal had finally discovered the temple the Goa'ulds locked up a lot of their statues in and disturbed the one directly linked to him. He was betting on the latter.

So Ares got up and concentrating he discovered that he did indeed recall how to gather energy not directed directly at him but any energy called to be used during conflict. He smiled he had done it instinctively during his sleep. He now had a good storage and checking he realized that the other gods had done the same they just needed a mortal to awaken them.

Smiling to himself Ares snapped his fingers and instantly was dressed in his favourite outfit of black leather and a black silk shirt. The sword of war was strapped to his side and he had a dagger on his other side. He frowned he had know idea how long he had been asleep or if the Goa'ulds were still around. Well he decided it was time to get some answers. He concentrated and discovered that his statue had been disturbed so making himself invisible to mortals he flashed down to find out who had woken him.

So chapter 2 is done please review and tell me how I'm doing. Thank you.

Thank you to my reviewer's there opinion of my story are most welcome.

Eriu

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I know I'm terrible when it comes to punctuation, proper grammar and the like. If you can suggest a good Beta I would be very grateful

kahless21

It has great potential keep it up

Thank you very much I hope you keep reading and enjoy it.