Hi people! I am back with Chapter 15, as promised! Thanks for all the lovely reviews, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy :3 75, woot woot! A special thank-you to ChildofAthena, who made me blush like mad :)
Now we got a mystery POV. ;) Enjoy!
He hated them.
He hated them with a passion unlike anything the world had ever seen.
It was THEM who were to blame for his problems.
It was THEM who stripped him of his rights, of his power, of his humanity.
Now, he had nothing.
Nothing but a cunning mind and a thirst for vengeance.
He would destroy them all. Every last one. He would wrap them in his shadows and drag him down, down to the pits of Tartarus and beyond. They would suffer and writhe in agony, and their pain would never cease.
Just like his own.
Even after eons, he could feel the steady drain of power this accursed place took from him. Every shard, every tiny bit of power he managed to reconstruct and gather back would be stolen from his being in an instant.
Only slivers of his conscience could escape, enough to observe the rapidly changing world and speak to his beloved followers. Along with his new pawns.
They would free him.
They would free him from this place, and he would have his power again.
This place...it was dark. It was cold. And it was unforgiving.
They locked him up here, with the chains of his own sister's element and power. She knew what was happening, but could not do a thing, for her own freedom was prominent and even she could not free him by herself. She was driven to madness by THEIR power, stripped of her power and very being, and her empty husk now lay withering in the depths of Tartarus.
No, it was THEM who put him here, and it would have to be those of their blood to free him as well.
He wanted freedom. He wanted to be released from this horrible place, to let his precious power and strength return to him, to feel the thrum of ancient magic rush through his veins. He wanted to take that magic and take everything away from THEM, just as they took everything away from him.
He wanted power.
He wanted freedom.
He wanted revenge.
He wasn't always this vengeful. He had everything - a beautiful twin sister whom he could stay with for eternity, a palace of his own, devoted followers whom would shower him with affection in return for his.
He was content with such a lifestyle. He was merely the embodiment of his element, after all, and as long as his element remained, so would he.
But it all changed. The Gods - CURSE THEM TO TARTARUS FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY - saw him as a threat. He was a peaceful Primordial, just like his sister. He knew he posed no threat, for there was nothing they had that he wanted.
It was their selfishness, their greed for power and absolute control that drove them to declare war on his brothers and sisters.
They shouldn't have been able to win. For centuries, the Primordials' power grew, their influence spreading and their strength and bonds unrivaled. The first Gods were new, young, and aching for a fight. And a fight they had.
Earth trembled, time itself unwove, the seas heaved and rumbled, and the skies crumbled as the most powerful beings on Earth clashed. Light and darkness flickered and the world was almost destroyed completely.
Aether and Hemera were the first to fall. They didn't know, couldn't have known of the treachery that had befallen them.
Demigods. The Gods called upon their children to lock the Primordials once and for all. They were few in numbers but great in strength, for they had mind sets and powers unlike those of the Gods. They had the creativity and ingenuity of the human race, the powers of the Gods, and blessed with the weapons of the strongest kind, they too entered the fray.
The Primordials couldn't fight them. The laws of his mother, Chaos herself, forbade the killing of any human being by a Primordial's hand. They were powerless to stop the demigods as they wound enchantments, using their parents power to create prisons that could hold the immense power of a Primordial for eternity.
Such a fate was what befell Aether and Hemera. Their own powers used against them, they were sucked into the sun, to forever remain in the fiery embodiment of their element as their magic was used to power the sun. Aether was captured first, unwilling to even fight back whenever he could against the tiny demigods. Hemera, unwilling to let her twin be so utterly destroyed, tried to save him, but to no avail, for she too was locked within the sun.
Gaea was next. Due to her immense power, power greater than most, she could not be trapped fully, only put to sleep. And so she slept, forced to rest inside the immense body of her element as well. Her conscience was awake, however, and trembled in rage. First her children, and now her brothers and sisters, along with herself, all forced into exile by the Gods. She swore revenge.
The rest of the Primordials were not so easily captured. They finally did something absolutely forbidden, one of the worst crimes in existence to save themselves and their siblings - they broke the laws of Chaos.
And so came the beginning of their killing spree. Thousands of mortals and demigods alike fell to their hands, and the gods finally began to fear. It seemed that this time the Gods had overstepped their boundaries, and now they would finally pay the price.
Some of the Gods were captured themselves. One of the goddesses were trapped in the form of a deer, another in the form of an dove. One god was cast into the Underworld, and a second god into the sea.
But their leader, the god of the sky, took things a step further. Calling upon the gods of other lands, he brought in many, many others. A god of lightning with an immense hammer. A goddess with rainbow wings. Others with foreign languages and foreign powers, but all hellbent on one goal - trapping them for eternity.
His poor sister was driven to madness by their magic and was forced down into the depths of the earth. He himself was finally defeated by the demigods, locked forever in a dark tomb. The untouchable Pontus, trapped in his own watery realm. Tartarus forced into the Underworld, into the abyss of his namesake. Uranus (or what was left of him) banished into the sky.
The last of the Primordials, Ananke, warned the Gods that they had made a grave mistake. They were dealing with powers beyond their own, and that one day, they would take their revenge. She was the Primordial Goddess of Fate and Destiny, and with these final words, disappeared forever.
Chaos was outraged with the treatment of their kind, but could not directly interfere. So she restored the monsters of ancient times, letting them run free, and most of all making sure that they could never die, only be defeated.
The Gods freed their own kind, and they ruled the world in peace. They thrived in their own freedom, and gave birth to MORE children - children that keep Chaos' monsters from overrunning the Earth.
Freedom...it was such a far, far dream. Only a speck of light at the end of a seemingly endless tunnel, leaving you to wonder if it was even there in the first place, or simply a figment of your desperate mind.
He would get it.
He would fight for it.
As soon as he was free, he'd save his brothers and sisters.
And he'd get his revenge.
Dark, huh? I know, it IS from the POV of a villain after all.
I hope this isn't too confusing. If it is, just PM me and I'll explain the whole timeline in length to you. I'd write it here, but I'm too lazy at the moment :P
I hope you guys liked this short chapter, it doesn't really have anything happen but it provides some important backstory and some hinting at who exactly the mysterious villain is. Everyone is free to guess who he is, along with his sister ^^ Cookies to who guesses right!
I'm sorry this chapter is so pathetically short by the way...but I had a feeling that adding too much other stuff would remove the importance from this chapter. Plus, I wanna see you guys writhe in agony over not seeing if Hazel's ok or not ;) Sorrynotsorry!
(And for those of you who think Hazel's gunna live because of plot armor, you may or may not be wrong. I honestly haven't decided whether or not to let her live, but if she doesn't it'll be an interesting plot twist, no?)
Thanks for reading! :D
OH PEOPLE! Before I forget!
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