CHAPTER 4

The Encounter

The snow gave a weird sensation , as kronos walked on it bare foot. It had been an hour since he lifted the spell of time.
It had been thirty minutes since he captured Dionysius spying on them and sent him back to give the council his greetings. He wanted to see them. The gods had done a marvellous job in governing over the earth. A job done better than any titan , he agreed grudgingly .

"Are you sure milord , letting that wine god go was the right decision? " Prometheus asked, though nervously. Prometheus had voiced his worries after Dionysius ran back, that how Zeus had caught him in the library of beginning , searching for records on tarturus.

"whatever happens, old friend . i need to have an audience with the council of gods. Otherwise my freedom will have no meaning to it if I have to run and fight and destroy again just to stay in the middle realm."

Kronos and Prometheus wore the ancient battle gear of the titans. The heavy armor was carved with the face of drakons as shoulder plates. And a chest plate made of the finest of enchanted gold and imperiotin . A metal gifted to the titans from the creator himself.
Kronos knew things could get rough and that he needed to be battle ready. His right hand was open. Ready to sprout out his magneficient scythe .

Kronos was on the edge ever since Dionysius left. For it was clear as day to him that if Olympians wanted a peaceful meeting with the titan lord they would have been here already. And kronos had even asked the wretched wine god that he 'humbly 'requested an audience with Zeus. But it seemed like things were going to go down to a fight.
A few passing by mortals had startled kronos . He ended up materializing his scythe and scaring the poor mortals out of their minds.( the legend of the grim reaper :P) .

"my lord . you need to rest. That space time spell took quite the toll on you. It was not needed to freeze the whole of earth milord."

"quite down Prometheus . your worries are not needed." Though he was quite right. The spell had taxed him too much. There was no need to put up such a powerful spell over the whole of earth. But he couldn't control his excitement and ended up with a mistake. Kronos needed atleast 2 hours of rest . before he could fight the whole Olympian council , without getting a single scratch.

"hey you two fuckers in the park in the weird suit!"

Kornos turned his attention towards the rude mortal, interrupted from his train of thought.

"come on fuckers , out with the cash nd the clothes. Come on. Don't make me pull out my gun"

The mortal foolishly showed off a piece of metal weirdly shaped, sticking out of the mortals pants.

"You will be wise to bow in the presence of my lord if you value your life you mortal scum!"
Prometheus and kronos towered over the mortal . The mortal barely came up to kronos's chest.

"shut the fuck up you idiot with the scars! I have the gun here . i am the one in control ! i am the one with power here you fuckers! gimme your cash and clothes and get the fuck away from here ! come on quick!"

Before Prometheus could retort, kronos started walking towards the mortal.

That is when things took a turn for the worse.

A kid ran into the mortal shouting about monster and begged the mortal for help. It seemed as if the kid hadn't noticed the two titans infront in the darkness of the park.

Before anyone could react , there was a loud bang and the kid fell limp on the floor . the mortal held his 'gun 'pointing towards the child , his expression that of a mad man. It was clear to kronos this man , this mortal was a sinner and this was not the first child he had ever killed. Having repented for his sins, kronos couldn't take the blasphemy which occurred infront of him.

He materialized his scythe and started walking towards the mortal.
Prometheus took one glance at the titan lord's expression and decided to stay out of the matter. He was not keen on getting sliced in two so soon.

At the site of the scythe coming out of thin air the mortal started to panic . he fired multiple times at the titan lord but it didn't even make him flinch.

"this is the scum of the earth? This is what mortals have become ? murderers of children? Do they not know the price they shall pay?"bellowed kronos. He was mad beyond belief now.

The mortal backed up and ran from the park. He went behind an ally of a building and hid there panting.

"you think you can escape me? Escape your punishment?" kronos materialized infront of the mortal.

"what do you want! What are you! What the fuck are you! I am innocent ! forgive me! I beg you!"

"do you feel in control now, mortal? Do you feel like the powerful one now? Wretched creatures like you should rot away for an eternity in that cursed hell hole! BEGONE!"

Kronos couldn't take any more of this mortals minataur sized crap. With one swing of his scythe he cut the mortal clean in two halves from the waist. Along with the building behind which the mortal hid. The building crashed down with a loud bang to the ground.

"milord i think you over did it a little"

Kronos didn't reply. The building was too much he thought. But who knew mortal buildings were so weak?

Kronos and Prometheus went back to the park . to pick up the boys remains. But what they found there instead was not what they expected.

The whole Olympian council stood there. Shocked at the scene of the building falling. But the worst scene was Poseidon. He lay kneeling on the ground , cradling the child in his arms and softly crying in its little chest.

"what have you DONE!" Bellowed Poseidon. His emotions took a turn from grief to pure rage. Children of Poseidon had a rough life. Especially after the civil war , only 3 children of Poseidon were left alive two of which had died 10 years ago and the last one died infront of his eyes. Children of the gods , no matter how important they were to maintain balance between the mortal world and the realm of the gods, were mortal. And watching them die was hard for all the parents , gods or not.

Poseidon rose from his kneeling position. Gently putting his last alive childs corpse down on the ground. The child was just 5 years in age. Not an age for death come knocking .

"Father, YOU MURDERED MY CHILD!" Poseidon levelled his trident at kronos,s chest. The rest of the gods were shocked. Since before they arrived there had not been any reports of destruction or damage and so the gods figured the titan lord had come in peace. But now it seemed false and futile to think the titan lord would want peace.

Kronos was still pretty drained. He could take on Poseidon on one on one. Even the big three together. But the whole council? Not likely.

"Prometheus . make your escape."

"but my lor-!"

"obey ME!" hearing the titan lord scream would even make a god pee his undies.

And so Prometheus vanished. Nobody even tried to go after him. Their main focus was the titan lord.

For a few moments everything was still. No body dared to move . all of them , weapon ready to attack and defend.

"now now son. I understand your loss bu-"

"shut up! Kronos! You will pay for this! "

Poseidon stabbed forward with his trident , aiming to cut off the titan lords head clean from his shoulders. Kronos spun to the right and gracefully avoided the death blow.

"gods and titans are not allowed to engage each other without a challenge son! Do not go against HIS rules!"

"shut up shut up SHUT UP!"

Poseidon sliced horizontally , but the titan lord jumped over his head and with a quick strike with the handle of the scythe to the back of Poseidons head , knocked him out.

It was not a surprise for the council to see such overpowering skill of combat from the titan lord. And so the whole council attacked together on Zeus's word.

Zeus went ahead and tried to stab down at the titan lords chest with his master bolt but the titan lord used the length of the handle of the scythe to propel himself up using it like a high jump pole. But it was not over. Since Athena anticipated the move. She too had jumped in the air to intercept the titan but kronos gracefully spun diagonally in the air avoiding Athena's shield of terror and her sword and landed safely on the ground. Artemis charged at the titan with her knives and stabbed with one straight at his chest but the titan blocked it with the flat of his scythe. Artemis tried an upper cut slice from below the titans defence and would have succeeded if it was any other god for her speed was sensational , even on godly level. But kronos did a back flip , the knife missing his chin by a hairs length and struck down at artemis with the handle of his scythe as if it were a javelin. Artemis tried to block it with her hunting knives but the sheer strength of the titans attack caused the ground to cave in and artemis lost her balance .The pole hit her right on the head and She instantly passed out cold.

"you gods are not even close to as powerful as you were back during my days. "kronos mocked them. For it was true. They were too much maybe for another god. But a titan? He would wipe the floor with them.

Apollo tried to fire arrows in the titans direction , but kronos avoided them all and reached Apollo in the blink of an eye . before Apollo could react kronos lifted him up by his throat off the ground and squeezed his neck. Apollo struggled for a moment but soon passed out due to pain. Kronos threw Apollo's body next to artemis.

3 out of the twelve defeated. Not bad for a tired and worn out titan. He thought..

And so kronos decided to end this quickly so he could talk to them peacefully once they are all tied up good.

He charged towards Dionysius , who looked like a deer caught in the headlight ,

And rammed the lower tip of his scythe in his stomach instantly knocking him out.

Dionysius fell like a heap of dried grape leaves.

Zeus grew impatient and charged at the titan lord with all he had. He used his master bolt as if it were a sword . he sliced left right up down and in and out of all directions but couldn't break the titans defence. Kronos was too quick and avoided all the attacks with grace and speed. It was as if they were in slow motion for him. But ome of Zeus's strike came too close so kronos used his scythe to block the attack. The flicked the scythe so that the blade would face him and the lower tip of the handle would face zeus's chest. Zeus lost his grip over the master bolt and it went flying up. While Zeus's attention was on the bolt kronos jabbed the tip of the handle in zeus's chest throwing him off the ground . Zeus landed several feet away from the titan. But that wasn't enough to knock the king of the gods out. But as Zeus got back on his feet he had a smile on his face.

'why is he smiling ?' thought kronos

Zeus then suddenly called out"hades now!"

All the titan could think of was ; "oh crap!"

Athena and Hera attacked him from both the sides and zeus charged again from front ,his bolt back in his hand.

Kronos jabbed at zeus again with the tip of the handle and this time made him fly out of the park. "too much force?"kronos mocked. When hera and Athena were in range , he ducked making them crash into one another and go toppling down.

As the titan lord rose to his feet. Some one whispered into his ears "gottcha "

Before he could turn around to face the enemy he was engulfed completely by shadows . when the shadows finally disappeared. The titan lord was bound by celestial bronze chains. He was tired and out of energy. And he used more of his energy for this battle. He needed to keep talking to gather enough energy to make an escape. He needed about 10 seconds.

He needed to start talking.

But the whole internal planning died when he saw Poseidon rise to his feet . Poseidon fixed his deadly glare at the titan .

"die you titan overlord piece of shit!"

Poseidon pierced the titans chest with his trident , which went straight through the titan and impaled him to the ground.

Zeus entered the park again, although beat up and wounded . he looked pleased.

"we have been expecting your escape for years father. We knew you were planning to escape the moment you opened your eyes in tartarus a millennia ago!"

"hear me out son. I mean no harm" kronos went into a coughing fit . it was hard to talk with a trident sticking out of his back.

"i mean not to harm you or asurp your throne. I just want to be free . you cannot bound time!"

"watch me father! I shall rid the world of evil like you once more."

Zeus raised his bolt to the sky and a massive lightening bolt slowly formed through the gathered thunder clouds before coming crashing down on the titan lord. The thunder was so loud it overpowered the titans scream of agony. New York city lit up in a bright blue light , almost blinding bright . when the light died down. Only the titan's scythe remained. That too frizzled out and evaporated into the sky as a red mist.

"the titan has been defeated! we have won once again! " zeus bellowed . "hades check tartarus. I made sure that his essence was transported back to tartarus and bound to it again. It will take him maybe more than three thousand years to form again.

"yeah yeah whatever." Hades grumbled.

"treat the wounded and make sure no signs of battle are left here . lift the spell of sleep from over the mortals . a meeting will be called in soon. Till then my fellow council men and women . have your rest."

Zeus was over the head joyed with how the events turned out. He didn't think they could have defeated the titan lord. Not in a million years. Maybe the creator favoured them . this victory definitely was a good omen. To have defeated THE TITAN LORD in the span of a few mins. It was too good to be true . he knew that . but he allowed his ego to take over and not think of the possibility that maybe, the titan escaped.

That chilly night of December of 1912 ended with the victory of the Olympians. Or did it?

Three days later;

Kronos opened his eyes slowly. The wound from the trident was not there anymore but it still hurt a little. Creating a space rift before getting killed by the bolt taxed him too much of his energy. His golden eyes scanned his surroundings. He was naked. On the bed. His armour lay next to him on a large table. His chest was bandaged as if someone tried to close the wound on the chest. But they didn't have to . he was immortal. It would close on its own in hours anyways. But that didn't make it any less painful. Being immortal didn't mean he didn't experience pain.

"ara you are awake? I thought might never wake again by how you slept!"

"who is the owner of this beautiful voice?"

"ara you flatter me. " i am but a farmers daughter. I found you 3 nights ago passed out infront of our farm."

"you were pretty wounded but i don't understand where your wounds disappeared to."

She was a pure sole. He could tell that much just from her voice. And when his eyes laid on the women in the room it took the titan lords breath away. She had arbun and fluffy hair flowing down to her waist. A face so delicate it looked like it would shatter on touch. A body that of a beautiful goddess. Her hands looked rough and big like she worked with some heavy tools. Her eyes were a dark brown in colour with light concentric rings around the pupil in the iris.

"whats your name beautiful one?"

"Amantha. And sir you should rest for now."

As soon as she placed her hand over his eyes. He felt a sensation of relief. All the pain in his body died out. He truly felt free.

But he knew his happiness with this woman will be short lived. For had seen it all. The past the present and the future. He was too weak to do abything now. And it will take him around a year to heal completely and gain his strength back. Surviving a symbol of power that powerful was no small feat. And surviving two was impossible . even for a titan.

And so he shall savour his time with this beautiful lady. For happiness needed to be cherished in the here and now and not left out for the future.

With that the titan lord shut his eyes and went back to a peace ful slumber. His last thought before entering the relm of Morpheus was; i wish you could stay with me forver.