Chapter 102
Sparta
Nobodies POV:
Today was a truly dark day for the world as one of its greatest heroes had been slain by none other than the king of the titans Cronus. Hiccup Haddock was now lying down on the ground with a gaping hole in his stomach that went right through to his back allowing one to see through him. Despite this Hiccup was not dead yet but merely in a state of limbo with his life being held on by merely a thread and being one second away from ending. The only thing keeping him alive was none other than the titan Cronus who was looming over him. Cronus had used his power to freeze Hiccups wound in time keeping him alive but to end him all Cronus would have to do was lift his power and Hiccup would be dead in under ten seconds. Cronus never took his eyes off Hiccups body as the furies walked up next to him before Alecto said.
"Congratulations my lord, you have done something that so many others including our own sister Megaera failed to do."
"Not quiet my generals." Tisiphone asked.
"What do you mean Lord Cronus, you have slain the mighty hero Heracles and enslaved his dragons and his griffin." He turned to face them.
"Wrong on both accounts my dears." Alecto opened her mouth to reply but Cronus continued with. "His dragons and griffins are still fighting my control." He looked back at the dragons that were struggling to fight the power of the crystals on their heads but every time they tried the red bolts would come out shocking them and for just a moment their eyes would change red before turning back. "It won't be long however before they fall completely under my control." He then turned back to Hiccup. "As for young Hiccup I feel I might still be able to convince him to join us so I'm keeping him alive in a coma of sorts but that'll be over in a while after I give him some experiences." He then frowned. "However, should he still turn down my offer I will throw him in a cell to await until I am able to take over Tartaris and throw him into a solitary cell to spend the rest of eternity alone." The furies smiled at this before Alecto asked.
"What shall we do with him for now my lord?"
"Take him to my palace and place him in one of the guest quarters with two Minotaur guarding the door since he might not be too happy when I wake him up." Tisiphone then asked.
"And when shall that be my lord?"
"Once I have full control of his dragons and griffin so I'll at least have beasts to protect me from him that he shall not dare hurt." They all chuckled evilly at this. "Now start moving him out of here while I-" He turned to the dragons. "take care of his dragons." They all chuckled making the dragons back up in fear as the shadow of Cronus landed on them while the furies carried Hiccup away.
Hiccups POV:
Darkness! That was the only thing I could see with no form of light, no sound, no other living being wherever I was as I felt like I was simply floating in a big void filled with nothing but darkness. As I floated there in the darkness I think of the last few moments before I came to be here and remembered how Cronus had imbedded the blade of his scythe into my stomach. I looked around and asked myself if I was dead because it felt so strange as if I was still alive but at the same time I wasn't. This feeling was hard to explain but the best way I could describe it was the deep intense feeling of emptiness coursing through my body. It was then I felt darkness begin to fade as if I was waking up from a dream and then there was a bright flash.
I felt my body course with energy as I quickly sat up breathing heavily and sweating heavily as I looked around to find myself in a large room I'd never seen before. Pillars made from dark grey marble imbedded in the walls were holding up the roof, imbedded in the top of the walls were different white marble reliefs depicting different battles of me in heroic poses with some depicting women at my feet, these reliefs stuck out well against the dark green marble that the top of the roof was made of while below them the walls were made of dark grey marble, across from me was a dark green marble fire place with a burning fire, on either side of it were windows that started from my chest in height before going high enough to reach below the reliefs while being three feet wide, there were other windows each placed five feet away from each other, between these windows were pedestals each holding a statue of a different dragon species in different poses with each being made of a different marble and hanging from the ceiling was a large black metal chandelier. It was then I realized I was looking at this room through pale grey translucent curtain that surrounded a bed that I was sitting on. The sheets were black and made of the smoothest silk I'd ever felt; the blankets were a scarlet red in color and incredibly soft and the pillows behind me were also scarlet red and felt as if I they were stuffed with clouds like the large bed itself.
It was then a feminine sigh to my side got my attention and I nearly fell back out of the bed in shock for lying next to me asleep was a blonde girl I recognized as Daphne. The thing that caught my attention however was the fact that she was naked but fortunately the blanket was covering her chest and lower half. The only reason I knew she was naked was the blanket didn't cover her side so I got a good view of her skin to see she wasn't wearing any form of clothing. It was then much to my shock I looked down to discover I myself was also not wearing anything except the blanket that was covering my lower body. I then heard Daphne groan as she said.
"Is it morning already?" I didn't reply but stared down at her groaning form as she rolled over slightly to look up at me and smiled before frowning. "Heracles is something wrong?" She then reached up and stroked my cheek. "You look like you've seen a ghost." It was then memories flooded my head making me groan in pain and grab my head. "Heracles what's wrong?" When the pain stopped I had no control over my body as if it was controlling itself making my head turn to face Daphne with a smile while cupping her chin.
"Nothing for you to worry about my dear just a minor morning headache." She sighed.
"Must be from all the work you do for lord Cronus and not going to sleep till late." It was much to my shock that my body leaned in and asked.
"And who's fault is it that I don't get the chance to sleep early my delectable little vixen?" She giggled as my body leaned in and gave her a long lingering kiss while I tried to regain control of my body before it pulled away.
"You know we could always stay in bed and enjoy a little more time together."
"Sorry my sweet but I have duties to fulfill today." She frowned before a small smile graced her lips.
"I'm sure they could wait at least an hour that we could spend enjoying a little time together." She sat up while thankfully holding the blanket against her body.
"Nice try darling but you know how serious I take my duties." She sighed as my body got out of bed as the curtains automatically parted for me to get out of the bed allowing me to pick up my pants and make my way to the door as Daphne asked. "Are you sure you won't stay darling?" My body turned to face her and saw her lying back down with the blanket covering just the top of her body exposing her side while she raised her right leg up high making me mentally blush but my body just chuckled.
"Nice try love but I can't be late for my duties."
My body then walked out of the room and down a hall made of the same marble as the room with a wall holding reliefs on the left side and a long row of windows on the right side looking out to a large lush garden. As my body walked down the hall to who knows where I went through the memories that had flooded my head when I was in what I assume was my bedroom. As I went through the memories I felt my self-become more and more horrified by what I learned about my life but it did show me what was going on when a message appeared in the form of a vision. Cronus was as he put it allowing me a taste of what the life he's offering me by placing my mind in a body that would basically show me what my days would be like.
As for the memories I now knew what happens after I join Cronus from when he healed my wound. After that I'd help him attack Mount Olympus and bring an end to the gods who spend the rest of eternity in Tartarus. Once that was done I lead the charge against all those who oppose Cronus with my dragons who've been morphed into monstrous versions of their species like Toothless who's been turned back into a Shadow fury from Arabia once more. Cronus claimed it was a gift to help add to my power but to be honest it just sickened me and what made it worse was my dragons were under complete mind control so they were my dragons but not the dragons I'd come to love. As for my animals, they had suffered the same fate as my dragons by being placed under mind control using the same gems and turned into larger more vicious forms of themselves mostly larger, tougher and a whole lot more aggressive to the point they had to be chained to the wall to keep them from mauling anyone who came to my house. Speaking of this house I was now living in, it was a gift from Cronus built on the same spot where a town that became my first conquest once stood and now served as my home during the conquest of Greece while my island would serve as my main base to choose where in the world to attack next. Many servants tended to the house while my wolves patrolled the grounds along with my other animals. Then there was Daphne who I'd left in the bedroom.
Her father along with many other nobles had pleaded with Cronus to be spared the same fate as the civilians who now served as either mindless slaves or loyal soldiers. They'd be left at play and in return they had to serve Cronus by supervising architectural projects, managing cities he has constructed, generals to command his forces, handle all the output of the cities and pretend to be traders to open trade routes with different lands to get inside information on them to make conquering their people easier. After the deal was made cities dedicated to Cronus were built with the nobles ensuring they met the required offerings and so far only one man had failed to deliver while another was caught stealing gold from the wagons taking the offerings to mount Olympus. Those men were now mindless slaves working the fields plowing the fields with no breaks until the work was done while their wives were now in the house working as mindless servants alongside their children.
Then there was Daphne herself who had not stopped her advancements on me after I joined Cronus in his conquest and if possibly got even worse. To be honest she wasn't the only one of the females to continue their advancements and in the end apparently, I had decided to take a bride to just stop the women. From what the memories allowed me to understand I had chosen Daphne because she was easy to control, not that bright, beautiful, loyal to those in power, wouldn't question my choices, only spoke when spoken to at social functions and would make good arm candy. The way Cronus believed me to think was truly repulsive but not as shocking as the memories from what happened the night before explaining why we were both naked. Now those memories made me mentally blush and if I was in control of my body I'd be able to put a tomato to shame with how red I was.
I was brought out of my thoughts when my body stopped at a door and pushed it open to reveal it was a huge bathroom with the bath taking up most of the room. Seriously it was the size of a pool with large six white marble pillars surrounding the edges with scauldren heads built into the middle of them spraying out water into the bath. Above this pool was a glass ceiling window-shedding sunlight down onto the waters of the bath with the tops of the pillars on the side of the windows so the window was the exact size of the pool. The tiles on the ground were a smooth white as were the walls but the walls and the ceiling were covered by wooden netting allowing vines with flowers to grow on them and with the steam from the bath the plants did well. There were also multiple marble seats against the left wall in front of small marble tables holding various perfumes and scented oils with tools to both rub them on and take them off. The thing that caught my attention the most however was the fact that there were multiple beautiful women standing by the bath all wearing white wrappings around their chests, white loincloths that only covered their fronts and backs leaving their legs exposed and tight necklaces that wrapped around their necks exposing red gems I recognized as the same types of gems used to control my dragons. With this in plain sight it wasn't hard to figure out they were being controlled to be slaves.
Soon after entering the women proceeded to tend to me by watching as I swam from one end of the bath to the other before they helped me out of the water and led me to the marble seats. Two of them rubbed my body down with perfume and oils while another woman massaged my shoulders. Once they were done rubbing the oils and perfumes off two of the women came up and proceeded to scrape the oils and perfumes off. My body then did another two laps in the bath before being dried off by two women using the softest white towels I had ever felt and then led into another room. This new room was made of white marble, with no windows and large and tall gold shelves built into the walls each holding a different suit of armor on a stand. My body pointed to a pure black armor that looked like my regular armor only the chest plate had a red seal of Cronus on it showing I worked for him. Once that armor was placed on my body I was lead out into a large room with windows looking out into the garden on the right, reliefs built into the wall on the left, a long black marble table in the center with multiple seats and an assortment of food resting on it. My body was walked into the room where Daphne wearing a white silk dress with golden belt, a necklace that had a large sapphire in it around her neck, bejeweled golden bracelets on her wrists and upper arms and golden leaves braided into her hair, latched onto my arm as she asked.
"Ready to start your day lover?" I felt my body smile as it wrapped an arm around her and replied.
"Let's see what I have to deal with and hopefully there won't be much to do meaning I'll be able to enjoy my day reading in the library, walking through the garden and of course-"My bodies hand moved to grope her lower back. "Enjoy time with my lovely wife." I blushed at what my body was doing while she giggled and placed a hand on my chest.
"We could always enjoy our time together now." I felt my face smirk.
"You know how seriously I take my duties but I'm sure we can make up for lost time tonight in the bedroom." She leaned into kiss me as my body leaned in to meet her while I tried to regain control again but I couldn't regain control before our lips could meet resulting in a passionate kiss that lasted a few seconds before we separated. "Let's enjoy our breakfast now shall we my dear." She smiled.
"Indeed, my beloved warrior king lets enjoy our meal." She wrapped her arms around me. "And then enjoy our day until your new orders come in which hopefully won't be till late afternoon."
"Hopefully!" We then sat down and enjoyed a delicious breakfast.
6 hours later
In order to describe how my day has been so far after breakfast all I could say was it was both sickening and relaxing at the same time. It was relaxing since I spent some time doing the things I like such as enjoying a walk in the garden, practicing my combat skills, reading and taking a swim in the pool that this palace had. Despite this it was sickening because I had seen the servants and saw they were all under the power of the red crystal making them nothing but mindless slaves but the sickening part was a lot of them were once my friends. It hurt to see them like this but the thing that sickened me more was how I was treating them since I was treating them like the nobles treated the lower class and I always hated how they did that. Another sickening thing was this place in general since I admit it was luxurious but it wasn't my style since it radiated the feeling of power, wealth and of someone who was made to rule over others and that just wasn't me.
There were also my wolves who I saw wondering around the garden patrolling it but they were no longer my beloved wolves that I raised from cubs but beasts that would maul anyone who so much as got to close to my home. My monkeys were up in the trees glaring down at the ground below them but they were now the size of my wolves before they were transformed, had glowing red eyes that seemed to pierce your soul and had fangs sticking out from beneath their closed lips. The thing that sickened me the most however were my dragons that now circled over the palace, in their monstrous new forms that would bring nightmares to even the bravest of warriors and my birds joined them except they were also turned into beasts that could rip a man in two with a single swipe of their claws. Aylen now ran around the outside of the palace walls circling the area but now her coat was pure black and a herd of black horses that radiated a sense of doom followed her while Phlegon ran a bit next to her leaving behind a stream of fire cutting anyone off from getting near the walls. Mirage was now made of black sand and stuck to below the sands exploring the wasteland that surrounded the outside of my palace hunting down anyone who has escaped from Cronus's forces. Nylene was now a large black furred beast that lived to kill those in my own private labyrinth below the palace where I put prisoners for my amusement and if they avoided her then they would have to deal with Kal who now wondered the waters of the rivers of the labyrinth and he was now incredibly vicious and acted more like a kelpie with the magic that had engulfed him. All in all, I was sickened by what I had found out about this place and wondered if this is the kind of person I'd become if I accepted Cronus's offer.
Now I was in the garden on a cline with my head resting in Daphne's lap as she gently stroked my hair while a black-haired girl wearing the same thing as the girls in the bathroom except the loincloth covered the sides of her legs was kneeled down next to the cline and playing a gentle song on the lyre. As much as I hated this life I had to admit this was rather nice and peaceful but sadly this moment was ended when a brown-haired girl walked up making me open my eyes and glare at her from Daphne's lap as I said.
"This better be important slave!" She never lost that mindless smile as she kneeled and offered up a scroll.
"A message from lord Cronus my lord and lady." My body quickly sat up and snatched the message and read it showing it to be a summons to Cronus's palace to watch the enslavements of the latest conquests before turning to Daphne.
"It appears that lord Cronus has ordered my presence at his palace for the enslavement of our latest conquests leaders." She sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Another empire falls before the might of lord Cronus and once again you are summoned to watch the former leaders become nothing more than mindless slaves."
"Such is the life of one of Cronus's generals my dear." I then stood up and began to walk away. "I better leave immediately since it's best not to make lord Cronus wait."
"Oh, but I'm sure we could convince him to cut you some extra time." My body turned to glare at her and for the first time saw her lean back in fear.
"Now Daphne you know I take my duties seriously above all else and don't like them to be interrupted." She nodded. "Don't try to interrupt my duties since I'd rather you not end up like my first wife."
My body pointed to the slave who brought the message now standing to the side looking down and smiling mindlessly. As it did this memories came to my mind of how the servant was once my wife but she annoyed me by constantly trying to get my attention when I was trying to work. It was for these reasons I decided to take a new wife while turning the girl into nothing more than another mindless slave to serve me while her father and mother suffered the same fate. As these memories filled my mind I couldn't help but ask one question and that is 'what kind of monster does Cronus think I am?' Once that was done my body then left to the front of the building, which I saw, was a huge palace made from different colored marbles for each part.
The front had a white marble pathway leading to the end of the property that was surrounded by a thirty feet tall wall made of black marble with a large golden gate at the end of the path and a lush green garden on either side. I saw my jaguars walking around the garden but they weren't my jaguars as their eyes were blood red, they reached up to my head in height, their muscles were large instead of slim and they had a presence that was intimidating. When the gates opened my body didn't stop walking but inside I felt as if I would die from shock and horror since waiting there was Toothless who had been turned into a shadow fury and was standing there still as a statue with the only movement being the chest moving in and out as he breathed. This dragon was not my best friend but a mere puppet on strings controlled by the gleaming red gem on his forehead that took command of both his mind and body. My body mounted him before we took off into the sky flying over the now baron wasteland that was once a lush green and teaming with life. My body may have not reacted to it but inside I felt sick to my very core at the mere image of what Cronus would do to the land if he took over. This only succeeded in fueling my drive to stop Cronus if I could only regain control of my body then perhaps I could stop him once and for all.
1 hour later
The flight towards the city only enhanced my desire to stop Cronus to the point where I don't think my desire could've surpassed my desire to live. We eventually came to land in a palace made of black marble with red linings in the stone with large statues of Cronus looming over me when my body walked down the hallways. Standing on either side of these statues were monsters from his army while hanging in the rafters were harpies all staring at me as I walked by. The walls were also decorated with reliefs depicting images of Cronus and his conquests with most showing me either at his side or in the background holding off enemy forces. These reliefs were shown between the statues or black and red banners with Cronus's symbol on the bottom so all in all this place screamed evil lair.
Now I was standing in the middle of Cronus's throne room with Cronus himself in front of me sitting on a black marble throne that stood on a stand that was five feet high with all three furies at his sides. Behind this throne was a large window looking to the outside that was as dark and sinister as the palace. The throne room itself was something to truly dread though since besides the throne and window there was also the blood red mosaic made out of marble forming Cronus's seal on the floor where I was standing. Along with this there was also multiple reliefs decorating the walls depicting battles with the foreign gods most of which I recognized and beneath each relief either hung up on the wall or resting on a pedestal were the weapons of the defeated gods. My body kneeled before Cronus who smiled down at me and said.
"Hiccup once again your knowledge of our opponents has brought us a victory that was quick with minimal casualties and much has been gained in the form of both wealth and new slaves."
"I am not to thank my lord for all I did was give information on the enemies cities, weapons, fighting styles and the routes people might take in order to escape our forces."
"Don't sell yourself short Hiccup for it was you who developed the strategies that allowed us to turn the battles in our favor with minimal casualties and all of their forces now joining our ever-growing army."
"I just do what I can my lord."
"Nevertheless you shall be well rewarded with your share of the riches we have raided along with your share of slaves."
"Thank you for your generosity lord Cronus." He just waved it off while I wanted to stab him but with my body not obeying me I couldn't do anything.
"Now I believe it's time to bring forth the captured leaders and deal with them accordingly." The large ruby encrusted black metal doors were slammed open by two Minotaur's while two mind controlled soldiers wearing Cronus's armor walked in while dragging in a woman wearing ripped up clothes but I easily recognized her despite her head being down.
"It's good to see you again Cleopatra but I do wish it was under better circumstances." She immediately looked up at me with hope in her eyes as she said.
"Hiccup, please help me for we must get out of here and stop the beasts that have attacked Egypt." I felt my body smirk as it asked.
"Now why would I withdraw my masters forces after I worked so hard on telling them all about your cities, trade routes, battle tactics and strategies?" I could see the horror in her eyes but saw it give way to rage as she struggled against the guards.
"YOU TRAITOR!" The guards pulled her back. "I trusted you, allowed you to learn the ways of my people, treated you like one of our own and you repay us by aiding in the conquest of our home." My body shrugged.
"What can I say he other than he made an offer I couldn't refuse?" She glared at me but I was mentally yelled that I would never do such a thing. "He offered me riches, power, command over an army, a place at his side and above all the power to force those who looked down on me before to bow down to me as nothing more than my obedient servants."
"You disgust me!" My body cocked an eyebrow.
"Your last words and you're using them to insult me?" My body shrugged. "Well everyone's free to make their own choices I suppose." Alecto then screamed.
"STOP WASTING TIME AND KILL HER!" I turned back to face her.
"Have you never heard of savoring victory my dear lady." She glared at me as did her sisters while my body sighed.
"Very well!" My body turned to Cleopatra as my axe was released. "Don't worry Cleopatra, I'll be sure to make this quick so you won't have time to feel pain." She began struggling while looking up at me in fear but I mentally struggled trying to regain control of my body as it raised my axe I mentally said.
"No! No!" As the axe came down I mentally yelled. "NOOOOOOO!"
As I mentally yelled my axe shattered, as it was an inch away from Cleopatra's head. Only one second after that the entire room seemed to begin to collapse in on itself with walls falling back as if they were made from wooden planks. The surprising thing was that when the back wall fell the view to the outside fell with it leaving an empty black void. While the room slowly broke apart, the people around quickly turned to dust statues of themselves which were quickly blown apart making the dust spiral into the dark void. The armor I was wearing did the same leaving me in my regular armor with the same hole in the torso along with the hole in my body that went through my stomach and came out the other end. After that all that remained was the floor I was standing on but that was quickly shattered by a fist that looked to be made of the earth bursting through the ground to wrap around me leaving me in complete darkness. While in this darkness I couldn't move, I couldn't speak all I could do was just exist and float in the void of darkness for I don't know how long but with Cronus it could possibly for all eternity.
AN: Aren't I stinker to leave you all on another cliffhanger but in my defense, I love to leave you all on the edge of your seats. Seriously though I do enjoy it and sorry for the chapter being shorter than usual but I needed some stuff for the next chapter. Until then please someone tell me why are there so few of you reviewing despite the fact that so many people have faved this story so please review but keep them kind and have a nice day.