The Olympian God of Destruction:
Chapter 5: Escape Part 2: A Prelude to War.
Several minutes prior… Within Kronos's stomach…
Finally. Beerus smiled in satisfaction, his eyes snapping open and out of his meditation. A sense of utter glee hitting him as he brought his hands up and stared down at them as he slowly clenched them down into hard fists.
He could feel the hum of an invisible aura almost, circulating harmoniously all throughout his being. Responding perfectly to his will, without a shred of the resistance it had once given. He allowed the feeling of euphoria it brought on to wash over him like a magnificent tidal wave filled to the brim with raw, unimaginable power. The kind of power that reminded him of his previous power held as the destroyer god of Universe 7, which at this point to him, was already starting to feel an eon ago.
It felt so similar to what he'd had, and yet different in numerous ways. But that last tidbit was not something that proved a hindrance anymore in calling upon it to his whims. His meditative efforts had paid off fully now, he could feel it. He was this divine power's master now, with nothing less than complete control of every last drop of it available.
The acidic depths that he floated within began to ring ominously around his form. Almost as if able to sense what Beerus had achieved, and the foreboding aura that came with it as his amber eyes began to glow with the power he had now tamed. His lips peeling open into a toothy, vicious grin.
"Beerus?" Hestia spoke up curiously from his right. The kind, gentle goddess looking over her brother several feet away as she felt the change in her twin almost immediately. Her glowing eyes shining as she felt a sensation of awe pass over her, which was brought on by the unseen wave of power that rolled over her, emanating from her sibling.
She wasn't the only one who'd felt it though. Not even a second after she'd uttered his name, the rest of their siblings turned their full attention over to their elder brother.
"It's time." Beerus said, both to himself and the quintet of siblings around him.
"It's time?" Poseidon was the first to perk up at this, parroting the other's simple statement to his left, as he pushed himself off the stomach's flesh wall. Now with a much deeper and more masculine voice as his deep green pools locked on to his eldest brother. The once child god having fully grown now into the appearance of a heavily muscular man like his brothers with a strong, square jawline with a moustache and close to chest-level, thick, curly beard. His now much longer, wavy black hair swishing about over the stomach fluids of their bastard father's gut as it spilled out over his shoulders and would've fallen down by the middle of his back had he not been floating in stomach juice.
"Heh! I take it that means you're ready to get us out of here, brother?" Arms crossed and back laid against the stomach wall close to Poseidon, Hades grinned almost like a madman, as he was seemingly the first to catch on. His appearance also having changed somewhat, now resembling a more mature, even more muscular man as opposed to the teen he'd been before. His hair having grown out like Poseidon's, only it was just passed shoulders, as his facial hair followed suit. The beginnings of a beard he'd had in his teenage appearance now fully grown out, around two-thirds as long as his little brother's own. His thick facial hair was also more bushy than curly.
"Is it true? Are we actually going to get out of here now?" Demeter asked hopefully just a few metres to the left of Hestia. Her hands clasping by her chest above the rippling pool of disgusting stomach fluid she and the rest of them had been forced to float and live in for their entire lives up to now. She almost looked as if she were begging or praying for that to be the case. Eyeing Beerus with an expression that was full of desire to be rid of their current place of squalor. "Please, say it so, brother!"
"You're damn right we are." Beerus grinned wider, giving both his younger brother and sister a sideways glance of excitement. Clenching and unclenching his hands as he allowed the divine power to flow freely throughout his being. And boy did it feel good! "We're getting out of this shithole here and now!"
Hestia smiled brightly at this. Glowing eyes shining with happiness at freedom seemingly being within arm's reach now. "That's wonderful to hear." She breathed, as a strong sense of warmth cascaded out over the other trapped deities, almost like a blanket of comfort and peace that everything was about to be okay. Something that none of the other siblings tried to fight, and instead embraced wholeheartedly.
"About time…" Hera muttered under her breath, whilst slinking away from the flesh wall of her father's stomach right behind Beerus. Despite her tone of impatience though, it was hard to miss the look of hope in her eyes that her brother spoke the truth, nor the smile brought on by Hestia's influence. It was time for Beerus to show them all his little display a while back was truly just a teaser, and that they were finally going to be rid of this awful place.
If Beerus failed here after getting her hopes up than she'd never forgive him or let him hear the end of it! Now that she believed he could free them he'd better keep his word and get them out of this putrid pit!
Pushing his way forward from the centre of the gut that he'd seemed to have floated towards during his meditation, he reached the far wall of the stomach that his intuition told him was the front. His grin turning manic and savage as he let his now controlled power flow through him like an endless dam.
"Brace yourselves!" He was generous enough to warn them all, as he reared back with a clenched fist. The space around it seeming to waiver and pop as he packed an obscene amount of power into it. "This is going to be messy!"
The siblings tried to do so, but the instant Beerus's fist shot forward and slammed into the stomach wall like a cosmic freight train, the sheer force exuded alone sent the enclosed space into a series of raped tremors with shockwaves so strong that the others failed to keep their balance. The other gods buckling and immediately becoming submerged underneath their father's disgusting acid juices for a brief moment in time as the rattled and splashed violently about.
Beerus paid no mind to this, as the stomach caved in around his fist, indenting far more than it had several weeks ago. Splintering almost like wood as pieces of flesh broke of, with golden ichor spewing out from the inward wound inflicted. The stomach wall still stood in place though after the strike and was already trying to desperately heal the damage Beerus had caused.
The former god of destruction of Universe 7 simply laughed at the physical body's futile attempt to recover. "Not enough? Here's a second one for you!" He yelled gleefully as he pulled his fist back and smashed his other one into the same place, caving the flesh in even further. Causing even more internal damage to the structure. Some spurts of ichor splashed on to his near devilishly smiling face, knowing full well the kind of agony this act was and would inflict on his so-called 'father'.
He could feel in himself how much the stomach's durability was crumbling under his power. His knuckles able to feel how brittle the fleshy prison was, as he wrenched the fist back, and prepared his initial fist for the final blow.
"And here comes the finale!"
At present moment…
"Gug…guh!" Kronos sputtered, ichor spilling out from his open lips, practically choking on his own fluids as his shell-shocked eyes struggled to lay their gaze upon the one responsible for his current predicament. His innards laid out in a golden-bloody mess on the floor as his whole godly body writhed in a level of agony he had not ever felt, even since the days past where his own father ruled over the universe. The feeling of his physical body's own gut literally being torn asunder from the inside out leaving both his body and mind in a temporary state of pain-induced, debilitating trauma. Even as the horrendous wound began the process of healing.
The rest of the audience in attendance for the Titan Lord's less than savoury disembowelment were not much better off. None of them able still at present moment to find any words to articulate what they'd just witnessed, or how to respond to the culprit behind such a gruesome display.
Zeus was the first to somewhat recover from the shock of it all, and properly register the mockful words that the man had spoken, which were clearly directed at Kronos given that he was staring right at him. He could hear the light groans from the quintet of deities behind him, which given where they'd all come from, it didn't take him even a moment to realize who they were. Or who the manically grinning god before him was.
His brothers and sisters.
"Did he just…" Metis whispered, eyes wide as saucers. Her voice barely audible enough for Zeus to hear. He could tell by her tone that she'd figured out what had just happened, as had he, when he caught her eye and nodded.
This had definitely not been part of the plan. His purple-haired older brother had just busted his and his other siblings a way out of their father's gut with brutal force. A feat neither of them would've considered possible, nor would Rhea or Kronos especially, seeing as none of them would've had any way to develop their divine powers holed up inside the Titan Lord.
Or at least, that's what they had thought before that happened, anyway. His elder brother had clearly proven that assertion false.
"You five alright?" Beerus spoke up again with slight concern, this time addressing his siblings on the floor as he held pretty much everyone's attention. Zeus and Metis in particular noting that his eyes never left the disembowelled figure of Kronos slumped over on his throne. Completely ignoring the rest of the Titans and nymphs around him for the moment, as if they were inconsequential.
"We're fine, Beerus…" Hestia's polite, feminine voice moaned back, bringing Zeus and Metis attention over briefly to the five other gods, who seemed to have disentangled themselves and were steadily rising up to either their knees. The two able to deduce the one who'd spoke was the goddess with the brown tunic and glowing eyes, as she wiped off what looked like a small part of her father's intestine off the front of her cloth. A clear look of disgust painted on her face as she did so.
Even knowing the current situation they were in, Zeus found his breathing hitching momentarily when he properly laid eyes on the glowing-eyed goddess, and the other two goddesses near her.
By Khaos… they're gorgeous… His consort – as he had decided several days ago – Metis, while unbelievably beautiful in her own right, it was hard for him to decide if she was even remotely on the same level as the trio of goddesses before him. The trio seeming to each hold an unimaginable beauty to them that had his senses momentarily awash with lust. Especially her… He thought while looking almost star-struck at the middle goddess with long-flowing chestnut-brown hair and sharp, captivating hazel pools as she rose up straight on her knees. Her beatific features seeming to be in a class of their own the more he gazed at her. And the way her opening purple and white tunic showed an opening around her neck and chest area, giving him an ample sight of her bountiful, pale cleavage… for a split-second, it felt like he was on fire on the inside!
Damnit, what am I thinking? This isn't the time to be gawking right now! Zeus quickly shook himself out of his stupor, feeling a slight pang of guilt in his heart for where his thoughts were going, and how traitorous they were towards Metis, as he filed them away. There are more pressing matters right now then admiring such beauty. He thought while taking a quick glance around the room nervously at the assembled Titans. While they had yet to move from their thrones to help his father, he had no doubt once they got over their shock, they'd be right on them.
"Ugh. I wish you could've been a little less messy with that…" Hera remarked, in a mixture of relief at being free, and revulsion at what she was covered in. Her hand coming up to her shoulder where a small piece of divine flesh clung to her, before she swept it off.
"I'm not sure that would've been possible, Hera…" The straw-blonde goddess to her left commented with a look of revulsion as she did the same with some small fleshy chunks clinging to hers. Spitting out some nasty stomach fluid that had managed to get in her mouth.
Hera sighed back whilst getting to her feet. "I'm aware, Demeter."
"Just be glad we're out, Hera." The ghostly pale, raven-haired god piped in with a deep-sound voice. Small pieces of flesh disgustingly clinging to his large, almost chest-length black beard and moustache. Something that unlike his three sisters he didn't seem to care enough to get rid of at present time, as he knelt down on one of his muscular legs. His unimpressed black pools staring almost flatly at his older sibling. "The least you could do is properly thank him instead of complaining."
"I'll get to it, Hades. I don't need you to tell me that." She huffed back. Turning her head to glare partially at her brother for his tone. Something which Hades was clearly not bothered by.
"Ugh… I think I actually swallowed some of that…" Poseidon said with his features set in a heavy, disgusted grimace, as he knelt over, almost like he was about to puke. A few strings of flesh dangling over his broad shoulders dripping ichor. "Puh!... I really should've kept my mouth shut… That was nasty…"
"Guess this is our dear 'father' then, huh?" Hades all but sneered with disdain, as he turned and looked up behind himself at the wounded deity. "Didn't expect that to happen, now did you?" He spat right at the Titan's feet in a blatant show of disrespect. "Serves you right."
"So, this is the heartless monster who swallowed us." Hera stated plainly as she too looked up towards her father. Her hazel eyes narrowing and boring down on the gorily injured Titan with a mixture of utter disgust and loathing, as she folded her slender arms beneath her bust and turned her nose up at him. "Hmph! He truly does look as repulsing as I thought his ilk might."
Both Poseidon and Demeter gave their nods of agreement at their two siblings words, as they both briefly glared back at their so-called parent.
Hestia merely glanced up at her father with a hint of regret and sadness. Not for what had been done to the ruler of the universe, but at what could've been had he not been so cruel to them for his own gain, and actually been a true father to them. Even knowing what he'd done, she couldn't find the hate within her for him like her brothers and sisters did. She just didn't have it in her despite his deplorable act against them all. Only disappointment at things having to come to this between her own family.
Her twin brother may have let go of the notion that this was their father immediately, but a small part of her just couldn't. No matter how despicable he was. And that only just made it all the more disheartening for her knowing that this had had to happen.
"Uhh…" Metis couldn't help but stand before the five of them somewhat baffled right now. Have none of them realized just yet where they are? The answer seemed obvious, given they had yet to acknowledge the room's other occupants.
"Hmm?" Turning back, Hestia was the first to finally notice both Zeus and Metis standing in front of them and Beerus, as she reached her feet. "And who might you two be?" She asked, letting her feelings for her father be pushed away in favour of focusing on them. Her curious glowing eyes narrowing in on Zeus briefly, feeling a sort of familiarity towards him despite them having only just met.
"Heh! I'd say we have more pressing matters than who those two are, Hestia." Beerus informed with some bit of amusement. Though that wasn't to say that he didn't feel an odd familiarity coming off the guy as well. His words catching all of his siblings – Zeus included – attention as he jutted a thumb behind him. Gaze still never waning from staring a hole through his wounded 'father's' skull. "Guess you didn't hear me before, but it looks like I may have crashed a party of sorts, and those who attended don't seem very happy with me at the minute. Not that I care, of course."
Zeus's divine blood froze, and Metis wasn't far behind him when they all looked past his elder brother towards the seated Titans. The looks of shock that'd been plastered all over their faces had almost completely fallen by the wayside now. The five pairs of Titan eyes having zoned in on Beerus exclusively, and despite not being the prime target for them, Zeus couldn't help the bead of nervous sweat that trickled down his temple. He could practically feel their bubbling rage from his position as they levelled ferocious glares on Beerus from all sides.
Oh shit… They were in the lion's den now, and they – or rather Beerus – had managed to grab their undivided attention. Zeus didn't even need to see them act to know that they wanted to smite him for his gall in doing such a thing to their ruler. He and Metis had been hoping to get his siblings out of Mount Othrys in the ensuing chaos from Kronos hacking up his insides from the divine potion and acting as their distraction.
That option was firmly out the door now.
"Yo…u…!" Kronos wheezed from his throne, struggling to even get the word out, as he steadily got over his own shock of having his abdomen smashed open. His gold blood-stained teeth clenching down so hard that the sheer pressure alone likely would've been enough to pulverise anything into dust. His convulsing body beginning to shake with rage as it slowly healed, eyes glaring balefully down at his son.
"Ho? You can still speak with a wound like that? Impressive." Beerus praised the Titan Lord mockingly. "I suppose strength like that is to be expected of a god, even one as pathetic as you."
Even despite his gruesomely injured state, Kronos was able to tilt his head and look down with bloodshot eyes near his feet, where the five other deities stood now. All of which seemed to feel his gaze, as they all – barring the one with the glowing eyes – glared back up at him again with nothing but contempt.
It didn't take the Titan Lord even a second to realize who they all were.
His children… fully grown and now out of his stomach, where they should've remained for all eternity.
No. No. No. No! This shouldn't be happening right now! They shouldn't have been able to escape! There was no way for any of them to build any domains or properly develop their divine powers trapped inside him! This was impossible! Th-this shouldn't have… happened…
Shakily tilting his head back up as his wound continued to heal, a process that was notably slower than it should've been, regardless of the scale of injury, Kronos laid his eyes on the one clearly responsible for his condition. His eyes reflecting what he knew to be his own son grinning back at him cruelly with obvious malicious intent. One that promised retribution.
In that moment, Kronos couldn't tell if he was hallucinating or not, but he could swear the astral visage of his own bastard father stood behind his purple-haired son. Stood in his white and brown tunic around the same height as his son, his long white hair seemingly flowing in the wind along with his chest length beard. His cloudy pools gazing directly at him with a vicious smile of vindication plastered on his ethereal features. All as his final words played back in the Titan's head. This time with a striking and horrible, heart-twisting sense of finality.
"I curse you, Kronos! You may overthrow me this day but mark my words, you insolent fool. Just as you have overthrown me here, so to, will your own son do the same to you!"
It was almost as if destiny was laughing at him right now.
The cursed prophecy of his father, which he'd done almost everything he could to avoid… was somehow coming to pass regardless. The son meant to overthrow him, just as his father had decreed and despite his efforts to avoid it, was now undoubtedly standing before him. His father's vengeance for his treacherous usurping given physical form and poised to carry out Ouranos's will, whether he knew it or not.
More than ever before, fear clawed at Kronos's heart. Fear that no matter what he did, this was bound to happen. It was always going to happen. Him pathetically meeting his end just as his father had prophesied, right as his own son's hand…
No. That single word resounded in the universe's ruler's mind with its own sense of finality, as the king snarled down hatefully at Beerus in ironclad determination. Though to those around him, given his still not fully healed wound, it came out more as a gargle mixed in with ichor spilling from his mouth. I refuse to accept that!
"Oh? Trying to make a stand already?" Beerus asked rhetorically as he saw the Titan push his hands off the arm rests of his throne and attempt to rise. The movement was slow and laboured, which was a given considering the hole he'd left in the god's stomach made was barely even a third of the way healed up and closed. "That's fine by me." He cracked his knuckles. "I think it's about time I put an end to your miserable existence!" And naturally, he'd make it slow. He wanted to get the full enjoyment from making him suffer, after all.
"You'll do no such thing you arrogant little shit!" A deep voice bellowed from behind Beerus, as a large shadow was cast over him.
"Look out behind you, Beerus!" Hestia yelled out in alarm, as she saw the towering form of Atlas in a startling show of speed quickly make his way behind her brother. His eyes glowing with divine rage as he reared a fist back, aiming for the top of Beerus's head, before striking down right where her twin was standing.
The instant Atlas's fist made what looked to make contact with its target, a massive tremor billowed forth, along with a monumental shockwave from the sheer force exuded behind the strike of the musclebound Titan. A sizeable crater with spider-web cracks forming over and past it. Not just the large castle, which was designed to withstand the Titan's power, but what felt like the huge mountain itself shook violently. Everyone barring the Titans struggled to keep themselves upright, as the blow threatened to split all of Mount Othrys in half from the power of that single punch alone. An incredible feat considering that the mountain itself was also imbued with the Titans divine power to be nigh-indestructible.
"Good grief, are you slow." Beerus's voiced mocked nearby. Atlas, bent over from the punch, craned his head to his left where he heard it from. To his surprise, he spotted Beerus crouched on and stuck to the far wall over twenty feet off the ground, rather than below his knuckles as a bloody stain on the floor. "And what was with that sluggish punch? Was that really the best you could do?"
Atlas growled with untethered fury in his eyes, as he made to rise up fully and give chase. "Shut your mou-puh!"
Atlas was never given a chance to finish, as Beerus suddenly pushed his feet off the wall and rocketed himself forward with astonishing speed. He then clocked the hugely muscled Titan right in the centre of his face, on the bridge of his nose with a ferocious haymaker of his own. The impact sending off a huge bang that reverberated throughout the room, as though it was a bullet shot from a super-sized sawn-off shotgun. A sickening crunch followed it, as Atlas's nose was completely caved into his face. He was then sent hurtling backward at breakneck speeds towards the opposite side of where Beerus had been, flying past his own father Iapetus's throne and slamming almost head-first into the wall with a deafening crash!
The magically enhanced wall barely stood up to the force of Atlas's frame smashing into it from Beerus's punch. The Titan's limbs spread out on the wall like a starfish as it cracked and splintered behind him. Struggling to maintain its structure. Golden ichor spewing forth down the Titan's shattered and crushed nose down his chin, dripping in heavy drops to the floor.
"Now that's how you throw a punch." Beerus stated smugly and matter-of-factly, as he landed back standing on the cratered spot he previously occupied before Atlas had swungwith near-perfect grace.
He just… sent Atlas flying… Kronos thought in further shock at his son's capabilities. Quite like bursting out of his gut, that shouldn't have been possible. He should've had no way to know how to use his divine powers in any capacity and adding on to that, he didn't have any domains to his name either!
He wasn't the only one surprised by the move either, everyone else was too, though Beerus's siblings that had been trapped with him less so.
"Ugh…" Atlas groaned nasally through his slowly mending nose, as his body fell off from the splintered wall. He landed on his feet with a nary a stumble in sight however, despite the blow he'd taken. His eyes filled with nothing but wrathful vengeance as he glared over at Beerus. "You… punk!"
Atlas's muscles suddenly began popping and bulging as an almost invisible aura coalesced around his bulky frame. Just about everyone in the room could feel a steadily rising pressure being released from the Titan as he bent his knees. His feet digging into the floor as he prepared to charge.
Beerus only smirked. "Oh? Coming back for seconds?" He rose up a hand and crooked a finger towards himself. "Come and give it your best shot."
Atlas roared as he did exactly that, his voice alone shaking the entire castle as his feet blasted himself off the ground. His fist already rearing back again as he barrelled forward at a speed that even Beerus had to admit was impressive.
Even still, the path was painfully linear, and far too easy for Beerus to read.
Waiting for just the right moment, Beerus leapt from the ground as Atlas's fist smashed into his previously occupied spot. The punch widening the crater much further this time, practically quadrupling it in size and causing everything around him to quake so violently that it sent all of Beerus's siblings falling off their feet. Hades and Poseidon landing roughly on their asses, while Demeter ended up stumbling into Hera in an attempt to remain standing. This only succeeded in knocking the two of them over chest first, with the former laying atop the latter in a rather compromising position, as Hestia fell on her side.
Zeus was the one exception, who thanks to having some proper use over his divine power, was able to keep himself rooted to his feet, but only just barely. Metis had to end up clinging to his shoulder to stop herself from tripping over as well when she lost her footing.
The naked nymphs that were in attendance all fell over with startled cries in heaps even more compromising than Demeter and Hera from the resounding quakes. Landing on spots varying from their fellow minor deity's legs, rump, back, stomach and chest. A menagerie of limbs jutting about as hands and feet accidently groped and prodded around just about every part of the female anatomy.
The Titans themselves however, remained completely unphased once again by the insane tremors brought on by Atlas, despite their increased ferocity. Their eyes intently keeping watch of the scuffle going on between the bigger and smaller gods.
"Still not good enough!" Beerus yelled out as he twisted his body in mid-air while floating near Atlas's face, before swinging his leg out in a perfect air-borne roundhouse right into the Titan's cheek.
Atlas gasped in both shock and pain as his head was snapped to the side. This time however, he recovered seemingly in an instant, as he reared his head back with a fiery snarl. His other arm shooting up in an arc, literally cleaving though the space itself with a clenched fist and hurtling toward the still airborne Beerus.
Widening his eyes briefly in surprise, Beerus was forced to cross his arms in the shape of an 'x' to block, as his whole body tensed up defensively. The impact coming a fraction of a second later, the clenched fist easily covering his entire body as it struck him with a loud boom. His smaller frame then sent flying off at mind-boggling speeds into the far wall by the entrance of the room. His body crashing harshly against the magically reinforced stone of the thinner wall not a second sooner, smashing straight through it and forming quite the sizeable hole from the impact. A cloud of dust quickly forming afterward around it, covering the new hole from view temporarily.
"Beerus!" Hestia was the first to cry out in worry for her brother, the others simply watching on in shock and worry at how their sibling had been struck out of the air, as Atlas began to laugh.
"Take that, you cocky shit!" Atlas roared again proudly with a hint of triumph in his tone as he beat a fist against his rock-hard chest. His nose slowly stitching itself back to normal, though he was much too engrossed in his own boastful air to realise it was taking far longer than it should've. "That'll teach you to mess with me! Ahahahaha!" He bellowed with prideful laughter for a moment that echoed throughout the room. Clearly pleased with having swatted his quarry into the wall, showing him his place with but a taste of his power.
Fuck… he got him good… Zeus thought with his own growing worry and alarm, sweating bullets down his temple. Partially for his elder brother's condition, but mostly for himself and his other siblings as he turned to glance at the downed quintet. Me and Metis can't afford to waste time any further. If we don't act now and try to escape while they're distracted, we'll all be screwed.
"Everyone!" Zeus whispered loud enough for his siblings to hear whilst the Titans were paying him no mind. Atlas's booming laugh acting as a good cover for him in case any of them had good enough hearing to overhear him. He managed to garner their attention in that brief moment as he removed himself from Metis and knelt down on a single knee. His face set as best he could into a controlled mask to hide how nervous he was getting. "You have to listen to me. It isn't safe here. We need to get out of here right now and escape as soon as possible!"
"What?" Hestia blurted out first with confusion and surprise, staring wide-eyed at Zeus.
"And just why should we listen to you?" Hera asked with narrowed eyes up at the newcomer, getting that same feeling of familiarity from him that her brother and sister had before her. That didn't stop her from being even less trusting of him than she was of Beerus and his plan before he'd shown her results. "While I'll admit things here certainly aren't safe for us, you're an unknown to us. We have no idea who you are, so why should we trust you?" The goddess scoffed, letting some of her natural, haughty attitude resurface, despite her current embarrassing position beneath her sister.
The silver-haired god steeled himself. He'd been hoping that his introduction to his siblings could've been done under better circumstances, but alas, it was not meant to be. He might as well just rip it off now. "My name is Zeus." He said, being sure to take note of their features for what he was going to say next. "And the reason you should trust me is because I am your brother too!"
That definitely took them all by surprise.
"And just how is that possible? Our abhorrent father swallowed all of us moments after we were born!" Hera was the first to cast doubt on him and his words yet again. "If what you say is true, then why weren't you swallowed like us?"
"Because your mother tricked him into devouring a stone wrapped in blankets instead of him. Kronos never noticed the difference, according to Rhea." Metis chose to pipe in to help her partner convince his siblings of their just intent. "She had grown sick and tired of watching her own children be eaten, so she spared Zeus that fate while trying to think of a way to save the rest of you! That's why Zeus is here, why I'm here, to rescue all of you!"
"What she speaks is the truth, brothers, sisters." Zeus decided to speak a little softer seeing the shocked expression on his siblings faces. "I know this must be quite the revelation to take in, and I know you all will most likely have plenty of questions, but we don't have the time for those now. We can speak as openly and candidly as we like when we get out of here and get to somewhere safe. Things are spiralling out of control and if we don't try to escape here while we can, things will only get worse for us!"
"But what about Beerus?" Hestia piped back, her glowing eyes full of nothing but concern and worry as she glanced over at the hole her twin had been drilled into.
Zeus hung his head at the mention of their other brother. A solemn look on his face as he said something that he despised having to even acknowledge the possibility of, after coming so far to rescue all of them. "Unfortunately… as much as it pains me to say it, we may have to leave him behind."
The youngest born of Kronos and Rhea saw the looks he got from his siblings at that. From the shock and horror of being told to potentially leave the one who'd freed them behind, to the utter disgust in other cases at what he'd just admitted they may have to do. He didn't blame them for it, for he too felt bad for even suggesting it. That said, the Titans had zeroed in on him now, which meant it would be next to impossible to get to him and escape with him in tow.
Heck, even escaping without him was going to be challenging right now. He and Metis had their original escape route planned out, but it required them to get out of the room from the doorway first. Something that'd be hard to do without being spotted by any of the Titans.
Before any of them could attempt to protest such a thing, Atlas finished his booming laugh and continued with his spiel against their brother.
"You were a fool to so brazenly assault and threaten Lord Kronos, and even more so to try and fight me at all! You are still but a fledgling god, while I am the Titan of endurance and strength!" Atlas boasted arrogantly ever more, swelling up his own ego and denigrating Beerus's efforts. "You should've run when you had the chance, little man. If you had, you might have been able to spare yourself the pain I will personally inflict upon you for your transgression against Lord Kronos!"
Almost every one of the Titans smirked at that. Typical Atlas, as far as they saw it. All now believing that the buff Titan had the situation under control by his lonesome dealing with the upstart.
All except for Kronos, who'd stopped trying to stand for the moment, and watched on with a calculating eye. His paranoia reaching new heights as his instinct screamed at him that Atlas was counting the young god out far too soon.
His instinct was proven right after only a few short seconds of silence.
"Hehehehe…" The sound of chuckling could be heard coming from the hole after Atlas finished his ego-swelling speech. Before long though, it quickly morphed into full-blown laughter that echoed throughout the room. "Ahahahahahahahaha!"
The sound of Beerus's hysterical laugh brought the attention of his siblings and Metis back to where he'd been punched to with bewilderment.
"Hmm?" Atlas's brows knitted in confusion at the laugh, and he wasn't the only Titan confused either. There was something carried within the laugh that also made him tense with apprehension, though he had no idea why.
"You call me a fool, do you?" A distorted shadow appeared within the dust cloud, slowly forming in the shape of Beerus's body therein. "You said I should've run? From you?" Another bout of laughter followed, as though a hilarious joke had just been uttered. "You give yourself way too much credit! Honestly, landing one punch and you think your victory is assured. And you have the gall to call me arrogant?" The dust slowly dispersed as a hand gripped on to the side of hole in the wall. The cloud of dust giving way to show Beerus grinning like a madman with his teeth bared. Only minor scratches and bruises littering his body from the blow, which quickly healed up without a trace in the next instant. The only evidence remaining that he'd taken such a hit being the small trickle of ichor spilling from the corner of his lips.
He took a blow like that with only minor injuries!? Metis almost felt her mouth fall open in shock and awe as her lover's brother re-emerged. Zeus wasn't far behind her as well, whilst the rest of his siblings seemed to gain looks of relief seeing him okay.
The naked nymphs, who had yet to disentangle themselves, guffawed openly at the newcomer taking such an attack from Atlas of all people.
Even the Titans, bar Kronos, were taken aback. Their smirks quickly leaving their faces at the sight of the grinning fledgling deity who'd just taken a hard shot from Atlas dead on as if it wasn't a big deal.
Beerus's eyes narrowed on said Titan with just as much mirth as annoyance at the current roadblock in his way towards Kronos. "You really are just a brute without a brain, aren't you?" If Beerus was being totally honest with himself, with all the windup his adversary had given that punch, he'd genuinely been expecting a good deal more power behind it than that. "I'll give you some credit, you did catch me off-guard there, but if you think that measly level of power is all you need to take me out, then you're dumber than you look." Beerus mocked without a shred of care for how Atlas bristled at his words.
Honestly, he'd felt far worse during even his most casual spars with Whis back in the day, or hell, even during his brawls with Champa!
"Why you-"
"Regardless," Beerus cut off the Titan's seething response with a crack of his neck before levelling him with a steely gaze. "I'm not in the mood to play around with you. I've got something more important to deal with, right now." His gaze shifted over to Kronos then, who still had yet to fully recover from the stomach cavity he'd given him. "So, if you have even a modicum of intelligence, you'll get out of my way. Or else I'll just have to get to him through you."
"Hmph! If you think I'll just let you lay another hand on Lord Kronos, you've got another thing coming!" Atlas hollered with ironclad determination, as he stomped a foot down while sliding himself further in front of his ruler protectively and defiantly. Arms splayed out by his sides, as the pressure around his body began amplifying and his power rose higher. His muscles bulging out even further, particularly his biceps, in preparation for whatever attack the upstart may throw at him. "You're nothing but talk, and I'll prove it! Just try to get past me and see what happens. I'll crush you with my bare hands the moment you-"
A thunderous shockwave billowed out from the spot Beerus previously occupied, as he rocketed forward without waiting for Atlas to finish. The propulsion alone cracking and breaking even more of the wall behind him, as he was upon the mountainously muscled Titan in the blink of an eye. His fist already reared back, with an immense amount of pressure being exerted from it.
Atlas, stunned by the sudden and unexpected surge of speed, even with his preparing beforehand was left unable to properly guard himself in time, as Beerus struck forward. His fist slamming right into the centre of his abdomen with an explosive of amount of force. The power behind the strike well above what he'd dished out prior, and not something Atlas had anticipated. The Titan's eyes shot wide open as an obscene amount of pain flooded his godly senses. His bones cracking and others breaking outright as the force behind the strike ripped his feet off the ground. His mouth opened wide with shock and agony. Several droplets of ichor flying out of his gaping maw as the hulking behemoth was sent careening through the air at insane speeds. His hurtling frame seeming to pierce through the very fabric of space itself around it like a hot knife through butter.
Kronos's eyes widened as he saw his subordinate's body sail towards him too quickly for him to react, given he hadn't fully healed yet.
Oh, shit… Was the only thought in the Titan Lord's mind, as Atlas crashed into him with unrelenting force! Feebly, he tried to hold out against it, but was quickly overwhelmed in the moment, as both he and Atlas smashed through his throne, reducing it to rubble as their two bodies rammed into the wall behind it. Spider webs and cracks swiftly spreading throughout the whole wall. The magic enhancing it enough to only just barely survive the collision, but its foundation was on the brink of crumbling all-together. The resulting shockwave that burst forth from the collision being enough to almost knock Zeus right on his ass alongside Hades and Poseidon.
"Hmph. Nothing but talk, huh?" Beerus remarked with a clenched fist raised by his side, as he landed back on the ground near the centre of the room in a crouch this time. The muscles in his divine legs tensing as his feet prepared to propel him off the floor. "How's this then!"
Just as Beerus was about to shoot forward though and begin his much-awaited revenge against his 'father', his instincts screamed at him to move out of the way. Knowing better than to ignore them, Beerus quickly pushed himself back just as a blindingly bright, large beam of white light came barrelling forth from the left side of the room. It was narrowly avoided by a minute fraction of a second, a radiant glow to it, that despite no heat being emitted from it, promised to incinerate if it touched him. Easily big enough to engulf his entire body.
Beerus's eyes widened further as the end of the beam curved after it flew past him by a number of feet, redirecting itself right back towards him. It's frightening speed keeping home on his toes as he was forced to dodge the blatantly obvious homing attack once again, this time by leaping forward into a somersault that took him well over the blast yet again. The former G.O.D of the now defunct seventh universe turning in mid-air to watch the blast as it curved toward him yet again, as he landed skidding back on the floor.
Beerus's ears then perked up in alarm as he heard several gasps close behind him, which made his head swivel to look behind him. They widened even more when he realized he'd just unintentionally brought himself within almost breathing distance of his siblings and whoever the other two were who were watching. He didn't so much look this time as feel the beam of light approaching him rapidly. Everything close to it being bathed in its radiant glow, and Beerus knew that he could still dodge it without too much issue. He knew that for an attack back during his days in Universe 7 that was capable of harming him, he would've done so without delay and charged straight for the fool choosing to challenge him. Which was pretty much exclusively fellow destroyers.
He was too close to them now though. If he leapt out of the way, his new brothers and sisters would absolutely get caught in the crossfire before the beam righted its course again. Had it been Champa standing or laying there, he wouldn't have hesitated to leap out of the way again, as his now long erased, fat ass brother could handle an attack like this hitting him.
His new siblings though… they'd relied entirely on him up to now, and clearly had no true control over the divine power he was sure they had just as he did. Unlike his former twin, they were actually vulnerable to an attack of this calibre. One that while compressed, he could feel the power rolling off it. Massive in scope. And while not enough to make him nervous if it were just him, it was definitely enough to give him pause. And that wasn't something he freely admitted to himself often.
There was no way their bodies currently wouldn't be vaporized if it hit them.
He knew they most likely had a healing factor like he seemed to have, but he seriously doubted that as they were now, it would be anything remotely good enough to save them. Given they didn't have control over their own power like he did.
He surveyed each of their expressions in that short moment, before his eyes inevitably caught his new twin Hestia's. Her glowing pools wide with alarm and fright now with the blast hurtling towards them. Not just for herself and their siblings, but for him as well.
In that instant, Beerus's eyes hardened as he made a choice to do something that he couldn't for the life of him ever recall doing during his days back in his former home universe. A move that was shades of that goofball Saiyan who had gotten him a pardon from erasure, and a move that up to now, he couldn't have seen himself doing unless it was expressly to his benefit.
He turned away from them fully with a bestial snarl, his whole body rippling with this new godly power as he brought more of it to the surface. His hands pushing out forward as a barely visible, but potent dark purple aura coalesced around them and the rest of his body. His teeth grit down as the beam struck home on his palms, and his feet were forced to dig into the floor, pushing up magic-infused stone in a small trench behind both his heels.
The beam of light fought against him, prickling against his skin as it tried to eviscerate him. Beerus growled at the mere thought of it. As if he'd allow something like that to happen to him against something like this!
"Haaaagh!" the purple-haired deity screamed out a familiar battle-cry as his power rose further, quickly overwhelming the beam of light blasting into his palms. His aura-coated fingers digging into the beam itself, as it immediately began to distort and waver in his grasp. A fraction of a second later, his hands parted the beam and tore it in two! The split beam quickly dispersing harmlessly on either side of him right after.
Damnit Goku… you've really rubbed off on me more that I'd thought… Even dimensions apart, that idiot was still influencing him. The thought would've been morbidly amusing had it not been for his current situation.
U-unbelievable… Metis thought with heightened surprise and awe while clutching on to Zeus. Beads of sweat pooling from her temple as her eyes stared at Beerus's back. First, he took that shot from Atlas, and now he's just overpowered a concentrated blast from Hyperion! She couldn't help but feel her partner tug on her tunic, grabbing her own surprised attention again.
Zeus pushed his head down to ear level with her then as heatedly whispered the question on her mind as well. "Metis, how in the world is my brother doing this!?"
"I don't know!" She whispered back, equally as stunned and none the wiser as he was. For someone who should've had no proper training to use his godly power, what he was pulling off right now was sheer madness!
"Impressive." Beerus, and by extension the rest of his kin and Metis heard the voice from his left, along with a slow, mocking clap. "Still, I think that I've seen just about enough of this mess you're creating for us, upstart."
Beerus's face was no longer grinning, and instead set into a vicious scowl as he let his anger rise fully to the surface. Yet another nuisance. He thought with rapidly growing annoyance flickering in his now glowing amber pools, as he glared towards the Titan who attempted to blast him away.
Now stood up from his throne with a hostile scowl of his own plastered on his more boyish features, Hyperion glared right back at Beerus with his hand still raised. His entire palm glowing with a shimmering light brighter than the ethereal glow covering his own waving hair. "What say you, brothers?" He asked, as Iapetus, Koios and Krios also stood to their full height, all of which with deathly serious expressions. "This new upstart seems to be causing quite a conundrum for us, isn't he?"
"Indeed, brother. He's committed quite the offence against us and our king." Koios remarked with a cold, scrutinizing gaze. One that his closest brother Krios mirrored. Eying the new god for any more sudden movements, as the four Titans tensed for action readily, more than prepared to jump into the fray themselves in an instant if the object of their ire tried anything.
"This gathering of ours has turned into quite the disaster, it seems." Iapetus commented just as cold while stroking his bushy beard. His eyes fluttering over to the other two Titans who'd just slid off the wall unto their knees behind the king's ruined throne and perpetrator of their pain. "Lord Kronos, Atlas my boy, are you two alright?"
Even with all the divine magic reinforcing it, if they'd allowed this upstart to land one more solid blow on their Lord and Atlas against the castle's wall, the structure would've failed to hold against it. This little bastard would've sent both the king and his son hurtling out of the castle and most likely, off Mount Othrys itself. No doubt with the rambunctious new god in tow, given his sights were set on their leader's head.
He'd also seen for himself, as he was sure his brothers had too, that their leader's and Atlas's physical bodies were healing slower than they should've. Something he knew that this new god – Beerus, he believed one of the female deities that had spilled out of Kronos's gut had called him – was responsible for.
"Ugh… I'll be fine." Atlas groaned while on his hands and knees, clear anger still permeating across his features towards Beerus. His nose having fully stitched itself up to its normal appearance by now, while his indented ribcage mended itself.
"Never mind us, you four!" Kronos hissed with nothing but spite, as he raised himself up enough to look down at his recently released children, Beerus specifically, with nothing but contempt. "That one is dangerous." He said while pointing at Beerus, as a tone of authority entered his voice. "Do what you must to take him down right this minute!"
"And what of the rest, my lord?" Krios asked in a deep baritone, as he and his brothers began to build their power.
"Deal with them after!" He replied. "We'll throw them all into Tartarus. The purple-haired one however, is to be your number one priority to take down! He presents a threat to us all and my rule if not taken care of here and now!"
Taken care of here and now? Metis thought with increasing alarm. The thought of being sent to Tartarus alone was chilling enough, but the way Kronos had singled Beerus out like that, could only mean one thing.
He planned to use his scythe on him when he recovered. Just as he'd done to Ouranos, his predecessor… the only fate for a deity that could be argued as worse than being imprisoned in Tartarus.
She also didn't fail to catch the hint of fear in his tone as he addressed Beerus. As though his mere existence was the bane of his own. More so clearly than any of his other freed sons and daughters.
Her eyes widened as a realization struck her. The prophecy that Rhea had told her of in passing as Kronos's main reason for swallowing their children in the first place. Was it possible that Kronos had just identified Zeus's elder brother as-
Metis stilled. Her thoughts grinding to a screeching halt as she felt an unimaginable pressure coming from the four Titans surrounding them. Her body beginning to noticeably shake against Zeus's as she felt the powers of all four of the original six Titans born from the Protogenoi rapidly ascend higher and higher. The entire area around them seeming distort and rumble in response.
"W-what is this… this feeling…?" Hera asked shakily from below Demeter, feeling the radical change in the very air and space around them, which immediately put her and the rest of her siblings on edge. More so than they'd been prior as she felt nothing but dread. Nervousness replacing her usual demeanour.
"If that's the case, Lord Kronos," Hyperion spoke up again, as a white-gold aura became quite visible around his towering form. "then the time for playing around is over."
"We'll have to take this young god as seriously as we can." Iapetus said with a tone colder than ice, as a milky-white aura became just as visible around him.
"You've done well to make a mess of things so far, upstart." Koios stated cooly, as a similar grey aura enveloped him.
"But that ends here and now." Krios finished with a deadly tone of finality, eyes akin to that of an executioner, as his body adopted an orange-gold aura.
The nymphs seemed to sense what was about to happen as soon as they saw the Titan's divine auras show. Panicked and fearful expressions quickly adorning each of their pretty faces as they all managed to quickly finish disentangling themselves from one and another, and immediately jumped to their feet. Their legs quickly getting to carrying them forth as they all sprinted for the open doorway as fast as they could with nothing to impede them from escaping ground zero. All whilst screaming in alarm that they might not make it out in time.
Metis didn't blame them one bit for that. For they could clearly feel what she felt as well. The vast build up of divine essence across all four the Titan's standing around them, quickly reaching close immeasurable heights. A sign of something that filled her with nothing but fear, and what she'd hoped would be the last thing she would've had to worry about on this quest.
They were all going to enter into their True Divine Forms. Their individual zeniths of supreme, titanic power…
Beerus made a groaning sound belying displeasure and mounting irritation, as he turned and gazed behind himself directly at Zeus, all of a sudden. "What was it you were saying about an escape?"
"Huh?" Zeus blinked owlishly at that, before Beerus's words fully sank in, and his eyes widened in shock. "Wait, you heard us? How?"
"Let's just say I have incredible hearing and leave it at that, brother." Beerus's eyes narrowed sharply, as he brought a hand up to grip Zeus's shoulder. The squeeze he gave it was enough to make Zeus wince.
It hadn't been difficult for him to hear what the two had been saying to his siblings, or even their hushed whispers this entire time being dumbfounded at what he was capable of doing. It looked as though despite having shrunken ears, it hadn't impeded his exemplary hearing he'd had back when he was more cat-like. If anything, he'd gotten quite an improvement in that department. Enough to hear every word they'd said even through that oafish meathead's ear gratingly loud laughter.
"That isn't important though, Zeus." Beerus continued with his fresh scowl, now addressing him with his name. "Is that little plan of escape you had in mind still viable? Answer me quick, there isn't much time."
"U-uhm…" Zeus couldn't help the gulp that fell down his throat seeing the look in Beerus's eyes. He definitely heard his request to leave him behind and was clearly unamused by it. Regardless, he answered. "Sadly, I don't think so, brother." He took another brief glance around the room at the four Titans rapidly growing in power. "With the position we're in now, any previous routes me and Metis may have had in mind are impossible now. There's no way they'll let us off now that we're in their sights." Well, more like Beerus was in their sights mainly, but the point still stood.
"I see." Useless. Beerus thought unashamedly to himself. Feeling his anger boil within him like a furnace, but he just about managed to keep it under control.
"My… apologies. We didn't anticipate you breaking out of there yourself, I'm afraid…" Zeus hung his head in shame. Metis looked away meanwhile, having similar feelings to that of Zeus's.
Beerus merely let out a sigh.
Things would've been so much simpler if it were just him here. Then he could just cut loose on all of the fools getting in his way towards exacting revenge on Kronos. No matter how much power they were all about to release, he would've fought, and was confident that with his martial arts techniques and skills. Even if he was rusty with them after gaining a new body and such, he'd adapt. He could turn the odds in his favour eventually if he couldn't do it with raw power alone. He firmly believed that.
He wanted so badly to stay and make Kronos rue the day he ever crossed him, as he slowly and mercilessly killed him. Destroyed him! No matter how many of his goons got in his way. If he were by his lonesome, he'd have happily gone to those lengths to get what he wanted here and now.
Therein lied the problem. He wasn't alone. He had his new family behind him and directly in the crossfire of that looming battle. A handicap that would absolutely impede his performance, especially if one of these bastards decided to take a pot shot at them rather than him.
Fuck. This day of freedom that he'd waited for was not going at all how he'd envisioned it. He could almost hear the spectre of Whis chuckling at him, reminding him that he'd never been good at predicting the future.
As much as it pissed him off to do this, given the current circumstance, if he wanted to ensure they all got out of here… He'd have to… ugh. He couldn't even say the word. It was like an insult being slapped right into his face.
"If you could get us out of here, then we could bring you all back to a safe location." Metis spoke up, grabbing Beerus's gaze and interest.
"Oh? How do you intend on doing that?"
"I'll show you if we can manage to get out of here." She replied back with enough confidence in that statement that Beerus was at least willing to give her claim the benefit of the doubt. "We just need to make it out of this castle, and off the peak of Mount Othrys itself."
Beerus looked back towards Zeus and saw him nod in agreement. Whatever it was she was talking about he was aware of it.
"Of course…" She continued, looking quite shaken by the four Titans escalating power levels. "Escaping doesn't look likely right now, unless we can think of something fast."
"Hmph!" Beerus lightly smirked. "You can leave that to me." He said, before nodding over to the rest of his siblings who'd been listening in. They all nodded back, putting some trust in him seeing as he hadn't led them astray the first time.
"Just what are you going to do?" Zeus asked with some bit of hope himself. If his other siblings all had this much trust in him, then it had to be worth something.
The look he got back from his older brother, for some reason, didn't make him feel anymore secure. "Just be sure to prep yourself, otherwise it'll be quite the bumpy ride down."
Zeus really wanted to ask what he meant by that, because it really didn't sound good at all. Of course, he never got the chance, as they all heard Hyperion speak up with a condescending tone.
"Done saying your final goodbyes, upstart?" He sneered, having not heard what was being said. His essence was almost fully pooled together now, as was his brethren. They were but a scant moment away now from ascending to their True Divine Forms. "Even you must now be realizing how hopeless your situation truly is. Do not worry though, if you grovel at our feet now, we may be merciful enough to make it quick."
Me? Grovel to them? Beerus let out a low chuckle at the audacity of this guy. Whatever his name was. "Oh please, as if I would ever lower myself like that to buffoons like you." Beerus remarked as he turned himself fully from his siblings. Looking out across the room, eyes surveying over each Titan surrounding them. Three on the left, and one on the right.
"Still talking tough, huh?" Iapetus scoffed. "I suppose we'll just have to show you your place then."
"Hardly." Beerus grinned. Nothing but pure malice radiating off of him, as he addressed the four. "Me and the others will be taking our leave now." He said, his voice dropping several octaves, as he delved into the power within. Pulling more and more to the surface, to the point where a dark-purple aura reminiscent of his days as the seventh universe's G.O.D quickly appeared around his form. Feeling oh so similar to what he'd once had, yet so different as well. "But I'll leave you all with this promise. One that I assure you I will keep."
Beerus's eyes narrowed to the point they were like slits, barely showing his eyes, as they began to shimmer with a golden hue akin to his sister's. The only difference being the hint of purple that danced around inside them like a burning fire. Promising nothing but pain and suffering to all those who opposed him. "Whether it takes days, weeks, months, or even years, I will destroy Kronos!"
The Titans tensed at this proclamation, especially Kronos, who once again felt that damnable fear begin to grip his heart, despite his best efforts to bury it.
"And once I do," Beerus continued darkly, his voice booming across the entire room as his own power only continued to rise. His dark-purple aura emitting from around his body growing denser by the second. "I'll make sure to have the rest of you grovelling at my heels like the pathetic dogs that you are!"
With his piece said, Beerus didn't bother waiting to see or hear their reactions, nor did he care for the stunned looks Zeus and Metis gave him for his words.
His dark purple aura radiated its power far beyond anything he'd done yet around his fist as he raised it up into the air. Veins popping out of his arm and even his hand from the ungodly amount of destructive power being compressed into it.
"Haaaagh!" And then, with one last roar surging forth, Beerus ploughed his fist into the floor with all his might.
"What the!?" Was all Kronos was able to shout out in shocked alarm, as the ground beneath them all cracked before caving in. A massive shockwave bursting forth from the collision of Beerus's fist into the ground as it burrowed in wrist deep, rippling everywhere around and below them as far as they could see.
Not even the Titans this time could hold their balance, as each of them wobbled where they stood, as everything in the room seemed to tilt in two separate directions. Like a large bomb had just gone off and taken with it any semblance remaining of structural integrity. Magic enhancement be damned.
Zeus's eyes all but shot out of his skull at what his brother had just done, as did Metis, and even his other siblings to a lesser degree. All of them fully alarmed as the ground fell out from under them. Crumbling into little more than useless chunks of stone and rock as they all fell from where they'd once stood or laid. Before he or anyone else knew it, the air began to whistle against their ears and bat harshly against their bodies as they all began rapidly descending off of Mount Othrys itself!
"There, we're off of the mountain!" Beerus yelled over the rushing wind, smiling like the Cheshire cat at the duo with his aura receded, as Metis fell right by Zeus with a shell-shocked expression.
Said Oceanid turned to look over at the grinning, purple-haired god as they all free-fell at growing velocity. Eyes wide with disbelief. He looked so casual right now, as if they weren't all plummeting towards the ground.
"Don't give me that look, girl." Beerus reprimanded over the rushing winds. His voice still coming across clear and succinct. "Did you already forget what you said to me? You told me that you two could get us to a safe place if I got us all out of there. I kept up my side of the deal, now it's your turn!"
"R-right!" She nodded. The method was unexpected, and something she might've called impossible given the protections the mountain and castle had, but he'd gotten them out of there alright. "Everyone!" She called out as loud as she could, grabbing all of their attention. "Get close to me and Zeus and grab on!"
"You better not have been lying when you said you could bring us all to a safe location, girl!" Hera screamed out, somewhat mirroring Beerus's tone, as she and the rest of them managed to inch their way close enough to grab on to either one of the two in their constant free-fall. "Because I swear if you were…"
"I wasn't! Just make sure you're holding on to us, alright?" She advised, getting a nod from the six other deities, as Hera, Hestia and Demeter latched on to her, while Beerus, Hades and Poseidon did the same with Zeus.
"Ready when you are, Metis!" Zeus called out, his hair flapping about erratically against his face, as his body began to glow an illuminating light. One that quickly covered his three brothers a second later.
Metis nodded without a word, doing the same as her partner. The four goddesses immediately being enveloped in light.
Just then, at the last possible second, Beerus glanced up and caught a glimpse of Kronos well above them. What looked to be a scythe pierced into what remained of the mountain's hide. He was certain that the crooked prick was glaring down balefully at him. He could just feel his gaze burning into his skull.
Beerus simply gave a cruel grin up at him, using his free hand to flip him the bird.
And then just like that, they all evaporated into particles of light. Not a trace of them left near Mount Othrys or its Titan residents.
AND CUT!
Welp, that's the end of the chapter. Didn't expect that to go on as long as it did, but eh, guess this stuff just happens sometimes. Regardless, I hope you all got some enjoyment out of this chapter. There was a little bit of action in it, and let me just say this, once we officially get into the Titanomachy stuff, be prepared for some large-scale battles, because there's going to be plenty of fighting in the Titan war coming up, that's for sure. What happened here in this chapter was but an appetizer, I assure you. So, if you happened to be a little disappointed by it, don't worry, there's a lot more on the way. You're about to get some DBZ brand action for sure, which I hope I'll write well for you all.
Next chapter, as well as anything else to do with my other stories, won't be coming out until December now. My college work is simply ramping up too much for me to try and dedicate time to this in November while also working on that as well. Its my final year, and I'm looking to do relatively good at least in all of my modules. Hope you guys understand.
I'll be sure to update my fanfic profile page with the new dates for when I expect to release updates for fics in early December, so be on the lookout for that.
Anyways, I'll see you guys in the next chapter when it comes out!