Reborn As Hades In Olympus

Ch. 155: The Secret Behind Titanomachy (IV)

I, Hades, Hera, Zeus, Demeter, Hephaestus all looked at the fates with calm eyes, but out hearts drummed mostly from the exhaustion of the long held battle.

"The prophecy tells of the arrival of one from another world, one who seeks to change the world for good and the other the spawn of a great evil seeking the doom of this world. The key to preventing this is the power of the three blessed beings, beings who carry powers far greater than anyone else's. Each sophisticated in their own ways."

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They gave a long pause and said nothing as if waiting for us to say a thing.

Hephaestus boomed. "What is the meaning of this nonsense? Why tell us this if you are not going to tell us exactly what is coming? Why not stop it yourself."

Hephaestus had always been rash and rather impulsive but there was a beauty to his ugliness. He has one of the softest hearts I had ever seen in a god, I respected him as well as I did Hades. Being born during the great battle and scarred by Kronos his grandfather disfigured him but still his mother rejected him, her first child.

That feeling of longing in his eyes grew every day. It's a surprise he didn't go bad. What pained me most was the fact that I had lost my love to that insolent brat— Zeus. This unrequited love was a pain, I was the first to fall in love with Hera in our younger years, but she was in love with another who turned out to be Hades. I don't think he ever loved her, being the eldest he was always blinded by his responsibilities.

Years after the war he vanished for a few dozen years giving me the chance to get close to her again. We trained together and got closer eventually. Unlike us Zeus never trained, he always had an infinite amount of power to tap from. I never knew he had eyes for her and just like the monster he was he just took everything he wanted without asking. He shapeshifted into an animal to trick Hera into bringing him closer, he then defiled her. To cover it up, she chose to be his.

I was the only one who knew, that pain in my chest I still felt it even now. I wonder what spell he used to keep her by his side, I could always see that murderous look in her eyes when she looks at him. For some reason she was afraid of leaving him because of what he could do.

Some saw Zeus as a prodigy, others a chosen one, others a hero. But he was an unstable monster, a price he had to pay for being born too damn strong.

By the time Hades returned the deed had been done, I thought he would at least feel pain for having lost her but he didn't feel a thing.

Hades came back different, darker, he had this air of darkness around him that shook me— no shook us all. When I confronted him on how he had coke to become so powerful he simply said.

"I searched for a new source of strength and fell into an abyss of death and darkness.... There I was offered strength by the god of death Thanatos, in exchange I agreed to come back and rule his domain in his stead."

To think someone so powerful existed in our world and he never intervened in the matters of our world. Looking at my dear brother I could feel something had been taken from him in exchange for his power, his soul! He had sacrificed so much to end the war.

Hades always believed it to be his curse to carry all our burdens and protect us, he claimed to have promised mother.

Hades unlike Zeus was nothing like a prodigy, he was unlike any of us. Instead he was an oddity of sorts. He never had any specialty and instead trained his mind and body to the breaking points.

Gods was the term we were called because of our power and access to our pure energy source. We also had specialties in certain areas, we called it a gift from mother, a part of her to us.

I had control over water and Zeus over lightning but Hades never showed any, I always wondered why.

Despite being a defect he became the most dependable of us all, now I understand what Hera saw in him.

The fates left us without a word more. After the battle we chose to rebuild the world for every other creature in the world, creatures who had allied with us to defeat the titans. We decided it would be best to split the world for us the strongest gods who came to be known as the big three who defeated Kronos.

Hades chose to take those that had been lost and damaged, without a home to go to back with him to the abyss that soon came to be known as the underworld.

Zeus ever the proud one chose to take over the entirety of the sky and build a great city of gold for the gods, a city Seton a mountain that soon got the name Olympus which signified the peak of our victory.

I chose to rule the sea as my fate decided. But this was not what we agreed on, we chose to unite the world under one rule. Sometimes I wonder if we were any better than out fathers. Perhaps that was our mistake.

We left the land known as the earth without a ruler and because of that a whirlwind of malice and evils took form there as it's birthplace but we managed to stop it and keep it contained. We called the place, cursed earth.

To maintain a hierarchy the gods of Olympus were ranked based on their strength:

The 12 main gods of Olympus were come to be known:

Zeus: The supreme god

Hera: The goddess of marriage and family, and Zeus's wife

Poseidon: The ruler of the oceans and brother of Zeus

Demeter: The goddess of fertility

Athena: The goddess of wisdom, reason, and war

Apollo: The healer, musician, art and culture

Artemis: The goddess of the hunt

Ares: The god of bloodlust

Hephaestus: The master craftsman

Aphrodite: The goddess of love, sex, and beauty

Hermes: The fast messenger who brings luck

Dionysus: The god of wine and merriment

Gods such as Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Ares, Dionysus who had been young during the war were added to the ranks.

Hades was removed from the rank of the twelve gods though not by our disposition.

"I don't want to be associated with the gods of Olympus!" I remember his words so painful.

"Hey, what the hell are you saying?" I screamed at him hot tears sliding down the sides of my face.

I remembered the cold glare he gave me, all the life in his eyes had been pulled out. I could see him grieving, I remember wondering why he would be hurting himself so. "....?"

"If it's about your deal with the greek god of death we can talk it out." I tried to reach out to him but my hands shirveled as if plagued by a disease.

His gaze trembled for a moment before he said. "What are you talking about? From now on I want to be known as the ruler of the underworld, as for my deal with Thanatos— I lost, I am forever bound to him. For all of eternity, it was my self made hell."

"No-o-o!" I screamed.

Zeus tried to stop him and even I was amazed by the display of raw power he used to force him back.

And that was when I last saw him, since then I resented my brother. I still never came to understand his choice but I did know his aura changed that day.

Time went by slowly, giving me enough time to learn and grow. I watched the world fall into chaos and sought to change it. I took control of the circle and used it to plan to usurp Zeus before he drove the world to ruins. But his unexplainable strength shook me.

Then Prometheus crested humans, beings who looked very much like us but rarely intriguing, that was what everyone thought but I could see a great potential in them. They are beneath us, they will worship us but Zeus planned to have them destroyed.

It was also a surprise to have Hades return to the scene, he even helped out. But he was much weaker, his aura weaker, he barely even beat Zeus had he not been holding back. Then Hades tried to get back together, the nerve of it.

Then my ally who had always sticked to the shadow finally chose to be finally revealed now. This came as the greatest chock to me yet.

There I stood in the warehouse, my lone self standing looking at the two figures approaching me. The one I could make out of was Apollo, I never did expect him to be in on this and to think he also acted so pure.

The second was someone I had never seen before.

"My name is Pandora, your ally in the shadow." She said, her eyes like a mirror of emptiness.

I asked. "Pandora? You don't mean!"

She nodded as if reading my mind. "I am the very entity that you chose to seal away in a box, the very cursed earth. I have been around for a while now, manipulating you behind the scene"

I was surprised a bit by the fact that Hephaestus could lose something so important. "No! That can't be true."

"It is, I have researched deep into this world and to my origins, it was in tha moment I realized what I was, who I was....!"

I felt my breath get hung up in the air as her malicious energy crept into my soul. "No it can't be....!" I could feel all the pain and hatred of that day, of the earth and that could only mean....

Pandora looked at me long and hard waiting for me to speak.

I barely breathed out the words in a dire attempt. "Mother!?"

There was a moment of silence and uncertainty, she let my words hang there for a few minutes before she finally said with a distorted smile on my face.

"My child, you have finally remembered your mother!"