Chapter 28: Chapter 27 : Birth of the Strongest

14, nearly 15 years ago.

A woman is running through a forest, carrying a baby, her baby, in her arms. Past the

trees, through bushes.. She kept checking behind her nonstop whilst making her way through. Because of the bushes she ran through, some having thorns, her legs were cut up and bleeding. She was nearly out of breath, because of running for so long.

She saw a shed to which she ran into and barricaded the door by moving the table, chairs and other stuff in front of it.

She sat up against the wall on the floor, holding her baby and whispering to it over and over

again, while shaking in fear : "We're gonna be okay.. You're gonna be okay.."

A tapping sound began against the barricaded door and got louder after each tap, until it was

basically banging against the door. The woman would continue whispering as tears dropped

down her face and she closed her eyes.

Bang after bang, each increased in not only the loudness but in strength as well. It got to the

point where the door was about to be punched off the frame, until it eventually was punched

in.

For a few moments, nothing happened and the woman couldn't see anyone coming in but

then a black goo started going towards her after entering the hole of the door.

Before it managed to get to her, through the roof of the building, someone dropped in and

punched the black goo, making it turn a little gray before it started to quickly slither back

away from where it came from, leaving the gray part which was now hardened like cement.

"W-who are you?!" she asked in fear as the guy approached her, helping her up.

"My name is unimportant, what matters now is that you're saved." the mystery guy told her as they got out of the shed.

"Thank you so much.. I am very grateful but I don't have anything." she said but he told her that it was fine, after which she vanished as she was teleported to her home village by him.

He got into a position and began rushing through multiple forests and trees, arriving at a portal, guarded by 2 guards, through which he walked into and he was there. Olympus.

It was all built of stone using a bronze foundation and was surrounded by cloistered courtyards and golden pavements. It was beautiful. The buildings, the people, the Gods, even the chirps of birds.

The guy went into the largest building, going through it, passing by the guards and finally arriving to where he needed to be. He stood in front of someone sitting in a throne, dressed in white robes with a golden outline, a black beard and black long hair up to his shoulders and slightly slicked back.

"Mission 349 report, Karoi Odinson." said the one sitting on the throne, the one being Zeus.

"Don't call me that.. The mission post was abandoned due to the black goo substance

escaping imprisonment and multiplying. In the process, it went after a woman, potentially

seeking to take her as a host and now it's escaped into thin air." Karoi said.

Zeus nodded releasing a 'hm' sound and telling him : "That will be all. You are free to leave."

That's what he did. He left back 'home'.

It's been many years since his daughter Léaina and Angora's deaths.. His former daughter and wife's. It wasn't easy for him, especially since he's loathed by his father and brother after killing their

entire village including his own mother.

Despite him now, years later, being in a relationship with Varuna, he's haunted by the same

nightmare every night… Where his mother calls him a monster and he ends up kills her. The

nightmare began to completely overwrite his memories of his mother's love and affection

towards him.

One night, the night after punching the black goo, he had the same recurring nightmare, but this time it wasn't his mother whom he saw, but was Léaina being drowned.

That woke him up instantly and he was sweating and breathing as if he was out of breath, beside

Varuna who was still asleep in their bed and who was 6 months into the pregnancy. After 2 hours of staring at the dark ceiling, he managed to fall back asleep and in the morning after waking up, spoke with her.

"Do you have any idea what we should name him?" she said, with tints of happiness and excitement in her voice.

"I don't have any name ideas.." Karoi replied to her.

After turning to the window, a blinding light from the sun, amplified by the window itself shun in her eyes and that's when it clicked.

"I got it! I know what we should name him" she exclaimed.

"Hm?"

She was thrilled when saying it "Satoru! In Japanese it means enlightener!"

Thinking how it was a great name, he slightly smiled before responding : "Satoru... I love it."

For weeks, Karoi and Varuna continued on buying the most expensive and best quality baby stuff they could find in all the 9 realms, wanting nothing more than the best for their unborn child.

Many around would visit too and check on Varuna specifically and how she's coming along. Many of them were from the Greek Pantheon, the same one from where Varuna originates. But no one from Karoi's Pantheon, the Norse Pantheon, would visit as he was kicked out.

As each day came closer to Satoru's expected birthdate, stormy nights would become stronger and louder witch each passing night.

Kaminar, Thor, even Zeus... All the thunder and lightning Gods had to use their powers to stop the thunderstorms each night as it was getting out of control. Even going as far as to try to find out what was causing them but they couldn't find any clue or anything at all that could or was causing them.

When they figured it out, and they did, it was on the day 'that everything went wrong' according to Zeus.

The day was here, the day of his birth. The Goddess Asceso and the other healing and regeneration goddesses were all there from all pantheons, even the Norse, as she was giving birth to a NEW God child.

Push after push, trying to push the baby out, the thunderstorms became wild and grew stronger.

Maintaining it just barely the entire night, Varuna was given her own child to hold it after a successful birth. However, the storms were ongoing even after the birth.

Quickly making the assumption, Zeus and the other thunder and lightning Gods linked to storms to Varuna and Karoi's baby. Asking them both for permission, they, alongside the parental company, would take the child after a few days to analyze it's divine energy & power to Kratos of all people.

"It is undoubtedly 4x higher than your own, Zeus." said the red marked, white skinned and bearded god Kratos.

He was in disbelief "What... He's just a baby. Over time he'd become more..."

"Powerful." Karoi finished Zeus' sentence.

"This is outrageous! He cannot be controlled!" started yelling the King of Gods, pissed off and angry.

Varuna budged it "Zeus please... Don't take away my child! I waited for this moment a long time..." she practically begged him.

"It's not your choice to make, but I won't kill your child... Karoi. Instead of executing the child, I can offer an alternative proposal I thought of - To take away and strip him of his Godliness.

Before Karoi could even respond or think about it, Varuna stepped in once again : "No... Karoi, please... Don't listen to him!"

"It's either that or your child gets executed. Pick now." Zeus said, ignoring Varuna.

He didn't know what to say. "I... Y-You.. The godliness... Take away his godliness..."

"I can't believe you!"

"I'm not gonna let our child die Varuna!"

"Ugh! And how is this any better?!"

Zeus spoke once again : "To take away his godliness, it won't hurt at all but every single God across all the pantheons will have to come together to take his power. Out of the sheer reason that he holds so much power..."

"I will not!" yelled Varuna at Zeus, standing in front of him entirely pissed off.

She was pulled back by her shoulder and Karoi gazed at her, trying to calm her down. "Varuna.. You don't have to do it for me, but do it for him. Do it for Satoru."

Her head turned at the baby being held by Asceso as he was sleeping. "Fine.. But after that, you and I Karoi.. We're done. And I'm taking him with me."

"No you're not. He is going to be placed in Midgard under the care of an adoptive human family. You're allowed to watch from a distance, but never introduce yourself. Especially that you're his mother and you that you're his father."

"Fine." said Varuna, being entirely pissed off, having the urge to kill Zeus.

"Alright..." Karoi agreed to the terms.

After Zeus told every God of every pantheon this, they all agreed to come together and take

the child's power. It was a long process which took an entire day but it was done nonetheless.

Varuna and Karoi would take Satoru together to Midgard's adoption center under fake

aliases and transformation spells, not wanting to be recognized and for other reasons.

She couldn't bear to look at Karoi any longer so she left for Sighzen whilst he headed back to

Olympus to speak again to Zeus.

While he was returning, he heard the loudest thunder strike, even louder than the storms and rushed to where it came from, to a cave where he saw an axe in the wall. He tried to pull it out with all of his mite but it didn't even budge..

Thinking nothing about it, Karoi returned back to Zeus and questioned him one last time before departing too like Varuna.

"He could've changed the world Zeus..."

"He would have destroyed it! And he most likely wouldn't even stop there! How can you be so blinded by your love for this child, while it hasn't even been breathing for a week?!" yelled angrily the King of Gods.

The God of Wild was silent for a moment : "What of his powers? Can they be brought back?" he asked

Calmly and quickly Zeus responded : "No. They were completely erased."

"So what you did was out of fear?! Because you're nothing but a coward who sits behind others, sending them to do your own bidding?! Is that it?! You disgust me..." he yelled at the King of Gods who gripped the elbow rest of his throne.

"DO NOT SPEAK TO YOUR KING THAT WAY! Don't forget you accepted you when your own father disowned you! Do not forget that you are weaker, Karoi Odinson!"

"I told you... Not to fucking call me that!" he yelled back at him.

"AND WHAT IF I DO?! What can YOU do to me?!" he snipped back at him, angrily, ready to get up at any slightest move of the one standing in front of him.

Karoi chuckled and unclenched his fist. "What will I do..? I don't care if it makes me wanted by every single God, but I will return Satoru's power somehow.. If not, then I will create a new spark on which he'll expand his NEW powers. Because let's be real Zeus. You're afraid of a mere child.

"Get the fuck out of here!" yelled Zeus at him as he stood up from the throne.

The God of Wild smiled as he left out of the entire building, out of Olympus and back to Midgard. From what he said alone, he was branded as a rogue God to be hunted down and brought to Zeus himself alive.

The order initiated before he was even able to leave Olympus, so he just barely escaped out of it and vanished. Secretly escaping to Midgard and going undercover as 'Primal' and becoming a sensei there so that he could watch Satoru while also plotting a much higher end goal.

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