Chương 14: Kronos 2.1 A.K.A children against Father
The words of Rhea had brought with their author hope. Rhea had come at the moment when it seemed everything was lost and she had in less than an instant rebalanced the scales.
"You have come at the best moment possible daughter" the voice of Gaia, the Earth Mother rumbled like an earthquake.
"Would I be wrong to say the first plan failed?" asked Rhea to the Uranides and Gaia.
"It is unfortunately the case" answered Phoebe. "However, Kronos had been able to almost sever the head of Ouranos. Unfortunately, our sire had been able to escape from his bindings."
Rhea sighed. "I just wanted to stay with my Father all this Gaia cycle But it's fine. It is what it is. I just hope that Father won't eat all the stars without me."
She peered at the cosmos for a moment and hummed. Satisfied to have found what she wanted to find, she turned towards the children of Ouranos. "I saw a wound on his neck. He's trying to close it like all the other injuries he has received from you but due to the frown on his face, it's clear that this is not going as smoothly as he would want it to be. He's vulnerable. It is now or never if we want to succeed. If we fail, I'm not sure that I can win against Ouranos at full power."
She extended fully her wings. "I'll distract him. Your role is to cut down Ouranos with your scythe youngest of the Uranides."
"I have a name," I said to Rhea. "It is Kronos."
"You were given a powerful name." a smile bloomed on the face of Rhea. "Prove your worthiness and I'll use it." With a lazy flap of her wings, she disappeared. I could see that With a flap of her wing, she had already crossed the distance of at least a hundred spans of Gaia. With another, she would be in front of the Primordial sky god.
Our mother presented her gigantic hand before them. "I'll throw all of you in the direction of Ouranos. It'll make you reach him quickly without using your energy. I'll come after you," said Gaia.
My siblings and I turned towards each other and nodded. I hopped in the palm of the hand of his mother. I was immediately joined by his siblings.
"Prepare yourselves" The voice of our mother boomed. Gaia bent her arm backwards. In a clockwise movement, she sent us flying in the direction of their enemy.
Ahead of us, Rhea had already begun to confront Ouranos. The two deities clashed against each other. A frown marred the face of Rhea. Anger and fear were etched on the face of our father. It was the look of a scared predator animal facing another one of similar strength.
Even from a distance greater than the span of the Earth, I could hear the words coming from my father's mouth "You reek of the scent of the celestial air yet I can also sense in you the smell of Gaia and can see your resemblance to her. Does your father plot to overthrow me, young one?" the primordial of the sky asked to Rhea.
With a snap of her fingers, the hair of Rhea became braided as if done by invisible beings. "My father is not interested in your pitiful throne. He doesn't need to be recognized as supreme. Power is something rough..., real Ouranos. Titles, names, and thrones mean nothing before it. Unfortunately, you lack it. You are simply...weak." Rhea replied softly.
"Weak you say, child," Ouranos said. A snarl appeared on his face. He put both of his hands over his head. Light began to illuminate the dark tapestry that made the body of Khaos. The light fell like a stream on Ouranos and obscured him. A hand erupted from it. Gradually, the body of Ouranos began visible again. The primordial was now wearing beautifully crafted armour.
Pauldrons adorned his shoulders. A golden helmet hid his face from the world. The armour covered his stomach, his legs and his arms. The armour was also adorned with images of air disasters, clouds and multiple suns.
The Primordial god put his left hand forward and opened his palm as if trying to grab something. The primordial hand closed and with it, space broke. In the hand of the primordial was a black spear. The spear felt ominous, dreadful. Rhea who had all this time a lazy air around her since the beginning of the fight for the first time changed her posture from a relaxed one to a tense one.
My siblings and I finally crossed the distance between us and Rhea. Rhea put her hand on her side to stop us. "Don't go closer to your father if any of you want to live".
"You told me that I was weak, spawn of the Upper air. Let me present your flesh with the touch of Khaos. Let me show you the errors in your assessment."
The primordial in a swift movement lunged toward the daughter of Gaia. He pushed the spear towards the head of the daughter of Aether. She leaned her head towards the left and dodged the strike. The primordial continued his assault with a horizontal strike.
As if she was swimming, Rhea rolled over the strike Then she came twisting back around with a hammer she had materialized and struck the armour of the Primordial sending him soaring.
A moment later, our father was sent flying but in the next one, he was back in front of Rhea and tried to punch her. The hammer she had made shifted to become a shield. The collision between the punch and the shield of the two opponents sent my siblings helplessly flying back as if were were insects.
With a flick of my will, I bent the space separating my siblings and myself. With a thought, I erased their momentum.
Light years away from us, our father and Rhea continued to fight. Ouranos struck Rhea's right cheek and sent her flying. He tried to bridge the distance between them but was unable to do so. A ball of dust materialized in front of Rhea's palm. It grew quickly to match the size of the body of their mother. With a grunt, she sent it flying towards the Primordial.
The primordial with his black spear barreled through the newly created planetoid. The middle of the planetoid disappeared with its core. The spear had erased everything it had entered in contact with.
Behind the figure of the primordial, the planetoid lost its shape and exploded. "Was that supposed to do anything child" spoke the Primordial God.
Rhea answered his question by rushing to Ouranos with a sword made of purple plasma. The primordial God lifted one of his eyebrows and put his lance on the trajectory of the attack to stop it.
Millimetres away from the spear, the sword shifted and turned into thousands of microscopic needles. They quickly struck the armour of the Primordial.
A shock wave erupted from the impact. The wings of Dione expanded to cover all of us in a protective embrace. The impact tore through the wings making them look unrecognizable, The wings having lost all their feathers with only twisted bones remaining from the back of the female deity. With a grunt, Dione grabbed her wings and tore them from her back.
Golden ichor began to fall as a stream. The bloodied back of my sister began to heal as if time was being reverted. New wings sturdier-looking exploded from her back.
"We have to help Rhea but how can we when the two of them are so beyond us," said Hyperion. In the shadowy body of Khaos, Rhea and Ouranos continued to clash.
To my eyes, they were less shapes and more blurs of lights that illuminated the universe. Even by using my domain, I found it hard to follow the clashes between my half-sister and the primordial god of the sky.
"You would be right that we would be unable to do anything if it wasn't for one thing Hyperion" spoke Mnemosyne.
"I don't understand you sister," said Hyperion. We all turned toward her to pay attention to the words that would come out of Mnemosyne. "None of them has taken their true form and that's also the case with us. At full power, there is no possibility of us even trying to help but right now, we can if we go to full power".
"If I'm following you, sister" spoke Tethys, "you want us to take our true forms to help tip the balance in our favour".
"It sounds logical enough," said Krios "but the problem with this plan is that if we're not fast enough, Ouranos will also reveal his true form and it would be without a doubt our defeat."
"It just means one thing," I told my siblings. "It means that we can not afford to fail. We've already tested our luck. I don't think that necessity would favour us again. It is now or never".
My siblings and I exchanged nods. I stopped focusing for a nanosecond on the exterior world and turned his sight inward.
I let his mind guide me to the door that connected me to Time itself. The door was a gigantic one, bigger at least two times than my parents united. Each instant that passed was one that changed the appearance of the door. One moment, the door displayed a giant white metallic structure soaring in Ouranos's domain, in another one, it showed me grotesque beings that revelled in blood, ichor, viscera and other unmentionable things. The door changed again to show an image of myself. My siblings and I were sitting on thrones made of Orichalcum and obsidian. Adorning our heads were crowns exquisitely made, crowns that could only be called sinful because of their allure.
Before the thrones of my siblings and I kneeled all the creatures of the realms. They praised them, they worshipped them, they sang their names.
The Kronos in the image stopped focusing on the worshipping crowd and turned his head in my direction as if he could see a younger him as if he could see me.
The image passed to be replaced by another one, one that I didn't pay attention to. I had honestly never truly loved discarding my mortal form for his immortal one, for my true form.
The door was a barrier that stopped Time's influence on me. Taking my true form felt as if losing my identity, as if the things that made me truly Kronod disappeared. The whispers of time were a constant from me, something that had plagued me all of my existence and that would probably continue until my end.
The thing was that at least in a mortal form, The whispers were at their lowest in my mortal form. That fact changed when I took my true form.
None of my siblings understood my plight. My mother had called me lucky but if this was luck, I feared mischance because the world had never been kind to me, because it had always sent me misfortune and the worst plights.
I touched the gigantic door with my palm. "You might lose yourself forever" a dark spectre of the same shape as I spoke behind me.
"I know this," I replied.
"Aren't you frightened," my reflection asked me.
"I am always scared. I am scared of the past, of pain, of the future and of many things" I replied.
"Then why are you doing this" questioned the shadow. "You could flee, go to him. You know that he would claim you, that he would you make his child. No one would be able to hurt you."
"You're right," I said to my dark reflection "but do you want to know something? My greatest fear is losing them". The gate began to display an image. It was the image of an injured me being cried on and protected by my siblings. It was the image of the reason why I shouldered on even though I was afraid.
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I clenched my teeth. With a movement, he appeared before my sire. The primordial tried to skewer me with his spear. The spear went through me as if I was a mirage. I slashed in the direction of the head of my father trying to behead him. The primordial put his armoured hand on the path of the attack maybe to block it or deflect it.
The scythe went through the armoured arm as if it were butter. The severed hand of the Primordial began to shine blue before expanding in a conflagration. With my free hand, I trapped the explosion in a bubble of non-existent time neutralizing the attack.
The Primordial enraged sent a kick adorned by Plasma to my face but I didn't try to dodge. I knew what would happen and knew that I had nothing to fear.
Plasma met ice and was found wanting. Rhea didn't stay idle. With her powerful hammer, she tried to strike against Ouranos's head. The Primordial used his remaining to protect himself.
A shock wave erupted and a deafening sound was produced but the Primordial didn't budge. I let my future sight guide me to go on the left. It allowed Mnemosyne, Themis and Theia to strike perfectly synchronized at the same moment on the back of the hammer of Rhea.
It pushed the hammer forward. The hammer broke the primordial hand and struck his face so hard and fast that the space and all the atoms surrounding them split themselves turning the space around us into Plasma and creating a heat a thousand times worse than the core of the sun.
Hyperion appeared in my gaze as a gigantic flame of ichor bleeding eyeballs and light. I didn't let my sight linger on his sibling. Immortals' true forms were by themselves stories, mysteries that when gazed upon taught something to the individual whether they wanted to know or not.
The thing was that some things were not meant to be seen or understood. A mortal creature could break their soul by Gazing at my true form. Gazing at Ouranos's true form would create the same effect for us, Uranides maybe except for me because of my link with time. In case a mortal was unfortunate enough to gaze at the true form of one of the Protogenoi, they would be erased completely from existence.
All the energy, the heat that had been created by the hammer was reunited in a ball of hellfire in one of Hyperion's eyes.
A powerful sound akin to swords raking on each other was produced by Hyperion. Hyperion sent all the reunited energy in a powerful searing blast at their flying sire.
The broken arm of the primordial twisted in a counterclockwise way to settle anew, perfectly regenerated. With a flick of one of his fingers, the primordial sent a beam of powerful cosmic winds to match the attack of his child.
The two attacks met and detonated together creating an omnidirectional purple shock wave. Krios at my side inhaled and exhaled a cold wind. Our father had been pushed light years away from Gaia's body and the sun that shone on her. Frost and ice surged forward in a gigantic wave. I could see with my eyes the death of every particle and atom that entered into contact with the deathly cold of my brother.
More than only affecting the physical world, Krios's ice was also trapping the time of the areas it encountered. Krios was manipulating time, stopping it.
The wave of visible frost touched the purple detonation and froze it in its wake. It continued towards our father disregarding concepts like space or distance who with a swap of his hand created a powerful gust of wind that deflected the attack to send it flying out at another solar system to enter in contact with a faraway red sun. The ice met the sun and the light died, completely extinguished.
Even light years away from my sire, I saw the Primordial put his fingers before him to inspect them. Even though he hadn't been touched, his proximity to the attack had turned the armour covering his hand brittle and had left the armour broken. One of his fingers had turned black. The primordial raised his other newly healed arm and with it, he grabbed the finger and broke it in a loud snap. He tore it from his hands completely. Another one, untouched and healthy grew to take the place of the missing one.
His gaze swept over us. Even though he was light years away from us, it felt as if he was just meters away "You and your siblings since the beginning have just been mere annoyances that I would deal with after but now, you are not mere annoyances anymore. You are now obstacles. You are weak gods straining yourself to reach something that none of you could, you all are sinners and that is what I declare you Titans, Sinners" the primordial hissed.
The skin of the primordial god began to flake off. I knew what it meant. I turned towards my siblings and the ever-flowing numbness that was consuming me since taking my true form was replaced by warmth. I could feel myself smile. With a flicker of my will, time began to shift and break around me. A gate, the gate that laid in in my mind surfaced in the real world and opened. Black oozy tendrils flew from it each to grab one of his siblings.
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"Don't do it, don't you dare!" screeched Koios. He was trying to free himself. He didn't need to be explained anything to know what my intention was.
All of my other siblings were doing the same. "You promised!" screamed Themys. The tendrils had brought my siblings into the gate. I acted as if I didn't see their tears, their screams, their pleas.
The gate closed and disappeared with my siblings. "It is true that I promised" I said to the empty space that was occupied by the gate "but I'm a coward and a liar. I prefer you hating me over any of you being gone. Loving somebody is being ready to be hated by them even if what you do is for their sake".
Rhea was looking at me as if she was seeing me for the first time. The Primordial was far away from us shedding his mortal mask to reveal to the world his true nature.
"You are interesting. I might have been wrong about you." Rhea told me. "If we win, I wouldn't be averse to trying to know you more so Let's win Kronos," she had told me.
I felt my lips upturned a little in a half smile. "Let's win Rhea".
Far away from us, the Primordial was shining as brightly as a supernova. His light was blinding but Rhea and I didn't turn away.
The light disappeared to show the monstrous true form of Ouranos. His body was at least 100 times longer than the distance between the sun of Gaia and other suns. He looked like a star.
Examining him more, I found in the centre of his body a pulsing sphere, a heart made of Khaos bigger than a sun. This heart was surrounded by what seemed to be light-producing structures. Visible and invisible light came from the glowing disk of infalling material, while what seemed to be even hotter gas above the disk shone with mystical energies that like waves swept over Kronos and Rhea.
Despair and fear almost took hold of my mind. They would probably have if my emotions were not consumed by time. Watching the true form of my father, I did only one thing. I gripped more tightly my scythe.
Focusing more on the shape of my father and ignoring the splitting agony that tried to take hold of my mind, I noticed something important that I had missed before. It was microscopic but it was indeed there. There was a crack in the heart of Ouranos. It was a crack the size of a hill but when plastered on something bigger than the sun, it was almost invisible.
It was an injury that hadn't healed completely even though Ouranos had taken his true shape. I looked at my scythe. I knew without a doubt what was the origin of the injury. It was an opportunity. Something told me that striking at the exact place where resided the crack was the sure way to claim victory over my sire.
"Kronos" Rhea called me bringing me back to reality and out of my head. I turned towards her. She was shining brightly. Light was coalescing all around her and her skin had begun to flake like a reptile. "You only have one task and it is ending Ouranos. I'll create an opportunity. Don't worry about anything else".
"Alright," I answered.
"It's time for this farce to end," said Rhea. Her skin began to bulge as if something was trying to claw out of it. Light busted from her back. With it, Rhea began to lose her mortal disguise to reveal her true self.
Rhea was mind-bogglingly big, spanning several light years in size I estimated. She looked like a gigantic cloud made of Stardust with many suns and nebulas, with where there should have been eyes I could instead stars as big as the sun that shone on Gaia took birth. The stars inside of her glowed different colours taking the appearance of colours seen and unseen by mortals and immortals eyes. She was fluorescent due to the hot stars embedded in her form.
She looked unfathomable, incomprehensible, she looked more beautiful than everything I had ever seen. Looking at her was maddening. Things would never be as bright or vibrant as they were after I saw her true form. By looking at her, I learned. I knew now ways to use the powers I inherited from my sire that I wasn't even sure the Primordial himself knew. Knowledge, forbidden knowledge had been embedded in my brain. It felt as if a haze that was always there had been partially lifted. The body of Khaos which had looked like a dark void now looked in my gaze like fleshy dark sinews that beat to an invisible rhythm that I could not hear. I felt a drop of Ichor stream from his right eye. I wiped it away.
Even with what seemed to be a lack of eyes, I felt the gaze of Rhea on myself. A throne made of blue stars grew from Rhea's body. I didn't try to ask the reason why or to protest because even though, I didn't really know Rhea, I felt even in my numb state at ease with her.
I sat on the throne. I felt the gaze of Rhea leave me to veer towards Ouranos. The two deities looked at each other and to a signal only they could hear, they threw themselves at each other with mind-boggling savagery and violence.
They erased the distance between them and they clashed. They shook the body of Khaos. Stars were birthed and died as they collided.
A massive beam of energy was released by Ouranos toward Rhea. She spun like a spiral way faster than something her mass and length should be moving and dodging. The beam continued meeting one of the millions of internal creatures composing Khaos 'black holes,' the knowledge I had gained from seeing Rhea's true form whispered to me and broke it making it lose its shape and collapse in a world extinction display.
Rhea produced from her form gigantic structures of plasma and sent them flying like arrows to the Primordial. They met the shape of the primordial and instead of hurting him flew into his body where they were exposed to Ouranos's influence, changed and sent back to their original creator.
They impacted Rhea's form and Rhea in pain screamed. The scream acted more like an attack than a sign of distress and anguish.
The body of the primordial was catapulted away from them. The primordial who had made Rhea bleed. She was not bleeding golden like my siblings and I did. Rhea instead bled celestial bodies, stars. From her wounds came life.
"Kronos, listen to me" I heard the voice of Rhea in my head speak. She sounded as if she was in pain. "It has to end soon. Prepare yourself. I'll immobilize Ouranos. You know what is your role".
Ouranos' shape was coming back towards us. Rhea met again his charge. The two cosmic beings tore through at each other. In Speeds I could not follow, they made each other bleed so much that a galaxy could be filled by their cosmic Ichors.
They met and fought by releasing beams of wanton destruction capable of erasing stars, by creating weapons made of energy bigger than solar systems, by using the matter that composed the body of Khaos and twisting and shaping it to bloody their adversary.
Rhea created a spear made of stars and tried to puncture the black hole that was the heart of Ouranos.
Ouranos created a dark gap to intercept the attack. At that moment when Rhea was unbalanced for a fraction of a femtosecond, Ouranos used this opportunity to strike like a viper. He plunged a fist made of supernovas into the cluster of stars and colourful gazes in the centre of the body of Rhea, In her visible heart.
His fist penetrated through Rhea's body and the nebulae began to convulse in agony on the fist of the Primordial.
I tried to use my scythe to cut the member of the primordial. Adamantine met divine flesh and flesh remained untouched.
I felt the scornful gaze of my father on me. The primordial didn't have a mouth yet I heard him speak "See how useless all your efforts had been. Even with the help of Gaia and the daughter of the Upper Sky, you and your siblings have not been able to do anything. Do you see the futility, the stupidity of your actions? After I'm done with both of you, I'll track all the rest of your siblings that I know you love so much so much Kronos. I will make them suffer through things even incomprehensible and horrifying to others primordials. I'll make them suffer eternally and I will never allow their spirits to meet with Khaos for all eternity and more. Perish knowing that you changed nothing in your pitiful existence," said Ouranos.
I felt The primordial begin to gather his energy for a finishing attack that would surely erase me and maybe Rhea from existence.
Watching the gigantic beam of energy forming, I thought of my siblings. I prayed to Time to protect them from the wrath of the primordial god of the sky.
Even in different dimensions, I knew my message would be heard by the other Uranides "I'm sorry".
I closed my eyes and awaited annihilation. I waited for it but it didn't come.
The stardust that made Rhea was moving. It tightened around the Primordial of the sky in the form of chains. "You talk too much" gurgled Rhea.
The chains lit up in beautiful hues of red and green tightening Further, digging into the celestial flesh of Ouranos and pulling his elements apart to expose his black beating heart.
"Kronos!!!" Rhea shouted. I threw myself towards the heart of my father without thinking. I bent time and distance and reappeared before the heart of the primordial god.
The heart of Ouranos bent and drank matter around it and tried to do the same to me to protect itself. As if I would let him! I expanded my domain like I never did before. My action made me noticed by Timebut at that moment, I didn't care about anything else other than slaying Ouranos.
I covered my scythe with the entropic characteristic of time and swang. The sickle met the black hole that served as the heart of Ouranos.
The scythe encountered the black hole and the black hole cracked. I tried to penetrate it further. I pushed with all of my strength. The scythe went further into the heart of the primordial. Around me, the primordial was trashing in pain. He sent me cosmic storms, planetoids to crash into me, and lightning bolts to erase my existence. I endured. I could feel myself dying. I wasn't strong enough to completely puncture the heart of Ouranos. Was this how it was going to end just at the edge of victory?
The grip that I had on my scythe began to loosen up. I had failed. At the moment when he almost lost his grip, something happened. I heard them. I heard them. I heard their prayers. "Please come back my brother," some of the voices said. "Please, brother succeed." Other voices begged, "Please, survive".
I felt strength fill me. I wasn't alone. They were still fighting at my side! I could see them when it should not be possible. I saw them and they saw me and I saw in their eyes only trust and love. I could feel their hands on my back pushing me forward, supporting me.
They had told me that they would always have my back and they were not lying. They hadn't lied! My grip on the scythe began to tighten again. I pushed the scythe with renewed vigour. "Win!!!" the voices screamed at me.
"Let's end this fight Father" I shouted. The scythe came out of the other side of the heart of Ouranos. For a moment nothing happened as if the universe itself was faced with an aberration, with something that should be impossible made possible. The heart of the primordial began to shrink down little by little. One of the tendrils of Rhea grabbed me and with me in one of her tendrils, she distanced herself from the primordial by going light years away from him.
The heart of the primordial had now shrunk down to nothing. The primordial looked at us in disbelief "How?" the primordial asked us. "How is it possible for me, for me Ouranos to lose to you?"
The primordial now made a pathetic sight. The primordial looked vulnerable, scared, and broken yet I didn't feel any pity towards my sire "You lost because of one thing Father and it is because you were alone. Because of your cruelty, you pushed everyone away from you and created hatred and resentment directed towards you. The reason for your fall was that even your children hated you."
"Because I was alone?" The primordial hissed. "Those that need others to rely on, to support them and go forward are weaklings!"
"Then I am one of those weaklings, father yet the winner is me and my siblings. It wasn't you. If I was alone, I would have had no chance of winning but I know one thing. As long as I am with my siblings and supported by them, I know that I'll never fail and this is the difference between the two of us. It is now time for you to rest. We'll rule in your place and we will make a Golden age that would be never be marked by the same cruelty that existed in your reign."
"Cruelty is necessary for order. Everything I had done was right. You all are children grasping for things beyond your strengths and understanding. Heavy and bloody are crowns child. You are naive Kronos and it will be the reason for your fall." The primordial began to talk as if in a haze "You speak of family, you speak of support". The primordial laughed "I curse you Kronos. When you are at the height of your power, When your future reign is at its apogee, you'll lose everything you care for. You'll lose your so dear family. You all will be cast down from your thrones and will be remembered as Deities having strained themselves to reach the unreachable, as Titans."
"As long as they are with me, I don't fear your curse or the future," I said back to him.
"Only eternity will tell" the Primordial whispered before his heart shrank to nothing and popped away in a flash of energy that illuminated all the universe in a grandiose display making burning stars fall all over the universe.
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I sheathed myself in a mortal disguise and closed the door in the centre of his existence. "Goodbye, Father, may we never meet again until the end of all things".
I freed myself from Rhea's tendrils. I turned toward my half-sister and with a wave of my hand tried to erase the grievous-looking injuries she took from Ouranos. It didn't work completely. The bleeding stopped but a hole remained in Rhea's body. The wounds coming from a primordial, a superior existence to me were probably the reason why I hadn't been able to undo the wound.
Rhea's form twisted and warped around itself condensing itself into a golden orb the same size as me. An arm broke from it like an animal hatching from an egg. The rest of the body followed suit to show Rhea in her mortal disguise.
Rhea looked the same as before except for the boulder-sized hole in her side that was slowly being filled by self-regenerative flesh. Rhea looked exhausted as if she was a finite mortal creature. I came close to her and presented my right arm to her.
She looked at me in the eyes and I saw a reflection of the true form of the monstrous being known as Rhea. Instead of feeling dread or horror, I felt amazement because I only saw beauty.
Finding what she seemed to have been searching for in me, she grabbed my arm to lean herself on it. I materialized dark wings in my back.
With them, I propelled both of us toward the body of Gaia. Around, us, the Kosmos, the body of Khaos flew by.
We entered into Gaia's gravitational pull and fell toward the heavenly place where Gaia and Ouranos reunited in the past.
My feet touched Gaia and the world around me awoke. The primordial goddess ' gaze fell on me. From the ground, she rose up taking a mortal shape similar to her children's shapes. With a swap of her hand, an identical sky even though it felt empty appeared to cover Gaia as a dome.
"You succeeded. I knew that amongst all my children, you, Rhea and Kronos were different. You fought against a stronger, older deity and won" the Earth Mother said.
A gap in space-time opened behind me at my command "Ouranos fell not because of only Rhea and me. He fell because of the important roles played by each of my siblings".
Behind me, my siblings stepped forward onto the body of Gaia. "Ouranos..., he fell because he was hated by all and thus alone. Ouranos fell not only because of Rhea and me but because of the help of my siblings" I continued.
His siblings stopped on both sides of me in silent support. I knew that I would have after finishing speaking to Gaia to face my siblings and their understandable and rightful anger due to my past actions.
"Are you sure child that your siblings are deserving of as much praise, of as much congratulations as you?" the primordial goddess of the Earth asked me.
"I'm without a doubt sure of it Mother" I answered, my gaze unwavering from hers.
"Then so be it," The protogenoi said. The voice of the primordial thundered terribly and inevitably like a natural disaster "Ouranos has fallen!" the voice of the goddess boomed. "He was cut down from his place, from his throne by his children that he had mistreated and considered lesser! Ouranos fell due to his children whom he claimed were straining for something they could never reach yet those children reached and succeeded in accomplishing the impossible. Those children, those Titans won. Thus I declare those Titans as rulers, as Godkings and Godqueens." I felt a weight appear on my head. I also felt power diffuse into my being making me more. I felt my hold over the Earth expand and come close to the familiarity I had with time. "I give to those Titans, to my children dominion over the cosmos. I give them the duty of keeping the balance of the world, of ensuring the non-collision of the new sky and my body."
Things microscopic and macroscopic that I had missed were now perfectly registered in the back of my mind. I could see the story of the past of every living thing around me. I saw their present, through their thoughts as if they were mine.
Gasps of awe and shock made themselves known around me. Regal crowns laid on the brow of his siblings and like me, I could feel the changes that their essences had undergone.
Rhea's injuries had vanished. It was easy to see now that the quiet discomfort that she had tried to cover was now gone.
The world and all his creatures kneeled before my family and Rhea. They praised us and screamed our names with fervour and worship.
"I'm sorry" I finally said to my siblings.
"Apology not accepted" Themis replied immediately.
I sighed but didn't argue. I had expected this.
"What you did was too selfish and cruel for any of us to forgive you," said Themis.
Tethys continued, on her face, a false smile was etched "You made a promise, you swore and yet you broke it".
My head tilted downward to hide my eyes from the I of my siblings and the world around me. He knew the possible consequences of his actions yet that didn't stop it from aching inside me when it should have been impossible.
"Raise your head Kronos," said Dione. "It is a time of celebration, not a time for sorrow".
"I can't truly be happy knowing any of you harbour anger at me when what I did even if I broke our oath was to protect you!" I spoke honestly
"It baffles me how You're both so brilliant and stupid. We are not angry Kronos. We didn't harbour Inside us any wrath toward you" Mnemosyne told me. "What had taken root in our hearts was fear, fear to lose you. As long as you don't seem to see the importance of your immortal life, we will never accept your apology. If you want to be forgiven, prove to us that you care about yourself as much as we do.
"I'll try to do such" I replied after a moment.
"Don't try" Krios spoke. "Just do. If you fail, we'll be there to put you back on the right track."
"Understood," I answered. "This… world," I began "needs to change. The touch of our father on its surface is something I can feel even though he mostly left the physical plane."
"It's not all" continued Lapetus. "Our father was both a liability and a deterrent. Foreign beings and the foolest of creatures that hid or didn't intervene will now try to prey on what they think is weakness."
"We also have to be careful about our so-called subjects" spoke Theia. "Some of them will use their fake servility to probe our possible exploitable weaknesses and strengths. Some of Them served our father for millions of years even before our births. They may appear subservient but I'm sure some of them plan to undermine us".
"We Gained our crowns not even half an hour ago and we already got so much to worry about," said Tethys already looking exhausted about our future tasks.
"We also have to ensure that the new sky remains away from Gaia. I can feel also a strain as if my strength was transferred to the support of something immeasurable."
"I feel the same as you" I spoke after a mental self-introspection.
My siblings around me voiced their agreement feeling the same weight. "Mother had spoken of us bearing the responsibility of this lifeless sky not falling on her body. She had said that we bear the duty of keeping the balance of the world. Maybe it is what she meant" Phoebe thought out loud.
"In the end, it doesn't matter. No matter the adversities that come, I know that as long as you are all with me, I have nothing to worry about. It's kinda ironic, for me an oath breaker to say this but" Kronos' gaze swept all over his siblings "Can I hold you on the promise of you never leaving me?" I asked them.
"We followed you against a primordial brother and didn't betray you when it was the most idiotic and suicidal possible action for any of us here. We'll follow you brother into the ushering of a new age" said Hyperion.
"I see". I felt a smile stupid bloom on my face. "How stupid of me. Yes." I turned showing my back to the adoring crowd to fix my gaze on all my siblings. "Let's make a new age brighter and better than the one of Ouranos. Let's make a golden age." I Proclaimed.
The entirety of my gaze fell on Rhea. I wanted to say so much but instead, he said this "You were given a crown. You have a place amongst us if you wish you to".
"Why not" the goddess answered. "I can not wait to see what golden age you bring Forth Kronos" She whispered my name at the end.
With the world kneeling before me, me bearing the weight of a crown, surrounded by his family, under a false sky my golden age began.
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