The outside world seemed to have forgotten that an abnormality had even appeared the past days or so. A physically endowed white bearded fellow stood out from his surroundings. He was too ethereal, the aura hovering around him centered around his being, he was literally anchored to the actual survivability of the whole universe(like in the whole literal sense). And mind you the white beard had nothing to do with age, maybe... His body carried a lot of vigor, the muscles visible through the helm of his clothes carrying untold might. This should have been the untold might of a thousand oxen. Lightning flickered through his eyes, carrying the solemnity of a supreme ruler.
His mind was weighted, by a multitude of thoughts able to cover the entire cosmos. His brother wasn't content with staying in Hades, the loathsome fellow wanted to take over heaven too. Then he had recently heard of some conspiracy that Poseidon was cooking. A turbulent aura was setting upon them, but not enough to faze him in the slightest.
"To think these kids want to usurp me!! Laughable!! And then those mortals!" Zeus reminisced.
Recently the mortals, those laughable creatures of Prometheus had become a very loathsome race. They did nothing. No working, no respect for the gods. Nothing...totally unbearable. A certain mortal had even dared to court Hera.
"I've to put these sleazy creatures in their place!" He vehemently affirmed
*Krrrrr*
Springing Zeus from his wicked plans and thoughts, the door to his room was pushed open by an otherworldly beauty. Her looks so heaven defying that every man crawling the earth was sure to be awestruck. Her eyes were piercing, carrying an intellect beyond the ages. The spring in her walking gait so authentic, most likely where models learnt their moves from, though lacking the authority inundated in her mere being.
"Hey dear daddy!!" a coquettish voice only heard from a spoilt brat left her lips.
Zeus just rolled his eyes. It did not take an intelligent individual to know that she was here to steal from him. He inwardly lamented. Who would have known that the mightiest being in the cosmos... The king of the gods!! The wielder of the lightning bolt, was currently about to be blackmailed by his daughter...one he gave birth to himself...like really gave birth to himself!!
"Hmmm!! What do you want now?" Zeus exasperatedly lamented.
"Do you hate me that much daddy? You know I love you most!! My only parent!! I love you from Ge to Uranus!!"
Zeus could only shake his head. His daughter was really his weak point, he had irreparably spoilt her.. she was beyond saving. He could only pray for the man who would fall into her hands. He literally wondered which guy could convince her to fall in love with him whilst having the king of the universe as her dad. If it ever came to it he would only want an extremely mighty one... they needed to be mightier than his son Hercules at least.. talk about that brute, he hadn't even reached out to him all these past .....
"So Dad... I saw Ares with a new chariot!!! Then Prometheus refused to give me a new shield.. And Ohhh!! I'd forgotten ..I heard stepmom has been seeing some mor-"
Zeus ran to clutch his daughter's mouth, she really had no filter, imagine if anyone were to hear of such a scandal. But Zeus endeavored to affirm in his mind that he had to punish the mortals as a whole. This grievance could not be taken lying low. He, the God of the universe, was about to be cuckolded, by a mere mortal moreover .... truly laughable, unspoken even ...where'd he even hide his face now, then those brothers of his, waiting to jump on any part of the scandal to usurp his authority.. but no one would get the final laugh ....hihihi.... not with the plan he had just come up with
The mortal world had just been doomed by the uncensored words of a spoilt brat. Truly laughable!! Actually the immortal world itself wasn't any safer!!!
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Deep in the sunless bowels of the earth, where air tasted of ancient dust, forgotten sighs, and endless regret stood the palace of Hades—a monolithic sprawl of dark irreprehensible obsidian that gulped all light that dared to enter. A typical masterpiece of cold, silent grandeur, where every pillar carved from the very marrow of the world reeks of howling souls filled with sadness and every corridor echoed with the rhythmic, haunting drip of the Styx. No warmth or magnificence of the Olympus here, only the shimmering, deceptive beauty of veins of raw dark gold and un-cut gems slithering through the black stone walls like frozen lightning. High atop a dais of bone-white marble rests the throne of the Unseen One, a hegemon easily or maybe not easily forgettable in the annals of time, overlooking a court for eternity, where the rustle of pomegranate silk and the distant, melodic weeping of shadows who have long since forgotten their names.
"So Zeus thinks he deserves to control the world while I'm banished in this forsaken land... doomed to see the passage of time and cursed souls... He won't have the last laugh!! I, Hades, son Of Cronus and god of the underworld will have the last laugh .... hahaha!!" Hades continued in his hysterical madness tinged with crazed laughter.
How dare a man who cannot even put a leash on a shrew of his wife be more deserving of the throne than him.... pffft...how laughable!
"Only if that damned Poseidon sticks to the plan!" The sallow eyes of Hades even brightened at this point, everything was supposed to strictly go according to plan.
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The man of the hour in me groggily opened his baby eyes. My mind was all over the place, barely registering the recent eventualities that had left me iridescently dumbstruck. The entire voyage that I had just gone through now seemed so surreal. I even began to doubt if I hadn't imagined the whole thing... but alas. I had to see that nightmare inducing face again. I even wondered if he didn't have better things to do. Because all he had done so far is lurk around me. This damned dad Cronos!!