Zeus had gathered his thoughts on preventing the coming disasters. Both he and Hades could only handle so much at a time, and even if they could stop the greater of the Titans, they wouldn't be able to overthrow Kronos alone. Zeus seized his shimmering lightning bolt and held it in his hands. "We are losing our power" he muttered, as Hades walked into the room. "Within a month our strength will have been silenced" he finished.
"Then that is our deadline," Hades bluntly replied. "My pitchfork, it feels old and heavy, though how I do not know." He showed his rusty weapon to Zeus, who could see his brother straining under its weight. "There is only one forger I ever trusted to craft my weapons, and I will find him. Our weapons must be mighty in the coming battle." Zeus looked at Hades with a puzzled expression. "You know of whom I speak?"
"Hephaestus of course, but I do not understand," Zeus said, staring down at his weapon. "My son is dead." Hades smirked at his brothers' sadness.
"There are things even you cannot see" Hades stated. "Before you ordered me captured I bribed my nephew into forging me a new weapon, one to control the Gods." Zeus looked at him in disgust. Noticing his brothers' unhappiness, Hades continued. "However he declined, and so I imprisoned him in the Underworld to be tortured. It was then that an army of monstrous giants stormed my dominion, and threatened my rule. Realising this I fled, and before I did I sent Hephaestus back to his volcano, to prepare."
"To prepare?" Zeus asked, piecing together the parts.
"For this" Hades replied.
"Your telling me you thought to order my son to craft new armour for us, should we need it? That is clever brother, but unlike you" he frowned.
"We all have our reasons Zeus, for now mine is simply to survive, whatever the personal cost." Hades answer was unsettling, but Zeus had trusted him, and in this hour of need, he hoped he had made the right decision.
"So shall we find Hephaestus before we are starved of our power?" Zeus mocked. Hades bowed, then issued for Zeus to follow.
"I trust you are familiar with my sneaky methods of disappearing brother. I remember I fooled you several times in the past." Zeus shrugged in confusion. "I can get us to the entrance with one click of my hand." Zeus stepped to Hades side.
"Shall we?" Zeus beckoned. Hades gripped his brother tightly on the shoulder, and then snapped his fingers, forming a cloud of blackness around them. Within several seconds, the Gods had vanished, and Olympus was vacated.
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The Last Gods of Olympus
FantasyThe Gods of Olympus have been annihilated and now only two remain. The greatest God of all, Zeus, and his sinister brother, Hades. Around the world dark forces are escaping their imprisonment, and only the two brothers, despite their infinite diffe...
