Freedom & Reunion

Zeus was both excited and scared, though he would never admit the latter. He knew that he only had this one chance at freeing his siblings even without the insight of Metis, his childhood friend which he had developed feelings. He had trained for centuries upon the back of Gaia, planning, and plotting, alongside the few allies he had against his Father's throne.

Which soon would be his throne.

"Zeus" The voice of Metis called out from behind him "It is time" Zeus looked at her, brunette hair, eyes that resembled the ocean, and a body that truly belonged to a divine being. But she looked much better when she had exited the water. "Zeus, are you listening to me?" He shook his head, he would have time later, now he should focus on the task ahead, "Yes I am, let us move you said that we don't have much time after all"

His mirth caused her to scoff but he could see the tiny smile forming in her kissable lips. But she was right they need to move, after all, he has his plan, by freeing his siblings they would be indebted to him, which would make his ascension to the throne much easier if the Titans were all defeated.

His siblings would all gratefully bow to him, and he would then crown himself their king, yes everything would go according to plan.

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Metis and he had managed to sneak in Othrys, and poison Cronos drink with a special poison so that he would vomit all that he had eaten as well, and since Cronos remained in his Titan form after devouring his first child, meant that when he vomited an ocean of stomach acid was now present in the halls Mount Othrys.

Zeus and Metis did not waste time, they had to find Zeus siblings before the King of The Titans managed to recover himself, even if the Scythe he used against his father Ouranos had been destroyed when they fought Cronos was still a formidable fighter and having absorbed some of the primordial energies of the weapon after it was destroyed made him stronger than he was before.

It didn't take long for them to find them, and their reaction was interesting.

"Oh, this stinks!" A beautiful woman with long aubergine hair and cyan-blue eyes exclaimed as she tried to obfuscate the small by covering her nose and mouth. "I have to agree with Hera on this, this is disgusting" Another woman this one with blonde hair that shone when hit by the light of Helios and jade-green eyes, agreed.

"I don't find this that bad" A man with long brunette hair and short beard said, and truly it seemed that he liked being covered in stomach acid. "You only say that because you swim in it!" The aubergine woman accused him, which he promptly refused "That is not true!" Before the two could start to argue, the golden-haired woman shouted at them.

"Enough you two! Brother, sister, can you two please clean us" It was just then that both Zeus and Metis had noticed the other two members of the little party. For the first time in his life, Zeus could truly say that he was jealous.

There were two a man and a woman. The man had skin that looked like snow, he has yellow eyes, his hair is long and black as the night, some of the wicks in the front cross over his face, the upper part is shaking thanks to the wind, the rest is smooth and shed. The woman had long red hair and amber eyes, and an aura of kindness and understanding surrounded her, though Zeus was too focused on her body to notice that.

A pulse of divine power rang out and steam arose from the three, Zeus decided that this was the right moment to introduce himself and Metis to his siblings. Pulling Metis with him, she seemed to be fixated on the unknown man much to his annoyance, he would have to properly introduce himself to his siblings so that they would follow him and crown him king.

It was then that the black-haired one looked up and then left and right as if he was looking for something. "Brother, what is it?'' The red-haired beauty asked him "Someone is watching us," Zeus quickly grabbed Metis this was the perfect opportunity to introduce himself. "That would be us"

All of them looked in his direction before the one with a beard asked "And who are you?" Zeus wanted to say that he was their leader but decided to save that later "I can explain everything, but we must leave now, because of well him" He pointed at the still vomiting Cronos who was slowly but surely starting to recover from the poison Metis made him ingest.

They were about to protest before the black-haired one said to them "Calm down all of you," He then looked at Zeus "We shall follow you, after all, if that is who I think it is then we should follow you" Zeus eyes slightly widened before going back to their normal state, how did he know that the Titan was Cronos? No that was not important they have to escape and fast if not his efforts would have been in vain.

He quickly led them to one of the secret passageways of the home of the Titans, and from there they made it to the outside world.

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Rhea was scared. Zeus, her youngest, had returned from the protection of Gaia and had made his intentions clear to her. She felt no love for Cronos anymore, seeing her children getting swallowed, again and again, had made her bitter and cold, each time Cronos ate one of their children he would come upon her in her grieving state, he promised that he would free them that it was a mistake. And she like the fool that she was believed him and then they made love.

Unsurprisingly it had been a lie, and Cronos had never freed them from his stomach, even more, his rule which before was joyous was now fearful, the Titans feared Cronos now, even mighty Atlas feared him, for after absorbing the leftover energies of his scythe he had become one of the greatest of the titans. His powers be they magical or physical had been bolstered to an unknown degree.

The court of Cronos was now a place where no children (Especially newborns) were allowed to go, for their parents feared that he would devour them as well, and they all became desperate when Cronos talked about them.

It wasn't fair, why did this have to happen? If she could go back in time, she would have left the domain of the Titans together with her firstborn.

It was then that she heard the ruffle of leaves, and from the bushes walked Zeus but her gaze wasn't centered on him or Metis his ever-present companion, but on the five figures that walked out of it, their gaze was both curious and cautious as the saw for the first time how the outside world looked like, but one was not focused on the ground or the trees and the blue sky, his gaze was focused solely on her. It was then that the memories assaulted her.

Getting frustrated how her child continued with their games inside her womb.

The joy and panic as her water broke.

The feeling of motherhood as she held her firstborn.

The despair as she watched her child be eaten by his father.

''I know you" Three simple words brought her out of the memory loop "What?" She asked confused, and not daring to hope that he remembered her, for it was simply impossible that he remembered his wasn't even an hour old when he was devoured. "I remember you, I remember playing with your hair"

She didn't even hesitate and hugged her son, and bawled her eyes out.

"Hey, what did you do to her?"

"I did nothing Hera"

She chuckled before pulling out of the hug. Oh, how wrong he was. For the fact that he remembered those sweet precious moments, they shared when he came to the world was the happiest she felt in a long time, the others didn't see to remember them which made her sad but she was still happy that she could look at all of them, even if she had not raised them.

"Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon" She named each one of them only Hades didn't seem surprised that she knew their names, he must remember when she talked with Atlas about his name, "I am your mother"

To say the future Olympians were shocked was an understing.

Hestia was the first to move towards her and then the others did so as well, they were curious she knew that they would have questions, she knew that she knew all of that and many more.

Then she felt Hestia hug her, then her Hades, Demeter, Hera, and Poseidon, tears rolled down her cheeks but these weren't tears of sadness but of happiness.