5 The Stomach of Cronos (III)

Time continued to pass in Cronos's stomach. Demeter grew into a beautiful, well-endowed, woman with hair that shone like the sun when hit with light, she possessed a reclusive personality that had a surprising backbone, through she wasn't like the same woman that would hold the entire world (or at least just Greece) hostage to get back with her child, at least not yet.

Demeter wore her emotions on her sleeve when talking with someone, she simply didn't know or care to hide her own emotions, fortunately as she was a goddess the chances of that backfiring are very low if she doesn't piss off wrong being.

Hades had also encouraged her to use her powers. Demeter as a future earth goddess already could control or create various amounts of plant life, how she had exactly managed to grow plants inside a stomach he did not know, but he wasn't going to complain especially because of the after-effects.

You see Hades had observed her using her powers, and something had clicked inside his head, three days later he could also control or create plant life.

That was how he realized how he could get new powers and how the being that sent him here said that he could potentially know anything, just watching another person (or Goddess in this case) could make him learn that power, of course, he was nowhere near the level of proficiency as Demeter, she was born with the power and so instinctively knew how to use it in all manners. But he could get there with time.

As time passed, his other siblings also arrived in their Father's stomach, Hera first then Poseidon, his feelings for the two were pretty straightforward. Hera suspiciously looked like her Blood of Zeus counterpart through more well-endowed her power was that of, manipulation and creation of air, just like with Demeter he felt something click inside his head and five days later he knew how to use it. She was also arrogant though not at the level that he found irritating.

Later came the little shit known as Poseidon, like Hades didn't know what he had done, but his younger brother was making every attempt to piss him off, whether by challenging him or attempted to insult him, in the first he easily defeated him, and the latter he just ignored as they were too childish for him to count as actual insults.

The reason was more simple than Hades would expect, which is why he didn't think of it or simply didn't bother with finding the reason. Poseidon was simply jealous that all his sisters seemed to only care for Hades, which is why he had attempted to fight against him. He was also jealous of his Brother's good looks which surpassed even him.

Through the fights, had been extremely one-sided and quick as Hades did not want to wound Poseidon, not for a sense of filial piety or anything like that, but because he would need Poseidon to win the war against the Titans, he also learned both water control and electricity from him, the first he could already potentially do since he could control ice, but the latter he couldn't do so before.

Of course, this only made Poseidon even more furious.

Then one day the stomach rumbled once more and from the throat came a white bundle, shadow tendrils arose to grab it and bring it to the gods below.

They were astounded to find that it wasn't another sibling but a piece of rock, but while they started to think what this meant, Hades nearly grinned in elevation, Zeus birth has happened, now it is only a matter of time before he is freed.