1 Chapter 1: Regret

It should not have ended up this way, Chronos thought, standing on a cliff that overlooked the devastation that had fallen upon what was once a paradise.

The sky was lined with dark, gray clouds that had only a few minutes ago produced great streaks of lighting. Large craters littered the land. Almost all of the vegetation had been reduced to ash. The creatures that had remained hidden during the conflict had come out. They looked around and started to take note of what had befallen their homes. They knew it would take hundreds of years for the plants to grow back.

Gaia, the Goddess of Nature, could be seen amidst them, trying to quell their anger.

"Everything is going to return to normal now that the war is over," Neko said, trying to comfort her master.

"Not everything," Chronos replied, looking behind him at the graves of his fellow gods, remembering their sacrifice for their cause. Though he had not been particularly close to any of them, he would miss their presence.

"You could easily bring them back," she proposed.

"That would be against the law," Chrono forced himself to say.

"You do not have to follow the Almighty's rules anymore, he is no longer our king."

"They are not the Almighty's rules," he said, starting to walk the stone path back to his half-destroyed mansion, "they are the rules of Heaven."