1 The Breaking of Hourglass

In the dark room

Tik..tok..Tik..tok..

The old pendulum clock making a ticking sound.

In the room the only source of light is fire from the kiln that usually can be found only in blacksmith work place, and the large workbench where a man stood in front of it.

A man wearing a blacksmith attire and a bird-like gas mask is standing in front of a messy workbench, atop the table are some crystal like stone of various sizes and colors, thick cords, various types of mechanical gears, and toolboxes.

The man is fiddling around with an head sized object that shapes like a pocket watch. He taking some crystal, some cord, and tools from the toolboxes.

"YES!!!.. HAHAHAHAHA!!" the man suddenly laughing, "Finally..finally, after hundreds of years of research, and countless of rare materials wasted, my masterpiece is finally became reality.. HAHAHAHAHA!! Let's activate you my precious." the man said out loud in an muffled voice caused by the mask he's wearing while he start pressing the middle of the pocket watch that shapes like an hourglass, there is a little spark that ignited between his finger and the middle of the pocket watch.

BANG

Suddenly the door opened, and a person came in a hurried manner.

"Husband, we must leave right now!" the woman said, there is a hint of panic in her voice. With a face so beautiful even when she showing a panic expression. The flowing red hair, charming crimson eyes, jade-like fair skin, supple hands, proportional chest, and long legs, added with tight golden scales leather armor, skin tight long pants and high heels boots with wing decorations on each boots.

"My wife, Sabrina. Why are you so panic? what is going on outside?" the man replied, while opening his bird-like mask showing a androgynous looking face, although he had black eye bag under his eyes, and messy, dirty , and unkept black long hair. It still can't hide his charming face.

"Don't you know? Your elder brother Fulminus is usurping your father throne" said Sabrina.

"WHAT?" said the man with a shocked expression.

"Why my brother rebelling?, he is the firstborn, the heir of our father Prime God of Time, why in the world would he rebell?" the man continue "How is our situations? do the guards is not in front of the door? hmmm..How did you open the door?" after a brief thought he added, because this is his private workplace, lab, and his most guarded rooms, even his father must first send his voice massage using communication magic tool to contact him when he came down to his place. So why did his wife can enter like nothing happen, although he love his wife this is still his most heavily guarded place with his private man of sacrifice guards, mechanical magic gears golems, and a security protocol outside the door.

'Why does she is here without contacting me?'

He thought in his mind.

Suddenly

STAB

a dagger tip is protruding from his left chest.

"Stupid, do you think I can't get in?" she said while pulling out the dagger and show it to him,

"Do you know what this dagger is?" she continues.

"I..im.. impossible!..Violet Shadow!!... that thi.. thing supposed to be destroyed.. why you have it?" he said while slamming into the floor and coughing mouthful of blood.

"hehehe... so you know about this my dear husband. That's right this dagger is Violet Shadow, a dagger with the most insidious poison in our Ancient Greek Plasma World, even your father is helpless with it's corroding poison that can corrode any matter and energy." she said while giggling.

"You!!.. insidious...woman"

'Dammit.. Violet Shadow poison is almost impossible to detoxify without immediate treatment, even with Time Arc Divine Chapter...haaa.. is this the end for me?'

he sighed inside.

"Good bye, my dear..hahahaha. Your brother will take good care of me like he always did while you stupidly believe that I married you because of love. Let me tell you, our marriage is always a part of grand plans made by your brother Fulminus for culling all potential threat after he ascend to the throne. Hehehe.. consider this your farewell gift to the Netherworld, if you want revenge just do it if you reincarnate, HA! even our ancestors great gods can't do that. Goodbye my naive husband" she said while crouching and kissing his Temple and taking his leave out from the dark room.

"Cough... cough... is this..the end of my.. my life?, after.. cough.. all those time I pour into my research.. for the family... brother how could you do that?.. are all.. those smile and memories of our family.. is.. nothing for you" he said weakly while coughing another mouthful of blood, unbeknownst to him the gear that he created, his proudest masterpiece is start moving, the clock hands is start rotating. The surface of this head sized pocket watch is full of ancient runes, with glittering golden colors, in the middle of the watch is core that he got from his father collections after he pleads for it and did all kinds of contribution to his family did his father gave him. His father said that this core supposedly from inside of Titan of Time Chronos, that is also why they take the middle name Cronus, it signify that they are the descendants from the mighty Titan, their ancestor is created from the Titan blood and flesh after the Great gods defeated the Titans, like many other great families.

The pocket watch is start glowing brighter and brighter, until he notice it by the corner of his eyes, "What..is happening? I thought..I.. didn't get to activate it, well I did it after all.. hehe..he.. at least i.. can see if my research is feasible or.. just.. a fantasy. Let's see if crossing time and space can be done, even if that is the last thing I see before I die" he said with mosquito like voice, caused by his dying body and pointing at the pocket watch, suddenly his voice is like a thunderclap, reverberate in the sky heard by all that in the territoy of Hourglass family "I'll give you a name and also all my Time energy.. with my dying breath... I.. Deamos Cronus... Hourglass, bestow you a name with all my Time energy, I call you... Divine Gear The Passing of Hourglass•Kairos Spitha" this is an ancient ritual of bestowing divine gear, after he said that all his blood essence and Time energy condensed into a drop of golden blood and foating and melting into the newly birth divine gear Kairos Spitha, after that his hand falls into the floor. The once great euridite, the saint sage breathed his last breath.

"Haaa.. father I am going to accompany you in the Netherworld, brother why?" with that he closed his eyes.

Atop the table the pocket watch Kairos Spitha is trembling and glowing so bright, "AAAAAAAAAHHH!!" it wailed so loud anyone that hears it can feel it's deep sorrow, after its birth, it's creator and can be called it's father died. It flying into Deamos body, after that it glows brighter and brighter even the room can contain it's light. The light penetrated the building and glows so bright that everyone in the territory can see it's light. And then the light gone like it never exist in the first place, if not that the building is gone leaving behind only a crater that spans over thousand miles as the evidence it exist only in a blink of an eye, like a flikering spark.

At the same time Hourglass Castle.

From the entrance of the castle blood flows like a river in spans to the inner castle, and to the throne room.

A tall man with an heavy glowing armor, the armor can't hide his defined muscle, every inch of his body is like an art, perfectly formed, handsome and manly face, his hair stand like a lion mane, and holding a bloody gigantic sword. This man is Fulminus Cronus Hourglass, the firstborn of Xemnez Cronus Hourglass, elder brother of Deamos Cronus Hourglass.

He stand in front of a throne and an aged man sitting lifelessly at the throne with diagonal slash wound from his right shoulder to his left chest. After the ritual of bestowing done by Deamos, he looked outside and sighed "Father, brother. I am sorry, this is all necessary, farewell brother".