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06: Titanomachy (I)

(A/N: I am going to try to write the gods names and others like in the Percy Jackson books)

Mountains were ravaged, the earth full of craters made by their fight, some parts of the earth had magma and ice, new rivers were created by the shear impact of ##### #### and ##### #####. (A/N: Well, I guess everyone knows who they are… the suspense was not one)

On a broken mountain was a gigantic great sword with should weight tons, this sword had been through a fight or many, this could be seen and the marks and dent.

On this ravaged place two beings stood with their body painted with ichor, both were abnormally large, one was 20 meters tall (approximately 65 feet) he was a bulky "man" with a Greek beard and the also typical Greek long haircut, his hair was brown, his eyes, however, were made of a bright and bloody red.

In front of him stood a younger-looking god with a lean body shape, his silver hair with a tint of purple reaching till his neck. His skin was a bit pale and looked untouched if it wasn't for ichor flowing out of it and "him" being in the middle of what could only be described as the aftermath of a natural disaster, on his forehead stood a plant mark which normally should have been purple and black, had currently golden drops on it. His previous white and golden "military" jacket was now shredded which showed his perfectly "tailored" body, full of muscle but not being too bulky.

After an intense staring contest, the two divines were charged, making the whole panorama quake under the power contained by those two abnormally.

(Sometime before that)

The Titanomachy had now truly begun, this war a war over the dominion of the Greek Pantheon. The war consisted of Gods and Titans, on one side were Kronos children, namely Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus, on the other side were the twelve original Titans, children of Ouranos, namely Coeus, Crius, Kronos, Hyperion, Lapetus, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Phoebe, Tethys, Theia, minus Themis and Rhea, and finally Atlas who despite not being one of the original Titan is the strongest Titan concurring Kronos himself.

This was a battle that would go in the annal of history, a war that would change the course of history, a fight that would ravage the earth, as well as the time when the gods would rise, and most Titans fall. The gods and their allies knew they could and would win for "Fate" itself said that the children of Kronos would dethrone him if it would later be better that they didn't know, only hope. The Titans had faith in their ruler who killed Ouranos, a primordial, they had faith in his power which scared them for their entire life, and his ruthlessness that made the Titans reconsider rebelling, his power over time, a concept feared even by "immortals".

The gods were armed by the cyclops and so had the advantage in weaponry, the Titans however were much older and had lived through many conflicts, granting them the advantage in experience. The titans started by attacking many "weak" beings that had allied themselves with the gods, they tortured them for information, killed all that were in their ways if mortals, and imprisoned all "immortals". They started the fight even though the gods, the "rebels", hadn't even finished preparing themselves, by doing so they took the advantage by leading the fights and breaking the will of their enemies.

The gods however contrary to the Titans didn't directly start by wanting "big" fights powerhouse from each side, they needed to gain experience in battles, military, and in using their powers, their "divinity", having many soldiers they fought smaller battalions with minor gods and in general "weak" beings on their side fighting with quantity against quality. The major gods fought the Titan's commanders alone, growing stronger in each battle.

The fights ravaged the earth, lakes turned into rivers, and the high mountains were reduced in size, while some were completely broken, stones turned into dust, and forests turned into deserts. The earth took a much "modern" shape compared to before, tsunamis surged from the shockwaves of war, and the plates seismic shook making enormous earthquakes, which in a modern city would have completely ravaged buildings.

While on the Titan's side the ambiance was "good", yes there had been defeats and the gods grew stronger, but they were still motivated by all this, they could also feel the ambiance on the gods' side which was "bad". Most of them had never lived through wars and were a bit "weak" mentally. The earth even under Kronos' rule was "green", nature lived, and if most stayed on a corner of an island and didn't mind themselves then there wouldn't be many problems, "naïve", or "failed to recognize mount tai" could be used to represent them.

Conflicts also grew, the major gods, except Hades and Hestia, became arrogant, they believed their power to be "absolute", their personalities became "too much", and they started to "bow down" to their desire and became consumed by them. Their personalities became "crazy" because of the war, Zeus started seeing himself as King above all, as if Kronos truly ruled the cosmos, as if Kronos was on the level of God, Chaos, Brahma, etc, hell primordials were stronger than him. Zeus was delusional and so were the other Greek gods, even Hestia, the only one who was still "realistic" was Hades, he was however feared by his siblings' subordinates and themselves, they all distanced themselves from him except his trusted and loyal subordinates. His mother herself didn't love him as much as Zeus, whom Hades named Peng clan's young master, he was like his father and would become a tyrant she thought while seeing Zeus and Poseidon rape as minor things that amuse her kids in their "childhood".

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