Long Live The King.

Following the night he released, Maulketh decided to get some business out of the way. The Open House would be in 3 days, and the most important one was here in New York.

Currently, he, Celestine, Astrid, and Grimnar were back at his old stolen home. They were on the roof as Maulketh gazed up at the Empire State Building.

Though his Dragon Eyes were looking past the magic used to hide Mount Olympus. That giant Moutain in the sky would soon belong to him. Astrid grinned showing all of the bear-like teeth in her mouth.

Her human-form mouth usually looked like a human, but when she bared her teeth it showed the beast-like teeth she had.

"So, how are we doing this? We rush straight in and you rip Zeus from his throne?"

Maulketh smiled as he explained.

"Yes, and no. Here is the thing, you three are linked to my soul, making you my Honor Guard. You know what my life was before what you see now. I was an Assassin so, why not assasinate the greatest of Kings, a god."

Hearing his plan made the three of them look at each other. Celestine spoke up her thoughts.

"So you plan to assassinate Zeus in one strike. With their King dead you will take his throne making you the new King right?"

He nodded.

"Correct, however, just killing Zeus in one strike would not feed my pride, it would be like crushing an insect. So, I will cripple him in one move, and as I do so, you three will move in with force. I will return to my true form and consolidate my control over the mountain.

Though, do try to keep destruction to a minimum, that will be my mountain very soon. Ddraig, Albion, anything to add."

[Not really. I never liked Zeus or the Greek gods very much. But here is something you should know, he who controls the thrones of the Olympians, controls the Olympians.]

{True. This will be a good way to get your name out into the world, the Dragon Emperor of Tyranny, Conquerer of Mount Olympus, and killer of Zeus.}

Maulketh looked at his three familiars who were more than ready to follow him.

"Come, let's show the world why Dragons are the strongest. You three attack from the front, I will move in from the back. You will know I am done once I return to my dragon form. Let's move."

Instantly Maulketh teleported them onto Mount Olympus near the entrance of the Elevator in the Empire State Building. Once they arrived here, Grimnar, Astrid, and Celestien in explosions of power returned to their massive forms.

In order from smallest to biggest, the three of them lined themselves up and they all unleashed their Draconic Domains. Celestine's Domain was a clash of Heat and Cold from her Water and Fire affinities.

With this, she could use water in all its extremes, to either fuel her flames with Oxygen and Nitrogen or superheat water into vapor clouds. Grimnar's Domain went with his three lineages, his Hell Hound Linage gave it pain-inducing powers, his Cerberus side gave him necrotic powers and his Draconian one increased all of this to the extreme.

Astrid's was the perfect representation of the Volcano, Lava, Fire, Heat, Pressure, Ash, all of this was in her Domain. And three overlapping domains all their power spread over Mount Olympus alerting to the attack.

As for Maulketh, he began to partially transform, but not all the way. Black burning scales covered his limbs, body, and parts of his face. He moved faster than Light itself and silently. No one could catch even a single one of his moves.

He moved like a predator toward the prey he had set his sights on. Without even a shred of resistance, he made his way to the front of the Palace where Zeus ruled from. He looked in the distance as the army of the Greek Gods began to face his three familiars.

The three of them were working as one which showed that once dragons worked together, no one could stand against them. He bent down and rushed inside the palace like a specter. He could feel the Thrones nearby, Zeus, Hermes, and Hera were inside.

However, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephestus, Athena, Aphrodite, Persephone, Poseidon, and Demeter, were absent. It seemed Ares, Athena, and Hestia had been busy bringing the gods to their side.

He grinned as he ran on the walls to get to the throne room. He spread his senses out into the room and saw that out of 12, thrones, only three were occupied. Leavetine appeared in his right hand, but in an instant, his giant sword shrunk down into a pair of curved assassin daggers.

His favored weapon in the past, he jumped down from the wall and walked inside the throne room. When Hera, Zeus, and Hermes laid eyes on him they had different reactions. Hermes had pure loathing in his gaze, as the messenger god, he knew what his son was going through.

The Furies were torturing him day and night and he could do nothing about it. Hera on the other hand did not have any hatred for him, only indiffrence could be felt by her. As for Zeus, he was gritting his teeth so hard that they almost broke.

In his right hand, he was holding his lightning bolt and he wore a suit of Greek War armor. Maulketh began to grind his two knives against each other as he gazed at the Lord of the Sky.

"Zeus, it's been so long."

Zeus stood up from his throne and he looked down at Maulketh as he was in his giant form.

"What is the meaning of this Dragon?"

Maulketh did not answer as he vanished and appeared in the blindspot of Zeus. He sliced out a total of 33 times and cut the spinal cord of the god into each of its individual parts.

Golden Ichor leaked out from his back as the god went limp still very much alive. A blood-curdling scream left the crippled god as Maulketh stood over his chest. He was still awake, and alive as a god would not die that easily.

He pointed one of his knives at Hera.

"Hera, be a dear and step out. You I have no animosity with."

Hera sighed and did as he said. She stepped off her throne and began to walk out of the room. Before she stepped out she turned around and as the goddess of Mariage, Divorce was her domain as well.

She only did not divorce Zeus out of fear that he would punish her as he had done so before.

"Zeus, consider your self divorced."

Instantly the marriage between Zeus and Hera was broken as she walked out. Zeus stayed limp as a rag as he watched her leave.

"NO!"

Maulketh grinned as he reached out and picked up the Lightning of Zeus.

"Hermes, swear on your Divinity that you will serve me, now."

Hermes refused.

"I would rather die than serve you. Because of you my son suffers eternal torment."

Hearing that made Maulketh sigh.

"They never take the mercy option, do they? Fine."

Maulketh waved his hand and in that second Hermes was reduced to a meatball of golden flesh. It was still alive and everything so he placed it in his spatial ring. With that out of the way, Maulketh looked down at Zeus.

"We have some time before I kill you."

Zeus grit his teeth as his back tried to regenerate, but the weapon used caused it to be almost impossible.

"Why? I never offended you."

Maulketh shook his head as he laughed.

"Oh, Zeus. Here is the thing, I am not doing this because you are a rapist, not because you are a terrible father, not for all the evil acts you have done. Not even because you are a god, no. I am doing all of this, for one simple reason.

You are simply in my way, Olympus will be mine from this day. But if I had to say what motivated me to do this, I guess it would be that I did not get paid in full for returning your stupid lighting.

I should have eaten it then and there, but no. I expected you to pay me in full as your brothers did, but no. Your brother Poseidon gave me a dragon's egg, some of his blood, and special materials. Hades fed my Hoard, gave me treasures of his realm and all I got from you was gold and Celestial Bronze.

Something I got on mass from your brothers. So, consider this, your retribution."

Maulketh returned his daggers to its true form. He held the Lightning Bolt in his teeth as he reached down toward Zeus' chest. He drove his clawed hand into the god's chest and searched around for a bit as golden blood and steam left the injury.

In that same movement, he ripped out Zeus' Divine Spark causing Zeus to begin to turn moral. Yet, Maulketh did not let him die, he kept death at bay causing Zeus to choke on his own ichor.

Maulketh stabbed his giant blade into Zeus' chest and left it there as the sword began to devour the ichor, flesh, and Zeus' soul. As for Maulketh, he unhinged his jaws and in one go swallowed the large Lightning Bolt and the Divine Spark.

When both reached his gut, his Principle of Tyranny and his body both began to absorb the power of both. As that happened he walked toward the Throne of Zeus. He looked at the throne that once belonged to Zeus who lay dying, but not allowed to pass on by the sword who devoured him.

Maulketh climbed on to the giant throne and took his seat on it. When he did so, the throne was set on fire as it's regal and golden color dyed. It was replaced by what seemed burning black steel, and his control over Mount Olympus was consolidated.

All of the magical arrays became his and the Divinity of Zeus he ate began to try to turn him into the new god of Lightning and the Sky.

However he rejected such a thing as becoming a god for a dragon did not need an element. It needed a concept like Infinity, and Dreams. Good thing he had something on that level.

Instead of accepting the role as god of Thunder and the Sky he drained the Divine Spark and began to fill it with his Principle of Tyranny. This was just the first step of becoming a Dragon God, but it would give him a Divine Spark, a path to god hood.

When the Divine Spark was full, it instantly split and entered each of his hearts.

It's power flowed through his body giving him the key to transcend his mortality. This tiny shard of a Greek god was no where near strong enough to let him become a Dragon God.

However, it was the key he needed to raise his Principle to a Divinity.

'What a pleasant turn of events.'

He unleashed his Domain through the entirety of the Mountain. The entire army of Zeus instantly lost all their power along with crushing any resistance to his three familiars.

Maulketh stood up from the throne and began to return to his true form. The Palace split down the middle and moved out of his way as he returned to his true form.

He raised his head high and released a roar that carried his Principle of Tyranny with it. All Dragons heard it from Earth and the Underworld.

That roar carried an order with it.

"Gather."

He had given his order, and Dragon Kind would obey. Astrid, Grimnar, and Celestine gathered around him as he gave his roar.

The three of them had only loyalty in their minds. When he stopped roaring he spread his giant wings casting a shadow on the entire mountain.

"From this day, I and Dragon Kind rule Olympus. Submit, or perish."

(When I get home from work, I will give it a reread to fix it up.)