"Why are you here?" Hades ask.

"I came to take your pet. She's causing more trouble than she's worth."

Ouch

" What trouble could she possibly be causing?" Hades laughs.

"Do you know how many women I've had knocking on my door?" Zeus says exasperated,"Way too many."

"Cry me a river." Hades says,"It can't be more than your usual string of whores. How's Hera by the way?"

"You will keep my wife out of this?" Zeus threatens.

"And you'll keep mine out of it." Hades says just as threatening," She's staying here. End of discussion."

Zeus sighs,"I honestly doubt you won't tire of her."

"The only thing I'm tired of right now is your voice." Hades says sitting down,"So if that's all then I'd like you to leave."

He sighs but can obviously tell he's been defeated," Before I go, I actually did come here to warn you."

"What is it?"

"It's Cronus."

That got his attention.

"What about him?"

"I've heard rumors of an underground group working to bring back the Titans, him included."

"Impossible." Hades scowls," The titans are put in in a hole so deep that you can't even hear their screams of pain and I've put Cronus in the deepest parts of Tartarus no one could access that part without my permission."

"What about Rhea." Zeus inquires.

Hades freezes,"What about her?"

"I don't recall her being imprisoned in Tartarus with the others."

"She had no crimes."

"Bullshit." Zeus booms,"She is the only way any of this could happen. I say we put her right beside her husband."

"Do you know the torture I have laid out for him? She doesn't deserve that."

"She might now, but I won't risk everything I have just because you have a soft spot for dear old mother."

Hades growls and slams his fist down shaking the whole room,"Get out now!"

"Don't say I didn't warn you." And with that... he's gone.

The room falls into an uncomfortable silence and I can visibly see Hades shaking with anger.

"Are you okay?" I say slowly walking up to him placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I will not under any circumstances let my father be risen...we have to go see my mother." He says more to himself than me.

"Your mother? Hades what's going on?"

He looks at me for a moment before sighing,"Many, Many, years ago, even before humans walked the earth, there was only a hand full of entities one of them being my grandmother, Gaia. She is known as the mother of life and through her mating with another entity, Uranus, the Titans were created."

"Titans?" I question taking a seat.

"They were the second generation of divine beings. In that group were my parents , Rhea and Cronus." He explains obviously distraught having to tell this story." My father had killed his father and took over as the supreme ruler. This was the beginning of the golden age of mankind because you were thriving and procreating like never before.

He continues," It foretold that the children of Cronus would overthrow him and take his ruling, so to prevent this, he did the only thing he thought reasonable. He swallowed them."

That caught me off guard,"Swallowed them....?'

A small smile graces his lips,"Yes, darling, Swallowed. Take into consideration that the Titans were giants, but short compared to the original beings, and that it is nearly impossible to kill a god if he couldn't kill his children then swallowing them seemed like the next best choice."

Realization dawned on me,"You said he was your father so that means..."

He nods,"I spent a good part of my younger days trapped with my other brothers and sisters."

"How are you here now?"

"That's where my mother comes in." He smiles," She was so torn between her husband and her children that by her last child she finally learned, and sent him off to be raised in Crete where he was nourished protected and educated."

"Zeus?" I guess.

He nods in confirmation," When he finally grew to age, he came and poison Cronus and forced him to cough us back up. Cronus was furious and waged war on us, the Olympians. We, of course, after ten years, won and I banished all the Titans to a prison here in Hades called Tartarus. This prison is a prison made especially for torture that would cause the world's most careless sinner to beg for god to save him."

"What about your mother, Zeus said she wasn't there."

"She isn't." He says,"She helped us all she could so I placed her in the only place that I know she'd be safe from Zeus, or any other olympian that might want revenge."

"Wow." I Say slightly overwhelmed by all this new information,"That's quite a story."

"It's one I try to forget about, but trust me there's more, but none of it actually matters to what we're about to do, so you don't need to know."

"Will you tell me later?" I ask starving for information ever since my book was taken away.

"I promise, but right now we must go see my mother, because if there's any truth to what Zeus says then she'll know about it."

"Where did you put her?"

"A place called the Elysium fields. Close your eyes."

"What, why?" I question.

"Just do it."

I sigh but do as I'm told. I feel a quick gust of the wind and the ground below my feet feels softer than usual.

"You can open your eyes now."

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Hey guys,

So wow, a lot of information was given in this chapter, but I had to get it out of the way so that as I move forward with the story, you're not confused because I didn't give you the information you needed to understand.

Even though there wasn't much plot extension in this chapter, I really liked it because I got to write about greek mythology and I love writing and learning about it, but I did add some of my own twists to make sure that it went along the story but most of it is the actual myth.

I'll probably update again tomorrow or Friday.

~June