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"Finally," Maeron said looking at the face taking shape above him. "Nice to meet you, father,"
The voice of Maeron resounded in the place his tone light and mocking while the face of Zeus in the sky was full of anger.
"Release my son!" As the lips of the cloudy face of Zeus parted his booming voice resounded throughout the city.
The words of Maeron barely registered in his mind, and he took in the city's situation.
In an instant, he saw that the city was safe from the invasion happening all over the world.
At an instant, he saw bodies disintegrate in the temples, and a wave of panic filled his heart as he focused on his own temple.
The city was fine but the temple of the gods that were in flames.
His own temple, the temple where he had deployed his people, the temple where his mistress, the queen of Argos, had given birth to his child, was like all the other on fire, and he could feel the residue of energy of his people and of his lover and the mother of his child in the ruin of his temple.
"How dare you!"
The thunderclouds face of Zeus roared as the thunders and clouds reacted to his rage and started to fill the sky of Argos, he had rarely found himself in such a situation.
Typhoon had escaped, an invasion was unleashed, he could feel the peoples he had sent in Argos were dead, his beloved lover was dead, and their child was now in the hands of an unknowned enemy.
Everything was a mess and nothing was going well.
Zeus' patience had long run out, and the spreading dark cloud was a manifestation of that, yet he held back his fury.
"Stranger! Unhand my son at once or suffer my wrath!" the god booming voice resounded powerful and threatening
"Stranger, huh, tsk, how sad, you don't recognize your own son, well nothing stunning about that."
Maeron said with a shake of the head
"Anyway, No! You see, I am busy syphoning my dear little bro lightning source, so I can't in good conscience let him go, can I?"
Crackle,
A massive thunderbolt emerged from the clouds and smashed directly onto Maeron's body.
Boom
A massive Thunderbolt engulfed Maeron's figure before he could even end his sentence.
Surprisingly, that powerful thunderbolt was so precise that his arms holding the baby remained intact.
Other humans or normal gods would have had their bodies disintegrated by the sheer power of this attack.
Unfortunately Maeron was far from been a normal god.
"Well, that's what I call an attack." Maeron voice resounded from inside the Thunderbolt.
Woosh
With a step, he got out of the range of the attack, still holding the babe in his arms.
His hair was fried, his skin was charred black,and his clothes were torn and burned, yet he had a massive grin on his face.
The light emitted by his brother was still dimming slowly and surely.
"You really do care about your son, huh?" He said as another thunderbolt zipped toward him, but,
Woosh
Myron figures disappeared as he teleported a few meters away.
"Come to think about that you care a lot about your children. Well, most of your children, I should say."
He said before disappearing, avoiding another thunder attack, then another, and another.
Soon, a rain of thunderbolts poured onto the city as Zeus' relentless assault pursued Maeron everywhere he teleported.
"You did not care so much when you tried to kill me, dear father, how heartless of you,"
"Argh!" Zeus scream in frustration, has none of his attacks landed, is slowly dying in front of him, and he had never felt so powerless, all he could do was to continue his attack, hoping to slow down the process of Maeron extracting the baby's powers.
"Come on, try harder, father!"
"You are no son of mine!! Who are you!!" Zeus' thundering voice laced with hatred, fury, and exasperation resounded.
With a smile, Maeron's divine energy flared up, but this time that energy was different from his usual one.
It was bluer, softer like if it belonged to someone else, and soon it clicked.
"Metis!?"
Hearing your trouble and the cracked voice of his father, Nyron smiled with that twisted smile of his.
"Oh, so you still remember her energy, I thought you would have forgotten. So now you know who I am right... father"
"Impossible!"
For a moment, the sky and the world stood still, and the relentless barrage of attack that were the decimated part of the city finally stopped.
"Impossibly you say. I guess you would think that, after all, you killed my mother yourself when you swallowed." The coldness in Myron's voice seemed to freeze the atmosphere.
"But there is something that I don't understand." He asked seeming genuinely curious
"Did you not realize that something like that could happen when my sister left your body. And by my sister, I mean your precious Athena, I really wonder what I should do with her. Dilemma dilemma!"
While Myron was venting, Zeus' mind was in turmoil.
In front of him was his son, his firstborn son, the one destined to kill him, the one that he had with the first woman he ever loved, the one that he tricked and killed with his own hand.
Zeus' thought became a broken mess. For a while, he was incapable of reacting; he even forgot the son that he was trying to save, leaving Myron with more time to continue to absorb the energy of his little brother in peace.
A Miriam of question travels to his mind
'Is he really my son? No, I killed them, I have broken the prophecy, I defeated Fate. But, but ... It can't be true! Did I kill Metis for nothing?!"
His attention fell once again on his sons
'Where was he hiding all this time! No. No, I need to regain my calm, even if that Maeron is my son, that doesn't change anything,' Zeus thought strengthening his resolve.
'I need to kill him, or he will fulfill the prophecy and kill me, but first I need to save my child,"
Zeus' attention once again fell on the baby in Maeron's hands,
"I am sorry."
"It doesn't matter if you are my son or not, you threaten my rule, so you must die." With the powerful thunderclouds that added to the darkness of the Sky of the city of Argos, a powerful plasma ball started to converge.
"I knew you would say that,"
Maeron just smilled that dark smile of his as he looked at the display of power in front of him as he finally stopped absorbing the power of his youngest brother.
Boom, crackle
Four powerful thunder pillars fell all around, trapping them in a Thunder Cage.
"That cage will neutralize all your spatial abilities," Zeus said
Inside the cage, Maeron used his powers, but like Zeus, said he was trapped unable to escape.
"Indeed, trapped and well trapped," Maeron looked at his father's disappearing face in the sky.
"Do you know why he is still alive?" Maeron asked, pointing at the baby in his arms,
"I could've killed him a long time ago, and I had resolved myself to kill him, and yet he is still alive, do you know why?!"
"I got a better idea, I want to know if you can kill, him, kill your favorite child, the one that you allow to inherit your powers to get to me."
A tense and uncomfortable silence filled the place as Father and son looked at each other with hatred and disgust.
After a few seconds, as the face of Zeus disappeared into a plasma ball gathering above Myron's cage, Zeus's voice resounded once again.
"Death is not the end, I will get him back, but you, you will die today, your spacial abilities are powerful but this attack will kill you without fail,"
As the king of the gods, he had the power to get souls back from the underworld, he had already done it and intended to do it again for his son.
"So yes, huh, can't say I'm surprised... Do your worst," Maeron said resolutely with a smirk on his lips, looking at the face of his father disappearing slowly.
What Zeus didn't know is that it was exactly what Maeron wanted.
Crackle
Woosh
The world was silent as the massive energy that had been accumulating in that blinding white sphere of power freed itself in a massive pillar of white light that engulfed Myron and the baby in his arms.
The world stood still for a few seconds before the deafening screech, reached the ears of the people present in the city making them bleed.
Far away in Typhoon old prison, that could only be described as a toxic wasteland, Zeus could be seen seated on a mountain of charred corpses, his body was covered in sweat, soaking his tunic, and his breathing was ragged.
Slowly, he opened his blue eyes and looked at the horizon with a deeply troubled expression.
"I gave everything, he couldn't have survived that,"
Slowly, the doors of the palace of Argos opened, and the Titans, in order, followers of Myron stepped out.
Before the fight, they had been strictly forbidden to step out, no matter what happened. This is why, until now, none of them had appeared.
It was clear to all that this confrontation was particularly important for Maeron, and now that it had concluded, they were free to come out.
They walked slowly and carefully; they believed in Myron after spending much time with him. They knew that he was careful and Thorough in every action he took.
They quickly arrived in front of a massive square hole that extended so deep into the earth that it seemed that it could reach hell itself.
"Hiss," all of them took a deep breath looking at the hole in front of them.
They were once again reminded of how powerful the gods were; it was not for nothing that they had managed to win the last war. It was obvious to all present that they would have died if they had been hit by that attack.
At that moment, one of them saw that a deep line had appeared on the ground stretching from one side of the city to the other side. The line was strange, and was cut, in two by the hole in front of them, but they didn't pay much attention to that due to their concerns for Maeron.
Far away, outside the city, Hermes, one of the sons of Zeus, was lying on the ground his body burned beyond recognition, with his leg nearly destroyed, holding an injured baby in his arms.
Extremely weak but still alive
Soon Athena arrived with a healer who immediately started to work on saving her siblings.
Her gaze turned toward the city of Argos, where she looked with a complicated expression after all she had just learn of the existence of her twin brother.
The event happening there was something that many, if not all, the gods were paying attention to, why, because Maeron had allowed it to happen.
Back in Argos
"Do you think he is still alive?!" Erin asked hesitantly looking in the hole
"..."
An uncomfortable silence filled the place as no one spoke until the silence was broken by Lena's angry shouts
"How can you even doubt Lord Maeron you bunch of idiots, I should..."
BOOM
A massive explosion coming from the hole in front of them shook the ground and before they could react.
Maeron appeared behind them
"My lord!" Eden shouts woke everyone up as they hurried to Maeron's side.
"My lord, you have succeeded..." Eden voice got stuck in his throat for a second
"Oh, my lord, you are injured! Lena come here quickly," Eden shouted as he saw the state of his master
Maeron clothes had been vaporized and his entire body was charred black like meat that had been forgotten in fire.
"Fufufu hahaha..." Suddenly Maeron's started to chuckle before it transformed into a deep belly laugh.
All the peoples that were running towards him froze up before slowly backing away.
In front of them Maeron divine energy started to flare up wildly, his usual deeply calm energy was now full of uncontrollably violent power.
Crackle
A powerful thunderbolt crashed in front of them.
Zizizi
Under the stunned gaze of every one present the Titans watch as Maeron's charred skin started to crack revealing a bluish thunderous energy.
Crackle
A powerful thunderbolt shot out from Maeron toward the sky and from there dark thunderclouds filled the sky of Argos once more.
On the ground the Titans looked in shock as in front of them Maeron's water powers inherited from his mother Metis merged with the new thunderous energy that he had taken from his brother and from his father the moment Zeus attack landed on him.
Those energy mixed in Maeron's slowly becoming completely his.
A bluish liquid seeped from his injuries and envelope him and healing his wound.
His new power were unleashed without unrestrained and terrifying, all the gods from above or below could feel it, Maeron was no longer hiding in the shadows.
"Has, I feel...reborn!"