(General P.O.V)
Aden's words hit like a sledgehammer. His tone reaching a crescendo as if in preparation for the main event. And what an event it was.
All things considered, it was anticlimactic. His form simply appeared from a sudden wash of heavenly colors, no different from the god's when they accessed their godly forms. But something was different.
Purple wings covered his crouching form, unveiling as he carefully stood up, his balance steady and slow. All eyes were on him, as his long silver gray hair swept out of his face, and almost every woman gasped. It was like looking at a male version of Aphrodite due to how beautiful he was.
His stormy gray eyes were similar to Zeus and Athena's, the jaw looked sharp, leading to his neck muscles that shifted slightly as he breathed in his first breath. The wings flapped, causing dust to rise up in his position. The action happened as he straightened up fully. His 6 feet 5 height making him taller than some of the God's regular forms.
He was naked. And Demeter swallowed in shock and another strange feeling when her eyes trailed down his sculpted chest, abs then to his groin.
"Thank Gaia Aphrodite is not here..."
Persephone muttered from her position, the flashes from her camera, filed away carefully in the minds of the female gods present. They were getting that footage.
Dream's jaw worked like crazy. He could feel the massive potential for power this godling possessed. He turned his gaze to Aden and found him smiling in a little pride. Blatantly appreciating the power the godling possessed. Dream felt a shiver spread through his body.
The godling had potential to be very powerful but Aden...Aden was simply a monster. He alone had planned all this. His chaos energy had done something only the Great Darkness could do. Directly challenged the laws entrenched in the world. Cosmic beings could create beings from anything but there were restrictions.
In dream's case, the inability to create something with 1% of his power was one. But Aden...Aden had just brought about a god with seemingly no effort. What could this new chaos form of his really do when he got serious?
The godling exhaled. His breath came out like a gust of wind... pushing away Typhon's head to smash against the wall behind The god's thrones. The action made him curious. A second later he unravelled into strings of invisible winds that ran across the room before reforming right on his previous position.
He looked at his arms in childish excitement.
"Wind." Aden's voice rang out next to him, causing the godling to look at him with a certain marvel.
"That's your divinity. Though I'm sure it's not the only one."
"Argg..." The godling gabbled before pausing. He was trying to emulate speech. Aden snapped his fingers and sent a language packet to his mind. Being a god, he would have eventually only taken a few minutes to learn the language by himself. But Aden did not feel like waiting. Furthermore, the godling was a direct opposition to order. Who knows if he had the same perks other gods had.
Realization dawned on the godling's face. He looked back at Aden and spoke. His voice was soft yet clear. It wasn't too deep yet contained a tremor that sent reverberations of horniness across Demeter's body. She was the most affected without understanding why. There was just...a quality that he possessed...
"Are you my father?"
He asked, making Aden laugh.
"Oh no , its that dick over there." He pointed at Zeus, slinging a hand across the godling's shoulder. Zeus' face turned ugly. His familiar lightning bolt appearing in his hands in intimidation.
"I am simply... your friend. And master. But mostly friend."
The godling ran the words friend and master around his tongue before focusing on Zeus. The fact that Aden was his master did not send any feelings of rebellion or bitterness. He could feel a connection with him and the more he lived, the more he understood. He existed because of Aden. His godly perception made him instantly dislike Zeus. He could feel that Zeus had never had his best interests in mind.
"That...looks beautiful."
He said pointing straight at Zeus' bolt. He held up his hand and focused on the bolt in the godking's hands.
"What..."
Athena gasped as Zeus personal divine weapon and symbol of authority vibrated. Wonder Woman looked between the two, similarly surprised.
"How is he able to call upon the master bolt! That is impossible!"
Olympus trembled before Aden lightly slapped the godling at the back of his head.
"Bad god! Don't take other people's stuff. You don't know where they've been."
He chastised.
The godling's hands fell as he frowned in confusion.
"Then how..."
"Just create your own. Like this."
Aden reached out into his connection with Equity that was the bridge to accessing his chaos form, and broke off a shard of it's order trumping metal. A full lance with beautiful red accents appeared in his hands, pulsing with power.
Haephestus got up alarmed.
" 4&(()7__:+&46&_+; 46;!)&;?;$#4&;;!!!!"
Then immediately started spouting nonsense, his eyes crazily roaming across the weapon.
"Engrish bro Engrish!"
Aden extended a chaos limb and slapped him out of the fugue state he had entered.
"Oh...sorry." the god of the forge said abashedly.
"It's just that...how did you do that??!"
Aden lowered his gaze.
"You really want to know?"
He asked in a somber tone. Everyone leaned closer. They were expecting to hear something impactful. Haephestus felt like he was about to made wise to a secret forging skill that would elevate his skills to the next level.
"I...have no idea." Pin drop silence then an unanimous groan. Haephestus sat back down feeling dejected. He'd realized another thing about their enemy. He was far crueler than he let on.
"Oh suck it up. Not everything is about me, you know."
Aden told them sternly. Darken rolled his eyes. Superion simply bit back a sigh. He was beginning to miss M'gann.
"Like this?"
The godling asked. His divine energy instantly erupted, suppressing all the gods except for Poseidon and Zeus who managed to stave off it's effects. Diana's heart skipped a beat. This fight was not going to be an easy one. She grabbed the god killer sword from her back, unsheathing it in preparation.
Aden and dream watched intently as the godling's wings started pulsing, a purple energy ran down his hands, mixing with the divine energy gathered in his palms, taking on a purplish hue. The energy coalesced into a familiar shape form that sent everyone's shock to another whole level. Dream closed his eyes. 'Its like I suspected...he can use chaos energy as well.'
Haephestus could not believe what was happening. He grit his teeth in jealousy. He could forge even better than the dwarves of Nidavellir but this...this was just insulting. Zeus' master bolt but purple, formed in the godling's hands. Purple lightning fell to the ground, burning deep streaks into the floor of the hall.
"Fascinating..."
The godling muttered, feeling the violent clashing energy in the weapon. He had no idea how he had done what he'd done but on the other hand, Aden was ecstatic. Just like he hoped, the godling could channel chaos by tapping into the link he had with Aden. It was like the way a god imbued mortals with powers from their own divinity. In that way, the godling was Aden's champion.
The wings flared with more chaos energy and Aden felt the drain on his vast reserves, as clothes formed across his newest creations body. Aden raised his eyebrows. The godling had picked exactly what Aden was wearing but with shades of purple more than black. He twirled his master bolt and without warning...was off.
A steak of purple crossed the distance as fast as Hermes' could go, aimed at Zeus. The light from the purple master bolt had most of everyone closing their eyes. Someone else decided to intervene. A clang rang out that echoed through the whole hall.
Aden stood in between the two. From his back, two dark purple limbs held back the god killer sword, gripped tightly by Wonder Woman and the Master bolt in the godling's eyes.
Brother and sister stared at each other.
"Why attack your own father?"
Diana asked.
"My father?" The godling asked. "Are we talking about the person who swallowed my mother to prevent me from being born?" He snorted.
"The better question would be...why would I not?"
Zeus heart shook.
Athena tightened her fingers. She out of everyone in the hall did not know what to think or do. If Aden was to be believed...that was her brother. A brother who wanted to end Zeus. And not without good reason too. Time and time again she had wondered if living her own life, without the bitterness from knowing one of her parents was responsible for why the other one was missing was the right thing to do.
"Unlike some, I care about shit like that."
The godling said, eyes spearing through Athena. He could feel his blood resonating with her. She was his blood relative.
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"I will stop you."
Wonder Woman warned, causing his attention to shift from Athena to her.
"Will you now?"
He lightly asked.
"Yes! Whatever it is Aden has told you, things are never so clear cut."
Wonder Woman changed tactics from pushing her weight on Aden's hand, to shifting her stance and jerking her hand to the ground.
Aden's purple construct hand parted under the sharp edge of the weapon. The construct shape shifted into a sledgehammer aimed at her legs. He brought the two parts down, but Wonder Woman flipped above and over him and the attack to get at the godling.
Her feet landed on the floor hard and she twirled, gathering more momentum to bring the sword in her hands, slashing out at The Godling's side. He received the attack with the broad side of the master bolt, taking a step back at the force. He made to move forward when Diana brought her bracelets of submission clashing against each other.
There was a blast of power concentrated at the godling's position that pushed him away. He flipped in uncontrolled flight through the air before his wings unveiled to their full length. The air picked up as dove back in. Diana on her part used the lasso of truth and whipped it out to attack him.
For the second time they found their way obstructed by Aden. A wall of chaos appearing before each of them.
"Ok that's enough! Let's not get ahead of ourselves."
The godling stood down despite not wanting to. Besides, his enemy was Zeus not his half-sister.
"Get out of the way Aden."
Wonder Woman ordered.
"No." He coolly said.
"Fine! I'll just go through you then!"
Aden raised an eyebrow at the threat. The Amazonian princess turned almost god, her face set in a feral expression as the divine blessings in her manifested in a wild outburst of energy. She took a powerful lunge and shot off to the ceiling, aimed at him. Diana was fully intent on making good on her promise.
Superion's forcefield received the blow and broke apart as he suddenly blocked her way. His arms snaked out to hold hers while Darkness crept up her legs seeking to bind her.
"Wonder Woman! Snap out of it! This is not like you!"
She buckled, almost shrugging off the hold.
"Diana! Snap out of it!"
Connor roared out.
"Cla...Clark?"
Diana blinked her eyes in confusion.
"No...Connor. It's Connor."
Superion answered softly, hiding the pain brought about by the name.
Diana sucked in a slow breath and looked around her. All she met were gazes filled with different emotions.
"What was that?"
She demanded, momentarily forgetting about the Godling.
"My...huh...my blessing. It causes you to go into a berserk mode in exchange for more power." Dionysus explained sheepishly.
"The more you get enraged, the more your power is enhanced...the more you will lose your reason."
Superion glared at the god of wine and madness causing the higher being to wilt under the stare.
Aden cleared his throat.
"I think it's time we settled this once and for all."
His comment brought back the tense mood.
"But before that," he turned to the godling.
"I believe proper introductions are in order."
The godling floated down to stand next to Aden who had landed a few seconds before.
"My name is...Vaatu."
An aura that felt distinctly ethereal and otherworldly manifested in the symbol of the dark Avatar, imprinted on the now named Vaatu's Glabella. His silver hair shining with starlight instantly changed to an inky black. His eyes remained their silver gray but a ring of red surrounded the pupils.
Aden's brow twitched at the name. He felt the chaos energy in him instantly drain away before getting funneled back into his reserves twice over the amount. Vaatu's existence was causing him to warp reality by passively pulling in chaos generated from all the elements in space without adversely affecting reality. All this energy was then fed into Aden's chaos form before being refined into a lower grade chaos that Vaatu accessed.
"And why exactly did you decide to go with that name? There's like several pompous Greek names you could have chosen like Alexander, Adonis, Jason... "
Vaatu shrugged.
"I didn't want a pompous name."
He simply stated cutting off Aden's next words.
"...that's actually a good point. Still, Kratos or Ajax is badass."
Aden offered. The thing that bothered him the most was that he knew how the world worked. If what he suspected was true then...the balancing scales would seek a way to necessitate Vaatu's counnterpart's existence. He couldn't create one without the other. Sigh.
"No...I am Vaatu. The god of wind, lightning and Chaos."
He announced, his words ringing with undeniable truth.
"A god of Chaos. Not the god of Chaos. Chaos is at it's core unshackled. You cannot lay claim to it."
Aden educated. The rest looked on numbly. Too much had happened already. They didn't think they could be shocked or surprised anymore.
"But you call yourself the Lord of Chaos."
Vaatu pointed out in confusion.
"I'm the exception. Now...Lord Morpheus as the referee, you retain the right to choose the battleground. You know fair play and all that."
Dream snorted in humor.
"I thought you had forgotten I was even still here."
"Naah... your presence is like a shining beacon in the dark brother." Aden said his eyes growing sharp.
"That is...I can't sense you at all in my energy sense. It's like a void where you sit."
Aden clarified.
Dream raised an eyebrow.
"You have a lot to learn about who or rather what we are, little brother. When all this is over...it will be time to meet our other siblings. For now, entertain me."
He snapped his fingers and they all found themselves in a massive arena. This time however, Aden was in the stands.
Lord Morpheus walked forward to stand infront of everyone. The arena was full of gods, the Major ones had their thrones set behind 3 magnificent ones. The right belonged to Aden, the center Morpheus and the left belonged to the Sky Father of the Olympians, Zeus.
Aden looked around in silent awe. Morpheus had just teleported all the minor gods on Olympus to the arena, which was a distance away from mount Olympus without warning. That kind of power...
Dream raised up a hand and silenced the wild chatter happening all around him.
"I do not think I have any reason to introduce myself." He stated.
"We are gathered here to witness the battle between two aggrieved parties. The terms have been set and the champions ready. Let us begin."
He kept his announcement painfully shot and direct, sitting back on his throne. The whole Arena was charged up and tense. Persephone telepathically connected with Iris and gave her a few instructions. A second later, large screens appeared on either ends of the arena as the god of messages projected the images.
Both entrances opened and the combatants walked out. Aden reached his hand out to his hammer space and brought out his phone. A few taps on the screen and the Led Zeppelin song immigration started playing. Iris got the message and the song started blaring out through the whole arena.
Vaatu's purple figure walked slowly forward, twirling his master bolt expertly. The song playing left him charged with energy. His wings flexed while eyeing Diana who was similarly feeling the battle lust pervading the whole arena.
There was a lull in the song. At that instant Dream took over. His deep voice rumbled out, shaking every god present.
"Begin!"
The beat intensified, just as the two half siblings shot off towards each other, dust being left in their wake. The first clash sent tremors through the walls of the whole arena. Then the second, pushed them both awsy from each other.
They pulled back in, fighting in earnest. swinging, slashing, plunging, evading and clashing.
Lightning and sparks flung off the contact of the god killer sword and the master bolt. Diana' s attacks and thrusts were on point. They followed a move set practiced over thousands of years. Vaatu's skill was chaotic and all over the place.
He knew that and instead of trying to chain his attacks in a predictable way, he instead completely gave his all into the chaos. Their figures flashed across the whole arena. The golden armor donned by Diana leaving behind flashes of yellow light as Vaatu's wings on the other hand left purple trails through the air.
They were relentless. Sounds of metal grinding, and voices grunting ringing out from the battleground. The gids spectating on the stands roared out in cheers at the display of casual power that most could not attest to.
The master bolt snaked out to bat away the god killer as Vaatu released a massive streak of lightning at Diana. The half god received the attack on one of the braces, absorbing the divine lightning and storing it just as she brought her sword from the side in a wide slash.
Vaatu created a purple limb from his back and blocked the attack the same way Aden had done before. In retaliation a blast of air pushed Diana away, followed closely by Vaatu neatly closing the gap between them.
Diana brought her wrists together and collided the braces upon each other. Erratic lightning and shockwaves swallowed Vaatu who briefly elementazised himself into lightning before springing through the attack to his full form.
The limb behind him turned into a massive titanic hand that punched out at her body.
The blow landed on the shield in Diana's hands. The resulting shockwave bringing havoc to the walls of the arena. Diana's leg buckled from the strength exerted. In retaliation she ballooned up in size, reaching up to 20 meters and kicked out at Vaatu. The blow fell on his chest but he folded around it, turning himself into wind.
The gust produced buffeted Diana from all sides, swirling around her with sharp cutting winds. Diana pulled on the fire blessing granted by Haephestus and released a massive explosion with her as the epicenter.
Vaatu reformed a distance away wincing.
"I loved that coat."
He said as the trench coat he'd worn before was nothing but ash now. Diana did not comment. She merely took to the air after him.
Vaatu looked at her in contempt. She was trying to blatantly fight him in the air? Was she dumb? He waved his hand down and a blast of wind pushed Diana out of the sky. The Amazonian fell to the ground and a dust cloud rose up right after, obscuring the scene.
'Finish it. Stop playing around with her.'
A telepathic message came through the mindlink Aden had established.
Vaatu paused for only a second before sending his confirmation through the link. He would have enjoyed going s few more rounds with her but Aden's words were the law. He floated down towards her, sliding out of the way of the lasso of truth that snaked out through the air to find him. He grabbed the Lasso and pulled it forcefully, using all the strength he had at his disposal.
Diana was pulled through the air, with a snarl in her beautiful face. The god killer sword in her hands flashed out, cleanly cleaving through him, yet the mental illusion faded and Vaatu appeared behind her. His fingers lightly touched her head and wisps of dark color streaked through the helmet, stunning her mind. Diana fell like a puppet with cut strings.
Vaatu grabbed her falling body and flew down towards where Superion and Darken were. He placed Diana on the ground before them with a nod and rose up to the sky once more. He stood afloat in the middle of the arena for all the gods to see him.
All commotion ceased. Zeus and the rest of the gods stood up. None knew what had happened. It was instant and so anticlimactic that it was shocking.
Aden lightly laughed.
"I guess this means I win."
He said to Dream who snorted.
"You tricked them all. You purposefully had him announce that that he only possessed the divinities gained from his father's side and left out what he gained from his mother's side as well. Therefore, none of them were ready for that."
Aden shrugged as the Olympians bristled.
"Hey you can't blame me brother...they have a goddess of wisdom on their side. You would think she would see that far."
"Wait wait...we actually lost?"
Dionysus stammered out.
"But...but the fight didn't even last 2 minutes!"
"I don't believe...it...I..."
Hermes hands trembled.
"Shut the fuck up. All of you!" Poseidon bellowed out. All eyes turned to him
"Yes we lost. It is unfortunate but the deal made should be honored. Isn't that right, brother?"
He addressed Zeus.
Everyone could feel the tension between them. Poseidon wanted Zeus to lose the throne.
"Welp! I'm just going to go get a tour of the place. I have a feeling I'm going to be coming here alot. Brother, if you don't mind?"
Aden stated, causing most of the Olympians to look at him with hate. He was the cause of all this.
Morpheus made eye contact with Aden. One last move to play.
Morpheus rose up.
"The winner of the fight is Vaatu, the son of Zeus and Metis, champion of Aden Strong, the Avatar. As stated in the terms, Zeus will vacate his seat as the Sky Father and leader of Olympus and Aden will choose among all the major gods on who will replace him. Good luck."
The lord of Dream announced and left with a sudden swirl of sand.
Vaatu was immediately assaulted by gods who were eager to know him personally. Nothing new happened in Olympus often and the news of one of the major gods having another child was simply too shocking. Aden got up amid their stares and turned to walk away.
"Hey, don't worry." He threw over his shoulder. "I'll announce the next Sky Father after I'm done sight seeing. I'm particularly stoked on catching a glimpse of the Elysium fields."
Then he flew away, headed purposefully at the border of the Greek Pantheon's dimension. Following the direction from the memories he gained from reading their minds, he knew of a wide desert expanse a long distance away from Olympus.
Hook.
He flew above the forests of the muses, the garden of the dryad's and springs of beautiful water with swimming nymphs. All this caused him to feel a desire to upgrade his realm as soon as possible. His realm was beautiful but it lacked something. True life. He wanted to see unrestrained growth. Hopefully if his plans panned well today...he would.
Line.
He arrived at the desert and chilled under a shade created by his chaos energy. 10 minutes later, they arrived. All clad in armor. All looking ready to kill him. To destroy him and wipe his name off the annals of whatever history he had...6 of the Olympians and one new arrival had gathered. Just like he had expected.
Sinker.
He smiled and got up to face them.
"No more games pest. You shall die here today. Your body will be stripped of it's flesh. Your soul will be extinguished. You will serve as a good example on why you should never insult the gods."
Zeus announced.
Aden looked at the roster and chuckled. Apart from Hestia, Aphrodite, Artemis, Apollo and Persephone/Hades every other major god had arrived. And they wanted his head. Just like he had planned. He was already more than halfway to controlling Olympus. Now he just had to win this fight.
He stretched and removed his trench coat. Lastly he fell out of his chaos form, it wasn't that suitable for fighting multiple strong opponents. This battle would be one where Aden would go all out. He wanted to rack up more fire colors before he decided to carry out the advancement trial.
"I've had enough talking to last me years. Let's do this."