First Fragment: Origins

These fragments will be told as if they are isolated from the main story. The specified characters are witnessing them as the story is told, but what they do and think as they witness the distant past won't be elaborated on until the following chapter.

A great palace above the clouds would be seen. made up of tall pillars and many individual temples. Sitting upon a throne in the largest temple, was a tall humanoid figure with long hair coming from his head and face. He sat with his eyes shut in silence, interlocking his fingers as if he was contemplating something.

A winged figure flew into the palace throne room and land near him. She held a shield and spear, and wore a helmet with red fur coming out of the top. She had a an saddened look on her face as she made her weapons vanish allowing her to fold her hands over her white robe.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Father, the war is over. We are victorious."

The figure on the throne didn't open his eyes, he was silent for a few moments before he spoke, sitting motionless as he did.

"Athena, find the surviving gods and tell them to come to Olympus."

She lowered her head for a moment, spread her wings out wide, and took off out of the palace. As she dove through the layer of clouds. they dispersed to reveal that the earth had been heavily ravaged and nearly destroyed.

The man eventually stood up from his throne and began to walk through the temple, leading to a poorly lit room filled with statues of many different people, each with a name carved in at the base. As he walked forward, he stopped at the three largest statues. In the statues where these names engraved "Hades", "Poseidon", and "Zeus".

The resemblance between the man and the statue of Zeus made it clear that he was in fact Zeus, but he was focusing more attention to the statues at each side of his own, presumably in deep thought about the two of them.

He quietly walked around the room quietly examining other statues, eventually coming to glass-less window which had a statue reading "Apollo" standing beside it. Outside the sunset was visible, but the sun was was noticeably still. Only now was there enough light to fully see Zeus's face, He had a large scar on the side that was just shy of hitting his eye, the color of it was a bright blue instead of the typical red.

He closed his eyes tightly, and turned to begin walking back to his throne room, knowing his daughter would be back soon.

"Long have I thought we would live forever. Yet here we are, with so few left alive." He quietly spoke, as he returned to his throne.