[Zeus is in the pic above]
If you could fly up to the very top of the top, fly over Olympus ... not the Empire State Building, not the Rome, but Olympus itself, the very top of the very original Mountain, you'd find it now completely desolate, except for some dry bushes and tall rock, and the top covered by a thick, dense fog.
And if you were to fly straight into that fog, you would be able to see a tall figure, a silouhette of a young, slim teenager, not standing tall and stiff, but just sitting down on the ground, quietly observing the floor, and passing her finger along the cracks of the rocks, she seemed calm, but if you came closer, and see past her dark curly hair and see her face ... it was like of someone watching a replay of a crime, not a glare or a fury, more like serene judgement.
After a moment, she then looked up from the floor, and then stretched down on the ground, looking straight up into the cloud with comfort like if she were in a comfortable bed mattress, and now with a half-hearted and forced smile, said softly,
"This is quite definitely out of my jurisdiction, Mother ... you cannot possibly think I can ... I can barely even do my own work with the humans ... am I not out of my league, Mother...? I am not even a fully Titan, how possible can I be appointed to--!?"
She then stopped herself and said a little more slowly while she began to sit up,
"Who? Of course I know what you want, Mother, of course I do ... but I don't suppose that Father would agree to ... well ... all of this ... of what should be done ... Ahh, my Mother, where are you...? Where is Justice.... where is the tongue of the old times..."
She then bolted up to her feet and hoarsely screamed into the fog,
"WHERE IS THE DIVINE JUSTICE?!?!?! DON'T ASK ME TO DO THIS, I BEG OF YOU, MOTHER, DON'T-!!!!"
A sharp, cold spike of wind pulled the words out of her, and Dike just swallowed hard, looking sad and dim for a moment, before slowly kneeling down on one knee on the rocky floor and saying weakly,
"But if those are your wishes ... If they are what then ... must be done ..."
She sighed and then walked into the fog, where her tone changed to a powerful, angry cry and her voice suddenly amplified ten-fold,
"Στο όνομα θέμις, Νῠ́ξ και Γαῖα...!"
"Stoicheía thémis, Nyx kai Gaía ...!"
"In the name of Themis, Nyx and Gaea ...!!!"
...
All around the mountain, a roaring noise sounded, not too unlike Zeus' thunder, but it sounded as if it came not just from the sky, but also from the earth itself, as every single being that walked on the earth below or in the clouds above, heard then the words,
"...Επειδή οι θεοί δεν έχουν λάβει υπ 'όψι..."
"Sto ónoma Thémis, Nyx kai Gaía ..."
"Since the gods have not heeded..."
...
Ordinary mortals only could hear a sickening rumble, a rumble that felt like an enraged scream and a heartbreaking cry at the same time...!
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The Inhumane ~(Previously named Greek Gods: Civil War)
Mystery / ThrillerYou already have problems. Dealing with your abusive ex, raising a young kid, working day and night to support your own business, life can be tough sometimes, even with people who care about you. But what if you also had a past that seemed to be wi...
