I'm The Devil

"This is what you get for underestimating me"

As the Scythe was about to cut through the neck of Hades, a large chain from nowhere hit the Scythe making Thanatos lose the grip he had on it.

"Who dares?" Said a furious Thanatos who turned around to see who was bold enough to disrupt him.

Hades used this opportunity to get away from Thanatos and created a considerable distance from him.

Another large chain came from one of the cells straight at Thanatos who dodged it but know he knew who was attacking him.

"Oh I see, helping your nephews know, isn’t it? But too bad for you, you are imprisoned and cannot help they"

Thanatos said as he looked at the cell where the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes are imprisoned.

Nobody answered him instead more chains were thrown from the cell as they lunged straight at Thanatos who was now having a hard time evading them due to his ever expanding injury and the never ending chains lunged at him.

Hades on the other hand saw this as the perfect opportunity to strike as Thanatos is occupied and distracted and he won’t pay much focus on him.

He took the Scythe, the weapon of the god of death and disappeared into the shadows, waiting for the right moment to strike.

"You relentless fools, give it up right now or else when I have dealt with your nephews, I will make sure I torture you for all eternity"

Knowing that he is getting weakened as the time passes, Thanatos shouted at the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes threatening them but it did not have any effect instead, his attackers increased their games.

As if the chains were not enough, the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes started destroying their cells, collecting the large stones that fell from it and threw it at Thanatos making the go almost run mad in anger.

"You will not live to torture them"

A chill voice entered the ears of Thanatos who immediately turned around but he was too late as Hades has already used the Scythe to server him into two parts ending the current god of Death.

Panting heavily, Hades feel to the ground and let go of the Scythe, he used almost all of his strength to wield that weapon and enchanted it to be able to kill a god like Thanatos with one swing.

The Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes retracted their chains back and stopped throwing the stones after the death of Thanatos.

A black crystal like rock left the mutilated body of Thanatos and flew towards the weakened Hades lifting him into the air as he absorbed it granting him the control and power of the god of Death and of Tartarus.

His aura changed as it became strong and potent after becoming the new god of Death, the Scythe on the floor also flew into his hands, the lesser gods also stopped attacking Zeus and Poseidon and bowed to Hades after feeling the potent aura of Death coming from him.

The Entire Tartarus shook as if announcing its new ruler.

After a while, everything subsided and Hades opened his eyes as he landed on his two feet, he felt powerful and full of strength, the Scythe that gave made him used most of his strength to wield feels like a kitchen knife to him, he felt a connection to Tartarus and saw that it also has a consciousness of its own.

He then looked at the Mutilated body of Thanatos, and spoke one word "arise"

As soon as he said that, a large shadow engulfed the body of Thanatos and after sometime, a large creature with three heads that shares one body appeared in their sight.

It has the body of a dog and the three heads were also that of a dog, it is so large that it might even towered a Titan. It has black skin and reddish orange eyes.

The three heads all lowered their heads at Hades who was confused as to what happened, he thought he was going to raise Thanatos as his death servant, he did not expect to have an entirely new creature, but he didn’t mind as he could still see that it was so powerful just like the old god.

"I shall call you Cerberus, the sentry of Tartarus" Hades said to the three headed large dog who wag his tail at him liking its name.

Zeus and Poseidon walked to their brother congratulating him on his new ascension to a god of a domain. Now among the three of them, only Poseidon is left without a domain for him to preside as he has Oceanus to contend with, if he wants to the god of the oceans and seas but with the upcoming war, it will only be a matter of time before he became one.

"Now, let’s go release the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes, that’s why we are here in the first place"

Said Zeus as the three brothers went to the cell of the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes only to see why they were locked up.

They were truly hideous but Hades did not think so as, he thinks they were unique in their own way while Zeus and Poseidon did not let their disgust show on their face as they needed their help.

The Hekatonkheires are three creatures with hundred hands and fifty heads as their name implied, they are Cottus, Briareus and Gyes.

The Cyclopes are a one eyed being as their name implies, they are masters of blacksmith and are physically very strong just like their Titan siblings and Hekatonkheires siblings. They are Argos, Steropes and Brontes.

The brothers released them and brought them out of their cells.

The Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes were happy to be able to finally leave that hole that they were locked in for almost their lives by their father for something that they did not have control over, anger flashed past their eyes as they swore to confront their father the moment they leave Tartarus.

They turned to their saviours and bowed to them as a show of gratitude.

"Thank you for what you did for us, we will forever be in your debt but first, who are you?" Said Brontes, one of the Cyclopes as they did not know anything of the outside world since they were trapped here.

"You did not know us but yet you helped him, that’s something someone in their right mind would normally not do" said Poseidon as it was a common knowledge that even he picked up after he was released from his father’s stomach.

This is a world where people only look out for themselves as they don’t know who was going to back stab them anytime.

What if they were fighting Thanatos so that they could have the chance to kill them and Thanatos was trying to protect but yet they helped them, that’s how they would have ended up dead.

One of the Hekatonkheires, Briareus looked at the three brothers and saw that they have a resemblance to Ouranos and also have a kind of connection to him "you have a connection to our father and that god called you our nephews, now I don’t know what that word means but what I do know is that we are connected someway and given that we are still alive, I say you were here to release us from our bounds.

We might have be imprisoned for all our lives but we are not fools not to notice details such as this boy" he said as he looked into Poseidon’s eyes.

"Okay, that’s enough, we are not here t have a friendly banter or released you just to have a fight with you, we freed you because we want something from you"

Zeus said as he explained everything to the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes from the moment where Gaia used the help of Chronos and his siblings to overthrow Ouranos and killed him and how he caused Chronos with his dying breath making him paranoid and even after becoming the God king, he still didn’t feel at rest.

Zeus then narrated how Chronos swallowed his children after they were born in fear of the curse coming to pass and how Rhea couldn’t take it anymore, so with the help of Gaia, she took her last child to her friend in an island to hide and prepare him for his confrontation with his father.

He went ahead and told them how he got his siblings out of his father’s stomach and the events that led them to Tartarus which his to ask for their help in dealing with the Titans.

"Hmm, if mother was the one who asked you to come, then I see no reason to refuse to help you but we can’t just trust you blindly, what if after we help you, you won’t have us thrown in here again?"

Argos, one of Cyclopes said as he won’t just trust the words of this New gods, given the way their family had a way of not keeping to their words.

"You have my word as the New god of Death and the Ruler of Tartarus, that you won’t be sent here anymore as prisoners"

Hades said as he exercise his powers and control over Tartarus as he destroyed the previous cells of the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes.

"Then you have yourself a deal"