Chapter 58: Titanomachy 6: A Year Later
Mt. Olympus
Lucifer stood at the top of the mountain as he overlooked the entire battlefield from there.
It has been over a year now since the Titanomachy began and things has been going as plans except the Titans have become a little wiser.
Since the capture of Iapetus by the hands of Prometheus and Epimetheus, they have not appeared on the battlefield, only their to supervise and never take part in the battles.
Now today, there is an ongoing clash between the Titan armies and the Daemons as both sides refused to take part for a long time as the gather their strength.
"Sigh, this is getting a little brother" said Lucifer who snapped his fingers and the Titan Armies were all obliterated, he turned to go back to his palace as there was nothing for him to watch anymore.
He wanted a battle not a skirmish between them, he wanted to see Titans go head to head with the Olympians but it seems the Titans are cowards who just waits for the right moment to strike.
On the other sided of the Battlefield, Oceanus did not show any sign of shock nor surprise when his Army was completely wiped out as this was not the first neither the second or the third and ilhe was getting sick of it instead.
"We should head back now, we are done scarifying our men today, we should go prepare the other one" said Oceanus to the two bastard sons of Iapetus, Atlas and Menoetius as he made his way back to the Camp.
"Why are we not taking the fight to them, we have always been the one to suffer loses while they gather their strength, increase in numbers as ours decrease, is it when we are clearly outnumbered and weaken, that’s when we are going to fight back?" said Menoetius as he walked beside Oceanus.
"Listen to me boy, I don’t have the time or luxury to answer your question, so you come with me quietly or I make you" said Oceanus clearly angered by the question.
He has been trying very hard to make Chronos understand that the path he is treading on is very wrong but it seems he is too blinded by his quest to eliminate his children to see that and so he gave up and maybe he was just going to have the Olympians take him just like they did to Iapetus.
Menoetius kept quiet and like that they all went back to the camp in silent.
Reaching the camp, they were stopped by Crius who stood by the gate with a gloomy expression "another failed operation?" He asked Oceanus to which he nodded "sigh, let me handle this tomorrow, I will take my Zodiacs and engage in the battle personally, we can’t continue like this"
Crius said and left without waiting to hear what Oceanus has to say.
Oceanus sighed and went to report to the god King, Chronos before going back to his tent to rest.
Mt. Olympus
The Olympians gathered with their allies to come up with a way to invade the enemy camp since they’ve decided to hide like cowards and refuse to show themselves.
"We go by nightfall, they will not see us coming, we go there cause chaos in their ranks and come back, that would make them want to retaliate " said Epimetheus to the group.
"Or we wait and see if they are going to keep using the same method over and over again until they exhaust their troops and we strike with full force taking them out in one fell swoop" said Zeus as he looked at Epimetheus to show that he disapproves if his opinion.
"Zeus is right, they are clearly in a losing game and I doubt they will not have more troops positioned in the camp expecting this, you all have to remember that Chronos is the Titan of Time and he knows when his life is in danger and will always be at alert" said Metis agreeing to what Zeus said.
Epimetheus smiled nervously while looking at his brother for help but all he got was gloating from him.
"But we can’t just continue like this also, what if the more time we waste sitting here and making plans and strategy, we are giving them the time to plan something even bigger like getting help from another Realm" said Poseidon.
"I know that, that’s why we have a trump card that they would not be expecting if they did that" said Metis while smiling when thinking about what she prepared in store "what do you think I have doing this past year?
I have gone to every Realm Lucifer stepped on or had influence in and requested their assistant in case something like this happened and they were willing to help, well not all of them at first but with a little convincing, they all obliged"
The past year, Metis consulted the help of Aphrodite to assist her in getting help from Lucifer and all she said was to go to the Realms Lucifer has been to or has a connection to or one who is indebted to him like the Hindu Realm and asked them for help saying it was for the Devil and they will help her and so she did and it turned out well.
Zeus laughed when he heard how she meticulously planned all of that without them even knowing while patting her on the head which made her blush without control.
Everyone Present looked at them strangely especially Metis who rarely show any expression on her face.
"Ahem"
Zeus stopped patting her head as he realized what he was doing and where he was while Metis embarrassed, his her face with her cloth.
"Now that that is sorted, can we leave now, I have something to take care off, dead souls to take to Tartarus" said Hades as he has not gotten a keeper or a guide to take the souls of the dead and damned to Tartarus which is no longer a prison for the living but a place for only the dead.
Cough~Cough, Metis coughed before taking the clothe of her face "sure, you can go, we are done here" she said as she immediately stood up and left..
"What a lovestruck fool" said a jealous Hela.
And with that, they all dispersed and went to their various palace.