Fire and Fate by Serena Valentino EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Serena Valentino
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When we read about myths and legends, it is easy to forget they are not
just histories but lived experiences and events that shaped the lives of those
involved. We forget that powerful beings, even gods, have their struggles
and heartbreaks, and we forget these are not just stories.
The events in this tale took place during a time that is hard for mortals
to fathom, when behemoth Titans ruled with fire and chaos until they were
eventually overthrown by their sons and daughters, the mighty and
powerful Olympians.
The reign of the Titans had become so rife with pandemonium and
destruction, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon decided it was time to overthrow
their father, Cronus, and the other Titans and become the new ruling
pantheon of gods. This battle would later be named the War of the Titans, a
ten-year war pitting Olympians against Titans, new gods against old,
children against fathers. A war marked by such heroism it found its way
into the pages of our Book of Fairy Tales, so epic its reverberations were
felt throughout the realms, including the Many Kingdoms. A war that
helped shape Hades into the god he is today.
Hades was a major figure in this battle, and he and his brothers knew if
they were going to overthrow the Titans, they would need the greatest of
armies to defeat them. Titans were not mere giants; they were eaters of
worlds, and larger than any mountain. The brothers knew they had to call
upon every power at their disposal if they were to rule in the Titans’ stead.
And that is what they did.
Poseidon called upon the sea, summoning great waves that carried all
manner of sea creatures into the fray. Giant squids, monstrous octopuses,
and even the great leviathans joined the fight. The creatures wrapped their
strong tentacles around the Titans, holding them in place as they were
enveloped by violently crashing waves. On those waves sailed moldering
and decaying ships filled with armies of the dead reanimated by Hades’s
power. Seas of skeletons stood on these ships, on every mountaintop, on
every field, and astride Zeus’s fleet of giant eagles. Zeus hurled his
thunderbolts from above, commanding the sky to bring down torrential
rains and winds more powerful than the strongest of hurricanes. If the
Titans threw mountains at Hades’s army, he would simply raise them again,
sending the poor souls to their doom again and again. A death swarm
enveloped the Titans as they fought off foes from every direction. For ten
years the brothers fought together as one, side by side, until finally the
Titans were defeated and locked away.
On the final day of the battle against the Titans, a decision was made
that would shape all of their fates, and indeed the fate of the worlds. Hades
could see it was already in the making the moment the war ended. Hades
spied his brothers among the ruins of their war; wrecked ships littered the
landscape, buildings were crumbled, pillars were cracked, temples were
submerged in water, and he wondered what Zeus and Poseidon were
discussing. Even though Hades was the eldest son of the Titan Cronus, Zeus
always took the lead, and Hades could feel Zeus was already deciding how
things would go now that their father, Cronus, was locked away like the
other Titans.
Hades dismounted his giant three-headed dog, Cerberus, and looked at
his brothers with a sly glint in his eye. He could see what was happening. It
was written on their faces, just as it was written by fate.
“Of course you shall rule the sea, my brother,” Zeus said, patting
Poseidon on the back. “And Hades here shall rule the Underworld.” Zeus’s
smile was broad, flashing his large white teeth.
“And I suppose you will rule the sky and everything that comes with it,
including Olympus?” asked Hades, feeling himself become hot with anger.
Cerberus narrowed his eyes and growled at Zeus.
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