On an island far off the coast of modern-day Italy, the island of Crete is where the Greek gods were hiding. In a singular cave on one side of the mountain, where darkness and shadows twisted as we went deeper into the cave, a lone pair of eyes…it would be wrong to call those eyes as they were as dark as the surrounded the only way you could see that this were eyes were because of the red slits in them that look more like portals to another world.
'What is this place?' the figure thought but was assaulted with pain from memories flooding his mind. When he blinked his hazy eyes back into focus, he understood what had happened. 'It seems after I died in my preivious world being killed by the world union team which was a team of the best agents in the world specifically made to catch me. Not to brag, but I am. It was formed by the world union 20 years before my D-day. For 20 years, all they took were straight L's until finally, they caught me when I got too careless, and as a result, I died. Well, I have no regrets anyway, and I was prepared to go to hell, but this is unexpected,' he thought.
"I reincarnated/took over the body of Hades," Hades said, ruffling his hair in amusement and frustration. "Was I that bad? I mean, yeah, sure, I kinda strengthened the smuggling and assassination mafia, but I also eliminated children, women, and body-selling mafia. Although using violence still I was not that bad."
'Well, from my memories, Zeus freed us, and we escaped to the island of Crete where Gia had her protection from the Titans. Zeus was gathering forces, meanwhile, the rest of us were getting connected to our domains. I still have time to grow my strength not only for the upcoming war but also to dominate the realm again.' Hades thought and followed his memories to how to connect to his domain.
'According to Metis, the way to connect to our domain is to dig out our core. All gods have a soul, unlike humans or other creatures. Gods do not go into the afterlife or any other place, but their souls are what have their domains. So, as long as a god's soul stays safe, it is possible to revive the god by injecting a bit of divine energy into it. It is also possible to absorb it and to make the domain ours, although it may cause a violent reaction that will obliterate your entire consciousness. This is also how the original Hades died: When I came, the soul fused in a violent collision, causing him to die while I remained.
This fusion also did something unexpected: it changed the domain instead of adding them; it omitted some of the domain while retaining others. Scratch that. I lost all of Hades' original domains but gained something similar to them.' The new Hades thought.
"I am now Hades, the god of the Afterlife, Nether, and Darkness." He said in a tone that marked determination to grow stronger as he said this, his soul brightening in recognition and knowledge on domains flooded his mind.
'The Afterlife is an existence or region of reality where the individual's identity or stream of consciousness continues beyond the death of their physical body. While it is not the underworld, Hell, or anything like that, but more of after a soul exits the body since then it is under my authority. Although I can't control the underworld, hell, or any other place like the original.
Darkness is self-explanatory, while nether is the most interesting one of all. Nether is the chthonian element and the substance that makes up the Underworld and allows/causes things to wither, die, and be destroyed. It represents the destructive dark part of reality and as such, all such forces are derived from it.' Hades thought this when he heard a voice calling him from the entrance of the cave.
"Hades, mother is calling everyone to check up on all of our progress," Hestia said that Hades saw her through the darkness. For the first, he was surprised when it came to beauty. 'In my previous life love and any kind of emotion other than greed, fear, and thirst for power were but weakness. Thus, he trained himself to be at clarity at all times but this is the first time I saw a beauty like this.' Hades thought. Hestia had red hair that flowed smoothly down her back with green eyes that held a warm feeling, and the perfect hourglass figure; she was quite a beauty.
Hades shook his head, 'I am now a god, and beauty like her will be popping up every 5 million years. I shouldn't be surprised.' He thought as he said in a calm voice, "Tell her I will be there." Normally, the voice would not have been able to travel that distance, but due to him adding sounding reflective property to his darkness, it did reach her.
"Um…ok," Hestia said, downcast but quickly cheered up when she saw her mother. Hades summoned a black mirror. Right now, out of all of his domains, his darkness is the one that he is most accustomed to. 'Darkness is easy to use due to the sheer versatility but simplicity of its use, but afterlife and nether are still too hard,' he thought as he examined his form. Standing at 7 feet tall, with a lean build, milky white skin, black hair and eyes with a red slit in the middle. He was extremely handsome in mortal terms, and even in divine terms, he could be placed above others.
'Now let's try out the other domains, shall we' he thoughts, as he summoned swords of red energy in an instant. The sword glowed even in this darkness, with every glow and stand of darkness that got close was slowly withered to death. 'Powerful and has other uses I need to experiment with, now for the afterlife,' he thought as when he activated it, he felt the souls of countless beings from incest to straight-up god themselves. With a thought, he summoned a dead insect soul with which he tried to meld into something but it did not even flicker. 'This seems useless other than for just sensing and summoning souls that have already died since I can't summon those who still live,' he thought. He closed his eyes and then saw all his siblings gather around a table near the beach, as he with a thought, created a portal to there.
Rhea, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter were all waiting for Hades to show up. "Dame, how dare he make us wait like this?" Zeus said
"I agree. He makes me the god of the ocean. wait for him, This is untroable. We can just start without him," Poseidon said. Hestia glared at him, but he just smiled and did not bother with her.
"He is your brother and the oldest of all of you. We have to wait for him" Rhea said, to which both of them grumbled. Just then, a black portal appeared. As Hades stepped through it, he looked around the table and saw that there were no seats; he made seats using his darkness. Rhea, Hestia gave grateful nods while Hera just noticed him, and Demeter was caring for the planets without a care in the world like some hippy.
"We are…quite a variety of people," Hades commented. Everyone raised an eyebrow, but he did not explain whatsoever. '2 monkeys, 2 kind hearted idiots, 1 mc syndrome, 1 hippy, and me trying to rebel against a paranoid cosmic tyrant with control freak on the side. I can already tell that it is over for us' He thoughts, and went through calculation to some how possibly win with less time than the original.
"We need support if we have to win the war, and currently I managed to convince themis to join us. We need more people to join us if we want to win this war." Reha said.
"I will go to Prometheus and Epimetheus" Zeus said
"I will go to Oceanus as his and mine are the same domain" Posiedon said. After which all eyes looked to me, their was a silence before I said
"What?"
"What is your domain, brother? Maybe you could go and ask some one related to you domain for help" Poseidon asked
"I would prefer not to leave my cave if possible." Hades said, 'I need strength first, to hell with asking people to join us. I need to strengthen my power before I can even think of rebelling against someone like them' he thought.
"Coward" Poseidon sneered, as I rolled my eyes at him. Zeus just ignored my entire existence in favor of flirting with metis, seeing as we were done here I got up to leave when. Poseidon threw ocean water at me, I cleraly saw his movement using afterlife domain it allows me to see a benign soul in turn tell me their intent before they can themself.
"Hades" Reha and hestia yelled out, 'This is perfect I wanted to test the limit of which I can unleash nether anyways' I thought as I opened my plam and unleashed all the nether energy I can handle in a beam. Immediately a dark red beam shot out from my hands, made of pure destrutive power it erased poseidon throw of water and even splited the ocean behind him.