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The sky was a bright and deep blue with not a cloud to be seen. Flowers were in full bloom and bees buzzed around, and being immortal bees, they avoided stinging anyone, it just wasn't their thing. The plants were spread all around and amongst the beautiful marble and gold buildings of Olympus, the birds flew, carefully ensuring their droppings only landed in the flower borders, and to anyone looking in it was a perfect beautiful day.
Cronos however was not having a beautiful day, no, he was having a bad day. His youngest son, Zeus was being particularly petulant and moaning about how his life sucked, and Zeus always seemed to be able get his sister Hera to back him up, and Hera would nag him too. It was getting just too much and his wife Rhea kept saying that it was just a phase he was going though, 'give him some slack', she would say. Cronos decided that no, enough was enough, and that Zeus would come to heel and do as he was told.
"Zeus," he yelled, "get in here."
Hera was in her chamber enjoying Prometheus, they both lay naked on her bed, their clothes discarded to the sides of the bed, Prometheus' softening dick still inside Hera, his seed beginning to dribble out and puddle on the bed. Hera was stroking Prometheus' face when she heard her father yelling.
"Oh God, I suppose I better go and see what that is about," she said, extricating herself. With a wave of her fingers her crotch was clean and with another her clothes adorned her.
"See you later lover," she said as she headed off to discover the reason for the yelling by her father.
Cronos knew that no matter where Zeus was, he would hear his words, it was the way of the Gods and they were indeed Gods. He started counting, and if Zeus were not in front of him before he counted to ten then there would be hell to pay and he would banish him from Olympus and send him back to Crete.
Just as he was about to raise his blood and thunder as ten was reached, Zeus strolled into the Pantheon as if nothing mattered in the world. Zeus was wearing a shirt of bold colours patterned with palm trees and coconuts, and shorts of the same pattern but contrasting colours. Gold rimmed sunglasses covered his eyes. Cronos, of course, was wearing the correct attire for the king of the gods, a white toga embellished with golden threads and finished, properly, with leather sandals and upon his head a throne of laurel leaves, freshly woven that day.
"Wassup pops," Zeus drawled in his lazy tongue.
"Wassup, wassup? What the fuck kind of language is that? You are the son of a God, not the illegitimate splurge of some back street pleasure girl in Heraklion." Cronos, already incandescent with rage, was now absolutely volcanic.
"Oh chill dad." Not exactly the wisest choice of words to say at just that very moment.
"Chill! Chill!" Cronus' rage grew and he flew at Zeus as if to strike him, but Zeus in a moment of absolute clarity thrust his arm up, and all Cronos struck was the upturned blade of Zeus' hunting blade.
Cronos stumbled to his knees, his face full of shock as he looked down at the knife embedded in his chest, blood impossibly seeping from the wound. Zeus just looked at him his eyes full of scorn. Immortals could be killed by immortals, and Zeus had been drinking at the fountain of mortal souls, and he too now sported the immortal blessings.
"Sick of you old man and your posturing and shouting. Can't hear you shouting now."
Zeus took a drinking straw from the gold and marble table at his side and leant forward placing the straw on the forehead of his father, put his lips around it and sucked out his father's soul. The straw glowed with white light and briefly there was an aura around Zeus as Cronos fell soulless to the floor looking sorrowfully at his son as the mortal life left until Cronos lay dead on the floor.
"Oh my God, what have you done," Hera screamed as she rushed into the room, expecting to have to calm Cronos down as per usual. Now she was looking at his lifeless corpse. That stopped her, she believed him immortal, but to see a knife in his chest and blood seeping from around it confounded that belief. Were immortals not actually immortal? Interesting.
"I am the King of the Gods now," Zeus said standing tall, his arms aloft, "we will have no more of his brutality to his children and pampering to the mortals, now I am in charge. Call my brothers, I will speak with them."
Hera rushed from the room and found her siblings and ushered them into the great hall of the Pantheon where they were greeted with the sight of their lifeless and bloodied father and a triumphant younger brother standing over him.
"I am the King of the Gods, brothers, the tyrant is dead." He paused and looked at his siblings and then his face changed to one of command rather than triumph.
"Together brothers we will rule these realms, Poseidon, you shall rule the seas, Hades you shall be the ruler of the underworld and Guardian of the dead, together we shall rule the lands"
"What of me?" Hera his sister asked, "what am I to do?"
"You shall be my Queen."
That pleased Hera, firstly because she had a massive yearning for her younger brother, and secondly because she believed that she could be the power behind his throne. She looked at her brother and mentally undressed him, liking what she saw.
"Caution Zeus," Prometheus cautioned as he entered the room, having overheard from without, "caution lest you fall fowl of the same sickness that took your father."
"You dare caution me Prometheus? You dare? I banish you to the cliffs of Olympus where eagles shall feast on your liver until the end of time;" Zeus flicked his fingers and Prometheus vanished, only a pile of his clothes remained.