Poseidon's Creation

Gaea Begins to Rise

       Long ago, the earth was waking up. The Earth Mother titan, Gaea, was sleeping for a millennia. As she slept, the Greek gods overthrew and captured almost every other titan, her children. Now, she plotted her revenge.

            Mount Olympus bustled with activity. The war god and goddess, Ares and Athena, argued over war plans. Nature spirits came crying to Demeter, a nature goddess. Hephaestus, god of forgery, and the Cyclopes banged on their metal, making weapons for the oncoming war. Hades was overwhelmed with an overabundance of freshly dead mortal souls. Ocean spirits flooded Poseidon, asking for help. Zeus's head buzzed as he sat on his golden throne.

            "Silence!" he boomed. The throne room went still. "Leave the presence of the gods. We shall defeat Gaea and the earth will return to peace" he announced. The nymphs, satyrs, dryads, and other nature spirts exited the castle in the clouds quickly.

            The twelve main gods sat at their thrones. "Gaea is rising. The earth is shaking, getting stronger and soon, Gaea will be awake and we won't be able to destroy her", "Actually, we can never destroy her. She is immortal and we cannot defeat her. The most we can do is put her to sleep for another millennia" the goddess of war and wisdom, Athena, said. Poseidon thought. "We can't put Gaea to sleep with our own powers. We are too weak. But what if we use her own powers against her?" he asked. The other gods stared at him in confusion.

            "Gaea likes to cause earthquakes. If we all stand on the earth, I imagine the trembles shall be stronger so she can try to kill us. These quakes now are petty compared to what she can do.", "Millions of mortals have died, Poseidon. How are these quakes petty?" Hades asked. "We know Gaea can do much more, even if she is half asleep, so we make a trap. You guys fight her earth monsters as bait, and she will cause the biggest quake in history. That quake should be so powerful, it could move my oceans and make waves hundreds of feet high. I can move those waves towards the land, using the energy of the quake and-","Drown her" Athena interrupted, in shock.

            "Yes" Poseidon said. Athena thought and looked at Zeus. "That might actually work" "The mortals. You kill billions of them with this flood" Hera, Zeus's wife, said. "The sleep god, Hypnos, can send them dreams of warning, to flee to high lands" Hades suggested. "He lives in my realm, in the underworld", "Then it is settled" Zeus stood. "We shall put the earth mother to sleep by filling her world with water" Ares hopped on his flaming chariot, his two sons holding the reins. "Off to battle!"

The gods charged to Greece to battle the various monsters that have risen from the ground while Poseidon traveled to the Mediterranean Sea, at night. The mortals awoke and Hermes, the god of travelling, showed them where to go. As soon as all the mortals were evacuated and Hermes joined the gods in battle, Gaea rumbled and spoke in a sleepy voice.

"Finally, all the gods in one place. I shall summon and earthquake so large, the earth shall split in half and you shall fall into the deepest pits of Tartarus, the worst prison of the underworld" Gaea shook the world. She made an earthquake so big, Europe split in half. Gaea laughed evilly. "Now you will take my place as I throw your children in Tartarus as well!" she yelled as mountains fell into the growing abyss of the underworld. Apollo, the god of poetry, laughed and recited a poem. "The sky is dark, instead of blue, the world is splitting, the air has a dark hue, you want to kill us, and against that, we can't argue, but the ocean is raging, with many monsters or a few, you say we will fail today but in fact, it will be you"

            A wall of water, five hundred feet high, rose above the gods and monsters, Poseidon at the crest. "You forgot me!" he yelled. The ocean grabbed the gods and bought them to safety. The wall of water crashed down upon the earth. The monsters were killed and Gaea was knocked unconscious. "That was the biggest and coolest wave ever!" Apollo told Poseidon. "You should name it, as a weapon" Poseidon thought of what to call his creation. "Tsunami. That's what the Japanese called it so I'll just leave it like that"