The seventh child of Kronos and rhea

The beginning

"My Lord, it is done, you have a son."

"Thank you brother." The man on the throne answered. He got up and strode purposefully from the room. As he reached his bedroom door who listened out for the crying that signified another child having been born.

There was none. He pushed open the door his golden eyes shining when they landed on his wife holding a baby boy. The child looked at him with matching golden eyes. As his wife noticed him she flinched and instinctively moved to shield her son from his father.

"You shall not take him too." She said her voice steely. "I will not let your paranoia destroy another of our children."

The man shook his head. He loved his wife but she loved her children too much. "I will not let him become a threat to own reign. The titans shall rule forever."

He reached out his hand to touch the child. Rhea his wife pulled back away from Kronos. He snarled in anger and pulled back his hand to strike his wife.

Rhea flinched back and waited for the pain. It never came. She looked up to see her husband's hand to be moving in slow motion. Her son's eyes glowed with power. Kronos looked at his son in shock. His anger melted as he realised what that meant.

"He will be my successor."

Perseus as he was named by his mother grew up to be the pride of his father. No-one was sure why Kronos did not eat him like he did to his other siblings but for some reason he never could.

Perseus loved his father and his mother but he hated the treatment of mortals under the titans reign. He guessed that that was because of his domain of the earth. If mortal came from the earth they were from his domain.

Despite his disagreements with his father he advanced the humans slowly with the help of Prometheus. While Prometheus gave them fire he gave them access to metal such as bronze. He even invented the sword as a weapon. A weapon which he became the master of.

Perseus could best all but his father outright in combat. And even then it was touch and go for the titan lord.

Perseus had a good relationship with most of the titans, especially Atlas who was one of the only titans who could fight him on almost even ground. The only titan that he really did not get on with was Oceanus.

Oceanus did not follow Kronos, he spent most of his time slowly twisting the Lord of time. He would have succeeded before but Rhea had had another child Perseus. This was the cause of Kronos' paranoia. It was fed almost daily by his older brother. It rose to the point that Perseus was forced to stop his own father from killing Rhea in fear that she had hidden one of his children from him.

Perseus had run into the Throne room to hear yelling. He burst in to see Iapetus frozen in time watching helplessly as Kronos advanced on Rhea who was sprawled out on the floor. His scythe was trailing on the floor next to him carving into the floor. Perseus took a split second decision and flashed in front of his father.

He drew his sword to block his father's reflex strike. He backed off slowly clicking his fingers to release Iapetus. The titan collapsed to the floor.

"Father, calm down." Perseus warned cautiously. "Think about what you are doing."

Kronos paused for a moment until Oceanus, Krios, and Koios walked up behind him. "He is doing what any king should do. He is purging the realm of the traitors."

Perseus looked past them to see Perses, Atlas and many other titans.

He made a split second decision and grabbed both his father and mother and flashed out of the palace.

When he appeared in his destination, the island of Crete. He turned on his father once more. "Your brothers are using you father."

"No," he shouted, "They are not, the prophecy is coming to pass and you are going to overthrow me."

With that he charged at his son.

Perseus lifted his sword to block his father's strike. He allowed himself to be pushed back by his father's relentless assault. He used his earth powers to warn him of where his feet were stepping. As he reached the edge of the cave they were fighting in Perseus stamped his foot on the floor. The ground shook and Kronos slipped. Perseus shot forward and smacked his father on the head with the pommel of his sword.

He collapsed to the floor. Perseus the turned to his mother. She rested on the floor and looked at her son in shock. "Thank you son."

A/N That was just a taster. Well I guess it was the first chapter but it was not a full chapter.

Anyway if you enjoyed it and want more review.

This is HCS signing off.

A Family Squable

A/N This was started about ten minutes after the end of the last chapter so yeah. I don't know why but for some reason listening to Muse makes me want to write.