The Fall of Atlas

Chapter I | Vision

Centuries have passed after many wars had occurred, and since then, mortals, Gods and Goddesses, and other creatures have been living peacefully in their own realms. People started to live their own lives, solve their own problems, and think that their only enemies are themselves. Lies were created to persuade everyone to believe in something they shouldn't, and reality was transformed into lies in the process.

1980

Delphi

Mainland Greece

It was a bright sunny day in the middle of the summer season at Delphi, Rowena, a priestess and the remaining Oracle in Delphi with the blood of Pythia, was preparing baguettes to offer to the Gods. While waiting for the baguettes to bake, she sat in front of the countertop, and it suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't had any visions for the past 5 years.

"Oh Gods! Is this a good sign? There are no prophecies at all. Does this mean that we are at peace or we'll be facing another crisis?" Rowena uttered.

She just shook her head and continued what she's doing. While putting the baguettes in a basket after baking, her eyes suddenly glowed and her surroundings changed.

Fear started to embrace Rowena. She saw all the realms wrapped in darkness and fear. There are no human, no gods, and nothing else left alive. Rowena slowly walked in her vision, and after a step, the surroundings changed, she was suddenly at Olympus. It was dark, there were no signs of life. It seemed like it has fallen from the heavens. What Rowena saw next really made her tremble. She saw the body of The Titan Atlas underneath her, DEAD!

The Titan and bearer of Heaven's body is crushed and it was evident that the heavens fell at him. But the oracle was left confused because the surroundings changed again and she never saw the Titan's legs.

The next setting almost killed her and left her out of breath because she was in the underworld, in front of Hades' Palace.

The underworld was really different because the cry of the souls were louder, and the air was more toxic than before. Inside the palace, she saw the Goddess of Discord and some other Gods. There were no signs of Hades, neither Persephone or Cerberus.

She tried to find other creatures who were living in the domains of the underworld however, there weren't any response. Charon and his boat was not on the river Styx, Sisyphus was not rolling his boulder up the hill, Tantalus was not there reaching for fruit and water he would never be allowed to eat and drink, even the soul of Oedipus singing for his wife Eurydice was not there. Only Eris, the Furies, and the other minor Gods appeared on Rowena's vision.

But what terrified her the most was a big monstrous titan behind the palace of Hades looking and smiling at her. It was her first time seeing that Primordial deity alive again. Terrified by Uranus, Rowena ran, and her surroundings suddenly changed.

Rowena's vision gradually revealed how she would pass away several hours after viewing the vision as she continued to run. Rowena inhaled deeply as she contemplated her own tragic demise and came to terms with the fact that the Fates would soon sever her life's string.

Rowena's vision was cut off after she accepted her faith. Rowena shivered in horror as she recalled what she had seen in her vision as she was recovering. Rowena quickly washed her face before rushing to the chambers to summon the God of Lightning.

She wrote her prophecy in a piece of paper using a gold and blessed ballpen and rolled the paper. She lit a candle and summoned Zeus to deliver her prophecy. In no time the God of the sky and thunder already arrived and was standing behind her. Rowena felt the strong presence of the God.