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Perseus stood in the corner of a cave, next to a young god named Hades, and a young goddess named Hestia, watching four other godlings argue with each other.

Hestia suddenly turned to him, "Wait, if you're the first Prota, then can you tell the future?"

Perseus froze, slowly turning to face Hestia, "What makes you say that?" He asked.

"Well, In the Trinity of Prota, the three Prota work together to weave the future," Hestia replied, unfazed.

"Styx," Perseus muttered under his breath, as everyone else in the room turned to face him.

"Oh, yeah, Perseus, will we win this war?" Hera asked.

Perseus looked around nervously, "Styx styx styx uhhh... Bye!" With that, Perseus flashed out of the cave, at the same time taking every memory of his existence from their head.

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When the young gods came to, they were all piled up in the cave. Zeus was somehow on the bottom and was being crushed by his older siblings. Hestia, on the other hand, was at the very center because of her unnatural warmth. Hades was at the very edge, not really a part of the pile on Zeus.

Zeus was very uncomfortable. Being as they were gods, they had no reason to breathe, but they could still feel pain and that one knee in his stomach wasn't the nicest.

Hestia was in her element. Cuddles from all over, despite the sharp joints poking around. Her knee in particular was somewhere slightly squishy...

But Hades was cold. Having lived in Kronos's stomach for quite a while, he was used to warmth despite it being an icky gross one.

The other three were dead to the world. Asleep. Passed out. Whatever you want to call it.

"Arrg," Zeus's groan filled the air, echoing around the cave. "Who has their knee in my gut?"

The knee moved. "That would be me," Hestia stated offhandedly, "But I feel quite comfy right now, so it's not going to move."

"I saved you from Father."

"I was the first to be swallowed by Father."

"But still-"

"I'm older," Hestia sang, "I get to boss you around."

"Well I'm not going to listen."

"In that case," Hestia paused to dig her knee further into Zeus, "I'll just get more comfortable."

By that time, everyone else had woken up and were listening to the argument between their oldest sibling and youngest sibling. They all secretly enjoyed the fact that their stuck-up little brother was being teased.

Well, at least most of them. Hades wasn't even trying to hide his enjoyment. He was grinning broadly.

They were all so caught up on the argument that they didn't notice the hidden presence. Perseus smiled at the fact that they could act like the immature children that they were. They didn't know loss. But if he was being honest, he didn't know loss either. From the day, if you could count the beginning of time as a day, that he found himself, all he knew was silence. No emotions, no feelings, just empty.

Seeing people that weren't burdened by knowledge was something that lifted his spirits, even his soul. But they had no idea of the loss that would come soon, of the war that would claim many lives.

Perseus thought back to when he first realized that he was there. When it was simple. When he could experiment with no repercussions. Before the weight on his shoulders.

Before the Universe was colonized.

Before Chaos.

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Welp that got dark. In my defense, I was reading a... dark book? It was written by a friend and was absolutely amazing. And I know its short. :/ (It's totally a filler chapter, but it's an update so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Ok, so this update is because of 10k reads. I mean- HOW? Thank you guys so much for reading this!

Yeah, so I DID update, but the next one won't be for a while. This is because I saw that we were getting close to 10k and decided to be nice. I'm still gonna be working on my original story so it's gonna take a while. I'm also not really sure where this book is gonna go so I'm improvising...

Please, stay safe, wear a mask. Every single one of you is amazing. I hope you are having a great morning/afternoon/day/night. :)

love you guys!
- Fluff 'n Puff out!

Published: 7/28/2020

I wrote this a while ago for 10k (like I said) but now that it's here, it's blowing my mind. I mean- I never thought I would get to 100 reads and somehow I have 10,000? Wow.

By a while i mean like a little less than a week