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- The next morning, as Helios rode his chick magnet into the sky, King Kronos awoke to a sound like thunder. Probably because it was thunder.
- Storm clouds rolled in from every direction. Zeus hurled a lightning bolt that blasted the tallest tower into black marble shrapnel. The Hundred-Handed Ones chucked so many boulders toward Mount Othrys that when Kronos looked out his window, it seemed to be raining major appliances.
- The beautiful palace domes imploded in mushroom clouds of dust. Walls crumbled. Columns fell like dominoes. The Hundred-Handed Ones had built Mount Othrys, and they knew exactly how to destroy it.
- As the palace shook, Kronos grabbed his scythe and called his brethren to attack. But the thing was a) scythes really don’t do much against boulders and lightning, b) nobody could hear him over the noise, and c) the palace was disintegrating around him. Just as he was saying, “Titans, let’s go!”, a three-ton section of the ceiling collapsed on his head.
- The battle was a massacre, if you can have a massacre where nobody dies.
- A few Titans tried to counterattack, only to be buried in an avalanche of rubble and boulders.
- After the initial assault, the gods flew over and mopped up the resistance. Poseidon summoned earthquakes to swallow their enemies. Hades popped up in random places and yelled, “Boo!” His helmet of terror (or his Boo Cap, as the others called it) sent Titans fleeing straight off the sides of cliffs, or into the waiting arms of the Elder Cyclopes.
- When the dust settled and the storm clouds lifted, even the gods were in awe of what they’d done.
- Not only was Kronos’s palace gone, but the entire top of Mount Othrys had been sheared away with it.
- Did I tell you Othrys was the highest mountain in Greece? Not anymore. Today Mount Olympus, which used to be the smaller mountain, is over nine thousand feet tall. Mount Othrys is only five thousand and change. Zeus and the Hundred-Handed Ones had basically cut the mountain in half.
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- Greek Gods, The Olympians Bash Some Heads
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