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“Oh brothers how I’ve missed you guys.” Zagan laughed as he saw their angry faces.

My mates and father cried loudly as they looked at me. Zagan walked towards me and suddenly an arc of black flames connected with my foot. I tried not to scream but it was in vein. Suddenly a bloodcurdling scream emitted from my mouth as my skin charred from the attack.

“STOP PLEASE!” My father screamed and cried.

Zagan did and looked at all four of them. “Then take 10 steps back.” He chuckled.

All four sobbed and did as told. Walking back as they cried and sobbed. I lay beaten and broken on the floor. My body burned and stung all over. The pain making my vision blur slightly. I began to cough blood. I looked up at the sky and saw my first star. An idea occurred to me. I placed the back of my palm on the ground using my fingers to see if I could steer it. Finding it obeyed. Whatever block he was using didn’t work on premade stars of mine, I found I couldn’t move my fathers. I dashed it behind the moon and out of sight. Focusing on moving far and fast.

“Atlas…..oh Atlas. Look how far you’ve fallen. The proudest and most isolated of us reduced to a sobbing mess for a mortal. Oh brothers what a backfire of a plan.” Zagan sneered as he walked around looking at them.

“Have Mr solitude make a child. See me personally I could have seen him being this way. He didn’t care for any of us much. However out of all of us if your remember he was the most excited about humans…..I think that’s why he was so disappointed with them. It made sense in hindsight when you think about it that a human born of him would be something he’d be excited to do when it happened. Don’t you think?” He chuckled.

The other gods said nothing but there was an air of truth in this sentence I could see on their faces.

“See had you four left Atlas alone. I simply wouldn’t have been able to touch him. He didn’t care for anything or everything. He did his job and stayed away doing whatever it was he did. No weakness for me to exploit no power having been drained. You four simply couldn’t help yourselves though could you. Now look at him on his knees crying and sobbing because you made him have a child lo and behold he loved. Then you took that away from him because he what? Gave a spark of divine energy to his son? Tsk tsk tsk. You four were always very hard to please.” He chuckled.

He walked forward to me and placed a foot on my chest. Pressing his weight down making the air harder to breathe. I gasped in pain. Making sure I kept focus on the star as it moved down towards me. My mates screamed and cried.

“Even making his weakness your sons weakness. What a shit show you all have made. That was always your problems. You four never saw the bigger picture. Always looking left when you should look right.” He gloated.

I used my broken arm to grip his leg and claw. My anger making his skin bleed as they dragged down.

“Oooh that almost hurts. What a spark of divine energy can do to a demigod. My my what a lovely experiment.” He laughed as he pushed his foot down harder. My ribs burned now from the weight.

“So let’s cut to the chase…Atlas…..your divine energy for Deans life. Sound fair yeah?” He laughed.

Shit not good I needed more time to get the star to me. I could feel it coming closer in my minds eye.

Atlas sobbed loudly looking at me and then Zagan.

“Dad…..don’t.” I wheezed.

He looked at me sobbing even louder.

“DO IT PLEASE!” Dylan screamed sobbing in pain on all fours.

He looked at my mates crying on the floor. I could see him thinking about it as he cried.

Asher now in control was thrashing against the veins holding him in place.

“Atlas you know what my abilities are. If you don’t mark my words you’ll never see Dean’s soul again you or his mates.” Zagan taunted.

My dad looked frightened. Panicking now as he continued to cry on the ground. I could feel the star slow. I knew it had touched the ground and was digging through earth and dirt to reach us.

“Dad…..don’t…I….was done as soon as he got me.” I wheezed quietly as I looked at him.

“PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU DO IT!” Kolby screamed as he stared at me.

“ATLAS PLEASE!” Marky yelled his voice cracking as he spoke. Tears and snot down his face.

I looked at them and smiled softly. They cried uncontrollably helpless to do anything.

“Guys…..remember the promise you made me? I…..I’m gonna hold you to it. I expect you to keep it.” I said softly. They looked down as their tears dropped onto the floor nodding.

I looked at my dad. “Dad…..don’t give him anything. It’s not worth it in the grand scheme of things.” I said softly to him.

Zagan pressed his foot down so hard loud cracks could be heard as my ribs broke under the weight.

“Atlas last chance.” Zagan stated angry.

“Dad…..he’s gonna kill me anyway. We all know it. There’s no point there’s ****. Don’t.” I wheezed as blood dripped down my mouth.

He cried loudly. Sobbing uncontrollably.

“Smart boy…..he’s right…..oh well it was worth the try.” Zagan laughed.

I looked at him and my mates as they cried watching me. Asher screamed and begged for his father not to.

“I love you guys okay…..forever and always…..don’t be mad at Asher please….he’s a victim too.” I wheezed. I looked at him and smiled kissing the air towards him. “I love you too Asher….be strong.” I said quietly.

The star came closer and closer I glared at Zagan as a large spear of black lightning formed in his hand. He raised it to strike.

“Any last words Dean…you’ll never see these guys again.” He laughed gleefully.

I nodded smirking. Just a few more seconds. “Yeah…..how does this feel?” I asked him.

He looked at me chuckling. “Mmmm tormented souls feel and taste amazi-.” Suddenly the star wizzed down through his neck in a large blue vibrant spark. Through his neck down his ribs and under his waist where the end poked out the other side. He gasped loudly in pain. I knew that didn’t kill him but fuck was it worth it to see him hurt.

“No fucker….the first star I ever made!” I growled laughing.

He looked at me shocked. The star vanished as I broke focus I laughed loudly. He raised the spear. Blood spilled out his wounds dripping up and floating in the air. He snarled angrily.

“Fuck you!” I laughed.

I felt the jolt that was it before the lights went out feeling nothing.

No one’s P.O.V.

The room went silent as they saw the star hit him. Silent as the arc went down. Silent when Dean said his last words. A black bolt of lightning shocked his body through his chest. No words left his lips as he smiled an amused smile at the man who just ended his life.

The bolt stopped a few moments later. Zagan knew Dean was dead.

The 6 gods looked up and saw the blue moon crack and shatter. The blue turned black as it faded away with his soul. Where Zagan had sent it none of the gods could ever know.

Asher, Kolby, Marky, and Dylan stared at his body silently. The bond on their fingers sensed it. Their mate was dead.

Suddenly four ear piercing screams echoed in the pantheon. All four males screamed in agony unlike any of the gods had heard before. Atlas stared at them shocked himself by his sons ****. The four gods aware knew what could possibly happen next. An event that had very specific circumstances that they had seen only two demigods before them do. They watched carefully.

The four vomited and screamed. Clawing and scratching their way towards his body. Begging and pleading for this to be a lie. Hopeful that they’d scream so loud he’d wake them up in bed from this awful nightmare. Asher clawed through the dirt biting and ripping the veins off him as much as he could. There was little time he had to act. He was his fathers son he could do something.

Zagan gripped the wound. A hit from a star like that would take awhile to heal even with his ability’s he felt dizzy. He was not gonna die like this not today. He snarled to himself. His plan had failed at the end. He vanished back to his lair. He didn’t care for his son he didn’t have faith his son could pull off something like him. He needed to run before Atlas left his shock and entered his anger. An anger that nobody will have ever witnessed before. He needed to hide now otherwise his stars would dart through every rock near Deans last location to find his body. He knew the four demigods may change but wasn’t sure about Atlas. After all these were Similar circumstances.

The vision of Dean and Asher vanished from the pantheon as Zagan released his hold on showing them as he disappeared someplace unknown to all of them in a flash of red. Three demigods cried together holding each other as much as instincts would allow as they began to mourn for the rest of eternity. Their cry’s of sorrow became ones of pain as their nails began to grow.

The white moon became deep blood red. Never before had such a deep color of red danced upon the moon. Thick black lines formed on it. The four gods looked at their brother as his blue hue’s became scarlet. He looked to the floor still shocked. Suddenly deep and guttural scream bellowed from his throat as he stared at the sky. His pale skin cracking as the ice formed on it. His blue eyes became red and black. His fury was as horrible as his deep sea’s and the ice he created. His emotions blacker than the nights void of his light. His stars hummed as they turned red and became long and jagging. Slamming into one another violently. His blue eyes turned blood red as his fury was born. He was no longer simply Atlas of the moon and stars. He was Atlas of the blood moon and dark sky. Bringer of an age of horror upon the abominations below. Zagan had ushered his apocalypse, now Atlas would begin his. His brother the single soul he’d hunt. Nobody in all existence left could stop him. The one person who could lay dead someplace unknown.

He screamed loudly no longer able to hear words or feel anything other than sorrow and rage. His red stars dashed violently down from the sky above faster than anyone had ever seen. His four black wings spouted from his back as the white specs bleed into red, large jagged black bones snapped out his wings skin above forming points. His teeth elongated in his mouth as the god became a monster of his own rage. His finger tips turned black as claws formed on his nails. He let out a roar no longer like the humans they had made in their images. His roar was animalistic and deep. Viscous and cruel practically ripping his own larynx apart. Four massive black horns began to sprout out of his head as he clawed at his own pecs. Black blood began to flow and float. He turned into a form none of the gods had ever witnessed one of them become before.

The three demigod children’s bones began to snap as their screams of sorrow became screams of rage. Matching Atlas in ferocity. All three of their bones began to snap and elongate. Their teeth sharpened into jagged points as their skin flared with their power. Their handsome faces were murderous as their souls boiled inside them. The same corruption infesting Atlas in them as well. Two swept back black horns sprouted out of their heads as their fingers turned black and into points. They roared and looked at Atlas waiting for his command. They were after all still a pack. They recognized the strongest of them in this form running to him on all fours as claws spouted from their toes. Atlas in his wicked and animalistic form recognized the males as his scions in rage. His pack brothers below him in their vendetta. Ice met their skin as friends as his powers combined with theirs. He knew in all his profound and now wicked instincts that they would do anything and kill anything if it meant retribution. They communicated through growls and howls now. Their musk and pheromones changed to let everyone know if you smell it your already dead. Thick black lines formed upon their pale and tan skin. Down their chest and ribs. A large black x on their chest that wrapped around and under their ribs and shoulders to make a x on their back that now matched Atlas’s.

The four gods knew that the three sons of theirs would probably become this way. Something they never needed to speak on as they never thought Zagan would actually reach Dean and kill him himself. Let alone show all of them as he did it. They knew when demigod Alpha’s watched the one they loved die so horribly with their own eyes they changed like this. Never did they think one of them could also become the same. These four had been pushed to far. Stab after stab. Watching and seeing their mate broken and beaten down to many times left a scar upon their souls. Knowing the same person who caused all this killed them before their eyes. They were gone their minds only focused on mourning and killing.

“Atlas.” Aelius stated.

All four of the corrupted Alpha’s turned to them and roared loudly. The three gods Aelius, Ajax, and Esen looked at their now corrupted sons as they’re mourned and raged. They wanted to help them as much as they could. They walked forward as the four roared louder. They shushed their sons placing hands lovingly on their heads. Atlas final piece of humanity holding back his desire to kill. A bright light flowed from the three gods into their sons. Suddenly large black wings sprouted from their sons back and their horns grew larger. Their eyes glowing scarlet like Atlas’s. They looked at their brother crying at his state.

“We gave them sparks of divine…..kill Zagan Atlas. You out of anyone or anything deserve that right to do yourself. I……love you.” Aelius said softly moving away with his brothers.

He growled an acknowledgment. The last he was capable of doing. The three corrupted demigods climbed atop the massive god of rage. He was pack leader now. Their massive wings stretched behind them as their nails dig into the gods skin to hold on. They didn’t need to speak. Their minds understood only to kill.

He dashed up in a single motion down to the world below. Ready to kill anything that moved in his path. Culling all his brothers creations.

The people below stopped as they watched the moon turn red. The stars began to fall once more. They watched as the stars dashed around their towns and cities. Frightened of this show of power. In the hills a pair of black wings landed upon the earth where burrowers moved. They charged the figure dying in a an instant as light cascaded through them. He saw an enforcer grabbing it and stripped it of skin in a single motion of his hand. The three demigods bathed in the blood as they dashed into the woods around. Killing everything that moved.

Humans were not their target but they would attack if they moved to close. Unable to make a difference when things moved towards them other than each other. Atlas roared so loud thousands of miles away all could hear the roars of the new god of rage. The three demigods joined into the howl. Their larynx changing into deeper ones as the skin shredded. All for thousands of miles could hear the wicked howls in the sky.

Even Zagan could hear his brothers declaration. The roar masked his words only he could truly understand. For a flicker of a moment the red haired god regretted his choice. Frightened for only a moment as his brother was now declaring total war upon him completely changed by his rage that the gods had only witnessed their sons do in very specific circumstances. The rules no longer applied to him for he no longer cared to be a just and good god. He was worse than anything Zagan could have ever thought of in his head. For that flicker of a moment he knew and acknowledged that He had messed up but was too stubborn to allow Deans soul to be with his father. There was only one thing he hoped for now. That maybe his spawn could correct this failed plan. A plan that he knew had backfired because just like he taunted his brothers for he didn’t see the bigger picture. He did what he mocked his brothers for and brought Atlas too into this. He did what he mocked is brothers for and took the one thing he cared about. He had pushed Atlas way too far until he finally snapped. He knew the sons of the gods would change but never could have anticipated a god doing the same. He deeply and truly underestimated the feelings of a father mourning his one and only child.

The ice all over the planet moved down and fast. Freezing the landscapes below. Spring became winter once more as spikes moved down and through the lands all over the planet. The other gods had to step in now. Dashing to town and cities opening portals and urging people in as the ice moved like a mountain. It had only taken 5 minutes yet age of ice had began. They moved people to the capital where they could monitor the barrier. They had to evacuate everyone now as Atlas’s rage snuffed out the Aelius’s suns warmth from reaching the lands below. Ajax could feel the ice splint and break upon the earth. Esen could feel the ice freeze the wind. Ace could feel the animals panic unsure where to go urging all to small barriers he was making and to hibernate once more.

It had only been five minutes and all the gods except for Atlas were terrified.

In the hills the corrupted pack killed together. Fighting burrowers head on killing the creatures within seconds with their bare hands. Biting clawing and chewing the meat. Soaking in the blood and guts of the creatures. The ice greeted the three and they thrived in it thanks to their new pack leaders influence. There was no one left to stop them.