(Rated M for Mature.)

For every beginning there is an end, and this was the end of Olympus and the one who cause it watch the world crumple around him.

Kratos looked around him and saw nothing but destruction around him. The sky was black with clouds that reach the horizon, the seas were restless, and souls freed from the underworld drifted aimlessly.

He looked back at the corpse of latest victim of his genocidal crusade, Zeus the King of the Gods, his own father who layed in a pool of his golden blood.

Zeus, the Ruler of Olympus, who overthrew his own father, Kronos, now was killed by his own son.

How was the King of power killed? By a weapon of unparalleled power, a spell that could change the world? An attack that shook the world itself?

Yes and No.

Kratos beaten his father, the king of the gods, to death with bare hands,

Just hit after hit after hit until his vision was blacken by the blood.

Kratos hand cover his abdomen that receive great wound, not one from his latest battle, one that was self inflicted to release hope back to the world and he watch the tiny spec of blue light float aimlessly as the lost soul. He was tired and only want peace from pain cause by his past sins.

Kratos took one last look around him; the dying world, the corpse, the souls, his weapons, hope... and a women.

A women with orange eyes that glow like warm flames of the hearth.

He know she who was, the Last Olympian, Hestia. She was no threat to him. She never got in his way. He had no reason to kill her and he didn't want to.

When their eyes met she quickly hid behind a rock clearly afraid of him.

Smart move.

Kratos proceed to walk to the edge of the cliffs and look down to an unknown abyss, he was tired and did not care any more.

He did not know what he wanted anymore and after everything he went through, he felt nothing and wanted nothing.

Kratos took one last breath and threw himself off the cliff into the unknown.

She was the First and The Last Olympian.

She was the first born to the titan king and queen.

She was also the first one to eaten by her father. Not a fun experience.

Traumatizing even.

Her name is Hestia, goddess of the hearth and home and now she was alone in a dying world. Her family killed by a mortal.

Well, they kinda deserved it, they weren't the nicest of being. Some of them did some pretty nasty things to others.

Others being the mortals of the world, their fellow gods who didn't have thrones or a place on the council, and the prisoners of those they deem deserving of the punishment.

But they were family and you don't get to get chose your family. There were some good times. No, really their were.

Hestia usually sat by her hearth and tend the flame, watching the families around world being together.

Hestia even once saw Kratos with his family and friends eating, smiling, laughing. Talking to his comrade, holding his wife in a loving embrace, playing with his daughter like a good father.

She also saw the horror he became.

A monster of untold bloodlust and destruction that even the immortals themselves fear. She could only watch in horror of the acts he committed.

Some of these act in the name of the gods.

Now she watched from the side as The Ghost of Sparta threw himself into the unknown.

Hestia waited until she could no sense his presence and came from her hiding spot. She looked at devastation he created. She remember when their eyes met.

'They were empty, filled with only numbness.' She thought.

Hestia heart filled with sadness and pity of not just the world and her fallen family, but for Kratos as well.

'I wish none of this had ever happened,' Hestia thought 'I wish that him didn't have to suffer like this.'

Tears begun to form and run down her cheeks, she try to wipe them away, but the flowed endlessly.

"Is this really the end?" She sobbed "After everything, this is how it all end!?"

She could hear the prayers of the surviving mortal begging for help.

"Please, help us!"

"Help us! Help!"

"The fires, they won't stop!"

"Dam you Olympians! dam you to chaos!"

"Anyone, please, help us."

Hestia cover her ears and shut her eyes and try to drown out their crys, but they were to loud.

"What can I ever do?" The goddess cried, this level of destruction was far beyond her capabilities, the world was too damage. Gaia herself was killed by him, the embodiment of the earth was kill!

She then began to feel warm and open her eyes to a see a tiny piece of hope float toward her. She held her hand and the piece of hope float into her palm. Hestia felt the hope course through her. Her heart lost it sorrow and gain the will to fight.

No! She had to try something and she had to try save them! Their has to be a way!

She tried searching for gods, immortal and even titans to help her. She search everything, but all she would find is the fading essence of the those who were killed or couldn't survive the lost their power.

She went back to Olympus and searched the temples and private quarters to find a way to stop the end of the world.

In Aphrodite and Apollo quarters, she found these strange devices that buzz and were every sticky.

Ew. After washing her hands, repeatedly, she went to Athena library and found a secret stash of scrolls that show humans in strange and graphic positions.

"Huh, never thought Athena would be curious about these kind of things."

She quickly pocketed one and went back to looking.

Hestia went to Hephaestus workshop and found something new called a phone, but it didn't seem to work, so tossed it aside. Once more she found nothing that could help her.

She went through Hermes temples and found several missing items; including her favorite bracelet that she lost a few years ago.

"I knew it! He did steal it!" Hestia huffed. She was almost glad he had his legs chop off. Almost.

She went Demeter temple in hope of finding something that undo the decay of world. Hestia instead found a secret room filled with pictures and statues of Hades.

She immediately left, but swore she saw lipstick markings on the Hades memorabilia.

She went through every temple, building, and room on Olympus to find something to help her, of course running around without paying attention to surrounding would eventually lead to Hestia to...

CRASH

"OW!"

Run into something. And that something was the answer she was looking for; Pandora pithos, the very item that started all this.

Hestia had ran straight into it, kicking her bare toes right onto it.

"OW!", she fell down and clutch her foot in pain, "Stupid jar!" Hestia cursed "ouchie." She looked at foot and saw that big toe was bleeding, the ichor flowing out the fresh wound.

She began blowing air at her toes to make pain go away.

Hestia began healing her injury and noticed that tiny specks of essence were flowing out of her body.

She was beginning to fade, Hestia stomach twisted into a knot and she quickly move toward her hearth and saw that flames had begun to weaken.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no," she realized that she was running out of time and it wouldn't be long before faded and died. The prayers of the mortal had grow quieter by minute, either the mortals had died or they simply have given up.

The Olympians throne had to crumble and dissolve into dust. But, something had come to her mind, why were the thrones still here, shouldn't they have been destroyed by now?

Then Hestia realised why the throne hadn't faded yet, the essence of fallen gods was preventing the thrones from being completely destroyed.

"That it!" Hestia beamed "If I can collect the divine essence, I prevent Olympus from being destroyed!"

But how? What could contain such godly enegry? No mere box, bag or jar can hold the powers of the gods...

Expect...

She looked back at the pithos and thought if it can hold all the evils of the world, then maybe...

Hestia looked at the spot where her foot had hit it, tiny drop of her ichor were on it. She looked closer and saw tiny amounts of her energy were flowing into the jar!

It might work, it just might!

Hestia pick up jar and teleport to where Zeus body laid, or what was now left of it.

She placed the pithos next to his fading corpse and waited until the essence began flowing into the jar.

Hestia watched in amazement until Zeus's body was gone and his remaining power went into the jar.

"It works!" Hestia did a happy jump and pick the pithos to collect the rest of power she needed.

Hestia went through the heavens, the seas, the land and the underworld and collected all the essence she could, pandora pithos slowly filling up and becoming heavier and heavier to point that she could barely even move it.

Finally she could no longer feel anymore divine or magical power, it was in the jar now.

Hestia wipe of her brow, collecting divine energy was really tough and tiring work.

"Whew," she took a breath and crack her knuckles, "Alright, let's do this."

She teleported herself and the filled jar back to the center of the throne room, her hearth only had low glow in it and the throne were on the verge of destruction.

She place the pithos in the center of the room and slowly open the jar and stood back, waiting for great power to be released and she wait and wait and nothing was happening.

"Oh great, dont tell me that this didn't-"

BAM!

A power shockwave sent her flying into a marble pillar at terminal velocity and almost knock her unconscious.

Hestia rosed up, her head was pounding, as if Athena was in her skull and trying to get out.

The throne room was filled the light so bright that Hestia cover her eyes, the light began to die down and she drew away her hand from eyes and she could not believe what see was seeing.

'Ok, I must have brain damage or something' Hestia thought.

They were alive. Her family, their alive.

"We're Alive!" Said Zeus in complete shock.

"How?" Said Athena curiosity.

"My legs! They back!" Hermes dance with joy.

"I'm still hot!" Claimed Apollo.

"Not as hot as me!" Declared Aphrodite.

"Shut up, both of you!" Yelled Artemis looking around alert.

Hestia then proceeded to black out from the shock of her dead family resurrection and the concussion she received from blast.

The Olympians quickly responded to the dying world and immediately got to work to prevent the extinction of everything.

Zeus calmed the sky and storms, Poseidon stop the flooding and earthquakes, and Hades reclaimed the souls.

Apollo and Hermes stops the raging diseases and cured the sick.

Demeter and Artemis brought back the plants and wildlife.

Hera, Athena, and even Ares, who was pardon who his past actions, calm the mortal to regain their faith for the Olympians.

The evils of the world were returned to Pandora Pithos and Hephaestus secured in a new location.

But the Olympians weren't the only one the returned, Gaia, the Titans and other immortals that slayed by the Marked Warrior were also revived.

"Are you sure, Hades?" Zeus said.

"Yes, Kronos was revived as well, but it seem that he cant manifests in physical form anymore." Replied the King of Underworld.

"And Gaia?" Zeus question again.

"She still in deep sleep and I believe it may be from a day to a thousand years when she may be awaken again."

"I see, thank you Hades." Said Zeus.

Hades nodded and leaned against a pillar with his arms crossed, trying to look cool.

But the Gods thought instead that he looked terrifying as always, except for Hestia, who always treated him with love and Demeter who thought,

'Hades, he looks so cool!"

She "totally did not have a crush on him" it was just affection and admiration and his beautiful black, flowing hair.

"Hestia, please come to the center of the throne room," Zeus announced and Hestia made her way to the center with looks of love aimed towards her, even the stoic of the gods looked upon her with affection.

"Hestia, my beloved sister, you have saved us and the world from certain demise," Zeus boomed announced for all of Olympus and Greece to hear.

The Olympians, minor gods, spirits, and immortal servants all appalled the goddess of hearth, who began to blush from all the attention she was getting.

"You shall be rewarded with throne of your very own and one wish of your heart desire," Zeus continued "Anything you want you shall have."

They all waited for her response.

"Well, I-I-I, you see," she stuttered still embarrassed by being thecenter of attention.

"She soooo cute!" Aphrodite gushed and for once the other agreed with her.

Hestia looked a deep breath and said

"I want us, all of us! To be better beings, to treat mortal, each other, and the world with better care and love." She stated filling her cheeks glowing warm from speaking in front of everybody.

Everyone smiled at the goddess selflessness and kindness.

"Then it shall be done!" Zeus boomed again "We will be better gods and treat mortal and their world with better care!"

The Olympians scored on their new path and Apollo then said,

"Now let get this party started!"

And the new age had begun.

Many thing would in next five thousands years.

First, they erased Kratos from their history and his name was not to be spoken. Several of heroic actions and deed was given to the new heros this age; Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Jason and several other were given the right s of his deeds.

Second, his more barbarian and evil deeds were pins on their enemies and mortal they didn't like.

They rewritten history so the mortals would believe that gods were unparalleled beings and to prevent any idea that possible for mortal to kill a god.

Unfortunately, in the nineteenth century, some researcher discovered a vase with Kratos on it and his story. But, luckily this became a minor myth and some didn't believe it to be canon to the rest greek pantheon myths.

This minor myth was called The Bane of Olympus.

The gods did keeps their promise by distancing them from the mortal world and only would appear when needed, or chanellge, or anger, or when really hot mortal was out for walk looked like the could use some company.

Zeus would continue his affairs and see many great halfblood heros; who Hera would try to kill or a least ruins their lives.

Demeter had a beautiful daughter,

Persephone, who Hades them kidnapped and married. Demeter gotten rid of Hades collection saying "He should chosen me, I would made a perfect wife for him!" she would have Persephone tell her all the things would to her, which Demeter would proceed to write down.

Athena found a way to have children of her own while still remaining a maiden; her children would from her mind, brain children. She still working on the name.

Gaia would rise and create the giants to over thrown the gods, but were defeated by gods with the help of their half blood children.

Dionysus, who was rewarded for his great heroism, was given godhood and Hestia, to the shock of everybody, gave up her throne to him to on the council.

All they did was argue and tried to her to side them. Plus she felt bad for Hades and the other gods who didn't have thrones.

Eventually, the flame of west moved and they ended up in Rome and became the roman gods with different beliefs and personalities.

The flames continued to move west and Olympus and it inhabits move with it.

Their current location was a top of the empire state building in New York City.

They realised they needed a place for hero to train to serve them and a safe haven for their children.

And so Camp Half Blood was established and Chiron, the brilliant and immortal centaur was put in charge of their training.

Dionysus had to work there as a punishment much to his chagrin, he regret going after that off limits nymph.

Then a new prophesy of the destruction of Olympus would announce.

Much to Ares disappointment, World War Two ended only after five years.

"Five years! Five years! What kind of war only last five years!" Ared fumed

"All these mortal even do is disappoint me."

"Ares, millions of people died." Replied Hermes.

"Big deal, mortals die all the time."

Ares said.

Everything was normal on Olympus, which was to that pretty everybody was arguing with other.

That awful war was over and world was growing.

One day Hestia was tending to the flames and enjoy watching the families of world and loving this peacful-

"NO!"

The poker she used flew out of her hand and she fell into hearth.

"THIS CAN'T BE TRUE!"

Hestia pulled herself out and brush the ash off and flashed to the throne room.

When she arrived she and the other gods saw Zeus had Apollo pushes into corner, the sun god looked absolutely terrified.

"Great, what has my brother done now?" Asked his twin sister.

"Nothing." Replied her Father.

"Really?" Artemis said surprised.

Zeus turn to his fellow gods, his eye wide with alertness that spreads to the rest them.

"What? What is going on?" Demand Hera.

Zeus rubbed his beard and decided just to blunt.

"A new prophesy has been revealed," Zeus said somberly.

Apollo was shaking in his new designer shoes.

"And what kind of prophesy is it?" Said Demeter who was enjoying a bowl of oatmeal.

Zeus was silence for a moment and then said,"The next destroyer of Olympus."

And just like that everybody week was ruined.

The Olympians went into shock.

Hestia felt coldness rush through her body, Athena mind went blank, Aphrodite began rapidly change eye and hair colors, Hera looked she was going to faint.

Hermes legs began to shake uncontrollably and Hephaestus just sat down and down fiddles with some scrap.

Artemis looked a brother with fear,

"Apollo please they me that this is bad joke?" Her voice broke for moment.

"First off, my jokes are great and second it all true, me and the Fates have gone over it a thousand times and it clearly states the a new destroyer of Olympus is coming!" Apollo said his own voice breaking.

Zeus turn the messager of the gods, "Hermes, go alert Poseidon and Hades and tell them about the new prophesy and to come to Olympus for a emergency meeting."

Hermes just rapidly nodded and disappeared.

Zeus went up to Hephaestus,

"Quadruple check the security for Pandora pithos."

Hephaestus put his scrap away and disappeared. He looked like he throw up.

Demeter looked at her oatmeal. "This is forever ruined for me." She left to find a new breakfast food.

Eventually the throne room was audience of immortals waiting for the kings of sea and underworld to arrive.

Hermes returned and took his seat.

"I've alerted Poseidon and Hades, they should be here soon."

Then within a second Poseidon appeared with his wife, Amphitrite and son, Triton.

Poseidon looked seasick. "Please tell me this isn't real, brother?"

His wife and son looked at him with a mixture confusion and censure, the two were born after the first destruction event.

"It real and we need try and prevent this happening again."

The flash of darkness and shadow filled the room, the inhabitants felt the temperature drop and stood back from the newest arrival.

The king of the dead had arrived along with wife and chyron, the ferryman of the underworld, follow after.

Hades was pale and he was so pale, the everyone could see his muscles underneath his skin.

"Alrighty, now that we are here, yes it is true that new destroyer prophesy have foretold!" Zeus proclaimed with great drama.

Talking begun within the audience, many who were revived and survived the first event began to panic. Those who born after were aware, but only knew very little. Some didn't even know the name of the destroyer. They just knew him as The Bane.

"Now the prophesy has stated that a half-blood child of the elder six Olympians will decided our fate," Apollo stated,"and the last destroyer, Kratos-"

"Do not say that name!" Zeus warned.

Now they knew the name of last destroyer. Kratos, how fitting, it means strength.

"Yes, sorry," Apollo continued, "was the son of Zeus, one of the big three honcho himself, so the Fates and I believe that this demigod will also be a child of the three as well."

A lot eyes on the big three, all aware that they were in the most powerful Olympians, and yet they too were overwhelmed and killed.

Zeus thought for moment and then announced for his brothers to join him in the center of the room.

"Brothers, we will prevent this prophesy from even happening," said Zeus.

"How? All prophesy come true no matter what we try," stated Poseidon, "The only one who has ever denied the Fates is also the one killed them and the rest of us."

Hades then spoke, "He right you know, how can we even prevent this?"

"Simply, the three of us will swear on the River Styx and create an oath to no longer sire any more half-bloodd children with mortals." Zeus said proud of his wit.

The went silent and then despite it being very grim situation, everyone, but Zeus, burst in laughter.

"You giving sleeping with mortals, that rich!" Said Hermes rolling on the ground.

"Yeah, I never declare war again." Laugh Ares.

"Zeus, you do have a sense humor." Snicker Hera.

"Oh my side are hurting!" Said Hades try calm himself.

After thirty minutes of uncontrollable laughter, everything calm and Zeus wait with his arms cross.

"Everybody done? Or do you all need a moment?"

"Your actually serious, aren't you?" Said Hephaestus in shock.

"Yes for how can their a destroyer, if he or she are never born it the first place?" Zeus said waiting for a response that hopefully wasn't more uncontrollable laughter.

Athena was the first to speak up, "That might actually work. "

Then Hera spoke, "Oh please, Zeus, you be spreading your whore legs within a week!"

"Oh yeah! Do you have any ideas?" Zeus snapped. Hera didn't respond, now a little embarrassed.

"Then keep your mouth shut woman!"

Zeus turned back to his brothers, "Well?"

"What about nymphs?" Said Poseidon now feeling the glare of wife burning into him.

"Nymphs are alright." Zeus said.

"Alright, I'm in." Poseidon felt the glare intensified.

"Ok then put hand forward and we declared our oath." Zeus and Poseidon put the hands forward and wait for Hades, who just standing there.

"Well? Come on Hades we don't have all day!" Said Zeus.

"Yeah, this need to be a threesome, not a twosome." Poseidon said.

Haded rubbed the back of his head and didn't meet the eyes of his brothers.

"You see there a bit problem," Hades said in low tone.

"What?" Growled the king of skys.

"Well you see, I um, um, may have already have, um, a few, um, two half-blood kids." Hades said sheepishly.

Jaw dropped and before anybody could say anything, Persephone letted put scream and began hitting Hades with her handbag.

"YOU CHEATING BASTARD!" She screamed.

"I'm sorry, babe!" Hades said shielding himself from the handbag assualt, "It's just you were on Olympus and I was lonely!"

"Two kids! Two kids! Two more than one!" Persephone screech with rage.

"You visited that slut more than once!"

"I'm sorry!" Lucky for Hades other gods pulled his bloodthirsty wife off him, she still swinging her purse at her king. Hades had purple bruises form on his arms and face.

Once more thing had to settled down, Zeus asked, "Where are they?"

Hades didn't answer knowing what would happened if he told.

"Hades, where are they?" Zeus continued," You will tell me-"

"No!" Hades stated. Zeus decided to the king card. "As your KING, I demand that you tell me!"

Hades laughed, my king he thought, I dont even had a throne on Olympus, he can only come to Olympus on his own during the winter solstice.

"Fuck you." Hades replied. This stunned everyone.

"Bad word!" Hestia cover her ears, she hated profanity.

"Excuse me!?" Zeus snarled and began walking through Hades.

"What? Are you deaf, little brother?"

Hades said, his dark aura increasing around him, other gods, including his angry wife, began to tremble before power.

"Woah! Woah! Woah!" Poisoden quickly got between his brother to prevent a civil war from beginning,

"We do not need to fighting now, we need work together, not fight!"

"No, let them fight! Kill each other!" Shouted the blood hungry Ares.

Hera smacked her unruly son.

"Ow, Mom!" Ares wined.

The kings of the sky and underworld didn't break each others gaze, not daring to show any sign of weakness before the others.

"You have three months to put them somewhere safe." Zeus said breaking the tense atmosphere.

"Fine, but try anything and there well be dire consequences." Hades said with great deal of murderous intent.

"Super, now get this oath a flowing." Spoke up Poseidon.

The Big three made oath and the heavens, seas, and earth shook with a great force.

Hades immediately left, to secure the safety of mortal love ones.

"Do you have so aggressive?" The sea king ask his brother.

"Hades has always been the stubborn one, you know that." Zeus said going to throne.

"Alrighty then, everybody go to your usual duties, the prophesy has been with, but still stay alert." Zeus announced.

But yet everybody felt unease, Apollo begun to hyperventilate.

"Wearegoingtodie!" He spasm "Diebrutaldeathandthistimenocomingback!"

"Apollo please calm down." Artemis said concern for brother.

Apollo took a deep, did settle down a little, then began to panic again.

"No,no,no,no, I need to get out of here, where a good place to go?" Apollo thought aloud, "Japan! Japan nice this time year!"

"Japan been hit with two atomic bombs." His sister Replied.

"Well it going to be better there then here when the next Bane show up!" The Apollo disappeared in flash of golden light.

Artemis let a sign, "My poor, stupid brother."

Artemis decided to check on her huntressess and continue her search for the missing god Pan.

Hestia returned to her hearth and began watch the families of world to ease her anxiety.

"I hope this works."

News flash, it didn't.

Not only is the new Bane of Olympus coming, but the old Bane shall return as well.

End of prologue.