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Time, time, time. What was time but a perception of movement? No, rather, a perception of change. But its not set in stone. The absolute fates of old were overthrown when Zeus violated the old laws. The future, and fate, changed. Of course they did not go away. The divines are always locked into Fate and Predetermination. That is the rule of most myths and legends. Even Zeus would have given up his Kingdom in Olympus and domain over the skies if he violated the rule of this world.

...And didn't he lose his Divine Right to rule when he defied fate? He changed the outcome of every myth, and erased all the rules of the world. So, in that respect, it was only natural that he fall to the Merged. Just as Kronus and Uranus before him had lost their Divine Right and had thus been slaughtered by their children, Zeus too was erased from the world. The World had been given a clean slate. But still, the New Gods were still beholden to the rules of fate. The world had no truly balanced itself. With the Mergeds rebellion, many of the important roles filled by the Gods were now empty. This was only the calm before the storm, the storm that would bring void, destruction, and then equilibrium. It is the law of cycles. 

In Japan, thousands of miles from Greece, and a dimension away from Olympus, a human decided to play at the occult and summon an entity beyond the scope of humans. Do not rise up what you cannot put down; that is the first rule of Magic that even the Gods follow. The piece of art that the young girl had been working on slowly faded away, into nothingness. It was replaced by a layer of pure blackness that seemed to quiver in the same manner as jello. In that darkness, a figure could be seen, featureless. Stars slowly began to appear behind the figure as it came closer to her within the painting, yet didn't seem to move its legs.