[ Sephratis had always been about power. He had a lot of it but he sought for more and more.
During this time, the Olympians were the strongest mystics along with minor gods and goddesses that spread throughout the realm. The minor gods and goddesses were the first of the elder god's victims, falling prey to the powerful conjurer and under the radar of the Olympians who did not let the sudden death of several minor deities affect them.
Eventually, Sephratis ran into Triton, the marine god, who recognized the conjurer was responsible for the death of his offsprings, the tritonides, and challenged him.
The marine god would learn his lesson a little too late as he succumbed to the same fate as his offsprings.
After learning of Triton's death, Amphitrite, his mother, would take up a complaint to the Queen, Hera. Normally, Zeus would be the one informed but the king was occupied with preparations for the 'Theikos Giotazontas' and was not to be bothered with other matters while he prepared for it.
Sensing whoever murdered Triton to be extremely powerful, white-armed Hera decided to summon the dispenser of dues, Nemesis, even if she knew her husband would disapprove of such judgment.
Nemesis conversed with her daughter, Luella, when the light of Hera shone and called upon her. Despite being more powerful than Hera, Invidia's role as the goddess of divine retribution never ceased even while in exile. So when Hera called, fair Nemesis found herself in Nym'Roal, in front of Hera, who had long, wavy, dark blonde hair and large, full, brown eyes, her dignity and queenliness of form declare.
This action weakened the veil that made Nym'Roal inaccessible to other realms. ]
Hunter ordered tea.
[ Nemesis was surprised owl-eyed Hera called her. "Do not be surprised," said the Queen. "As long as you breathe, O' Nemesis, you'll remain the goddess of divine retribution and thus own it to the Olympians and the Titans, the ones that were our allies during the Titanomachy, like yourself, or the ones that were absolved of their crimes like fair Themis and crafty Prometheus, to avenge us whenas we are wronged, and inflict a fair and equal punishment on the wrongdoer.
"Indeed a great calamity that inflicts all of us immortals, and even the mortals, has befallen us," she continued. "The Olympian, Triton, has been slaine by an unknown force. I suspect this force is responsible for the murder of the tritonides and several other gods and I fear they may be coming for us all. Great Zeus is busying with the Theikos Giotazontas, you're the next suitable person."
Nemesis nodded after hearing what owl-eyed Hera had to say. "O' Hera," she started. "I hold no grudge against you or the Olympians or the people of my race who did nothing when Zeus banished me from this realm to a realm that sought to kill me. Zeus erred when he overrode my judgment but the rest of you watched in silence and only spoke in whispers and hushed tone in agreement with me. I do not hold that against you."
"I will ensure whoever is responsible for the murder of the son of Poseidon pays with blood but I will ask you of one thing in return: Not that you ask Zeus to recall me from my exile but that you allow that I bring my children here to see this beautiful realm that is Nym'Roal. I have told them several stories about wandering islands and dancing trees, I'd like to show it to them."
"Your children are welcome to Nym'Roal anytime. I would also like to meet them, I'm sure you've told them about me." Nemesis smiles. "I will say though: I was surprised to hear you have a child and though you never said it, I assumed you were like chaste Artemis, and Pallas Athena, and pure Hestia."
"Your assumption would have been accurate had I remained in Nym'Roal as no other stirred in me what the one now known as the Dark Majesty did."
And so Nemesis was allowed to return to Hel and bring her daughter with the Dark Majesty, Cora, and Letu, the stray Demon she took in as her own.
Luella was asked to remain in Grau Hel and look after the region until their return.
In Olympus, Phoibos Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto, the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, and more, saw flashes of the future. In the flashes, he saw the dispenser of dues, Nemesis, make a grand return to Nym'Roal, through an eye-shaped portal, with a huge number of demons behind her and one that was called the Dark Majesty in front of her and several gods, Olympians, and Titans lying motionless on the ground.
Apollo narrated this vision to his mother, Leto, as he was unsure whether or not he should interfere with fate. Leto would comfort her son and would seek her friend, Demeter's counsel.
Demeter would convince Leto to persuade her son to ensure his visions never come true but when the Titaness saw the hesitation in her son's eyes, she would employ her friend to try for a second time.
"You cannot let the demons set foot on Nym'Roal," Demeter said to Apollo. "They would strip the earth of its agriculture, grain, bread, and its rich bounty. The flashes you saw are naught but a fraction of the chaos they would unleash on our green, round, world."
So Apollo deliberated on his own and concluded he would not allow that reality to come to pass.
Elsewhere, Hera becomes increasingly unsure if she's making the right decision by recalling Nemesis from the exile imposed on her by the King of the Olympians, Zeus. So the Queen meets with her sister, Demeter, and tells her about everything, hoping that the goddess would justify her.
"Did you say she was in Hel?"
"Yes?"
"I understand why you'd turn to her. She was one of the most powerful gods and her banishment was unjust. However, the realm she was in all those years is black, evil, and corrupt. We should be looking for ways to seal off the route to travel here from there, not calling people who have spent several years there," said Demeter.
Hera thought about what Demeter said and nodded. "You're right. Although Nemesis said she held no grudge against is, she might have just been saying that so I allowed her back into Nym'Roal. Who knows what that realm has already done to her mind? What was I thinking? I could've doomed us all."
Demeter smiled and placed her hand on her sister's shoulder. "You did what you thought was best for us," she comforted her. "You should ask your son, Ares, to deal with this ... god-killer situation, he's the one best suited for it."
"Where is Nemesis anyway? I recall you said you spoke with her."
"Indeed. But she returned to the dark realm to get her children. Can you believe it? Nemesis has children."
"Nemesis? I can't believe she'd let a man of a lesser race deflower her even if she is a titan, as a god that once resided with the Olympians it is a disgrace that she'd allow something like that to happen. I hope the Demon is at the very least a Lord or the son of one, that would make it less embarrassing than it already is."
"I think he is," said Hera. "Nemesis referred to him as the Dark Majesty."
"The Dark Majesty?" Demeter immediately began plotting something in her head. "I must speak with her," said Demeter.
"I thought you didn't want her anywhere near hear."
Demeter placed her hand on each one of Hera's shoulders and shook her lightly. "When Nemesis reappears, do not inform her of your wish to send her back to the dark realm. Instead, send the titan to me, tell her a goddess of her race wishes to speak with her."
"And who might that goddess of her race be?"
"It doesn't matter," said Demeter, careful not to utter Leto's name in front of the Queen of the Olympians as she knew how much the latter detests Leto even to this day. "Ask her to meet in the Temple of Apollo not far from here."
"Fine," said Hera. "I'd tell Nemesis of a goddess of her race who wishes to speak to her. I hope you know what you are doing asking to meet her after discouraging me from keeping her here any longer."
Demeter left for the Temple of Apollo where she'd hoped to meet with Nemesis. She asked her attendants to call upon Apollo and his mother, Leto, and inform them she had thought of a way to prevent the Demons from flooding through eye-shaped portals into precious Nym'Roal.
As Demeter rode her chariot, she ran into an unexpected goddess; Maat.
"Maat? You're a long way from home," noted Demeter.
"You intend to alter fate," said Maat.
"And you intend to stop me?"
"No, not yet at least. But bear this in mind, Demeter, I'd do whatever is necessary to ensure this world does not plunge into a state of chaos."
"As I'd expect from you, Maat."
"Do you?" Maat raised an eyebrow. "I shan't act for now but the moment I sense a tip in the balance of this world, I will, unequivocally, put you and your fellow Olympians down for good."
"You would unleash the god-eater on us?" Demeter asked.
"No, I'd do it myself."
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