Supremacy Games

1954  Zion.

The same universe...The Eternal Kingdom, twenty million years more or less from Felix's birth...

The three rulers were seen hovering before the universe's heart, which had been pulsing with blinding light for years now...Eris, Uranus, Ares, and even Lilith were there too.

They were all gazing at the universe's heart, awaiting, awaiting the birth of a new celestial as the tablet had prophesied.

Suddenly, the universe's heart flared radiantly, causing everyone to shield their eyes from the burning celestial light.

When the light died out, a small celestial humanoid figure was born...His features were soft and childlike, but his eyes held the infinite spark of creation itself.

"A celestial was really born...How marvelous." Lilith remarked curiously.

The cosmos seemed to hold its breath as the child floated forward, his tiny hands reaching out instinctively toward the Rulers.

Medusa reached out to hold him. The moment she caught him, she showed a faint gentle smile and said, "Welcome our newest little member to the family...Let he be our salvation."

"Who wants to do the honor and name him?" She asked as she looked at the bunch.

"How about Zion?" Eris suggested with a kind smile as she bobbed the baby in his nose.

After hearing his name, the celestial child's smile illuminated the expanse as he was gently embraced into their world.

Over the years, the Eternal Kingdom flourished under his presence.

The child's laughter echoed through the kingdom's domains, his reality-manipulating powers created wonders that brought joy and awe to all who gazed upon them...But also unnerved them on the low.

Even the three rulers were surprised to see a celestial with powers to manipulate reality, this made them believe that he might awaken to be the universe's consciousness if he reached his full strength.

However, since the tablet told them that he was the key to their salvation, all they could do was put their guards up and see where the wind took them.

Yet, not in their wildest dreams did they expect the prophecy tablet's next instructions to be this:

"Seal the child of the Heart...Bind his light in the Imprisonment Grounds, and let no celestial hand nor voice reach him..."

They were even given instructions to build a sealing hall to put him in.

As they gazed at the newest instructions, the three rulers were confused for a moment, but then, their confusion turned to relief.

They knew that it was getting close for him to awaken as he was absorbing celestial energy like a bottomless well.

If the tablet hadn't released those instructions, they would have done something themselves to make sure that he never awakened. At least, not until they completely figure out what would become after awakening.

"It will be a bit difficult to convince the unigins," Medusa frowned.

"There won't be much convincing to be done." Ymir uttered calmly, "The child has been scaring everyone with his omnipotent power to change reality."

"They also know that if he were to awaken, he would be a much more dangerous foe than us combined. In addition, he would be eating up their precious celestial energy." Amun-Ra added coldly.

As expected, after the sealing hall was built and the meeting commenced to banish Zion and seal him on imprisonment grounds, the majority of the votes were in favor.

Only Artemis, Apollo, and Eris' voices seemed against it, but they were drowned...

"No!!! Why!! No!! Please!! I didn't do anything!! Aunties!! Uncles!!! Save me!! I didn't do anything!!"

The unigins turned their heads and back against Zion under his beseeching and heartwrenching cries.

As he watched their retreating backs, all Zion could do was cry his heart out, feeling the ultimate form of betrayal.

A betrayal by the ones he loved the most...

The three rulers gazed at the flood of tears, running down his cheeks, with an emotionless expressions. Then, they sent him away to the imprisonment grounds after sealing him in the hall.

As Zion found himself basking in pitch-black darkness and silence that almost consumed his heartbeats, he could do nothing but curl up in a ball and continue to sob silently, his heart utterly shattered...

But, soon a sudden voice resounded in his mind.

'Betrayal never feels pleasant.'

'Who's there!' Zion shouted with an agitated tone, but the hint of fear wasn't hidden from his voice.

'Easy there, boy...I am the cause this place has been turned into an Imprisonment Grounds.'

'You...Kronos?' Zion wiped his tears and snot, his expression marked with incredulity.

'You will arrive to understand down in the future.'

19:12

'In the flesh.' Kronos replied.

'You are still here after all that time?!' Zion asked with a shocked tone, 'What did you even do?'

Zion had heard stories about Kronos from other unigins, but no one had ever told him why was he sealed here.

'I don't remember why I was imprisoned.' Kronos chuckled.

'...'

Zion went quiet, feeling like he was being tricked.

'I know, I know, shocking, right? The guardian of space and time can't remember things.' Kronos smiled faintly as he murmured the last part, 'But, it's for my own good.'

'Huh? What do you mean?' Zion was surprised.

'Being a know-it-all isn't pleasant.' Kronos smiled wryly, 'The things I know, the things I saw, not even the three rulers can fathom...'

'Are you playing a prank on me? How can that be a bad thing?' Zion's tone turned loathsome, 'If I had such knowledge, I wouldn't have been betrayed.'

'...'

Kronos went silent for a moment, sensing the massive amount of animosity building up within Zion's heart.

But, he ignored it and continued on.

'You will soon come to understand that the truth about our universe isn't for the faint-hearted...I have already erased my memory from it, but I can still feel the dread accompanying learning it...'

'How can something be so shocking it scares a unigin to forget it?' Zion failed to understand his thought process.

'You will arrive to understand down in the future.'

Before Zion could add anything else, Kronos left one last remark, 'Don't lose yourself in the silence, a time will arrive when you will be freed.'

'Really?! I will get freed? When? Kronos? Tell me when and go back to sleep!'

Zion started shouting in the end, but no one was there to hear him out.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Imprisonment Grounds, Kronos was seen sitted cross-legged in the center of a massive sealing chamber while having thousands of pitch-black chains, digging deep into his back.

The three celestial languages were written on those chains, illuminating faintly.

He was in his human form, appearing quite elderly and frail with his disheveled long black hair reaching hundreds of meters and covering the entire sealing hall.