ATLAS - Chapter Two: The Fall of the Titan

Chapter Two: The Fall of the Titan

Ash drifted over the ruins of Elyon Prime, carried by winds that holds only the remains of this world. Atlas moved through the rubble, each step heavy with silence. The voices were dust, only the ghosts of memories answered him now. He searched for them; for his father; for Nyx, but the world that had shaped him had fallen into oblivion.

He knew there was only one place left that might offer answers. A place where Titans once went when destiny turned dark.

Eryndor.

A world circling two suns, a sanctuary of forgotten truths, the resting place of the Altar of Convergence, where past and future blurred, and consequence ruled all.

As Atlas stepped onto the cracked stones of the Temple, the air thickened, pulling at his very soul, visions surged, his father, bound in shadow suffering, and Nyx standing before a colossal Phoenix of fire. Reality twisted inward, and from the mist of broken time, Kharon, the System Breaker, emerged..

Atlas felt himself breaking apart, his body falling away into flickers of blue light. The hammer hit. His strength was gone. The pain faded. The world blurred. And just before everything vanished...

He saw her;

Silver human hair flowing through the mist like a thread pulled through destiny. She stood unmoving, untouched by the ruin around them; like she had always been there.

The light broke.

And Atlas was gone...

There were no words. No warnings. Atlas struck first, golden energy flowing from his fists, but Kharon absorbed the blow like a mountain standing against a storm.

With a brutal surge, Kharon seized Atlas and toss him across the altar, before Atlas could rise, he was already upon him, moving at a speed that not even light could follow.

In Kharon’s hands, a hammer of dark red origin formed, its surface alive, shaking with boundless fury. He swung with the weight of extinction.

Time fractured.
The hammer froze as it hit Atlas.
The dust stopped falling.
The light itself seemed to hold its breath.

To Be Continue...