Poseidon And Zeus Thronous In Homer's Odyssey

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There was trouble brewing on Mt. Olympus, home of the gods. Standing across from each other in the golden room stood Poseidon and Zeus ready to clash once again, both glaring with weapons at their sides. They were about to start the biggest war the world had ever seen, and all because of a ring. This ring had powers like no one had ever seen. It had the power to make you invincible. I was made of silver and had diamonds all around it. Not even the strongest of gods could weaken you while wearing this ring. It was created by Cronus, the titan king, when he began to fear there may be a rebellion coming to strike against him and overthrow hum as king. The ring was hidden in his palace only to be found by Zeus before he dropped it off the edge of Mt. Olympus by accident while battling Cronus. The ring had been missing for centuries until this day when one of Poseidon’s sons found it. Poseidon and Zeus have both had men searching all the land for the ring ever since it went missing for obvious reasons: whichever god possessed the ring would be the most powerful god on Mt. Olympus, and if the ring fell into the wrong hands the gods could be overthrown. But the ring being found may be the worst thing that ever could have happened because now the gods were about to destroy themselves.

It all started when Poseidon's son, Demetrius, found the
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In the final moment of the last battle, Poseidon tossed the ring to Demetrius then dueled with Zeus one last time. As if almost coordinated Zeus and Poseidon both charged and struck each other with their weapons at the same time. Almost instantly both of their bodies vanished and all that was left was two piles of ashes laying on the cold ground. Demetrius then realized he now possessed the ring, making him ruler of Olympus. The only problem was that he had no one to rule. All the gods had destroyed each other in this great war and Demetrius had no one to share his new kingdom