Hazel followed her mother to the island for the last time, but she quickly realized that her mother was no longer under Gaea's control, but was going to give herself to Alcyoneus as a sacrifice to save Hazel. This continued until the night where Alcyoneus was supposed to rise. She used Hazel's power over all the riches below the earth to bring forth the giant Alcyoneus. Once in Alaska, Gaea would take over Marie's body and lure Hazel to a phantom island in Resurrection Bay. Pluto tried to tell her it was a trap, but she wouldn't listen and took their daughter with her when she left. She lured Marie Levesque, a lover of Pluto, to Alaska, a land where the gods would be out of her reach. Gaea used the opportunity to try and once again raise her children, the Gigantes. Gaea once again started to wake while the gods were fighting themselves during World War II. Some time later, Gaea used the Giants she has been harboring during the First Olympian War to avenge the Titans by attacking Mount Olympus, only for them to be defeated by the Olympian gods and demigods. It is unknown if Metis escaped or not, but she never conceived the second child, so Gaea's plan, at least for a time, failed. He convinced Hephaestus to ax his head open and out came a matured Athena. A few days later, Zeus received severe headaches. To avoid this fate, Zeus convinced Metis to transform into a fly, and then swallowed her. She prophesied that Zeus' wife Metis would bear two children, first a daughter, and second a son who would eventually overthrow him. However, that was not Gaea's last attempt to overthrow the Olympians. Gaea then made peace with the Olympians and promised not to bother the Olympians again. However, with the help of the other gods, Zeus, with his lightning bolts, was able to trap Typhon under Mount Etna. He, with the help of Echidna, was able to render Zeus helpless and (because Zeus is immortal) imprison him in a cave. Typhon, being the father of all monsters, was one of the worst enemies Zeus and the Olympians had to face. Gaea's first attempt to avenge the Titans was, with the spirit of Tartarus, giving birth to Typhon. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades used their father's scythe to chop Kronos into a thousand pieces as he did to Ouranos, and banished the other Titans who sided with Kronos into Tartarus with bonds that they will never break. Zeus, through deception by his mother Rhea and with the help of Gaea, avoided this fate, and later rescues the Hekatonkheires from Gaea's womb and the Cyclops from Tartarus, and forced his father to vomit up his brothers and sisters.Ī war then started between the Titans and the gods, Hecatonchires, and Cyclops. Gaea then prophesied that Kronos in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, and so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by devouring his young. However, Kronos didn't rescue his brothers, and Gaea was angry with him. He took a scythe Gaea made and used it to get rid of his father. She asked her children to get rid of Ouranos so she could save her other children, and only Kronos was brave enough to do it. She was also the mother of the Protogenoi Pontus, the primordial personification of the ocean.Īfter Ouranos pushed the Hekatonkheires back into Gaea's womb and the Cyclops into Tartarus, Gaea was furious. Gaea also gave birth to the first Cyclopses as well as the Hekatonkheires. She also consorted with her grandsons, Poseidon and Zeus, her second husband and brother, Tartarus, and her son, Pontus. When they fail to end the gods' reign, she sends forth her children with Tartarus, the Giants. Gaea and her husband as well as son Ouranos became partners and brought forth the Titans, their children. She is however, ironically somewhat responsible for their rise to power. In Greek Mythology, she mainly exists as an enemy of the Olympians, sending Typhon and later the Giants to overthrow them. Also, the three founders of both groups were two men and one woman.Gaea was the first (in some stories third) being to arise from Chaos at the beginning of time. Though sometimes presented as a maternal figure, particularly toward her Titan children, she can also be very cruel. They act without being governed by a higher authority and are privately funded by a billionaire benefactor. Like the League, they were formed out of necessity to combat an aggressive invasion from a surprise enemy (Sentinel/aliens).
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