Göndul is here in Bristol, protecting me from my enemies, who have yet to reveal themselves. However, what's more frightening is that Göndul hates me, and I don't have the time or energy to explain right now. I'll get to that soon. She's one of the most dangerous Valkyries, and despite being a demigod, she could rival some gods, like Dionysus and Nike. However, it could be because some of them were demigods who transcended to godhood like Dionysus, but she's not one to be taken lightly.
I first encountered Göndul in the Titan War. She was a commanding officer who fought alongside the gods at Odin's side. Her broad, fiery wings, blood red armour, and golden lance that could cut through anything and anyone. Odin gave her the name Fire Valkyrie, and believe me, she looked amazing in her armour. And I know what you're thinking, how are Valkyries in the Titan War, which was between the Greek gods and Titans? Well, that myth has many false accounts and allow me to debunk it as someone who was actually there, if my fragmented memory serves me right. Let me start from the beginning.
After the dawn of creation, then came the primordial gods, the most powerful deities. The primordials are the personification of certain things in existence in the Divine and Mortal Realms, which means they can't dwell with us. Still, the manifestation of their godly aura produces the matter of both realms. That's what we really interact with. Primordials ruled from their dwelling, known as the Celestial Realm, the realm of godly transcendence. Titans were the gods that preceded Olympians and were children of two primordial deities, Uranus and Gaia, my grandparents. However, Uranus wasn't the tyrant the mythological books say he was. My grandfather is a peaceful and timid, yet powerful god. Whereas, Chronos was an unruly tyrant who envied his father's authority and was a poor father himself.
My grandparents enjoyed embracing each other to produce more gods, and this led to a scheme for Chronos to overthrow Uranus as King of Olympus. Once, when the manifestations of Uranus and Gaia descended to reunite, Chronos attacked Uranus and castrated him. From his blood, Gaia later created the giants. But Chronos bathed in the remnants of his blood and inherited a portion of the primordial power. With this power, he sealed the entrance of the primordials to manifest in the Divine and Mortal Realms, the Pyli, thus dominating Olympus.
In mythology, it is said that after Chronos overthrew Uranus, he received a prophecy that one of his own children would overthrow him, just as he had overthrown Uranus. He then swallows his children except me, and I then free my siblings and overthrow him, slice him into pieces and throw him into Tartarus. This couldn't be further from the truth. When Chronos overthrew Uranus, I was already a young god, and he did not swallow my siblings. My siblings and I all grew up together.
However, we never grew up on Olympus. Chronos sent us into other godly domains to study how they ran their domains and, in turn, one day return to help govern Olympus effectively. If we were to fail this task, we would be punished just like Prometheus. You thought I was the one who punished Prometheus? That was Chronos, and it was because he thought Prometheus wanted to sleep with Rhea.
In our absence, Chronos grew more conceited and drunk with the primordial power on Olympus. His godly compulsion grew so strong that he could compel any god and titan. No god could challenge him except a few superior deities like Odin, Ra, Amaterasu, Huitzilopochtli, and Shiva. These were among the oldest gods, after the primordials, that were powerful enough to challenge Chronos.
In secret, my mother, Rhea, sought the help of these superior gods to reopen the Pyli. She was successful in persuading them, except Odin. Rhea pleaded and even suggested that her husband might set his eyes on Asgard one day. However, Odin was confident in his ability to defend Asgard, and he was within his rights to believe so. Desperate to open the Pyli, Rhea offered Olympus as a vassal domain of Asgard, meaning an Olympian will rule Olympus but under the authority of Asgard. Odin rejected the offer, and Loki, god of mischief, interjected and gave a counteroffer; Rhea becomes one of his brides, and one of her children rules Olympus independently of Asgard. Odin agreed to his proposal, and Rhea reluctantly accepted, but refused to bear him any offspring because she still cared for Chronos. Thus, Odin became my stepfather. However, neither my siblings nor I acknowledged him as our father, and he was content with that.
The superior gods rallied their fellow gods to retake the Pyli and reopen it, allowing the primordials to return to the Divine and Mortal Realm to punish Chronos. Chronos, through godly compulsion, rallied all the titans and giants to fight against them. It was a vicious war, with battles that lasted for months in the Divine Realm, where the landscape was altered with each passing battle. I was in most battles with Göndul, and we got close during the war.
The last battle took place on Mount Olympus at the Pyli. Alongside me, Göndul and her Valkyrie sisters, Hades, Thor, Anubis, Susanoo and Tsukuyomi, made the vanguard unit that had to hold down Chronos. The battle raged on for days until I struck the final blow onto Chronos' neck with a bolt of lightning I saw flashing across the sky. We held him down as long as we could until the Pyli opened and the manifestations of all the primordials descended: Uranus, Gaia, Chaos, Izanagi, Erebus, Tartarus, Eros, and Nyx, to name a few. They judged Chronos and found him guilty of high treason against the Celestial Realm. As punishment, Chaos blinded him, Gaia removed his tongue, Uranus cut him into eight pieces (serves him right), Night bound him, and Tartarus swallowed him. His punishment was grotesque, but that's how we, as deities, get punished if we cross the line.
The celebrations proceeded after, and by unanimous decision, they crowned me King of Olympus because I had struck down Chronos; hence, my title as god of the sky and lightning came to be.
Later, after the celebrations, I got really drunk with my brothers and invited Göndul to my new room for some action. I knew she was excited because we had so much 'energy' to release. But come morning, I found out that Hera tricked her into going to the wrong room while she snuck into my room and banged me like crazy. Göndul was heartbroken and never spoke to me again. Oh yeah, incest doesn't exist among gods because Uranus was actually Gaia's son and husband.
Now, you know the story of the true Titan War, and you also know that Göndul would have been Queen of Olympus if Hera hadn't tricked me. How do I even trust that she will actually protect me if she hasn't spoken to me in over four millennia? I need to know who Göndul is in the Mortal Realm. All I know is that her first name is Cindy and that she's close to me.