I'm The Devil

Chapter 18: Birth of Zeus

"Argh, Arrrggghhh"

"Please make it stop, I can't bear it anymore"

A woman laid on a bed with her legs spread apart trying push something out of her, she was screaming as she was in pain from trying to push out something inside her.

This woman is the goddess of fertility, childbirth, motherhood and comfort and good living.

She is currently giving birth to her sixth child and probably the last as she could not go through what happened to her other five children before this one again.

Gaia and the Nymph, Adamantheia were the ones helping her to the childbirth and also the ones who would help her hide her child from her husband. "You have to remain strong, you are the goddess of childbirth for crying out loud, this should be easy for you"

Gaia held Rhea's hands and said while releasing some of her energy into her.

Adamantheia smiled while looking at the baby that was about to pop out anytime soon, she looked at her friend "you just have to push a little more and everything will be over" Adamantheia said which gave Rhea a renewed hope and strength as she gave out a final push and scream which shook the entire Greco Realm at the birth of a new god which all the gods of the realm knew that the child with not live to see the next day.

Adamantheia held the child before passing it to the pacing mother who held her child with love and a trace of pain in her eyes.

"It is a boy, just like the last two" Rhea smiled as she saw the clear blue eyes of her baby boy "I will not let him suffer the same fate, that's why I am entrusting my boy in your hands, Adamantheia, give my child a sanctuary at your Island as that is the only place Chronos can not spy and please tell Lucifer to guide him, teach him so that he can one day release his siblings from their fate. I will visit from time to time so as not to arouse any suspension from Chronos"

Rhea said while shedding tears of both joy and pain, joy because her son will survive and not suffer the fate of his older siblings and pain because she will once again be separated from her son.

Gaia sighed as she saw the pain in her daughter's eyes and could understand what she was currently going through as she has been there before. She remembered when Ouranos had to imprison her children because of their deformity which greatly angered to the extent she had to get rid of him.

She is even surprised as to how Rhea managed to keep her sanity all these well and still went ahead and keep producing offsprings for Chronos who do not even have any ounce of love for his children as he devoured them to prevent his father's curse from taking any effect in his life.

"Are you not going to name the child, Rhea" Gaia asked her as she gathers some rocks from around them and arranged it in such a way that Chronos would think that the child Rhea bore issthe rock she was going to give him.

Rhea didn't think about that and wanted to give Adamantheia the child. She looked at her boy and smiled once again "he shall be called Zeus, for he is born to be a ruler. Take him Adamantheia"

After she named the child, Rhea passed the baby, Zeus to Adamantheia who transformed into a large eagle and flew to the direction of the Island.

Gaia saw that Rhea was on the verge of tears and moved to console her "don't worry dear, one day, you will be reunited with your son and the rest of your children as one happy family and trust me, he is in good hands in the Island and he will grow to be a fine strong man one day, so don't worry about that, what you should think about is how to give Chronos the rock without him finding out"

Rhea finally listened to her mother and calmed down and took the rock cast an illusion to generate the sound of a baby crying.

Rhea looked at her mother "I think these should be enough to fool him, with this, I hope Lucifer can really help my son to be strong enough to stop Chronos like you said, Mother" said Rhea, she remembered her mother was the one who suggested they give Lucifer the child to take care of for them but when they asked Lucifer for his opinion, they almost swore they didn't as Lucifer just looked at them like morons and how they thought he was a better fit to take care of the child, what is he, a babysitter? Lucifer refused and said he can only show some guardians to the young child and give him pointers at anything he wants to know but to babysit the child, he couldn't do that, that is demeaning his status.

"Trust him, he will always do what he says he will do. Now go, Chronos must be waiting for his meal" Gaia said as she always believed in Lucifer because he never goes back on his words from the years, she knows him.

Rhea left the room and walked towards the portal leading to the God king plane to get to Chronos.

Island of Crete

Adamantheia with baby Zeus arrived in the Island where they were welcomed by Lucifer, Aphrodite, Cynosura and the rest of the Nymphs.

Lucifer saw the white hair and the clear blue eyes of baby Zeus who was looking at everything and everyone around him which should be uncommon for a child his age but he was no normal child either, he is the son of a God king, the grandson of two Primordial gods.

"So this is the child Gaia and Rhea wanted me to take care of in their stead, Zeus, the son of the God king, Chronos" said Lucifer while thinking about the wonders the child before him would do and of course some foolish things.

Adamantheia was surprised as to how Lucifer knew the name of the child when she hasn't said anything "how did you know the name of the child?"

"Come on, I'm the Devil, of course I would know such trivial things" Lucifer just based it on his awesomeness.

Adamantheia sighed as she knew Lucifer would not say anything "okay, don't say anything and I don't care. If you don't mind, I am going to excuse myself, I have a child to raise since a certain someone bailed from it" said Adamantheia as she took Zeus to her chamber with some Nymphs following behind her.

Aphrodite saw the way Adamantheia conversed with Lucifer and she would not be the goddess of love if she did not know that there was something different with the way she spoke to him "oh Lucifer, you have finally made her fall in love with you, haven't you?"

"Well, that's not my doing, I'm just to handsome even for my own good" Lucifer said as he held Aphrodite disregarding the presence of Cynosura who was looking at the shameless couple with disgust.