"Shadow of the Deep" [Part 2] Poseidon's Legacy - An Infinity Kingdom Story

🔷 Introduction

Welcome to part one of my Poseidon series. A fabled immortal with a long-standing history both in and out of Infinity Kingdom. I will be diving into his story, softly based in Greek lore but also mixed with the famous Norheim. Showing how he interacts within both spaces. 

🔷 Recap of part 1: "The Deep Claim"

Poseidon wasn’t granted dominion over the sea; he earned it by surrendering to its chaos and learning to live as part of it, not above it. He became the god of the ocean not through force, but through deep understanding, carrying the weight of every storm, silence, and secret the sea holds.

🔷 Part 2:  "Shadow of the Deep”

The ocean always whispered, but some nights, it murmured things Poseidon chose not to hear.

He felt it days before it happened. The tides hesitated, like breath caught in a throat. Whales disappeared. The currents slowed. The sea had always moved for him, listened to him, and answered when he called. But now, it held back, uncertain. Heavy.

Poseidon stood on a jagged reef far from any shore. Wind cut across his face, salt stinging his eyes, but he didn’t blink. He was listening.

Then he heard it.

Not a sound. A feeling. A shift in the bones of the sea.

It was waking up.

Long ago, before the sea had accepted him, before he built his trident or silenced storms with a thought, Poseidon had wandered into the deepest part of the ocean. No light reached there. The pressure crushed even the memory of air. Down in that blackness, he met something. Not a beast. Not quite a god. Just a presence, older than Olympus, older than memory.

It didn’t speak in words. It pulsed. It breathed. It moved through water like a thought through a dream. Poseidon didn’t try to fight it. He made a deal.

Let me shape the surface. You keep the deep.

And the thing agreed.

Now, centuries later, it had changed its mind.

The first wave hit without warning. A wall of black water hundreds of feet high surged toward the nearest island, swallowing it in silence. No wind. No storm. Just water, rising unnaturally fast. Poseidon arrived too late to stop it, but he felt the signature. Not wild. Not accidental. A message.

He dived.

Down past the sunlit waters, past the cold drift, past the trenches that even his name couldn’t command. The darkness thickened, and still he swam. When the last flicker of light disappeared, he closed his eyes.

And it was there.

The Leviathan didn’t roar. It didn’t move fast. It didn’t need to. It waited, coiled like a question, its body vast and impossible, half-lost in the dark. Its eyes opened—two pale circles in the abyss.

“You broke the deal,” Poseidon said.

The Leviathan didn’t reply. It felt. Poseidon understood.

The sea was tired of order. Tired of being calmed, charted, and explained. It missed its chaos. And this creature, this ancient hunger, wanted to give it back.

Poseidon reached for his trident but stopped.

This wasn’t a fight he could win with force. The Leviathan was deep. And he was just the surface. He realized then the truth: he hadn’t tamed the sea. He had borrowed it. And his time was up.

So he did the only thing he could.

He offered himself.

Not as a god, but as a part of it again. Not a ruler. Not master. Just a voice that remembered what the sea used to be and what it could still become.

For a moment, everything held still.

Then the Leviathan moved, slow and wide, circling him once before sinking deeper, pulling its hunger back into the dark.

The sea didn’t calm. But it didn’t rise again either.

When Poseidon returned to the surface, the sky was gray. The ocean was watching.

It still accepted him.

But now, it remembered that it didn’t have to.

📄 Recap Questions

Why does Poseidon choose to offer himself to the Leviathan instead of fighting it?

What does the Leviathan represent about the true nature of the sea and Poseidon’s place within it?

🔷 Conclusion

When an ancient force known as the Leviathan stirs deep beneath the ocean, Poseidon descends into the abyss to confront it, not with power, but with humility. In choosing understanding over domination, he reaffirms his bond with the sea, knowing it accepts him still, but only on its own terms.

See you next week!

🔷 Hades, Press Officer.

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