Second Chance AU, a bit more story
WE HAVE IT, FINALLY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AU!
So for now we have a moment where Cronus somehow becomes one piece again and goes out to fight his children. Blah blah there was some kind of prophecy for this blah blah.
Zeus, recognizing himself as the most powerful, realizes that he is still too weak for this, and his father wants to fight the "grandchild who was supposed to be his equal". Zeus realizes that "the son who will overthrow the king" was about another king, and due to his paranoia he probably doomed the entire world to disaster.
BUT Athena shows up and despite being angry at her father and not having exchanged more words, that she has to, with him since God Games - stands up for Zeus. She "dies" or what is closest to death for a god happens to her. Cronus is defeated, at least for now.
Zeus and the entire Olympus are devastated. The king tries to do something to bring his daughter back to life, so he goes to Chronos, the titan of time. Zeus gets a proposal from him that he can help reborn Athena in the same way as Zagreus once. But then Zeus had the heart of a lost boy, and now he had nothing from war goddness.
So he goes to Nyx as a last resort and begs for help. Her son is literally death himself and with each soul taken, he cuts off a lock of hair. Hermes did not see his sister's soul, so everyone came to the conclusion that Thanatos still has part of her in his hands.
He is good friends with Ares (@/sarnai4 instilled this headcanon in me and I can't not add it here) and the god of war asks him for help. He asks his mother for permission and thanks to Nyx Zeus gets a lock of red hair, he gives his own blood to bring his daughter back to life too.
They succeeds, but nothing is the same anymore, Zeus gets a new chance to be a father, but the lord of time decides to test the humility of the gods and gives one condition in this agreement…