ARION - The Ruin Of Olympus
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(_T_h_e _R_u_i_n _o_f _O_l_y_m_p_u_s)
Version 1.0: Sue Shambaugh
Date Unknown
Version 2.0: Jeff Okamoto
06/01/88
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A long time ago, before gods and men were separated.
Trakia (Thrace)
ARION
Mother — Mother!
Mother!
HADES
But, I don’t understand.
You were told by the mother goddess of Olympus.
To be contented with this kind of life. . .
Say, Demeter, it’s just that you’ve forgotten that incident of long ago.
When that rascal,
Poseidon, came. . .
I opposed that completely.
Now, some place, over there, is under his management.
Zeus is returning to his settlement at Olympus.
What are the heavenly gods, anyway — They’ll end up dying.
*Spit!*
DEMETER
Arion!
Are you still awake?
Should a child eavesdrop on the talk of adults?!
Go to sleep quickly!
Hades, just as you see,
there is only Arion and his way of life for me now.
Listening to your idle complaints is useless.
Please go back, quickly, to your own country!!
HADES
Heh!
ARION
Well?
This is digitalis.
Grinding it into a powder, it will bring down a fever.
This is mugwort.
Mixing it with stinging nettles, will make wound medicine.
ARION
Look!
This kind is running skull.
HADES
Oh dear, I don’t know a thing.
Arion. . .
ARION
Mother taught me everything.
But. . .
Poor Mother.
Her eyes don’t see. . .
But the drugs to mend eyes don’t come from any kind of herb.
HADES
It’s not that kind of matter.
ARION
No?!
HADES
In Macedonia, there are the so-called Arcana flowers.
This type will remedy any kind of eye disease on the spot.
ARION
Really?
HADES
Yes.
If you say so, going there is on my way.
Much can be seen from the mountain pass yonder. . .
Will you go, Arion?
With Uncle?
ARION
Yes!
DEMETER
Arion!
Arion!!
Where are you?!
Arion!!
Arion!!
Arion!
ARION
Uncle, are we there yet?
HADES
It’s a little further.
We will be where the herb is in no time.
ARION
B — But, can’t we go back. . .
Uncle!
It’s no use!
Mother is worried!
Uncle!
DEMETER
Zeus!
Your brother Hades is taking Arion to the underworld!
Are you looking on, Zeus?
Zeus!
Title: Arion
HADES
Why is that?
WOMAN 1
Neither has he changed in appearance, he’s in a fretful state.
WOMAN 2
Doing that, will it really give him that kind of power?
ARION
No!!
Go that way!
Go away!!
HADES
Gido. . .
That fellow is not the way. . .
Cerberus!
Hydra!!
HADES
And so. . .!!
That’s it . . .!
HADES
Use this!
HADES
Arion!
I expected you; you have excelled in childhood.
You will attain Titanhood.
ARION
Liar!!
Uncle?
ARION
Liar!!
HADES
There is no herb to cure your mother’s eyes.
ARION
You deceived me!!
Return me!
Return me to my Mother!!
HADES
I can’t do that.
ARION
Why?!
HADES
Because a curse was put on your mother’s eyes.
ARION
A curse!?
HADES
That’s right.
Time cannot free her from that binding curse.
Demeter will always be blind.
ARION
What do you do to take off a curse!?
HADES
Do you want to know that?
HADES
Overthrow Zeus.
Overthrow Zeus.
Overthrow Zeus!
Zeus is the unfortunate source!
The responsibility for breaking Demeter
lies with the whole Titan family.
HADES
Zeus is at the western summit.
At the royal palace on Olympus!
With all your heart, fight for your mother’s sake!
HADES
If you do so. . .
Zeus sacrificed you and your mother,
and your foolish father Poseidon as well.
I fear it was not enough!
Go to Olympus!!
Then, strike Zeus’ white head 100 times for Demeter!
TITLES
The 3 brothers of the Titan family, behind the death of their father,
King Chronos, were separated into 3 territories.
The clever youngest, Zeus, became the ruler of Olympus and all things
on land.
The next, Poseidon, became King of the oceans;
and then, the unlucky eldest brother, Hades,
became ruler of the dark underworld.
But, Zeus and Poseidon were completely equal.
Poseidon, governing the 7 seas, aimed to march to the overland world.
Zeus, with the lady chieftain Athena as his complete manager,
was beating that fellow away.
Now the world was only in the confusion of war. . .
ARION
Ah!
Wait!!
SENECA
Heh, heh, heh!
SENECA
Bleah!
SENECA
Heh!
Farmer. . .
See if you can catch the great Seneca!
Hm!?
WAH!
SENECA
WAH!
I’m done for.
SENECA
Damn it!
Well, do what you will!
What’s this?
Sympathy?!
HA!
Give me the reason!!
Y — You’re a Titan, aren’t you?!
I thought so!
I’ve made up my mind so!
Inhuman Titan!
Dann you, face me!!
ARION
Gido!
ARION
All right!
ATHENA
I see!
This . . .
ARES
Yet the child could easily raise his arm.
I saw there is a reason.
What shall be done with the thing, Sister?
ATHENA
Hm. . .
Well then, right now, let’s see if we can’t ask that boy’s body.
ATHENA
Get back, Lesphina!
ARES
Talk!
Where did you get hold of that sword?!
ARES
From Hades’ hands?!
Why do you have it!?
ATHENA
Talk!
What thing of Hades are you?
What has Hades breathed into you?
You looked up, didn’t you, my toy?
ARES
Uncle Hades started it.
He’s an evil rascal. . .
Not satisfied with his suitable hell.
Using that kind of brat.
Is it not evil, starting the thing?
ARION
Don’t come near me!!
ARION
Lesphina. . .
That’s your name, isn’t it?
Thanks.
ARION
It’s not painful any more. . .
I’m OK. . .
Thank you.
I’m called Arion.
You can’t talk. . .
so. . .
Ah!
ARION
It’s good!!
APOLLO
What’s wrong?
Continue the song . . .
APOLLO
It’s a pretty voice.
But, just a moment, just humming is useless, isn’t it. . .
Sing, please.
With a loud voice.
APOLLO
Sing, Lesphina.
APOLLO
Well?
Give voice.
Sing!!
Sing, Lesphina!!
ARES
The matter ended despicably, eh, Brother!
Get away from that girl!!
APOLLO
Oh, dear; But this was such a good place. . .
ARES
Shut up!
Even if we are blood brothers, this time you will abandon the place!
Disappear, fast!!
This is not the place for you to loiter with your lovers!
APOLLO
Hmph.
The setting for a holy war?
Certainly, that is not my nature.
ARES
Oh!
APOLLO
Ha, ha. . .
I’ve kept you too long, Ares.
ARES
Hmph.
APOLLO
Arion did so often, didn’t he?
APOLLO
You’ve kept that boy happy, haven’t you?
Please take good care of him.
In any case, after this evening, he has but one night of life.
ARION
Lesphina!!
ARION
All right.
It’s OK if I so in that valley, isn’t it.
ARION
Thank you, Lesphina. . .
I’ll never forget you.
Surely I won’t forget you,
but simply doing in this fashion, received. . .
Except for my mother, meeting you. . .
Farewell, Lesphina.
ARION
Forgive me. . .
SENECA
Brother. . .
ARION
You. . .!!
SENECA
Sheesh!
Ouch!
After that sword, eh?
SENECA
You want to get it back, right?
It’s this way.
I know.
Come on!
Hurry!
SENECA
Leave it to me.
This is my specialty.
SENECA
As I see it, they borrowed it.
They’ll have no peace of mind, eh.
Look.
Now. . .
ARES
YOU!!
ARES
Don’t let him get away!
Seize him!!
APOLLO
Heh, heh. . .
SENECA
Wh — What is it?!
MEN
Poseidon has come!
It’s Poseidon.
ARION
Poseidon. . .
SENECA
Th — That’s right.
It’s Poseidon.
SENECA
It’ll mean war!
Wow. . .
ARION
Seneca!!
MAN
Don’t go too far, emboldened rascals!
Stop blowing bubbles. . .
Hm?!
Have you brought more captives?
What, not children?
Things like that. . .
Hand them to the boat-rowers. . .
Wait!!
That’s right — you.
Show me that!!
Hmmm. . .
I’ll take this in charge.
I’d best show this to the King.
You’ll get enough booty someday soon!
SENECA
Hey!
Let me go!
Hey, Brother. . .
As I see it, 1,000 things will be done to us. . .?
SENECA
Amazing!
That must be the leader’s boat!
ARION
That. . .
That’s my father. . .
ATHENA
The troops are restless. . .
quiet them!
We will win the war!
ATHENA
The texture of the ground favors us.
The enemy will come ruthlessly, into the net.
Invite the enemy deeply landward, and strike!
Strike!!
This is it.
The iron cavalry of the Titans is matchless!
Poseidon will run in fear!
The next plan, Ares will cut lengthwise.
We will separate the enemy into left and right!
The path of retreat will follow alongside the sea.
Cut off the Edmoth detachment!!
Pursue them to the sea.
They will not do well.
Now, Poseidon’s one battleship:
from this cove, nothing can go back to the outer sea unhurt.
All right?!!
POSEIDON
Eat, don’t be reserved.
Ha, ha — hard to please.
Why the sad face?
POSEIDON
Refusing my cup was safe.
The person is unbending.
Drink, it’s your father’s recommendation. . .!
No?
Very well, cutting my real son is insignificant.
The wine will get bitter.
ARION
Father.
POSEIDON
Hm?!
ARION
Um, that is. . .
POSEIDON
Don’t worry, call me that.
SENECA
Ow, what is it!
Brother, ow!
Ow. . .
ARION
Father. . .
Why are you overthrowing Zeus?
Why are you not content with the management of the ocean?
ARION
Moreover, why did you abandon my mother?
POSEIDON
Hmph. . .
Settling the very thing, by inquiring.
A man doesn’t ask why.
Don’t use soft words.
Zeus and I are water are oil.
Although we are both Titans,
there’s a reason we can’t stand side by side.
POSEIDON
Zeus, by way of official judgment, intended to be at the top, I guess.
I don’t acknowledge it.
He sent Athena’s army.
Yonder it is, and in what kind of state. ..?
ARION
What kind…?
POSEIDON
Zeus won’t become strong with a young fool, I say.
Leaving that kind of little girl in charge.
POSEIDON
Ha, ha, ha. . .
Have you met your sister, Lesphina?
She’s your flesh and blood sister. .
I heard the news in the wind,
that she volunteers herself as Athena’s palace servant girl. . .
POSEIDON
Ha, ha, ha. . .
well, good.
All right, I WILL do what I must do!
See if I can’t do what I want with only these hands.
I am not like Hades.
Let’s watch my battle!
HADES
The smell, riding on the wind. . .
This is the smell of blood. . .
Cerberus, magnificent. . .
Near the place of battle!
POSEIDON
Go.
As it’s your first battle, don’t get impatient about achievement.
ATHENA
Begin!
ATHENA
Send down the cavalry!
Inform the mass squadron!
ARES
The third rank’s preparation has also been broken through?!
VOICE
Yes!
They have not confronted the trick.
Already, this official camp is in danger. . .
ARES
Ah. . .
Sister!!
ATHENA
Gather the whole army!
I will go!!
VOICE
Wait!
Wait, if anything should happen to Commander Athena. . .!
ATHENA
Buffoon!
This time, Poseidon, I . . .!
ARES
Who’s there?!
Who?
Answer me!!
ARES
YOU. . .!
Cut him down!!
ARES
Sister. . .
MAN
WAH!
ATHENA
You cut down Ares!
ATHENA
You’re a strong child of fortune, my boy.
And you are Arion.
If I had known it then, with this hand I would have torn you. . .!
ARION
Athena!
Now, I really am your enemy!
As the son of Poseidon, as a warrior, I will cut you down!!
ARION
It’s my victory!!
ATHENA
Apollo. . .!!
APOLLO
Heh, heh, heh. . .
I don’t want to see the blood of my own little sister.
Ha, ha, ha. . .
ARION
Wait!!
MAN 1
Commander Athena!
Are you all right?!
Are you wounded?!
MAN 2
Follow!
What are you doing?!
APOLLO
Ha, ha, ha. . .
ARION
Shit!
WOMAN
Lesphina, look out!
APOLLO
What’s the matter, Arion?
Could you hear the voice of your beloved in the rain?
ARION
Shut up!!
ARION
I won’t allow it!!
Using this fellow to hinder me!
Who!
Who?!
APOLLO
Young — very nearly like a child — good, aren’t you?
Who is she, that you can fight for her?
She’s not a doll.
Neither you nor anyone else can simply do as you please.
Still more, you are a Titan; we share that, too.
The time is coming when you will be born below this troublesome planet.
ARION
A lie!
Hades. . .
HADES
Heh, heh. . .
Shocking, to have waken a sleeping dog.
Accordingly, you have met with a wasp. . .
ARION
Why have you come here, Uncle!
HADES
So, you don’t listen.
It’s a depressing place.
Tedious.
I just thought I’d see the battle.
ARION
You are a rotten person!
To be jealous of Zeus and Poseidon and the rest,
using a small, clever hand –
me not knowing anything, being manipulated by your words. . .
That’s right!
You are so ugly, Hades!!
HADES
Heh, heh, heh. . .
Will you cut me down?
Me. . .?
Cut me down if you can, but before that, listen well!
You’re still a child, aren’t you.
You’ve fooled Poseidon completely, taking the trouble. . .
Good!
That rascal. . .
ARION
Shut up!
Don’t insult my father!!
You’re the same as Olympus. . .
An enemy of my father!!
HADES
Don’t come near!!
It’s no use killing me.
Somehow, don’t!
HADES
Bah!
You were forged in the underworld for this.
You’re forgetting my kindness.
Dunce!!
It is good that you should be cursed!
Even my death won’t save you.
In pain. . .
HADES
Alone, wherever you are, you will writhe — Good!
APOLLO
You’re not well, are you, Athena.
ATHENA
I won’t let you know. . .
What else is like a lost battle. . .?
APOLLO
Hm. . .
ATHENA
Like you, thanks to me, he had your foolish older brother.
Only, which of you is more of a bother!
Although I guess your intention was to buy
my kindness in that affair with Arion, don’t think you saved me.
A very agreeable face you’re wearing, isn’t it!
APOLLO
Hey, severe.
Tonight, I beg you, I came to be agreeable.
ATHENA
You beg?
APOLLO
Yes, that serving girl of yours — the one person I especially desire
above all others.
Hey, that is, isn’t she called Lesphina.
ATHENA
Lesphina. . .
APOLLO
Won’t you give her to me. . .?
Just a minute, you’ve ended up fancying her, haven’t you?
ATHENA
Yes.
Particular, aren’t you?
So, that young woman. . .
LESPHINA
Arion. . .
Arion. . .
What are you doing?
ARION
Who are you?
LESPHINA
Ha, ha, ha. . .
Won’t you follow me?
As quickly as you can. . .
ARION
Lesphina, you. . .
can speak, can’t you?!
LESPHINA
What are you saying?
Arion. . .
You’re a strange person. . .
Come to me, far away. . .
Wouldn’t you like to?
ARION
It’s no use.
I can’t go there!
Lesphina!
ARION
Mother!!
Hey, I have the herb that will make your eyes see!
I came the moment I found it!
DEMETER
That’s not an herb.
It’s a terrible, poisonous flower.
ARION
Huh!?
DEMETER
Moreover. . .
Who are you?
An unknown child, aren’t you.
An unknown child. . .
An unknown child. . .
ARION
Mother!
It’s me.
It’s me!
I’ve come back!
Mother!!
Mother!!
SENECA
Are you OK, Brother?
ARION
Ah, Seneca. . .
SENECA
It was a terrible nightmare.
You had a bad dream?
ARION
Yes. . .
SENECA
You shouldn’t have stood in the rain after the battle.
It’s a bad cold, surely. . .
Say, you came to call Poseidon “Father”?
ARION
It’s all right, Seneca.
If I do that kind of thing, he’ll end up laughing.
That style of thing. . .
negligent rascal . . .
SENECA
But. . .
ARION
I’m all right, well, I’ll sleep.
You, too, Seneca.
SENECA
Really?
ARION
My feet. . .
Heavy. . .
Why are they so heavy?
Why. . .?
HADES
It’s no use killing me. . .
It’s no use!
ARION
WAH!
SENECA
Brother!
What’s the matter?
Brother!!
MEN
What’s wrong?!
SENECA
Help him!
My brother!
MEN
Whatever, he’ll bite his tongue!
MEN
Hold him fast!
SENECA
Please don’t be violent!
What an illness. . .
I’ll call his father, Poseidon!
HADES
Wherever, go falling!
You’ve been given a cursed life!
HADES
It’s good that you should fall!!
HADES
It’s no use!
No use!!
SENECA
Brother!
POSEIDON
Wait!
Accordingly, I . . .
ARION
Still coming?
Hades!!
ARION
Seneca. . .!
Tell me!
What have I done?!
Eh?!
What have I done to my father!
VOICES
What?
What’s wrong!?
Something strange.
An attack in the dark!?
You’re wrong.
An assassin mixed in with the crowd, probably!
Mixed in with the crowd?
SENECA
It’s no use — staying here!!
ARION
I can’t run any more. . .
SENECA
It’s no use.
If we loiter in a place like this, we’ll be caught right away!
ARION
My father is still over there. . .
ARION
I — I can’t go. . .
SENECA
Hey!
Get a hold of yourself!
Do you want to be killed?!
VOICE
You won’t run any further!
MAN
You should tremble with much fear, to kill your father, the King!
How much will you get from Olympus!
ARION
You’re wrong!
Me, do that kind of thing?!
MAN
Traitor!!
MEN
Un — Unsheathed!
MAN
Don’t lose heart!
It’s the King’s enemy!!
Heh, heh, heh. . .
In any case, this is far enough.
Cloaked spy of Olympus!
Prepare. . .
ARION
Gido!!
Gido, you’re alive?!
Gido!
ZEUS
Erinyes!
ZEUS
I have visited the shrine!
That is Alecto.
MEGAERA
This is Megaera.
TISIPHONE
I am Tisiphone, and if you agitate us, you will see us, great god Zeus.
ZEUS
Welcome, vengeful goddesses.
Look at this!
Look well!
ZEUS
It is Poseidon!
It is arrogance, not to be afraid of the gods.
It is death by design!
However, he has put his hand to it. . .
ALECTO
He exists.
MEGAERA
Poseidon, with his sister Demeter, established one set of twins.
TISIPHONE
Binding that morally wrong association, she fled to Trakia 15 years ago.
That Arion. . .
ZEUS
It’s that way!
The pollution of Olympus lives.
It is an unfortunate child!
That boy raised his hand against his father!
The Titans’ holy laws have been broken!
What is the decision, Erinyes!!
MEGAERA
It is death.
ALECTO
To commit the high crime of patricide. . .
TISIPHONE
That is the only atonement.
ZEUS
Very well!
It is a good judgment!!
Certainly, Arion’s life is entrusted to your hands!
CAPTION
Poseidon’s troops lost their King.
The army of the ocean, which had boasted strength, was broken.
SENECA
Sheesh!
Small, isn’t it.
Really!
This kind of green wood, it’s just starting to pick up.
Ah, set well soon, won’t you, Brother. . .
It’s no use!
This is his dinner!
I think you’ve had enough to eat!
SENECA
I’m done planning.
I can’t look after him. . .
ARION
Who’s there!
BLACK LION KING
I have known you since you were a baby.
ARION
Who are you!
Your name?!
BLACK LION KING
You can call me the Black Lion King.
ARION
Lion King.. .?!
ARION
That’s a lie!
You’re Hades, aren’t you?!
That’s right!
I’ve decided so!
That kind of disguise, using a mask.
I suppose you’ve come to breathe something into me again!
BLACK LION KING
Don’t be unjustly suspicious.
I am not Hades.
BLACK LION KING
Poor thing, he can’t see the heavy blow of the law. . .
Yet Arion is not broken.
One can’t show weakness to an enemy.
ARION
Good!
However you do it is good. . .
I killed my father. . .
What good can I do?
I don’t understand anything any more. . .
Don’t touch me!!
Broken?
ARION
Enemy?
What about the enemy?!
What is not good?
Anyhow, I’m a murderer!
I can get no person’s love!
What is my path?
I will bring myself to an end!
That’s it — better to die!
If I do, nobody can use me!
So?!
I . . .
BLACK LION KING
You said you would rather die?
All right. . .
Let’s see you die.
It’s a simple thing.
And if you take one half step out from there, you will certainly die.
BLACK LION KING
What is it?
Can’t you do it that way?
So that’s how it is.
To be forced, to be made a fool of, still, he wants to live.
Becoming his true self. . .
BLACK LION KING
If you do, be strong, Arion.
Surely, surely, be strong. . .
This mountain is called Anth.
Since a long time ago,
it has been called the mountain of the sacred inn.
Passing along the base, so to the west heights.
The hermit called Lukaon lives there.
The man is revered as the King of Arcadia,
but since it has become the world of the Titans,
it is an imaginary place.
BLACK LION KING
I heard he’s secluding himself on the mountain.
Please become strong.
ARION
Lukaon. . .
SENECA
N — No, wait a minute, that poison look. . .
ARION
Where did that man go just now?!
SENECA
Man?
No, nobody. . .
ARION
A lie!
Hey, he wore a black-clothed lion’s face. . .!
ATHENA
Please, won’t you sit down?
Say, what’s the matter?
I took great pains to offer you an invitation.
Don’t make that kind of face.
ATHENA
We’re in private.
Now, you and I, together. . .
APOLLO
On the surface, you’re happy, aren’t you. . .
You and I don’t get along very well, ever since. . .
ATHENA
Don’t talk about that boy!!
Apollo. . .!
ATHENA
Do you always intend to handle reproduction in a trivial,
dissipated fashion?
We’ve won the war.
Then, there is no more Ares. . .
Zeus will take that road, too.
I think you understand. . .?
APOLLO
Offensive.
ATHENA
Eh?
Aren’t you pleased?
The smell of this perfume. . .
APOLLO
No. . .
It smells of blood.
Perhaps. . .
APOLLO
I think it permeates your body.
Just a moment, what will you get, wearing some perfume. . .
Moreover, I don’t resemble the Titans’ nature.
As a nearsighted person, I’m completely uninterested.
A blessing, isn’t it.
ATHENA
Wait!
Do you think you can play with me like this?!
What kind of woman would win the flattery of a heartless man. . .
APOLLO
You’re too hard, saying that.
You’ll overdo the grief.
ATHENA
Lesphina!!
VOICES
Hey — Don’t come near!
This isn’t an exhibition!
Go back!
Go back!
APOLLO
Stop!!
What in the world is this mockery!
It’s unsightly!!
APOLLO
What are you doing!
Cut the ropes!
From that kind of treatment — hurry!
ATHENA
Apollo. . .
From this day, disappear from my sight.
If you don’t, I’ll kill you!
Surely, I will kill you!
SENECA
Brother, wait!
Let’s go slowly.
Is he really here?
That kind of old man. . .
Really!
I’m going to cut off this association. . .
It’s true. . .
SENECA
Brother!
ARION
Catch hold!
ARION
What are you doing?!
Who are you?!
ARION
A friend of Lukaon?!
HERCULES
Questions and answers are useless!!
ARION
Listen!
I’m not a suspicious person!
ARION
I only came to beg knowledge from the King!
HERCULES
Noisy!
Your devilish feelings are knowledge enough!
ARION
This blockhead!!
HERCULES
Ugh!!
LUKAON
That’s enough!
ARION
You. . .?
ARION
Hey — It was a pet. . .?
LUKAON
Sorry.
He’s a model of versatility, isn’t he. . .
He’s called Hercules.
He was Earth’s wildest highwayman.
Now, he’s the gatekeeper of my home.
Well, he’s basically a good fellow.
ARION
Why are you in this kind of place.. .?
LUKAON
This Earth is trivial.
Already, it’s a place for things like me to dwell.
Zeus, as if wagging his bottom at me, is also descended from my family.
Not only that, but, he thinks I’m a sty on his eye.
And if he does to the dead. . .
ARION
Hm. . .?!
LUKAON
They’ve come, haven’t they . . .
HERCULES
Arion, son of Poseidon. . .
You will come along with us. . .
ARION
This. . .!
ERINYES
Will you hinder us, Lukaon?!
MEGAERA
Hand him over — that boy!
TISIPHONE
He is a criminal who has committed patricide.
By arresting him, he will get punishment!
LUKAON
Traitorous Erinyes — You’ve become Olympus’ pet dogs.
I won’t hand over Arion!
Go back to Zeus — Tell him so!
MEGAERA
Idiot!
LUKAON
Leave!!
Growling dogs!!
ARION
Here . . .?!
LUKAON
It is an interval of time and space.
It is OK to go with me.
Whatever happens, don’t get separated from me.
If you go, you won’t be able to return to reality.
LUKAON
It’s the sea of Elekseinos.
Here in Darukia, a long time ago, the Titans established an empire.
Uranus was King of the founded state, but
Chronos, that son of the King, raising his hand against him, killed him.
Then, Chronos was in turn killed by his son Zeus.
Zeus is a prudent man.
Since he fears that he, too, will grope his way to the same fate,
he sees people with dark suspicions.
“Defend the law” — that became his prayer, like an incantation. . .
LUKAON
But. . .
See. . .
It’s an ugly quarrel. . .
They got the art of heaven in their hands.
The Titan family saved the country.
They came descending from the west to dwell on this ground. . .
ARION
Mother!!
ARION
This is Olympus!!
ARION
Lesphina. . .
ARION
I’ve found you. . .
Lesphina . . .
ARION
You. . .
You were my sister. . .
Ah. . .
Then it’s true. . .
You smell like Mother. . .
LUKAON
Leave!!
APOLLO
Impertinent. . .
LUKAON
Both the Erinyes and I are from the same origin. . .
The royal family of Arcadia, rascals with that sacred power.
They are revived people from Hades’ country.
What kind of purpose do they have, standing loyal to Zeus.
They’ve become gods in order to protect the laws of Olympus. . .
A lamentable affair.
But, Apollo’s hidden power is different
from the sacred power of the Erinyes.
He is the incarnation of the evil nature of the Titan family.
LUKAON
Do you understand, Arion?
Your true enemy is the future ruler of Olympus, Apollo!
ARION
B — But, sacred powers and hidden powers –
I don’t have anything like that.
Anyhow, to that rascal . . .
LUKAON
Can’t you see?!
This is a magic family!
To support you, there is a like of cause and effect. . .
ARION
Lesphina. . .?
LUKAON
Believe it, Arion.
For you, she is probably your last family.
Only this time you are not forced to so.
You will go to Olympus to save Lesphina.
You will go to where Lesphina is, as yourself.
ARION
Lukaon. . .
ZEUS
Disobeying the wishes of the sacred gods,
he came attacking eternal Olympus –
Poseidon and his whole army were driven away.
The splendor of the Titans is eternal!
ZEUS
Praise Athena!
CROWD
Praise Athena!
Praise Athena!
ATHENA
The divine protection of the gods to Zeus!
CROWD
The divine protection of the gods to Zeus!
The divine protection of the gods to Zeus!
ZEUS
Thank you for your efforts, Athena.
You are my pride.
ZEUS
You are Olympus’ treasure.
Poseidon!
At this time, he’s in hell probably stamping his feet in rage. . .
ETHOS
Lord Arion?
ATHENA
You will all leave!
ATHENA
Lesphina — I have warned him.
This time you appeared with Apollo in front of me.
Against my orders!
ATHENA
I’m not like Apollo — I don’t joke around!
If I say I’ll kill someone, I’ll kill them!!
ATHENA
If you must hate, don’t hate me.
He hurt me, and played with you — you should hate Apollo!
WOMAN
Oh, my!
He’s woken you up. . .?
Although you’re exhausted from your journey. . .
By a noisy thing. . .
SENECA
Say, what?
Not a bad sickness. . .?
ARION
Grandma — Smear this on that child’s chest.
WOMAN
I’m too much obliged.
Surely, an expensive medicine. . .?
ARION
No. I learned of it from my mother.
DEMETER
This, eh?
It’s made in Kozurina, mixed with oil of wild thyme.
Say, it’s absorbed in your chest, isn’t it?
WOMAN
So, your mother. . .
Was your mother about the same age as Pandora?
ARION
Pandora?
SENECA
Was she the mother of these children?
WOMAN
No, no.
These children are orphans.
Pandora married that splendid man, Prometheus, our daughter. . .
It’s a cruel tale. . .
Became pregnant. . .
WOMAN
Pitiable daughter. . .
Attacking this small village. . .
The children’s faces caught that man’s blood.
Couldn’t see. . .
HERCULES
I hate to interrupt your grief, grandma, but where did grandpa go?
WOMAN
Uh. . .
That is. . .
PIO
I know!
WOMAN
Pio!
PIO
But, I do. . .
Follow me, I’ll tell you!
WOMAN
Th — This!!
PIO
Hurry!
What’re you doing?
ARION
He’s on that island, isn’t he — grandpa?
PIO
Y — Yes. . .
ARION
Here?
SENECA
He’s alone?
Grandpa?
Well, let’s go in. . .
SENECA
Why?
PIO
He’ll get angry.
There’s an important thing here.
Grandpa. . .
said children aren’t allotted to go in. . .
SENECA
Phew. . .
ARION
All right.
I’ll go and look.
Everybody stay here, all right!
SENECA
Ah — Wait!
PIO
No children!
You’ll make grandpa angry!
SENECA
All right, already!
I’ll stay with you.
ARION
This man. . .
ETHOS
It’s Prometheus.
We secretly worship him as a god.
ARION
This man. . .
is Prometheus. . .
And he married your daughter Pandora. . .
ETHOS
Grandma told you as much. . .?
That is common.
ARION
Ethos. . .
Please tell me more about this man!
ARION
This. . .!?
ETHOS
It’s called a thunder tube.
It came from antiquity, supporting the extravagance of the Titans.
The secret power of Zeus.
The source of the thunder power?
Prometheus taught us about this thunder tube.
Therefore, the old fear of the Titans.
It’s not a mysterious thing. . .
He was punished for confronting the royal family, rebelling against it.
ARION
At the execution ground on the rocky mountain . . .?
ETHOS
Just so. . .
To repay him for that device, they came to ruthlessly kill him. . .
To this day, 20 years later, I regret that matter. . .
ETHOS
Prometheus was a noble man.
He struck against the nephew of Chronos, the King of the last age.
That man, among Zeus’ siblings and cousins. . .
The girl Pandora, neither related to nor acquainted with the Titans,
came to enter his eyes. . .
ARION
Why. . .?
ETHOS
I guess he desired the prosperity of the Titans. . .
ETHOS
Polluting the pollution, he wandered into a labyrinth with no exit,
by leading the previous inhabitants in a brave expansion,
trying to make us, offending the old prohibition.
Daringly, we became knowledgeable about the origin of the secret power,
too . . .
ARION
Prometheus. . .
Why. . .?
I feel as if I’ve known you all along. . .
ARION
This. . .
SENECA
B — Brother . . .
ETHOS
Please make an announcement, Lord Arion!
ARION
I. . .
It’s no use, I. . .
My father was Poseidon. . .
My mother, Demeter. . .
I am a child of the Titans!
ARION
But, I will follow Zeus, aiming at his life.
To lay a trap with these hands. . .
With these hands, I killed my father!
Therefore, I will not fight Zeus!
I will go to Olympus, then I will fight!!
But, that. . .
ARION
That’s really for the sake of a beloved woman who is on Olympus!
Beloved Lesphina, caught by Apollo.
I want to rescue Lesphina!!
Lesphina. . .
is my sister.
But I love her!!
ARION
I will go to Olympus!
Everybody!
Whoever will go with me, please consider and come!
I will not reject you!
I will fight them!
I will fight for Lesphina’s sake!
Really, it is only that!
ARION
That’s all right, isn’t it?!
Everybody, go with me.
Then we’ll fight Zeus, won’t we?!
ARION
Let’s go!!
To Olympus!!
MAN 1
Poseidon’s son struck the army. . .
MAN 2
And he is called Arion?
MAN 3
He is Prometheus’ second coming . .
MEN
Tessaia, Ahty, Voros. . .
from everywhere, serious members came together.
Spontaneously against the Titans.
The enemy faltered . . .
In rapid succession, entering the army gates. . .?
Only this time, I am afraid that Olympus will not be negligent. . .
HERCULES
Hey, Grandpa — You don’t really intend to use this thing?
This thunder tube, I mean.
ETHOS
Prometheus made it.
Don’t you believe in it?
HERCULES
Oh, dear. . .
ZEUS
G — Gaia. . .
Poseidon’s son. . .
Tell me if Arion is coming.
Great goddess Gaia, tell me!
Leading the inhabitants. . . Oh, how long?
GAIA
Zeus. . .
How unsightly. . .
Why do you fear so?
GAIA
No matter how many they become, the fellows won’t come. . .
The rank of King of all things, and you cry?
Ho, ho, ho, ho. . .
ATHENA
Apollo!
ATHENA
Let me go!
Let me strike one blow!
I can’t bear it.
This kind of young girl. . .
I loved you.
It’s true!
A — Apollo . . .!!
HERCULES
It’s this kind of thing, eh, grandpa?
ETHOS
Move to the right.
That’s it.
It will end up entering the shadow of the rocky cliff.
Collecting the light of the rising sun,
it will fill up the tube.
The plan is to strike at one blow.
At any rate, if not for the Titans’ knowledge. . .
ARION
The castle’s side will be profitable.
Also, our numbers are large.
The light of the rising sun will strike first rate.
The side yonder will be soonest, won’t it?
ETHOS
If they don’t perceive the fact
that the thunder tube is on our side. . .
ARION
Ethos. . .
The power of the thunder tube. . .
it won’t beat Olympus . . .
I know it.
The way to win is some different power . . . .
ARION
The victory is some different power.
Different. . .
Different. . .
SENECA
So, you were here, Brother?
It’s getting cold.
It’s going to begin at once . . .
Therefore, you’re an important body. . .
ARION
Thanks.
Have you slept a little, Seneca?
SENECA
Heh. . .
Odds and ends.
I’m no fool.
I can’t sleep at a time like this.
SENECA
Brother. . .
Do you really love her?
That girl called Lesphina?
I envy her.
ARION
What’s the matter, Seneca?
SENECA
What’s this envy?
This, this kind of. . .
That you love Lesphina so well!
ARION
Seneca!
SENECA
I love you, Brother!
HERCULES
Master!
What is it?
Master!!
SENECA
I’m a fool!
HERCULES
It’s dawn, Master!
With one blow, we’ll make them black and blue!!
ETHOS
Good!
Attack the previous government!!
ARION
It’s no use!
Knock the advance fort!
ETHOS
Shoot lower!
ARION
Go!
Look out!!
ARION
Everyone will end up being done!
Ethos — Stop!!
ETHOS
As I see it, we can’t do any more!
Advance!
Lord Arion!!
ARION
It’s no use.
This castle won’t fail . . .!
HERCULES
Typhoon!!
HERCULES
You’re welcome!
SENECA
I’m surprised — This is a bird?
HERCULES
No, he’s a beast!
He’ll be useful somehow!
ARION
You’re wrong, Typhoon — The castle’s over there!
ETHOS
He intends to cross the valley of Tartarus.
ARION
Tartarus?
ETHOS
It is shunned by Zeus, to the fool’s misfortune!
But only here can we escape their thunder tubes’ fire!
I guess it’s King Lukaon’s guidance!
ARION
Ethos!
ETHOS
Too far!
It’s my true desire, Lord Arion!
You are really. . .!
ARION
Ethos!!
ARION
It’s Olympus!
ARION
Fly across!
Catch hold of Gido!
ARION
Come on, Seneca!
SENECA
I’m all tight!
I’ll be fine in a second!
ARION
Shut up!
Keep still!!
SENECA
I’m fine!
I said I’m fine!!
ARION
Y — You. . .
SENECA
Well, I told you. . .
I loved you, Brother.
Heh, heh, heh. . .
Funny.
Couldn’t live.
In times like these, a girl child can’t be alone!
So just look, please.
I became a man!
So, I’m a sneak-thief.
Disagreeable, bad, aren’t I?!
Don’t look at me like that!
Hey!!
SENECA
Ow. . .
ARION
Don’t move, Seneca. . .
SENECA
Hurry, go.
To where Lesphina is. . .
Surely she’s waiting. I said, GO!
What?!!
Don’t worry about me . . . .
SENECA
I won’t allow it!
ARION
Don’t move from here.
All right?!
SENECA
Please go freely!
I’ll stay behind!
SENECA
Heh, heh. . .
Suitable, isn’t he. . .
Damn him. . .
ARION
Lesphina!!
VOICE
Lord Zeus!
VOICE
He — He’s here!!
ZEUS
H — Help me. . . .
ARION
Where is Lesphina?!
Where is she hidden!!
ZEUS
So it is, I will cut you down!
That one is the person who committed the high crime of patricide!
ARION
Black. . .
Lion King!!
ERINYES
Fall back! - Unknown stranger.
It is our business to punish this person!
ERINYES
Do not transgress by hindering us!
BLACK LION KING
This is not the place.
This person is not a criminal.
ERINYES
What!?
BLACK LION KING
He certainly did kill King Poseidon.
But Poseidon was not his father.
Arion’s real mother was Pandora, his real father was Prometheus. . . .
PROMETHEUS
Me!
Don’t you recognize my face?
From within the dream that Lukaon caused.
You must have encountered me in the cave of my old friend,
PROMETHEUS
My wife, Pandora, was already in her ninth-month seclusion.
However, Zeus’ army, to give me a cruel warning, killed Pandora.
But luckily, the baby was still breathing. . .
Arion. I tore you out of Pandora’s corpse.
You are the child of Pandora and I.
PROMETHEUS
I left you in Demeter’s hands.
Demeter was prepared to carry Zeus’ blame.
She promised me to raise you with Lesphina as her own child.
ARION
That. . .!
That’s my mother. . .
No!
It’s because Demeter loved you!
Surely it is so!
Then, you were also in love with Demeter.
As if she was the same as Pandora,
no, even supposing, it’s more than that!
You’re wrong!
Prometheus!
ZEUS
It’s a lie!
It’s a stupid, fabricated story!!
ZEUS
Not afraid of the gods’ judgment!?
Erinyes, succeed!
PROMETHEUS
And heaven’s judgment, used to stand for righteousness and justice.
PROMETHEUS
Judge that principle also.
And Zeus, defiled in crime.
By escaping punishment, he strikes down innocent people!
Quietly returning to the customs of the native gods,
using up the people!
Look. . .
This, more than anything else, is the fabricated story.
ZEUS
Uh. . .
Uh. . .
PROMETHEUS
I will destroy the world of the Titans.
Resign yourself, Zeus!
Wait!
ZEUS
Wh — Why?
You’re dead.
You must be. . .
No, it’s crazy!
Sorry, I didn’t know you felt that way. . .
ZEUS
Be — Before you say anything — we share the same blood,
can’t we be friends?
H — Help me!!
GAIA
You’re harassing Zeus?
All right. . .
GAIA
This person is still a young child. . .
He will not assault you.
PROMETHEUS
He’s afraid, great mother goddess Gaia, mother of the Titans.
Did you not know of the eternal degeneration?
Now you are informed of it. (?)
GAIA
Ho, ho, ho. . .
Being surprised, you followed?
So. . .
I will always live with the whole family.
Then, at the end of my life, the whole family will be destroyed. . .
PROMETHEUS
I must kill you, if possible!
You, too, in this room, with Zeus!
GAIA
A foolish thing. . .
How can you kill me?
PROMETHEUS
Making Chronos king, your husband Uranus was killed.
Wasn’t it by your instigation?!
Then you changed your child Chronos’ future.
This time, stirring up your grandchild Zeus,
King Chronos’ life has also cut off.
GAIA
That’s the way it is.
Going on continuously, in comparison with my life,
men and women are limited to one generation of life and luxury.
Some day they may become troublesome . . .
PROMETHEUS
By that reasoning,
sooner or later you intend to have Zeus taken care of too?!
Like that, you are an ugly mother,
and the source of the Titans’ mistakes.
Why can’t you understand?
GAIA
Shut up!!
PROMETHEUS
Gaia. . .
This is my last advice. . .
I will destroy the Titans.
You will be extinguished also. . .
After this, the people’s world will truly prosper. . .
The Titans doing so.
And we can become the real gods.
PROMETHEUS
As I see it, you will endlessly heap up crimes. . .
Ugly. . .
ARION
Prometheus!
PROMETHEUS
Forgive me, Arion. Since I also long deceived you. . .
LESPHINA
ARION!
GAIA
Very well!
Why do you have that stamp . . .!
GAIA
All right, Lesphina.
It’s all right.
You are true to that woman. . .
That strength of spirit is Demeter. . .
Eh. . .
All right.
GAIA
Why won’t you listen to what I’m saying?
I. . .
Like me, you are great.
Although I am like everyone’s mother. . .
Both you. . .
and Demeter!
GAIA
All right. . .
It is my defeat.
You!!
GAIA
It’s. . .
It’s no use.
Please. . .
Ah. . .
My body. . .
Ah. . .
I. . .
ARION
Lesphina!
Hang on!
Lesphina!!
ARION
It’s no use dying!
Don’t die!
Lesphina!!
ZEUS
Apollo!
Where have you been at a time like this!
Really!
You are a rascal. . .
ZEUS
Th — The man is dead.
G — Gaia, too, ended up dying. . .
From now on, you. . .
My power. . .
APOLLO
Chronos. . .
His father Uranus. . .
Then you killed your father, King Chronos. . .
You’re a careless man. . .
If you go on with that succession, this time I kill you.
Why didn’t you notice?
APOLLO
Is Lesphina dead?
Give Lesphina to me. . .
That girl is my desire.
To you she’s only a lover.
To me she’s different.
Hand her over!
She’s too much woman for you!
ARION
You’re a detestable person!
ARION
I know it!
All of this happened since I met Lesphina.
I guess she is the way for you to reconstruct the Titans’ court!
All along, just like Gaia and Uranus, long ago!
You would make Lesphina do that kind of thing?!
She’s not like Gaia!!
Lesphina, like her mother. . .
She’s the daughter of gentle Demeter!
Lesphina. . .
Lesphina. . .
Moreover, hasn’t she ended up dying??
ARION
Fighting Gaia, exhausting herself this way, being injured this way!!
I’m not afraid of anyone any more!
Lesphina and I will go somewhere together!
APOLLO
But, you are mixing her blood.
With the blood of your mother, Pandora!
ARION
Do you care?!
For all that, what is she to you?
You won’t defeat me!
APOLLO
The Titans will not be destroyed!
The Titans brought people knowledge.
Although people came to produce,
how many thousands of years’ time is that desire?
ARION
And what did the thunder tube do!
It’s killed enough people.
Is it not only to set up meaningless fear in everybody?!
APOLLO
The crystallization of knowledge is like that.
ARION
That kind of thing. . .
People desire simple feelings, warm clothes, and food, above all else.
If everyone has that, are they not lucky?!
APOLLO
I covet her.
And she is a goddess, is she not?
ARION
Goddess?!
APOLLO
That’s right.
As I see it, if you don’t hand her over,
there will be a contest of storm and disease and war in your world,
in order to make you consent.
How do you think to deceive her?
How, in your pollution, do you think to command yonder heart?!
APOLLO
She is not like us — As an excellent, beautiful thing,
her spirit needs a manager.
By forgetting the past, the remaining Titans have removed the pollution.
No doubt; Moreover, suitable!
ARION
Give up!
That!!
APOLLO
Prepare!!
APOLLO
If there is justice for you, show me that!
Show me by defeating me.
If you can, I will extinguish myself, bravely.
Well — What do you say to that, Arion?!
ARION
Lesphina. . .
LESPHINA
Arion. . .
ARION
Lesphina, it looks as if you can speak again, doesn’t it?
LESPHINA
For some reason or other, it was as if was in a long dream. . .
Then, somebody . . .
LESPHINA
I could hear someone’s voice, calling me. . .
Hearing that. . .
I was searching for that person. . .
So.
It was you.
Arion. . .!
ARION
Ah. . .
Everyone’s here. . .
The Titans’ world is ending. . .
From now on, everyone will really go on living by themselves. . .
LESPHINA
Where will we go. . .?
ARION
We’ll return to Trakia.
Where Mother is surely waiting. . .
Of course, you’ll go, too, won’t you, Lesphina. . .?
THE END
