A Call to Arms

A Call to Arms is the first episode of Blood of Zeus series.

Synopsis
Demons attack the polis near the home of the outcast Heron, who finds allies in the wise elder Elias and the fierce Amazonian warrior Alexia.

Summary
Alexia and her men are chasing two demons, who manage to slip away from her and head towards the town. Meanwhile, Heron collects some ore, but manages to earn only two drachmas. As he returns to his mother, Electra, they hear noises and see Alexia who informs them that she is looking for a demon. The town people deny seeing any and she continues on her way. Heron sees Elias had injured his leg and helps him out. He goes to take some water to clean the wound, however he sees a dead woman in the fountain and is then attacked by a demon. The demon attacks him, but Alexia returns and starts fighting him. In a pinch, Heron helps Alexia, but the demon manages to escape. She and her men search the town for the demon. She sees a man hiding his face and attacks him. She sees he has the same wound she inflicted the demon and tells her men to arrest him.

Alexia gather the people of the town and explains that an army from the east descends upon them. She burns the man with a hot iron, to reveal that he is a demon. As the man turns, he tries to tell them that they are the strong and the humans are the weak, but she beheads him before he finishes speaking.

Heron wonders how such thing could exist and Elias tells him about the war with the giants. He tells him how the gods defeated the titans, but as the last titan fell, he swore a curse on the gods and when his blood stroke the sea, the giants were born. The war between the giants and gods continued as neither could conquer the other. One day, Zeus convinces two giants to take up arms with them and in a final battle against the giants, with the two giants help, the gods defeated the giants. Hermes then gathers their souls, while the giants remains are cast into the ocean. Hephaestus forges a grand automation Talos to stand guard over the cauldron with the souls, so the evil could never return. Ages pass and one day a giants body is cast ashore. A man finds it and upon touching it, he starts to be poisoned by the evil. Eventually other men join him and they eat the giant flesh, turning into demons.

In the morning, Alexia tells Heron that he fought bravely and invites him to join her in the fight against demons and protect the town. Heron has no such desire as they had forsaken him and his mother. Heron wants to leave, but his mother tells him they can't and tries to tell him who his real father is, but in that moment, people from the town come wanting to test if Electra is a demon. Heron starts fighting them, but as they overwhelm him, Electra burns her arm to prove that she isn't a demon.

Seeing Alexia leaving, Heron states that he should have gone with her. Elias tells him that indeed a war is upon them and they need to prepare. He tells him to climb the mountain and there he will find a rose bush and underneath it, there is an adamantine ore from which they will make him a sword like no other.

As Heron leaves, Ares shows in front of Elias, revealing that Elias is Zeus. Are though they can't intervene, however Zeus explains he said that they can't fight for them. Ares wants to help, but Zeus tells him that if man is meant to inherit the earth, they must do so on their own accord.

Characters

 * Alexia
 * Heron
 * Electra
 * Elias
 * Zeus
 * Hades
 * Poseidon
 * Hermes
 * Apollo
 * Hephaestus
 * Talos
 * Seraphim
 * Ares