{"id":3505,"date":"2019-03-20T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:36:30","slug":"the-chronicles-of-kronos-volume-iii-chapter-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3505","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicles Of Kronos Volume III Chapter One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicles Of Kronos Volume III Chapter One<\/p>\n<p>The first thing \u2018fake\u2019 Kronos decided to do<br \/>\nwas to send the local villagers to school.<br \/>\nNot a school of higher learning, you see.<br \/>\nBut, a school of hard knocks. See them flee.<br \/>\nIt immediately laid down the law to them.<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ll pay me taxes. It won\u2019t be a whim.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ll do exactly what I tell you to do.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t, I\u2019ll make a crispy critter out of you.\u201d<br \/>\nAs proof, it burned a couple of them to ash.<br \/>\nThen dumped their remains in the local trash.<br \/>\nThe villagers were shaking in their boots.<br \/>\nOne objected. It ripped her hair out by the roots.<br \/>\n\u2018Fake\u2019 Kronos laughed a big belly laugh.<br \/>\n\u201cAnymore objections?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t give me any sass.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll be back to collect in a week. Be ready.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201c10% of all you have. Don\u2019t try to be petty.\u201d<br \/>\nWith that, \u2018fake\u2019 Kronos was gone.<br \/>\nBack to its castle. But, not for long.<br \/>\nSoon, it did a repeat performance in another village.<br \/>\nSame demands, along with what it could pillage.<br \/>\nIt had fun boiling the blood of someone.<br \/>\nWhile the blood was still in their body, for fun.<br \/>\nIt liked to see people cower and squirm.<br \/>\nIt made others crawl through cow shit, like a worm.<br \/>\nIt laughed at their suffering &amp; had a ball.<br \/>\nIt made it feel like it was ten feet tall.<br \/>\nA more vile creature, the world had never known.<br \/>\nAnd, over time, it only got worse, it was shown.<br \/>\nIt would experiment with new magical spells.<br \/>\nAlways on the innocent, with tragic results. No quells.<br \/>\nThe people offered sacrifices to be left alone.<br \/>\nIt said \u201cNo.\u201d, then kill them. The people would moan.<br \/>\n\u2018Fake\u2019 Kronos would laugh and laugh.<br \/>\nThen yell \u201cYou all stink!! Take a bath!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2018Fake\u2019 Kronos prided itself on new &amp; different ways<br \/>\nto torture the people and make them slaves.<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t above killing babies.<br \/>\nIt would do it without any maybes.<br \/>\nIt spread its reign of terror over larger areas of land.<br \/>\nSome villages tried to fight, but were destroyed to the man.<br \/>\nWord of the creature &amp; its monstrous ways<br \/>\nspread across all the land in a few days.<br \/>\nIt was a dark time in the history of man.<br \/>\nThey said it couldn\u2019t be killed. Try if you can.<br \/>\n\u2018Fake\u2019 Kronos sang, as it fixed a sandwich for lunch.<br \/>\nA bloody piece of meat on which it did munch.<br \/>\nThings were well. But, they could be better.<br \/>\nIt had plans to be Emperor Of Earth. Much better.<br \/>\nIt would take a little while to plan.<br \/>\nMight as well have all the fun it can.<br \/>\nIt looks like there will be no end to this reign of terror.<br \/>\nIs there not a hero alive in the world anywhere?<br \/>\nWe will check back again a little later.<br \/>\nTo see what we can learn as a spectator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R.W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicles Of Kronos Volume III Chapter One The first thing \u2018fake\u2019 Kronos decided to do was to send the local villagers to school. Not a school of higher learning, you see. But, a school of hard knocks. See them flee. It immediately laid down the law to them. \u201cYou\u2019ll pay me taxes. It won\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Chronicles Of Kronos Volume III Chapter One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,15,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-horror","category-medieval","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}