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A/N: Okay, RackOfLife asked me if I had any fic with a God MC, here I will show you guys. This story has a male MC, I'm not good at writing them, tell me what you think.

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Godly Rise

(A DC comics Fanfiction)

A/N: Essences of Apotheosis, Harem Protagonist

Earth-52 Delta
February 18th, 1799
Mediterranean Sea

I woke up in a dark and dank room. I was chained to a wall by heavy manacles on my wrists and feet and completely naked. Hearing water droplets fall on the right side of myself, I asked myself how I ended up here? I remembered speaking with my patron after being pulled off the sea of soul and my afterlife…

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I downed the two bottles of essences and chose what I wanted done; my body swelled and I found myself looking down at the demoness who had plucked me from the afterlife. I remembered what happened when my soul couldn't be contained in my mortal body anymore and I converted to godhood… This was at this moment that my awareness spread beyond the space Lilith had created to house my soul, I saw terrible wonders and horrors and they noticed me too. But before they could get to me, a potent presence, more powerful than me at the moment, sheltered me. It was vast and encompassing…, my eyes fell on Lilith and I finally realized that she was more than a sexy demoness. She could easily be considered God with a big G.

Lilith was simply beautiful, so beautiful that I had to limit my new awareness to only see a red skinned demoness with purple hair and golden eyes and a heavenly body that was beyond the concept of womanhood. She put her hand on me and… and I felt myself being reeled in and forced to manifest a form; I felt that Lilith was remaking a body for me… when she was done, I looked at myself. I was taller and more muscular than before; my hair turned bone white and had grown long.  I felt tremendously strong, as if I would be able to juggle mountains.

I was confused, for a bit, but I quickly accepted my new reality. Lilith showed me how to choose a divine portfolio, and as a result, I had chosen those domains: Sky, Light, Magic, War, Healing, Might, Chaos, Good, Protection, and Space.

When all this was done, Miss Lilith, opened a blue portal showing that it was open on the sapphire like water of the ocean with rolling waves. “Now get out, and you better not come back before you have  nice girls at your arm, and a football team of kids with them.”

She pushed me and I felt myself being restrained even further, at least to the level of a demi-god, or what I think should be a demi-god. My face landed first in the water and I lost consciousness.

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"Ah, fuck, I got captured." I lowered my head, the chain’s links clicking with a metallic sound as I moved.

But who had caught me? And then I remembered that I am a god now, a Deity of might and strength; so I pulled on the chains attached to the wall and they… snapped. Then I willed the manacles to disappear from my wrists and feet. Rising to my feet, I scrunch my nose as the bad smell of the dungeon I found myself within permeated the cell; it really stank a lot. I flexed my power, but I felt it being restrained, it was less encompassing than when it first unleashed in Lilith’s realm.

I shrugged, my muscles rolled and a divine raiment made of gold armor pieces and pure white clothes in the form of martial Greek toga glowing slightly manifested on my body. “Well, time to explore.”

Walking up to the heavy door, I observed that it was metal and my intuition told me that it was more than solid to resist me; but were the walls solid as well? I made a fist, and with a straight punch caused the cell to shake and the wall I hit to explode outward. The gray stone fell on the ground and dust raised in the air, but I dissipated it with my power over the wind element.

Air is the invisible mixture of gasses that surrounds Earth. Air contains important substances, such as oxygen and nitrogen, that most species need to survive. But in a supernatural context it allowed me to direct air currents through my will and propel myself to… fly.

My feet left the ground and I floated toward the exit of the dungeon, avoiding the debris I created when I simply made the entire left wall where my cell was explode. "Whoops."

Then I started to hear people coming at swift speed toward me and what wasn't my surprise when three women in Greek armor appeared, spears in hands, and Kopis strapped at their waist on a sword belt. They looked deadly and beautiful as they ran toward me, and this realization made me go invisible before they could spot me.

I spied on them and heard them speak as they studied the destroyed wall.

"Who was imprisoned here, sister Carise?" The woman with tanned skin and wavy blonde hair asked.

I noticed how those women had different kits, bow, arrows, swords and knives. With a standard spear reminding me of those Roman ones I've seen in a museum before. The metal it was made of was silvery and shone with pink luster. This was no mundane metal.

"A man, with white hair that we found floating in the waters near the island." Carise the redhead with the heavy looking spear gave them my description.

The third woman who had been quiet until now asked, "Wasn't this the area set up for the studs?"

*Stud?* Okay, I suddenly don't feel safe here. Hmm, what should I do? Can I read their thoughts and memories? Like those deities in the novel I read. I felt that I was able to do this; instinctively, I looked at the women, really looked; I saw past their fleshy body and into their soul. The soul was a repository of memory, I discovered and with that knowledge, everything those three women knew filled my mind and oh boy, there were so many memories…

The story that I was seeing unfold was a familiar one, women created by five Greek Goddesses to spread their values, and to be tools for their Pantheon. Then they are enslaved by a band of men led by some asshole muscle bound blonde called Herakles… like a bolt of lightning, I knew right away where I was and how dangerous my situation was. *Oh crap, I landed in DC on a island of rape happy Amazons…*

This was how they sustained their population while guarding the underworld gates. The Amazon in charge stood up and commanded, "Raise the alarm, we have an escaped stud!"

Yeah, no fuck that. I appeared before them and let my divinity seep through, my eyes filled with blue energy which overlaid my vision and as I stood before them, I declared my presence. “My name is Aiolos. God of the Sky, Strength and Protection. In my hour of need, you chained me and presumed to use me as chattel to your vile acts."

I held my hand before me, and I thought of a weapon which would help me smite those… monsters that those women have become. I felt my divine power manifest and formed into a golden ax with a sapphire colored crystal-like blade. I felt my war domain take over as it taught me how to use the ax and boosted my fighting aptitudes.

Without hesitation I attacked, the women let go of their spear, as they were in a tight corridor and attacked me with their fist or swords. I didn't want to kill them, and I saw their weaknesses immediately. I disarmed them and broke their arms or legs. It was strange how easily I had swept them aside in three moves. A technique that reflected any attacks, another which disarmed them like a dragon shout from skyrim and the last targeted their weaknesses.

They now lay broken at my feet, stinking of fear and terror. I was surprised at myself, this was the first time that I felt so much fury but I didn't let it consume me, lest I would be dragged to my foes' level.

They did evil acts but… I saw the potential for redemption. I lowered my ax and strapped it to my back in a scabbard that appeared for it. The weapon felt alive and intelligent, and happy to be wielded by me.

My eyes fell on the Amazon at my feet, I healed them sufficiently with my healing domain but they would be unable to walk for a few days. The fear they had for me disappeared and what is this energy I feel coming from them attempting to snare me? It was wispy and ethereal… I shrugged.

As I loomed over them I said coldly, "The only reason you're still alive is because I feel that you're not completely evil. That you can be brought back from the brink and let go of the hate in your heart, don't squander my magnanimity."

The redhead tried to stand and as she called out to me, "W-wait-"

I simply opened a portal with my ax, it was one of the powers I imagined for it, as I have used Thor’s Stormbreaker as an example for it. Then I left without looking back, I appeared… in the Palace’s throne room to do something about those Amazons, my domains pushed me to do it before I left.

Thanks to the women's memories I've taken, I think I have a good layout of Paradise Island. When I passed through and ended up before the throne and- here sat the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. My heart skipped a beat, and my divine aura stilled as I looked at her luscious black locks of hair, her tall shapely form and twin moon shaped bossom.

I ignored the women who raised their weapons on me but they were no threat to me. I stood like a statue marveling at the strong beauty before me and said, "Huh, is this what it's like to fall in love at first sight?"

Everyone in the room, mostly the guards heard me as I looked transfixed by the woman on the throne.

"Who are you?" Asked the beautiful Warrior Queen.

This must be Hippolyta, Diana's future mother, as a matter of fact I was in a world where the heroine wasn't born yet. I don't think that I cared about leaving the island right now that I've seen this vision of perfection. Her soul was beautiful, she cared about her people and she has endured so much suffering and I knew that there were more events which might threaten her. Hippolyta was trying to change the ways of her people, to join back the world and stop the preying and raping practices of the Amazons.

Deep in her heart, Hippolyta thought that doing that to men didn't make them any better than what Herakles and his men did to them. She was playing the long game and trying to change her people; she was as cunning as she was martially powerful.

"My… I am sorry, your Majesty. You simply are breathtaking." My blood, my divinity screamed at me to make her mine, to bind her existence to me, that she was destined to be with me. But I held myself back, I wasn't a savage and I wouldn't let my own domains and divine spark control me.

She raised from the strange spiral throne and started to go down the stairs of the dais. Her gaze did not leave me for a second. "You're no man."

I flexed my Aura and she stopped walking as she and everyone in the room felt my divine might. I am not being haughty or arrogant, this is what I felt and how I could describe the energy filling me. How peculiar it is; meanwhile the statuesque woman clad in a white greek dress stopped before me. "A god? Here? Why?"

She and I were the same height, I looked into her mesmerizing sapphire blue eyes and introduced myself. "My name is Aiolos, God of the Sky, Strength, Protection, Light and Might."

She tilted her head and had a confused expression on her face. "A foreign God? How unusual…"

Then she seemed to realize who I was when she saw my white hair and physique. "You are the person the island patrol retrieved from the sea."

The amazons in armor were still pointing their spears at me as I advanced a bit more toward their leader. "Yes, I had fallen into the sea and then I woke up weakened in your dungeons, your Majesty."

Nothing was said for ten seconds before the Queen sighed and stared at me with more courage. "Are you here to obtain… recompense?"

Did she think that I am like those Greek gods? I decided to be frank with her. "I had come to enact punishment on your people and to curse this land for what they did to me, to dare try to turn me into a stallion for your appetites and plan to sustain your population."

The amazons were shocked by what I said, some unsheathed their Kopis and looked hard at me. Queen Hippolyta was the only one still trying to be diplomatic with me. "Please, Lord Aiolos, I am sure that we can come to a solution to this problem…"

I opened my mouth and was about to speak when the helmeted blonde Amazon at the Queen’s side shouted, "Attack!"

"For Themyscira!" The other guards all yelled out and they surged toward me.

Queen Hippolyta shouted with horror etched on her beautiful face, "No, Antiope! Don't!"

I showed a disappointed expression, my ax manifested in my hand and as I took a fighting stance, and on my free arm, a shield manifested. It was an ornate round shield made of a golden metal; it's a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, three inches thick.

When all the Amazons attacked me in concert, a transparent field of force deployed around me and absorbed their attacks’ kinetic energy. I shield-bashed the nearest woman and used the blunt of my ax to disable them. Those fifteen women were good, better than the three amazons I have battled before. I resolved to kill none of them; Antiope is Hippolyta’s sister and I strangely didn’t want her to hate me.

I sidestepped a blade which was destined to cut my neck, deflected a spear and swiped the legs under the amazon who attempted to stab me from behind. I took each of them down as easy as breathing, and there was only the instigator of the attack left, Antiope.

I faced her, while she looked at all her downed sisters; there was blood on my ax despite me trying my best to not kill anyone. Some of the women had bones piercing their skin or moaning in pain.

"You'll pay for this!" The blonde raged.

I wasn't impressed, all I did was flirt with the Queen. "This is all your fault, General. You are attacking a foe who you know nothing about, it was bound to happen."

"Grrrrr! Aaaaahhhhh!" The Amazon lunged at me, sword first, she was aiming for my eyes.

My voice boomed and before she could strike me, I shouted, "Zun Haal Viik!"

The kopis in Antiope's sword hand was ripped from her, and I caught her by the neck and slammed her down on the marble floor repeatedly until she lost her helmet and there was an ominous crack sound. Fortunately it was only the tiles, Antiope was still alive.

Sching! I felt the tip of a blade on my shoulder; it was Queen Hippolyta; she was glaring at me. "Please, spare them."

I sighed. "They don't deserve it. They attacked me because I am male and listened to us speak."

Those women were afraid of men, and hated them; but hate wasn't enough. They loathed mankind for what they did to them. The rapes, the slavery and casual cruelty they showed for centuries under the yoke of Herakles. If I ever meet that man, I will kill him for what he did, I swear it.

"Then I am afraid that I must fight you, my Lord." The woman I was falling for had formed her resolve to save her subjects.

"Can we not?" I almost pleaded, but a god doesn't beg, one of my main domain is war. And in war we take and absorb the resources of our foes. I saw that nothing I say will sway her, she wants to fight me to protect her subjects.

Our fight is inevitable it seems, so I gave Queen Hippolyta my terms, "If I defeat you then, my Queen; I will make you my bride and help you reform your people."

Queen Hippolyta didn't say anything for a moment! I saw her think about my proposal. She finally nodded, "And if I defeat you, you'll heal my sisters and leave Paradise Island never to return. No one shall enslave us again, I have sworn it upon my throne."

This broke my heart, to hear all that pain in this powerful woman's tone. It made me acquiesce to her own counter proposal. "I accept your terms my Queen, but… I ask you, why should I enslave you? I said I would marry you. Slaves have no mind, freedom and dreams and make dubious lovers; and frankly I abhor suffering and such states of mind."

Hippolyta nodded, a little surprised expression onto her face. "Then you're a better God than some."

She moved like the wind and her footing and balance was excellent, it was all I could do to parry her stab with my shield. Klang!

She kicks me in the chest and sends me skidding away from her; I retrieve my balance by slowing my fall with aerokinesis. I dodged another swing, and then was lassoed and pulled toward the Queen. I braced my feet and seized the lasso and entered in a tug of War with Hippolyta, I grinned a bit.

This made the Queen scowl at me. "Be serious!"

"I don't want to hurt you. I never used those powers against mortals and I don't know what level of strength I must use against you."

As an answer to my explanation, Hippolyta let go of the lasso, jumped at me, but I caught her right wrist and slammed her on the ground. Then I noticed the blade in her other hand, and the cut in on my forearm. "Huh, you made me bleed, good."

She laid on the ground pinned to my body, she looked so fiery and beautiful that I couldn't stop staring. "I really don't want to hurt you."

"I still haven't lost! I cannot lose, I am not allowed to lose. I will never let a man touch-"

I shush her with a hand on her lips, while I said, "Don't say that, my Queen. You never lost; you vanquished me the moment I laid eyes upon you. All I plan to do is to treat you well, I wish to cherish you, and help your people flourish."

She glared at me and started struggling and accused, "You want to rule over us!"

I was startled by the venom in her voice. Then I promptly disabused her of the notion that I want to rule anything. "Rule? No. My Queen, I swear on my divine name that all I want is you. Please give me a chance, allow me to court you and I can give you another promise; if you marry me, Queen Hippolyta, I will never interfere in the affairs of Themyscira. I want to become your consort, My Queen."

She stopped struggling, looked into my eyes and finally realized that I wasn't playing games."You're being serious."

Well duh, I have never sipped so hard for a woman. "No, my name is Aiolos." I quipped.

"Excuse me?" She raised an eyebrow and looked at me questioningly.

Ah, I forgot that we're from different eras. "Sorry a little joke from my world."

I let go of her tentatively and… she didn't attack me. I stood up and helped her up by holding my hand to her. She hesitated but took my hand in a firm grip, her eyes never leaving me.

"You're not from here are you?" Hippolyta finally said.

This made me start to be candid with her. And I decided to tell her the truth or at least how I saw it. I sighed and dismissed my ax, which sheathed itself in its scabbard. "Your Majesty… I am not from this world, I've been dumped next to your island by my mother Goddess and-"

Hippolyta put her knife back in the sheath at her belt, then crossed her arm as she interrupted me. "You were cast out from the divine lands of your pantheon?"

Technically, Lilith the demoness was my divine parent, she sheltered me and my soul and gave me the current form I was in; she cast me out in this dimensional cluster and told me to live a happy life and eventually come back with a family. And my instincts were pushing me to romance And marry Hippolyta, those two things must be linked.

"Yes I was, my Queen; my mother seems to have wished for me to get to see the world after so much time spent doing nothing." I say in self-depreciation.

With a chuckle, Hippolyta said, "You seem rather too easy going for a god."

"Huh, well of course. I don't want to be too reserved." I said as I looked around us, then at the Amazon Queen. "Hmm, my Queen, I think I realized that I won this bout between us?"

She stiffened and breathed in and out. "I guess you did; still I think we can find a sister amongst us willing to wed you if…"

I walked up to her, stopped just shy of one meter between her and me, then stared into her eyes. "No, I want no one else but you. I fell for you with naught but a glance."

She realized that I wasn't going to budge on wanting to make her Mrs Aiolos. Her eyes became hard. "Heal my sisters and… and I might… give you a chance."

Hippolyta was being serious as she asked me this; this was a test. "Do you promise to consider my proposal?"

She nodded. "I have honor."

I turned to the downed Amazon, it was miraculous how tough and resistant they were. Green light spread through my body and filled the entire throne room and right under my eyes the women I had downed were slowly regenerating. I saw the healing process, my power was basically using a time component to a moment where they were not hurt to get them back into a healthy state.

The amazons stood up after I finished. "There, I healed them."

I wasn't interested much by other amazons, their souls were dimmed with sorrow and fear; compared to that, Hippolyta was like a beacon of strength and love, and I wanted that. I want to be loved by her. *How strange.*

"Thank you, my Lord." She said as she touched my shoulder.

I smiled at her. "Please, call me Aiolos. I am no Lord, for now all I have is power and a weapon to my name."

She gave me a sharp nod, let go of me and ran toward Antiope. But it seemed that the woman wanted to still fight me; she seized her weapon and started for me until her Queen interposed herself between her and me. "Antiope stop, you're no match for him and… and I am considering his terms…"

The hate filled glance she threw me didn't phase me. She whirled toward the Queen and yelled, "But he wants to court you! To take you away from us!"

Huh? What the hell, that's not what I said! Fortunately, Hippolyta was more level headed than her sister. "Antiope that is not what Lord Aiolos said, and you know it. And sister… Would it be so bad being married to such a handsome and powerful God? It might be a good thing for our people."

The face of Antiope visibly changed from anger to sadness and understanding. She hugged Hippolyta and said, "Oh My Queen… I know that you long to be a mother but…"

Hippolyta patted her sister’s back and then looked at me then at Antiope. "I don't want any child of mine to be born from rape, I refuse to participate in those after raiding bacanal! You know they awaken bad memories… this god, Lord Aiolos seems to be a man of honor and he professes to want to court me for love."

"I want a chance, but I don't want to force myself where I am not wanted, Queen Hippolyta. All I ask is an opportunity to get to know you and maybe something more if we can get along." This was how it worked in ancient times, right? Courting the girl, wooh her and giving her gifts while trying to support her?

I only dated two times in my previous life, I am not some Uber awesome Chad who knew his way around women. Even more so with 'damaged' women who were hurt by men and lived in a closed off Matriarchal society.

But still, Hippolyta was the only person worth knowing here. And I think I needed to be firm with what I thought about their… disgusting practice.

"My Queen. Hippolyta." I called out to her.

Antiope and her stopped talking, "Aiolos?"

Fuck, her saying my name in that sexy accent did things to me…"It pains me to say this, but I wish to be clear on something, because of my domains and personal moral values; I discovered some things going on in your country."

She must have realized what I was about to say, Hippolyta stood firm but I felt a lot of shame coming from her. Still, I soldiered on. "I abhor rape, it's repugnant. I thought that suffering for centuries under a cowardly demi-god would have taught you that?"

Hippolyta was about to say something, but it was her sister, Antiope who spoke. "Then how are we supposed to maintain our population, the duties that the gods gave us are slowly killing us! More and more Amazon dies over the decades!"

"Calm down, sister." Hippolyta restrained her general. She then turned to me. "Aiolos, what would you have us do? This… situation is unpalatable to us but…"

Hippolyta loathed the situation her people were in. They needed men to make more Amazon, their society wasn't independent at all from the outside world. But what if they didn't have to go outside and capture men… then my divinity showed me some… possibilities. "I can think of a few things… but know, Hippolita, that I am not judging you. You're in a difficult position."

Hmm I decided to give her an incentive to accept becoming mine. I flexed my divine spark and showed to Hippolyta what I had in mind. A sphere of mist spread from my arm and pictures of Themyscira appeared. I showed her the future that I envisaged with a land with a happy Amazon nation and Dragon-aspected people living in harmony. "If you marry me, My Queen. I won't let your people die out. I promise to shelter them and help them thrive while still keeping to their duties to your other gods."

The Amazon present in the room all looked transfixed at the dream in the bottle, Dragons were flying over the skies, amazons were fighting and victorious, people pursued knowledge and the arts. When I stopped and dissipated the mist bubble, Hippolyta looked at me with wonder. "You'd do that for a woman you just met?"

Walking up to her, I put a hand on her cheek and said, "No, you're not just a woman to me. Hippolita, you're my future Queen, my Equal in everything and the mother of my children. The fates have shown me that."

Hippolyta blushed and averted her eyes from me embarrassed at my fervor. "We… we might come up with an arrangement then…"

Antiope kept glaring at me all the while.