Category: Greek Mythology
Rating: M
Couples: Athena/?, Hephaestus/OC
Warnings: AU (OOCness for some of the gods at times), Hints of Lemon, Blood: read Torture (but nothing graphic), Character Death
Chapter: 1
Copyright: Greek Gods © By Whomever they belong, Plot & OC´s © by me
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"You betrayed me, Zeus. Rule of everything and revenge on Kronos in exchange for the freedom of all my children. Will you never learn? I am Gaia! I am the Mother of all, how dare you try and trick me? I see you yourself will be a father soon. Very well, I can keep this up indefinitely. The child Metis is carrying right now will be the last in line though. The treachery in the name of your spawn with Metis will be the final uprising. It will either make or destroy you. Heed me, Zeus, as your father did not: that child will either be your ultimate downfall or your never-ending glory. The one betrayed in its' name will fall and he will end forever. In the wake of its' treachery, even the gods are not immortal. Ichor will spill from lethal wounds and drench the soil, mortals will pray to dead ears and no one, not even you, will be able to avert this. The child of Metis will surpass you, Zeus, in power, in everything. Typhon will seem like a bug in comparison to it! Enjoy your rule, traitor, enjoy it while it lasts."
Words he only faintly remembered. He almost automatically had tried to keep them from happening, but fate was a tricky thing. Despite eating her, Metis gave him a daughter, beautiful and wise. When she had sprung from his head, she had screamed a war-cry into the silent night like no other ever heard up until that point or ever heard again. He had felt Gaia tremble beneath his feet then and he realized it had not been in fear or shock, but rather sick expectation. But Athena, fair and noble Athena, had proved to be loyal to her father, despite him eating her mother and he had forgotten about the prophecy. Athena would never betray him. He was safe and Gaia's words were empty and powerless. Oh, how come they never learn? Mortals and gods alike still have to learn one very important lesson: fate is not to be denied. And not even mighty Zeus can change that.
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"Are you blaming me for Dionysus spiking the wine?" Athena screeched at her father, disbelief prominent in her face. "If I recall properly you were too drunk to even do anything at all!"
"Better too drunk to do anything than too drunk to keep an oath of virginity!" Zeus bellowed. "Not only did you apparently sleep with several men, but you also got yourself knocked up!"
"And I told you: how was I supposed to prevent that?" Athena demanded. "No one save Mister Wine himself realized that the wine was spiked until the next day. So how could I have known?"
"I don't blame you for the wine, I blame you for the child you carry almost proudly into this Hall!" Thunder accentuated the sentence as Zeus' voice boomed through said hall. He and Athena were alone in the Throne-room of Olympus, the other gods were either still recovering from their hangover from Dionysus' and Hermes' prank or had left when the tempers of the King of the Gods and his favorite child exploded.
"What should I have done then? Hidden myself in my temple?" She countered, her voice carrying equal power to that of her father. "I'm a goddess, for Tartarus' sake! It's not like I can abort the child! I might not know who I slept with, but I can assure you it was a god."
"You could have prevented this entire mess from happening! Demeter had more wine than you and she slept with no one!" Lightning streaked across the sky.
"Well, congratulations to her then." Athena snarled. "How dare you blame me for something you do regularly?"
"What?"
"You break oaths here and there, dad, don't even try to deny it. How often did you swear to Hera that that affair would be the last? And exactly how often did I have to run after the kid to ensure he lived through Hera's hate? How often did you send me to help some half-mortal spawn born from YOUR loins?" She pointed accusingly at him. "How dare you speak to me about broken oaths then? I broke mine, yes, but I will stand up and live with the consequences unlike a certain other god I shan't name."
"How dare you take such a tone with me?" Now lightning struck, mere inches from where the daughter of Zeus was standing. Disbelief came upon her face for but a moment.
"You would strike me down, father?" Her grey eyes blazed with new fury. "You would strike down your favorite daughter after she made a mistake you made willingly a hundred times?"
"If you speak to me like this you are no daughter of mine!" His fury fed the air around him, filling it with the howling of the wind and the crashing of thunder. Blinded by fury he struck again, and this time he hit her hard.
As she crashed into the ground on the other side of the hall, the impact of her armor-clad form ruining the marble tiles, he rose to his full height. "You broke your oath, Athena, an oath you swore on ME! For that, you shall pay: none, no mortal or god, are to help you while that child grows inside you! You will wander the earth until it is born, and no one is to help you! And when you return to Olympus, I hope you learned humility!"
The wind howled then, the earth shook and Zeus threw his favorite daughter from Olympus. And far away, beyond the sight of Olympus Gaia laughed as she felt Athena crash into the ground far from all civilization, in the empty lands where none dwelt save beasts and monsters, who had fled from the forces of humanity and the Heroes sprung from immortal loins. The time had come. The treachery in the name of the child of Metis would unfold soon and Zeus would pay dearly for having betrayed her all those eons ago. Enjoy your rule, traitor, enjoy it while it lasts.
