I was having a normal day on Olympus, as I was once again fighting with Poseidon. We were arguing about who should of become the patron Athens,
We were interrupted when we were called to go to the throne room for a meeting. Father said it was mandatory for all Olympians to attend, which meant that he was going to either brag or destroy some sort of imagined threat.
When I arrived at Olympus I was still really mad at Poseidon. Father flashed in, being dramatic as always. When everyone finally settled in Zeus began.
"I'd like to open the meeting by congratulating Poseidon with his recent marriage to Amphitrite" Father started, a smug look on his face. Zeus, he had arranged a marriage of his brother with Oceanus' daughter. He said it was to improve Olympus's relationship with the titan of the sea, but his real motivation was because of Poseidon siring a child with Hecate, who had turned out to be an incredibly powerful child. And Zeus, being the kind of person he is, did not like and instead of being civil he forced his own brother into a loveless marriage.
I did not like my father's plan but the child he was worried about was rumored to be more powerful than most of the Olympian Gods themselves.
Still we all clapped for Poseidon, but we soon received a terrifying glare from Poseidon making us all stop. However it did not faze Zeus, no he just kept clapping. He then went on to gloat and rant about his brother's marriage, only stopping when the rest of us felt he had exhausted the topic an hour ago.
He must thought he was on a roll or something because he did not stop there with the subject.
"But of course that's not the only thing we should be celebrating, is it Poseidon?" Zeus said in a sarcastic tone, "How is your illegal son?"
Zeus said son as if it was the most degrading word he could muster. Though Poseidon did not take to it. So Zeus took another jab. "Isn't his mother that minor Titaness" he spat on the floor, "of magic? You know, I always thought Hecate was a bit of a whore."
That's when Poseidon snapped.
We could tell because he broke Zeus' neck.
"ENOUGH BROTHER." Poseidon spat. "I know you arranged my marriage just to spite me! I know you called this meeting so you could gloat. But enough! You can keep your shitty council but from now on you rule without the sea!"
With that the sea God disappeared in his own personal hurricane.
The mighty Olympian throne room of the Gods was silent; except for the quiet groans form Dionysus' unconscious form.
Father, however, soon regained his pompous and arrogant attitude.
"Well it's not like we needed him anyway."
The sky God had never been so wrong.
Poseidon did not join the Olympian council for the remainder of our time in Greece.
It had seemed that only my aunt Hestia cared to try and get Poseidon on the council again. Some of us were to scared to try anything and others did not care, like myself. So what if he left, at least I did not have to deal with such an idiot any longer.
Centuries later, we began to feel the flame of civilization, later on renamed the flame of the west, move away from Greece. It seemed as if Greece was no longer going to be our home.
This was the first time anything of the sort happened, so we were scared. Many of us went wild with imagination of what was to come.
A few days later I was sitting in my library, the most vast collection of books and scrolls in the known universe, I was reading a book on architecture by Ictinus who built a temple for Apollo. I was sitting comfortably when out of the blue I hear someone clearing their throat indicating that they wanted to talk to me. Good thing too because if they tapped my shoulder I would have probably impaled them.
I raised my head to find Artemis standing there. I looked at her questionably wondering why she was here.
"I came here because I want your opinion on something" I nodded wanting her to get to the point. Before continuing she seemed to be bracing herself, I wonder why? "What do you think about Poseidon le-" I cut her off, ranting about every dumb thing he has done and every single one of his flaws, then I stopped because I too have been thinking about this, and as much as it pained me to say this next sentence, I knew it was right.
"But we do need him" I saw her shocked expression and I grinned, it was not often I surprised her like this. "I mean he is one of the most powerful Gods and he's not a bone headed idiot like our brothers."
She nodded, presumably thinking about what I just said.
"I agree." She stated, "I think we should have a plan to get him back on the council, if things turn against us." I nodded in agreement and we started to brainstorm.
If you are wondering, yes the term brainstorm did come from me but because of how I was born but because how I make my children, by thinking of everything I want in them.
The first thing we agreed on was that it should be something that spited our father, Gods would he be mad if he found out what we were doing. It was common knowledge that to get a favor from one of 'the big three' you had to piss off one of the other brothers.
Next we agreed it should be marriage, it would make sure the fix would be more permanent and we were sure that Poseidon would appraise the irony.
Our next decision to make was about who would be married. We started with person who would link the deal to Poseidon. The sea God himself was obviously the first choice, however he was already married, which started this whole thing well half started. The next people to come to our minds were his sons: Perseus and Triton.
Triton, the younger child, was the only godly child of Poseidon and Amphitrite and herald to the seas. He was not much of a threat to Zeus.
Perseus, the first child of both Poseidon and Hecate, was extremely powerful. His domains had not been made public yet but he was rumored to be able to take on some Olympians and win, I wondered who? This was enough to make him considered as a threat by Zeus.
You probably came to the same conclusion, Perseus was our match. But we still needed to know who he you be matched with.
"Well obviously it should be one of our sisters." I was thinking of how to annoy Zeus as much as possible.
"Great!" Artemis said, voice dripping with sarcasm. "Now all we have to do is find father's favorite daughter."
When the words left her mouth I knew that it meant either me or her were getting married. I was gaping just thinking about being married, you know there is a reason why we take these vow's.
"But this is only a back up plan." I stuttered out, still thinking about what my future could entail. " You never know, old fish-for-brains might come back any day now."
For the first time in a long time, I was wrong.
