Hello people of FanFiction! I read an article about Percy Jackson and the gang going to a mortal high school and I started wondering: What would it be like if the gods went to a mortal high school? And so this story was born! Please read and review it will make me really happy! I will post the next chapters whenever I want, so there wont be a schedule, but it won't be like once in a month or even a week! Thanks for reading!
Summary: Hestia has a hard time keeping the fire on Mount Olympus going with everyone fighting and feeling down. So she tricks Zeus into changing some of the major gods and himself into TEENAGERS for a year, to be closer as a family. Will the Gods and Goddesses adjust to the change? Or will the fire be put out forever?
Rated: T
Parings: Zeus/Hera, Ares/Aphrodite, Percy/Annabeth, maybe Athena and Poseidon if I feel like it.
Disclaimer: I don't, and therefore never will, own the Percy Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus series! Although I wish I did.
The annual Spring Solstice was right around the corner and things couldn't be going worse for the Olympian Gods. Poseidon had arrived at Mount Olympus a week earlier than planned, and that sent Athena into a throwing fit. Aphrodite was still mumbling about romance to Artemis, and Artemis was going to pull her hair out if she didn't stop messing with her Hunters. Hermes and Apollo were causing mayhem anywhere they could, and it was slightly easier now that the gods' nerves were fried. Hera was chasing Zeus around, hitting him on the head with a book (curtsy of Athena) and calling him a "Womanizer". Demeter and Hades had nothing else to fight about, so cereal became the topic of conversation. Hephaestus was running after Ares, who had stolen some of his warrior automatons and Ares was getting it!
Hestia, goddess of the Hearth, strolled into the throne room feeling very ill and cold. She glanced at the arguing Olympians and sighed. She work have to work three times just to get a spark in the fire. Lately, it had been getting harder and harder to warm the coals. She cuddled in her dress and rocked back and forth on the floor, trying to warm herself.
The coals shined, but no flame arose. As she gazed in the coals, an Iris message-type thing appeared. She saw Percy Jackson giving her Hope's pithos and the fire at it's full height. Hestia glanced at the coals in dismay. Then she noticed everyone had fallen silent. Then she heard it too. An explosion. Just what they needed now!
All the Olympians dove behind their thrones as a piercing white light filled the room. Poseidon and Athena appeared. Athena was dressed in full battle armor and the only things you could see was her hair; black curly locks spiraling down mid-back, and her stormy gray eyes, promising Tartarus. She had her shield and spear. Poseidon had his triton, no armor, but his black hair was all ruffled, like he'd been in a fight. He was smiling, but his eyes were dead serious.
Athena lunged but Poseidon sidestepped. She threw her spear above his head and his eyes followed it. Athena, taking the distraction as an advantage, smacked him in the head with her shield and vaulted over his head to retrieve her spear. Poseidon staggered backwards, golden ichor leaking from a cut. He was already starting to heal.
''You are the most dense, simpleminded, ignorant god that ever lived!'' Athena yelled. ''Fish Face!''
''Just calm down,'' Poseidon summoned a huge wave. ''And tell me what I did wrong, Owl Head!'' The water crashed down on Athena.
''Poseidon!'' She shrieked. ''I'm going to send you to Tartarus-'
''STOP IT!'' Zeus yelled coming out from behind his throne. "SHUT UP PLEASE!" The two gods lowered their weapons.
"Sure thing, Father," Athena smiled at Zeus, but her eyes glittered murderously, as if she was ready to send anyone who got in her way into Tartarus. She resumed her godly height, sat on her throne (an olive tree wrapped around two white marble columns) and became as still as a statue. Poseidon sighed.
"Sorry brother," he said as he too gained his godly height and his sea-themed throne. Knowing it was safe, the other gods crept out from behind their thrones and the Council began.
"Unwise... fighting..." Athena muttered. "Got to make a plan..." Blythe, her owl (who was five times bigger any ordinary owl) was perched on her shoulder. Zeus began his very long and enormously boring speech.
Hestia shivered as she tried to listen to Zeus. Poseidon and Athena had been the last straw. The coals were dead and cold. She could feel herself fading, but she didn't complain. Numbness filled her body, so she couldn't feel her feet anymore.
"Hestia... HESTIA!" A female voice rang in her ears, but it sounded more like an echo than an actual voice. Someone touched it shoulder and she glanced up. Athena was bending down over her. She looked genuinely concerned for Hestia. She wrapped her arms around the little girl's shivering body. Warmth returned to Hestia's body and the tiniest flame arose in the fireplace.
"Thanks," she whispered. "I'm fine now." Athena's eyes shone with worry.
"The Hearth was almost put out forever," Athena said. "Are you sure you are okay? You don't look the best-"
"ATHENA!" Zeus' voice boomed. "CARE TO JOIN US?"
"No, Father," Athena voice rose. furiously. "In case you haven't noticed, Hestia almost faded! The Hearth is dying." Hestia looked down, embarrassed. She could hear gasps from the other Olympians.
"HESTIA," Zeus thundered. "Come here." She stumbled as she tried to make her way to Zeus' throne. She bowed and Zeus motioned for her to come closer.
"Is this true?" Zeus whispered nervously in her ear. "Is the Hearth actually dying?"
"Yes, my Lord Zeus," she said, an idea coming to her head. "And I know a way we can bring it back." She told her plan to Zeus, and tried to ignore as both Hera and Aphrodite tried to sneak on what they were saying.
"What you ask is very risky," Zeus contemplated. "But very well." He lifted his lightning bolt in the air and all the gods and goddesses in the room, except Hestia, were surrounded by a deep blue mist.
"ZEUS," Hades yelled. "WHAT IS THE MEANING-"
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