Hey everyone, I AM BACK WITH A NEW KEEN EYE AND PASSION. I am SO sorry for being gone for so long and only fixing up the first chapter but I PROMISE I am going to get this show on the ROAD BABY!
I am sadly informing you that I do not own the rights of Percy Jackson and The Olympians/ The Heros of Olympus. Rick R. does (the bastard) JK
Chapter 1
Lying in the wreckage of the once beautiful house of the man that I deeply cared for, not love because my oath that I took would not allow it. Weeping silently for his death and holding my hair tightly, trying to push out the memory of the burning house that I was unable to stop from some strange outside force.
The loneliness and grief crashed over my heart finally, remembering sitting on the side while my brothers and sisters went about carelessly and having children with any women or man. Briefly filling the void in my heart a little bit by attending to the Camp Half-Blood fire places and watching over the children of my family while they trained to become great heroes and be able to fight for their lives when the need arose. Alas even they ignored my presence and finally all the years of denied acceptance came crashing in, shattering my once solid resolve and setting lose chaotic goddess energy into the world of mortals.
Wallowing in my despair and stumbling into a abandoned building to weep my tears away but as all immortals knows an emotionally unstable goddess can't keep all of her divine powers within making all surrounding areas nature run amok, which lead to the building spontaneously catch fire. What I thought was an abandoned building, actually was one of the many buildings that I have blessed for protection so all the homeless had a safe place to stay on the cold winter nights.
As the building burned down to the ground around my very feet, the familiar sirens of the vehicles that mortals called fire trucks drummed against my eardrums. I didn't want to be found and hoping that my general ability to be unseen would keep me hidden since all those heroes and other god's passed me by without a second glance for my health or thoughts. At first everything went smoothly with each passing minute, firefighters passing by me without even a glance.
Though the last of the mortals must have been able to see through the Mist because he saw me for the first time kneeling in the corner of the room. That was the first time that I met him and slowly started to come out of self-exile and depression. He must have seen me as a grown woman because he never asked me where my parents were, since every time mortals saw me I look like a child because they would ask where my parents were.
Staring straight into this mans eyes I could feel my anxiety and power slowly drain as the beautiful blue, like a campfire blaze with drift wood as the kindling, with the purple accenting the pupils stared into my blazing ones. Not once flinching at them or showing a sign of shock, he just grabbed my hand and tried to ask me if I was alright but only by lip reading could I understand because of the sharp noise of the sirens muffled his voice and yet those eyes held me transfixed. The man must have been called because his head jerked over his shoulder and gave a curt nod, gently taking out his hand from mine and placing the Fire Department card with the address and number on it in place of this hand and with a final look and smile he headed off to the fire.
My divine energy calmed and despair tempered from his bewitching eyes, silently walking all the way back to my seat by the sacred hearth high on Olympus, to stare into the flames and think through the swirling mass of feelings that were evoked from his presence. I knew love was so close but yet so far as well because my vow of eternal maiden hood would never let me marry or bed with him. In the depths of the hearth, there strolled three children hand in hand on the beach of Camp-Half Blood staring up into the sky right into my eyes like they knew that I could see them from the future. With huge smiles on there faces, their bodies ignited and began to shine brighter than the noon day sun.
Glancing out of the flames to the other immortals, making sure that none had seen what I had foreseen (a little gift from Apollo when he tried to pursue my hand but let me keep it as a token of eternal friendship) and waving my hand over the flames to dissipate the image. Though out of the corner of my eye, I could see that Apollo arched an eyebrow in my direction. Knowing that he would have seen the future because my gift came from him and that he is the god of prophesy.
After a few hours of the Olympians arguing back and forth about casting a Hurricane at New York to clear up the monster infestation, that kept on growing from after the war to save their lovely Olympus. The arguing needlessly kept on going forever and ever, even with being thousands of years old my impatience was rising by the minute
Introducing myself as a lost mortal from the fire and telling him that I was the women that he saved last night. I was able to work up the courage to finally ask him if he would like to go out for something to eat, as most mortal men go, I was not in the least surprised when he agreed, with the occasional dog whistle coming from the background.
After that, I made it a frequent passing of mine to go see him and spend the occasional lunch or dinner with him. Our lunch and dinners were always filled with laughter, as he made me laugh like no other since my time of loneliness and so over the course of two years of spending frequent "dates" together we became quite close. I even once over heard him and his friends talking about me, doing so secretly as a goddess, with his friends wondering if he was going to ask me to marry him.
As it happened, that night that I overheard the conversation was when he invited me over to his house. Overjoyed that I was finally going to see where he lived, I dressed in my crimson gown with gold embroidered flames on the bottom, along with two ruby hair pins on both sides of my head to hold back my mahogany hair. Teleporting straight to his front porch in the small quaint town of Wolf Lake, Minnesota I prepared myself to enter into his house. About to knock on his door, the hair on the nape of my neck stood on end from a sudden surplus of electricity. Knowing what was coming, I threw over myself a shield of condensed fire, as soon as one of Zeus's greater bolt striked his house.
Once the light had faded, I saw that the whole house was gone in a pile of ashes. Stunned from the desolate landscape, I made my way through the pile of ashes to finding the faint outline of a human-shaped pile of ashes and so that brings you all back to the current time of me crying over the man's ashes.
That night the moon was at its fullest with Artemis being able to see all under her light. For she must have seen me crying for not even a few minutes she came to my side.
"Oh my dearest Aunt, I am so sorry for your loss," She said as she hugged me tightly," Father can be so cruel when he thinks someone might break one of their ancient vows."
"I do not understand why brother did such a thing, I was just starting to love this man from the bottom of my heart, does he not see my sadness of being alone, "I cried," all I ever wanted was to be in his company maybe even make him my immortal husband as long as he would have been happy with having no children."
"Father has caused you great anguish Aunt Hestia," facing her face up into the sky her call resonated throughout the sky," I call to those other goddesses that hold a mighty throne up upon our great Mountaintop Olympus to come to me and comfort our dear sister in her time of need."
The last of her words rang like a crystal bell chiming, as a subtle breeze started and blew in the smell of wheat, perfume, new book smell, and ozone from the highest reaches of the sky. As the wind settled there stood my dear sisters Demeter and Hera with my two nieces Aphrodite and Athena.
"Oh, what a horrible thing of my husband to do," the Queen of the Heavens stated as she came over to kneel beside me and wrap her arms around my trembling body.
"I agree with you Your Highness, I cannot see the logic in destroying a man that our sister Hestia just wished to be in the company of," Athena appraised methodically.
"It is a sad day when another handsome face disappears from this world by the jealous hand of Lord Zeus," Aphrodite glumly said.
"He had his Wheaties every morning, Persephone could have learned so much from him," Demeter said while dashing away a tear from her check.
All of us just rolled our eyes at her obsession over eating the breakfast cereal Wheaties every morning. But still my heart ached at the new pain that surged through it, at that a plan hatched from within the far recess of my head, one that I would have never thought of worth possible.
"My sisters and nieces wait, I have a plan but I must ask do any of you have nectar upon your person," I asked.
All of them started to pat down the folds of their dresses, until Athena removed a canteen from somewhere under her dress," Your lucky that I never leave the palace without it, as I always say "A warrior should always be prepared before leaving the house"," Athena stated with a grin.
Exhilarated, I snatched the canteen from Athena's hands, "My sisters I wish and ask your blessing on what I wish to do, what I wish to do is take some of his ashes, mix some of my blood into the ashes and pour it all into the nectar and drink it so that I may cause myself to become pregnant, with the help of Hera and Artemis blessing, with his child?" I pleaded them.
For ten minutes I saw each one of them ponder my plan thoroughly, before responding with a slight nod of their heads.
"Though one of my conditions is that each one of us gives this child a blessing and that he or she must pay tribute to us when he or she goes to Camp Half-Blood," Athena stated as the others also nodded their agreement of this idea as well.
"But also this child will be your first one and so we should be lenient about what he or she does and if so, if he or she wishes for the gift of immortality then he or she will be able to come and ask for it at any time that he or she wishes," Hera added onto Athens statement, and as before the other goddesses nodded in sync.
Tears welling in my eyes from my sisters and nieces compassion, I held out my hand to them, letting Artemis know what I wanted, reaching into the folds of her dress, she removed one of her hunting knives and placed the hilt first in the palm of my right hand. Grasping the knife, I handed the canteen over to Demeter, which I noticed after I handed it to her; she started to chant in Ancient Greek blessing the nectar with sweetness and freshness. Smiling at her display of affection, I held my left hand over the pile of ashes that once was the man that I loved.
Pressing the edge of the knife down on my left hand, the flow of my golden ichor followed from my palm and tilting my palm over, letting my blood settle into the ashes. Scooping up the small group of ashes that was soaked with my blood, I turned around to see Hera was now holding the canteen.
"Don't worry, me and Artemis have both placed our blessing of children and child birth onto the nectar so then after you place the ashes inside it should allow you to have his child," Hera smiled.
Silently thanking her and pouring the ashes into the nectar, within the canteen. Taking the canteen from Hera, I looked inside to see the ashes dissolving into the nectar seamlessly and changing color from a golden color to a cascade of rainbows, signaling that the nectar was enchanted with many goddesses' blessings. One last look at my fellow goddesses' showed them smiling at me and encouraging me to go ahead. Closing my eyes and tilting my head back, I drank the whole canteen dry.
Four Months and Three week
Approaching the remaining Olympian council, I stood my ground against them all as, staring them all down one by one, with my growing womb that held my baby. I knew that Zeus wouldn't be too happy with seeing me coming to a new terms with the man, that I loved, death but I was still furious with Zeus to not care about what he thought and that I didn't have to be scared since I all of my sisters and nieces were on my side to protect me.
"HESTIA WHAT HAVE YOU DONE," bellowed Zeus in his over dramatic voice.
"My Lord Zeus, I have done what I have wished to do ever since you killed that man, and you will not do anything about it, unless you wish to anger your wife Hera, sister Demeter, your daughter Athena, and Aphrodite," I stated blandly.
"Hmph, I suppose I may have over reacted to the situation and known that you would never have broken oath," Zeus said grumpily.
Checking the other gods, I saw that they also were agreeing with me that I had the right to have this child, though in Poseidon and Apollo's eyes I saw a spark of misery, since they were the ones that wanted to court me in the first place but I guess that they were just happy that I finally found a chance to become the mother that I was destined to be great at.
"Even if I am sad that Hestia didn't chose me, her child will be treated as if he or she were my own," Poseidon stated before the whole Olympian council," I swear this by the River Styx."
"Uncle, I also wish to take part take of your oath because I also loved Hestia and I too am sad that I did not have the chance to catch her eye, like this poor young mortal did to her but I guess it is our own fault for not seeing her for who she is," Apollo said," so I swear upon the River Styx that your child will be under my protection and that I shall protect him or her like I would my own children."
Sighing, the fat god Dionysus stated," I don't see why everyone is making such a big fuss over her child, since it is only another demigod child that I will have to look after at that silly camp,".
Turning, I glared at the god that I willingly gave my throne too," I would hope that you will treat my child with more compassion and respect, that you would of the other god's children, maybe more, because remember who it was that gave up their throne so that you could rule in their place Dionysus," I snapped at him.
Paling significantly, he looked away from my blazing red eyes, turning my body and eyes away far but where I could still see Dionysus in the corner of my eye, I faced Zeus head on.
"I wish that I could get each one of your blessing for my child so that he or she will be able to have a calm life and that if he or she wished, he or she could become a god and live with me up here at my side."
"Hestia." Zeus said sincerely," you are asking a lot of us but as this is your first child I do not see the harm of blessing your child after he or she is born," Zeus agreed.
"Thank you so much Lord Zeus, I hope you all will agree to my request for blessing my child," I smiled warmly at each one of the god's except Dionysus, which I gave him a hard stare at him so my point was taken into consideration with him.
"So until your child is born, we will wait on the verdict of what each one of us will do for your child when he or she is born, will that please the Council if we do that," Hera asked them all.
Around the room, the entire major god's said Aye with a mumbled Aye from Dionysus.
Beaming with joy, I went over to my humble Hearth in the center of the throne room so that I could sit in peace and let my tears of happiness fall silently and out of sight from everyone.
Well my lovelies there wasn't much change to it but I think I got some of the stuff fixed and non-sense like that. Hopefully I can get all of my other chapters fixed and what not for your guys entertainment cause I think you all might need a break from school stuff but get your Homework done before you read this cause you gotta keep your grades up and get into a good college to help expand your little minds! Well I think I have thoroughly ranted your guys ears off and if you have read my AN this far...KUDOS TO YOU. I hope you all REVIEW my story cause if don't Hestia will come after ya with flames of fury...Ending this off with that happy note. Hip hip cheerio, enjoy your tea and crumpets ^^
P.S. I'm not British, I just like that saying at the end ^^
P. Oh yes, as a final FINAL afterthought, I would like you all to also read my other story that I am working on, the title is Bibliotheca Magick by yours truly. You will find it in the books (of course) section under the book series Circle of Magic. Hope you all enjoy it!
