I Forgot My Shoes

Permission to write this story is from the amazing, combined minds of my great friend Gabbi, who helped get me hooked onto a strong love for Greek Mythology, and Mira Hider (on FF), who is one of the funniest people I'll ever know. These two came up with the idea, I just went a little crazy and elaborated.

I love you two so much!

Enjoy!

The sun raised high at its peak over my home on Mount Olympus. I groaned, I was late for work. 'Daddy-dearest,' or Zeus, as many called him, wouldn't be too happy with me.

'Get up for work you lazy bum!' George, one of the two lovely snakes on my caduceus sneered.

"Shut up," I rebutted.

'Oo, god one, I'm quivering on my stick.'

'Both of you shut up!' Martha, my other snake scolded, 'Hermes, put on your toga and get going! Zeus is going to be furious!'

I pulled my godly clothes on while replying, "I don't care anymore! All day long I fly back and forth back and forth! Sometimes I need a break! I need some me time! I want-"

'Gods! You sound like a teenage girl!'

"Okay, that's it!" I exclaimed, I threw my winged shoe at my staff.

'AH! Watch it you moron!' George yelled at me.

"I'm going without you two today! I'm sick of listening to you two for one eternity!"

'Her-mes!' they both complained.

"No, see you later!"

Before they could curve my decision, I ran full speed out my house and jumped off the top of Mount Olympus so that I would gain enough momentum to fly. I glided for half a second then my altitude began to drop.

I was falling.

Rapidly.

Not knowing what else to do, I screamed loudly as I began my unexpected decent. Great, Zeus would be so pissed when he came a reclaimed my sorry eternal ass from the underworld. Hades would have a great laugh about that.

And I continued falling and screaming.

What felt like hours later, I finally landed face-first with a loud 'thump' on the street outside of the Empire State Building.

Because I'm immortal, I didn't die and thankfully didn't have to wait in Hades's place, but gods did that hurt!

Even plastered to the ground after falling out of the sky didn't make New Yorkers stop. Slowly, I pushed myself out of the Hermes-shaped hole I'd created and eventually limped into the Empire State's elevator. I pressed the button for Mt. Olympus. Never had to use the elevator before.

"Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" by Wham was playing. I could just imagine my half-brother Apollo just laughing his immortal-ass off right now.

The metal doors opened with a 'ding' and a few hundred stairs lay ahead of me. Grumbling, I trudged up the steps. I sprinted up the last fifty.

When I arrived at my home (which I now noticed seemed to be at the very top of Mt. Olympus), I looked back at the stairs I had just ran up and felt sick.

I slammed opened my door and stomped inside.

'So how'd it go?' George asked in a quirky manner.

'What happened!' exclaimed Martha taking in my battered appearance.

I dawned on my winged accessories, turned around to my snakes on my caduceus and replied:

"I forgot my shoes."

A bit short, it was longer in my mind. XD. Really, this all came from a conversation that Gabbi and Mira Hinder had where they joked about Hermes forgetting his shoes one morning and seeing him slowly fall. *imagines*. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!