I do not own any of the characters mentioned, they all belong to Rick Riordan.
"PERCY JACKSON" My father, Poseidon boomed.
"You shall receive one gift from the gods. You shall, if you accept it, be granted immortality."
I looked at Annabeth and she wouldn't meet my eyes. I remembered when I thought she was going to be accepted in Artemis's hunters. Right now I was pretty sure she was feeling the same way I had. Or at least I hoped she was, because if she wasn't…well then I was making a really stupid decision.
I was about to respond when a voice from the circle of the gods interrupted me.
"You cannot be serious, Zeus! This totally ruins everything!" Everyone, and I mean everyone, turned towards the angry goddess with shocked looks. Another goddess spoke up.
"It does not seem fair at all. I mean he wasn't even the hero of the prophecy! Anyway what would he even be the god of? Everything has already been taken!" Poseidon turned to an angry looking Athena.
"He can be the god of horses, happy? You're just bitter because your daughter wasn't important enough to get the offer." I glanced over at Annabeth, her face portrayed the same thing as everyone else's; shock. The Gods were supposed to be majestic, yet they stood in front of us squabbling like kids.
"Umm… she kind of did 'cause of the whole, making me see that Luke was actually a good guy." Of course my comment went completely unnoticed.
"THIS COMPLETELY RUINS EVERYTHING! YOU ARE TRESPASSING WITHIN MY RIGHTS!" Aphrodite was on her feet basically shaking with anger. I was a bit scared that she might take her true form and all of us would be incinerated. A little more than a bit actually.
"And how exactly is that so, Aphrodite?" All eyes were on the goddess of love but she wasn't backing down.
"Hello? Do you have eyes? They're obviously meant for each other!" She was gesturing to me and Annabeth. I was blushing furiously and I had this feeling Annabeth was too.
"My daughter will never end up with that slimy son of Poseidon!"
"WATCH WHOSE SON YOU'RE CALLING SLIMY!" My father's voice thundered through the halls but both Athena and Aphrodite completely ignored it. None of the other gods even flinched. I guess they had fights like this more than we would think.
"For the goddess of wisdom you are a bit slow on the uptake, Athena, have you not been watching them at all?" Athena looked pissed. I mean, Aphrodite had basically just called her stupid. I could tell she was about to do one of two things. One, crack a dumb blonde joke, though I doubted the likelihood of this, or two, begin shouting her head off about how Aphrodite had misread the signs blah blah blah. She probably would have picked option two, that is, if someone else hadn't interrupted.
"Ding Ding Ding I have a solution," Apollo was using his sing song voice and I had this horrible feeling he might break out a new haiku. "Really I must say I am brilliant, the solution is so simple. That's why you probably didn't this of it, sissy." He flashed a smile at Athena but she just scowled in return.
"The solution, Apollo?" The gods were all practically on the edge of their seats (except Aphrodite she was still standing) but Apollo just stretched and folded his hands behind his head, leaning back into his glimmering throne.
"Oh it's easy. You just make them both gods." I saw all of the gods faces go from anticipated to just plain dumbfounded. I could have sworn I heard Athena say "Why didn't I think of that?" but you can never be sure. And then before they asked Annabeth or I if we, you know, wanted to be gods a loud voice rang out.
"AND SO IT SHALL BE DONE!" Zeus smashed his lightning bolt on the floor and I felt an odd tingling sensation that started in my feet and gradually made its way all the way through my body.
"Um what exactly am I the god of?" I was confused. I love Blackjack and all but I really do not want to be the god of horses.
"How about the god of stupid questions?" Athena was muttering under her breath but I knew everyone had heard her. My father just smiled kindly.
"That ceremony comes later. At the moment you are simply immortal." I nodded, feeling a bit overwhelmed. Then Annabeth asked the question I was too scared to ask.
"Can we go now?" Zeus nodded and I numbly walked away from Olympus, crossed the bridge (how they had already fixed that?) and down the elevator. Annabeth turned to me.
"Oh my gods, we're gods!"