"So Perseus Jackson, if we anoint you as an immortal, will you take any post that we give you, regardless of the abilities, attributes, and whatever comes with it?" Zeus asked me slowly
I thought about this for a moment, and then looked up at Zeus. I said to him after much consideration "Yes."
"Do you swear on the River Styx?"
"Yes."
"Okay then." Zeus said. "Now, it's time to decide what you will be the goddess of."
"Wait, goddess?"
"Yes. You see, we want to add you to the Olympian council Percy." Poseidon said to me. "But, if we added you as you are, it would make eight males and five females on the council. So to balance out the council, you will have to become a female goddess, and Hestia will rejoin the council with you. Well, if she pleases. Lady Hestia?"
"I am happy to oblige." Hestia said from the hearth. "You will rebuild my throne Hephaestus?"
"Of course I will, My Lady." Hephaestus said.
"Can't I just become a minor god?" I asked the council.
"How do we know you won't just turn against us like all the other minor gods did?" Zeus asked me.
"I…You wouldn't know. I see what I must do."
"Good Perseus. Now, what should Perseus be the goddess of?" Zeus asked the council and wondering aloud at the same time.
"Perhaps he, or more appropriately, she could be the goddess of heroes?" Hermes suggested helpfully.
"Maybe he could be the goddess of tidal waves?" Ares asked. "The brat hit me with a pretty bad tidal wave four years ago. At this, I gave Ares a smile, and looked back to Zeus. "That isn't bad. Could that work?"
"Okay then. Perseus Jackson, I proclaim that from now on you shall be the goddess of-"
"Wait!" Aphrodite said, just as Zeus was about to transform me into a goddess. I was hoping that Aphrodite was going to suggest that I have another ability to control as a goddess. I was dreadfully wrong. "He can take my place, as the goddess of beauty, love, desire, pleasure, procreation, fertility, the sea and vegetation!"
"What would you become the new goddess of Aphrodite? Or would you just want to fade away, like Pan and Helios did?" Ares asked, sounding a little worried.
"No Ares, I would become the new goddess of heroes. Percy would take my spot, and he will be trained by me on how to be a woman, and how to be beautiful."
"All in favor of Aphrodite's motion?" Zeus asked the council.
All twelve Olympians raised their hands in support. It took me a moment to process what Aphrodite was saying, but then I realized it. "So I would become a goddess, the goddess of beauty?"
"Yes Percy, you would." Aphrodite said to me. "You see, after being the goddess of love and beauty for thousands of years, one can get bored of doing the same thing, pairing up the same couples, making the same people fall in love. This way Percy dear, I finally get to do something different with my life. Besides, this could teach you a lesson about girls."
"But…I can't become a woman!" I said, struggling to make my words fit. "I have a family, and friends…and-"
"Percy, you swore on the river Styx that you would accept whatever post that we gave you, regardless of its abilities and attributes. You have to accept it, since we are all in favor." Poseidon said to me, trying to calm me down.
I took this into consideration. I did have Riptide right in my pocket; I could kill myself right on the spot. But that wouldn't be right…aside from that, I took pity on Aphrodite. She seemed truly sick of being the love goddess, and was desperate to do something else.
"F-Fine. I'll do it.
"Percy, I just want to warn you. Being turned into a goddess is not a pleasant experience. Not only will you feel bodily changes with your…parts, but you will feel the pain of a lifetime, even worse then what you experienced in the Styx. I ask you child, are you ready?" Poseidon said to me, obviously worried about me.
"Let's just get this over with already. Bad enough I have to be turned into a girl today, I have to be the love goddess."
Ares chuckled at this, and Zeus scowled. "Child if you are not ready, prepare yourself."
I mentally prepared myself for it. I was going to be a girl. Crazy stuff. Zeus then let a pink flame rise above his hand, and then gorged me in it. At first, nothing happened. But then my form began to change, and alter itself.
Long black hair grew down my head, resembling my hair's shaggy look to it. It stopped halfway down my back, and began to change after that. It became smooth, and extremely shiny. The hair lost its shaggy look to it, and became a straight, beautiful mass of hair. It turned blonde when it was done growing, and it wasn't just any color blonde. It was a beautiful golden blonde, absent of any gray streak that I had gained from my battle with Atlas, and it didn't have any brown or black in it. It was flawless gold.
I could feel myself gaining height, as I went from my stature of 5'5 to maybe…5'10? I don't know for sure. I was much taller than any of my friends now, and was much closer to the table of the Olympians which they sat at. My body, which as I had neglected to notice, had had a six pack, and I was ripped. I had been wondering why girls were staring at me on my way by, that's my answer. The six pack which I had previously mentioned disappeared from my chest. It replaced itself with a thin body that held no fat. My arms became smaller, losing their muscles and arm hair.
Next, my legs shaved themselves, and lost all of the hair that had been growing there for the last fifteen years. They lost all muscle, but they became bustier, and bigger. I felt my butt getting bigger. I found a mirror on the wall, and saw that this was a butt that would be publicly admired if I was to go out in public. My feet got smaller, and my toenails painted themselves pink. Great. But that wasn't it. My penis shrunk, and it completely disappeared. I felt in my pants, but it wasn't there anymore. I did feel skin opening up in between m legs and…well, I had a vagina.
My face lost its male features quickly. For a split second, it appeared as though it was blank, but then it changed. My eyes turned an electric blue, and quite frankly, were amazing. My lips were big, almost as if they were swollen, and looked like they would be a complete pleasure to kiss. My eyebrows were now golden, and thin. My nose was small, and fit my face.
I felt a bulging on my chest. Well, this was it. If I wasn't a woman before, I was about to be now. My chest swelled, and it began to bubble. New breasts began to tighten my shirt, until it looked like it could be a girl shirt. The shirt however, couldn't take this abuse, and ripped at the chest. Two giant breasts popped out of the shirt, which I hastily covered up with the remnants of my shirt. Aphrodite, with a lazy wave of her hand, dressed me in a blue dress that ended just past my now huge butt, had an open back that closed just at the end of my back, and had these weird strap things for sleeves.
All the sudden though, I felt like someone punched me in the stomach. My organs and the parts of myself were changing, adapting to the new body I now possessed. My insides burned, ached, and overall I felt like I was going to die. It stopped, so I assumed that I had all the parts of a woman that I needed.
I stared at myself for a second, and then I glared at Aphrodite and said "You had to dress me in this?"
She rolled her eyes at me. "Well, you have to look beautiful in some way. Look at yourself, can you not deny that you, Perseus Jackson are to die for?"
"I guess I am pretty good looking…still though!" I said. "So…am I a god now?"
"No." Poseidon said. "We had to turn you into a girl beforehand so that the transformation isn't as painful."
"Before we transform you though, we have to name you. You can't just go around with a name like Percy. Yuck." Aphrodite said. "We can give you a bit of a female form of your name though. How is Pericaliya?"
The Ancient Greek popped into my head. "Exceeding beauty? Yeah, I guess you could say that. It seems overly complex though."
"How about Kallista?"
"Hmmm…most beautiful. Okay, that'll be my name."
"Percy, we're going to put you under right now. When you wake up, you're going to be the goddess of love." Poseidon said. Then, reading my emotions said to me in an undertone. "This is the last chance to kill yourself Percy. Are you really willing to do this? Become the goddess of love and beauty? I could always convince them to just let you live as a normal mortal."
"No Dad, it's okay. Just put me under, I want to be a goddess already."
"Okay." He stared at me for a second, and then everything went black.
