Chapter 1 drowned in wine
"I bet you third place, that he'll have a pasta dish for lunch" Poseiden said.
"No way. He's gonna have a salad." Demeter argued.
"No he's not, he hates vegtables"
"Yeah, but Mum makes him eat healthy, so a salad is a certanty."
"How can it be a certanty if he hates it!"
"Well, he's definatly going to have wine" Hades says. I look up to see Hades and Hestia sittimg down beside us.
"Can I have a look?" l ask Hestia. She nods and passes over the rock. It looked like a baby. Some one had carved a face in to it. We always had fun with it growing up. It was one of our only toys. We don't play with it much now, but someone is always holding it.
My thoughts are interupted by our father calling for his new cup bearer.
"Why dose he need a cup nearer any way? Can't he o it himself?" Demeter says.
"Of coures he can't, he's far to stupid for that." says Poseiden.
I sigh and get up, its so boring in here. I think. I wish we could go out side. Or meet some one else. After years together, you get to know one another really well. And you get board with each other. Don't get me wrong, I love my brothers and sisters. I just want to meet someone else. To get out of this hell hole. to...
"Here we go" I hear Hades shout. And we were soon flooded with wine.
"Quick everyone, it's flooding. Keep your head above the water." poseidon tells us in mock urgency, and in return we all splash him.
Were all laughing, having a great time when suddenly our father starts choking, and coughing and sputering.
The wine is sloshing around everywhere. I get dunked under for a moment and wine fills my mouth.
I panic and try to get to the surface. I can't find it. The wine is pushing me side to side and up and down and around and around. After a while I had no strength to fight it, so I gave in to it, and found my head breaking the surface. I grab as much air as I can, and then I'm under again. Suddenly, our rock slips from my grasp, it was suddenly not there. I panic and search for it, but it's gone. The wine around me is on the move again. It pushes me up, towards our fathers mouth. And then i'm flying through the air, or falling througfh the air. And land with a hard BANG!
And I'm outside.
I stumble to my feet. Suddenly strong arms are around.
"Are you alright?" I hear a male whisper in my ear.
"I..I'm f-fine..." I stutter.
"Good" he says, and takes his arms off me, but keeps a hand on my arm, to steady me, I suppose. "Here" he puts a cloak around me, and I get a good look at him. He had sandy blond hair, sparling blue eyes, and a lot of muscles. His face looked kind, but strong, some one you could depend on, I thought. He had a round face, with a bit of baby fat still in his rosie red cheeks. But not much. He was tall, a head taller then me, and very nicly tanned. He looked about my age (15) maybe a bit younger, but give or take my age.
Then a new wave of wine apeared around my legs, and I turned to see Poseiden lying on the floor.
I ran over to him.
"Are you ok?" I ask him as I help him to his feet.
"F-fine, mm fine" I helped him walk over to where muscle man was siting. (until I knew his name, I decided I'd call him that.) muscle man had another cloak ready, and I helped him put it on Poseidon
then I look at where we were. We were in a big room, with a masive table and hundreds of chairs around it. But apart from my choking father, there was only one other person in the room.
She was very pretty. She had long black hair, which was braided down her back. She had kind blue eyes, a round face, and rosie cheeks. She wore a dark blue dress, that complimented everything, but especially her eyes. She smiled when she saw me looking. But I didn't smile back. I didn't need introductions to know who she was.
I was looking at my mother.
