What? I asked myself. Rainbow? I called silently, turning in every direction to see where it was. Where are you?
Panic rose into my chest. Where was it? This had never happened before… it had to be somewhere close… I circled the perimeter of the filthy cloud, allowing my eyes to wander the horizon. Yet, still no sign of my rainbow was any where. Not even the glare that you could see if it was miles off. Where was it?
"Zeus!" I called, near hysterical. I floated as quickly as I could back into the cloud and discovered that Zeus was still where I had left him; cuddled in a chair made of mist. "Uggh… don't hurt Clara…" He mumbled quietly to himself.
"Lord Zeus!" I said exasperated, "My rainbow… it's gone!"
"What do you mean?" He asked not even looking at me.
"It's gone. Like… gone!" I yelled afraid and confused of what was happening. A moment of concern passed his face, but then it straightened up again, reassuming its regular posture. "That can't possibly be true. I gave you that rainbow when you were born. I even made it so that it would only stop when the rest of Olympus ended. It must just be under the cloud cover…" Zeus droned on, but the words 'when the rest of Olympus ended, would your rainbow end', hung in my mind; forbidding me to let them go.
"Look," He said; with one quick snap of his fingers, all of the filthy cloud cover disappeared and in its place we were surrounded by nothing. We just floated. "Look," He said again, his eyes closed; hands moving swiftly through the air, "It's just been hiding."
I allowed my eyes to wander the horizon once more in hope that it might come back. The slightest bit of hope swelled inside of me when I saw a distant glimmer, but it was crunched when I saw that it was only the sun, shining its bright colors from above the clouds. "No, no, no…" I heard myself mummer under my breath.
Why? Why was this happening to me? What have I ever done?
"Zeus!" I screamed in terror, "Its not here! LOOK!" He finally opened his eyes, and simply said to me in a hushed voice, "Then just call it." Apparently he didn't know that I had never had to do that.
"No, it's not that simple," I yelled, "I've never had to do that. It just always… comes."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I've never had to call it. It's gone!" I shrieked again in distress. I was on the edge of hysterical and I could already feel the violent shakes spreading throughout my body.
"Hush, hush." Zeus whispered, engulfing me in his arms. "No. I can't." if a God Goddess could have cried, that's what I would have doing at this moment. In fact, I thought I felt my eyes start to well up with tears, but when I checked they seemed to be as dry as could be. Amazing, I thought vaguely.
Zeus's arms felt extremely comforting around me though. Warmth soaked in to my body wherever his touched mine. Even the way the clouds floated underneath us felt lovely. "It'll be all right." He whispered into my ear, reassuringly.
"Excuse me!" A Goddess bellowed from somewhere behind us.