Chapter 2: Where Is She?
Athena's POV
This is weird. Normally by now Aphrodite are having breakfast. Or in some cases, she's trying to get me to spy on Annabeth and Percy. But I can't seem to find her anywhere.
"Where is that insolent whore?!" Ares screamed at one of Aphrodite's servants.
"Firstly, Lady Aphrodite is not a whore, and secondly, I haven't seen her since she left for dinner with some old friend yesterday..." The servant whimpered in fear.
Dinner? With an old friend? Aphrodite almost never dates the same man twice, and either way, she usually comes home by now.
"When she returns, tell her to come to my bedroom!" Ares screamed and stormed off.
"Don't worry about him, he's just ornery because he hasn't had his 'weekly quota' of Aphrodite." I winked at the servant.
He smiled and went back to work. Then, I ran into someone else who was looking for Aphrodite.
"Where is Aphrodite? She needs to help one of my huntresses." Artemis questioned.
"I don't know my lady, I haven't seen her since yesterday." Another servant said before going back to work.
Artemis grumbled and walked off. Then I ran into Hephaestus.
"Have you seen Aphrodite?" Hephaestus asked me.
"I've been looking for her too, and so have Ares and Artemis." I answered.
Hephaestus looked annoyed.
"Of course she forgot our anniversary again." Hephaestus was angry.
"She's never forgotten your anniversary, you're just always too angry to speak to her, or you're gone." I said.
Hephaestus looked confused. "Huh?" He asked.
"Last year she got your mallet-sized hammer fixed, and now she owes Hermes 500 drachma for all the monsters he attracted while he had it." I explained.
"And I was in Cuba with a mortal woman." Hephaestus looked ashamed.
"Where is she?!" Drew's voice said from down the hall.
"Drew? What are you doing here?" I asked.
"I'm looking for my mom. I need her... advice on something." Drew replied.
"Leave Jason alone." Hephaestus teasingly suggested.
"Did you read my mind?" Drew asked thoughtfully.
Hephaestus and I both laughed. He didn't know that that's why Drew came.
"Where's Aphrodite?" Poseidon asked.
"We're wondering the same thing. Why?" I asked.
"I'm having... problems with a woman." Poseidon admitted.
My heart sunk. I laughed it off.
"You? Woman trouble?" I teased.
"She's not easy to impress. And she wants to stay an unmarried virgin." Poseidon vaguely explained.
"Huh?" Now I was confused.
"Where's Aphrodite?" Zeus asked.
"We don't know! Maybe we should make a board game out of it, Where in the World is Aphrodite?" I was annoyed.
"Why don't we just go to the viewing room? We can find her on the tracking channel she uses to find Annabeth and Percy." Poseidon suggested.
He's smarter than people give him credit for.
"Okay." I agreed.
5 minutes later...
We were in the viewing room, and we turned on the tracking channel.
"Who are you looking for?" The TV asked in an elctronic voice.
"Aphrodite." Ares snapped quickly.
The TV quickly changed to show Aphrodite. But it was the wrong one.
"Hey look, Aphrodite Jones!" Hades sounded excited.
We all stared at him.
"What? She wrote some good murder books." Hades defended himself.
"We were looking for Aphrodite, Goddess of love, who lives on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building, aka Mount Olympus." I said more specifically.
Then the TV showed our Aphrodite. She was in skinny jeans that were ripped, but it didn't look like she did it on purpose, and even her red blouse looked ripped. Plus, Her winged vonverse that she got as a gift from Hermes once were covered in mud, and her jean-jacket was wet. She was lying unconsious on the shore of San Francisco Bay. Needless to say, we teleported there immediately. We all ran over to her (except Drew, who we left on Olympus) and checked her vitals.
"Aphrodite, are you okay?" Poseidon and I said simultaneously.
"Aphrodite! Wake up and please me!" Ares was so innapropriate.
Zeus and Hephaestus punched him and pushed him into the bay.
"Aphrodite? Are you alright?" Zeus asked.
"Aphrodite?" Artemis simply said.
"Aphrodite..." Hephaestus was about to say more, but Aphrodite woke up at the sound of his voice.
"Ouch, my head. Who are you people?" Aphrodite asked. "Actually, who am I?" She asked.
We were all speechless.
"Your name is Aphrodite." Hephaestus piped up.
"I'd rather know your name." Aphrodite flirted.
Hephaestus turned red. "I'm your husband Hephaestus." He said.
Aphrodite looked excited, but confused.
"Who's the guy with the glare?" Aphrodite asked.
Ares suddenly walked up and grabbed Aphrodite's arm.
"Please me!" Ares screamed.
"Excuse me?! I'm married... apparently." Aphrodite said as she flipped him on his butt.
"Ouch..." Ares groaned.
"Who are you?" Aphrodite asked Zeus.
"Your nephew Zeus." Zeus explained.
"But you look older." Aphrodite said.
"You were born after me." Zeus growled.
"That explains it." Aphrodite said.
"And you?" She asked Poseidon.
"Your other nephew, and Zeus' brother Poseidon." Poseidon reintroduced himself.
"What about you two?" Aphrodite asked Artemis and I.
"We're your nieces. She's Artemis, I'm Athena. I've always felt more like you were my sister." I said.
"You're all my family?" Aphrodite deduced.
"Yes." Hephaestus answered.
"Do you all think you could try helping me remember you? I like you all... except maybe hot-head." Aphrodite begged.
"Of course." Everyone except Ares said.
Ares was still groaning. "I'm the guy you're leaving Hephaestus for." Ares lied.
"What?!" Aphrodite screamed.
"No he's not, he's just a jerk." Hephaestus said and hugged her closer.
Aphrodite seemed to like it. This will be interesting.