This chapter came to me at school, so I typed it up real quick and here we are! Enjoy!

Part Six: Nighttime Nightmare

There was a storm on Olympus.

Clearly, Zeus was in a very bad mood. Thunder rumbled, lightning flashed, the window howled, rain splattered against the windows...

... And Athena was sleeping with her pillow over her head, but was otherwise unbothered.

Across the room, in her own bed, Aphrodite was tossing and turning, and finally, sat up with a start. She looked around, wild-eyed with fear. She was shaking from the terror of her nightmare.

She carefully slid out of her bed, and walked over to Athena's. The goddess of wisdom snored softly, oblivious.

"Athena," whispered Aphrodite, shaking her friend nervously. "Athena!" She shook Athena harder when she didn't budge.

Athena murmured something about Odysseus and rolled onto her other side.

"Athena!" Aphrodite said. "Wake up!"

"Oh..." Athena groaned, and her eyes fluttered open. "What?" she asked groggily.

"I'm scared," Aphrodite replied. "And-And I had a nightmare."

"Um... I'm sorry?" said Athena uncertainly. Her brain was still mostly under Morpheus's influence; basically, in dreamland.

"Can I sleep in your bed tonight?" asked Aphrodite, trembling as there was another crash of thunder.

Athena sighed. "Alright," she said. "Go ahead."

Aphrodite crawled into Athena's bed, and pulled the covers up over her head. Athena rested her head back onto the pillow and tried to fall back asleep and pick up the dream she'd been in the middle of.

Something about Odysseus... oh, right... she began to doze off.

"Your bed is too hard," Aphrodite said, pulling on the blanket harder. The side that had been covering Athena was pulled off. Athena opened her eyes.

"Feel free to go back to yours," answered Athena. Good thing this was a queen sized bed. If it had been any smalled, they both would have been very uncomfortable.

"But I don't want to be alone," Aphrodite said.

"We're in the same room," pointed out Athena.

"Still," whimpered Aphrodite.

"Fine. We'll both sleep in your bed. Happy?"

They climbed out of Athena's bed and into Aphrodite's (Athena brought her blanket with. Aphrodite liked rolling up in the blanket), and after settling down, lay in silence, listening to the storm.

Lightning flashed.

"I wonder what Dad's so mad about," said Aphrodite.

Athena looked at her half-sister with disbelief. "What do you think?"

The moment Zeus had yelled at them both that they were going to be roommates, it had started raining. It hadn't stopped since then.

Aphrodite curled up and stuck her thumb in her mouth.

Athena had been on the way to falling back asleep again, when there was a loud knocking on the door.

"Who the Tartarus would be here at this hour?" Athena grumbled, and climbed out of the warm, cozy, soft bed to go see.

It was Poseidon. He was wearing boxers with fish on them and had a Miami Dolphins t-shirt on. He dropped his rain coat on the floor.

"What are you doing here, Kelp Head?" Athena asked.

"I'm scared of the storm," he explained.

"Are you serious?"

RUMBLE!

He dove into Aphrodite's bed, next to the goddess of love, shaking from fear. Athena sighed, and closed the door.

"Yeah, come on in," she muttered, and crawled back into bed with the other two occupants. They lay together in silence for a while. Poseidon cuddled up to Athena, shaking. She rolled her eyes.

Knock, Knock.

"What now?!" she grumbled, and opened the door.

Apollo and Artemis ran in. Apollo's pajamas had suns on them, and Artemis was wearing a tank top with GIRLS RULE printed on it.

"Don't tell me. Let me guess. You're scared too," Athena said dryly.

Apollo nodded. Artemis shrugged.

"I'm just gonna push my bed up next to Aphrodite's so there's room," Athena grumbled. Soon, Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon, Athena, and Aphrodite were lying in the two beds (which were pushed together). Aphrodite had calmed down, and was beginning to fall asleep.

Apollo plugged a night light into the wall.

"Turn that off!" Poseidon protested.

"Please!" agreed Artemis.

Aphrodite sucked her thumb.

Athena tried to block out the noise and light with her pillow. Unfortunately, it wasn't working, because Apollo was using it.

"But I'm scared of the dark!" Apollo said. "You know how I always need light!"

Artemis huffed angrily. "Fine," she grumbled. The others tried to fall asleep with the small light Apollo's night-light was making. It was sun shaped. Apollo cuddled up with Athena's owl pillow pet ("IT'S NOT A PILLOW PET! EINSTEIN IS A STUFFED ANIMAL!") Einstein, and they were all beginning to fall asleep when...

The doorbell rang. Athena wasn't surprised in the least. That's why she hadn't locked the door.

"It's open," she said grumpily.

Hermes walked in. He was clutching a blanket. The one he'd had since he was born.

"Don't say anything, just get in the darned bed," Athena said, before the others could say anything. Hermes nodded, and crawled in next to Apollo.

Apollo was singing the itsy bitsy spider song to put himself to sleep, which was making Athena shudder and wanna get up and yell and get rid of the feeling of creepy crawlies all over her.

Poseidon had brought a bowl of water and had dumped it over his head.

Aphrodite was cuddling with Athena, glad for the comfort.

Artemis was having a whispered conversation with Hermes.

The door opened and Ares walked in.

Athena sighed. "Hop in."

Ares climbed in next to Aphrodite.

Hephaestus showed up.

Now they were all lying in the two beds, cramped and squished together, but at least no one was scared.

Hephaestus and Ares started bickering about who got to lie down next to Aphrodite.

Apollo had started singing Mary Had a Little Lamb (Thank everyone from Chaos to Zeus for that! No more spiders!).

Artemis was trying to count sheep to ignore him.

Hermes was snoring loudly.

Poseidon had gotten the whole space he was sleeping in wet.

Dionysus (who had showed up in a purple t-shirt and leopard skin sweats) was eating grapes.

And Athena was sleeping in the bathtub.

Zeus is online.

Hera is online.

Demeter is online.

Zeus: Council meeting! I need to talk to everyone. Where's Hermes?

Hera: He must have gone to deliver the mail.

Demeter: Zeus, would you explain what that storm last night had been about?

Zeus: At the council meeting.

Zeus has a new status: Everyone to the council hall. We're having a meeting.

Hera: Sure, that will get everyone here.

Zeus: Hermes will get it, and get everyone else there. Don't worry.

Hera: Sure...

Hera is offline.

Zeus is offline.

Demeter is offline.

"Where is everyone?" Zeus said the following morning. The only people who had showed up for the morning council were him, Hera, and Demeter. Hestia sat quietly by the fire.

"The sun was risen by Helios today because Apollo wasn't found," Demeter agreed. "I checked his house. He's not there though."

Zeus sent Hera, Demeter, and Hestia to search the houses of the absent gods for them. Soon they'd all met at the time square, baffled. Everyone's abodes had been checked except for the apartment Athena and Aphrodite shared.

"I'm worried," said Zeus.

"Don't worry, we'll find them," said Hera.

"With the way things are going, I doubt Athena and Aphrodite are home."

"Athena must be," said Demeter. "She wouldn't just run off without explanation like the others."

So, they all went together to that apartment, and found the door unlocked.

That was worriesome, and strange.

What they found inside was even stranger.

"WAKE UP!" Zeus yelled at all the sleeping gods. Slowly, they all started to wake up, looking around confusedly. Athena emerged from the bathroom, yawning.

"Hey dad," she said tiredly.

"What's going on?" Zeus demanded. "Did you all have a party last night or something?"

"Oh, why didn't we?" wondered Dionysus.

Aphrodite was happy and energetic today, though. "I'm going to make breakfast!" she said cheerfully, and went to the kitchen. Hestia quickly followed to make sure she didn't destroy the place.

All the gods were slowly shifting out of bed.

Zeus crossed his arms.

"I'm very disappointed in you all," he said.

"Hmm..." said Athena thoughtfully, ignoring him. "What do you guys want? Waffled or pancakes?"

"Both!" said Apollo.

"Waffles?" said Zeus. "Now's not the time for breakfast!"

"Would you like to stay for breakfast too, dad?" asked Athena.

"Can you make French Toast?"

The goddess of Wisdom shrugged.

Maybe it hadn't been such a bad night after all.

And cut! This was fun to write. I actually was struck with this insprisation when I was at school (still am), and since I couldn't work on my other chapter, which I was in the middle of, I settled for this. Enjoy! Hopefully I'll finish the other one and put it up as well.

Also, review!

1) Who had the coolest pajamas?

2) What's for Breakfast?

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