"A-Agae… A-Agae scared… Master w-w-will punish… Agae!"

The satyr walked along the hallway of the Palace, headed for the throne room, while mumbling to himself. He stopped at the doorway, knocked and waited for someone to let him in.

"Come in."

The door opened by itself and he went inside. The aura in the room can be likened to the Underworld; cold, dark, and brooding. The satyr thought he was going to die by just being in the room. He walked towards and stopped a few feet away from the throne. The one sitting on it was not happy.

Not happy at all.

"M-Master…A-Agae is… b-back." He could sense that his Master was listening and he was not going to answer back. "I-I have….n-news….n-news for master…" He gulped and sweated so much, he was making a puddle around him. Though, it was not known whether it was sweat or something else. "The m-mission you gave m-me…" This time it was much lower. Every time he spoke, it gets lower until he was the only one who can hear himself. He gulped again. "…It w-was …"

The one on the throne moved and Agae, who barely saw the glare, felt it.

"The c-cow…died…g-gods…still….a-a-alive…" For one long minute, Agae waited for his death. Not a sound can be heard from the room as the two just stared at one another, until his master spoke.

"Get out of my sight."

Agae was relieved. "M-Master… thank yo-"

"Get out!"

"Y-y-yes!" He ran outside, leaving Cronus at the throne room.

He thought for a while, and after that, he mentally called the other titans for a meeting.


"Hey Crius, what did you do now?"

"Shut up Hyperion! Maybe you're the one who's in trouble!"

"Hah! Yeah right. Just admit it. You were slacking off when you should be doing your job."

"I am doing my job. What about you? The sun came up a bit late today, don't you think so?"

"Have you ever heard of Winter solstice?"

"At this month?!"

The titans have gathered at the council room after they were called. The only one who was not there was the ruler himself.

Oceanus, who was tired of his brothers bickering, said "If you two don't shut up, I will imprison you in the deepest part of the ocean!"

Crius mumbled "I'm very sorry for annoying you your fishyness!"

"By the way Oceanus, how's life under the sea? Must be fun singing with your little fish friends." said Hyperion.

"Magnificent. It's much more grand than the last time. I have a beautiful palace, and servants to attend our needs. And I don't sing with my food."

"Lucky."

"If you work hard Crius, and maybe lessen your annoyance, you might get a kingdom yourself."

"Yeah right, that will be in another life!"

"A life as a monkey. It suits you!" said Hyperion.

Oceanus looked at Iapetus and smirked. "What about you Iapetus? How's the underworld?

The titan looked like he has not slept in days. He looked haggard and was staring at his chalice.

"Hey bro! Are you okay?" asked Crius.

"…yes…"

Ocenus who was still smirking, said "You look paler than the last time I saw you. Don't tell me you're having a hard time judging the dead."

"That's an easy job! You just have to choose if that human has been good, bad,… or both!" exclaimed Hyperion.

"Nah! He's just pale because there's no sunlight down there. C'mon bro! Let's get you outside." said Crius as he tried to heave his brother.

"…girl…mother…nightmares…"

"What?"

"…don't be…fooled…sweet…looks…"

"I don't understand! Coeus, do you understand what he's saying?"

The silent one was busy with his meditation and just opened his one eye and closed it again.

"Nice talking."

Suddenly, the door opened to reveal Cronus. Everyone took their seat and waited for the former to take his place. "Looks like we're gonna have fun with the gods, brothers."

"One of them died? No wait! Two?" asked Hyperion.

"Sadly, no, no one died, but I'm not troubled by it. I mean, I just sent one Minotaur, and how many are they? Eight? But now, at least I know that I shouldn't belittle them, besides, it's more fun when your prey is challenging. Right brothers?"

Oceanus nodded. "Yes, and besides, there are more days to come for you to dispose them one by one."

"Or you can always send me to get rid of them." said Hyperion.

"Just throw them in tartarus! I don't know why you're all so eager to kill them!" said Crius.

Cronus glared at the titan. "By the way Crius, I heard from Hyperion you haven't been doing your job very well."

"That's not true! Look! My feet hurt from traveling around the world!"

"By flying?" said Oceanus.

"Th- What- I- That's not what I mean! H-Hyperion's the one who's slacking off! He was late in pulling the sun today!"

"I told you, it's Winter Solstice!"


"Athena! Athena!"

"Artemis?" The goddess went out from her library and went down from the second floor of her building to see Artemis waiting for her. She noticed that the latter was clutching her pet bunny, all white, soft, cuddly, and- no! Focus Athena. "Is there a problem?"

"News! Big news!"

"What? What is it?"

"Well you see, I sent my bunny here to spy on the titans who had gathered for a meeting. She heard tha-"

"Athena darling!~" The doors slammed open to reveal the goddess of love wearing a glossy purple robe that almost hurt the goddesses' eyes. She went in and walked towards them like a model on a catwalk, stopping a few times to pose.

They both wanted to murder their… relative.

"What do you girls think?"

"Of your stupidness? I can write a book with a thousand pages… and that's only the introduction." said Artemis, who sat down.

"No! Of my robe! The nymphs made it for me to stop my precious tears from falling off my beautiful eyes."

Athena rubbed her temple. "What you mean is you cried all night, and the only way to stop you was to give you something that will shut your mouth."

"If we put it that way, yes. How did you know I was softly crying all night, Athena?"

"Don't ask." replied the goddess, remembering last night was a sleepless night for her.

"Artemis, what are you doing here by the way? *le gasp* Don't tell me- How could you?!"

"What?!"

"I-I thought we were friends!"

Artemis had an incredulous look on her face. "Since when?!"

Aphrodite, dramatically, fell on the sofa and wept.

"What is her problem?!"

"I maybe the goddess of wisdom, but when it comes to her, don't ask me such questions."

"I thought we were sisters." said Aphrodite.

"HALF-sisters." said both.

"How could you do this to me?! Having a slumber party, without me!"

"Slumber party?! Are you blind?! It's just four in the afternoon!"

"I don't believe you!"

"Artemis. Don't reason with her, anyway, continue with what you were saying."

"Bunny here heard that Cronus sent a Minotaur to where the gods are!"

"Are you sure?"

Aphrodite, who heard her, stood up and went to her. "Did she mention about my cupcake?"

Artemis ignored her. "Yes! He intended to kill one of them, but, it was the creature which was defeated!"

Athena was relived. "Well, what did they expect? The gods may be human but in the inside they are still "gods". It would take a lot more for the Titans to take them down."

"Ooh!~ My cupcake must be the one who took down that monster!~ He's so brave!"

"Bunny here didn't mention who defeated the Minotaur."

"That's because we all know it was my cupcake~."

Athena cleared her throat and said "We must tell the others about this, they are worried as we are and deserves to know."


Each building was guarded by a living skeleton, which Iapetus sent from the underworld. The goddesses can only come out and visit one another at a certain time, but, they cannot meet at the same time. For the goddesses, it was not a problem because in each building, it has a trapdoor that only opens for the one living in that building and it leads to a secret room underground.

After Athena sent her owl to send a message to the others, the three went underground.

"Why didn't anyone tell me that there was a secret room?" asked Aphrodite.

Artemis rolled her eyes. "Is that why you're always absent when we meet there? If I remember correctly, you were with us when Hephaestus discussed about it."

"Like I'll ever listen to him! Anyway, this staircase is making my robe dirty! Are we there yet?"

"I pity him. He doesn't deserve the likes of you."

"And I don't deserve him! I am the goddess of love and beauty! I should be with someone who has good looks and he must be dashing!"

"No wonder why he moved back to his building, it must be irritating being with you every night."

"If you pity him so much then take him then!"

They stopped at an old door. Athena opened it and went inside. The room had not been used for over a hundred years. It was dark and damp, cobwebs lined up the ceiling and some mildew was growing on the walls. A medium round table and dusty chairs were situated at the middle.

"Eww~ I'm not going in there!" said Aphrodite, who started to go back up.

Athena dragged her inside and closed the door. After a while, the others came and sat down with the three.

"Athena, why did you call us?" asked Hera.

Athena told them what Artemis had told her.

Hera gasped "Oh my..."

"At least they are all safe." said Hestia.

"I was hoping that Hade-"Demeter was cut off by a glare from her sisters.

Athena called their attention. "What's more important is we should be ready next time the Titans send in one of their monsters."

"What do you mean? We can't do anything if we're being watched by them." said Hestia.

"I know. We can't help them, but, I've been thinking, the gods doesn't have anything to protect themselves with, so we should give them something, like weapons to help them fight off the monsters."

"I like the way you think, but there's a problem. I heard from Themis and Phoebe the other day that all our weaponry has been sealed in a room and it is being guarded by those skeletons." said Hera.

"I expected that. We need to find a way into that room."

"But Athena, it's heavily guarded. It's impossible to get there if we can't even go inside the Palace without those boneheads following us." said Artemis.

"At least today we have a plan. Get those weapons and take it to the gods." said Hestia.

"Are we done now? I'm tired holding my robe!" whined Aphrodite.

"Who brought her here?" asked Hera.

"Well excuse me! I'm part of this group whether you like it or not! And besides, are you forgetting about who will deliver the weapons to the gods if ever we got hold of them?"

And another problem rose above their heads.

"Hmph. I thought so… I wonder what my dear cupcake is doing right now? He must be tired defeating that monster all by himself!"

Hestia said "I certainly hope they're all right. Without any powers, it would be a problem for them to recover from their injuries."


The incident that had transpired caused disarray around the neighborhood. Dozens of police cars, a few fire trucks and ambulances arrived, and some time later, parents of the students came one by one when they heard of the incident. The students were advised to go home and would be updated for further notice.

"Aaahh!"

"Shh! Be quiet!"

"N-Not s-so- aah! Hard!"

"The neighbors will hear you at this point."

"H-how can I be- aah!- quiet with you- Ooh!~"

"Just a little more…"

"Aaahh~! D-Dammit Apollo…"

"I swear if I live next door, I would have thought differently from what I'm seeing right now." Poseidon and Zeus were watching the two boys who were on the sofa. Apollo was treating Hermes' wound on the arm while the latter kept on shouting. After the Minotaur incident, the boys had to go home when they noticed Hermes' left sleeve stained with blood.

"What kind of healer are you?!"

Apollo was rummaging through the first aid kit. "I'm doing the best I can. I don't know these medicines and I can't just use it on you. This is what happens when you are not updated with medication."

"How did you get that injury, Hermes?" asked Zeus.

"I don't know Da- aah!"

"You must have got it when you climbed that Minotaur. You could have hit its horn or something." said Apollo as he wrapped a bandage on his arm.

"So Hermes, how's Apollo?" asked Ares as he entered the living room, with Dionysus following behind.

"I should be the one you're asking!"

"I mean, was he good?" Ares asked, while grinning.

"… What?... Oh hell no! Gross!"

The war god laughed loudly. "From what we heard from the kitchen, it sounded like it."

"Dad!"

Zeus sighed. "Enough you two. Ares, it's your turn."

"Sorry pops but, I don't like guys and if I did, Apollo would be the one begging." said Ares and he drank his root beer.

"I mean it's your turn to be treated."

Dionysus, who had been quiet throughout the conversation, said "…Apollo's gay?"

Everyone at the room stared at him for a moment until Hermes and Ares laughed. Zeus on the other hand couldn't stop himself from smirking.

Hermes exclaimed "Oh shit! Hahaha!"

"Dionysus, seriously, where have you been these past thousand years?" asked Poseidon.

Apollo, who was red from embarrassment, cleared his throat and said "Excuse me, but I'm still here!" He then tightened the bandage on Hermes who wouldn't stop laughing.

"Ouch!"

He looked at the other one. "Ares, it's your turn!"

"I'm fine! I don't have a scratch on me!"

Hades came down to see what was going on for he was distracted from his work by the others' noise. "I see Hermes has quiet down."

"Did we disturb you?" asked Poseidon.

Hades answered "Yes." Then he went to where his brothers were.

"Sorry Uncle, but I was just about to say all of Apollo's guy lovers. Let's see… we have Hyacinth, Carnus, the- Ouch! That's it! I'm getting away from you." said Hermes and stood up.

"Indeed. Zeus, Poseidon, tomorrow I would like to talk with you two about the incident-"

"Don't forget Cyparissus!" shouted Ares.

"…privately."

The two nodded. "Understood."

Hades then called Apollo, who looked at him and said "Uncle?"

"If you're done here, come to our room. I have something to discuss with you.

"Y-Yes Uncle."

Hades went upstairs, leaving the others.

"You should go now, Ares won't let you treat him anyways." said Zeus.

Apollo on the other hand wanted to treat his brother. He wants to prolong his time as much as possible. "Are you sure Ares? You were thrown across the room. There must be a gash or something, let me see."

"I ain't letting you touch me!"

"Oh come on now. Don't be shy."

"No way! And besides, Uncle's waiting for his dear nephew!"

"H-He can wait! I must treat you first."

"If I didn't know any better, I think Apollo's reluctant of his Uncle." said Poseidon.

"Haha! Apollo's afraid of Uncle Hades!" shouted Hermes.

Apollo who's red again said "I-I am not!"


pearlsofwisdom: Apollo wants to read Twilight?- Well it does sound interesting for him... Let's just hope he doesn't find it. XD