Chapter 14: The Baby
Athena's POV
I love being married to Poseidon. I also love his underwater palace. It's great how Amphitrite still lives there, but she's nice to me now, instead of trying to kill me because I'm a female standing within a certain proximity of her husband. He's not her husband anymore anyway, he's mine.
Aphrodite's come to visit me in the underwater palace. But the strange thing is that she looks worried and she's trying to push me into the bedroom.
"Athena, I have some news that's mostly good." Aphrodite said.
"What?!" I said, starting to panic.
"Apollo told me when your baby's gonna be born." She said.
"Cool, when?" I said, starting to feel relief.
"Now." She said.
And then my water broke. Plus I started to feel light-headed.
"Oh no. You are NOT going to faint right now." Aphrodite said as she picked me up and put me back down on my bed.
"POSEIDON!" Aphrodite screamed.
Poseidon teleported in a few seconds later.
"What?!" He asked in a worried tone.
"Your wife's going into labor." She said.
He took a quick look at me and said, "MOTHER!"
Rhea appeared a few seconds later.
"It's time, isn't it?" Rhea asked.
"Yes!" I said.
"Hephaestus, Apollo, Hermes!" Aphrodite called.
They all appeared a few seconds later.
"Hera, Zeus!" Rhea called.
They both appeared a few seconds later. They looked like they'd been hit by a hurricane. They've been having sex again.
"Get Annabeth and Percy." I said.
"Why?" Aphrodite asked.
"Just do it!" I said.
Aphrodite snapped her fingers and they appeared.
"What the...?!" They both asked at the same time. Then they noticed me.
"Oh." They both said.
Then I went through a series of contractions, and finally gave birth.
"She's beautiful mom." Annabeth said.
"Yeah." Percy said.
"Annabeth, you and Aphrodite are her Godmothers." I said.
Annabeth and Aphrodite smiled.
"Percy, you and Zeus are her Godfathers." Poseidon said. "And if you ever sleep with her, I'll kill you Zeus." He added.
Percy smiled and Zeus snorted.
"I mean it." Poseidon said with a cold stare.
Zeus cringed and said, "I swear on the river Styx I'll never sleep with your daughter."
Thunder boomed and it was final.
"What are you going to name her?" Aphrodite asked.
"Princess?" Percy suggested as a joke.
She did look like a Disney princess with her dark curly hair, eyes that change from storm gray to sea blue, and other facial features you'd expect from any Athenian or child of Poseidon.
"Kida." Poseidon and I said at the same time.
"You're naming her after the princess from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?" Annabeth asked.
"Not the full name, just the nickname 'Kida'. You got a problem with that?" I asked.
Everyone laughed and said they had no problem with it.
Rhea was right, THIS is the best day of my life.
(2 years later...)
Kida is so cute. She's playing with Percy's little sister Andy (short for Andromeda). Annabeth's asleep on the couch because Kida and Andy have been playing with her all day. Percy's making cookies with Aphrodite and Hephaestus. Aphrodite's also pregnant now, but not with a demigod, with Hephaestus' child. And Poseidon is sitting on another couch with me, stroking my hair.
"We did good." He said.
"With Annabeth, Percy, Aphrodite, and Zeus' help." I said.
"You don't give yourself enough credit." Poseidon said.
"Neither do you." I said.
We both smiled and watched the girls play.