Author's Note:
This is a request from Guest I Guess
Disclaimer: I have not once in my life played Scrabble. Everything here as far as game play comes from google, so take it up with them if you play differently.
Cheers!
justapercyjacksonfan
Impossible
"Mail's here!" Hermes said, walking into the throne room. The scene that greeted him was unpleasant.
Several thrones were overturned, and there were little tiles that might have been from Athena's favorite board game all over. A cardboard square was flying through the air back and forth, and the almighty king of the gods, Zeus himself, was cowering behind a table along with Ares and Artemis. The room had a large amount of water everywhere, as well as several owls swooping around. The two gods engaged in the most famous rivalry of all time were facing each other in a rage that could only have come about from the threat of total Olympian devastation, and if it had reduced those three to have no other option than to wait it out…
"You know, I'll just come back." Hermes turned around and walked away, ignoring the "Help" looks he was getting from his father and half-siblings.
- Seven and a Half Minutes Earlier -
"As it is my turn to pick the game, I have chosen." Athena brought the box out from behind her back, "Scrabble!"
"Wow, what a shock." Artemis said, rolling her eyes. She turned to Zeus. "Didn't you make a rule about picking the same game two turns in a row?"
"Last time we played, you all fell asleep!"
Zeus sighed. "I only like two of my children. I'm not going to have the two of you fighting."
Athena and Artemis shut up, if only because they enjoyed their position as the two Olympians Zeus actually allowed to have some level of autonomy. Ares wasn't paying enough attention to realize his father had said he didn't care about him.
They all drew to start. Poseidon drew an E, the closest letter to A out of all of them. The first word he played was, 'Megalops'
"Um, challenge." Athena said.
"The Megalops cyprinoides is the scientific name for the fish commonly known as the bastard mullet."
"That shouldn't be allowed." she said. She gave Zeus puppy-dog eyes. "Is that allowed?"
Zeus hadn't been paying attention, only staring vacantly out the window, no doubt having noticed some pretty young thing. "What? Of course, daughter." He said, agreeing with what she said last.
"Fine. Megalops is acceptable."
Play continued around, only for it to come back to Poseidon. "Humuhumunukunukuāpua'a."
"Challenge."
"Hawai'ian name for the rectangular triggerfish."
"Oh come on. You don't even have enough tiles for that! Father, please, tell Poseidon he can't do that."
"No, I won't do a thing, daughter." He said, still staring intently out the window. "Can we speed this along actually?"
The game continued. By the time it came back to Poseidon, Athena was glaring daggers at him. "Don't. You. Dare." she hissed.
"Wunderpus."
"Challenge!"
"It's a type of octopus. The wunderpus octopus? Discovered by Germans, I think. Are you going to cry to Daddy about it?"
Athena pursed her lips, but didn't say anything. "Fine."
It came back to Poseidon. "Fringehead."
"Chall-"
"The sarcastic fringehead is a-"
"Type of fish, I don't care, just- ugh! Fine! It doesn't matter that you're using all these stupid fish because I still won."
"No you didn't." Artemis said.
Athena turned to her slowly. "What?"
"Poseidon beat you. Poseidon beat you at Scrabble."
"No he didn't, that would be….impossible." She looked down at the score, before slowly back up at the god of the sea, who was grinning like a madman.
"You lost at Scrabble."
"That's impossible."
"I beat you."
"Impossible!
"You are no longer undefeated at your favorite game!"
"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
Artemis rolled her eyes. "Right, I'm going to go."
"Same." Zeus agreed. "I have, ugh...business to attend to."
"NO ONE LEAVES THIS ROOM."
"Sorry?" Artemis asked. "That's not how this works, Athena."
"YOU NASTY BARNACLE ENCRUSTED BASTARD MULLET!"
Poseidon started to turn red. "Is that how you're going to be? This is how tHe gReAt aThEnA acts in defeat? I'm embarrassed to have one of your children as my daughter-in-law."
"Low blow." Artemis muttered.
"YOU CHEATED EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, YOU COULD NEVER HAVE BEATEN ME IN A FAIR GAME."
"You're my new favorite." Zeus muttered to Artemis.
"Are you calling me dumb?"
"So you admit it!"
"I didn't, actually. I just proved that it isn't impossible to beat you at Scrabble!"
"Agh!" Athena stomped. In her anger, several owls appeared and started swooping around, attacking at Poseidon who swatted them away with his trident, shooting water at them and everything.
"That's how we're playing? Oh, it is on."
The two began full on brawling. The table was one of the first things thrown, and soon became the haven of the three other Scrabble players, especially when thrones started getting thrown around.
- Back to the present -
"You'll never beat me again!" Athena yelled, throwing the board at Poseidon
"So you admit that I beat you!" He threw it back
"Never!"
"You just did!"
"I hate you!"
"Not as much as I hate you!"
"Not as much as I hate you!"
"Not as much as I hate you!"
Their words were punctuated by the poor Scrabble board that was continually tossed between them.
"I did the impossible! You admitted I did it!"
They were so distracted, the others managed to sneak out. By the time, an hour later, that Hera came to see when dinner would be, they were still at it. After all, this wasn't any ordinary thing. Poseidon had done the impossible.
Author's Note:
See, I would have done this earlier…
But
Then
I
Got
Distracted
By
Aro/Ace
Ticktok
Compilations
ANYWAY!
Shout-outs!
Fairyn - I don't think there is such a thing as a terrible review? It gave me serotonin, so...I think that makes it good.
LilBumkin - Thank you, like times 4. Because that was a lot of compliments, and I don't know how to respond to compliments as a general rule.
Guest I Guess - It TOTALLY is (a toxic relationship, that is). At least in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, they got divorced, so I'm going off that? I feel like that book, as well as Greek Heroes are kinda the canon sources for the books. It was like Uncle Rick said, "Okay, there are a lot of Greek myths, these are the ones that happened in this universe." Just out of curiosity, what did you have in mind?
Have a lovely day!
justapercyjacksonfan
