Hey there! I am son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Kind of the forgotten son actually… But that doesn't matter. I'm here to tell you a story, and a story I shall tell.

I was born sometime before counting. I was born to be a god and I lived a happy childhood… for two months. After two months a godling is "full-grown" and my father brought me to Olympus for the first time. There my domains would be discovered and given to me.

The place was so beautiful – though I liked the undersea palace also. There were so many happy gods and nymphs and satyrs and Zeus knows what else. They were living and happy and you almost could smell the love and happiness in the air. I walked beside my father and towards the throne room.

I was busy looking all around so I didn't really notice that we were already climbing stairs up to the throne room. When we arrived, Father grew his normal size and sat in his throne. Other goods were there also, in their full-size. Zeus didn't look too happy, so I decided if I want to keep all my body parts exactly where they are now, I should be polite.

So I bowed and said "King Zeus." He looked a bit happier after that, there was kind glow in his eyes. Or maybe I just imagined it all. "Young Perseus." Yes. I know. Horrible name. But I have to live with that and my mother decided my name so I won't complain. I decided to stay quiet but I nodded to show that yes, I am Perseus, and I'm listening.

"Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite." He looked thoughtful. I bowed a little, yes, still me. "You are here to get your domains and start working as a god." Did he think that I was stupid or something? My father stared Zeus not-so-approvingly. "Indeed." I decided to open my mouth. He looked at me a little angry. Gods, I will never understand Zeus, I thought. "You have to let your god form to take the best of you for a couple of minutes so we can discover your domains and secret animals." I nodded, showing that I understand, still. I'm not stupid, you know.

I was just about to close my eyes when there were three dark flashes of light. I opened my eyes fast seeing the new people. They were all looking the same, maybe they were triplets or something? I hesitantly bowed when I saw all other gods to do so also, even Zeus. "Rise, Olympians." The three said in unison. "My Lady Fates, what brings you to Olympus?" Zeus asked politely when everyone were sitting straight and looking at the Fates. Was there fear in their eyes?

"We are here to declare Lord Perseus' domains." They stated calmly. Others in the room – me included – looked as shocked as a god could possibly be. I came back to my senses fast though. "What do I own the honor?" I asked and bowed to the three ladies. They looked at me with their old and all-knowing eyes. "We have big plans for you in the future. We must make sure you will gain all your rightful domains." Every god in the throne room looked at me. My father looked a little scared and… proud? I bowed again and the Fates stepped closer to me. One of them – I didn't really know who was who; I was two months old for Zeus' sake! – put a finger on my forehead. It tickled. A lot. I was trying to hold in my laughter and I saw the other two Fates look at me amused.

When the finger moved from my forehead I sighed from relieve. Gods looked at me funny. "All hail Lord Perseus, god of the tides, emotions, loyalty, kindness, future and heroes." All looked shocked at me. Then they bowed to me, recognizing me. I felt like someone was using me as their needle pillow… But it didn't really hurt. After the feeling of the needles was gone I felt so much stronger than before. It felt right. The Fates looked at me and smiled and they were surrounded by a light blue color. That color meant proud, I was pretty sure. "Your symbol shall be a dragon, though they don't exist in this realm. The sacred animals shall be a wolf and a lion. Your flower shall be Phlox." I was speechless. I didn't really know anything about dragons, but wolfs and lions were pack animals and loyal to the pack… At least I thought this might be right. "Make us proud, Lord Perseus." Then they vanished. I was shocked. The Fates were not supposed to favor or like anyone, ever. Yet they showed kindness to me. I was pretty sure because after the light blue light color around them, they might like me even if only a one fraction.

Silence was thick in the throne room after the Fates. I looked at Father, and I saw that he was surrounded by light blue also, but with hints of light purple. Fear? Zeus was surrounded with almost black purple. That would be envy and hatred. The other gods were surrounded with some light colors, meaning they didn't have any ill will towards me.

I bowed again and opened my mouth. "Lord Zeus, is there anything else?" He looked at me sharply and I got an impression that he was looking for something. "No. You shall go with your Father and have a weapon." He said. Then: "Council dismissed." Zeus disappeared with a huge lightning and big noise. Other gods looked at me and smiled, some of them even congratulated me. I thanked them politely. After some time Father was standing before me with a huge grin in his face. "Come, my boy. We shall find a weapon which is not totally useless." Then we walked around Olympus and my father cursed that we didn't have a god of forges or anything like that. I smiled and agreed.

Finally we found a weapon for me. It was a beautiful sword. It was thin and fast as lightning. It was made from celestial bronze and some other metal, which I didn't remember. Some say that the Fates got that for me. When I touched the sword's hilt, it began to glow and I could feel some of my powers to combine with it. But I didn't feel weak, I felt complete. My dad saw this and said that this is the symbol of my power with the dragon, and that this weapon would be mine the same way the trident was my father's.

I spent the next ten years mastering my sword skills and the god powers. After the years I really was a master with any sword, not just with my own. And I could do god things easily without tiring myself a bit. And because I was the god of heroes, I wasn't bound to the ancient laws like other gods. I also was pretty good with bow and arrow – better than my father at least. I mastered throwing knives. Yes I was a poor archer but that doesn't mean that I can't aim and hit the target. It was the bow's fault, I decided.

When I moved away from the underwater palace, my parents had another child. They named the child Triton. I visited there often and saw how Triton grow day by day. He was handsome, like me, but unlike me he liked more his tail appearance. I preferred my legs. He didn't come to the land but gods what a womanizer he was. I think there isn't a single sea nymph who Triton wouldn't have flirted with – and/or more. After a while Father named him the heir to the throne of Poseidon. I wasn't mad like I maybe should be. But I was very busy with my own domains and Triton didn't really got any new ones, just an assistant to our father so to say.

More Olympians were been born, Artemis and Apollo, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, Ares and Dionysius. Hestia and Hades lost their thrones on Olympus. I was mad at my father from not arguing with Zeus more about that, but my hate didn't last very long. I was too loyal to my father. So I visited with the two oldest gods regularly. Hestia was like a little sister to me. That's because she chose her appearance to be an eight-year-old kid. She was warm to me and we loved each other in a sisterly way, of course. I was the only one to help Hestia to try to keep the Olympians away from each other's throats.

I also went to the underworld – mostly in winters when Persephone was not around – to keep company to my uncle. I remember the first time I went there in an attempt to cheer my uncle up.

Flashback

I went to Charon in some faraway place in Greece and asked to see his Lord. He agreed after some drachmas and sailed me to the underworld. I didn't really find it as a creepy place. Underworld was maybe the most important peace in the cycle of life. Where else would the dead go? I made my way to my uncle's throne room. I noticed that it was very similar to Olympus though much darker.

Uncle Hades was in a bad mood. I noticed some odd faces in my uncle's clothes but didn't say anything.

"Uncle Hades", I said and bowed.

"What do you want, son of Poseidon?" He asked me very bitterly. I was a little taken aback by this.

"Why would I want something?" I asked, confused. Hades' glare softened a bit and his aura wasn't so hateful anymore. His colors started to became brighter.

"Then, what are you doing here?" He asked and kept his glare on me.

"You are family, uncle, and no family should be thrown away and left alone, no matter what." Hades looked like he didn't believe a word I was saying, but his emotions gave him away. His colors started to become silver, which meant gratefulness.

"Though, I brought you something." I said and showed him a basket which had been behind me. He raised an eyebrow and I took off the blanket covering the basket.

In the basket was a little three headed pitch black dog. It was sleeping and looked happy. Hades looked the dog and his glare softened. "I thought you could use some company… And someone to keep the intruders away", I said, winking. Hades flashed me a rarely seen smile. Hi took the basked and patted the dog a little. "What is his name?" He asked after a while. "It is yours to decide, uncle." I said, smiling a little. Hades smiled at me and said: "He shall be named Cerberus, my watch dog." He smiled and patted the dog some more. Cerberus raised his head and his tail started to go from side to side. It licked Hades' hand a bit and then fell asleep again.

Flashback end

I also met a lot of my half-brothers and sisters. It amazed me how unfaithful Poseidon really was… I was glad my mother didn't know that there were so many of them. As a god of heroes, I lived in an area which was easy to get to. But the house I lived in was a little harder to get to. I lived in a small Greece town and there were many temples honoring me. It was also near the sea. But the house was on a mountain and the climb was hard. That is because I wanted the heroes to show some effort if they wanted to see me. Some came because they needed a shelter, some because they wanted my blessing – which I only gave to those who earned it, not to those who wanted more power. Some came because they wanted me to master them with a sword and some just wanted to see me.

So, I was pretty much top-ten in the most honored god- list. After a while my temples begun to spread all around Greece and some towns had more than one temple of mine. I had dedicated my life to help those in need and that is why I was so popular with mortals, too. I tried to help them too, maybe just a little but it would have broken my heart if I didn't do anything. But when my temples became very popular and the temples were bigger and more amazing and the best architectures at that time wanted to do more beautiful temples to me than the last, Zeus became very angry. I guess he didn't feel like he got enough respect.

People didn't really notice though. And when I was more admired than Zeus, all hell broke loose. Lightings destroyed the biggest and the most beautiful temples of mine into ashes, some were other vice crashed or something else happened. I saved many people from getting fried but that didn't help the situation at all. People were scared and angry to Zeus, so they worshipped me more. One by one they brought their sacrifices to Zeus to me. I was were grateful but I was also scared. Who knows what an angry king of the gods can do.

One morning I was sitting outside my house in the only grassy area on the mountain. Some of my students were already sparring or eating breakfast. It was cloudy and it didn't foreshadow anything good. All of the sudden Hermes flashed beside me. The students stopped what they were doing and bowed to the god of the messengers. "Lord Hermes", I said, bowing. Though I was very popular among mortals and all, I was just a minor god. I really don't understand why because I really was stronger than most of the Olympians.

"Perseus", Hermes said. He looked nervous. "Do you want to sit?" I asked and offered him my own seat. He shook his head. "Okay… Is there a reason you are here? We haven't talk in a long time." I said a little angry. I was friends with most of the Olympians and Hermes was one of my friends. He gulped a little and then cleared his throat. "Hm… Yes indeed. I can explain!" He suddenly blurted out. I raised my eyebrows. He was just about to continue when I raised my hand to show him to hold on. Then I turned to my students. "Please, can we have some privacy?" All of them bowed and rushed out, though I could see how curious they were. In a short amount of time they were all inside, peeking from the windows. Hermes was full of anxiety and fear and anger. I was confused.

"Yes?" I said turning back to Hermes.

"See… Father, I mean Zeus, informed us, um, kindly that we should be paying more attention to our responsibilities than chit chatting with some minor god…" Hermes said, not meeting my eye. But he didn't need to, I was god of emotions after all. I could tell easily that he was ashamed. "I see." I stated. "Now, if you are not here to chit chat, then what do you want?" I think my time with Uncle Hades is affecting me…

"Zeus wants to talk to you." He blurted out nervously. I was sure I looked very confused but I nodded nonetheless. No one defies king of the gods. "Now." Hermes said and flashed out. I sighed and teleported after him to Mt. Olympus. The place was as beautiful as always but I could feel the anger and nervousness in the air.

I walked to the throne room and herd noises behind it. I knocked on the door four times and all noises were shushed. Then I heard Zeus' commanding tone, telling me to enter. I opened the doors and stepped in. I walked to the center of the huge room and bowed.

"Perseus", Zeus said my name like it was a curse. I looked up confused. I could see how angry and jealous Zeus was, how angry my father was, I'd say he was furious and all the other Olympians felt shame for some reason. "Yes?" I asked, looking in the eyes of the king. "From now on you shall be casted out from Olympus."

At first I was shocked, then I was angry, then so many emotions hit me I didn't know what I was supposed to feel. "What?" I finally managed to choke out.

"You heard me."

"Why am I casted out?" said, now angry.

Zeus looked me in my eyes, pouring into my soul. "No one, I mean no one, makes a fool out of me!" He said so angry that the skies were covered with thunderclouds. It began to blow very hard and I could only imagine what it destroyed on the Earth.

"You shall never come back." Stated Zeus. I was just opening my big mouth when Apollo interrupted me by gasping very loud. As I looked at him I was really taken aback. He didn't have any emotions. I mean zero. I looked at him, shocked. "Apollo?" I heard Artemis say from the other side of the room. "Why he doesn't have emotions?" I managed to ask in shaking voice. All eyes were once again on me. "What?" Artemis said anger in her voice. Then we were again shushed when Apollo opened his mouth:

"By casting loyalty out of Olympus
Has the faith now sealed
The child of the hero
Shall decide the faith of all
Fall or rise of the Olympians."

Silence filled the room. Everyone was trying to comprehend what Apollo just said. "What was that?" I demanded. My father looked at me, shame clear. "He has been made god of prophesies." Now I was mad. I thought this was my family, but they didn't even care enough to tell me something like that. Then Athena just had to make the day better. "A child of Perseus shall decide the faith?!" It was like a SNAP! and then Zeus was out of his trance along Apollo. "Huh… What just happened?" Apollo said looking around. Then he noticed the stiff atmosphere.

Zeus looked at me and I almost heard a click when Zeus lightning started to shake Olympus. "GET HIM!" He boomed, pointing at me. I had enough time to think Oh shit! when Ares jumped on me. I sidestepped with some difficulty and then teleported away before anyone else could catch me. On the ground everything was just chaos. It was raining and lighting was shot out of the skies with no pauses. Water was everywhere and some cities were underwater for sure. People were screaming. I could hear their pleas in my head to help them… I let couple of tears to fall.

I tried to control the water, to calm it down. It worked for a while and I started to run. All of the Olympians knew where I had teleported. There was only one thought in my head: Please let them be alive.

I was running on the streets of a big city and there was no people. The usually busy streets were now empty. Everyone were closed up on their houses. I ran as fast as I could. When I realized that Zeus wanted to catch me so I could not have the kid, or so I concluded anyway, I had to hurry to save my daughter.

But I was too late. When I arrived on their street there was a huge fire. NO! was the only thing in my head when I ran to the house. I had to use all my concentration to get to the small living room. There I saw something which made my hart stop for a moment.

My beautiful love was on the ground, bleeding, obviously with Hades already. I felt tears fall on my face both because of the loss and the smoke. Then I saw my thirteen-year-old daughter coughing and bleeding beside her mother. I ran to her, grabbed her and teleported away.

We were on a clearing on a forest, far away from the sea and hidden under the trees. "No, no, no, my beautiful Hannah." I cried out. Her heart was beating, but she was dying. She looked at me and I saw her tears run down her beautiful face. "Fa…ther", she whispered with some difficulty. I shushed her fast. "Please, rest honey." She nodded. I didn't have enough hope left and I felt myself to shake. "Apollo please… Please heal her." I prayed and begged for some time. But nothing was happening. No one was going to help me. I didn't have the knowledge to heal her by myself. I felt, for the first time in my life, totally helpless and hopeless.

"Hannah, dear." She opened her eyes when she heard my voice. I saw her aura, it was pained. My baby was in pain. I concentrated and took the pain away from her. She sighed from happiness and started to relax. Now I felt her pain as my own added to my previous pain. I felt like screaming. My skin was burning, my heart was shattered to many pieces and I couldn't breathe properly. "I love you." I whispered to her ear when she closed her eyes one last time.

When her heart stopped, my world ended. She was killed cruelly and because of me. I killed her. I should have been faster. It was my entire fault.

I hugged her for a long time and cried more than ever before. Even when I was basically dog food and I was three weeks in Apollo's hospital, I hadn't cried this much. I think all the times I have cried couldn't beat this combined. I was hollow inside I didn't see any happiness in the world anymore.

I fetched Hannah's mother's body. It was almost only ash, but I took her anyway. I wanted to give them a proper burial. It was my fault. Every time my heart beat it shattered more if that was possible.

After the burial and some alone time I headed to my home. But when I got there it was empty. It was as if there has been no one. All of my students gone without a trace. Maybe it was good Zeus wouldn't kill them now that I wasn't their teacher anymore. And I could still hear the prayers and pleas in my head when my temples were torn apart and people worshipping me faced misfortune. I could feel how everything connected to me was fast disappearing. In only fifteen hours, there was no trace that I ever existed.

And I couldn't take revenge because I was loyal. Nothing much connected me to the Earth anymore. I could almost feel myself fading, slowly, but surely.