A/N: This is not The Tales of version of Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods or Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes, but rather The Tales of version of a book I got of Greek and Roman Mythology I got in Rome Italy. The settings will be after 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus' so please read that before getting in this story. Think of this story as something to pass by until The Trials of Apollo books.
Aloadae
This is a title that refer to two giant banes of Dionysus Otis and Ephialtes. Although they weren't always banes of an Olympian since Dionysus wasn't always an Olympian much less a god. That's probably why their parentage isn't quite exact. But they were a pain either way.
Now although there are stories saying they were sons of Gaea nursed by a mortal name Iphimedius, there were other stories saying they were sons of Iphimedia and Poseidon.
See Iphimedia had fallen in love with my dad, and it was her custom to walk along the seashore scooping up the waves in her hand and emptying the water into her bosom. Eventually Poseidon succumbed to her love and gave her Ottis and Ephialtes, who were of course giants. When they were nine years old they were four meters broad and seventeen meters tall.
One day they decided to make war on the gods, put Ossa on Mount Olympus , and Pelion on top of both, threatening to climb up to the sky. Next they announced that they would fill the sea with the mountains to make it dry and put the sesa on what had hitherto been dry land. In addition, Ephialtes declare love for Hera, and Ottis his love for Artemis. Neither goddess I'm sure was too happy about with Hera devoted only to Zeus and Artemis being a maiden goddess. Finally they shut Ares in a brazen cauldron. Having first bound him in chains.
As expected all these outrageous actions brought the wrath of the gods on the two brothers.
Now if you ask Dionysus, he would tell you he took down the giants. But there are other stories saying Zeus struck them with lightning; others have it that Artemis changed herself into a doe and rushed between them when they were hunting, and in their haste to hit her they killed each other.
When they reached Hades, they were bound with snakes to a pillar where an owl, perpetually screeching, came to torment them.
Their presence on Naxos at the time of their death was explained by an errand for which their foster-father Aloeus had made them responsible.
Not exactly someone I call brother, much less two, but they wouldn't be the last.
Next up is a lover of Poseidon who had a child that would be nursed by a mare before taking in.