THUNDER GODDESS CHAPTER 1
by storyteller

Hercules walked along with a backpack slung over his shoulder whistling a tune as he went. Hercules liked to take some time in the summer a month or so before school started again and go on what he called his walkabout where he'd travel around to see new places and learn new things. He tried to get Jason and Iolaus to come with but they preferred the pursuit of girls to the pursuit of knowledge. Every time he asked they would stick up their noses and say,
"Boorrrrinnng,"
Even now Hercules grinned at the thought of his friend chasing girls. Of course Jason would figure out some way to put his foot in his mouth and Iolaus would get slapped numerous times.
Hercules rounded a bend in the trail and spotted the entrance to a cave in the side of the mountain. Just as he passed in front of the trail he her thunder rumbling overhead, looking up he saw dark clouds.
"Well." he said to himself it's a good thing I found this place." Lighting a torch he scrambled inside the cave just seconds before the rain came down. Driven by boredom Hercules decided to explore the cave. He weaved his way farther back into the cave and soon found a passage that wound around like a spiral staircase. Working his way to the bottom he emerged into some type of throne room that looked like it had been hewn out of solid it rock and it looked spectacular and it looked like it had been around longer than Olympus.
"Wow," said Hercules as he walked around looking at the oriental markings on the wall, "this must be some sort of temple and I stumbled onto the back door."
"To bad you won't live to see the front door," said a shrill voice Hercules whirled around to see Strife and Discord grinning maliciously at him.
"What do you two want?" he snarled striking a fighting stance.
"Just to kill you?" grinned Discord. Just as the two deities were about to throw energy bolts at Hercules there was a loud clap of thunder and a shimmering sphere of electricity appeared just in front of the throne which sat on a raised stone parapet on one side on the room. Suddenly lighting bolts shot out of both sides of the sphere hitting strife and discord squarely in the chest and knocking them across the room. They slammed in to the wall and landed in a heap on the floor. Immediately the sphere became a raven-haired girl wearing blue and white oriental leather.
"ENOUGH!!" she thundered loud enough to rattle the floor. Just then Ares appeared.
"What in the name of "Me" is going on here!" he snapped the mysterious Goddess glared at Ares without a trace of fear.
"Your side-show freaks attacked this traveler within the boundaries of my temple that is expressly forbidden as you father Zeus well knows, War-god!"
"My apologies, thunder goddess," said Ares in his usual oily manner, "it won't happen again." With that Ares grabbed strife by the earlobe, Discord by the nose and vanished.

BACK ON OLYMPUS ...

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF TARTURUS DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!! Thundered Ares as Strife and Discord bounced off the walls like a pair of twin ping pong balls.
"Just oomph trying to oomph kill Hercules oomph for you, uncle Ares." Ares waved his hand and Strife and Discord floated over to where he stood.
"Listen you two deified dunderheads," he snapped, "that girl that knocked you for a loop today was Kyra the Goddess of Lightning and thunder but more importantly she is the daughter of two of the Elementals the oldest and most powerful pantheon of gods in existence whom Zeus has been trying for decades to get an alliance with. And what you do you go and tick off the daughter of the two most powerful Elementals!!!"

MEANWHILE...

Hercules sat at the table nervously. Looking up from his food he saw Kyra smiling over her rice bowl at him.
"Is everything to your liking?" she asked
"Oh yes," said Hercules, "I'm just not very good with these chopsticks."
"Here," she said, "Let me help you." She stood up and walked around the table standing behind Hercules she put her hands on his hands and as she leaned over her hair fell on to his shoulders. All Hercules could think was
"OOOOOOOOOh boooooy!!"

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