Sandals and in-laws
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It was a beautiful day and all was we… "Arrrrgh, where are you, you little bugger and would you quit pecking me?" Echoed throughout the garden on Hera, startling a bored Persephone out of her thoughts.
"What was that?" she exclaimed as she looked around from her tree in Hera's garden. Spotting something out of the corner of her eye she hopped form her perch and moved to get a closer look. Only to find a rather funny sight, there, sitting next to the golden apple tree in the center of the garden, surrounded by peacocks, was a fuming, feather covered Hermes. Stifling her laughter as much as possible the goddess of flowers approached the usually calm and light-hearted trickster.
"Are you okay, brother?" She inquired finally able to stop laughing. Hermes looked at her before opening his mouth.
"No, I'm not. My sandals went missing, I have pranks to try, messages to deliver, I look like a experiment of Daedalus and these pesky crows won't leave me alone." Came the angry reply. Crows being what Hermes called the peacocks surrounding him.
"Why don't you tell me what happened," Persephone inquired soothingly seating herself next to her older half-brother and shooing the birds away "and I'll see if I can help." Hermes, unable to stay mad when in the presence of the younger goddess felt his rage cool.
"Fine. I took a short nap last night after running an errand for Apollo. When I got up my sandals where missing, my backups as well, and Athena wanted me to pick up something for her. Since I couldn't find my sandals I couldn't fetch the item she wanted. At that point in our conversation Eros, the little bugger, wanted to ask Athenas something and on his feet were my sandals. He fled and I tried to go after him but since I didn't have my sandals I couldn't catch up. So Hephaestus let me borrow the wings Daedelus used when he escaped the labyrinth. As you can see I ran into these crazy puffed up chickens and that's that." Hermes explained as he picked off feather after feather from his torso with Persephones help.
Persephone couldn't help but laugh.
"What's so funny?" Hermes inquired in an irritated voice.
"You, that's what. This is what, the fifth maybe sixth time this year Eros has swiped your sandals."
"Ha Ha. That was so funny I forgot how to laugh." Came the Messengers reply. "Know how I can get my sandals back from the little tyke?"
"Well, in the past you have always had a back up pair of sandals. Since they are missing why not ask Hephaestus for another pair?" She asked softly.
"I did that last time. He said he wasn't going to make any more as I already had about seven reserve pairs. Besides he and Aphrodite went on a trip to visit Hades."
"Did you lend anyone a pair that they haven't given back?"
"No. You know ho… Hey wait a minute," the now de-feathered god perked up "I did lend a pair to Perseus so he could travel quicker on his quest to get medusa's head, I know he completed his quest because he returned Hades cloak of Invisibility and gave the Mirror shield to Athena then threw Medusa's head back to the sea where she was born. If I'm right he should still have them."
Hermes jumped up, hugged his sister, grabbed the somewhat mottled wings beside him, strapped them on and took off shouting "Thanks for the help!" over his shoulder.
Persephone merely blinked and watched as her elder half-brother took off like a dove on a sugar-high. Laughing slightly the flower goddess got up and trotted off to find her paints with a great new idea for a flower pattern in mind.
Thanks for reading. If you have any problems with the grammar or spelling feel free to let me know. Also feel free to comment or suggest any other sibling relations you wanna see. Toodles.