This story was first written in Spanish and then translated in English using google translator, so I apologize for any mistakes there in the writing.
The first time we had indications of the existence of wizards and witches was when Zeus found a bird capable of controlling thunder flying near Olimpus, some time later we learned that it was called Thunderbird. My younger brother, as usual, was enraged by the fact that this thing had invaded his domains, Hera was a little happy for the annoyance of her husband, Poseidon and Hades if they were curious to know what the creature was, Athena wanted to study it , being she the goddess of knowledge could not accept that there was something on earth that she did not know, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hephaestus and I could not be less interested in the bird, Artemis wanted to then hunt her, Apollo only towards haikus, Ares wanted her as a pet and Hermes was quiet but with a serious expression.
After the initial scandal calmed down a new one with Hera accusing Zeus of infidelity and having begotten that "beast" as he called her, her husband denied it and accused Hermes of being responsible for the animal, since he had dominion over the animals. birds, obviously offended and so continued the fight to which each Olympic joined one by one, the exception was Hestia who tried to calm everyone.
Hermes, forgetting the accusation of Zeus, tried to exercise his dominion over the bird to know more about her but did not respond, that was worrying, a bird that did not respond to a bird god, however small the domain was, no It was nothing to laugh at. Then Zeus tried, being god of the heavens and the reason that would respond more to him but it didn't work either.
Hades suggested capturing her and thinking more carefully to do, as if that idiot could think of a good idea, this was not going to end at all well. And as I said this happened at the moment when Artemis tensed her bow, the animal was already creating a storm around her and shooting lightning, it took two hours for her, and although she doesn't like to say it, with Apollo's help they managed to tear it down. Hades locked her in a pretentious gold cage, placed her in the throne room. There we discussed what to do with the animal without reaching a resolution, we decided to leave the issue settled until the next meeting to consider the options.
As always the idiot of Hades could not have a good idea, when we met again the creature was dead according to Artemis for lack of food and food, apparently this bird was not like the monsters that we used to die if they died of hunger and they left a corpse when they did, Athena took it to "study it."
There were still questions about the creature and Hermes proposed that Artemis and her hunters try to find where it came from and if there were more of them. The meeting continued normally with fights and discussions.
After a week Artemis said that she found a whole community of those things in Arizona, but when we went we found nothing, Zeus got angry with her thinking that he was trying to trick her, her typical paranoilla, and she looked like she had been stabbed, had an expression of incredulity and I take as a mission to repair his pride in finding the birds, he practically became obsessed with it.
The second time we found that we found indications of the magical world was when I found in a forest some strange tubers that I didn't recognize and that was impossible, it was the damn goddess of fertility and harvest. I decided to take them and what happened surprised me, that thing had a face and I was screaming very loudly, I tried to calm her down or exercise my dominion in her, but the same thing happened with Hermes and Zeus, she didn't answer.
When I took it to Olympus in a pot and showed it to my brothers, everyone had their separate opinion: Aphrodite wanted to destroy that thing by saying that it is horrible and disgusting is nothing more than an offense to my domain , of course I refused, Ares wondered how to use it as a weapon, Dionicio insisted on trying to ferment it to make a drink, Athena wanted to study it, Hephaestus was indifferent, as was Artemis, Hades (he could not care less what happened to me, that was reciprocal) and Hera, Apollo was as eager to understand him as I, Poseidon, Zeus and Hermes seemed worried, Zeus rather irritated than worried.
When I guided them to where I had found the plant, the others had already disappeared, I knew that they could not have walked because the one I had did not. I decided to leave it in my temple to try to cultivate it and know more about it but when I left it and returned it had disappeared, this was an insult not only for not being able to understand a plant, but because someone entered into MY TEMPLE and robbed me, also according to Athena the corpse of the bird also disappeared. This would not stay that way and Zeus agreed, in the next few weeks we were almost the twelve Olympians looking for land and sea over these things.
In a short time Hades found a kind of revived corpse (for once he does something useful), Poseidon a type of crocodile that looked like a log (N / T: it's a Dugbog), Athena found a community of giant spiders and Zeus a horses Eight-legged (N / T: it is an Aethonan), but all the findings disappeared. After finding the eight-legged horse we already had someone to accuse and we immediately left Asgard, we all knew that Odin had one of those horses. He was accused of invading our domains, he denied everything, obviously, but none, except for Ares, wanted a war between pantheons, so we only threatened him, but he tried to accuse us by saying that he found Hippogriffs near Asgard, he even had one captured. If the Nordics did not do this, then who? We take the Hippogriff back to Olympus.
We were all tired of this and had to put up so that the twelve, whether they wanted to or not, began to search across the US for any trace of creatures or objects that are not of our pantheon but this time we found nothing at the beginning , after a month Apollo came to us quite high and surprised, he said he found something very big and we would not believe it until we saw it, we hid like mortals and guided us to an alley in New York, touched some brick on the ground (N / T: not very original, I know) and the wall opened in front of him, behind it there was a street full of people with shops that although they were surprising, one had a floating sign and another sold animals that were obviously magical, the most Incredible were the mortals there, in addition to their outdated clothing and according to Aphrodite totally horrible , all radiated power but one very different from that of the gods or their demigod children. We were all shocked, now I understand why Apollo had that expression.
Athena suggested staying hidden and investigating as much as we could to then meet at the Olympus and compare discoveries. I walked the whole street until I found a herbalist, there they had the most exciting plants to the most horrible, selling shoots of something called "Boxing Willow" that almost broke my finger, another thing they had was the "Devil's Loop" that they kept in boxes isolated from the light, apparently they were afraid of him, I tried to take some but they used a different kind of money from Drachma, I could not erase it, it was not Hermes, and I would not ask Hades for anything dead, even if he is the god of wealth whatever.
When we returned to Olympus almost everyone had something with them, Dionisio got a liquor called Wiski de Fuego and was complaining about a "Butter Beer" that apparently had no alcohol, Ares, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus found nothing of interest, Apollo got a couple of toads with which music is supposed to be made, Zeus obtained a broom with which he can fly, we laughed almost everyone, Poseidon did not find anything, Hades dedicated himself to summoning "Galleons", as the money of those was called mortals, and give them to my brothers, Artemis also found nothing like Hera, and finally Athena brought two dozen books that Hermes stole.
According to these books, those mortals were "magicians," and to be honest, everyone was surprised by their apparent powers, they could transform into animals and some in any person, they could fly using brooms or by themselves (this angered Zeus a lot), they also had fortune tellers who gave prophecies according to what Apollo read, others read the mind or protected it, they could teleport what they called "Apparition", they could transform others into animals and erase memories, they were practically miniature gods. Athena read three books at the same time fascinated with matters such as potions, charms and transfigurations, according to her they had potions for almost everything, as one of love (imagine the face of indignation of Aphrodite), also according to a book of stories they had something called the "Deathly Hallows" and I didn't miss the opportunity to make fun of Hades about it. A few of us took a few books to know more about these of these magicians, I had one called "Thousand Magic Herbs and Fungi," Dionysius lazily took a history book while he was drinking that drink in the colic, passing a couple of pages opened the eyes with surprise and spit what he had in the mouth towards the face of Hephaestus, he showed us a page that explained the origin of his world and his gods, in an illustration he could see Hecate next to Odin, Isis, Heka, and others Two gods that I didn't know but looked like Native Americans.
Zeus shouted the name of Hecate so loud that the whole sky trembled with lightning, in addition to being angry at Odin's deception, we were more focused on Hecate's betrayal, we sent her to call as quickly as possible. When I arrive we shout an answer, apparently she two or three centuries ago I believe together with other magic gods to these magicians as an attempt to escape the dominion of destinies and our authority, and apparently I achieve it halfway, I only achieve to create a pantheon, with a mixture of different creatures and monsters of different pantheons, where something similar to us happened with our Roman counterparts, while she was in her counterpart she was free of destiny but she still had to be present as Hecate in Olympus. Zeus almost threw a lightning bolt at that moment for such audacity, how dare she ?, Hermes reasoned with everyone arguing that nobody needed a war between pantheons and ordered the traitor to wait outside, he looked at us with a serious face Absolute and said we cannot start a war with her for offending her, if they did not realize those magicians are more powerful than the demigods, besides she has the support of Odin who is the ruler of an entire pantheon, she will undoubtedly be supported For all his army of Einherjer and gods, you have to be cautious in this situation, you can't just attack her father . Although I did not like it, we were right, we were at a disadvantage, we decided to leave the subject slowly until we knew what to do, we delivered to Hecate everything we had achieved in the magic shops.
It had been two months since the revelation of the wizards' existence, we all remained vigilant in case of any interaction of them with our pantheon, Zeus was particularly violent since he had shot down witch barks and wizards flying with his brooms, which gave him many reprimands from Hera and Hermes who kept insisting on leaving them alone. But that changed when we saw that a demigod arrived at the door of the mestizo camp and what we knew immediately was a magician, apparently they were half brothers ... we could see the veins in Zeus's neck swollen with anger.
N / A: this whole story was a practice of writing on my part as well as illustrating a bit how I see the challenge I wrote recently, if you are interested you can find it on my profile since it was uploaded as a story is called "between gods and wizards. "
Why Demeter? I don't have a particular reason, I think it was because it's never very prominent in the fros crossovers of these two franchises.