All three brothers turned around in shock to find their eldest sister standing there smiling at them.
"Hestia, what is the meaning of this?" Zeus asked in his 'I-am-King-and-I-demand-respect" voice.
"Well brother, as Hera put it, we; meaning Hera, Demeter, and I felt like you three spend too much time arguing. Our plan being to make you three mortals temporarily until you can compromise with each other in a civil matter." Hestia may have the body of an 8-year-old, but her wisdom was that of a grandmother. A kind hearted, bake extra cookies just for you grandmother.
"This is ridiculous, Hestia, there is no way that us becoming mortal would help to learn 'compromise'. These two are far too immature to even know the word." Hades said, crossing his arms defiantly.
Zeus and Poseidon glared at him, but Hades didn't spare another glance at them. Hestia sighed in frustration.
"Okay, everyone SIT!" She demanded, taking them off guard. Quickly Zeus and Poseidon sat down next to Hades, not questioning Hestia's demand.
"Do you three know why compromise is so important? It's because you three are the strongest gods and are kings of the three most important realms. Do you remember what happened last time you couldn't compromise on something? WORLD WAR 2! Millions upon millions of mortals died along with your own half-bloods. We don't want a repeat of that do we?"
They shook their heads no.
"That's what I thought. And what happens if you three could never get along, the other deities would take this as a weakness and try to overthrow us! But you guys are too busy measuring your dicks to come up with a solution."
Hestia took a deep breath to calm down.
"Look my point is that, you are powerful and rulers of the rest of us. If you can't get along our world could be torn apart and we most likely would go with it. You understand?"
She got more nods in response, but Poseidon raised his hand quietly.
"Yes, Poseidon."
"So, I get why you want us to get along better. But why go through all the trouble to make us mortal? You could have told us this as we were gods."
"Would you guys really stay to listen, or just vanish at the first sign of a lecture?"
"Okay, good point."
"Okay, now that you explained the why. What about the How? As in how do we get our godhood back?" Zeus asked.
"Simple, learn to live with each other for a couple months and we'll see if you earned it back." Hestia explained it rather simply, but all three brothers felt a lot of pressure riding on this.
"Oh, and don't worry about your realms. Your wives will be running it for the time being. And before you ask Hades, Demeter has no problem with Persephone being in the underworld for this." With that Hestia vanished before any other questions could be asked.
"Wait, how do we start learn how to 'compromise?'" Zeus asked.
"Well we could start by you guys getting out of my room." Poseidon said while standing up.