Hi guys, so this is chapter two. I was really amazed at all the wonderful reviews that this story got and I just wanted to say thank you! I really appreciate your feedback, so make sure you review this chapter too. Also I have a question do you guys want me to write Poseidon/Athena pairing? PM me your answer or leave it in a review. Thanks again!
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When all the smoke had disappeared, Poseidon shakily began to stand. How in Hades did he end up on the floor? He heard coughing to his right and looked around. Athena, at least he assumed it was Athena, was sitting on the floor coughing, her face scrunched up in discomfort.
Poseidon approached her and silently offered a hand which she took gratefully. He pulled her up and somehow Athena stumbled, landing into Poseidon's chest with an "Umph." The Goddess of Wisdom felt herself blush and she slowly peeked up at Poseidon through her dark lashes. Poseidon heard Athena's breath catch in her throat and he stared down curiously at her, he was about to ask her if she was okay when a call from the side interrupted them.
"Hello love birds a little help would be nice." Aphrodite whined. "Shut it, we're coming." Athena muttered annoyed, what had just happened between her and Poseidon? They approached a ruffled looking Aphrodite who upon seeing them shrieked.
"Ahhhhh! Daddy wasn't messing around when he said that he was going to turn us into teenagers!" Athena's jaw dropped then looked at Poseidon again. No, no, no! Father would never do this to me! Athena thought frantically.
After helping Aphrodite to her feet Poseidon looked down at himself. His hands were smooth and tan; he felt his face for a beard but found none. His whole face felt smoother and softer. The Sea God's hands clenched into fists, oh Zeus was going to pay.
Poseidon looked up when he heard the others approaching.
"What the Hades happened? No offense Uncle!" Hermes quickly corrected himself.
"It appears that Dad made good on his threat, he turned us into freaking teenagers!" Hephaestus growled out while trying to examine himself.
Everyone was trying to do the same. Artemis was shaking her head and whimpering under her breath.
Apollo looked kind of excited but then again it might have had something to do with the fact that he didn't look in the least bit changed.
Aphrodite sighed and with a snap of her fingers made mirrors appear in everybody's hands.
"Damn I look good...But I'm still going to kill you Zeus!" Hades said coolly, as he smirked into his mirror. He looked like an older version of Nico. He had gotten younger and looked to be around eighteen or so, his face had its original aristocratic look to it and his eyes hadn't lost their menacing look to them. His hair had gotten an inch or so shorter and his skin was still the albino pale that it had been before. His blood red robes had shrunk down with him and his Helm of Darkness still stood atop his dark hair.
"Hey I didn't change that much, what's going to be so bad about this anyway?" Hermes asked himself mostly as he studied his new face in the mirror. His sandy brown hair had gotten shorter and his face had gotten a little rounder. He looked to be around sixteen or so.
"I don't know but I really have a bad feeling about this." Athena answered his question while looking at her reflection. Her gray eyes were somewhat larger and sassy looking, her face turned a little softer. Her black hair grew down to her mid back; she didn't look bad at all. She guessed that she might be around sixteen or seventeen.
"My Gods I can't change myself back!" Artemis screamed. Since she was always the one who changed her image at will and she had thought for sure that it would work. It didn't, and now instead of looking her usual twelve year old form she looked to be around fifteen. Her auburn hair had gotten longer and her face had lost its childlike innocence. Her ice blue eyes were big and her body had changed with her too. She looked down at herself and sighed sadly.
"I guess Zeus put a block on us so we can't change our forms back." Hera said dejectedly. Her husband really was crazy, how did turning them into teenagers help solve anything? The Queen of the Heavens looked way different than what the other Gods were used to seeing. Hera's hair had gotten longer and her face had lost that hard look to it. She looked like the rest of the Olympians; a mere teen. At the most she appeared to be seventeen.
"I don't even know why Father turned me into this!" Hephaestus huffed while pointing down at his teen boy body. But if he was going to be true to himself he had to admit that he liked his new form. His new face was perfect. Sure it still looked a little rough but it was a huge improvement from the other one. His beard had disappeared and his hair had gotten a little tamer. He still had that burly look to him so it was not that bad.
"I look just like Percy!" Poseidon breathed as he studied his new face. His sea green eyes still had their rebellious look to them and his beard had disappeared. His skin looked smooth and tan but not weathered. His face and expression had a brooding look to it and his hair was shaggy and messy. He looked like a seventeen year old Percy, except for a few slight differences.
"Damn I look hot! And not just because I'm the Sun God." Apollo was the only one who was trying to see how his butt looked in the small mirror. "Hey is it me or does this mirror make my butt look big?" Apollo asked as he shoved his rear end in Artemis' face. Artemis scowled and looked at her twin. He looked the same except a little younger. A shaggy blonde with blue eyes stared at her, oh yes Apollo would definitely be able to pass as a regular teen.
"I am going to kill Zeus for this!" Demeter screamed out as she poked and prodded her new face. The Goddess of the Harvest looked just like Persephone. Her stern face had gotten younger. Her brown eyes were sparkling and her hair was the same though a little curlier, her dress had shrunk down with her too; she looked to be around eighteen.
"Well I don't look too bad myself." Ares exclaimed. His cropped hair was still the same; his face though didn't have any scars on it. His eyes were a bright brown red and his body was still full of muscles. He thought that he could maybe pass as an eighteen year old.
"Thank Gods I still look gorgeous!" Aphrodite squealed to one in particular. She looked younger but definitely the same, brown curly hair and eyes that changed in the light. Her face was still very pretty though it looked younger and her red cocktail dress had shrunk along with her.
After a few minutes more staring and looking at each others new form things got awkward. Then from the side came out a moan.
"Ugh…" Everyone ran off to the side of Zeus's throne where the sound had come from. Poseidon, Hades and Hera arrived there first.
"Well damn he turned himself into a kid too!" Hades stated while chuckling. Hera had dropped to her knees and was trying to wake up her husband. Zeus looked nothing like his older self; except for his electric blue eyes which Poseidon was sure were the same. His beard had disappeared and his stern face looked much younger. His suit had shrunk down with him, and he looked around seventeen or so.
"He probably used too much energy to change us all into this and to stop us from turning back." Athena informed everyone. "Okay so why don't you try to wake him up?" Hermes asked his Uncles and Step-Mother. Hera nodded and to surprise of everyone she began slapping her husband's face repeatedly. "Wake up you womanizer, wake up!" She screeched in his ear.
All the Gods in the room couldn't help but let out a snicker. After a few seconds and still Zeus didn't show any sign of waking up Artemis said "Uncle throw some water on him maybe that will get him to wake." Poseidon nodded and with a wave of his hand made a stream of ice cold water fall on Zeus's face. Well at least he still had his powers.
Zeus coughed and instantly sat up "What the Hades was that for?" He yelled looking up at his wife who had a hand raised half way and his laughing relatives. "You wouldn't wake up." Said a much younger version of Poseidon.
With help from Hera Zeus managed to get on his feet, though the room started spinning dangerously when he did. Zeus took a moment to look closely at everyone and then he looked down at himself. His plan had worked! He had managed to turn his immortal family into teenagers. He went and picked up a mirror that was on the floor.
Zeus studied his younger looking face intently; he didn't look bad at all. After a few moments had passed Zeus looked up wondering why the screaming hadn't started yet. Whoops spoke too soon.
"Zeus! What have you done? Why did you turn us all into children? Oh Gods this is going to be then end of the world…" Demeter yelled at him. "Yes Zeus care to explain as to why you turned us all into teens?" His wife asked him coldly, the others were looking at him asking for an explanation.
"Like I said we could learn a thing or two from living as teenagers for a couple of weeks." Everyone turned to him exasperatedly. "How is this going to teach us anything brother? I demand that you change me back this instant!" Said Poseidon, at the same time that Hades yelled at Zeus, "I demand to be changed back too."
Zeus's eyes sparked with anger and those who valued their lives (so everyone but Poseidon and Hades) took a step back.
"You don't demand anything of me Poseidon, Hades, I do as I please and you either go along with this or you can spend some time in Tartarus getting reacquainted with Father. The same goes for all of you." Said the King of Gods as he glared at everybody.
"Drama king." Muttered both of Zeus's brothers, Poseidon didn't even look fazed by the threat in fact he looked a little angry. He stepped right up and got in Zeus's face. Before either one of them did anything rash Athena stepped in between her Father and Uncle.
"Okay both of you calm down, I'm sure that Father had his reasons for doing this and I would like him to explain those reasons please." Zeus nodded "Yes daughter I shall explain my reasons as to why I did this, everyone please sit down.
Grudgingly all the Gods returned to their respective thrones ad sat waiting for Zeus to talk. "I am sick and tired of hearing all of you argue and scream at each other." He saw that Apollo looked like he wanted to interrupt so he quickly continued. "All you ever do when we have to meet, is constantly bicker with each other. You all act like mere spoiled children! By Gods I even think that our children are more mature than us. I believe that living as teenagers for a couple of weeks could be a great learning experience. For all of us. It's time that we actually learned to behave like a family."
He stared at everyone around him and continued "You my children love to spend your time buying petty things and burning money like crazy! Sure we are Gods, but that doesn't mean you get to act as though the World revolves around you, (At this Apollo opened his mouth to protest, that indeed the world did revolve around him. But upon seeing the stern look his twin was giving him, he shut up and continued to listen.) Maybe this might be a good experience for you to learn to appreciate what you have…" Aphrodite, Apollo and surprisingly Athena looked down at their feet guiltily.
"I-I can see what Father is trying to say, I agree with him on the constant arguing. We really should learn to get along better, after all how are we supposed to rule the mortals' world if we can't even respect each other? I also see another good thing that might come from this, we can experience first hand all of the hard ships that our children endure being teenagers and balancing that with being a Demigod. We can treat this like-like a vacation per se." Athena said.
Poseidon gave a heavy sigh and then said "Alright I'm in, as long as Zeus turns us back after a few weeks. Besides I really want to see how Percy acts in the mortal world." He said somewhat giddily.
Hades shrugged "Fine I'm also in." Everyone stared at him in shock. He just smirked and shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
"Athena does state a good point, Zeus knows we all could use with a vacation." Hephaestus said gruffly, everyone took this as a confirmation from him.
"Well I'm definitely in; it's going to be so much fun being a teen again." Hermes said.
"Alright, alright include me in this scheme of yours." Apollo said smiling.
Everyone turned to Artemis who was sitting right across from her twin, she sighed tiredly and clenched out "I guess I have no choice, besides this could be a good chance of recruiting some new hunters!"Artemis finished, her silver eyes sparkling.
"Well of course I'm in, all of those couples that need to be matched up, I'm going to be very busy these next few weeks." Said an excited Love Goddess. Some of the Gods groaned, already feeling sorry for all the couples that Aphrodite would no doubt be messing with.
"I'm in too." Ares exclaimed smiling at his lover.
"Fine." Said Hera stiffly glaring down at her shoes. She despised Demigod brats and now she was going to have to put up with mortal ones?
"Fine." Demeter said curtly, and then she brightened as an idea came to her mind. This would be the perfect opportunity for her to teach children the importance of eating healthy, maybe get them to eat more cereal too…
"Thank you." Zeus said to everyone sincerely. The King of Gods had another thought "Oh and we are going to have to keep our covers; we can't just go announcing that we're the Olympians." As if he really needed to tell everyone this.
Poseidon asked the question that was in everybody's mind "So what school are we going to go to?" Zeus smirked and then said "Well I heard that Goode is a good school." A moment of silence before Apollo and Hermes yelled out, "Lame!" The Olympians just rolled their eyes.
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