Alas, Stone ends today. Sad… but we do get a happy ending, so YAY! Or do we? OH NO! Let's find out, shall we?
Oh, and I don't own:
Athena
Poseidon
Olympus
The Other Gods
The Muses
Patricia C Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Kiss the Girl from the Little Mermaid
Poseidon: I can't believe what you are about to have me do.
Athena: Neither can I.
Me: MWAHAHAHA!
Morwen: If you owned the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, you'd probably kill Telemain or make yourself hug me and Telemain, correct?
Me: Yup!
Morwen: Thank god you don't own the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.
Me: Waah.
There is somewhat of a songfic in this chapter…
Athena. Was. Still. Stone. Poseidon fell to his knees in front of the stone statue that was Athena…that was his enemy…but at the same time, his best friend. Heck, what was Athena in his mind? Something more?
Meanwhile, Zeus had started throwing lightning bolts at buildings angrily. Ares and Aphrodite were just staring at Athena's statue, while Hera was standing, almost appearing…sympathetic? Everybody knew Hera'd be happy with Poseidon off the face of Olympus, but Hera was being uncharacteristically kind. She walked up to Poseidon and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Poseidon, do not worry. We'll change her back. I promise." Poseidon turned to her.
His eyes looked oddly shiny.
"That's just it. Nell-Medusa was right. Once a rock, always a rock. She's stuck like this forever and it's my fault." Hera's eyes flashed teal for a moment, and she smirked.
"But she'll change back. I know it." Poseidon replied, with a touch of anger,
"You're not the god of prophecy! How do you know that?" Hera just smirked and walked away, over to where Zeus was demolishing a statue of himself.
The second group was heading to the fountain, now that it was safe. Poseidon wished they wouldn't. They all had to see his failure, didn't they? They all saw Athena, and had their own little reactions. Hephaestus just frowned. Dionysus shrugged. Poseidon wanted to punch Dionysus. Persephone was crying, and Demeter was trying to soothe her, along with Hades, to her distaste. Artemis and Apollo seemed sort of dumbstruck. I mean, who would think Athena, out of all people, would get turned to stone? Aphrodite? It was expected. Athena? Not so much. They all sort of formed a circle around her, not intentionally, just so they could see.
Athena was still clearly stone. That was not unexpected. But Zeus, who'd seen his brother's distress, decided to step up in his rightful place instead of crying like a demigod.
"All of you, I don't care how ridiculous it is, just think up something that could change Athena back."
By now, the minor gods had realized it was safe to come back to Olympus. But most were having too much fun to leave NYC. The Muses were the only ones that came back immediately. They did not join the loose circle around the statue that was Athena, but set their instruments and items up. Some minor gods trickled in here and there. After an hour, about fifty gods, including the other Olympians, were all talking amongst themselves, exchanging ideas. Zeus called for order after a while. Poseidon hadn't thought of anything. He was just staring at the rock that used to be his best friend or his enemy or his…something.
"What are your thoughts?" Zeus rang out. A minor goddess who Poseidon didn't recall the name of shouted,
"We could dip her in the fountain! That worked with King Midas's victims, maybe it would work with Medusa's." Zeus nodded in acknowledgement.
"Any others?" A few more ideas were heard; one involving putting a giant spider on the statue, hoping Athena's spirit would be scared and break the stone away. Poseidon chose to vehemently yell NO to that one. Athena would never forgive ANYBODY for that. Then one of the Muses rang out in a ridiculously high but pretty soprano,
"Poseidon could kiss her!"
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"Who are you?" Poseidon roared. Kiss her? Kiss her? Not that he had an issue with kissing her, no issue at all, but…Kiss her?
A muse with long black hair stepped forwards. She wore a robe with a high belt and had a crown of what Poseidon thought to be pine branches but turned out to be cypress resting upon her head. She had a small dagger in her hand, and her face looked melancholy.
"I am Melponene, the Muse of Tragedy. And this is a heartbreaking scene." Another muse stepped forwards. She had a scroll in her hand, and had braided brown hair. She wore a Middle Age-esque scribe tunic.
"I am Clio, the Muse of History. And I think my sister is right." Poseidon glared at the two muses.
"What would kissing her do?" He asked, gritting his teeth. Clio opened her scroll and read something for a minute. Then she looked up.
"Well, according to some fantasy novels, such as the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, kissing the statue of somebody who's been turned to stone will turn them back." Clio rolled her scroll back up.
"Well, it's the best idea so far…" Zeus said. Poseidon sighed.
"You're really going to go along with this?" Zeus nodded.
"Now kiss her."
(AN: If you really want to get the awesomeness of this scene, somehow get the Little Mermaid Soundtrack and play 'Kiss the Girl' and imagine the voice to be a Soprano 2 or a mezzo soprano that's sorta quiet)
Three of the other muses stepped forward: Euterpe, Polyhymnia, and Erato. Erato held a lyre-like instrument and Euterpe had a flute. Polyhymnia started to sing, and the other two started to play.
There you see her
Sitting there across the way
She don't got a lot to say
But there's something about her
And you don't know why
But you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl
Poseidon started to blush. He advanced toward the statue slowly.
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It's possible she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
It don't take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
Poseidon wanted to run and hide. He could almost hear Athena rolling her eyes. But she wasn't. She was stone. This would save her. He kept moving forward. The other muses started to sing along.
Sing with me now
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
My, oh, my
Look at the boy too shy
He ain't gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Ain't that sad
Ain't it shame, too bad
You gonna miss the girl
The Olympians (other than Poseidon, Zeus, Athena, and Hestia, who was still in the throneroom) started to sing a little too. Hades was not singing, but Persephone nudged him, and he started to sing.
Now's your moment
Floating in a blue lagoon
Boy, you better do it soon
No time will be better
She don't say a word
And she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl
Even Zeus was singing, Hera and him swaying along with everybody else/ Poseidon was about a car length away from Athena now.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Float along
Listen to the song
The song say kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Music play
Do what the music say
You wanna kiss the girl
Everybody was singing now. Poseidon was an arm's length away.
You've got to kiss the girl
Why don't you kiss the girl
You gotta kiss the girl
Go on and kiss the girl
Poseidon was now close enough to kiss her. He was so nervous he could've screamed. But he didn't. Instead, on the last word, he lightly kissed Athena on her cold, stone lips.
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(AN: YAY! Oh, and if you want to know how she turns back, just picture her turning back the same way Mr. Tumnus did in the Narnia movie, minus the coughing and stuff)
Poseidon felt the cold stone turn into warm flesh and he backed up. Athena was not stone anymore. Everybody was clapping. But he didn't really notice Aphrodite's
"YEAH POSEIDON!" and Ares' "WOOHOO!". He didn't notice the wolf wistles. He only saw Athena.
Athena's eyes were shining, and she did the unexpected: She kissed him right back.
THE END
Well, Stone came to a close. I cried last night because I was picturing the scene and I was like AWWW how do I come up with this genius? I was randomly trying to figure out how to make Poseidon kiss Athena without it being extremely awkward. Then I remembered some muses, and Kiss the Girl song, and I'm like OMG YAYYYY! Well, the end! I'm going to start some new stories with some Pothena, but I love this story and was very pleased with the outcome. What did you people think?