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Nobody POV
Olympus, the only place where there is peace and tranquility.
"HADES, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" Poseidon yelled.
"POSEIDON, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" Athena screeched.
"HERMES, YOU BETTER GET YOUR ASS OFF OF YOUR THRONE BEFORE I VAPORIZE YOU!" Demeter screamed.
"APOLLO, WHY ARE YOU SO HOT?!" Apollo cried.
You remember when I said peace and tranquility? I take that back.
Hephaestus ducked just as a knife lodged itself into his throne, right where his head was about two seconds ago.
"ARES!" Hephaestus roared.
"NO! NO! NO! THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT TRAVIS! NO! Ahhh… too late…" Aphrodite sobbed.
Everyone, especially Hermes and a curious Demeter turned their heads toward Aphrodite, who was currently watching all of her "couples" on the holographic screen in front of her.
One by one, they all rushed over to gather around the screen, to see all of their children with half of a pink heart over their sad faces on the monitor…
"Aphrodite…. What did you just do?" Athena asked, trying to stay calm.
"I d-didn't do any th-thing! Th…THEY ALL BROKE UP!" she wailed, "Percabeth, ZaKenna, Jeph, Skill, Tratie, Leyna, Jasper, Thalico, Frazel…"
They stared at her in shock. (AN: Leyna, Tratie, and Conellen were technically never going out… but the rest of them were)
She sniffled. "How could this happen? They were all on my 'for eternity' list. And I only put the most special couples on that!"
She huffed, and with a snap of her fingers, teleported back to her bedroom. She crashed down on her pink, plush love seat and continued watching what had happened on her flat screen tv.
Back in the throne room, things were not very pretty. The gods were just… glaring at each other.
Athena glared at Poseidon, Poseidon glared at Hades and Zeus, Zeus glared at Hades, Hades glared at Ares, Demeter glared at Hermes, Hermes glared at Apollo, and if Aphrodite and Bellona had been there, they would've been glaring at Zeus and Hephaestus.
All at once, shouting broke out.
"What the Hades is wrong with your son!?" Athena screamed at Poseidon.
"Hey, I take offense to that!" Hades said defensively.
"Do I look like I care!?" she seethed.
"You should!" he snapped.
"No, Hades, there is something wrong with your son!" Zeus roared.
"Yeah?" Hades snapped. "Well look what his daughter," Hades jabbed his thumb at Poseidon, "did to Zach!"
"He cheated on her!" Poseidon snapped. Then he glared at Zeus, "Speaking of cheating, did you see what James did to Persephone?"
Zeus glared and changed form for a second, "He did not mean that!"
"Don't give me that, Jupiter, you… Zeus, you're kids are all the same!" Look at what Jason did to Piper!"
Zeus would have answered back, but he was drowned out by Demeter shouting at Hermes. "Look at what your monster did to my daughter!"
"Come on, Demeter," Hermes said, "your daughter is so uptight, I don't blame him for getting frustrated!"
"Hermes," Demeter snapped, "I don't care how uptight someone is, that is no reason to say half the things that your son just said to Katie!"
Hermes had no answer, but that wouldn't have mattered, because it would have been drowned out by the conversation that Athena and Poseidon were currently having. "Your son has to be the dumbest person I have ever met," Athena screeched, "Annabeth could have done so much better, but she settled for him, and he goes and treats her like that!"
"What do you mean she settled for Percy?" Poseidon demanded. "She was the one luck to have Percy for a boyfriend. She seems to have a lot of your qualities, I would have snapped at her years ago!"
Athena was about to retort when she was interrupted by Hermes and Apollo.
"How could your son do this?" Hermes demanded.
"She is your daughter," Apollo reasoned. "There was no need for her to react the way she did!"
"Yeah right," Hermes said, "he broke her heart, Apollo!"
This argument was drowned out by someone shouting, "QUIET!" All of the gods fell silent. "SIT!" They all looked at the figure walking in the throne room in alarm.
Once everyone was in their seat, Aphrodite was the only person that was standing. She had a determined look on her face that made it clear that she was going to get what she wanted.
"What is it, Aphrodite," Athena questioned.
"We're going to get them back together!" she announced.
The gods stared at her blankly; this was her area of expertise, after all.
"Now!" clapped Aphrodite.
"Poseidon! Do you still own that 'Beach House'?"
Poseidon's eyes narrowed, "Yes… why do you ask…?"
Aphrodite smiled widely, making the rest of the gods/goddesses a little nervous.
"Well if we teleport them-"
"Aphrodite! You know what that Beach House was!" Poseidon said.
"And? If you want her on good terms with you, you would let me send them there! Please!? At least until every couple is back together, happy?"
"Did you see what happened to some of them?" Poseidon questioned. "All of them actually! They're never getting back together, and you're forgetting that none of us necessarily want them back together. I warned James, warned him not to hurt Seph! The only reason that I haven't killed him yet, is because I imagine that she could prolong the pain a bit, and it might make her feel better. Percy and Annabeth were a bad call from the start, McKenna and a death spawn that is almost as hard to believe as the rest of them, giving Percy's history with Hades. And you want them back together?"
"And as for the forever list," Athena stated, "you are forgetting that there are three couples with just children of the Big Three, can anyone see where that might be a bad thing futuristically?"
Everyone paused for a moment, taking in what she said.
"Then," she continued, "None of the other ones are particularly weak: Demeter's favorite child, a Stoll, Skylar Rocaine, who has the blessing of Hermes, Apollo's favorite son, a son of Jupiter, and a powerful charmspeaking daughter of Aphrodite, a daughter of Pluto, a son of Mars, with Poseidon's blood in him, not to mention that he can shape shift, my own favorite child, and a powerful son of Poseidon."
Everyone was still silent, waiting for her to spell out the answer.
She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, so much for them figuring it out for themselves. "You understand that if they don't kill themselves, and somehow magically get back together, they are bound to have kids someday, and those kids are going to be powerful, are we sure that is wise allowing this?"
The gods started murmuring amongst themselves, debating about what Athena said, while Aphrodite was glaring at her. The gods were starting to go in the favor of what Athena said, Aphrodite had to stop them, and there was only one way that she knew how.
"QUIET," she shouted.
The gods fell silent and looked at her again. "Now," she said tightly, "this is going to happen whether you like it or not. If you are wondering why, I'll enlighten you. This is my area of expertise, not yours. And if you don't want terrible love lives for the next ten millennia, I would suggest that you leave it alone, because it will happen anyway! All of these people are your kids, your own children! And you just don't get it, they are in love! They still are, I can sense it, and if you care about your kids you'll let me get them out of this hurt, because heartbreak is terrible!"
All of the gods looked away in guilt, even Athena looked as if she felt bad. "Very well, Aphrodite," Poseidon mumbled.
All of the gods that had a child in the predicament nodded or muttered in assent.
Aphrodite nodded in approval, and then said, "Now you're being proper parents!"
"When do they start?" Hermes asked.
"As soon as possible," then she snapped her fingers, and disappeared from the throne room, leaving behind the smell of designer perfume, and a feeling of love in the air.
AN: There's a LOT of glaring going around :P Review! Peace!
~Nessa
