The Love of Sea and Foam

Hey Guys! While it has been a while since I last posted... I'm thinking of starting this story back up by either rewriting this story from scratch or changing up the first beginning chapters. However, I have forgotten much of the plot from the novels since it has been a while since I last read it. So, this chapter will be a safe redo chapter to see how you all will feel about it. Also feel free to call out on my grammar since it is a bit rough around the edges.

Time

"Being born out of the void of chaos; there were three great beings known as Primordial: Gaea (earth), Tartarus (underworld), and Eros (love). Once Eros came into being the two deities known as Gaea and Chaos fostered children with each other, consuming aspects of Eros along the way; which in turn killed the young bo-"

"Hey Dad!" a little girl spoke.

She had a whimsical but serious look in her deep blue eyes. This seems to only be emphasized by the fact that her hair kept changing into an assortment of colors until it landed on a fiery red, the color of the young man's wife.

"Yes, my salty one?" a name I often gave her due to her sour personality.

"Why do people have to die?" she asked as tears began to well up.

I sighed as I gave the papyrus a glare that could send even the toughest of souls a visit to hades.

"you see... we need to kill for revenge... or pride... or sometimes for an even greater world than the one we live in." I gave her a smile

"maybe someday when you are older you will understand how this world works and maybe you can forge it into something that can finally stay with everlasting peace." giving this girl one final pat on the head and a goodnight kiss on the cheek I began to fold up the papyrus and leave.

"goodnight daddy! Can we stay up tomorrow so that you can finish reading the storey" Salty asked as wiped her clearly red eyes.

I gave her one final look of remorse before finally giving in to those puppy dog eyes.

"of course, it is your birthday tomorrow Aphrodite. Now get some rest before your mother has both of our heads cut off." I say as I do a gesture of my finger going around the front of my neck.

We both laugh, and she quickly hides herself under the sheets. I snap my fingers which extinguishes the flames and quickly leave while shutting the door behind me. As soon as I heard the last bit of noise from the door shut close. I Quickly teleport into my own sleeping chamber and walk into the bathroom. I began to bellow with rage tossing around anything that I could get my hands on.

"WHY! Why can she not remember a thing and finally come out of that childlike comatose state that she's in!" I threw my final nemesis; the towel of dismay as I finally slunk onto my latrine.

Zeus are you ok "I heard a disheartened voice from the other side of the door.

"I am fine" I breathe out "I just can't seem to understand why Aphrodite had to be placed under this curse. Why couldn't my father put the curse on me instead. He had to put on the one girl who has suffered even more than we have."

The women opened the door and quickly gave me a hug "Zeus I know that you are angry, but I need you to stay strong and help Aphrodite get out of that curse of a title. A Goddess and warrior like her doesn't deserve to have that title of goddess of love. Her original title of sea and seafaring was much better. Not to mention the fact that it even reversed the time on her and brought her to the age of an infant."

She began to part from me where I could do nothing but stare at her. She is Dione an oracle goddess and his wife who has helped him through many trials and tribulations to overthrow his father.

"Dione, I have tried and tried but I can't find the missing puzzle to your readings that could help me bring Salty back to her original form." I finally broke down.

No one, not even the suffering that my father brought onto me while trying to save my siblings could hurt me. And yet, this curse on my daughter brought more pain than I could ever imagine. Just think, every time I see her she keeps taking on this role of a love goddess more and more. The older she gets the more men keep trying to get closer to her. She is only seven, about to be eight and I can't even keep her and the men away from each other. I need to find a cure and quick before this escalates even further.

"you could speak to Chronos the god of time" Dione suggested with caution. (not his father but a different god)

"however, I wouldn't suggest it. you know that time travel will come at a price to yourself and maybe others." Dione kept speaking but with a look of dissatisfaction.

"I want to exhaust all of my options before trying I try it. I don't want to know what would happen if I were to distort time itself. It could even make this situation worse than it should be." I spoke with a more muffled tone as I wipe the tears from my eyes.

I began to stand up and put the papyrus that I had thrown gods known when back into my personal library. I keep feeling that time travel is the only option, but I don't know the outcome or where I should travel. Should I go back to the past or take the bigger risk of going into the unknown future to resolve the situation. There was just too much to think about and not enough time to explore these options.

"you know what. I shall finally tell Aphrodite tomorrow of her past and ask her if I should go through time and find a cure or stay here and look for something." I spoke with much regret. Pinnching my brows together.

"you could ask her but as she is now. This could only prove to worsen the situation and relationship you have with her. So, I shall suggest that you refrain from doing that." she came up to me and we both shared a kiss.

"very well, we can speak of this some more but for now let us rest. We have a long day tomorrow. and we need every bit of energy if we are going to stop salty and the other men from any situation that may end up happening" I gave my final sentence before picking her up and bringing her to bed where we finally... slept.

"be careful of your choices or you may suffer" a ghastly voice spoke to me. In an all too familiar place.

Important! Do you guys want me to take Zeus into: the past, future, or stay in the present? Personally, I would like the past but as a way to speak of what Aphrodite went through. Then I would finally be able go to the future afterwards where the chunk of the plot takes place and I could do both Aphrodite's and Percy's POV. But it's up to you all.

I seriously thought of writing a lemon for a second; one second! Before I finally decided against it. I want many people to be able to enjoy this story XD. Anyways let me know what you think of this new chapter. I didn't think I would start this back up but a friend of mine who also writes fanfics ended up not convincing me but inspiring me to write, type? Anyways my friends pen name on fanfic is TheAnimeLover97 (watch me be wrong and I endorsed someone else).

For those wondering about Eros and Dione!

There are multiple sources talking about different versions of some of these characters. such as instead of Eros being Aphrodite's son, he is instead a primordial. So if you are confused by anything it is probably that.