Chapter 7-Mount Olympus
As Rainbow Dash flew towards the mountain she started to get an appreciation for the massive scale it was the mountain rose to twice the elevation of any mountain she had ever seen before, but still significantly below her flight level, and it looked like the top of the mountain had been cut off leaving a large flat area on the top.
As Rainbow approached she started to try to estimate the size of the plateau on the top of the mountain out of curiosity, but she was having trouble focusing on the spot; when she looked straight towards the flat area she felt as if something was forcing her eyes to focus elsewhere. This only succeeded in making Rainbow angrier and more persistent. She was now pouring all her focus into trying to see whatever was causing this uncomfortable effect. What was that? Rainbow had seen a glint of gold
As Rainbow got closer she started seeing more and more glints of colour: gold, silver, crimson, gold, white, gold, silver, gold. Rainbow was quickly approaching the mountain, let's see what this Mount Olympus really is
When Rainbow was about a kilometre out she slowed out of shock. Out in front of her, on the level top of the mountain, was the biggest city she had ever seen in her life. The city covered the entire top of the mountain and covered four times as much area as the entire Greater Canterlot Area and entirely packed with massive building that would dwarf the Canterlot Royal Palace. The streets were wide and full of ponies of all shapes and sizes. Rainbow stared onward in awe how the buck did I miss this? Rainbow thought about it for a while before landing.
She was looking in awe at every building she passed taking in all the sights and sounds of this wonderfully foreign city. Twilight would love this place, with all the amazing architecture.
"You're not from around here are you?" I think all my friends would love this place.
"Hey you with the rainbow mane" called a young looking turquoise pegasus colt with a light blue mane and sapphire eyes
"Huh?"
"Yes you"
"What?"
"You're not from around here are you?" he asked again
"No. Why?"
"Oh, we just don't get very many visitors to Mount Olympus"
"Really, how can a city as big as this survive without any trade"
"We make everything that we need in the city, we don't need trade" He said pridefully
"Interesting"
"So what brings you to glorious Mount Olympus?"
Rainbow hesitated; on one hoof she was very self-conscious about letting anypony know that she had never known her parents, however, on the other hoof she knew that finding her mother in such a massive city would be impossible without any help. Anyways this stallion seemed nice enough. "I am searching for my parents and I have reason to hope I might find them here"
"Okay, demigod, you should head over to the Hall of the Olympians; you are most likely to find your immortal parent there"
"Okay, where is the Hall of the Olympians?"
"You see that large building there?" he pointed to a massive golden dome in the centre of the city "Just follow this road to it"
"Okay, thank you" Rainbow walked off towards the hall
"Hey Danveria is that your new romantic interest?"
"No that is not. I don't date mortals, especially not equine ones"
"Have you looked in a mirror recently? You are equine"
"Unlike you I was not born equine, I was changed by the curse while you were born after it"
"So? You can fly now. You were never able to do that before the change"
"I don't care, horses are dumb animals that are little more than beasts of burden. I hate being an animal"
"You do realize that these ponies are not dumb beasts of burden; they are the dominant race of this world and are rather quite intelligent"
"If they're so intelligent tell me why it was so easy to convince that last pegasus that the she should go to the Hall of the Olympians?"
"Because they are also extremely naive"
"So, how long do you think she will last?"
"You are a twisted and sadistic monster ... and she won't last twenty minutes"
Rainbow approached the massive building. It consisted of a large golden dome supported with hundred's of massive white marble pillars.
Rainbow walked a third of the way around the building before she found what looked to be the entrance. It was large golden double doors that had a massive Ω engraved into it. Well it's now or never, my mother or father might be behind these doors
Rainbow pushed the door open a crack, which was surprisingly easy, and entered a massive throne room; however, rather than just one or two thrones the room contained no less than a dozen thrones, each one done in a completely different style, with twelve ponies, five mares and seven stallions every one least as big as Princess Celestia and many larger.
"Thou dare enter the presence of thine gods mortal?" Screamed a storm grey pegasus stallion with a black mane and storm grey eyes as he was getting off a throne made entirely out of clouds "I should make an example of thou to show your kind the perils of messing with their betters!" The stallion held up a rod of pure electricity and was bringing it down on rainbow
`Zeus, father, would you not think it wise to at least let her speak before you turn her to ash? What she says may be of importance" Said a light grey unicorn mare of similar colouring to her father sitting on an artistic throne depicting battle themes.
"Yes, as Athena says, why are you here? Young one" asked a white pegasus stallion with golden eyes and a yellow mane sitting on a golden throne depicting the sun.
"It does not matter why she is here, I am in charge and I say she dies and there is nothing you can do about it!" Zeus said regressing from his archaic language for a very childish, but truly dreadful, statement
"Nothing Ares can do about it?" said a burgundy earth-pony with a crimson mane "Ares takes that as a challenge" he got up to face Zeus, which allowed Rainbow to see that his cutie mark was a bloody spear, Rainbow
"Brother, Zeus, I would rather say that I am in charge in this situation, due to the fact that the mortal in question is equine, and that falls under my charge" said a blue unicorn with a turquoise mane and eyes sitting on a throne made of bright coral
"Poseidon you must remember that she flies in the skies, my skies" Zeus turned to his brother showing the lightning bolt on his flank to Rainbow "anyways no sentient being can be put under the power of any single god"
"You say that she should not be put under the power of one Olympian yet you want to her fate to be decided solely by you?" Athena asked questioningly
"Ares what do you think I should do to her?"
"Kill"
"Now I say that her fate is to be decided by both myself and Ares"
"Ares, has the intelligence of a rock; his opinion is void" said Athena
"Ares doesn't take well to insults, foolish child" Ares was suddenly covered head to hoof in heavy armour and carrying a long spear and a elliptical shield
"Try me" Athena answered now covered in a lighter and more manoeuvrable armour, she was armed with a sword and a (literally) horrifically ugly round shield
"Stop!" roared Zeus "I will not have you fight like animals in my hall, the mortal might try something"
"Oh really brother" Poseidon took several steps forward "she look like a frightened little mare to me" the god walked up and started to stroke Rainbow's mane. Is he coming onto me? Rainbow just stood there in shock not sure what to do. "It will be okay, just come with me" He is. What do I do
"Poseidon get away from her! Now!" A silver unicorn mare had gotten up and now had a silver hunting bow aimed at Poseidon "I will not have you defiling another maiden with your lusts, I remember what you did to that poor girl Medusa"
"Yes" Poseidon turned away from Rainbow, who sighed in relief, and moved towards Athena. Rainbow couldn't help noticing his cutie mark looked like the head of some three pronged spear, strange. "Although I would have to disagree on who defiled her" he rested his hand on Athena's shield "At least I didn't turn her into a gorgon"
"That stupid girl should have come to me instead; I would have protected her" The silver unicorn said
"Not likely Artemis, you would have made her wish she was a gorgon after the hell you would have put her through" said a green earth-pony stallion with a wine coloured mane in an overly cheery voice
"Shut up" Zeus screamed then he turned to Rainbow "I hope your happy, I will destroy you. Sowers of discord are not welcome at Olympus"
Rainbow's fear had been set aside by a just fury "How dare you call me that, Zeus. I come to Olympus in peace and harmony and you threaten, no intend, to kill me for no good reason. And when your other 'gods' get into a fight, you and your belligerence, call me a sower of discord, a bringer of disharmony."
Zeus's face contorted rage "You insolent fool, you die now" he lifted the lightning bolt above his head and sent a bolt of energy straight at Rainbow. So this is how it ends, goodbye world
Much to Rainbow's surprise the bolt never hit her. A prismatic force-shield materialized a second before Rainbow was turned to ash causing the bolt of electricity to recoil and send Zeus flying several metres back. "None shall touch her" boomed a voice coming from the door. Rainbow turned to see a pegasus mare only slightly larger than herself walk into the hall, she was pure white with a rainbow mane and cutie mark of a rainbow arcing between two clouds.
"Iris how dare you enter the hall of the Olympians without my permission" Zeus screamed "And how dare you, a minor goddess, challenge me, the king of the Olympians"
"I believe that it is in Olympic law that a mother can attend the trial of her daughter"
A shocked expression flew over eleven Olympic faces "Mother?" said Rainbow Dash
"Yes" Iris said to her daughter then turned to Zeus "And I would say that I am no longer a minor goddess, over the last 153 years I have been steadily growing in power and learning Equestrian magic while you have all been waning without the mortal worship you relied on for your power"
"Who is the lucky mortal? Did he get you drunk? Or was it at a party? Or was it at both? Or did you go insane? If the latter I feel jealous of him. I love insane people, especially goddesses" said the overexcited green earth-pony stallion. He kinda reminds me of Pinkie; a creepy criminally insane Pinkie Pie
"No, Dionysus, your influence was nowhere to be found"
"Aw" he pouted
" How dare you. I say the adulterous goddess should be exiled and her base-born demigod be destroyed" said a white pegasus mare with a pale gold mane
"For once I agree with you Hera, Iris is to be exiled and her daughter smitten" Zeus said
"If we exiled every god and goddess who was involved in adulterous affairs only Hera, Artemis and myself would still be in this hall" Athena said "and if we would have executed every demigod Olympus would have fallen millenia ago"
"I don't care" Zeus let another bolt out at Rainbow which was once again blocked by a iridescent shield. Rainbow could she that the shield was significantly less powerful than the previous one
Zeus sent several more bolts of lightning waning the shield further. Rainbow knew that the shield would not last forever
"Stop now, Zeus, if you know what's good for you" said a completely cyan stallion who appeared through the solid wall of the hall, he was an alicorn however he was missing a large amount of body parts: left ear, right eye, tip of his horn, right wing and left back leg. He turned to Zeus allowing Rainbow to see his blank flank "I command you to stop"
"Who in Styx are you" Zeus replied with venom
"Oh, my naive grandson, I had hoped to see that you would find that out for yourself"
"Grandson?" Zeus said in confusion
"Oh! Hello Lord Your-Anus" Dionysus said with a mocking bow
"I much prefer to be called Ouranos, rather than Uranus, due to the common mispronunciation the mad one demonstrated"
"You! Your dead, faded, gone" Zeus said
"First I am a god therefore I cannot die. Second I am much to powerful to fade. And Third I am here thus I cannot be gone"
"Why are you here?"
"Because you were about to fry my two favourite goddesses. My love and my daughter"
"What?"
"Iris has devoted her last 300 or so years to rebuilding me after your father, Cronus, diced me up with that scythe of his; obviously I am still missing a few pieces, but nothing too important. Of course I still look better then Hephaestus" He looked towards a black earth-pony with a red, yellow and orange striped mane and a terribly mutilated body "but that is not much of a challenge. And; There is another reason why I am here" he walked up to Zeus's throne and stuck his hoof into the clouds and pulled out what looked to be an eye he then proceeded to put it into his right eye-socket with a terrible 'squelch' then turned to look at Zeus "But heed my words Zeus. If you touch one hair on either Iris or my daughter. I will make sure you fade"
"Rainbow Dash, did you not get the letter I left for you. It was not safe for you to come here" Iris said. The three of them were walking down one of the radial streets of Olympus
"Zeus almost killed you" Ouranos added
"I just couldn't stand not knowing who you were. It was too painful"
"How did you find Olympus anyways? I made sure not to leave any possible hint" Iris asked
"It's a long story"
"Why don't you save it until we are comfortable at my house?"
"Okay"
Rainbow happily walked down the street in silence with her new-found parents