a/n: since this is my story, I decided to create my own Mt. Olympus lifestyle. Anyway, I'm still basing it on the original but to be able to be on with the flow, I decided to insert some "inventions" like the matchmaking process chuvaness. Okay?

Thanks to my reviewers: Hazel Green Eyes, Moony07, Blue Fox, Midnight Sun, and Life at Random. Merci, merci!

CHAPTER 15: OH, LADY IN GREEN!

"What is happening?" Lily shouted in urgency. Suddenly, the thousand fairy lights sitting on the bushes started to fly around the garden in mayhem. James pulled Lily to the side to protect her from the blazing party. Then, they saw numerous students sporting blazing hairs.

"Duck!" James shouted, pushing Lily down the ground and covering her with his body. Then, they saw a familiar supernatural figure.

A first year came squealing and ducking the ball of fire. "It's St. Elmo's Fire!" she shouted, kneeling in front of Lily. "Miss Spencer asked me to get you as soon as possible!" she said.

Lily looked at James momentarily before standing up and running. "When can I see you again?" James shouted.

"Back at Hogsmeade, near the Shrieking Shack," Lily panted before pulling the girl and running inside.

Lily saw Kristanna waiting for her, looking exhausted. Kristanna pointed her wand to Lily's dress and it turned to a plain green one, without the feathery designs. Lily removed her mask and left it on the floor.

"Miss Evans, assist the prefects to bring the lower years back to their dormitories," McGonagall ordered.

Lily nodded as she instructed the other prefects to lead their classmates back to their own dormitories. Lupin arrived.

"Lily, what's wrong now?" he asked.

"No time to explain. Some crazy guy released a St. Elmo's Fire and we need to stop it quick!" she said.

Lily tried to immobilize the fire ball but it just started to bounce back and forth. After minutes, the other prefects returned and they started to blast the fireball. Suddenly Lily's bracelet heated up.

Lily found herself transported to a small corridor. Instead of Eros, she found the most beautiful woman in the world. "What are you doing here?' she asked.

"This is a quite serious case, Lily. I never meddle with my son's problems but now, that goddess certainly destroyed my favorite pastime!" Aphrodite raged. Surely, she was talking about the romantic atmosphere in the ball. "This is my day and this is so stupid!"
"What do I have to do?"

"Magic made by a god can only be fought by a god," Aphrodite said. "Eros told you that, right?"

"You mean, even Dumbledore cannot…" Lily started.

"Of course, he cannot," Aphrodite said with an insulted voice. "But I have the most effective idea." She handed Lily a wand, though it was different because it has red gems on the top.

"That is the wand the handles all my magic. Now, I trust you to defeat Erida's magic with that one.

"What if I'm seen?"

"That is not the point. This wand only gives you the power to use the god's magic. You don't need to show it," Aphrodite said. Without another word, she disappeared.

Lily ran back to the scene, seeing that her companions were starting to give up. She felt the wand heat up so she automatically raised her hand. She was shocked when she saw that the wand appeared suddenly on her hand. It was like someone controlled her when she said, "Naeu Dian!"

Everyone ducked when there was an explosion. The smoke disappeared and James (yeah, he was included in the group trying to stop the fireball) was the first one and the only one who saw that Lily was actually holding a weird-looking wand with rubies at the end. It was emitting pink and white sparks.

Lily looked at the wand. It suddenly disappeared and became a smoke that entered her bracelet.

"What was that?" everyone asked (kinda simultaneously).

Suddenly, a woman in black appeared, holding the reins of her black horse. "Erida!" Danicia shouted.

Lily looked at Danicia and said, "So, this is Erida."

"I see, you are given the power of Aphrodite," she said sarcastically.

"How evil can she get?" Lily muttered to herself. It was like she was using that kind of magic since she was young. The wand reappeared again.

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Meanwhile, up in Mt. Olympus…

Aphrodite was sitting in a huge beautifully lighted dome that looked like an office. "Hogwarts Area, report," she said.

A large, island-like, floating thing emerged out of nowhere and got nearer, in front of Aphrodite's own floating thing. She stood up.

"Dear goddess, there is a casualty in Hogwarts Area. Erida was pestering them," replied by an officer with tiny wings on the back, holding a harp-like thing the way one uses a computer.

Aphrodite raised an eyebrow. "No changes or reinforcements yet?" she asked. "Show me the casualty plan." She sat down again, her hand under her chin.
The floating office backed and in the large space, a beam of light shot up, forming a DNA-like structure. After then, they were showed a blueprint-like image with a red mark in the center. There was a blue light in the side.

"Constantly, goddess, a weird source of energy is trying to fight off Erida's power," another assistant said. We are trying to detect the source but it seems to be coming from your own."

"Seems to be," Aphrodite said, closing her eyes and smiling. After a few moments, she finally decided. "Connect me to the source of power," she said.

"What?"

"I said, connect me to the source of power," Aphrodite repeated.

Without any more hesitation, the assistants started to type in a very fast motion, until the image on the beam of light disappeared. The goddess floated to the center of the beam of light and raised her hands.

One of the assistants motioned to a central control and was ready to put her hand over it. She looked at the goddess, who nodded, her hands in a formation.

"Power, connect," the assistant said, finally pushing the button. From that position, Aphrodite clapped her hands together and a long pole emerged, bearing an exact replica of the wand she gave Lily.

"Naia Ai, connect me to Lily," she said, referring to the wand.

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Erida conjured some black smoke and threw it to Lily. Lily, in return, pointed the wand to the smoke. It exploded.

"Lovely. Aphrodite's magic never lost its beauty," Erida said. She frowned after that.

James cannot take the peculiarity of the situation that he decided to scratch his head. He managed to absorb the word "Aphrodite." True to the witch on the horse, Lily really looked like a goddess possessing charm and power (add the wand).

After an exchange of weird spells that randomly came out of Lily's mouth, Erida fell from her horse. The wand Lily was holding turned to a dagger embroidered with rubies. She threw the dagger to Erida. However, the dagger turned to a figure of pink glitters that went around Erida, encircling her and making her disappear.

Lily calmed herself down after the event. Danicia, who was ducking behind a table, stood up and tapped Lily's shoulder, making her jump.

"What about them?" she asked, pointing at the staff and the other prefects staring at Lily, still surrounded by the goddess' golden glow. "And them?' she asked in scarier tone, pointing at the other fearsome creatures Erida brought in the party.

"Oh no! Miss Evans is not human!" one of them shouted, then fainted.

"Lackwit," Danicia muttered. "What now, Lily?"

Before she could answer, a sigil appeared on the floor, its middle is the spot where Lily was standing. "What is this?" she asked in wonder.

Suddenly, Danicia was covered in a bubble and brought away from the circle. Everyone standing in the vicinity of the circle was carried out by bubbles. The ones standing in bewilderment were shielded.

The wand stood up on its own and a beam of light went out of it, instantly smothering all frightening creations Erida brought with her in the party.

Dumbledore sat up after that. "Miss Evans, what happened?" he asked softly, straightening his long beard.

Danicia, floating back to the floor (the sigil is gone), looked at Lily for any alibis. The wand behind them, still standing on its own, suddenly emitted waves.

"What happened?" Dumbledore said, as though obliviated. The others shrugged. Dumbledore sighed. "I think something weird happened." He waved his hand and everything went back to order. "Prefects and Heads, please assist the students in returning them to their rooms, please. The staff needs to fix this mess."

Everyone started to walk out of the hall, buzzing due to the early end of the party because of the "untold" commotion. Lily led the other first years to their dormitories, a small smile on her face.

"What do we call that?" Danicia asked slyly. "Hitting two birds in one stone?"

"What are you talking about, Dani?" Lily replied innocently, but smiled.

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The next day, rumors started to spread that a goddess in green descended down from heaven and saved them from the St. Elmo's Fire. It was mushy, and other people started to add details that a dark underground creature was the culprit, and other magical thingies.

"Lily, I think the only thing that was right was the goddess in green," Danicia teased.

"Shut up, Dani," Lily said in a whispering voice.

"What are you whispering about?" Kristanna asked dully, though she had the glow that disappeared months before.

"It's nothing," Lily said. "Anyway, why are you having this bright glow once again?"
Kristanna smiled. "Sirius, he's going to break up with that Centauri girl," she said excitedly.

"Oh, really?" Lily said, her eyes widening. "I didn't know that a night of mischief gave in to a revelation," she said sarcastically.

"Lily, you're ruining the day," Danicia said. "Aside from that, at least Kristanna's happy."

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"What do you mean?" Helena asked the person that approached her.

"Do you want to have Matthew back or not?" the person replied.

"But, are you crazy? I'm going to be expelled because of that!"

"Don't worry, dear Helena, we have a powerful aid behind us. Just join us, please," she pleaded.

"If that is the only way to get Matthew from that traitor, I'll do it," Helena said, a hint of anger in her voice.

a/n: Something's really fishy about Erida's spy and Helena. And what might that be? I will certainly appreciate it if you review!