I looked around the room for the first time. Eleven thrones, some big some small some make shift. All were different colors and shapes with their own personalities. The construction of the room itself was poor and looked like it could calapse at any moment. Whether it was the design, battles, or both that caused the state I will never know.
The people were another story all together. The oldest in appearance had a bolt of some kind of energy at his waist and intense electric blue eyes that were trained on me. The woman next to him had three sixteen year old boys, most likely her offspring, flanking her and a crown upon her head. She looked at me with distaste and unworthy to be in her presence. Then there were ten year old twins, a girl and a boy, playing with projectiles without a care in the world. Two females, one a child another an adult, were conversing with a depressed looking figure without a throne at the hearth. A teenage girl about my age kept changing her appearance though she looked perfect in each. Finally, my rescuer Poseidon who observed my heath as I was doing my 360.
Poseidon. For some reason thinking about him made my heart beat faster. Was this some kind of illness spread via air in this environment or was the feeling totally normal? I didn't know. Metis taught battle strategies, fighting styles, etiquette even, but she never told me about the matters of the heart. All I know is that if it stops beating, I die. The ever changing girl looked at me and smiled an ever knowing smile. Great, she wants me to figure it out on my own.
I saw a hand wave in front of my face bringing me back to reality. My eyes snapped up to meet his swirling green.
"You okay Athena?"
I merely nodded. I had bigger problems to deal with, like immortals deciding my fate. Not to mention, I don't know what I am. Mortal? Nymph? Titan? Goddess? For some reason, the last one seemed right.
"Quiet!" The woman with the crown screamed. All stopped their antics and rushed to their thrones expect the gloomy guy who was throne less and Poseidon who stayed by my side. "Thank you. Now, as you can all see we have a . . . nuisance that needs to be disposed of so lets vote. I vote Tarturas for Metis."
"I'm not Metis. My name is Athena so you just wasted your vote." The woman looked shocked at this statement. She turned to glare at the man with the bolt with a look that said again. Maybe he told her I was Metis.
"I vote Olympus." I smiled as Poseidon gave his answer and he returned the gesture.
The twins were whispering next to each. Finally they stopped and the girl spoke. "Apollo and I vote Olympus as well. Besides, I always wanted a half sister!" I looked confused at this and crown woman looked even more pissed. I guess they'll explain later.
The child at the hearth went next "I vote my new niece stay on Olympus. What do you think Demeter?"
The older woman looked me over. "Do you like bread?" I remember Metis making it for me every morning somehow and I always enjoyed so I nodded. Demeter smiled "It's nice to know some people like it." She was glaring at gloomy guy. "I vote Olympus."
The gloomy guy shrugged. "If I could vote, then I would say Olympus." Note to self, help gloomy guy get a vote.
One of the flanking offspring look at the shape shifting girl looking in a mirror. "You're up Aphrodite." She smiled at him and then turned to me.
"I could always use a new player in my love games so Olympus." Love? What the Hades was love! She smirked at my confusion again.
The one who asked her went next. "Olympus."
The guy next to him scolded. "Suck up much Hephaestus. I vote Tarturas. Everyone knows that's the best entertainment." Okay genius, the best entertainment would be someone beating the crap out of you. Poseidon chuckled next to me and the jerk quickly changed the subject. "What about you Hermes?"
The shortest of the three sighed. "The outcome will be the same either way and I actually don't like to piss people off Ares. I vote Olympus."
The only one left was the man with the energy bolt. He smiled ever so slightly at me then glared at Poseidon. "I vote Olympus for Athena. The final vote is 9 Olympus, 1 Tarturas, and 1 invalid vote. Welcome to Olympus daughter."
Daughter! Wait, that means I have a dad and he accepts me! Which also means I'm a goddess! Poseidon smirks at me along with some others. "You know you still have to be given-"
"A domain. Yes I know that Poseidon and I think immortals can read minds?"
My father answers this "Yes we all can if you think a sure thought or that flows into our realms. Now, you must take the test."
A test. Sweet! I love tests . . . and they can all read my mind and are laughing at me.
Poseidon squeezes my hand " Well then, your the first who might enjoy this."
I don't know why people hated the test so much and after I finished all of them, mental, emotional, and physical, they looked over the results.
"She's one Hades, sorry uncle, of a fighter. A domain with fighting of some sorts is deserved." Artemis, the girl twin, proclaimed.
Ares scoffed "She was just lucky."
I smirked as I sat on Poseidon lap, there was no where else to sit and I was tired of standing. "So you were unlucky I take it?" My comment turned face red with rage.
Nice one.
Thanks Poseidon.
"Smart ass." Ares growled. It's been confirmed the god of war has no brain. This caused a people to laugh.
Apollo, boy twin, spoke next. "Yes Arty, she has talent but I believe wisdom is more her forte." This met with complete agreement.
My father, Zeus, stood. "Come forward Athena." I didn't want to get up but that's probably why he's doing this. I walk up to him and he place his hands above my head. "From this moment on you shall be know among mortals as Athena Goddess of Wisdom, Battle Strategy, Craftsmen, Justice, and Peace."
A.N.- I know she is the goddess of more stuff but these are probably the most known. Also, all thoughts and mind reading will be in italics. Updates depend on my schedule and that's it.
