Power
"Sorry, sorry, sorry!"
I sighed when the figure came clear. It was Athena, coughing her guts out.
"I was, *cough* working on my *cough* project."
She straightened up and looked at me hopefully.
I clicked my fingers and for a second, a bright light shone from her and as it faded I saw, nice clean hair, glowing complexion and her dress looked bright as new.
"I hate wearing this dress, when I'm here! My jeans transformed in to this!"
I looked at her dress, which I thought rather flattered her and smiled.
"Oh, I know you love this sort of thing Aphrodite! Anyway, I have thinking to do, not anything you've heard of!" She gave a soft laugh and hurried away.
I stood there, blinking a few tears out of my eyes. I sat down and thought, maybe she is right, I should do things for other people sometimes. I smiled to myself when I thought of her latest project, 3 months and still just black smoke coming from her temple.
"Yes, I know it's important! I'll get back as soon as I can, just stop nagging me about it ok?"
I turned and I saw Hermes, yapping into his phone. He looked up and laughed at me.
"Thought you'd be here, swanning in the sun thinking about yourself! Go play with your powers, oh I forgot! You don't have any!" He chuckled to himself, presumably with his own wit.
I stood up and ran up the hill. I looked down at the beautiful sight and willed my powers to come.
Flowers withered, the sun went behind a cloud. The temples crumpled into dust, leaving wreckage everywhere. I saw Zeus and Hera, Athena, Hermes, Apollo, Poseidon, Dionysus in front of me. I narrowed my eyes and their features drooped, scars appeared, their hair thinned out and turned grey. Everything was horrible. The opposite of beauty and serenity, which was all I stood for. I heard a stick pounding behind me and turned to see Hephaestus, leaning on his cane, looking at me with a sad smile on his face.
"Welcome to my world."
I looked at my hands, which were clenched into fists. I unclenched them and Olympus shone and repaired itself. I looked at the pure power standing in front of me, in the form of my 'family'. I smiled.
"Did you know just how much you need me? Without me, that is what your home would look like." I had a sudden image of the world in darkness, ruins like I had just created. "What the world would look like"
I turned around and took Hephaestus' arm and walked down the hill.