When Sophie could feel the gold sparks start to take over her body, she started to get this calm feeling. She knew that it was probably just Athena calling her back for something. In the back of her mind, she knew that she probably should be worried. Her counterpart had never called her in the day before, just when she was sleeping. Still, there was a bigger part of her mind that wasn't concerned about this at all.
When her vision cleared and the sparks faded, she found herself in the throne room once again. Unfortunately for her, this time, instead of coming alone and just meeting the grey eyed goddess; seven deities were in the room.
Athena sat in her throne as usual. She was giving Sophie the look that said "Don't you dare mess this up". It was either that or "I'm annoyed and I blame you". After a second, Sophie decided that it was probably both.
Artemis and Apollo were in their own thrones this time. Apollo was playing with his IPod and, waving to Sophie. Artemis was fiddling with an arrow and looking at Sophie like she was wondering what she was going to do next. When she looked over at her brother waving, her face was taken over by the expression that Sophie recognized from Diana. It was the one that said "My brother is an idiot."
The god that Sophie noticed next was guy dressed as a mail man. He looked a lot like Herman and, he seemed to be arguing with two snakes on a staff.
There was an amazingly beautiful woman sitting on a throne that looked like it belonged next to a vanity mirror.
There was a man that looked like Peter sitting on a throne that looked like a beach chair. He was clutching a trident and looking at Peter like he didn't know what to think of him.
There was also a man that looked a lot like Adam. Even from this distance, Sophie felt like she should be punching somebody. Preferably Peter who, was staring shocked at the gods, more importantly his own counterpart while, forgetting to move his sword away from Sophie's neck.
Sophie hadn't noticed up to this point that he was even here. She was surprised by this and, the fact that, her own sword was just an inch away from his neck.
"Ares, would you stop trying to make the counterparts murder each other." Athena was glaring at the war god.
"What? They'll just reincarnate again." He had doped his hold on them by this point. Leaving Sophie and Peter to whip their swords away from each others necks, each looking embarrassed at the fact that they had indeed nearly murdered each other with practice swords.
"I'd rather you didn't kill my counterpart either." This time it was Poseidon. He was holding his trident and, looking at his counterpart. "Hello Peter ,nice to finally meet you in person." He looked like he meant it too.
Peter however, was looking confused. About a second after his counterpart had spoken, he announced. "This is my weirdest dream yet," then, started walking away from the throne room.
"I hope that thinking that they are in dream won't be a regular thing for our counterparts when they come here." Athena was watching Peter walk away with interest.
"Sophie did it too?" Hermes was looking more interested. "Nice to meet you by the way," amusement was sparkling in his eyes as he greeted Sophie.
From her memories of Herman, she recognized that he was going to prank someone in some way and, she felt an uneasy feeling creep over her. She hadn't been the subject of many of Hermes pranks but, the memories of the ones that she had been in gave her enough incentive to feel sorry for whoever was going to be the subject of the next one.
"Yes she did." Athena didn't seem amused that Hermes was making fun of Sophie, even if it was just a little bit. It was probably because that he was to a lesser extent, making fun of her.
"At least I didn't walk out of the room." Sophie stated happy that at least Peter was making a bigger fool of himself that she did.
"Yes, all you did was annoy me." Athena was looking at her counterpart daring her to object.
"I wasn't that bad." Sophie protested she knew two girls who were much better at annoying people than her.
Athena seemed prepared to prove her wrong but, Poseidon cut in, "As much fun as teasing Athena's counterpart is, I think that someone should try to find mine before he falls off of Olympus."
Athena smiled sinisterly. "Sophie, can you please go find him?"
Sophie wondered why Athena wanted to send her. Didn't she know that Sophie wasn't a big Peter fan either?
Apparently she did because, her spear appeared in her hands and, her knives in sheaves that were attached to her belt loop.
"Use those if necessary." Sophie had the feeling that her counterpart was going to be happier if she did"
She found Peter in a garden at the edge of Olympus .Sitting on a bench. In the corner of her eye, she saw various minor gods and nature sprits looking at him curiously.
As she sat down, she asked him. "Do you still think this is a dream?"
Peter looked around. "Well let's see, we're on mount Olympus that I haven't seen since we became mortal. It also somehow is on top of the empire state building that, the mortals somehow are not noticing that there is a city on top of."
Sophie looked down, noticing how the people looked like ants.
"I guy just told me in my head that we're in another dimension and, I'm him in another dimension."
Sophie smiled, remembering her own first meeting with her own counterpart, wondering if it really was less than a week since this whole thing started.
"Then" he pointed to a nymph "creatures that have long ago blended into the humans are right here." Said nymph walked away pouting. Sophie guessed that she didn't like being called not real.
Sophie smiled. "Guess that it is hard to believe that this is real."
"You think?" He was staring at a fountain in the middle of the garden looking at it strangely. "It's been so long since I could control water. I can't even remember what it feels like." Sophie looked at the fountain too. Wondering what it could be like to have a fantastic power then lose it.
"Can I ask you a question?" Sophie wasn't sure that Peter could hear her. She didn't even know why she asked.
"What" unlike his usual cocky self, he seemed tired of something.
"Back when we were immortal, did I even have any powers?" Her memories, even the ancient ones, never showed herself using powers. She could remember faintly what it was like to be a real know it all but, it wasn't too different from being exceptionally smart which, she already was.
Peter looked at her confused. "You really can't remember?"
"Yeah" she was starting to feel stupid for asking him.
"You always seemed to know things." He started sounding like he didn't know why he was answering either. "You weren't called a wisdom goddess for nothing." She didn't need him to tell her that."
I remember how you were in battle." Sophie absentmindedly remembered her training efforts at camp Adams place, finding that a little hard to believe. "You always seemed to know the enemies weaknesses and how to beat them, they you would do it. I should know." He chuckled at that.
"I actually fought you?" She knew that they were enemies but, besides the Trojan War, she couldn't remember a time when they actually fought each other.
"It was mostly small fights. We would get all mad at each other, I'd blast you with sea water, and you'd send owls and various other monsters to get me. I don't know how but, you were always able to get allies somewhere who would fight for you. Even if it was a barn owl that was convinced that pecking out my eyeballs was a great thing to do. "
"Sounds like I never fought my own battles." She was starting to feel like a coward, wondering if her inability to use most weapons was not unfounded.
"It's not that," Peter reassured her. You could and would beat Ares in battle and he did not go easy on you. It's just that, you always had no problems getting followers. I always considered that just as strong as my Trident or Zeus's lightning bolt even if I never would tell you."
"Thanks," she murmured, suddenly grateful that she had talked to him.
"I think that we should go back into the hall now." She told him. "Dreaming or not, you might want to hear what you counterpart has to tell you."
She didn't really think that he would follow her but; he got up from the bench and, went with her into back into the council room. Not noticing how the assembled nature sprits and minor gods were staring at them in awe.
They got back to the council room just in time to see five figures engulfed in golden sparks coming into the dimension.
Sophie and Peter not hating each other in the slightest felt nice to write.
I decided that it was time to add in the other Recarnits. It was getting boring just writing mostly about Sophie.