Disclaimer: I do not own Greek Mythology.
AN: I 'm going to be sort of twisting things around with mythology. I didn't really want to go into Zeus being a dad when I made then all the same age so I changed the throwing Hephaestus off Olympus thing.
Skunks, Car keys and Baseball Bats Oh My
The mess hall was filled with chatter at lunchtime. Everybody was still hyped up due to the Loch Ness monster in the lake thing. "That was so cool! Well not the almost dying thing, that sort of sucked." Aphrodite babbled.
Poseidon puffed out his chest, "I could teach how to swim if you want." He offered. Aphrodite squealed happily.
"Where is Ares anyway?" Artemis asked. No one had seen him since the bathing suit mishap.
"Oh he went to go see Nurse Calypso to get medicine for all his gaping wounds." Athena replied looking down at her food. Lunch wasn't much better than breakfast.
"Lucky. I hope I get hurt so I can go see Calypso!" Hermes exclaimed pounding the table with his fist.
"She'd probably shove a needle up your…" Athena was interrupted by Prometheus with his trusty megaphone.
"All campers report to the porch in front of the mess hall!" The mess hall porch is facing the woods. The woods were dark, creepy and filled with twisty plants and savage animals.
"Okay, since you finished our game earlier today very easily we organized another game. It's called, Find-the Car-Keys-in-the-Woods." Prometheus yelled through the megaphone.
"Dude, we can all hear you fine." Zeus grumbled.
"But I have the car keys right here." Aphrodite said confused, holding them up. Quick as a flash Atlas snatched the keys and hurled them with all his might into the woods.
"Now you don't!" Atlas bellowed. Aphrodite pouted.
"You have until dinner to find the keys. If you leave the forest for any reason Atlas is allowed to throw you into the lake dipped in barbeque sauce," Prometheus declared. Then Atlas pulled eleven baseball bats out from under the porch, Ares was sitting this game out, "And because some of the animals in the woods are to put it nicely insanely vicious, bloodthirsty and just plain lethal you will be armed. The team that does not find the keys has to spend the night out in the woods. The game starts now." Prometheus finished. There was a mad rush for baseball bats and everyone ran for the forest.
Team Fantastic Freaks: Zeus, Hermes, Demeter, Athena, and Hephaestus
Team X-Losers: Poseidon, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hera, Apollo, and Artemis
"Whoohoo! Alone with nature until dinner! Wouldn't it be fun if we lost and got to spend the whole night in the wilderness?" Demeter asked gleefully.
"Shut up you're jinxing us!" Hermes yelled.
Five minutes later at the Fantastic Freak's base camp:
"So here's the plan. Zeus and Hephaestus take the east half of the forest. Hermes and I will take the west half and Demeter will just run everywhere." Athena proposed.
"Good with me!" Demeter agreed.
"Move out!" Athena shouted.
Hermes saluted, "Yes General."
The X-Loser's base camp:
"Here's our plan. We look for the key." Poseidon proposed.
"Yeah!" Dionysus and Apollo high fived. Aphrodite skipped out of the "camp" with her bat swung over her shoulder.
"If I was a key where would I hide?" She mused.
Artemis rolled her eyes, "I'm goddess of the hunt. I can find those stupid keys." She jogged off at a steady pace. This was going to be easy.
In another part of the woods:
"Hephaestus could you try to keep up?" Zeus asked a little annoyed. They hadn't walked very far and he did not want to run out of time and have his brother's team get the keys instead.
"It ain't my fault my leg is all busted up!" He snapped. Then he narrowed his eyes, "Actually it's your fault!"
Zeus blinked outraged, "How was it my fault!?" He exclaimed.
Hephaestus snorted, "You're the one who threw a dollar off Mt Olympus and told me that my powers would protect me from getting injured if I jumped off to go get it!"
"I was six!" Zeus protested. He raised his baseball bat threateningly, "And I have brief moments of insanity when I'm not responsible for my actions, like right now!"
Hephaestus raised his bat as well, "Bring it on airbender!"
In another part of the woods:
Artemis scaled a tree easily. The keys were in sight, lodged in a branch of a huge oak. But soon she would have them and this stupid game would be over. She crawled across the branch carefully. Just a little closer…closer. "Shree!" A huge eagle swooped down and grabbed the keys in its talons. It flapped out of sight.
"Of come on!" Artemis screamed. She waved her fist in the air, thus losing her balance, "Aahhh!" She hit the ground with a thump.
In yet another part of the woods:
"This game is hard. And this bat is too heavy." Aphrodite complained. Her shoes were all muddy and her hair had bits of twigs and leaves sticking in it. She spotted something shiny on the ground and gasped.
"I found the key!" She cried out. She tossed her bat into the bushes and got down on her knees to grab the shiny thing. It was just a broken piece of glass. Aphrodite felt momentary disappointment and then took out her lipstick and mascara and started touching up on her lipstick. She was distracted by a rustling noise from the bushes. She turned and turned pale with fear.
Four skunks emerged from the bushes; one of them was sporting a very large lump on its head. They were not happy looking critters. Aphrodite gulped, "Nice little skunks." The skunks turned and did what skunks do best.