Greek Gods
Public School
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Demeter
After the Festival of Awesomeness, the gods headed to their beach house. They withdrew into their separate rooms, doing stuff they liked to do.
Demeter ate cereal, while Apollo strummed on his new and improved food guitar. Next door, Hades was trying to pierce one of his ears so he could look like a punk (he just didn't go for Goth). Meanwhile, Hermes was looking over all the stuff he had stolen, while Aphrodite was looking for her phone (Hermes had stolen it). Hestia was sitting in front of the fire with Artemis, and Dionysus was drinking his third bottle of Shiraz. Athena was doing some maths homework (which she finished in one minute), and Poseidon was swimming in his bathtub. Zeus was trying (and failing) to log onto his favourite Olympian dating website. What he didn't know was that, next door, Hera was spying on him and blocking his progress. Ares was playing on his new Playstation.
But something was missing. The Olympians all knew what it was. At exactly the same time, they burst out of their rooms, yelling "This is SOOOOOOOO boring!" and suggesting game ideas. Even Athena joined in.
Eventually, the gods calmed down and headed to the living room, which was cluttered with empty bottles of Shiraz (courtesy of Dionysus), the gods' bags, homework (mostly undone) and boxes of cereal.
Demeter picked up a bowl from the floor, got Poseidon to wash it with seawater, and filled it with cereal. Hades was watching her, which was his hobby- and, yes, it was creepy.
Creepy… Demeter thought, looking at the stalker himself, who averted his eyes. And my daughter actually married him… She shook her head.
"Hey," Zeus said as he sat down, "what's with the cereal? I mean, why no milk?"
Demeter groaned. Why couldn't anyone see that Hera's stupid cows' milk was ruining the beauty and nutritious values of cereal? So she decided not to answer.
"So…"Poseidon said, "Whaddya wanna do?"
Everyone (except Hermes) chorused 'TRUTH OR DARE!'
"I'll get a bottle!" said Dionysus as he asked for a bottle of wine. After downing it (which took a few seconds) he set it on the floor and spun it. Everyone watched, hypnotized by the dark bottle. It finally landed on… Hades.
"Awwww. You're no fun! No offense, Hades." Poseidon groaned.
"I'm definitely going to make the best dare ever!" Hades retorted.
"Oooh, looks like someone wore his big boy pants today!" Hera commented.
"Don't be like that!" Hestia reprimanded.
"Excuse me, but the bottle is spinning again!" Demeter pointed out.
Nitwits- except for Hestia, Demeter thought as the bottle rotated.
"Oooooh! Demeter!" everyone looked at Demeter, who had turned the white of snowflakes.
"I… I know we don't really get along, but… Persephone will treat you better if…" At this, Hades expression darkened.
"I was going to let you off the hook, but now…" Hades thought for a second. His eyes came across one of Ares' socks, discarded under the table. Then he saw Hermes' sneakers. "Oh, this is a hard one…" he looked from sock to sneaker, sock to sneaker, then decided. " I dare you…" he paused for suspense. "To… put one of Ares' socks in your mouth!"
Demeter coughed loudly. "Not… You can't be serious… Don't tell me…"
"DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" everyone chanted. Hades summoned a pair of tweezers and carefully picked up the sock, gagging from the stench of it. "Say ahhhhhhhh!" he told Demeter, who reluctantly opened her mouth. Hades stuffed the rancid sock in her mouth.
"Ewwwww!" Demeter spat the sock out of her mouth, then summoned soap before scrubbing it up and down her tongue. But everyone had already moved on.
This time, Hestia was the victim, and Aphrodite the chooser.
"Don't hurt her, Aphrodite!" Poseidon warned her. She smiled.
"I can't make empty promises, dearie!" she said, giggling.
"Um… please don't do anything too icky!" Hestia pleaded.
"Well, I'll dial it down just for you." Aphrodite lied. "Here's your dare: you have to wear… socks with sandals for a week!"
"Meh." Hermes stated.
"Meh? How dare you 'meh' me!" Aphrodite raged.
"It was pretty 'meh'." Athena admitted, as Hestia looked for some clean socks. "Look! She doesn't care! She's already finding the socks! You should be more like her."
"Hmph." Aphrodite turned away from Athena.
"Last one?" Demeter asked.
"Last one." Hermes confirmed.
The bottle spun hypnotically. Leaning closer, Demeter wished that she would be the picker, but…
"Yay! Me!" Hermes grinned, before flicking the bottle so it would spin again.
What are the chances it would be me? Demeter thought, reassuring herself.
"OOOOOOHHHHH!" everyone looked from Demeter (the new victim) to Hermes (the former victim).
Demeter muttered a very unpleasant four-letter word under her breath.
"No bad language, dear!" Athena reprimanded, giggling.
"Um… I know I gave you a horrible dare last time, but if you could be so kind as to…" Demeter knew he would give her a terrible dare. She braced herself.
"Your dare is… to watch… twelve hours straight of…" Hermes paused.
No… Not P-
"Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows!" Hermes said grandly. Apollo snickered.
"He got you gooooooooood!" he said, pointing.
"Artemis! Tell your brother to stop!" Demeter pleaded.
"I would but…" Artemis was visibly trying to hold in her laughter, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's… BWAHAHAHAHA… true!"
"Oh, look at the time! It seems to be eight! You'd better start watching now if you want to make it to school tomorrow!" Hermes exclaimed, mock concerned.
"I won't go to school tomorrow!" Demeter huffed, before stomping to her room, where she locked the door.
"You can't do that!" Athena yelled, running after her. "You'll miss all the learning!"
"I don't care." Demeter replied.
"You still have to do my dare!" Hermes yelled.
That night, Demeter endured twelve hours of a pink fluffy unicorn (who she had named Bob) dancing on rainbows. The following night, she was unable to sleep. The unicorn had returned in her dreams.