Hehe Okay new chapter. Sorry bout the wait…these take a long time to research longer to write and even longer to edit. I'm not so sure about this chapter but…yeah work with me:3 Thank you to everyone who reviewed.

IBeezeChantal-haha thank you. You're review made me laugh XD This story isn't as…romantic as the other twilight stories. I don't think it will catch on the same way.

Artapdrsktr-No worries. I didn't take your comment the wrong way at all. I was just having issues responding because any off the wall characters or plot issues were created on a whim…or on accident lol either one XD and Tanya is coming soon. Hopefully chapter 5 or 6.

Beishiznit-You're right Hephaestus is hopelessly biased, and completely off base in his assumptions about Isabella. It's his superiority talking not his actual logic.^^ You also aren't that far off point with Ares either. I can promise this story won't take place in Forks and you won't be introduced to Mike Newton…ever :3 Everything else you guessed on or predicted left me pondering new directions for this story, but for the most part I think you'll enjoy what's gonna happen. Thanks for your thoughts^^

Okay then Read and enjoy.


Chapter 3~

"WHERE IS SHE?!"

Zeus thundered, his deep baritone shaking the clearing. He must have scared off any prey for miles because after his furious roar the forest seemed to still. The leaves refused to rustle in unison with the wind, the animals refused to peek out from their sanctuaries. Nature itself seemed to bow down to his rage. His fellow gods however did not, and that only infuriated him more. Idly he could sense his son's amusement from the shadows behind him, but he ignored him with effort. He pivoted on his heel glaring ominously at the female in front of him.

Artemis-goddess of the wilderness and the hunt didn't even have the grace to flinch. Her cursory inspection of the clearing came to a reluctant halt as she focused her attention on the pissed off thunder god. She quirked one perfect eyebrow. "Isabella is long gone." She commented wryly shaking her head.

Zeus seethed, his temper flaring dangerously. "Obviously." He ground out through clenched teeth. "I'm asking you to find her. She must have left a trail, and tracking is second nature to you. Find Isabella."

Artemis' blank expression did not change. It never did. It took a lot to annoy Helios' sister, and even more to intrigue her. She was not emotionally attuned to people anymore and was a master at distancing herself from a situation. She appreciated logic. Logic didn't require emotion so she never expressed herself unless the situation called for it. Zeus' fury barely registered to her. She didn't care how ridiculously angry the thunder god was. His tumultuous moods didn't even phase her.

"I can tell you where her trail starts, and I can tell you where it ends. The trees in this clearing have been decimated by her fall. It looks like she stumbled onto the road due east of here. Someone must have seen her. If I had to guess she's probably at a hospital by now. If she's not at a hospital she might be dead. If I'm wrong on both fronts than she's no longer in this state and is no doubt being dragged around by Hephaestus." She concluded, her voice droning on in monotone.

"Looks like we just missed her…How unfortunate." Ares commented boredly, his disembodied voice resonating from the shadows. The god of war had been quiet while Artemis examined the clearing only breaking the silence to make sarcastic remarks every now and then. He was even less concerned than Artemis over Isabella's whereabouts.

He treasured bad situations. They amused him.

Zeus looked like he was counting to ten, before he turned his molten gaze on Ares, and barely contained rage made his voice tremble. "You think this is funny don't you?"

"Hilarious." The god of war responded without missing a beat. Ares with all the grace of jungle cat left his leisurely position against a tree, stepping out from the shadows. He met Zeus' intense glare with one of his own. "What exactly did you expect?"

"Oh I don't know…A little common courtesy, perhaps a little assistance in preventing our demise." Zeus growled, his eyes flashing in annoyance. He was rightfully upset that so little effort was being exerted over tracking down Isabella. She held the key to their future, and Ares was not taking this hunt seriously. Neither was Artemis for that matter, but the stoic goddess was harder to read. She had been a shell of a person for many centuries now ever since *Orion's death, and her enigmatic behavior left everyone around her hopelessly confused. Most people who came across Artemis were more than confused-they were perturbed. No one knew her intentions. No one knew what she was plotting.

Zeus needed to be wary of her.

Ares loud raucous laughter ripped him from his musings.

"Zeus, perhaps you didn't know but I don't care if we all die tomorrow." Ares said dissolving into quiet chuckles. He crossed his arms over his chest as an amused smirk lined his perfect lips. "All I want is to see people clashing in mid-air and ripping each other to pieces. I want a battle and dismembered body parts flying everywhere."

Ares threw back his head, his gaze trailing to blood rimmed sky. Crimson tears splashed the horizon as Helios dragged the sun out of sight. His eyes smoldered, reflecting the last of the sun's rays. "I want to see the ground soaked red." He trailed off quietly shaking his head, and turned to leave.

Clearly Ares was fed up with his present company. Or perhaps he needed to soothe the psychotic rage that was welling up in his chest. Before the god of war allowed the darkness to consume him, he paused turning to Zeus. "Everyone is picking a side in this little debacle. You want to destroy Isabella. Hephaestus and Helios want to save her." Zeus suddenly felt the temperature in the clearing drop several degrees. Ares lips turned upward into a small all knowing grin.."I want to people to die. Gloriously. Beautifully. Swimming in their own blood. I will support whatever side can give me that." The god of war surmised with a nod as Zeus eyed him with annoyance and some revulsion.

"Till we meet again father." Ares smirked disappearing into the mounting twilight. "Farewell Artemis." His melodious voice called out before fading entirely from existence.

Artemis stood alone with a fuming Zeus now.

"The god of war indeed." She said tentatively, her chilly gaze still fixed on the spot where Ares had stood a second ago.

Zeus scowled. "His stupidity knows no bounds. I'm trying to prevent a war, and he's trying to start a blood bath. This whole thing has been a disaster from the very beginning." The thunder god rolled his eyes, his eyes flicking furtively around the destroyed clearing. Something had to be done. "It's time to take drastic measures." He decided his voice brooking no room for argument.

Artemis hefted her bow further up on her shoulder, her fingers reaching up to lovingly caress one of her arrows. "What constitutes as drastic measures?" She asked, her eyes narrowing in calculation.

"Isabella wants to hide…Fine. She can, but not for long. You will find her and when you do I will be sending her a little gift. I'm going to end this." He smirked, a cold smile stretching over his lips. Artemis almost flinched at his sinister expression. It amazed her how callous her fellow deities could be sometimes.

"What type of gift?" Artemis asked cautiously, measuring how insidious Zeus' plot would be. Her expression never wavered but her grip did tighten around her bow.

"The best kind…*Nemo me impune lacessit." Zeus' voice lowered an octave, dropping in conjunction with his thunder god's patience had been hanging on by a very thin thread since Isabella's banishment. Ares had incinerated what little patience remained. Now Zeus wanted results. He wanted this nightmare to be over. He wanted Isabella's head on a platter.

"I doubt Isabella was trying to provoke you." Artemis murmured, a thoughtful expression crossing her face. "If you do anything rash, Helios will be furious."

Zeus in response to her words, let out a very humanlike snort. Clearly he didn't care about Helios' reaction. Helios had a million other kids-if Isabella's impending doom bothered him that much than he could have one of his other kids replace her after she died. It was like recycling. Throw one out and reuse what's left. Easy. Simple. Even the humans did it but with plastic and paper not people.

"Helios will get over it, and if he doesn't then he can wallow in self pity for the next thousand years. I don't care. It is not his place to question me. I rule the heavens. He will abide by my decision or I will strike him down." Zeus promised boldly, his expression darkening. This was not a democracy. The gods did not operate by human standards. No one held more authority than him, and he would not tolerate defiance from anyone-man or god.

Helios would obey or he would be removed from the picture entirely.

Impudence, treachery, and defiance were all worthy of torture beyond comprehension. Helios would be on *Prometheus' level of betrayal and would be subject to a similar punishment.

Perhaps Hera was right. Zeus conceded after an arduous amount of thought. Perhaps they should eliminate the entire Heliades line.

Helios and his kids were a giant pain in the ass.

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"So…let me get this straight." Angela sat back in her chair, her incredulous expression deepening with each word. "Isabella is one of Helios' crazy adrenaline junkie children. She single handedly disrupted fate, and pissed off every god on Olympus. Zeus threw a lightning infested temper tantrum from hell, and chucked her into a giant Isabella shaped crater. She ended up in the hospital and you tracked her down." Dark accusing eyes trailed to Hephaestus. "Then in all your brilliance you brought Isabella here…to MY house." Angela stated in an eerily calm tone-the same tone that most people use before they backhand someone into a wall.

"That just about sums it up." Hephaestus nodded solemnly, his eyes twinkling in merriment. Isabella winced at her half sister's flat expression. Clearly Angela was not amused. Why would she be? What sane person would get excited about having a branded fugitive in their house?

"Why come here? Out of all the places in the world why would you bring her here? No offense Isabella." Angela's head dipped in apology before she turned back to Henry glowering a bit.

Hephaestus held up his hands in a placating gesture, trying to look innocent and failing miserably. "My hands were tied. I needed to take Isabella somewhere where the gods rarely look, and I needed to leave her with someone trustworthy who did not have some hidden agenda. You're one of the most trustworthy Halflings I know Angela." He tried to argue, doing everything humanly possible to convince Angela to harbor her sister.

"It's only tempora-"

"No."

"Just for a little while till I figure out where to hide-"

"No."

"We need someone with your honesty-"

Angela's perplexed expression did not change, but a dark scowl marred her features further. "I don't care if I'm the last fucking honest person in existence. I don't want to get caught up in this. Whatever this is" She gestured wildly between her and her unwanted house guests. "Leave me out of it. I'm not interested in getting dragged into some crazy divine scandal, and becoming another pawn in your games." She all but hissed, her hands clenching into trembling fists.

Hepheastus was stunned to silence for a few seconds, and Isabella sat back as the beginnings of guilt began to prick at her consciousness. The fallen goddess stood up her chair screeching slightly at the motion. "We should leave." She said quietly to Hephaestus.

Isabella could not even find the energy to be angry at Angela. She felt the exact same way. Legends exaggerated the beauty, glory, and wonder of the gods. They left out their manipulative, self absorbed, fickle and insanely narcissistic nature. They didn't treasure humans they used them. Isabella did not want to be a toy anymore than Angela did. This mess was not her half-sister's problem. She was not going to involve Angela if she didn't have too.

"There's nowhere else for you to go." Hephaestus said, his demeanor loosing its playful edge as he chose to channel his serious side. "Angela." He turned solemn eyes towards the demi-goddess who was now listening attentively. "There is another reason I came to you with this."

"And that is?" Her half-sister prompted wearily.

"Blood is thicker than water. I can't leave Isabella with a complete stranger and you're her family."

"…Excuse me?" Angela's blinked in confusion and her eyes flicked sideways to meet Isabella's. The fallen goddess stood unbelievably still enduring her half-sisters scrutiny with a neutral expression. They didn't look related. Any fool could see that, but Angela seemed to be looking for similarities anyways.

"How exactly are we related?" Angela said after studying Isabella and finding nothing remotely familiar in her face.

"Isabella is the daughter of Helios…and Clymene." Hephaestus clarified with a slight almost imperceptible wince. No one really wanted to be related to Clymene. It was a miracle people chose to reproduce with her at all.

At his explanation Angela's jaw went slack. Clearly she was not expecting that. The Asian woman turned to Isabella drinking in her features with renewed vigor. "Clymene is your mother too?"

Isabella's face contorted. "Unfortunately."

"That changes everything." Angela sighed rubbing her temple. No doubt the utter ridiculousness of the situation was beginning to weigh in on her. At her exhausted tone Hephaestus perked up, looking marginally more optimistic than had a couple of seconds ago.

"You'll let Isabella stay with you then?"

"Uh no. Get the hell out of my house." Angela fired back, abruptly getting to her feet. Hephaestus all but fell out of his chair at her words-he was not expecting such blatant hostility. Angela was normally a genteel level headed woman. She was never rude like this. Precariously the god of weaponry slid out of his chair, fluidly getting to his feet. He towered over the two females in the room but his gaze never left Angela.

"Please Angela." He pleaded one last time, hoping she would change her mind.

"No." She responded negatively shaking her head.

Hephaestus grimaced at the ice in her voice. Clymene must be a sore spot for the demi-goddess to react like this. What in the world did that crazy ass goddess do to her kids? What was going to happen now? Hephaestus didn't really have a back up plan. Before he could brood on the situation any further Hephaestus found him and Isabella ushered towards the door. Once they had been herded towards the entrance they paused. Angela stood rigidly behind them-a stony expression on her face.

Uncertainty held the demi-goddess frozen in place. With some reluctance she turned to Isabella. "Look I'm sorry I can't help you."

A genuine smile graced Isabella's lips. "It's fine. If I were you I would have slammed the door in his face."

Curiosity and amusement replaced the glacier expression on Angela's face. "I was tempted."

"I bet."

Awkward silence settled between them, and Angela sent the people invading her home a few conspicuous glances. A minute crawled by. Then two. Then three. The Asian woman chewed her bottom lip thoughtfully before weary resignation caused her to slouch against the door frame. "Dammitttttttttttttt." She groaned face-palming. Her hand dragged down the side of her face in exasperation before falling limply to her side.

Isabella blinked in concern.

"…Are you okay?"

Instead of answering Angela turned to Hephaestus, accusingly, her entire posture coiled with tension. She looked like all she wanted to do is slowly choke the life out of him. Her hands twitched as if to emphasize that point. "You said this was temporary right?"

He looked like he wanted to victory dance. Unbridled joy lit up his face."Yes just a few weeks. You can teach her how to be disgustingly human while I find a place to store her where Zeus can't electrocute her."

"Wonderful." Angela sighed massaging her now throbbing temple again.

At her hesitant acquiescence Isabella held up a hand. "Wait wait wait..are you sure you want to do this?" She was grateful, but she wasn't going to involve Angela unless it was necessary. This whole banishment thing was going to get worse. Only the willing should subject themselves to this kind of masochistic hell.

"Yes I'm sure." Angela said, her face scrunching at the sincerity in her words. "Unlike the some of the other gods I've run into you don't come across as a self absorbed belligerent asshole. You don't seem like a bad person." Her half sister admitted quietly.

"You don't either." Isabella said, returning the compliment earnestly.

"Awwww. Look at you two-bonding already." Hephaestus cooed making an –oh-so-cute face that didn't match his giant bear like persona. Angela's amiable attitude withered at his mocking and she scowled.

"Shut. Up." She said coldly enunciating each word clearly. " Don't make me have to kill you. Who are you anyways…Henry?"

Hephaestus smirked and with a casual flick of his wrist the glamour coating him melted away. He lost his mortal appearance, and the whole room was filled with his presence. Gone was the streak of grey hair that masked his age. Gone was the roll of fat that marred his good looks-only perfection remained. Any one else would be awed at the transformation from middle-aged giant, to rugged extremely toned eye candy.

As it was Angela simply sighed and Isabella struggled to stifle a yawn.

"Lemme guess…Hephaestus?"

Offended by their indifferent reactions Hepheastus frowned, fighting back a very umanly pout. "That's me." He grumbled.

"Zeus' weapon smith and the god of volcanoes-you're not one of the normal meddlers. Since when do you leave Olympus? I thought that was your heavenly man cave or something. What exactly are you up too?" Angela mused out loud tapping her fingers against the wood of the door.

"The normal meddlers?" Hephaestus echoed with an amused grin before answering her question "You're right normally I never leave my station, but this situation was just so entertaining-not to mention pivotal to the gods continued existence. I decided it was time to get a bit more pro-active in the mortal world."

"So you made Isabella your own little project hrm." Angela surmised with a small plastic smile. Before Hephaestus could answer, or defend himself Angela surged forward running over whatever he was about to say. "Well I suppose it doesn't matter. Either way-Isabella." Angela turned to her half sister, her eyes softening a bit. "You're welcome to stay here till he moves you some place else."

Isabella who had fallen silent to observe her family tuned back into the conversation-focusing on Angela with a relieved smile. "Thank you Angela."

"No worries. It's the least I can do. After all-We are sisters." Angela chuckled.

"Beautiful Beautiful. So everything is taken care of here?" Hephaestus asked, his booming voice shaking the halls. He glanced from Isabella to her half sister expectantly. At seeing Angela's irritated expression he backpedaled stepping outside the entrance and into the driveway. "Well in that case Isabella I leave you in Angela's capable hands. Next time we meet I will have a new place for you to stay and whatever provisions you'll need to remain hidden."

He agilely leapt down the driveway like a cat and ambled down to his sports car.

Isabella and Angela simply watched him leave.

Before he could slide into the driver's seat though Angela's voice stopped him.

"Wait a minute!"

He froze tilting his head to listen. From her spot in the doorway Angela took a deep breath yelling out the issue that had been bothering her. "What am I supposed to do while she stays here?"

Hephaestus chuckled and called out in a loud voice. "Teach her how to survive as a human."

With that he hopped into the driver's seat of his Lamborghini, revved the engine twice, and was gone in cloud of spiraling dust.

Angela rolled her eyes as he sped off then glanced sideways at Isabella-at her new sibling. "Let's go inside and I will show you around…fucking gods and their fucking jedi mind tricks." She complained cursing Hephaestus to the tenth level of hell. As they reentered the house Isabella trailed slowly behind her, no doubt bewildered by recent events. Angela gently guided her half-sister far from the door leading her through the living room and towards the stairs.

All of the rooms were upstairs, and Isabella would be staying in the room across from her.

"Hey Angela."

"What's up?" Angela responded absentmindedly as she jogged up the creaky wooden steps. Isabella followed closely at her heels reminding her of a lost puppy.

"What's a jedi?" As they reached the top of the stairs Angela stopped moving causing Isabella to ram into her headfirst. They both toppled into the hallway, rolling into a wall. Angela groaned a bit, and disentangled herself from her clumsy sister. It took a minute to discern which limbs were hers and which were Isabellas.

As they found their footing Angela sent her half-sister a strange look. "You don't know what a jedi is?"

"No."

Angela's frown deepened. "Haven't you ever watched t.v.? You don't recognize Star Wars?" Isabella's confused expression didn't waver. If possible the fallen goddess looked even more perplexed than she did a second ago. Angela felt the beginnings of horror swell up inside her. "Oh c'mon. Obi wan Kanobi? Yoda? Annikan Skywalker? Luke I am your father."

Isabella's blank eyes stared back at her uncomprehendingly. "…What's a t.v?"

Angela almost cried. "You are so deprived. Where the hell have you been the last one hundred years?"

Isabella smirked tiredly. "I was busy."

"Doing what? Hiding under a rock?"

"No. I was trying to understand my father's trade. I was learning how to harness the power of the sun, and master my power over fire so I would not incinerate anyone or mistakenly use my power." Isabella explained eloquently.

Angela just stared at her.

"What?" Isabella questioned after enduring her sister's intense stare for several uncomfortable minutes.

"I definitely have my work cut out for me." Angela murmured shaking her head. At her exasperated words Isabella blinked in puppy-ish confusion. What did she do wrong now? At her clueless expression Angela giggled waving off the question with a hand.

"Don't worry about it Bella."

Isabella started at the shortening of her name. An unfortunate side effect of being a recluse for a millennia was the lack of friends. Her sisters barely even acknowledged her. No one had ever bothered giving her an affectionate nickname before. She kind of liked it. Bella…It rolled off the tongue a lot easier than Isabella. Lost in her musings she barely felt it when Angela pulled her forward.

"C'mon I'll show you to your room."

Bella allowed herself to be yanked forward, a small amused smile stretching over her lips.

"Whatever you say Angela."


*Est modus in rebus. est et fideli tuta silentio merces

Whoot. Okay chapter done. What do you all think? XD For some reason this chapter seemed…lacking to me. I dunno. I'll fix it later or maybe just make next chapter super amazing. Next chapter there's more Bella/Angela sister bonding moments as Angela teaches Bella how to be human- so be tuned in.

Greek People and Latin Terms~

*Orion-This was Artemis' first and only true love. The records say either Artemis killed him out of jealousy/she was tricked into murdering him or he was stung by a scorpion which became Scorpio, and was elevated to the heavens. Orion is also a constellation.

*Prometheus-This was one of my favorite gods. He was a trickster that stole the power of fire from Zeus and gave it to the human worlds. Zeus got pissed off and bound Prometheus to a rock. His punishment was that every day an eagle would fly down peck open his flesh and eat his liver. Every night his liver would grow back and the cycle would start all over again. Prometheus lived in agony like this till Hercules came and freed him.

* Nemo me impune lacessit means no one provokes me without impugnity

*est modus in rebus. est et fideli tuta silentio merces means "There is a proper measure in things. Loyalty as its rewards secure."