Chapter 9: The Dream & the Plan

Hera's POV

I'm scared and hungry, but not alone. My older brothers Hades and Poseidon, and my younger sisters Demeter and Hestia were there. Even my centaur brother Chiron was there. Chiron was roaming around as if there was nothing wrong, as if we weren't in Kronos' stomach. But he wasn't old enough to understand, so we let him play and have a 'real' childhood. Hades was comforting Demeter as she cried, and Hestia was trying to play with Chiron.

"I'm cold." I said as I shivered. Poseidon came closer and gave me a warm hug. It's too bad we've never met our youngest brother, Zeus. "I'm hungry." I said miserably.

"I know sweetie." He said. "Hades, do we have any more food?" Poseidon asked. Hades suddenly made a pomegranate appear and he gave it to me.

"Thank you." I said.

"You're welcome." He said with a small smile.

"I'm scared." I said.

"It's okay, we'll always be here to protect you Hera." Poseidon said. He was always my favorite brother. And everyone was okay with that. Suddenly, we heard a large crash. Then we heard Kronos' stomach growling and groaning. There was another loud crash. We were all flying upward. I grabbed onto Poseidon and screamed in fear. Hestia was doing the same to Chiron, and Demeter was doing it to Hades. We all suddenly saw a bright light, and we fell out onto the ground of the real world. I looked up and immediately knew where the crashes had come from. Our youngest brother, the handsome, well fed, well taken care of, Zeus.

I suddenly woke up with a large gasp. I've been having that dream almost every night since it actually happened. I renember that Rhea was there, and she took us to her palace shortly after Zeus let us out of Kronos' stomach. She took very good care of us while she trained us to help Zeus get rid of Kronos. The very living room I was in just yesterday, was the first living room I'd ever been in, and I went straight for sitting at the fire place, because I needed warmth after all those years inside Kronos' cold stomach.

"Hera, are you okay?" Athena asked as she came into my bedroom.

"I'll be fine. Let's start getting people and meet in the same place we did yesterday." I said. I was used to waking up like this. Zeus had asked me what was wrong the first couple of times I woke up like that with him, but he eventually stopped asking.

"Okay." Athena said.

(The meeting room from yesterday)

Hera's POV

We met in the old counsel room again, and we were trying to come up with a plan. Everyone came up with good ideas, but they all had large flaws. For instance, Aphrodite suggested that she use charm speak on Zeus. But he's immune to her charm speak, that or either she's just not using a high enough dosage on him. Hephaestus suggested that we challenge him to a duel. It would almost be perfect, except Zeus would have a large amount of adrenaline coming from his anger. Plus, Aphrodite looked on the verge of tears as she said, "That's so Ares."

Hephaestus automatically took back his idea and hugged her. While he was hugging her, she got an evil grin on her face. She must be trying to get him back, and his idea just worked to her advantage.

Hermes suggested that we just prank Zeus, or at least threaten that Hermes would prank him. We all said no (in unison). Hermes then asked, "Why didn't we invite Apollo? He didn't laugh at Hera, and I'm sure he'd want to help."

"Because he's a huge blabber mouth and he'd start reciting haiku's." Artemis said in disgust of her own brother.

"Fair enough." Hermes said.

Artemis finally said, "We could just outvote him on what should be done with the child, and have Rhea scare Zeus and others into their respective votes." Artemis had a point.

"Where did you get this idea Artemis?" Aphrodite asked a little too innocently.

"I just barely came up with it myself." She said with a tinge of nervousness in her voice.

"Are you sure you haven't been thinking about it a lot lately, and just wanted to test it on Hera's situation so that you know whether or not to tell Zeus about your future boyf..." Zoë cut Aphrodite off with a hard blow to the stomach before Artemis had the chance to.

"Thank you Zoë." Artemis said regaining some of her composure.

"Of course my lady." Zoë said. I swear to God Athena was holding back a laugh with her giant grin.

"So we're all in agreement on Artemis' plan?" I asked.

Everyone said, "I."

We had come to an easy agreement.