The Goddessy: Hestia's Revenge

Chapter Ten

"Hang on, you never said that you had five other friends," Ares stood up. "I quit. You're too unpredictable."

He left the room, leaving the girls alone to solve the problem.

"Since when did you have five other friends?" Aphrodite asked.

"Since so long ago that I barely remember," Rainbow lied, knowing something they didn't.

They were obviously keeping secrets of their own, so they were pretty much even.

"So there are six girls in there, stuck as prisoners of Hestia, and you never thought to tell us about five of them?" Ares finally popped back into the room.

"Dude, either go away, or stay in here," she replied.

"I'm staying," Ares finally went back in and plopped on the bed. "So, who are these mysterious five girls?"

"They aren't mysterious," she buried her face into her hands, done with her brother. "We've just known each other for years and I have no idea how on Earth they managed to get up here, but somehow, they got up here and now they've been taken by Hestia and now they're going to die, and so we're even more screwed than before."

None of them said anything. She inhaled a deep breath and leaned back, watching as Artemis twirled the white carnation in her fingers, and it was like some thought or memory triggered in her brain.

The white carnation is the answer. But no one knows where the perfect one is.

She quickly told them.

"There's a perfect carnation?" Aphrodite groaned. "Seriously, why can't anything be easy with us?"

"Because we're immortal and everyone thinks we laugh at the face of fear," Athena closed the journal.

"If they could just climb a mountain, they would learn the truth about us and maybe write stories that aren't crazy for us," Artemis complained. "And I don't think this little sister over here would understand."

Artemis did have a point there. Since she had to fake human for 2,520 years, Rainbow had never had a chance to get into the Greek lore. But she knew from personal experience that being one of the gods or goddesses was a whole lot tougher than mortals knew. Usually, they had to deal with the stress of having ten billion family members, given that they were all related to each other. And they all loved arguing with each other, making family reunions nonexistent. None of them actually could remember how the first argument sprang up, but they've been insulting each other when they could ever since. And then when that movie came out, they really botched the truth about the Greek gods and goddesses.

"What's making you giggle?" Ares snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Nothing," she said. "Just thinking of how wrong this movie was on Mom, thinking she was super nice to Heracles."

Artemis stifled a laugh.

"They had no idea," Athena snickered. "Yeah, she totally didn't try to kill him while he was asleep."

"Okay, enough with the Mom lies talk," Ares said. "We gotta find that carnation."

"But again, that would take forever," Aphrodite reminded them. "Shouldn't we at least try to free your friends?"

Aphrodite did make sense with that. They had no idea where the carnation was, or how long the others had before they were dead.

"First, we get them," Athena said. "Then we find the carnation."

"Agreed," Artemis replied.

"And then we stop Hestia," Ares added.

"And save Olympus," Rainbow finished.