The Goddessy II: The Trials of Zeus

Chapter Five

The next morning was quiet.

Last night, they had just ushered all of them into the palace, and Rainbow found herself just watching as the sun rose again. She wasn't in the mood to experience another nightmare, so bring on the sleep deprivation!

So she had spent the last few hours memorizing the possible people who would be helping her in this mysterious first trial, which probably worked in the short term. But pretty soon they'd be forced to go into an underground building to start practicing and learning basic skills they could use to get through the first two, and the third once they knew what they were doing.

"You're up early."

She turned around to find Bastet from Egypt slink into the room. As the Egyptian goddess of cats, she could literally go anywhere and never make a sound. She could also transform into a cat if she could.

"So you're the girl who saved her friends from death and had to hide from her entire planet and her friends for 2,520 years?" Bastet asked, like she was the nosiest person in the history of nosy people.

"Well, that's not it," Rainbow said, flipping over the drawing she'd been doing to pass the time.

"I must say though," Bastet yawned. "I still have people worshipping me in the modern era. That's more impressive, don't you think?"

Bastet, you already have an ego. Please leave before I zap you or something because my hands are not in the mood for a zap right now.

"And I helped from plunging this world into chaos," Bastet bragged. "Or should I say, I stopped Apophis?"

(Also known as the snake of Chaos in Egypt)

"Please, just leave me alone," Rainbow said, feeling the electrical energy surging through her veins to her hands.

"Fine," Bastet slunk out of the room. "But don't say I warned you on this: I may have to be working with you, so it's best I'll take the lead."

And with that, Rainbow wished Bastet would lose it all. She was immortal already; what did this matter to her?

Pretty soon, the others started getting up as well, and were told to report to the underground building in half an hour at the latest. Tomorrow, they didn't have any of today, only there was this event going to be thrown in their honor tomorrow night.

"And this is exactly why the laws of gravity work on Earth!" she heard Issac Newton scream, who was throwing apples against the walls of the room he was staying in. It looked like Zeus.

Rainbow found herself chuckling as she dressed in a pair of navy leggings and a worn out white shirt that had burn marks from Hestia, also throwing on her lucky cropped hoodie and lacing up the one pair of shoes she could stand right now.

That underground building turned out to be right underneath the palace, unsurprisingly. When she arrived, Issac was already dropping stuff from makeshift trees, Bastet was throwing spear tips at targets, and Tut appeared to be basking in the fluorescent lights, two slave girls fanning him with palm leaves. Caligula went straight next to him.

And right in front of her, Jacob was watching, wondering what to do.

"Uh, hey," Rainbow said, sitting next to him.

"I guess it just feels weird, telling us at the last minute," Jacob said as Boudicca swept into the room, slashing her sword into the open air and screaming Celtic battle cries.

"Well, I heard Athena saying that's what they did with the other trials before this, only there was one from each mythology instead of two," Rainbow explained.