Devil in a Red Dress

15

Hephaestus had been busy forging weapons upon weapons with the help of his cyclopes in the last century to help replenish the weapons of the angels that were helping Poseidon battle Hades' demons in the living realm as they waited for Jennie to turn sixteen, and that wouldn't stop even at the final battle.

Chaeyoung had foreseen that the angel's swords and spears would be shattered beyond repair as they battled demon after demon, they would need countless more, probably more than even the great smith god Hephaestus with his smith army of cyclopes could produce but he tried anyway.

Hermes was to go back and forth from the Celestial Realm to the living realm, delivering orders or messages from Athena to the other gods, and bringing the gods down for her should they need back up.

Demeter, Hera, Dionysus, and Aphrodite would stay in the Heavenly Realm, ready to be called upon if needed, guarding all of the entrances to the Spiritual Realm while the battle raged below.

Athena had been pleasantly surprised that Dionysus had actually been a little crucial to the plan. Being the god of wine and revelry, even he himself had admitted there was nothing he could really do to contribute, unless they needed free wine if they needed a break from battle, he volunteered himself as the 'wine boy.'

"You know, like those one humans in the later times of the living realm? They have water boys for when the other humans play those funny sports. I can be the wine boy like them while you guys do battle!" Dionysus said laughing, though he was incredibly serious about it. He knew he'd be great at that job, and who wouldn't fight better with loose bodies after a bit of liquid warmth and liquid courage? At least that's how he saw it. He had always thought wine just enhanced everything.

The joke did not amuse Athena.

Jisoo however had cackled, and Dionysus felt proud of himself for that.

He let slip after that about how he could create madness with his mere presence, not realizing how important that could be.

"I'm down for a wine boy." Jisoo said in amusement.

"At your service my Queen!" Dionysus said, immediately taking his job seriously and conjuring up a goblet full of Jisoo's preferred wine—that was another ability of his, inherently knowing what kind of wine whatever being he was conjuring the wine up for would love the most at that particular time. He handed the goblet over to her with a cute little bow. "Coolest thing I can do. Everything else is just wild or kinda useless so unless you have a mean craving for grapes or you want everyone around me to go crazy at the battle before the after party even starts then I think I should just pop in and out and be the wine boy while you guys take down the emo god."

"What do you mean go crazy?" Athena asked him curiously, somehow knowing he didn't mean that he sometimes annoyed the people around him when he was supposed to act serious but couldn't because it wasn't in his nature.

All of the gods had written all of their strengths and weaknesses on a parchment scroll at Athena's bequest and Athena had studied all of them religiously. Of course she'd lived with them for millennia and knew most of those strengths and weaknesses already, but there were certain things, certain abilities the gods had sometimes kept to themselves.

Like the fact that no one knew Artemis could transform herself into an animal at will for entire centuries until about a century ago when she transformed herself into a snake and wrapped herself around Hermes' Caduceus for an entire year—he never noticed he had an extra snake on there because he was too busy scheming—just so she could spy on all of the other gods, mainly Hera, without getting caught.

She learned a lot, considering Hermes was always up to something and spying on the other Olympian gods so he could pull off his pranks. He was too quick most of the time to get caught, and even if he was caught she was never discovered because she was a snake and would just slither away. Mainly she had just wanted to get back at Hera and she had only meant to spy on them for a week or so but Hera kept making spiteful comments so she decided to really commit to her revenge.