Modern Myths

Book 5 - The Last Olympian: Chapter 3: The Meeting

8/16/09, Sunday

Manhattan, New York City, New York, 10:00am

Percy POV

As I shoved spears into the ground, Drew spoke as she did the same, "You have to accept godhood if offered. You're growing too strong."

I responded, "While my magic has grown to the point that I'm an overfilled balloon, Grandma & Hephaestus are working on a solution that would allow me keep my humanity."

Drew fired back, "If you die in this battle, you'll explode and make the Tsar Bomba look like a firecracker."

I sighed, "I know."

That's the downside of all the blessings and training I've received, more power than my mortal body can hold.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, 10:30am

Prometheus was walking towards us, with a few Celts, Japanese, Hyperborean Giants, Gryphons, Arimaspi, Hippopodes, Onocentaurs, Cyprian Centaurs, clay dolls, Pandai & a Scythian Dracaena.

He is wearing a tuxedo, is seven feet tall, wraps his hair around in a ponytail, and has multiple deep scars on his face and torso.

The Scythian Dracanae are humanoid females with twin serpent trunks instead of legs.

Their walk is combination of walking and slithering like walking on living skis.

If I had to guess, this is their queen, Queen Sess.

Her claim to fame is blackmailing Hercules into boinking.

Their son, Scythes, became ruler of Scythia.

Hyperborean giants are thirty-foot tall giants with blue skin and icy-gray hair.

These are at least that. When the first 3 were young, back in Ancient Greece, they were only 9 feet tall.

They are pacifists & not known for their intelligence.

They were probably tricked into serving Kronos.

Arimaspi look like human sized Cyclopes that are constantly warring with the Gryphons.

I wonder how the Titans united them.

Hippopodes were like centaurs, but only from the thighs down. Thus, only 2 feet.

They are also constantly at war with the Pandoi. They were also in a 3-way war with a tribe of humans, Oeonae.

Prometheus was carrying Pandora's storage jar, a Pithos.

It used to contain all the evils & goods in the world.

Good, like hope & affection, could influence more people from inside than out, while the opposite is true for evil.

When it was opened, only hope remained.

Philotes & the charities were inside the jar before it was opened.

As were Soteria(safety), Eleutheria(liberty), Pistis(trust), Eusebeia, Thrasos(boldness), restraint, harmony, Nomos(fairness), Sophrosyne, mercy, happiness, peace, worth and joy.

There used to be 2 pithoi that Zeus used to regulate the fortune of mortals, one good and one bad.

He'd crack one at a time to send that fortune to individuals.

He had Pandora's designed the way it was, with a filter that magnified the spread of the good, so humanity could blame Pandora, and her gender, for all bad fortune.