New Beginning

Chapter 1

In a small forgery filled with smoke, metals and heat was a tall,  deformed man, very skinny, with a huge scars on his face one going over his eyes making it hard for him to open his left eye. The scar extended to his nose ending at the top of his lip. He looked weak above all with his right left badly damage causing to him to limp ever time he worked.

 He was Hephaestus god of forgery, fire and volcanoes, considered the most ugliest and hated god in Olympus. He had done no wrong but because he was ugly and unpleasing to look that he was hated and turned to a laughing stock. He was all alone with no one to talk to, his sibling's and half sibling's ignore him, laugh at him or insult him in front of his face like it was nothing.

 Ares the god of war attacks him, when ever he feels like knowing Hephaestus will not fight back. His sisters just ignore him sometimes calling him a mistake.

 His father looks down on him and make sure to let him know how much of a  disappointment he was. His mother calls him names and his not afraid to show him that she doesn't care for him. She spends more time with Ares pampering him, while ignoring Hephaestus. Poseidon and Hades looks down on him and see him as a waste of space

   Athena, Artemis, Hermes, Apollo, Dionysus, Demeter and even Hestia the suppose kindest goddess is not so kind to him.

 Right now Hephaestus was currently making new set of thunderbolts for Zeus and other weapons for the other gods. When Hermes suddenly banged into the forgery angrily.

 "Um Hermes is everything alright? Is something wrong?" Hephaestus, Hermes ignored his question and walked towards him slowly with an evil twisted grin on his face. 

Hephaestus suddenly fell down to the floor with golden chains wrapped tightly around him, searing into his skin. Hephaestus screamed in pain, he looked up at his step brother who was still grinning at him.

 "Hermes what are you doing? If this is a prank then please stop it and release me. This is hurting me" Hephaestus looked at Hermes pleading expecting him to release him only to see Hermes face go from a grin to a cold face with hatred in hi eyes.

 " Am taking you to the throne room where your punishment will be decided. Traitor !" Hermes said, a bright flash consumed them both as they disappeared from the forge.

 Appearing in the throne were the other gods where seated in their thrones. As Hephaestus appeared in throne room all the deities looked at him with hatred in their eyes, even Hestia, Hades and his grandmother Rhea.

Hephaestus POV: 

 "Hephaestus" Zeus voice boomed, I looked at him to see him glaring at me with great anger. What's going on why are they looking at me like this, even aunt Hestia, grandmother and my adopted mother Thetis. Normally they would look at me in disgust or ignore, even aunt Hestia and my so called adopted mother Thetis look at me with disgust and think I don't see them .

   "Hephaestus you have been accused of making weapons for Olympus enemies, you where even planning on giving away my thunderbolt to an enemy of Olympus so that they could use it to kill us and make you powerful." Zeus said looking at me with pure hatred and disgust. "How do you plead, imbecile" Zeus sneered

"Not guilty father. I am innocent father, I am loyal to Olympus I will never betray Olympus father, mother you have to believe. This is a set up of some kind." I said pleadingly, with tears about to come out of my eyes.

"You are no son of mine traitor, you are nothing but a disabled traitorous bastard.  You barged into this kingdom, attacked my wife and I overlooked it. Even though we neve wanted you here, we were still kind enough to let you stay. I even gave you the most beautiful woman in the world and made her your wife, even knowing that you were not good enough for her. I gave you a throne amongst us, knowing fully well that other than making of weapons and forgery that you were useless in other things. I forced Aphrodite into allowing you to leave with her in her palace and you infested her home with your presence just like you infested Olympus." Father no Lord Zeus said making me flinch at his tone and the hurtful things that he said to me as the other gods laughed at me.

 "Not only did you become a traitor but you lie about it. Ares showed us a video of you planning with the enemy and giving them my thunderbolt" Zeus said as a video popped showing someone that looked like me doing all the things that were said. 

Which is shocking because I barely leave the forgery and no one. Not even the Olympian gods have come to visit me in the forgery. 

"All of us plus the citizens of Olympus have decided that you will be punished brutally. We would have sent you to Tartarus but decided not to just yet. Till we are done teaching you a lesson. You will no longer be a god, an immortal yes so that you can live to go through your punishment but your domains have been taking away from you and given to Ares along with Aphrodite. She will no longer become your wife instead she is now Ares wife, the both of them agreed to it. This is a reward to Ares for being so loyal and telling us about your betrayal." Zeus said.

 I heard people cheer for Ares as he had an arrogant smirk on his face most especially aimed towards me, that bastard he framed me. If it wasn't for the chains I would have attacked, but I couldn't I was trapped and weak since my domains and powers were taken away from me.

"FATHER.." I yelled " please you can't do this. Am innocent this is a setup you have to believe, please all of you listen to me I have been nothing but loyal to Olympus, don't do this to me." I cried out pleadingly. 

I just can't believe this was happening to me, WHY? Why do bad things always happen to me, why can't find piece.

   Ares grabbed his spear and threw it at my already weak throne, making it collapse. As immense pain consumed me, and I fell pain due to my throne being destroyed.

 "Your  fool Hephaestus, did you think a weakling like you would be able to go against us and win. Your the weak link of the family and it will always remain so." Athena said as she kicked me at the ribs, making me groan. 

I looked up and saw all of the Olympians surrounding me with wicked smiles on their faces. "Your nothing Hephaestus, did you really think that I the goddess of beauty will love an ugly monster like you" she sneered at me, I felt my heart break at her harsh words.

 It hurts, I love Aphrodite but she does not love me, no matter what I do. I can not impress her and get her to love me.  I saw her kiss Ares on the lips while looking at me with a viscous smirk. 

"W why Dite. I love you. What did I do wrong" I whispered in pain.

 She walked towards me and grasped my cheeks painfully "Why? You want to know why I don't love you. Well I will tell you" She said looking me in the eye with hatred. she stabbed me in my shoulder with a knife and it hurt but not as much as the fact that I am being betrayed in such manner after I everything I did.

"Your not good enough, your not up to my level. Your not a man like Ares, your just a crybaby, a monster in a God form. That's why I don't love you." She said as she  got up and walked back towards Ares kissing him, as they looked at me and laughed.

A/N: So yeah am making slight changes to this story and republishing it. I hope this version is better, I have been reading a lot of Hephaestus book and found a new excitement to redo this story.