Project XXI (Book 1 in the Hearts of Myth Series)

"Hephaestus! This is what; the twenty-first time you're asking for the same blessing? You'll just never give up, won't you?"

"Yeah," Hephaestus grumbled, disliking how Phanes reminded him that this project took him twenty tries so far; Hephaestus' pride was overwhelming.

"Well, I'll be right there," Phanes grinned, waving goodbye.

The rainbow glimmered once more, and Phanes' face slowly distorted back into the rainbow it had once been.

~•*•~

The two gods stared at their beautiful creation as their creation blinked back, sucking on her thumb.

They had finally did it—on the twenty-first try—they built a machine who breathed and ate and did everything a mortal could... with a few exceptions, of course.

The infant—Ekko was her name—had received a blessing from every God and goddess in Mt.Olympus; she was practically a god herself.

But what no one knew that night, was that this infant; this machine, would become the most powerful goddess of all, even more powerful than Kronos. Not because she was a machine; not because she was a creation of perfection; not because she had the gift of all gods and goddesses. But because she had a gift that no other god, goddess, or mortal had.

She was Project XXI.

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