Everyone in the room was bored, as they had taken a break to eat and relieve themselves, others to reflect on what they were seeing and learning through this book. But the most affected so far, especially by the last chapter, was Aphrodite.
Because?
Easy, she recognizes that she was wrong in many ways in her life, she made bad decisions that hurt and hurt people, but she never thought about that.
The most affected was Hephaestus, true he practically forced her to marry him, but there were better ways to free herself from him than by cheating on him. But I don't know how he messed with everyone he knew to consciously hurt him. Are his actions justified? No.
Is there a way to remedy it? Neither, but there was something I could do and I was going to do it right now.
Thus the goddess Aphrodite approached Hephaestus who was alone with some of his devices to speak with him.
Aphrodite: Hephaestus... - I would say softly
Hephaestus: Aphrodite
Aphrodite: Hephaestus... I, I want to apologize.
Hephaestus would just be silent, first he would let her speak and then he would respond.
Aphrodite: I apologize for all the times I cheated on you, insulted you, or made fun of you. I didn't have to do it, but I did it anyway and I hurt you, for millennia and I never stopped, despite knowing the damage I was doing to you.
Hephaestus would continue silently analyzing Aphrodite's words and he could feel the sincerity of that apology, but he had to apologize too.
Hephaestus: I also want to apologize to you Aphrodite...
Aphrodite: But...
Hephaestus: Let me speak, I want to apologize for forcing you to marry me, I knew you didn't want to, but that didn't stop me and I continued with it. Aphrodite, you don't bear all the blame, because I wanted to force you to love me even before we met. And for that I forgive you
Aphrodite would shed tears of happiness for being forgiven, because even though she pretended not to, it hurt her to see Hephaestus suffer.
Hephaestus: But... We can't be together anymore.
Aphrodite: What...?
Hephaestus: Aphrodite, I forgive you, but I no longer love you. If this had happened millennia ago, believe me, I would be jumping and celebrating right now. My wife was finally recognizing me as her husband and asking for forgiveness.
Aphrodite: But I'm still your wife...
Hephaestus: Aphrodite, let's not fall for lies, ours was never a marriage or a relationship for that matter, I was never your husband and you were never my wife. Also, tell me the truth. Do you believe that after everything we've been through there really is salvation for this "marriage"?
Aphrodite would only shake her head while letting out tears, as she recognizes what Hephaestus means, there wasn't even a marriage in the first place.
Aphrodite: But if you don't love me anymore, why do you forgive me?
Hephaestus: I never said I didn't love you Aphrodite - Aphrodite just gave Hephaestus a questioning look - I still love you Aphrodite in one way or another, but it's no longer the same love I had for you millennia ago, I still care about you and your well-being, but don't expect me to love you madly again
Aphrodite: But then what do you want?
Hephaestus: May we both be happy, Aphrodite, our "marriage" has to end, so that each of us can find our happiness. As soon as this madness ends, I'm going to ask Hera to divorce us. And deep in my heart Aphrodite, I hope that we both can be happy with someone else or alone.
1 hour after that emotional talk between Hephaestus and Aphrodite, everyone was gathered again to read
Omega: Well... Now who's reading?
Hades: Me - Raising my hand
Persephone: Why?
Hades: I don't know, I just want to read.
So Hades took the book and prepared to read.
What is a King? What does a king represent? How should a king act? What defines someone as a king? And how does one become a king?
Percy: Ok... We start rare
Grover: Yes... Many questions on the same topic.
Annabeth: But it's interesting to analyze, isn't it?
Nico: Yes, the true definition of a king is very ambiguous.
Clarise: More than ambiguous I say diffuse, because what is the real difference between a king and a tyrant?
Kairo was currently in Hera's temple, his mother drinking tea with her and his aunt Hestia.
They had a nice chat
Hera: So, my son, tell me what kept you so distracted these last 10 years in the underworld.
For immortals, 10 years are nothing more than a respite, but for Hera they were 10 years in which she hardly knew anything about her son.
Kairo: I was helping father organize the Underworld better, mother.
Hestia: Wasn't that place already organized?
Kairo would just shake his head.
Kairo: Yes and no. It is organized but in a basic way, I will give you an example.
Imagine that you have 3 boxes and you have to distribute the contents of a larger box into the 3 smaller boxes. But instead of analyzing the contents of the big box you just grab what you can and throw it into any of the boxes. Do I go capturing?
Hera: Yes, I understand the main idea, as such there was no true order to the Greek Underworld.
Kairo: Exactly, that on the one hand and on the other there was a lot of unused space that was only for decoration, now we have new buildings and we turned the Underworld into a large city that surrounds my father's main castle where the souls of those who want reside. feel alive in a way
Hestia: How are you alive?
Kairo: Despite popular belief, the soul does have personality, which is what you left impregnated in it, while there are souls that only want eternal rest from death, there are others that want to continue living, for that we created the city of Tia
Hestia: But how are they divided?
Kairo: If you mean those who enter the city, almost all of them, the only ones who are not accepted, are those who go directly to Tartarus. Now if you wonder if the city is divided into classes like the mortal world, the answer is no. Everyone is equal, the only thing that matters is that you are a productive member of the city, whether working to care for and expand the city, or protecting the city as a warrior.
Persephone: Ok, that doesn't sound bad. Why didn't you ever try to do it?
Hades: It never occurred to me
Hestia: How did you come up with that idea for the underworld?
Kairo: The truth is that I don't know. We were just talking when the idea came up.
Hera: Is that why you didn't visit me?
Kairo: And that's why I apologize, mother, the duties I had with my father took up a lot of my time, but I always thought about you.
Hera only smiled lovingly towards her son.
Kairo: Changing the subject, how has everything been on Olympus?
Hera and Hestia could only give a look of disgust and sadness.
Hera: I can imagine why that looks.
Zeus: Why?
Hera would just look at Zeus asking, Really?
Kairo: Mother? Aunt?
Hera: Things are bad Kairo, Zeus does not attend to his duties as king, he prefers to court women or be lazy and rarely fulfills his duties
Kairo: What?
Hera: It's horrible, many times I have to do everything alone and it's stressful. I would like to take a break but I can't
Kairo was thinking about that. What the fuck? If he is not going to fulfill his duties, then why does Zeus want the throne so much?
Poseidon: It's a question we've all asked ourselves many times.
Zeus: I'm not such a bad king.
Hades: You are so bad, that despite having the threat of your father's return, you just ignore it, so you can continue living happily in your ignorance.
Zeus: I have already said that father is not coming back and that is all.
Poseidon: See what we mean.
30 minutes later
Kairo, thinking about what his mother said, went to look for the most appropriate person to receive information about the overall situation of Olympus.
Atena was a very beautiful woman, with fuchsia hair that reached the bottom of her buttock, B cup breasts (90 cm), a small waist (56 cm) and a firm but pleasant butt (85 cm) with gray eyes that transmitted wisdom. and mystery that seemed to bring you into a death trap and it all ends with a height of 1.72 cm tall. Thus generating supernatural beauty
Now all the men blushed again at the description of that Athena, because she was a total beauty
While women felt a little inferior to that Athena, who seemed like perfection as a woman
Currently she was inside her temple, which looked like a giant library with shelves that seemed endless, full of pure books and she was meditating, thinking of ways to fix her father's mistakes with Olympus and his government.
Zeus: Oh come on. I don't have such a horrible government either.
Or rather the lack of it, since his father, despite being the king, never exercised the duty of the office and only wanted the benefits that he received. brings with him. He always imposed stupid laws or they were outright tyrannical, but he never complied with them himself and that is causing resentment and tensions with the other gods.
Zeus: That's a lie...
Hades: I remind you of the time you prohibited going to the mortal world for a century and 5 demigods of yours emerged
Zeus: That...
Poseidon: Or the time you forbade us from speaking to other pantheons, but you tried to communicate with the Aztecs to try to rape Quetzalcoatl and now we have the hatred of that entire pantheon
Zeus: I am...
Hera: An unfortunate person who only knows how to cause problems
Zeus: Hera after this...
Omega: After this nothing or Chaos is going to kill you
He was looking for a solution to this problem, recognizing that if he continued like this, he could start a civil war on Olympus. But the sound of her door being slammed brought her out of her trance.
She knew that few gods visited her in her temple and the few that did were trustworthy, so she gave permission to the person she was knocking to enter.
This is how I hear the person approach with a firm and calm step.
Kairo: Athena, a pleasure as always to see you.
Well that surprised Athena, of course it was not the first time that Kairo came to her temple, but as she understood Kairo would spend the whole day with Hera and Hestia. What happened?
Athena: Likewise Kairo, it's a pleasure to see you, but what are you doing here?
Kairo: Maybe I can't visit my friend - I would say in a mocking way.
Athena could only roll her eyes at Kairo's personality.
Athena: You're right Kairo, how can I ask you that, of course you can visit me whenever you want or better yet, from today you can enter any place where I am welcome without an invitation.
Kairo seeing Athena's clear attack returns the favor
Kairo: Or how honored I feel that Athena herself gives me those permissions, but how can I return such an honor. Or I'm already doing the same thing, so starting today you have permission to enter any place where I'm welcome without permission.
Hestia: They look like husband and wife making fun of each other.
Athena: Not you too, aunt, I have enough with Aphrodite.
Hestia: But I'm only telling the truth. Furthermore, you have a lot of trust to give those permissions without problems between you.
Athena: I'm just kidding.
Poseidon: And who are you joking like that with, Athena? - He would speak in a playful tone and with his eyebrow raised.
Athena: Shut up, barnacle head!!
Omega: We better continue
Athena: Well, thank you for that invitation, but seriously, what did you really come here for, Kairo? - I would start with a jovial tone, and at the end put a more serious one and Kairo corresponded that seriousness with a look of his own
Kairo: How bad is it?
Athena: I don't...
Kairo: You don't want to start this game, Athena, you know what I mean.
The pressure was increasing in the room, neither of them were expelling power, or using their domains or anything, they were just looking into each other's eyes. Even so, the presence and pressure they exerted on each other was capable of cowing even the bravest.
Everyone in the reading room was tense and others in deep fear. Even the strongest ones like Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and Apollo were trembling slightly from the aura of those two.
Nico: What... Is this? How come they have that... that... that...
Percy: Power?... No, it's not power, that's purely
Annabeth: His aura and presence.
Athena, closing her eyes, would respond
Athena: We are bad. The other gods are marrying the government of Zeus, it is very likely that there will be a revolution because of all the problems, he does not fulfill his duties, he invents stupid laws and does not comply with them himself, and he abuses his power and authority to do what he wants. wants. If we continue like this...
Kairo: I understand... Do you have a plan?
Atena: I have two, but for both I need support, the first is to fix the disasters he has caused, but the problem is his paranoia, if he finds out that someone else is fulfilling his role, he is capable of destroying it.
Kairo: And the second one?
Athena: It is to rebel against him, Hephaestus created chains capable of stopping Zeus, but almost the same problem, when he is freed, he will see a confrontation against him.
Zeus: I see that you only think of ways to betray me.
Hera: Maybe we wouldn't have to if you were even a decent king.
Zeus: I am a good king...
Hera: That's a lie and you know it, almost all the disasters that Olympus goes through are your fault. And the few times you don't, you are a participant in those same problems.
Zeus could only remain silent and contain his anger.
Kairo: So one way or another, they are going to end up facing Zeus, be it both pacifist and warlike...
Athena: And...
...
Kairo: Let's go for the first plan
Athena: What? - I would say bewildered
Kairo: I said we are going for the first plan, you and I are going to solve the problems of Olympus
Athena: But I could do it alone...
Kairo: I know that. But that is the problem or the root of it, Zeus distrusts and never follows advice and only thinks about his personal benefit as king and you alone can repeat the same problem. Instead the two are together...
Athena: We can make up for each other's faults...
Kairo: Exactly.
Athena: That idea... It can work... Even if there are frictions we can solve them...
Kairo: So what do you say, Athena, do you accept my help?
I would say while extending my hand
Athena would continue thinking about the best course of action, since Kairo's words made logic and sense. So she took that deal.
Zeus: Even in that dimension you betray me, Athena.
Athena: Yes, because I do it for the common good, to avoid the end of the Olympics.
Zeus could only look with hatred towards his daughter
Kairo: Okay, so how do we start this...
Thus Atena invokes a tower of papers with all the proposed reforms and ideas
Kairo: Shit.
It turns out that Zeus' paperwork was a tower at least 2.5 meters high.
Athena: And this is the smallest
Cairo: Carajo.
Everyone in the room was silent, some out of shock, others out of disappointment, and others out of embarrassment. Well, that was the smallest tower. How big is the biggest one?
Zeus: Yo...
Rhea: Zeus....just...shut up, anything you can say keep it to yourself.
10 years later
Olympus was reaching its peak and you will wonder why?
Easy, the reforms of Kairo and Athena, thanks to them doing Zeus's duties, Olympus was improving. New temples and new structures were created.
What is Hecate's school of magic like? Another school but it was a general time for anyone who wants to learn
Also, a combat area and a military school and other impressive structures were formed.
Annabeth: Incredible, that Olympus is even more beautiful than the current one.
Percy: Right, wait candy store "Aunt Hestia" look at that
Hestia would only cry with joy anime style, because she was finally able to open her store
Ares: Who runs the military school?
Omega: Athena y Hades.
Hades: I understand Athena, but why me?
Omega: Two reasons actually. One, Kairo made it so you get out of the underworld more often now that he spends most of his time on Olympus.
Hades: I say again, why?
Omega: He was worried that you closed in on yourself. And two, so that you can share your knowledge and that of the generals who have fallen in battle.
Hades just nods.
You will ask yourself. Hasn't Zeus started a fight over the supposed theft of power? And the answer is surprisingly no.
Well, he is more focused on fucking mortals, so much so that he never noticed the lack of work or the changes in Olympus.
She has been having demigod children. What happened to Hera? How does this situation affect you?
Hera: *Tsk* Why am I not surprised?
At first it affected her too much, but thanks to the support of her children she was able to overcome Zeus. Despite not being divorced, she no longer cares what Zeus does or doesn't do, now she lives only for herself and her family.
She also had fun learning to cook again with her mother and Hestia and now her cooking is at a new level, as is her power, thanks to training with Kairo she is now a little more powerful.
Zeus: You have abandoned your marriage
Hera: I learned from the best
The change of mentality has also happened in Olympus, because although Hera and Zeus are the kings of Olympus, that title belongs to Kairo and Athena, Hera does not care, it has been a while since she no longer cares whether she is or not. queen and Zeus has not realized that yet
Zeus: Now everyone is plotting against my
Hades: They don't, they are just following the true kings
Zeus: I am the king!!!
Hera: The king of nothing.
But where are Kairo and Athena?
Kairo is in the Underworld helping his father with his homework.
Meanwhile, Athena meets the other Olympians except for Zeus, since Hera had summoned them.
Hera: Well, that's the plan to chain Zeus. Who supports me?
Poseidon: I do, I think it's time to change king.
Apollo: I support you, just to take care of you, nothing more.
Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, Dionysus, Ares, Artemis and Demeter did not agree to help with that task.
Zeus: Hmm, I knew they were going to betray me.
Hera: Although I don't understand why in that dimension?
Demeter: Maybe something destined?
Hera: I don't know the truth...
Athena: I still don't understand the reason for this plan. I say Olympus has been improving
Hera: Yes, but thanks to you and Kairo, but those improvements are always overshadowed by Zeus's idiocies.
Now everything makes sense
Athena: But we improve more, while Zeus makes us take one step back, we take eleven forwards
Hermes:*Whistle* A that's what I call ability
Hephaestus: I think we should talk about other topics, like repairing my temple.
Aphrodite, Hera and Athena: Nooooo!!!! The three goddesses exclaimed with fury
Hephaestus: Ok, what happened to my temple and why are you mad at me?
Hephaestus: But...
Aphrodite: No buts, that's your punishment for the idiocy committed by you.
Hephaestus: It wasn't so bad...
Athena: Hephaestus. THEY LITERALLY EXPLODED A BIG BANG!!!
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Apollo: Wait what?🤨
Hermes: Wait what?
Ares: Wait?
Hephaestus: No one was hurt...
Hera: I almost expected that idiocy from Hermes and Apollo. But about you and Kairo
Apollo and Hermes: Hey...
Poseidon: Wait what happened? I saw the destruction of the temple of Hephaestus, but no one has explained it to me...
Apollo: First we are not that irresponsible, second, I also have that doubt
Hera: Well what happened...
a week ago
We find Hephaestus and Kairo drunk in the former's temple
Kairo: Hephaestus my brother, I love you very much...
Hephaestus: Me too Kairo, me too.
Both gods would say very drunk
Kairo: Hephaestus, my brother, ask me for whatever you want and if it is in my power I will give it to you.
Hephaestus: Well then I want you to help me with my greatest creation.
Kairo: And what would that be?
Hephaestus: A scepter that within it has the power of an Infinite Universe
Hephaestus: Ok... we got off to a bad start...😐
Hera: Do you believe it?
Hephaestus: Excuse me?
Kairo: What a great idea brother, I can help you with that. Just tell me how we start
So Hephaestus took Kairo to his workshop, where he showed him a sphere made of crystal.
Hephaestus: Look you just have to put enough power inside this sphere and I can create the scepter
Kairo: What's up? Why not put a Big Bang inside that?
Hephaestus: What a wonderful idea, why hadn't it occurred to me. Forward
Thus Kairo performed one of his most powerful techniques. Infinite Big Bang. It is an infinite Big Bang as its name says, which creates and destroys universes infinitely.
Percy: Ok, we're screwed...
Annabeth: Why?
Percy: I don't know about you, tell me, here we have a bad king, but he can be faced...
Zeus: Hey, no one can defeat me...
Percy just ignored Zeus.
Percy: And we have a bastard who creates and destroys universes infinitely.
Annabeth: Ok, we're screwed.
What neither of them took into account was the excess of power and thus the sphere exploded.
Causing an earthquake that was felt throughout the Olympic pantheon
Hera, Athena and Aphrodite were the fastest to arrive because they were close and when they looked towards the temple of Hephaestus, they saw a dome containing a large explosion that shrank until it disappeared, next to the temple of the God.
So they desperately went to look for Hephaestus
Athena: Why did we only go for Hephaestus?
Hephaestus: Hey...
Athena: I'm not saying this out of malice, but Kairo was also at the epicenter of the explosion. Do you remember?
Hephaestus: True...
Omega: At that moment they didn't know that Kairo was there.
As they approached they could see a horrible sight, the temple of the god destroyed, without seeing any rubble and they saw Hephaestus badly injured in one arm, he seemed burned to the bone.
Hephaestus: Wait, if nothing was left of my temple, how did I come out almost without injuries?
Apollo: Or I live for that matter.
But then they had an even more horrible sight, letting out a scream that woke up Hephaestus who is still disoriented, but look where the three women are looking and it is not a beautiful sight.
It was Kairo, badly injured, with burns all over his body and a sea of dripping ichor.
Apollo: This is what you should look like.
She ran with the other three to check on Kairo and when they were about to call Apollo to heal Kairo, he stood up with a start, scaring everyone away and expelled his power to begin to regenerate and in less than a second be almost intact, the only evidence of that damage was a burn-shaped scar on his right pectoral
Apollo: Ok... What the fuck
Hestia: Language...
Apollo: Or come on, aunt, you can't deny that that should be impossible, even for the most powerful gods.
Kairo: Hephaestus, you're fine, turning around to see Hephaestus, only wounded in the arm, but at the same time giving a spectacle because he was naked
His body, tall and athletic with marked and defined muscles, without being exaggerated, neat white skin, golden eyes full of concern and a face chiseled to be attractive and sexy.
Percy: Ok... Did anyone see where my heterosexuality was?
Grover: I need help finding it too.
Aphrodite: He is even more beautiful than Adonis and Narcissus combined. But what size is your package?
Omega: 30 cm...
Aphrodite: Without resizing
Omega: Therefore, that is natural, the same as Hades.
That alone opened everyone's eyes, the only one next in size to them is Poseidon and Apollo with 28 cm each. Those were Aphrodite's thoughts.
(I would never have done this scene normally, but since I'm angry with Wattpad's new norms and rules, here it is. Likewise, if they delete this story from Wattpad, I have Inkitt and Fanfiction to search for me like Nevem)
Kairo: Hephaestus, are you okay?
Hephaestus: Yes, but how about you? How did you recover from that? And so fast?
Kairo: I used my power to speed up the process.
Hera: What happened?
This is how Kairo and Hephaestus explain the situation
Aphrodite: Are they idiots? How do they think of doing that stupid thing? They could have died - I would say between screams to end between sobs
Kairo could only hug her to console her, he knew that Aphrodite was more affected by these situations.
Aphrodite wanted to push Kairo away but the fear she felt when she saw him so badly injured prevented her from doing that, and she accepted the comfort that Kairo gave her.
Everyone in the room is the same, why did they get involved in doing such a stupid thing?
the Aphrodite in the room was crying the same, only being comforted by Hestia
Athena: But what was that protective dome?
Kairo: That was me. As I was closer to the explosion, I became aware faster and then I started a quick thought process, where first I created a barrier to contain the explosion, second I created a shield for Hephaestus, so that he would survive the explosion. and third I began to get rid of the explosion and end it or contain it here in this sphere
Thus showing a sphere that appears to contain a universe
Hera: But you could do all that. Why didn't you cover yourself with a shield?
Kairo: The explosion was quick and I had to act just as quickly...
Athena: And there was no time - Atena finished
Hera: How can you not have time for that?
That was a question everyone asked.
Athena: A Big Bang expands at 67.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec (a distance equivalent to 3.26 million light-years) now considers that it was at the epicenter, that is, it is minimally enhanced by 2. So the speed of the explosion was 4542.76 kilometers per second per megaparsec (a distance equivalent to 10.6276 million light-years)
Hera: So that means that Kairo...
Athena: She barely had time to contain the explosion and she still protected Hephaestus as much as she could and thought about how to contain the explosion.
Nico: Ok, my brother is really broken.
Percy: Nooo. Do you think so? - I would say sarcastically
Nico: Fuck You
Kairo: Well, enough of the flattery, now this thing - referring to the sphere that contains the explosion, I'm going to hand it over to Hephaestus so he can finish the weapon. *clap*
The place was silent again, because the one who gave the slap was Aphrodite herself.
Everyone in the room was amazed.
Aphrodite: You... you're an idiot... How can you continue with that, you don't see how you turned out, how you almost died. I would scream in anger
Kairo: Yo...
Aphrodite: You nothing Kairo, I understand that you want to help Hephaestus with his inventions, but what they did here was the biggest idiotic thing that either of them could have done.
Kairo: But...
Aphrodite: But nothing... I almost lost you and Hephaestus. And I'm not going to see them so hurt again, if you want to continue with that, go ahead, but I'm warning you Kairo, I'll stop talking to you. He finished with a serious look towards Kairo.
Kairo could only look at Aphrodite and think about what she said and she was right, that was no excuse for what she did. So he ended his attack and undid it.
After that, Hephaestus was punished by not repairing his temple again until he learned his lesson and Kairo, was scolded more harshly by Hera and Athena later that same day.
Hephaestus: That could have gone better...
Athena: Noooo, really?🙄
Gift
Hera: And that's what happened.
Poseidon: Shit...
Athena: Well now that we've made this clear, I want to give you some advice, don't attack Zeus, wait and see what happens.
So almost everyone left, leaving Apollo, Hera and Poseidon thinking.
Omega: Well then, how are you?
Percy: I want to know something.
Omega: Go ahead and ask.
Percy: Can Kairo be defeated? Or is there at least a chance of doing so?
Omega: That's why you have to read and find out.