The story takes the entire ride up, and by the time we get up there, we've completely forgotten all our worry, and we're just laughing.
That is until we see Chiron's worried expression as he says, "Follow me. They're incredibly mad."
***
By the time we get to the main section of Olympus, where the major gods sit for meetings, all the gods are arguing like children.
The four of us bow upon entrance, until Zeus instructs us to stand. "Finally, we can hear the story from the source." He quiets the gods down, who were still bickering. Once the group is quiet, Zeus instructs us to tell our side of the story. I go first, with the story being a nervous, stuttering, shaky mess. A voice in the back of my head was telling me that one mistake could kill me, and it didn't help they they were about fifty feet taller than I was.
Albus, who is normally quiet and nervous, went next, and he was somehow even worse than me. Will gives him a supportive smile when his story is finished, and he looks eternally gratefully.
Zeus then beckons Will to tell his side of the story. Will replies with, "Oh, I wasn't there."
"Then why's he here?" asked Apollo.
"I assumed he knew something that the others didn't," Chiron explained. "I mean, the three of them are practically joined at the hip. It's not completely unreasonable."
The gods then began to bicker again over what happened, while the three of us stood there nervously. Albus looked completely overwhelmed. "Maybe the two demigods did it," piped up Ares. "Maybe their two minor godly parents put them up to it."
"They wouldn't do that!" Aphrodite defended. "I met them a couple years ago, they're too sweet." Will and I let out a sigh of relief, at least someone was on our side.
"Maybe they were faking it!" said Hera. "Remember Luke?"
"Hey!" yelled Hermes. "Don't you dare talk about Luke."
"Well, maybe the wizard did it!" argued Hephaestus.
"Why would the wizard do it?" asked Artemis.
"Maybe he wanted to hold him for ransom in exchanged for a dead loved one," shouted Hephaestus.
"You do realize that this is the first contact with the gods that the wizarding world has had in a long time," said Athena coolly. She was the only one not shouting, though her voice was still heard among the others. "Remember how we tried to keep our noses out of it?"
From across the room, I could see Zeus call over a satyr and tell him something, though I couldn't hear what it was. The satyr nodded and ran off. Soon, the satyr came back with a goddess following him. Zeus silenced the gods again. Chiron, Will, Albus, and I bowed in respect for the goddess.
She was wearing a traditional Greek gown, like the other goddesses, with her dark brown hair tied back into a curly bun. She did not look entirely corporeal, she was more of a spirit than a physical being. Wrapped around her eyes was a red blindfold. She held a scale and a traditional Greek sword.
"That's Dike," Will whispered to us, "the spirit of justice. She'll probably act as a judge."
We stood up when beckoned, and Dike asked, "Will someone please tell me what's going on?"
Chiron, who seemed like the most trustworthy, then proceeded to tell Dike the predicament we were in, along with both my and Albus's stories. Dike thought for a moment before giving her solution. "Well, the most obvious solution to this problem would be too send them on a quest to find the missing boy."
No way I'm gonna settle with a loss
Start from the beginning
