As a Demigoddess...

Having Zeus as a father is no walk in the park. Seriously! Do you realize how much Hera hates me? Yeah, I swear she mimes wringing my neck every time I turn around. For some reason, Zeus has named me as his favorite out of all his children, which, as you can imagine, is a very precarious position to be in. The others, there are quite a few, seem to hate me as well. Yep. Many of the other demigods say that my beauty rivals that of Aphrodite, and I'm glad she doesn't believe it either, or take offense. Don't want her to screw up what love life I do have. Gods. I have curlyish brown hair and a pretty curvacious and fairly toned body. I love it, which is all that matters, body image and all that. Anyway.....cough cough.1

My siblings adore our father and "want to be just like him", which, I mean, is cool and all since he's the head honcho on Olympus, but do they remember all of what he does? Procreates practically every week. Thankfully, not all of his liaisons actually result in a screaming demigod, but it's still a lot of kids. 2

However, his kids, my siblings, are being hunted every day. They're usually killed ruthlessly or taken and drained of their divine energy. That scares the shit out of me, and Zeus seems to not exactly care, which is a bit disturbing. His kids are being slaughtered, and he only cares about little 'ol me. I'm grateful for the protection and all, I don't want to be killed, but still. He should at least do something for the others. 3

My father likes to pop up and check on me, and usually he shows up during the most unfortunate of times. Sam and I had been in the movie theater, making out, when Zeus suddenly appeared in the seat next to Sam, blue eyes blazing. I felt him appear, like I usually could sense others with a divine nature, and had snapped my eyes open, my lips still glued to Sam's. 4

He'd tapped him on the shoulder and let some static flash in his eyes and into his body. Sam had freaked when Zeus said that he was my dad and that Sam should leave now before becoming a pig roast. Seriously? Dad has to leave the macho comments. They're embarrassing.5

So, I'm just sittin' here in my room, typing up the story of my life; I've been through a lot. And, to tell you the truth? I might not be here tomorrow. 6

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I was just turning 15 when I realized something was way different about me. For one thing, I was seeing things that seemed to...overlap other things. Images would flash over whatever I was looking at, then the things would return to normal. Yeah, I thought I was going crazy. I loved mythology then, and I still do, so I could identify everything that I supposedly saw. My math teacher, I kinda thought she looked like a snake, had the visage of a gorgon flash over her. She seemed to always hate me...and now I realize she had good reason to. 8


On my way home the day I started seeing those wired flashes of beings, I was brought to my knees by an extreme pain within me. I screamed and screamed as my nerves seemed to catch on fire, my mind was besieged with voices and energy that made my mind reel, nausea making my stomach roll. Energy shot from me into the sky. I could feel it go into the sky like a rocket. I opened my eyes and threw my head back and more energy flooded from me. Crackling energy arced from me to encircle me ion the ground. The lightening shot again from me into the sky in a steady stream now, and I felt so alive! The pain was gone, replaced by a euphoria that made me giddy and drunk on power. Thankfully, no one was ever home at this time of day, or else someone would probably shoot or call a priest on me.9

Clouds rolled in faster than I've ever seen and lightening was returned by the sky to meld into me and mesh with the roiling energy sitting in my gut.. The energy shooting into the sky must have attracted every baddie within a few miles, because people ran to me from all directions and shed their mortal facades. Monsters of all shapes and sizes, many if which I recognized (being a mythology freak). Screaming, I got up from my knees and grasped all that power into me, ripping it from all around me. The clouds burst into a thunderstorm, and I fought for my life. I threw my hands out and let loose lightening that ripped monsters to threads and caught others on fire somehow. 10

Zeus appeared and just watched me in fascination. I had thought it was mean of him to let me get ripped into while I tried to fight all of them off, but whatever. I was busy. 11

Monsters clawed and bit at me, trying to get my heart, no doubt. If they managed to eat it, my divine energy would be absorbed by their energy, making them stronger. I felt my eyes burn with energy and knew they had to be crackling with energy just like Zeus' did when he was angry. 12

Breathing in, I formed a shield of lightening and thrust it from me. All the energy in me went into it, and the drain it had on me was staggering. A dome of power exploded the air around it as it sped away from my weakening form, incinerating all the remaining monsters. Afterwards, only myself and Zeus remained. 13

I was just managing to stay conscious when he came over to me.
He clapped me on the shoulder.14

"Nice job, honey. I think you'll survive longer than the rest."15

I just sighed. That's Zeus for ya'