I was hunting with my hunters when father called me to Olympus.

We were tracking a large group of hell hounds that had been ambushing travellers and merchants in the main trade route to Athens

Now I wouldn't normally help, as the men in Athens are some of the most arrogant and sexist men I've ever seen; but my favourite sister, Athena, called in a favour and what can I say a favour from the goddess of wisdom and war could be very useful.

However, I couldn't ignore the summons from my father so I left the task to Zoë, my lieutenant.

Father had said the meeting was compulsory for all the Olympian Gods to attend, this could only mean one thing: he was going to gloat.

I had arrived early, as I always do. I find that seeing a god enter helps judge their mood and attitude for the meeting.

Demeter was next, stepping out of a lazy spiral of corn: she's not bothered about what's going to be discussed. If I'm right her daughter, Persephone, just got back from the underworld, that would explain why she doesn't want to be here.

Dionysus followed our aunt, missing his throne in his drunk state: he would pass out any second now.

And so the other gods followed, most looked like they couldn't be bothered with this meeting and were only here because they had to be.

However, Athena looked like she wanted a fight and Poseidon looked majorly pissed.

Not a good combination for when the two have their regular verbal sparring match.

Now we were only waiting for father, he always liked to make a big, dramatic entrance.

And we got quite a performance.

A lightning bolt hit the ground just in front of Zeus' golden throne from which the sky god materialised.

"Let the meeting begin" Father decreed as he sat down.

"I'd like to open the meeting by congratulating Poseidon with his recent marriage to Ampthrite" Father started, a smug look on his face. He had arranged the marriage of his brother and the daughter of Oceanus, claiming it was to improve Olympus' relationship with the titan of the seas but everyone knew the really reason: Poseidon had a child with Hecate, a very powerful child. Zeus didn't like it so got back at Poseidon by forcing him into a marriage to someone he didn't love.

I didn't really like my fathers plan but the child he was worried about was rumoured to be more powerful than most of the Olympian gods themselves.

Still, the Olympian gods, myself included, clapped for Poseidon but we soon stopped when we received Poseidon's angry glare. However it didn't stop Zeus.

He went on and on only stopping when the rest of us felt he'd exhausted the topic and hour ago.

But, of course he then moved onto a different area of attack.

"But of course that's not the only thing we should congratulate Poseidon on, is it?" Zeus said in a sarcastic tone, "How is your illegal son?"

Zeus said son like it was the worst insult possible. Though Poseidon didn't rise to it. So Zeus took another jab.

"Isn't his mother that minor titan" he spat on the floor, "of magic? You know, I always thought Hecate was a bit of a whore."

That was when Poseidon shaped.

We could tell because that's when Poseidon broke Zeus's neck.

"Enough brother." Poseidon spat. "I know you arranged my marriage just to spite me! I know you called this meeting so you could gloat. But enough! You can keep your shitty council but from now on sou rule without the sea!"

With that the sea god disappeared in his own personal hurricane.

The mighty Olympian throne room of the gods was silent; except for the quiet groans from Dionysus's unconscious form.

Father, however, soon regained his pompous attitude.

"Well it's not like we needed him anyway."

The sky god had never been more wrong.

Poseidon didn't rejoin the council for the remainder of our time in Greece.

Though truth behold only my aunt Hestia tries to get him back. The rest of us were either too scared about what he'd do to us, or had an old grudge against him, like Athena.

Towards the end, we began to feel the flame of the west move: it was pulling away from Greece.

This being our first time we didn't know what would happen. I wanted so I sort out my sister, the wisdom goddess.

I found Athena in her library, after checking the arena and only find our brother, Ares, lying on the floor, unconscious.

Athena's library was giant, even by Olympian standards, and by giant I mean that even a giant isn't as tall as the shelves in that room.

She was sat in a comfy looking chair with her nose buried in some architecture book, so she didn't notice me approaching her. I decided to let her know I was there, mainly for one reason: I dislike being implied on a spear.

"Hm-hmm" I cleared my throat, Athena's head rising from her book only to start to look at me questionably.

"I came here because I want your opinion on something." I explained. She nodded urging me to continue. I took a breath, bracing myself for what was about to come, "What do you think about Poseidon le-" but I was cut off before I could even finish my question.

As soon as the sea god's name had pasted my lips Athena started to rant.

she brought up every incident that had ever annoyed her, she pointed out all of Poseidon's flaws, and then she stopped. She sighed. And she said something I didn't expect to ever come from Athena.

"But we do need him." She saw my shocked expression and I'm sure she grinned a bit. "I mean he's one of the most powerful gods and he's not a bone headed idiot like our brothers.

I nodded, Poseidon was powerful and was one of the cleverest Olympians. I was pretty sure that was why Athena argued with him: not because she hates him but because she found it fun.

"I agree." I stated, "I think we should have a plan to get him back on the council if things should turn against us." Athena nodded and we started to brain storm.

I always wondered where that expression had come from. It's not like a storm goes on in your brain, well unless you're Zeus. Maybe it came from the fact that Athena, a goddess who does a lot of thinking, came from Zeus's head. That's of topic. What! It's not just demigods that have ADHD.

The first thing we agreed on was it should beg something that spited our father. It was common knowledge that to get a favour from one of 'the big three' you had to piss off one of the other brothers.

Next we thought it should be a marriage, it would make sure the fix would be a more permanent and we were sure that Poseidon would appraise the irony.

Our next decision to make was about who would be married. We started with the person who would link the deal to Poseidon. The sea god himself was obviously first choice, however he was already married so we moved to his sons: Perseus and Triton.

Triton, the younger child, was Poseidon's only godly child with Amphitrite and herald of the seas. Not very powerful so wouldn't be a threat to Zeus.

Perseus, the first child of both Poseidon and Hecate, was extremely powerful. Though what his domains hadn't reached mount Olympus he was rumoured to be as powerful as some of the Olympian gods. He would definitely be considered a threat by the king of the gods.

Needless to say, Perseus was our choice.

So we moved on to who would bind the marriage to Olympus.

"Well obviously it should be one of our sisters." Athena stated, clearly sticking with the annoy-Zeus-as-much-as-possible route.

"Great!" I said, sarcasm dripping from my words. "Now all we have to do is find father's favourite daughter."

As soon as the words left my mouth I realised there could only be two people that fitted all of our requirements: Myself and Athena.

The gaping look n Athena's face told me she knew this too.

"But this is only a back up plan." Athena managed to stutter out. "You never know, old fish-for-brains might come back any day now."

He didn't.