Oh the Things Lightning Can Do

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Hermes took a deep breath and yelled "LIGHTNING!"

A loud bang echoed around Olympus and lightning flashed everywhere.

"What did you do?" Athena asked.

"I don't know." He shrugged.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"All I did was yell lightning... Hera said that she and Zeus would be back here quicker then you can say lightning if one of us started screaming. So I figured yelling lightning would prove Hera wrong."

"That doesn't explain the bang and lightning." Apollo mused.

"I don't know... maybe Zeus' master bolt is defective?" Hermes pondered.

"Father is going to kill you for suggesting that." Artemis said.

"No he won't." Apollo retorted.

"Will!"

"Won't!"

"Will!"

"Won't!"

"Wi-"

"SHUT UP!" Ares roared. "Apollo is right. You can't kill an immortal."

"Immortal; adjective; exempt from death." Athena mumbled under her breath.

"Thank you walking dictionary." Aphrodite snapped. Athena stuck her tongue out in response.

"Why am I going to wound Hermes?" Zeus chuckled as he and Hera entered the throne room.

"He yelled lightning to prove Hera wrong and there was a loud bang and lightning struck some city in New York. Then he had the guts to suggest that your lightning bolt is defective." Aphrodite said.

"You called my lightning bolt defective?"

"I only suggested that it was?"

"How does yelling lightning prove me wrong?" Hera asked.

"Well you see, you said that you and Zeus would be back here quicker than we could say lightning if any of us started to yell." Hermes mumbled.

"I still don't see how that proves her wrong." Zeus said.

"In short, neither of you were back here before Hermes yelled lightning." Athena answered.

"I see." Hera said.

"Please don't punish me!" Hermes beseeched.

"We weren't planning on punishing anyone."

"But I caused Zeus' lightning bolt to act up..."

"That wasn't your fault." Zeus groaned. "The bolt has a self defense mode. If anyone besides me yells out lightning, while they're standing in a ten foot radius of it, it will create a lightning storm."

"So New York just had a huge lightning storm because of me yelling lightning?"

"Precisely."

"Oh. I probably shouldn't do that again." Hermes said with a mischievous smile.

"No, no you shouldn't." Hera insisted.

"Don't worry I won't."

"I highly doubt that." Athena chuckled.

"I can be trustworthy when I want to."

"Yeah, last time you said that, a volcano exploded." Aphrodite said.

"I didn't know that the red button would create an explosion."

"It said DO NOT TOUCH in large letters." Athena pointed out.

"Well excuse me."

"If you're so trustworthy, why don't you swear on the River Styx?" Ares asked.

If it was possible, Hermes' face would have been very pale.

"Nevermind." Hermes said. "I admit that I may be tempted to yell lightning the next time I enter the throne room."

And that is why New York would receive hundreds of lightning storms throughout the next five years in U.S. history.

~Fin~