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Chapter 1

Third Person POV

Hera sat on her throne, sighing. The Olympians, her family, started arguing again. Zeus and Poseidon were yelling over something completely irrelevant and stupid. The meetings were always the same: Zeus bringing up a controversial topic and taking one side, Poseidon taking the opposite, the whole council getting involved (save for Hera, since she tried to keep peace, Hestia, since she was so kind and easygoing, Dionysus, since he didn't care, and Aphrodite, since she was too busy applying makeup) and in the end, Zeus calling off the meeting since everyone was threatening to kill each other.

"ENOUGH!" Zeus yelled as Ares and Apollo started to fight in the middle of the throne room. "WE ARE NO CLOSER TO RESOLVING THIS ISSUE THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR!"

"That's because you won't listen to us and instead, make decisions based on your shitty logic!" replied Poseidon, his anger growing with each word, before being zapped by electricity.

Poseidon responded by dousing Zeus with ice cold water, angering the King of the Gods immensely. They started to fight before Hera had to intervene,

"STOP! We are a family, and settle things by words, not fists! If you can't control yourselves, and instead choose to fight like a bunch of mindless idiots, we'd be better off not having these pointless wastes of time! Now, I think we should go back home until you we can control ourselves like civilized people!"

"I'LL SHOW YOU WHO HAS SELF-CONTROL!" Ares yelled as he charged towards Hera.

Athena sighed as she flashed Ares back to his throne with a snap of her finger. "Hera is right. We can't argue (fight) like this if we ever dream of getting anything done. I think we should all just… call this meeting off and go home."

Most of the Olympians murmured agreement and flashed away, leaving Zeus, Hera, Hestia and, surprisingly, Apollo (He didn't live in Olympus).

"Apollo. What brings you here?" Zeus asked.

"There's… been a prophecy…" Apollo nervously responded.

"Why didn't you say it in front of the council?"

Apollo gulped.

"The next child the queen will bring

Contains the ability to dethrone the king

Driven by equity, vengeance and rage

Unifying races of different age

A new era the successor will cause

Putting war, strife and violence to a pause."

Hera paled. "Well, shit."

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Third Person POV

"Olympians, I have called upon you to discuss an important revelation." Zeus announced.

"We had an 'important revelation' earlier today that ended up as a big fight…" Hermes grumbled. Most of the council (consciously) agreed.

Zeus pretended not to hear Hermes. "Apollo has given us a prophecy. Apollo?"

Apollo cleared his throat.

"The next child the queen will bring

Contains the ability to dethrone the king

Driven by equity, vengeance and rage

Unifying races of different age

A new era the successor will cause

Putting war, strife and violence to a pause."

"Now, any ideas of what we should do?" Zeus said.

No one spoke. That was a first. Athena broke the silence with,

"I think we should decipher the prophecy first. Find out what is could mean before we do anything we might regret."

The whole council agreed. Another first.

"The first two lines probably mean Hera's next child could overthrow Zeus. The third line means the prophecy child will probably be fighting for Hera or the greater good, and the last three lines probably mean the child could unify us with Titans, mortals, or even primordials, causing peace for a time."

"Well, is this bad? I mean, peace, no wars, and gaining allies?" said Poseidon, "That can't possibly be bad, right?"

"I don't know. Maybe the 'successor' will kick some of us out of the council? I mean, the new, unified council won't have unlimited space. Plus, I'm not too eager to spend time with Kronos, Gaea or giants…" Apollo responded.

"I'm not sure about this. The person the prophecy is about essentially plays the lynchpin in Olympus's fate." Hephaestus grunted. "If he doesn't like us, or what we do, he could do all sorts of terrible stuff to us. Normally, I'd wait until I saw this person for myself before deciding what to do, but if we wait until then, we'd be out of time."

"Well, the prophecy involves Zeus the most. What does he have to say?" Artemis asked.

One look at Zeus's face said it all. It was a mix of panic, apprehension, and desperation.

"This person is a threat to the safety of our lives. Bringing in Titans and primordials in the council? This can't be safe."

"Doesn't the prophecy say he'll bring peace? I mean-" Poseidon responded before getting cut off.

"How will he make the peace? Forcing us to cooperate? Torturing us? Plus, 'rage' is in the third line. Rage is an unstable motivator." Zeus shot back.

Athena, desperate to keep some peace herself, said, "How about a vote? All who say this prophecy is good for Olympus?"

Poseidon, Hera, Hermes and Demeter raised their hands.

"All who say this is a threat?"

Zeus, Ares, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite and Hephaestus raised their hands.

Athena abstained.

"Well, that's 7. Majority rules."

"Great. Now, what should we do about this?" Zeus replied, obviously relieved. "We could try and prevent a child from Hera."

"Not a bad idea. Who agrees?" responded Apollo.

Zeus, Hermes, Ares, Dionysus, Apollo, Hephaestus and Athena agreed.

"WHAT? I haven't even agreed! You do this without my consent? What the hell is this?" Hera yelled.

"Well, it is majority rules last time I checked." Zeus responded.

"Okay, who wants to dethrone Zeus and make all gods equal in power?"

"That's different. You'd be directly stripping me of power!" Zeus argued.

"Forbidding me to have a child isn't different?" Hera spat back.

"We decided it's a threat to Olympus!" Zeus replied.

"Forget this shitty council! I'm off!" Hera seethed.

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Silence followed Hera's abrupt departure. Athena broke the silence (again). "There goes Hera. Any ideas on how to prevent Hera's child?" Athena asked.

"Wait, why isn't everyone panicking right now? Hera is alone and unsupervised… She could be, um, having a child right now." said Hermes.

"That would be breaking her oath. She'd be killed or stripped of her immortality." Athena responded.

"We could exile her to Tartarus?" Ares proposed.

"No. That's WAY too harsh." Apollo said. "I mean, I don't like this prophecy much, but Hera hasn't done anything wrong… yet."

"How about making her infertile?" Dionysus responded.

"Great idea, let's do- oh wait, she's the goddess of childbirth, dumbass." Hermes responded.

"We could lock her in a room under supervision." Hephaestus proposed.

"Maybe not the 'lock her in a room' part, but who else likes the 'supervision' part?" Artemis commented.

The whole council, save for Poseidon, raised their hands.

"Who should supervise her and make sure she has no children?" Athena asked

Hestia was the only volunteer.

"I'll do it."

"So, it's been decided. Let's go find Hera." Zeus boomed.