HeroesOfOlympus
Heyyy y'all! HeroesOfOlympus here. First of all, I would like to apologise for not updating for a while. Second of all, I have this huge exam that will start in July and end in September. That means, I will have less time to write and update this story. So, please don't kill me during that period of time. Even though I have that exam and I have to study, I'll try to update at least once a month. Make sure to subscribe, comment and rate this story! And now, please welcome the long awaited, CHAPTER 11!!!!!!

Chapter 11

Aphrodite's P.O.V
I flashed into the Olympian Council's throne room and immediately walked towards my daughter, Piper.

"Mum! What are you doing here?" Piper's kaleidoscope eyes clearly gave away how shocked and surprised she was.

Instead of answering her question, I communicated with Jason telepathically. 'Jason, be a dear and please give Piper and me a moment for a mother and daughter talk.'

Jason nodded his head before turning around and started walking towards Zeus who was currently calling him.

I flashed two red velvet seats for both Piper and me to sit down.

After sitting down, I turned towards Piper. "Darling, after seeing your flashback, I forgot to clarify with you that I have sorted things out with your father. It was a real chore to convince him that the Greek Mythology was indeed real and that I was a goddess, but not as difficult for me to convince your father to allow you and Jason to date..."

As I trailed off, Piper's eyes widened and asked in disbelief, "Are you serious? Thank you mum, so, so, so much! This means a lot to me!"

Piper leaned forward and squeezed me tightly in a hug. I, on the other hand, was equally in shock.

As a gorgeous goddess mother who is always busy and never pay that much attention to my children, I often don't get hugs from my children.

While we pulled away from the long hug, I continued, "It was not easy getting your father to agree with you and Jason and I'm a goddess! I've lived for a long time and I haven't met anyone that persistent on not letting their daughter date! It took me 4 hours, 53 minutes and 26 seconds to get him to approve of your relationship, AND I was using my charmspeak!"

I was babbling on and on until Piper tapped me on my shoulder. "Mum, I get it. You don't have to explain everything but... thank you Mum. Even though you don't spend a lot of time with your children and when you do, you're mostly checking out yourself, thank you for being my Mum."

I felt a little tear trickle down my cheek before I dabbed my eyes with my silk handkerchief.

I bit my lip and asked, "Is my mascara running?" Piper and I took one look at each other, before bursting out in a fit of giggles.

Just as I was about to say something to Piper, Apollo's voice echoed around the Olympian Council's throne room.

3rd Person's P.O.V
"Demigods, Gods and Goddesses! Oh, and you too Dionysus!" Dionysus rolled his eyes as Apollo grinned.

"Hermes and I have a special announcement to make before we continue with our competition..."

Everyone was now rushing into the throne room and plopping down on their seats. Some demigods waited anxiously for Apollo to continue while chewing a mouthful of popcorn and shaking their leg.

Some God (Dionysus), was fast asleep on his mini throne.

Hermes walked up onto the stage with a microphone in his hand. "We would like to invite a God onto the stage! H, may you please come up!"

Everyone was puzzled. Who was 'H'? The only Gods starting with the letter 'H' in the Olympian Council's Throne Room was Hermes, who was up on stage, Hades, who was definitely not involved in this since he was equally confused as everyone else, and Hepheatsus.

Wait a minute.

As soon as everyone's lightbulbs were lighting up, the said God they were thinking of was secretly behind the backstage curtains.

"You called for me?" A gruff voice that sounded suspiciously like Hepheatsus echoed around the room. As fast as lightning, Zeus was on his feet, his Master Bolt in his hand.

"WHO ARE YOU?" Zeus boomed.

The man sighed, "I can't believe my own family doesn't even know who I am..."

Athena and her children immediately connected the dots.

"Hepheatsus?" Annabeth questioned as Hepheatsus stepped out from behind the curtains. Everyone in the room had their jaws hanging wide open.

They could not believe the man standing on the stage was Hepheatsus.

The man was absolutely gorgeous except the fact that you could see his legs were weak and wobbly.

"Hepheatsus?" Ares squeaked out, his face clearly worried. "What Ares? Are you worried that Hepheatsus is now better than you in everything? Well, news flash. He was already better than you in everything before today," Percy rolled his eyes at Ares but he didn't talk back since he was still in shock.

"Wow, Hepheatsus! You look... hot..." Athena flirted, flashed next to Hepheatsus, and then placed her hand on his shoulder.

Hepheatsus blushed as red as a rose but insisted, "I'm not that handsome..." Athena, who was not acting like herself, giggled and slapped Hepheatsus' arm playfully.

"Oh you, with your jokes!" Athena winked and flashed back to her seat.

"Why's your mum acting all cuckoo?" Percy poked Annabeth's arm. The blonde sighed, "Hepheatsus used to woo my mum but my mum always rejected him. I guess, now that he's better looking, my mum wants him. I mean they already have so much in common! They're kind of the perfect couple!"

Percy gave Annabeth a look.

"Are you kidding? Aphrodite and Hepheatsus are the perfect couple. Do you see the way they look at each other?"

Just as Annabeth was about to open her mouth, Percy continued, "Besides, I think Apollo and Hermes are the reason for Hepheatsus' makeover. And the way Athena is glaring at both of them, I'm betting they made a deal with her. I know you're gonna ask, why? Well, I'm guessing they want to get Ares mad and Aphrodite jealous so that they can get revenge on Ares by getting Aphrodite and Hepheatsus back together..."

Percy pointed at Athena, who was currently glaring at Apollo and Hermes, before pointing at Aphrodite, who was glaring at Athena, and Ares who was glaring at Hepheatsus.

"Since when did you get so smart Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth crossed her arms, an eyebrow raised. Percy widened his eyes. "Hey! I'm very smart!"

Then he furrowed his eyebrows and said, "Well, I'm smarter than I look..."

Their conversation was interrupted when Ares flashed right next to Hepheatsus and whipped out an axe dripping with blood.

"You think you can steal my girl?" Ares roared just as he struck Hepheatsus at his chest. Thankfully, Hepheatsus had quick reflexes and leaned blackwards, the axe inches away from his face.

"You!" Ares swung at Hepheatsus' head.

"Are!" Hepheatsus dodged the attack again.

"Worthless!"

But this time, instead of dodging the attack, Hepheatsus reached his hands out and caught the axe.

"I am not worthless!" Hepheatsus hissed while snatching the axe away from Ares. Suddenly, just as Hepheatsus was about to swing the axe, Aphrodite flashed in between the two gods.

Immediately, Hepheatsus stopped. "Get out of the way Aphrodite, now." He snapped, bringing the axe behind his back.

Aphrodite took this as her chance to view Hepheatsus up close. His sharp jawline, unused dimples, his chestnut brown hair and his warm brown eyes, with little flames dancing in them.

Also, a long scar ran across his arm, his scar from the time he made the ring for Aphrodite.

What ring? Why, the ring Aphrodite was wearing. It was a silver band, with gold swirls decorating it and a gem that changed colours depending on her mood.

Snapping out of her thoughts, the love Goddess placed her hand on Hephaestus' arm. "Please, don't act rashly," She placed charm speak in her voice making Hephaestus drop the axe.

Aphrodite breathed a huge sigh of relief not before Hephaestus picked up the axe again.

"Nice try Aphrodite, but I've stopped reacting to your charmspeak after we divorced," The angry God growled. "You cheated on me with Ares just because I was ugly. You were spiteful towards me when we were together, now that we're not together and I've gotten a makeover, you're being nice to me. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I'm not falling under your spell you witch!"

Aphrodite staggered backwards, shocked that Hephaestus, the God that had never gotten angry at her before, called her a witch.

'To be fair, you did cheat on him..." Hera's voice rang in her mind. 'Shut up Hera!' Aphrodite grumbled, but nonetheless felt guilty when she recalled how mean she acted towards Hephaestus when they were married.

"Hephaestus, I can explain everything. I'll tell you why I cheated on you with Ares and acted so mean towards you, but please," Aphrodite begged Hephaestus. "May we talk in private about it?"

Hephaestus' curiosity got the better of him, and he dropped the axe not before trapping Ares in a cage that he made by himself out of the all strongest metals on Earth.

The God nodded his head just as Aphrodite placed her hand on his shoulder before flashing out.

"Should we help Ares?" Apollo asked the other Gods while Ares was screaming curses at Hephaestus while locked in the cage.

"Nah. He's a big boy, he can handle himself." Hera rolled her eyes as she checked her nails. The other Gods nodded their heads in agreement.

"Should we help Ares out of the cage?" Percy asked everyone from Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter.

Just like the Gods, all the campers shook their heads, even Ares' own flesh and blood. "He was never even nice to us, his own children, why should we help him?" Clarisse shrugged, pointedly accussing Ares of not being there for his children.

Ares punched his fist against one of the cage's bar and shrieked like a 5 year old girl. He toppled backwards and whimpered in pain before wailing like a baby.

Zeus summoned an astronaut's helmet onto Ares' head and the sound of a crying a baby ceased.

Hephaestus' P.O.V
Aphrodite placed her hand on my shoulder before flashing us out of the Olympian Council's Throne room.

As the light died down, I saw where we were. We were standing on the porch of a beach house that overlooked a clear blue beautiful ocean.

The beach house was made of many different types of wood. Oak and pine, to name a few.

The front of the house had two big glass windows and in the middle of the windows was a glass door. The porch we were standing on had two big wooden chairs.

One was painted pinkish-red while the other was painted reddish-orange. The pink chair had the backrest shaped as a heart while the red chair had its backrest shaped as a flame. Engraved on each chair in Greek was 'You and me, together forever'.

A wind chime made entirely out of seashells and diamonds was hung above and in between the two chairs.

Overall, the beach house looked modern but yet natural. I knew every type of wood and glass that this house was made out of.

I knew it all too well.

It was the beach house that I made with Aphrodite when we were married. It was one of the rare moments that Aphrodite was actually happy with me.

I had forgotten all about the house after Helios informed me of Aphrodite's unfaithfulness towards our marriage.

I made the house because I had loved her from the bottom of my heart.

I knew she missed living in the ocean after she was declared a Goddess, that was the reason why I made the house. And my heart was broken into a million pieces when I saw the evidence of her with Ares getting 'naughty' in our marriage bed.

"Hephaestus, I believe I owe you a millennia late explanation. Take a seat," My head whipped towards Aphrodite, who was now changed and wearing a flowy white dress that outlined her hourglass figure.

My eyes followed Aphrodite as she sat on the chair I made for her when we were married. She gestured to my chair and I simply shook my head and flashed a normal wooden chair next to my wedding chair.

"So..." Aphrodite trailed off.

"Here's my explanation..."

-FLASHBACK-

Aphrodite's P.O.V
Wearing my silver high heels, I walked through the Olympus Garden, specially taken care of by all the gardening gods.

I sighed as my fingers lightly touched the delicate white roses.

Many Gods were already chasing after me even though it had only been a few weeks since I was introduced as the Love Goddess.

Just as I was enchanted by the roses, someone lightly tapped me on my shoulder and I gracefully turned around. It was the God with the weak knees, the Blacksmith God, Hephaestus.

I remembered him on the Olympian Council.

"Hephaestus," I greeted, nodding my head. The muscular God nervously rubbed his hand on his neck.

"Aphrodite, I know that you're new to this whole being a Goddess thing and you probably have many other much more handsomer Gods chasing after you, but will you go out with me?" I looked Hephaestus in his big brown eyes and I could sense pure love rolling off of him, to me.

"I'm sorry Hephaestus but I consider you to be more of a friend. I truly am sorry..." I whispered and looked into his sad eyes, seeing that I shattered his hope.

I heard him vow in his head, 'I, Hephaestus, God of Blacksmith swear on the River Styx to never fall in Love with any other Goddess besides Love, herself.'

Despite hearing my rejection, Hephaestus quickly brightened up and told me he had to go.

As I looked at his back while he trudged off, I realised I felt my heart slowly breaking apart.

-LINEBREAK-

I sighed while my head was perched on top of my knuckles. My eyes followed the God everywhere.

He sat in front of me, his hands tinkering with a bunch of seashells and diamonds. His eyebrows were furrowed together and despite his dirty beard, I thought he was hot.

I could see little beads of perspiration trickling down his forehead and I took out my silk handkerchief to wipe his forehead.


He peered up at me and gave me a goofy grin and I fell for him all over again.

"Done!" Hephaestus exclaimed after tinkering with the random objects after a few minutes. "Happy Anniversary Aphrodite!"

I felt a grin spread across my face.

In front of me was a wind chime made out of seashells and diamonds. I jumped out of my seat and squeezed my husband.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I squealed, fingering a piece of seashell.

"This is not the only gift... Our project is finally ready. I spent the whole of yesterday fixing the project!" He twirled a piece of my hair around his finger.

I shot out of my seat. "What are we waiting for? Let's go see it!" I giggled grabbing Hephaestus' arm as he flashed us to our project.

As the light slowly died down, in front of me was the project we worked on together.

Both of us had designed it and we planned for Hephaestus to make the project and me to add the decorations. I saw how Hephaestus had used all real wood which meant he carved all the wood out by hand.

I pulled my husband in for a hug, with a tear falling from my eye.

He had done so much for me because he loved me and I loved him but I was going to break his heart soon.

The tears represented my happiness and joy from being together, but also regret for what I was about to do.

-FEW DAYS AGO-

"Ares? What are you doing here?" I questioned the War God when I opened my palace door.

The War God stepped inside, without even asking for permission and turned around to close the door.

"I'm here for you." He snarled pulling me close to his chest.

Immediately, I pushed him off. I snapped, "I'm married, in case you didn't know. I'm a wife, a wife to an amazing God called Hephaestus. He is better than you in everyway. I told you many times and this is the final time. I. Love. Hephaestus."

"Come on babe, don't be like that!"

"Don't call me babe!"

"You better be with me or I'll show him this!"

Ares grinned smugly before showing me a slightly torn paper with a curly handwriting on it.

The paper read:

Dear Father, Your Majesty Oceanus,
I found out Hephaestus' fatal flaw. He is ridiculously conscious about himself. Since his legs are already crippled and adding how ugly he looks, he'll obviously be self-conscious.
So, I have a plan for you so that you can take over his main workshop. The step 1 of the plan is done. I am already his wife and he trusts me so it'll be easier for me to distract him while you take over his workshop.
I think you should take over his workshop on our 'First Anniversary' because he'll be distracted planning on what gifts to give me.
The trap is set and ready.
Love,
Your daughter, Aphrodite

I stared at it before giggling out loud. "Who do YOU think he'll believe? His enemy, Ares, or his beloved wife, Aphrodite. Besides, I can always swear on River Styx that that was not written by me!"

Instead of admitting defeat, Ares smirked.

"Oh, I've got everything planned out. I've stolen some random Son of Poseidon from Elysium and threatened to not let him go unless he sends some water shaped like warriors to Hephaestus' workshop. Also, I'll show Hephaestus the letter and I know he won't believe me but Lady Styx owes me one, which means I'll swear on River Styx without 'dying'!"

Immediately, I paled.

"Besides, I know that you acknowledge Oceanus as a father whom Hephaestus despises for once sending a tsunami to his workshop. I'm sure that Hephaestus would regret marrying his enemy's daughter..." Ares stepped close to me, his body pressed against mine.

"So, would you rather to be a betrayer, an enemy's daughter or a cheater?" Ares' blinding white teeth shone as he grinned widely.

I did not want my husband to think of me as a betrayer or an enemy's daughter. It was far worse than cheating. I'd rather have sadness and anger directed towards me than disappointment and anger.

"Okay... I'll cheat on him..." My voice was barely a whisper and I choked back a sob.

Ares caressed my cheek as he gave me a triumphant grin.

"That's what I thought. Meet me at yours and Hephaestus' palace tomorrow when Helios is right above Olympus. Hephaestus will be away for a meeting and then I can put my plan into action..."

Ares turned around and headed towards the door, not before placing his dry lips onto my forehead. "Bye babe!" Ares winked at me as he slammed my palace door shut.

With no one around, I collapsed onto the floor, tears streaming down my face and my mascara running.

"I swear on the River Styx, I'll get revenge on Ares, that arrogant and idiotic War God..." I whispered to myself as a strike of lightning flashed in the sky.

"I swear..." I repeated again, with determination heard in my voice.

-AFTER HEPHAESTUS FOUND OUT-

"I can't believe you Aphrodite. I thought you loved me... I gave you my heart, and you broke it like a hammer breaking glass..." Hephaestus whispered, his eyes with dark circles under them, representing he had countless sleepless nights.

I resisted the urge to console him and forced myself to laugh viciously.

"Me? Love you? Ha! I never loved you! I only married you to ensure my position on the Olympian Council. Who would love you anyway?"

'Me...' I thought to myself.

Hephaestus removed a golden ring with words engraved with silver on the side.

"I guess you want this ring back, right? To give to your new boyfriend, Ares?" Hephaestus was breaking on the inside and outside.

I shrugged as if I didn't care about the ring.

But the truth?

I felt my heart being ripped into tiny pieces as he placed the ring in my hand before curling my fingers around it.

"Even though you broke my heart," The Blacksmith God said while a tear rolled down his cheek. "Just know, I'll never stop loving you. I hope you see your new boyfriend for his true colours..."

Hephaestus choked before turning his back to me, and walking away.

As his silhouette against the setting sun slowly disappeared, I released all my feelings from me.

Anger, at Ares, who forced me to do this.

Sadness, because of my breakup with Hephaestus.

But I did not release my Love for Hephaestus. And that Love, stayed with me, in my heart every single day.

-FLASHBACK END-

3rd Person's P.O.V
"How do I know you're not lying? Why did you choose only this day to tell me?" Hephaestus said, biting his bottom lip.

He wanted to believe Aphrodite, he really did but he was afraid.

Afraid that she would break his heart again.

Afraid that she was lying.

Afraid that she didn't even love him.

Aphrodite let out a tiny sigh. "I know, you don't trust me anymore. So, I swear on River Styx that I am not lying Hephaestus and that I still love you, with all my heart..."

The God waited for the Goddess in front of him to vaporize on the spot but she stayed in her spot, very much alive.

"You have no idea how much I've missed you Aphrodite. It hurt me so very much, like a machine without oil, when I saw you with Ares everyday. When Helios told me about you two doing it on my bed, I was hurt. When I saw your children, I was hurt. When I saw every kiss, every hug, every word exchanged between the both of you, I felt my heart falling apart..." Hephaestus whispered as he placed his finger under Aphrodite's chin.

Suddenly, Hephaestus felt the urge to kiss Aphrodite on her rosy red lips. "Aphrodite... Are we, like dating now?" Hephaestus whispered in her ear making the Goddess feel ticklish.

"Do you... Want to?" Aphrodite stuttered, blushing from head to toe. "Technically, we're still married. We actually never divorced, we just had an argument only..." Hephaestus bit his bottom lip, fidgeting with his hands.

"So... Aphrodite. Will you be my wife again?" The words rolled off his tongue without even considering that Aphrodite might reject him.

Aphrodite blushed a deep shade of red before squealing and wrapping her arms around Hephaestus' neck.

"YES! YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!" Aphrodite screamed, smashing her lips onto Hephaestus'.

Hephaestus happily deepened the kiss, wrapping his muscular arms around Aphrodite's thin waist while the Goddess herself wrapped her arms around his neck tighter.

"I love you..." They both said at the same time, resting their foreheads against the other immortal's.

Aphrodite slipped Hephaestus' wedding ring off her finger and helped Hephaestus put on his ring.

They stared into each other's eyes again, and fell in love for each other all over again.

Aaaand... CUT! That is a wrap for the 11th chapter of this story! Thank you for the amazing support on this story. Again, be sure to subscribe, comment and rate this story! Besides that, I'm planning to write a new story after finishing this one.
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HeroesOfOlympus

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