A Short Story: My Hero's Journey

Zeus immediately started to become furious and his face started to become red. The Gods didn't know what they did wrong but Zeus suddenly began throwing his lightning bolts at the Gods. One after the other, Zeus would strike them right on their rear ends. During this temper tantrum Zeus was having, he missed the Gods more than hitting them. Ounce Zeus calmed down and realized he was overreacting, he took a moment to see what he did the the humans and all the trees and stuff like that. Instead of seeing mostly all Green, he saw flames of the fire he started. The humans houses were burning down, and everything was destroyed. Zeus almost started crying because he felt bad for what he had done. From that day on ,Zeus never threw lightning bolts again but, sometimes while its raining out and it's all gloomy, Zeus sometimes throws a couple lightning strikes thinking that if anything would catch on fire, the rain would put it

A beam of early morning sunlight played on his face. He turned and scooted to another part of the bed in order to avoid waking. Within a few minutes the beam of sunlight had caught up with him again and was shining again directly on his eyelids. He lay there, his head in a fog, rubbed his eyes and stared at the white plastered walls trying to determine where he was and even who he was. The brightness of the room overwhelmed him with a fierce intensity. It was a few minutes before his eyes became accustomed to the light. He entertained his semi-waking mind by tracing patterns of the earthy colors on the tapestry that hung on the wall facing him. He rubbed his hands slowly on the bedsheet, felt a smoothness and said to himself, "This

Poseidon said, ¨Yeah. Try your best. Your power is like an owl eating a rat. In this case I am the owl and you are the rat. You are useless and weak.´´ Hades was as silent like a baby in its sleep.

Palmiro and his sleeping son Josh are on a plane near South America when his pilot died. He started making weird noises over the intercom. Josh was curious what was going on so he asked his dad. His dad, Palmiro, said everything was going to be ok. All of a sudden they hear the wind whistling against the sharp edges of the plane. They both looked out the window and saw the ground getting closer and closer. The plane started to plummet to the ground. Josh started freaking out and had no idea what to do. He saw only one parachute and an emergency door. Palmiro told his son to quickly grab the parachute. They both strapped in together and jumped out. The plane crashed on an island, no one knows where.

The relevant data was brought to him on a tablet soon afterwards, the Replicator informed him it was the Planetary Governors and now it belonged to him. It was more powerful than the others, with this tablet he could access any console or any Ustrian tech he came into contact with, not just tech on the Xerxes. The data pile was immense, it would take him forever and a day to read it. After only a few hours of skimming through it he put it aside and rubbed his eyes, it was starting to give him a headache.

I watched as Odysseus took out my son’s eye. He was blinded. I just stood and watched as my youngest son was blinded. I felt more furious in my entire lifetime. “I can’t just stand by and watch my children be destroyed by mortals; it’s not what I do. For heaven’s sake, I am the God of the sea. My children can’t be picked off one by one with me sitting in the corner fretting. My god, Zeus, I can’t do anything without you nagging me about it. You believe that just because you’re the god of lightning, you’re better than Hades and I. Your only brothers and you can’t support one. It’s sad really. I work this hard and you don’t even help me avenge my son,” I boomed, almost as loud as his thunder.

Listen Now. In the days when Athens and Sparta clashed without mercy, a heinous creature was brought forth from the underworld. Why you may ask? Well, with the promise of full control over their land if they win, the Athenians bribed Hades to release the dark one . Its purpose: fight beside the Athenians and dismantle their enemies. This monster, a tower of brown wet flesh and infinite rows of bone crushing ivories would roam the enemy land for twenty seven years. Zeus, the God of the sky became angry at his brother. How could he be bribed? He is a God, what more could he want? The land he would obtain contained an object of pure malevolence. So evil, even the almighty Zeus feared its presence. Hades could finally rule the Earth and make his

One day, Zeus was watching a young mortal tending to her flowers when he noticed her miraculous beauty. He soared through the sky until he was right next to her. Zeus asked her what her name was, and she replied with Halley. He had never heard such a beautiful voice before, and Halley had never seen such a handsome man before. However Zeus knew Hera would hear soon that he had left Mount Olympus, so he had to use his greatest tactic to get away. Zeus tapped the ground three times with his lightning bolt, and the more he tapped, the louder the tapping got. By the fourth tap, there a was a radiant flash and a loud thump. The flash was bright enough where

Now days we still suffer from this simple argument that turned into something much greater. Hades out of rage has caused many pandemics and epidemics throughout the years including the Yellow Fever, the Black Plague, the Plague of Athens, Smallpox, and much more but most noticeably his most clever attempt yet and most recent

Zeus was on the peak of mount olympus looking at the earth with his fellow gods when Renard moseyed on in amongst the nobles and began to create a distraction.

Dionysus sent his army against me to start the battle. I had killed off Mainas Khorea, but in doing so I had rebelled the troops will to fight. This was not what I had hoped for. First, I managed to wipe out much of this army causing the temple of Hera to be the grave of the woman of the sea. Eventually, I had the troops down to a small village so I could handle Dionysus. He was very upset about me taking down much of his army, so he released much anger on me. Hera soon urged me forward in this battle. She wanted me to use Medusa’s head against some other forces which Dionysus had brought up from who knows where, luckily I had it in a satchel on my shoulder… that I had put down some where. I found it next to the chair that I was sitting in earlier this morning. I strapped on my winged shoes and flew around turning many of these treacherous creatures to stone. There was one creature that had a stone from Zeus that had prevented the stone turning glare from touching him, this creature was a Thyrsos. I had killed Dionysus’s wife by the stone glare of Medusa’s head, Dionysus was so angry about that. Hermes had descended upon this battlefield and said to Dionysus these words, “She [Ariadne] has died in battle, a glorious fate, and you ought to think Ariadne happy in her death, because she found one so great [Perseus] to slay her . . . Come now, lay down your thyrsus, let the winds blow battle away, and fix the self made image of mortal Ariadne where the image of heavenly Hera stands [in Argos].” Dionysus had laid down his weapons and so did I while everyone mourned for the ones who were lost in

It was the day, I knew this day would come. Lord Zeus was back, and he had an army bigger than ever before, so I called on the legendary snake unicorn. It was even bigger in life than in the legends it had fiery breathe, an ice cold stare, and worst of all it could spit rainbow acid…So I trained him, it took days, weeks, and months but when we were ready no one could stop him because when he continues to train he evolves and he involved to where he had laser eyes, and instead of an ice cold stare he could turn people to stone...

The mortals realized that every time Zeus and Hades fought, the ground would shake, tall buildings would fall, houses would crumble, holes in the ground would open and people would run in fear.

In the past the Greeks were not as technologically advance as we are today, they base their explanations for strange events or occurrence with mythological gods or creatures. One of the creatures made by the Greeks was Cerberus. In the article “Cerberus” by Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, it says a Cerberus is a three headed dog with a dragon tail that guards the underworld. In the stories it says “Only a few heroes escaped this creature. He permitted all spirits to Hell, but never come back” (Cerberus). In one of the famous stories Cerberus was captured and brought above ground by Hercules with his bare hands (Cerberus). Another creature slain by Hercules is the Hydra.

While the Greeks are on their ships, Polydamas explains how it would be much more strategic to charge the Greeks while fully armored, versus using the horses, and break into five groups. A Trojan leader, Asius, takes his horses instead and is stopped at the gate by Polypoetes and Leonteus, sons of Lapithae, and claims that Zeus has broken the promise of a swift victory against the Greeks and glory for the Trojans, misunderstanding the promise which actually had said that not all Trojans would gain glory. While Lapithae defends the gates and the Greeks defend the ships, Hector and Polydamas see an eagle fly overhead with a serpent, still living, gripped in its talons. Polydamas sees this as a sign of misfortune and they should stop. Hector, unable to accept the idea of Zeus breaking his promise to him, says that Polydamas won’t be killed in battle because he is a coward. Hector rallies his men and, with aid from Zeus in the form of a dust cloud, smashes the Greeks’ wall. Sapedon and Glaucus lead the Lycians through a breach that Sapedon created in the Greek defense. As Menestheus sees this advance, he sends a messenger to ask for the help of the Ajaxes and Teucer. Ajax and Teuner go to assist, Teuner wounding Glaucus and forcing him to retreat. Sarpedon opens the breach for the Trojans to pass and calls on the Lycians to help make