6 Mount Olympus

They had grown, Apollo and Artemis had grown quickly in their mothers eyes. Every god grew at the same pace as humans.

It only took 18 years for it to happen to be a fully fledged adult. He had asked his mother about information about the Python to better understand his opponent if he ever decided to kill it. 

He knew that it would continue to chase them if nothing stopped it.

Apparently in greek mythology humans really thought gods became adults in a couple days?

It was just dumb, gods need to develop the nesscary mental ablities to think for themselves, they may be gods but mentality wise they cannot just 'grow up'.

Fortunately when the sun had struck him at the moment of birth it had warded off the Python, a fear many gods still felt to this day with monsters alike also sharing this feeling.

Plus, not all the information about greek mythology was true. It's not like every author can unanimously agree about such a mysterious subject as 'gods' as not much is known about them.

In those 18 years he didn't waste honing his skills, it was impossible to think that a couple week old god could beat Python, Gais son.

He learnt a couple new things with his powers, one was how to turn invisible as he had this idea for a long time. 

Well...semi-invisible, it was hard to always change how the light bent around him constantly so that it casts no shadow, and that it must produce no reflection when doing so.

The best option for him was to become invisible while standing still to lessen the burden.

Even then it took a lot of his energy to maintain such a technique, he had a lot of work to be done to truly master it the way he wanted it to.

He needed as many advantages as possible if he was even thinking of having the chance of beating the Python. 

His mother had told him about meeting Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire as well as volcanos. 

He went on about his journey with his sister to request to be made a bow and arrow as well as a sword from Hephaestus. So if his arrows had failed him he wanted at least another way of attacking his opponent. 

They had traversed their way to mount olympus with no trouble, them being powerful gods it was no wonder.

He had hoped his clothing didn't really matter, seeing as Apollo and Artemis only had leaves to their name.

Apollo had a large maple leaf covering his groin the same way Adam was shown wearing in the bible. He had also wondered if any other god's existed outside the greek mythology. Artemis had leaves covering her genitalia and breasts.

Now stepping onto the pure white building, many gods could be seen talking to each other while drinking wine or eating a snack until they all suddenly stopped...they looked at the new arrivals which had entered the building.

Zeus POV 

Suddenly two young gods entered mount Olympus, I could tell they were my son and daughter as I was expecting them. The young man appeared tall, muscular and lean with a beardless face and strong jawline. His hair was a bright gold like the sun, the same as his eyes, bright and bold. His skin tone was a golden tan and looked as if the sun had shone upon him in favour.

On the other hand the woman looked similar to the young man, and at the same time different in appearance. Almost like the sun and the moon in terms of appearance. 

With her deep black hair covering her scalp she wore a pale complexion which looked as if devoid of light with silver eyes like the moon.

He walked over to welcome the gods to Olympus hoping to greet them as his son and daughter.

Zeus: "Welcome, I've been expecting you" his voice was loud and clear. 

Apollos POV

We sat down on thrones as I spoke about the reason in which we were here. As we were here to ask Hephaestus to make us a weapon for ourselves. 

Zeus agreed to let them ask Hephaestus but whether or not Hephaestus would make them a weapon they would have to wait and see. 

They both walked to Hephaestus forge and along the way eyes watched and followed them. 

Apollo didn't care if they looked at him, some looks were of interest, curiosity and even some were of lust? 

What Apollo really worried about were what the gods would do to Artemis, as many male gods seemed to look at her, but they knew better then to attempt to rape Zesus daughter.

 Plusz If anything happened to her, he would have burnt and cooked them alive slowly. Torture and break their minds beyond anything considered humane.

They were given some robes to better cover themselves but Apollo refused, it almost felt unnatural to him while Artemis accepted. Plus he already felt warm all around so why should he wear clothes?

Now he opened the door leading to Hephaestus forge, the area was warmer and more humid than the outside, Apollo actually enjoyed the warmth it radiated as one of his domains resided in fire. (The sun.) 

Hephaestus looked towards the young gods confused to who they were having never seen them. Perhaps they were new, he wondered inside his head? 

Hephaestus: "Welcome, how may i help you?" He told the two gods standing before him. 

Apollo: "We are here to request weapons of our own as we have none but only our fists." 

Artemis: "If you can help us it will be greatly appreciated." She said with a go luck smile. 

Hephaestus: "What weapons are you looking for?" He was Interested to see what they would want him to make.

Apollo: "I would like a bow and arrows and a quiver to hold my arrows. Combined with a sword resembling my powers similar to the sun, I also want a musical instrument."

Artemis: "Can you make me a bow and arrow  accompanied with a pair of hunting knives to go along with them. Oh, as well as a quiver too please." 

Hephaestus: "Is that all?" He asked just to be sure not to miss anything.

Apollo: "When will you be done? Oh and yes that should be all." Apollo calmly responded.

Hephaestus: "I'd say 6-7 days give or take." Before resuming back to his work.

Now leaving, Artemis and Apollo went their separate ways for the following week to find out more about Olympus. but first Artemsis had 4 wishes to ask of her father Zeus as it was her 18th birthday. 

To be allowed to live without having to be distracted by love and marriage.

A hunting costume and freedom from having to dress up like a lady.

Sixty young nymphs to be her companions and to help care for her hunting dogs, and 

all the mountains on the earth to live on. 

(Yes, I know it happens when she's three but like I said I won't completely follow the greek mythological things which happen also some wishes were already fulfilled when making Artemis a bow so that's why there aren't 6 wishes.)

Zeus was amused by her precociousness and happily granted the little goddess Artemis her wishes.  Even at this tender age it was clear that Artemis was going to be the most independent of the goddesses, one who thrived on challenges!

Apollo spent his day learning his powers more efficiently while exploring his talent in healing, music, fire and archery while trying to uncover any other powers he's yet to learn.

 He had gotten some strange looks with him being practically naked all the time, but he didn't mind that. He enjoyed basking in the sunlight. Well being seen as an extremely handsome god as Apollo was usually described as.

He had decided to play a harp he had borrowed from one of the gods. He had thought of the many events which had brought him here with confusion.

His world was suddenly turned upside down the minute he came to this world. He played the harp accompanying which had a sad tune accompanied to it.

Apollos had walked somewhere to get more away from the other gods. His face looked sad as he was lost in his trance while slowly consuming the tune to his brain.

Apollo hadn't noticed someone listening to his music as he was too focused to do so. The mystery person which had listened was entranced by the music.

The person listening had wondered where such an enchanting sound had come from.

While also wondering what they had gone through to be able to write such a piece to feel this way. The sadness was clearly evidently heard through the musical notes. 

They felt as if the person felt trapped, lost and maybe scared? 

They wanted to see who this god/goddess was, they wanted to see them with their own eyes.

They followed from where the sound had come from, and when they did they saw a golden harp and small chair. From where a god resembling the sun entered their viewpoint.

When they looked back they saw a sad look on their face. It broke their heart, but why? Why did it make them feel this way? 

The sad look on the gods face made them feel guilty, like it was their fault for not helping sooner, a person they had just met made them feel so confused. 

???:"Just who are you?" I spoke softly under my voice

Choose who the mystery person might be?

(Please comment in the dotted sections, also this won't decide who the love pairing is as im planning to add all the religions as well.)

(Also make sure to comment what you think about the chapter while giving constructive criticism and commenting where grammer mistakes are.)

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