*Chapter 9*

On Olympus
I stared at the beautiful temples on Olympus. "Dang......" Michaela whispered. "Come on." Maddie said, grabbing both of our arms and running to the Hall of the Gods. I pryed silently that all the gods would be here, but of course, when we got in, only 8 of the 12 were in there. ''Really!? ''I almost screamed aloud.

A man with black hair and a beard turned and glared at us with rainy blue eyes (Zeus). The woman next to him smiled at us (Hera) Her brown eyes were kind. The next woman glared at us with green eyes and said, "Demigods." (Demeter?) A boy that was about 18 or 19 winked at us, "Hey, ladies." He said, in a cocky voice.(Apollo *rolls eyes*)

I just rolled my eyes at him. Mr D. (I remembered him from camp) nodded at us and want back to talking to a woman with steel gray eyes (Athena...). Hephaestus (I remembered him too) sit silently, tinkering with something. There was also a man who looked...familiar? He had black hair and elfish features. He just looked....like I knew him. He looked at me sadly (?).

"Hello...." I said, bowing. Michaela and Maddie bowed too. "Hello children." Zeus said, still glaring at me. Ok......creepy.... "Victoria. Why do you dare come here after spying on us?" Demeter said, her voice shaking with anger.

"I didn't spy on you, my lady."

"She really didn't, " Michaela added.

Demeter's glare shoot shards of glass at Michaela. Hera smiled, "She didn't. She's telling the truth."

Apollo added, "I just know this beautiful girl didn't do it." He smiled at me, and I just rolled my eyes again.

"She's right. Victoria didn't. The traitor had strawberry-blonde hair. Victoria has brown."

Demeter sighed angrily. Athena nodded meaningly at me with a small smile. "We need to know where the other gods and goddesses are. So we can talk to them." Maddie said, sounding grown up and wise.

"They are everywhere," Zeus said, "But we know that Hades, Poseidon, and Aphrodite were not here at the time." As we turned, I said, "Thank you very much for your help." "Good luck, on your quest, young demigods." smiled Hera. and with that, we left.