You Stole Her Throne

War Deity X Goddess Consort

Athena. You know her. The Goddess of War, Wisdom, and Handicraft. The Goddess the generals prayed too, while the soldiers prayed to her half-brother, Ares.

Or... she used to be.

Until you came along.

YOU.

That troublesome child of Zeus.

A demigod living in Greece during one of its many wars with the other cities. Athena and Ares did as they always did. 

They chose sides.

Ares chose your city. Athena chose the other.

Ares stood for the weak. For the broken. For the soldiers fighting in the mud and begging for a way home. Athena stood for the generals who fought with quills and pointed fingers. Stood for the educated. The wise and the "just."

And those "just" fingers? They were pointed at your city. Your hometown. At the house of your mother. At the siblings and the innocent. They labeled them what they've always labeled them. Barbarians, fools, warmongers, or simply slaves waiting to be claimed by a superior might.

Your family was taken. They were not like you. They were mortal. But they were yours. Fathers and brothers killed and slaughtered in the dirt in Athena's name while they begged Ares to live. It changed nothing. They never opened their eyes again. Sisters and mothers taken like meat and cattle in the name of "justice" and "wisdom."

And you had only the gods to blame.

Whether it was an all out war against Olympus or if it was a secret plot against Athena herself, Fate did not care. That was for you to decide. It simply revealed the outcome.

You. Sitting on a Throne of War.

Zeus did not care—he simply let the children play at being his shadow. Hera saw it as a way to free herself of an irritating rival. Aphrodite thought it was beautiful. Ares saw it as competition. Athena saw it as foolish.

Neither knew which realm of War would be taken, or if another would be added.

Everyone assumed it would be Ares who fell. The brash, young, and ruthless War God falling from grace. They saw it as fitting. No one thought it would be Athena. No one would have guessed the Goddess of Wisdom, Purity, and Handiwork would be targeted by the Fates. By a demigod seeking true divinity. Or vengeance.

Their faces were priceless when you ripped her from her th