"The Unlikely Hero" Chapter 1

by Brandon in

Poseidon sat on the marble steps in front of his clay house on the sandy beaches of the crusade mountains.. He was daydreaming of all the heroes he ever learned of, and trying to picture himself as one of them. Poseidon couldn't see himself as a hero at all. Nobody could see him as a hero.
Poseidon was an average 14 year old god living in the cloudy city of the gods, Mount Olympus. At this particular moment Poseidon was sitting at the marble steps in front of his house daydreaming . He was awoken with a slight tap on the shoulder by his friend, Athena. Everything about Poseidon was ordinary and average, except for one thing. His power over water. He could do amazing things with water.
Poseidon had just come out of a tent. The tent happened to belong to the storyteller in the great city of Olympus. He supposedly told stories about the future of the children in the village. He was told by the storyteller mere minutes before that he would one day become a great god and rule from the skies alongside all other gods. This was not the only evidence of heroism in Poseidon.
When Poseidon was born the storyteller told a story about Poseidon having a great and complex future. Poseidon couldn't picture himself as a hero at all. Him, Poseidon, the average ordinary 14 year old god , a hero? How could it be?