Little Gods

they are fairly nice.’

  ‘So your mother would have a lot of contact with Poseidon then?’ asked Luke. ‘Since he’s the God of the sea and all.’

  Rhiannon shrugged. ‘I guess so. She’d have contact with him sometimes, but he’s usually under the ocean anyways, and in the middle, in his kingdom. He doesn’t usually come up to the surface.’ she said. ‘At least that’s what mother always said.‘

  ‘And it’s either him or his assistants that is causing all these tsunami’s and floods then.’ said Luke. ‘He’s either very angry and causing them, or it’s his Assistants running amok causing all the havoc and he’s just trying to stop it.’

  ‘And the earthquakes that your father mentioned that are going on. Poseidon does those too. That’s why he has his kingdom down under the ocean, so he can move the continental plates above and cause earthquakes,’ said Rhiannon. ‘So who is this Enlil you mentioned?’

  ‘Oh he’s a God of air and storms. So if all the demi-Gods have gone on strike then both Enlil’s and Thor’s that deal with storms, are going to cause a big problem!’ he said, fear creeping into his voice.

  The sounds of a skirmish from within the town was getting louder, and closer. ‘And Aries,’ Rhiannon and Luke said simultaneously. ‘God of war,’ continued Rhiannon. ‘We need to somehow stop the demi-Gods from making these people tear each other apart by war!’ she said, clenching her fists in anger.

  ‘And stop the Assistants from tearing apart the earth too. Or making the Gods and Goddesses tear apart the earth trying to stop them!’ said Luke.

  ‘Why have we not rebelled?’ asked Rhiannon. ‘And all the other Assistants in the Underworld?’

  ‘Would you want to rebel against Arawn?’ asked Luke. ‘I bet you’ve never even seen him without his business-man guise.’ he shuddered involuntarily.

  ‘No, I haven’t, thankfully,’ Rhiannon agreed. ‘So what do we do?’ she said.

  Before Luke could answer, the ground under their feet started to shake and the shouts of anger and battle from within the town turned to screams of fear, followed by the sound of running feet as the townspeople ran back into their houses for safety.

  Rhiannon grabbed onto Luke to stop from falling over.

  ‘Lets go see if we can speak to Poseidon,’ he said. ‘Since he, or his assistants anyway, are causing the biggest problems with the tsunamis, floods and earthquakes.’

  ‘And they probably have a helping hand in the storms too,’ said Rhiannon. ‘Especially storms over the Oceans.’

  They left the little shed and went to unhitch her horse that was standing calmly under the eaves of the house.

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