Olympian Gods, Truth Or Dare?

You're Gonna Hear Me Roar

It was Hephaestus' turn.

He didn't have an idea of whom to choose. If Ares was only there...dang. He could make that day history. His aggravating feelings for the god was...well, intense.

"Zeus," he calls. The tone in his voice indicated that he didn't have a choice. "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare," he answered.

What to dare? The blacksmith god kept thinking. What kind of dare would he assign to the king of the gods?

"I dare you to go up on Thalia's tree in Camp Half Blood and sing 'Roar' with the Katy Perry jungle outfit on."

Now, this was embarrassing. Hephaestus had a thought that this would get really embarrassing, but he already said it, and the other gods must have imagined the outcome.

"I'm surprised you know the song," Mused Hera.

"Lady Hera, that's rude," remarked Athena.

"N-no I wasn't!" said the accused deity. "I meant to say that he hasn't been walking around the mortal world for a while."

Hephaestus shifted awkwardly. "Well, I just kind of saw the music video earlier with Aphrodite."

"Hey," Zeus called the blacksmith god. "What part of the song do I have to sing?"

"Um, just the chorus, I guess." Hephaestus answered him.

Despite the short duration of this humiliating dare, the lightning god was going to regret it.

"Oh...alright." Then Zeus disappeared.

"So, what are we going to do?" Asked the newly recruited hunter.

"I can train you," answers Thalia, the lieutenant of the hunters of Artemis. "We could hunt for monsters in the forest. Chiron says there are almost a dozen swarming out there."

Her apprentice nodded and to the forest of the camp they walked.

They were walking by the entrance to the camp and saw the pine tree where Thalia's soul had been protecting for almost five years. The older hunter felt a surge of melancholy remembering those memories from when her father Zeus turned her into a tree to protect the camp to when she got out of the tree. Suddenly, a shrill voice was heard from above it.

"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter
Dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar!
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar!"

And up on the tree was her own father, Zeus himself.

"Accomplished!" He tells himself after singing horribly.

"Dad?" Thalia gaped in embarrassment.

"Wait," tells her apprentice. "This is your father, Zeus? The king of the gods?"

Zeus, upon hearing the two hunters, had his face reddened in embarrassment. He looked at his daughter, abashed.

But Thalia was confused by his look. Why would he sing Roar in his daughter's pine tree wearing a girly Tarzan outfit? There would be war with the titans and giants combined before he would do something hideous! And what did he mean by "Accomplished?"

An awkward silence followed. The father and daughter barely saw each other, and what an odd situation they were in, now.

"S-see you at the summer solstice, dad," Thalia spoke, breaking the spell.

He nodded awkwardly and disappeared.

"After three thousand years," Apollo spoke between laughs. "Dad has sung!"

"Just the same as ever," Artemis gave her father a sympathetic smile.

"I remembered how he attempted to sing for me," Hera had a smirk on her face.

Zeus grumbled. He wasn't Apollo! His voice was more authoritative than entertaining. No blaming him!

"Hermes," he motions to the winged foot messenger. "Truth or dare?"

Please choose dare, He prays. Please choose dare.

"Truth," he answers.

Zeus sighed loudly.

"Are you just afraid that I might dare you something even more humiliating than mine?" He snaps.

A stupid grin is plastered through Hermes' face. "Sort of."

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