The God of Olympus

Matt looked at the god's opened palm. There was an object the size of his smartphone. However, the colour is not right. It was a silver slab with carvings like a smartphone. Matt did not hesitate at all and shook his head. "Oh God Hermes, that is not my phone,.. it is not even a phone you know. Without an LCD screen, bla.. bla.. "Matt goes on and on about how smartphones should be.

"Silver axe, gold axe.. yes they can fell woods.. but I can't make a call or even sent SMS with these slabs of silver and gold shaped smartphones.. tsk, speaking of rigid..". Matt's continued with his complaints.

It was Hermes turn to be flabbergasted. He was not a technology god. How on Earth or Olympus Mountain does a shepherds god, a travel god, a gambling god or messengers god knows about the technical details of smartphones and created a working copy of smartphone?. Gives the poor god a break will you Matt?.

When Hermes facial expressions changed from pride to shock to embarrassed and of agony, a sweet laughter sound broke Matt explanation train. This time the laughter voice sounds ladylike and matured. Listening to the laughter made Matt felt refreshed and a kind of pleasure arose in his soul. He turned his attention to the voice origins but what he saw was John the grandpa he helped previously a few meters away and walking towards him and Hermes. Floating and arrived beside Hermes, the old man waved his hand gracefully and transformed into a beautiful and lovely lady. She has a glittering white veil on her head and over half of her face. Matt can only glimpse at her sharp nose, small chin and partly open lips. She floated and hovered next to Hermes and caressed his cheek with her slender hands.

"So this is where my trickster son went to. Down to the mortal plane and play his trickeries on this young mortal."

Hermes didn't dare to face his mother, he looked down on his toes and said "Mom..."

"That cute," Matt almost can't hold his laughter. He can relate very much to the moment where his brother, Jack and Josh were caught by his mother doing mischief. But this in on another level! Holy is the most fitting terms.

The lady stopped teasing her son and turned her slender body in a white loose gown to face Matt.

"Hello, I am Maia the daughter of Atlas and this naughty one is Hermes the son of Zeus."

She introduced herself and her son with a blushed on her face while not looking at Matt's eyes. Her sights hovered in Matt's direction but not directed at him.

Matt recollected his grandmother's story of The Old Gods of Olympus. Maia was a very shy Goddess while the only fables recorded about her is how she gave birth to Hermes and take care of another god's child. "This explains a lot," thought Matt's.

"This mortal one is Matthew, son of Moses Murdoch and Lynne Langley. It is my honour to be in your presence Oh God and Goddess of Olympus." Matt tried to introduce himself politely to Maia and Hermes.

"Please grant me your grace and I beg your assistance to recover my smartphone from the bottom of the lake."

Maia smiled and stretched her hands towards Hermes. "You heard the poor boy, now be a darling and pass to me his possessions,.. pretty please"...

" But mother, he has not passed my honesty test yet." Hermes attempted to argue with his mother.

"Nonsense my son, if the child with 1000 times positive karma than average mortal needs to be tested on honesty then no mortal is worthy this day. My dear son, your tests are old fashion, Ancient even. I still remember the test you provided with silver and gold radio, pagers, laptops, and so on.. all ended up in disasters."

Unable to win the argument with his mother, Hermes said, "I will go fetch it from under the lake". But before Hermes made a move, her mother hands already grasped firmly to stop him...

"Don't go anywhere now. I knew you have it in the sling bag with the gold phone. Spare the poor boy, he has already listened to your story for hours just now, from morning until noon."

Heartbroken, Hermes handed over the silver phone, next from his leather sling bag, he takes out the gold phone and lastly the prototype smartphone that fell into the water. Maia then plucked a feather from Hermes tunic before turn away from her son with a smirk.

With 3 phones and a white feather in one hand, Maia glided towards Matt and landed before him. "True to your name, Matthew, I will present to you a little gift".

She rose her empty hand above her head and muttered," Oh dear God who held the power to transmogrification, lease me the might to help rights your son mischief. For I Maia beseech you."

A small blue lightning streak divided the clear sky and fell into Maia's empty hand. With the spark hovered over her opened palm, she joins her palms together in front of her chest. A blinding light resulted from the unions before a soft rainbow light glowed in her hands. In front of Matt's own eyes, the Golden, Silver and Black phone combined and changed in the most amazing manners. Eventually, the changes stopped and Maia passed the black smartphone back to Matt's hand. However, the phone still has a faint rainbows glow around it.

"Physically, it is the same phone you dropped, but fundamentally it is now a divine tool crafted with Mount Olympus silver and gold."

Nodded her head, she continued," you can contact Hephaestus on more detailed instructions. Check the 'DivineStore' App inside if you are interested".

When the floating smartphone touched his hand, the god and goddess disappeared, the stilled water surface regained its ripples and sounds of birds and cars can be heard again.

"May your path be interesting and leads to the Olympus Mountains..." Maia whispered voice falls to Matt's ear.