Amphitrite the Bubbly by Holub Joan

Author:Holub, Joan [Holub, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

7

Giant Trouble

Amphitrite

AMPHITRITE STUMBLED BACK IN SURPRISE as actual giants began leaping through the oculus down into the Pantheon. There were five of them. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Their feet hit the marble floor so hard that it shook when they landed.

Knocked off balance by the shaking, the students stumbled and bumped into one another, some falling to their knees. It was mass confusion!

“You okay?” asked a voice.

Amphitrite pushed back her hair to see Poseidon offering his hand. Though her legs had been getting stronger, they’d been no match for the wobbling floor, and she’d fallen. She nodded up at him as she took his hand, and he pulled her to stand.

“We’re surrounded,” one of the Chinese goddesses on Medusa’s team murmured shakily.

Hearing the fear in her voice, Amphitrite reached out and gave her a hug, just like she would’ve done for one of her little sisters. She hoped Poseidon wouldn’t mind her comforting members of an opposing team. After all, it seemed to her they had far bigger foes at the moment.

Namely giants! Their captors towered as tall as oak trees. They were big and bald, their bare feet covered in dirt like they’d just crawled out of the earth itself! They had long noses and hairy knuckles. But the really odd thing about them was the steam that curled up from the top of each giant’s head like wild, wispy, constantly moving hair. Each sported a hairdo of a different color steam—pea green, orange, purple, yellow, and hot pink.

While blocking the way out of the Pantheon, the giants inched toward the students, corralling them into the very center of the room. They were trapped!

Athena pointed to the green-steam giant. “You stole my dad’s omphalos!”

Amphitrite whipped around to see that the giant was indeed in possession of the stone egg from the Temple at Delphi. It sat atop his bald head like a crown. Steam funneled up from him, through the bottom end of the egg, and out through its top opening.

He grinned and thumped his chest with a big fist. “Me Prince Porphyrion. Egg mine. Me tell future from now on. Olympians’ future look bad. Giants’ future look good. Heh heh heh.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Medusa demanded. The snakes on her head were hissing and lunging wildly at the giants to no avail.

“Think that giant can really use the stone egg to see the future?” Pandora whispered to Amphitrite.

“Hope not,” Amphitrite whispered back. “I think only the Oracle can do that—or could when she had the egg, anyway.”

“If you give that omphalos back, we’ll ask Zeus to go easy on your punishment,” Athena commanded in a strong, clear voice.

The purple-steam giant shook his head and pointed at the green-steam giant, who seemed to be their leader. “Nuh-uh. Porphy like crown.”

“Yeah,” said the yellow-steam one. “Porphy gonna be king. Mommy say so.”

At this, Ares started laughing. “King of what? Kindergarten?”

The giants all took a threatening step toward Ares and the other students, forcing them to draw into a tighter group.

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