The king had officially named his park Minos’s aMAZEment Park because its central attraction was a cavelike labyrinth. 'It sounds really a- maze-ing.' Both girls giggled at her little joke. 'Did you catch that article about Minos’s new amusement park in yesterday’s Greekly Weekly News ?' Athena leaned over and whispered to Persephone, the pale-skinned, red-haired goddessgirl who sat next to her and was one of her three best friends. Murmurs of excitement rose from the class. He loved tinkering with the fountains here at MOA, and had designed a magnificent water park with polished marble slides, gleaming fountains, and pools of turquoise water down on Earth.Īsss I wasss about to sssay, the teacher continued, wisely holding the papyrus scroll farther away from his long flame-spewing dragon snout this time. As godboy of the sea, he was all about water. The sight of those teeth never failed to startle her.īut Poseidon grinned back at the teacher, unfazed. He smiled, baring huge, sharp dragon teeth.Īthena’s blue-gray eyes widened, and she drew back a little. As drops of water sprayed from the trident’s prongs onto the papyrus, the flames quickly fizzled out. He grasped the long handle of the trident he always carried and extended its drippy three-pronged end toward the letterscroll. Poseidon, a handsome godboy with pale turquoise skin and eyes, jumped from his seat in the front row. The teacher’s eyes bugged, and he began shaking the letterscroll with one clawed green hand in an attempt to put out the flames. Licks of flame flew from his lips as he spoke, setting the edge of the letterscroll on fire. An interesssting letterssscroll hasss arrived, which I will now read aloud sssince it concernsss sssome of you, he announced to the class. Right away her dragon-headed teacher, Professor Ladon, held up a rolled sheet of papyrus. She pushed her long wavy brown hair back as she pulled her textscroll for the class from her bag. PING! PING! ATHENA SLID INTO her seat in her Beast-ology class at Mount Olympus Academy just as the lyrebell for second period rang.

Athena the Wise by Joan Holub