Blue Screen Blues

"What happened to you all?" She asked in a Sad tone while forcing herself to calm down and get back into her High standing character.

"My Lady, our Outpost was attacked by some teenage girl wearing black and White stripped armor!" One of her commanders tells her.

"Hang on. What did she look like?" Bunnell asked him.

Another man chimes in his place.

"She had Dark colored skin, she wore Black and White Striped armor, had a unique sword, and had a she looked to be around 16 years old." The man tells her.

Bunnell thinks hard about this and realizes she matches the description of a girl the last batch of followers mentioned when they sp.a.w.ned in here earlier.

"How did she kill you all?" Bunnell asked in a sad tone.

"We wouldn"t let her into our compound for something she wanted to get, so She Triggered a d.a.m.n Avalanche on us just so she could Finish a d.a.m.n Quest! A woman cried out.

Bunnell knows she should respond this girl right now with action, but she is still too sad to care about it.

"She sounds like a Yuleeian Soldier working alone. Look If your Outpost is covered in snow, I don"t think that any healers will be able to find your bodies anytime soon before your purgatory buff will wear off" Bunnell said while opening up a portal to the outside.

"Here is a Vanity portal back to your body"s, look you"re going to be affected by the vanity curse if you walk through it, but Its better than a Game over" Bunnell said in a sad tone. All the men and woman run through the portal and she lays back against the wall and cries. She feels alone again.

She Then resumes thinking about her life before her Followers came into the Resp.a.w.n room.

She remember after having that amazing s.e.x, waking up in the morning and driving 3 hours away to Georgia to work on this 2 million Dollar mansion. When she arrives at it, she was blown away with the beauty of this place. She wondered who owned this place.

"They Must be pretty successful in life" She thought to herself as she walked through the Living room.

Her boss then instructs her what to paint, and she gets to work. After her first day on the project, she gets a hotel room to herself. Feeling Alone and tired, she wanted to teleport out of the realm but for some reason couldn"t. She remembers trying over and over again but no luck. She didn"t know why the game kept her in here. Thinking the girls are playing a joke on her she ignores this and spends this time jotting down Game mode ideas.

She then goes to sleep, and in the morning goes to work for day 2 of the job. When she walks in, she gets a weird task. She was in charge of painting all the wooden Furniture Elegant colors, while the others attacked the Huge Living room. Then after a long day she goes back to her hotel to try and teleport out. But like last night, no she had no luck. She uses this time to keep writing down her ideas for this project. Then then goes to work again the next day, and then after painting a huge bedroom, goes back to her hotel room and still has no luck with teleporting out.

She finishes her project a week later and starts to feel weird. Suddenly Gerard comes and finds her at her hotel room and talks to her.

"Hey how are you doing?" He asks her while he walks into her room.

"Doing great. I have a ton more ideas. But For some reason I can"t teleport out of here. Are the girls playing a joke on me?" She asks him.

"Ummmm" He said nervously while trying to phrase how to respond to this.

"Also how is your Band coming along?" She asks him while smiling and laughing.

"Umm We are doing Great. We are Thinking about writing another alb.u.m. We feel like changing up our style, a little bit, but we are don"t any inspiration or a theme for the next Alb.u.m yet" He said while crossing his arms.

"So, you know why I can"t teleport out of here, can you tell me why?" She said while sitting next to him and smiling at him.

"I don"t want to tell you" He said nervously.

"Gerard don"t be scared, I know they are f.u.c.king with me, just tell me what they did. Am I locked in for like a month?" She said sarcastically.

"No, more like 9" He said regretfully.

"Wait why 9 Months? Is Harmonia making German Puns again?"

"Nien" Gerard said while putting his head between his legs.

"Ha your funny. Why am I locked in here for 9 months then?" She asked still optimistic and happy.

"Because Harmonia turned on your Pregnancy mode while you were distracted by Hecate, and last week you got flagged for pregnancy" He said while taking a deep breath.

"Wait huh? What does that mean?" She asked him seeming confused.

"It means Your Pregnant right now Athena. The girls forced me to come down here and tell you this" He said while bracing for impact.

Upon hearing this news, she went quiet, then out of nowhere she had a surge of anger and grabs Gerard by the shirt and throws him down on the ground.

"No! I can"t be!" She screamed in anger.

""Please don"t shoot the messenger Athena! You have a bad reputation of doing that!" He screamed in fear.

"No! I can"t be Pregnant! No! No! No!" She screamed in anger while slamming his head against the floor.

"Athena Please stop! Your Hearting me!" He screamed.

Suddenly She lets go of him and falls to her knees and screams.

"NO! I"m Not supposed to be! I don"t want to be too involved in this world! I don"t want to be a mom!" She screams at him.

"Look I"m sorry. This isn"t my fault Athena. Its Harmonia"s. She did this to you because you insulted her brother" He told her while patting her on the back.

"Look you will be okay" He said while she breaks down Crying.

"No Gerard! I"m NOT GOING TO BE Okay! I promise you that!" She screamed at him.

"Calm down, Look I know you had the Jetset life planed as a goal and this accidental Pregnancy is going to kill it, but s.h.i.t happens. I know your Boyfriend doesn"t know what you do for a living, but Alexandria, and Harmonia both know When you get out of here, you"re going to Hang both of Em" High. That"s why they sent me out here as the "Venomous" messenger" He told her while hugging her.

"Gerard You don"t know how scared I am right now! I never expected this to happen! It"s not fair that one minute I"m feeling happy on this Vacation down here, and lonely the Next minute, then having this s.h.i.t happen to me!" She screams while she cries into his arms.

Suddenly Gerard notices the Neckless she was wearing.

"Why are you wearing this?" He asks while slipping his finger under the small gold chain of her neckless and tugging it gently.

"Harmonia Gave it to me before I got sent down here. I"m wearing it because I think it"s pretty" She said while continuing to cry in his arms.

"Athena! This Neckless is not supposed to be a Fashion Statement! It"s supposed to be a Deathwish!" He said with great concern.

"What do you mean?" She asked still crying.

Gerard realizes he is way over his head right now and shouldn"t say anything more to stress her out.

"Never mind Athena. It looks good on you." He said while trying to change the subject.

"You"re a very Pretty and very Strong Woman. I know you are going to get through this. I"ll make sure I stand by you To the End of all this I promise you" He told her while cradling her and rocking her back and forth.

While he was Rocking her, He Realized he could probably use this bad situation of Athena"s and Write an Alb.u.m on her Misfortune .

Suddenly she gets up out of his arms and walks out the door.

"Where are you going?" Gerard asks her with great Concern.

"Going for a Short Cemetery Drive. I"m going to go picture those two as ghosts while I go cry my heart out" Athena told him while crying.

"Ok. Take care?" He said feeling bad for her.

"No, you take care and stay out of trouble. You don"t know what they do to guys like you in Prison here" She said in a Depressed and Angry tone as she Slams the hotel room Door.

She Then gets in her car and drives to the nearest Cemetery. She walks to down the middle of it and leans against a Tree and starts Crying.

"I dont want to have a kid! I just wanted to come here, explore and leave!" She screams while Crying heavily.

She remembers her breaking down and crying all night, under that tree and waking up in the next morning Crying and trying to figure out a way to tell her boyfriend the bad news. She Thinks of a plan on the drive back home, and when she gets home, she says nothing. When she first sees him after a week away from him, she holds him tight and just tells him She missed him and cuddles with him in silence as they watch the news.

She makes dinner for him and after they eat, they both have s.e.x again. She does this to try to take her mind off of this dark secret. She knows this can"t get any worse, so she decides to live it up and take out all her sadness on him, which slightly makes her feel better, but doesn"t hide the fact this problem won"t be going away.

She lives with her dark secret for about a month, and then he starts to notice the sudden change in her behavior. Bothered By this change in her mood, he tries to get her to talk about whats wrong with her. She denies anything"s is wrong and lies and says she just in pain from hurting her Back painting, and he believes her. She keeps this dark secret to herself until she starts to get morning sickness.

When that happens, she knows she can"t hide this anymore.

She has the talk to him about this and comes clean about her lying to him about why shes been acting strange for the past month.

When she told him the truth, He walks out of the house freaking out and goes for a walk around the block to clear his head.

When he comes back around, He screams at her for lying to him about her birth control.

"I was on birth control! Look it must have failed on me. Look I"m more scared then you are! I don"t want this kid! I want to keep seeing the world Ethan!" She cried to him.

"Well you"re not getting rid of it Minerva! If it"s mine I want to raise it. I really wish you didn"t lie to me last month about this Change of Behavior I picked up on. But Look honey, I forgive you, and I promise you I will stay by your side and we will get through this together. You don"t know how amazing I think you are, and how happy you make me when I am around you" He told her as he held her tight in her arms.

She remembers crying in his arms for the longest 45 minutes in her life that Heartbreaking day.

She remembers going to a Church the next day, and actually Listing to a Sermon that made her feel better. She remembers a Woman from this church introducing herself and inviting her to a women"s group, and her breaking down during in the middle of 30 other woman during a discussion. The girls asked her what was wrong, she tells them she met a good guy during her traveling stage of her life and getting pregnant because of it. She tells them she is just overwhelmed with so much regret and shame and feels alone right now.

Suddenly all the girls get up and gather around her and hug her and share their own stories with her.

The power she felt in this group was amazing and the virtues they preached to her made her think really hard about how Caring everyone in this Religion was.

The girls all say a prayer, and she joins in even though she knows where these prayers go.

The church group helped ease her mind, and a few other of the girls from the church group offer take her out for a girls day in a few days. She accepts this and the girls take her for a fun car trip around Florida and she learns some more things about this wonderful place. The girls ease her mind, and she suddenly starts to slowly dedicate herself to this religion.

For the next 8 months she goes to church and starts to dedicate even more of herself to this religion because it gave her hope, even though she still despised the founder of it.

She got more involved with the church due to the fact Ethan Kept her at home and did not allow her to work. The church Members helped her out during greatly during this time, and on Sundays after church they did Random things with her and eventually started helping her prepare for the Arrival for her first kid.

Athena clearly remembers the day Ryan Was due.

It was a cold day in Florida that December day. She remembers her water breaking, and her being Rushed to the hospital.

Her best friend Olivia from church, a mother of Five stood by her side along with her boyfriend Ethan and helped her get through this.

She remembers The pain of Labor very well. It hurt worse than any Wound she ever took on the battlefield in ancient times. The amount of Physical pain she went through to Deliver him made her Develop a Soul bond with this little brat that didn"t want to come out.

At exactly at 9:04pm On December 17th, 2002 She Pushed him out and cried with joy as she held him.

The girls in the earth control room were all watching the delivery on the monitor and cheered for her After she Won Her Boss Fight.

Gerard heads down there to congratulate her, and tell her that Himself, Alexandria, and Harmonia in these past 9 earth months were able to get the game 85% complete. She then ends up handing him the notebook she had full of her plans, and layouts.

She told him she wants the game to have 3 factions, and she wants Seat 3. He tells her he will make this happen for her and told her to rest up. She then Tells him she wants to spend about 2 more years down here before uprooting her life. He smiles at her and tells her no problem.

"Before you go, I have a question. What Admin made the pain of Childbirth so OP? I want to beat the living s.h.i.t out of them!" She asks him.

"That would Be Discordia. She made that a glitch to the realm almost as soon as we launched this server" He told her with a Smile.

"Oh, that evil f.u.c.king b.i.t.c.h! I am going to Throw her in the mouth of a Volcano if I ever see her again!! You don"t know how painful that was!" She told him while Crying in annoyance.

He pats her on the shoulder and smiles at her.

For the next 2 years she falls in love with her little Boy she spent 9 months conjuring. During these 2 years she kept going to church with him and showing him off to everyone else. She started to change emotionally while she was being a mother to him. She was no longer a Strategic G.o.ddess of war; she was turning into a Strategic "Mother" of War. She kept going to church and slowly started changing herself.

Then on March 4th, 2004 Hecate decided she wanted to play a round on earth.

She walked up to the Control pad and did some research on the current time period down on earth.

She didn"t want to be bogged down by the 9/11 tensions that were still high around the world on the Server. So, she decides she wanted to play 6 years into the Future years of the current game. This was Totally allowed, Since the earth realm ran on its own parallel timeline. But the other G.o.ds put a security measure in place that made it so she couldn"t do this without it being Pre-Approved by 3 other people first.

She walks up to the pad and types in the date she wanted to play. She wanted to sp.a.w.n in at March 4th, 2010. 6 years into the future of the current game date. But to do this, it required 3 other G.o.ds to sign off on a "Paradox 2525 Security certificate" the game required just so she could enter into the game at a future point in time with her special powers. Alexandria, Harmonia, and Aphrodite gladly do this for her. They enter their pa.s.swords into the main keyboard and the game accepts the inputs and she was able gain access to this start date.

She then edits her starting age to 8 years old, since she wanted to skip the Tutorial stage of the game and jump right into the fun. She then chooses to sp.a.w.n into a warm sunny place. She chooses Hawaii and Edits some key points in the game that allowed her to start off with an Adoptive family. But before she hits enter, she realizes that she really doesn"t want to miss anything in this current timeline when she leaves the game 65 earth years from now. She clicks the box that says, "Return to current time after Life" and another Paradox 2525 form pops up on the screen.

"Hey guys, can you sign off on this other form for me too?" She asks the girls.

The 3 come over to her and look at the form and are confused.

"Why do you need 2 forms signed?" Alexandria asked her.

"Well I don"t want to miss all the fun while I am gone. I know the RPG server you all are working on is due to open soon, and I really don"t want to miss the launch date. So, I clicked the "Return to Current Time After Life" Box. This will require you all to sign off on it" She told her.

"Wait, if you return back to this time period after you leave that means you will only be gone for a split second. We honestly wanted you to be gone for a while. Because to be honest You"re Really weird" Harmonia said in a b.i.t.c.hy tone while crossing her arms.

"Aww I love you too Harmonia!" Hecate said Sarcastically while giving her a wet kiss on the cheek.

Harmonia rolls her eyes at her and walks up to the control screen. She enters her pa.s.sword for the override, and at the same time secretly changes her Sp.a.w.n location to Russia and turns on Memory Wipe.

The other girls Sign off on this and she cheers in Joy.

"Well I better be going; I want to see what this whole "Global Warming Expansion" is all about" Hecate said with a smile.

" You won"t really be missing anything Hecate, if you live to the age of 65 Earth Years, you would be gone for like what, 4 G.o.d Years?" Harmonia Asked while counting on her fingers.

"Hey Alexandria, what is the scale for time between realms again? Harmonia asked while crossing her arms again.

"I think 1 G.o.d year is 16 earth years so like you are right, about 4 G.o.d years" Alexandria Told her.

"It doesn"t matter, I don"t want to miss a Beat here! 4 years means I will miss the launch date. Look just like Athena, I need a Vacation and BADLY. I"m going in, and I will see you girls later" She Said while hitting launch and Giving the other girls a Thumbs up. She then teleports into the game.

Harmonia Walks over to control pad and quickly edits her Arrival time to be in 10 minutes.

"Hey guys, Check this out! She is set to die 2018. She only makes it 8 years!" Harmonia Said while laughing.

"Ohhh Lets watch how she dies!" Alexandria said seeming excited. Suddenly 8 other G.o.ds and G.o.ddess walk into the room out of boredom and watch a View Screen. They see the tank Try to swerve and miss a Drunk man, and the tank spinning out of Control and Homing in on her. When the tank hits her, and the bird lands on the tank, and the Ice Breaks They all laugh their a.s.s"s off.

Suddenly she Appears before them laying on the ground grabbing her ankles and shaking with fear.

"Ha! You rolled a 1 on dodging that tank!" Harmonia Said while laughing at her.

Meanwhile inside the Earth Realm:

During those 2 years of Spending time with Ryan, Athena came up with a plan to be able to Play on her game server and Spend time with Ryan.

On April 14th, she takes a Road trip by herself over to New Mexico and starts gambling money. She ends up turning $800 into 50k by just playing Poker alone. This Feat of hers gets her noticed by some of the Casino owners, and they offer to sponsor her and get her enrolled in a Poker Championship tournament down in Las Vega. She agrees to this, and calls Ryan"s Father about this. He was amazed at her winnings and supports her.

She lets him know she miss"s him and her baby boy Ryan, and that Her qualifying match starts in 5 days.

She then starts Gambling even more money in the Poker rooms and gets those winnings up to 60k. Then the Owner of the Casino asks her if she could stop winning jokingly and offers to give her a Luxurious Hotel suite for the night. She treats herself like a queen, and then that night she finally decides to Teleport out of the earth realm and go see how great her project was coming along.

When she teleports out of the Server, Harmonia was in the project room and just finished Editing the River system, the Elevation differences, and everything else that was Terrain related. They uploaded the whole map she drew, and she was impressed.

"That"s it! The game is Finished and Ready to go!" Alexandria said while spinning around in her chair all hyper and happy.

"Ya, but you need to go through your coding. You were drunk the other night when you did a mini edit to Allowable Items in a medieval realm. Some of these d.a.m.n things you allowed aren"t even remotely Medieval." Harmonia said while throwing her arms up in the air to stretch.

Athena Slowly walks up behind Harmonia and kneels behind her. Gerard sees this closes his eyes.

Athena then starts Humming the tune "Honey, I"m Home" By Shania Twain while Angrily placing her hand on her shoulder from Behind her.

Suddenly Harmonia turns around and sees her worst nightmare cracking her knuckles.

"Oh, hey Athena? We just got done making the server. How are…. You are doing??" Harmonia asked feeling scared.

Suddenly Athena Grabs her by the hair and throws her down out of her chair and starts singing the lyrics: "Honey, I"m home and I had a hard day, Pour me a cold one and oh, by the way…"

While she starts Wailing on her. Athena then Puts her in a head lock and chocks her out till she pa.s.s"s out. Gerard was watching this and was getting scared. She then grabs Harmonia who was still pa.s.sed out and drags her by the arm to the earth Realm while the other two follow her. She picks her body up and throws it on the sp.a.w.n pad and enters in "Memory wipe on, Vacation Mode Off, start as a baby, and enters in the Starting location as "North Korea" Then hits "Start".

She walks away while Flicking off the machine and walks toward Alexandria.

She puts her arms over her face scared shes about to get the same treatment. But instead she puts one arm around Alexandria and the other arm around Gerard and pulls them into her for a hug.

"I missed you all so much! When is the server due to start up?" She asked while enjoying her hug from them.

"Our plan is about 10 earth days" Gerard said while hugging her back.

"That"s good. I"ll be back here for that" Athena said while smiling at them.

She Then spends about 15 minutes talking to them, and heads back down to earth and Drives over to Las Vegas.

On her qualifying day she has to compete against some people and ends up getting into the tournament with ease.

Her sponsors put her over in another luxurious Hotel suite and that night she gets a surprise. Ethan flew out with their son and meets her at her hotel room. This absolutely makes Athena happy, and they all go out and have a mini family vacation. Ethan has a great idea to get married here and pitches the idea to her. Athena accepts this immediately. She spends a little bit of her earnings to buy her a good wedding dress, and him a nice Suit.

She and Ethen then go get married. When they got married, Ethan heard Minerva finally uses a Phrase He has never heard her use.

She said the words "I love you".

They both head back to the room and cuddle with each other, but at the same time, while she was being Cuddled by her Husband, she was also cuddling with her son Ryan. She was not going to let him out of her arms for the whole night.

When the next day came, She Heads to the stage and starts kicking everyone"s a.s.s in the first round of the tournament.

She plays 10 rounds and ends up knocking a lot of people out of the game. At the end of the first day, She, and her new husband go out to eat at a fancy restraint and then they decide to go outside of town and watch Land Yacht Racing.

Then they head back to the hotel and the next day she does well in 2nd round against more players in the tournament. Then after day 2 was over They go to the movies again and grab another fancy dinner.

On day three they had 10 people remaining. And there was to be 4 rounds. When she goes up to the stage to play, she notices Discordia was there, and she was playing against her in this tournament. She didn"t know she was a player here, and never ran into her in the Lobby these past 3 days.

Discordia was wearing a Red and Black Prada Dress with Red Prada high heels and had her Black Hair in a bun that was held together by 2 Hair sticks and wore a name tag that Said "Lucy Ferrari" . Upon seeing her Athena takes a deep breath and makes an adamant choice after this game is over, she was going to kick this Evil b.i.t.c.h"s a.s.s like she did Harmonia"s in revenge for being the one responsible for making Childbirth so painful.

They play their rounds, and when it was just Athena and Discordia left, they spend 3 hours battling each other in what seems like a Never-ending game since Both of them kept winning and losing rounds with super great hands.

Ultimately When they both start to get tired; they choose to go All in on the last round, and Athena wins by a land slide. Athena"s winning hand was a straight flush that blew Discordia"s "2 pair" out of the water. The whole exhausted room of spectators gasp and cheer when they see this. Discordia smiles at her and secretly walks away into the shadows during Athena"s victory Interview with reporters.

Athena wins $1 million for her family, and right before she gets ready to leave the area and hunt down Discordia, she notices a man was holding a golden shot gla.s.s. And just like magic someone tries to steal his shot gla.s.s he got from Discordia, and a fight breaks out in the casino.

This fight causes chaos and makes it hard for her to track her movements and forces her to give up on her trail. Discordia knew she was going to get her a.s.s kicked. They been reading each other"s Facial expressions for the past 3 hours.

Accepting the fact she escaped a First-cla.s.s a.s.s kicking Athena Lets this slide for now.

Both of them then Fly home, and Athena makes arrangements to get her car transported back home.

Upon getting home, they buy a simple house in the country, and start moving their stuff into it and start to enjoy this new life.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door, and She meets Gerard again.

"We have an issue" He tells her while winking at her in front of her new husband.

"Andrew! How are you doing? I Haven"t seen you in a Year!" Ethan asked him as he was carrying boxes of stuff into his new bedroom.

"Things have been going really great Ethan! My little band made a new Alb.u.m for 2004!" Gerard tells with an ecstatic tone.

"Dude that"s freaking Awesome! Ethan yells he walks into his new bedroom down at the end of the hallway.

Gerard makes a Hand signal to her telling her we need to GO NOW, something Really Really bad has happened.

"Hey honey I will be right back" she tells him with a smile.

"Love you dear, take your time." Ethan replies back to her.

She walks over to him and gives him a Kiss on the lips and picks up Ryan and Cradles him in her arms.

As she picked up her Pride and joy, her heart raced with Love and completeness. She kiss"s him really quick and says "Mommy"s gotta go somewhere, I will be right back my little sweet, and precious Forbidden doughnut that I can"t eat up! Oh Yes your just so cute and all mine!" She said in a cheerful and hyper mother-like tone.

She and Gerard then go for a walk into the woods and teleport out of the realm.

She gets informed that Discordia and Hecate are inside the RPG Server by Alexandria who was trying to restart the server but couldn"t.

"Hang on what? How so? Who was keeping guard the Control room?" Athena asks seeming confused.

"Look Discordia"s 69th Temporary ban was up the other day. She came back up here, and befriended Hecate who herself also, just played a Round on earth. Discordia distracted everyone with a Drinking challenge, and in the middle of it was able slip past everyone" Alexandria told her.

"Are you Serious? Athena said while shaking her head in disappointment.

"I"m not making this up. Look they aren"t coming out, and we launch tommorow at midnight. Can you go in there and see what you can do?" They are occupying thrones 1 and 2 of the game, so that means the game has started. I may have forgot to put a Reset b.u.t.ton on the outside of it, but can you go see what you can do to get them out?" She asked her.

"Sure can, I"m wanting to still whoop Discordia"s a.s.s for making me endure that "Pain of Childbirth" Glitch on earth" She told her with a Smile.

Athena then steps onto the pad and they send her in.

But as soon as she sp.a.w.ned in, she didn"t know this was going to be a 1-way ticket with no way out . Everything that Hecate mentioned to Ryan came true now. Athena realized she had most of her admin powers revoked, and the game was set to Hardcore RPG Mode, and Limited Vacation time was enabled.

She got Trapped in this h.e.l.l hole and had to fight Discordia for points she could use to take a vacation with. She kept losing battles, but when she got enough points to escape from the room, she went to earth only to realize 3 earth years had pa.s.sed.

When she got out of the game, it was 2007, and Ryan was now 5 years old now. She went to her old house and realized it was being rebuilt, but no one was living there. She didn"t know that in 2005 the state of Florida got Slammed with 3 hurricanes. She also didn"t know that Ryan"s Father ended up having to buy 2 more houses with the money she left him. She also didn"t know she was also considered a Missing person.

She walked up to one of her old neighbors and talked to them and asked where her family was. Upon talking to her old neighbor, she calls the police and s.h.i.t gets real. Detectives comes out and talk to her and she ended up being questioned by them. She didn"t know her family spent countless hours trying to find her when she walked away that one day with Gerard and never came back.

The police get in contact with her family, and they rush over to see her. Ethan broke down crying when he saw her and hugged her. Ryan on the other hand didn"t know really who his mother was and wondered why his father was so excited to see this woman who was making his father cry. Then the weird "Woman" came over to him and picked him and kissed him. Ryan was confused as to who this lady was.

The police then push for answers on Her disappearance for the past 3 years. Minerva couldn"t tell Ethan and the police that she was a "G.o.ddess" who had her hand in making a new replacement world for this outdated, and overpopulated game. She also couldn"t tell her husband shes locked in a Genocidal war against some evil b.i.t.c.h in a different realm. (For Logical and Ethical reasons)

She comes up with a semi believable story. She tells them she left the country that day. She boarded up on a Sailboat with a friend and set sail to Argentina.

When Ethan asked why, she couldn"t give him a good answer. She stuttered.

Him knowing her, answered for her.

"You left because you didn"t want to have Ryan, you wanted to keep living the Travelers Lifestyle didn"t you Minerva?" He said depressed and upset at her.

She just nods her head and agrees to this Lie.

"You know We took three hurricanes in 2005, right? I also blew through that 1 million we had in our account just to buy 2 more houses, just to keep a roof over Ryan"s head. Also did you know I went to jail for 2 months because they thought I had something to do with your Disappearance right? Also did you know during that time of Abandonment I met somone and had my own daughter too? Tracy has been Ryan"s stepmother for the past 3 years and has been helping me raise him while you were out on your "Adventures". Look I don"t want to be around you right now anymore. I"m glad you"re okay and alive right now, but at the same time I kind of secretly wish you were dead right now for abandoning us like this when we needed you the most" He told her while walking out the police station with Ryan.

When he walks away and the door slams shut, she starts Crying inside. The police clear her of missing person status, and then she was allowed to leave the police station. Feeling depressed and broken after hearing those words from her Ex-husband shatters her heart. He didn"t know her situation and it wasn"t fair.

She cries her heart out in a bar, and then gets a Warning message inside her head that her Visitation time to earth was about to expire in 4 hours. With the doc.u.ments in her hand from the police she knew the address where they lived, and she gets a cab and goes out there. She knocks on the door and confronts Ethan about what he said, while she watched another woman play with her son.

Upon Seeing this woman in the background show her love and affection to her son Ryan, Initiates a Jealous side of Athena. Which p.i.s.s"s her off and makes her Argue with Ethan. This doesn"t go over well, and he tells her to just leave.

With him Threatening to call the cops on her, Athena Cries and walks away. She then walks to a nearby church and sits alone in the pews devastated and Crying. A Priest and a Nun just happened to be there See"s this and decides to help counsel her on her distressed state.

She Paraphrase"s her Life and her situation to them.

She tells them she was a very important "Businesswoman" Who had it all. She had a great life, a great circle of friends, once lived in a great city, and then suddenly "Work" gave her an opportunity to try something new. "Work" threw her a curveball and gave her a kid she didn"t want at first, but when she had him, she fall in love with that kid, and then "Work" took that all away. Her family hates her because she "Works" too much, but at the same time doesn"t understand what her latest work project truly is. Her current "Partnership" with the "Government" is Top secret and she can"t tell them why shes been away from so long, and now they all hate her and have moved on.

The Priest then quotes John 15:18-19 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you" He and the nun then give her a mini sermon and she listens to it hoping it will make her feel better. They tell a good story that really hits home to her and it calms her down.

After the talk, and after she feels a lot better, she decides shes going to go for a short walk to clear her head. Before she leaves, The Nun hugs her and quotes Matthew 10:22: "You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved"

As she goes for a walk, she thinks really hard about that quote for a while.

Then she gets pulled back into the game for another year.

During her arrival back into her game she felt alone in her faction room, and still broken. She started implementing Christian virtues into her Faction so everyday life here in this h.e.l.l hole would feel more like church to calm down her mind. Her idea was she can"t go down there and go to church and feel better, why not bring the church up here and try it that way?

In that year away from earth, she starts doing Crusades all around the game world and stealing ma.s.sive amounts of Land from Yulee. During those times of war, Ethan"s 2nd Wife ended up getting in a car crash and got killed. This left him all alone with 2 kids he had to raise.

Athena continues to get locked in battels with Discordia and gets a high score that allows her to leave the game for 2 weeks. As soon as she leaves the game, the first thing she does is Heads down a Casino in the Midwest and starts making easy money with her unique gambling gift. She grabs $30K in one day and then takes a plane back to Florida.

She comes and Visits Ryan in 2008, and Ryan was now 6 years old. Ethan was happy to see her and told her what has happened since she last disappeared off the face of the earth. Feeling Shocked and empathetic, she hands him $30K in cash.

"This is for our Son, look Ethan, I know I"m never around for him, but I am going to help support him the best I can" She said while giving him a hug. She then walks in the house and hangs out with her son. She plays with him and meet his 1-year old Half-Sister. With him being a single father now, she helps clean up the house, and makes them all dinner while Ethan relaxes.

Ryan meanwhile was still devastated that his stepmother Tracy was gone, and this Weird lady from last year is back again trying to get him to call her "Mommy".

The next day She takes Ryan to school, and baby sits his sister, so he didn"t have to pay for daycare. Feeling bored, she comes to Ryan"s school with his sister and wants to have lunch with him. Athena surprises him at lunch and notices a he was depressed. She hugs him and eats lunch with him. She also gives him ice cream which makes the other kids Jealous. After it was over, she goes home and waits for his bus.

In the meantime, she cleans up the house, and gets dinner started early. She hangs out with him for a while, and tell Ethan she has a job abroad, and will try to make a Yearly effort to see Ryan as much as she can.

She hangs out with him for a week, then goes to the south west again to make more money. She grabs another $20k and gets it puts on a Check and mails it to him. She then gets yanked back into the game.

For the next 3 earth years she had a losing battle streak with Discordia. She was not able to see Ryan for that time period. She gets back to earth in 2011, but Ryan was now 9 years old.

She goes back to the casinos and really starts to Grind for money. She also started to turn up on everyone"s Radar in the casinos. She wasn"t cheating, but the owners started take note at how good of a Poker player she was since she won that tournament and try to limit how many rounds of games she could start playing. This makes her stay an entire week in south west engaging in "Casino hoping". Just to end up with $40k. She then heads to Florida and meets her family.

Upon seeing Ethan, he was p.i.s.sed at her. He screamed at her telling her she was really needed in 2008 when the Stock market crashed. He and the kids have been barely getting by with a.s.sistance from his Mother. She makes up a story about things not going right overseas either, which was the reason for her not being able to come down here sooner. She hands him a bunch of checks from a whole bunch of casinos and takes Ryan out and his sister out for a 3-day vacation. Ethan on the other hand had to work and couldn"t go.

During the Car ride to the Great Smokey mountains, Ryan was still confused about this woman, and started to notice shes always coming and going out of his life. He confronts her about this and Asks who she really is. She tells him she was his Real mother, and that due to "Her job" she never has time to see Him. Ryan being 9-year-old really didn"t understand this.

At the same time Athena, never had a kid before until now, so she didn"t know how damaging her coming and going in his life was to him at this stage. She took him and his sister camping in the mountains, and it was an experience both of them enjoyed. She also took them both to Church on a Sunday before they drove home, and this was weird to Ryan who never really went to church before until today.

She then turns the kids over to Ethan who enjoyed a break from the kids and then tells him she has to go back over tommorow. She asks him if it was possible to start putting Ryan in Sunday school cla.s.ses along with his sister. He agrees to this because he realized on Sundays, he could it as free Daycare while he worked extra hours. She then hugs him, and she goes back into the game.

As soon as she left again for a year, she started building up her points. Ryan on the other hand started getting forced to go to Sunday school on the weekends, which made him have to change his weekend agenda. It was okay and fine for the first 2 months, but when he realized his friends started getting mad at him because he couldn"t hang out with them in the mornings anymore, he started to hate this. Also him being smart he picked up on the fact that ever since his mom took him to church during that vacation, she could be the reason why he"s been being forced into a religion, and also why he has structured Sundays now as to her Pre-Vacation Arrival.

He puts up for this for about a year, and in 2012 she comes back and hangs out with him on his 10th birthday. Ryan who had a bad year due to change in his Social life because of her, wasn"t really happy to see her. His 6-year-old sister on the other hand was ecstatic and greeted her with a warm hug and ton of love.

Athena wanted the same reaction from Ryan, but she was on his s.h.i.t list. She offers to take him to Adventure landing down in Orlando, and this Cheers him up, but he still didn"t like her. She then takes both of them there and has fun with her son and his sister. She throws all her love and affection at Ryan, but Ryan still really didn"t consider her, his "Mother".

She picked up on this att.i.tude of his and confronts him and asks whats wrong. She touches him on the back, and he then tenses up in pain. Confused at why he tensed up she lifts his shirt up and notices a big huge bruise.

She didn"t know that the other week he got into a fight at school and lost. His babysitter forgot to rely the incident at school to his father, and this left a lot of questions to be asked. She hugs him, and asked what happened, and he didn"t want to reveal it to her. He just said somone hit me as a joke.

But the Bruises revealed it wasn"t a joke. It was intentional and it was Repet.i.tive signaling a fight. She holds him tight and tries to get him to open up, but he ignores her and just wants to ride the rides. Athena doesn"t want him to shut her out and forces him to tell her what happened. He gets mad and tells her it was a fight. She noticed anger in his eyes and noticed he wanted to try and distance himself from her. They ride the rides, and the head home.

During the Ride home, Athena noticed His sister Paige absolutely loved her, while her son started to slowly distance herself since she forced him to tell her what happened with his bruises.

She gets home and talks to Ethan about this, and he said he didn"t know. They ended up arguing about how he needs to stay up to date on Ryan, and Ethan keeps his mouth shut and doesn"t argue with her with info she doesn"t know that would destroy her. She hangs out with Ryan for a Week, and he Really started to distance himself from her. On that Sunday Ryan Demanded he didn"t want to go to church. Especially with his mother. She drags him to church anyway and Ryan blows up on her when they get there.

"You know I hate you right? I know You"re the reason why I have to go to Sunday school, and you"re the reason why my friends stopped hanging out with me on the weekends. I just want you to know that" He told her as soon as they pulled into the church"s parking lot.

Athena was shocked and didn"t know what to say. He stomped away from her and went to his cla.s.s. She felt angry, and also like crying inside after he told her that. She grabs him and makes him stay beside her during the sermon. This right here starts to really anger him. His sister on the other loved her and was broadcasting all her affection onto her due to the fact she doesn"t have a mother figure in her life.

They do the sermon, and then head home. Athena talks to Ethan about what Ryan did, and how he acted today, and he throws his hands up at her.

"What do you expect me to do? You are hardly ever around him. I can"t make him like you. Look if you want to repair things with him, spend more time with him. I got my hands full trying to keep groceries on the table, the car and house insurance paid for, keeping the babysitter happy, and also the cost of living in Florida is not cheap here at all Minerva. The house is paid for thanks to your money I used when you disappeared, but other than that I hardly ever am around him as well" He tells her.

Suddenly she gets an emergency message in her head that a Yuleeian invasion was starting in AlAshe.

She then starts crying and feels bad about all this s.h.i.t that is happening.

She then gets up and hugs her son and kiss"s him on the cheek. And storms out

"Where are you going? You just got here? Ethan said seeming confused.

"Look I just got to go. I can"t take this s.h.i.t!" She yelled while upset and heartbroken.

She then gets in her car and turns it into the terminal and recalls herself back into the game to deal with Yulee who was attacking her settlements.

Ryan then doesn"t see his mother for another 3 years.

When she fights and gets her points back up to the vacation Reward threshold she cashes in and goes back down to earth in 2015. She heads to the Casinos and enters into a Tournament they had at the time. She wins $50k and then heads on down to Florida.

Upon Arrival Ethan was shocked to see she was still alive. She tells him she was having fun exploring Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine. She also gives him a $45k Check that makes him smile

"Three years of not being around him, but you always come back with a much-needed child support check. Ugg I really need this money since they raised the insurance cost for the house since hurricane season has been getting worse here" He tells her.

Suddenly Ryan walks into the kitchen and sees his mother. He was 13 years old now and was wearing all black. He had an Escape the fate shirt on and had Black emo hair with bangs that covered one of his eyes, Tight skinny jeans and Eyeliner on.

"What the h.e.l.l is that!" Athena Screams as she points to Ryan. Who walks up to the cabinet and grabs a box of cereal.

"That would be your son Ryan. He has… "Changed" since you last were around." Ethan tells her.

"Why would you let him Dress like that! Are you letting him Worship Yulee!" She screams.

"Huh?" Ethan asks her seeming confused.

"I mean Are you letting him Worship the DEVIL Ethan, because It looks like you are!" She screams in panic.

"No, I don"t think so. He quit going to church 2 years ago. He finally confronted me about it, and I made him stop going" He tells her.
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"Wait what do you MEAN DON"T THINK SO. Also, why would you let him do that?" She screamed in disbelief.

"Also, Ryan, why do you have f.u.c.king Makeup on your face? Do you like men?" She screamed in a very angry voice.

"Aww I missed you too mom" Ryan said sarcastically with a Smirk on his face.

"Look he got into a Fad. His Grandmother is encouraging to go out and be a part of something he likes, so he"s doing this." He tells her.

"Ryan, go grab your cloths. We"re heading to West Virginia. I"ll talk deal with you later Ethan" She said while shooting him an angry look.

"But I have plans this weekend" Ryan said while changing his facial expression.

"I"m only in America for a week. So, you"re not backing out of this. Tick tock go pack up" She said as she grabs his arm and pushes him out the kitchen.

"What"s wrong with you? Why are letting him do this s.h.i.t?" Athena Screamed at Ethan.

"Because it makes him happy. And for your Info he is not gay, he"s been Quite Active with his dating life Minerva. He has a date this weekend with a girl named Amanda" He told her.

"I don"t f.u.c.king care I don"t want my Son to go to the Dark side. We need to stop this s.h.i.t now!" She screamed at him.

"For your information you haven"t been around in his life he"s choosing to do his own thing. I still am a Single father raising two kids, so I hardly get any time to spend with him. Also, you need to calm your a.s.s down and stop yelling at me." He tells her.

Ryan picks up his cellphone and calls his date and tells her the bad news and hangs up the phone.

He walks out with his suitcase packed with cloths and is all set to go. He had a Resentful look on his face and hated her for ruining his plans this weekend.

"Dad I don"t really want to go, can you please let me stay here?" Ryan begs him.

"I"m sorry, son, but I"m holding a Child support check that will support you and your sister for the next 3 years. Go hang out with her, and you can have 3 more years back to yourself" He said sarcastically.

"Oh, I see what you did there, f.u.c.k you Ethan. Let"s go Ryan." She said seeming hurt.

Suddenly Paige who was 9 years old now with blonde hair and who was wearing a blue dress runs out of her room with a super happy smile and edger to give Minerva a hug. She knocks Ryan out of her path and latches on to her and hugs her tight.

"I missed you so much Minerva! Can I go with you guys? Please! Please! Please!" She said seeming desperate to get out of here and spend time with her and Ryan.

"Ethan you don"t mind If I do?" She asked him will pointing to her.

"Go for it. I need some me time" He said with a smile.

Suddenly she packs up her stuff and gets into her Rental car.

Then they start heading north on the highway.

Ryan sits in silence and doesn"t say anything. Paige on the other hand was playing a game on her phone wearing headphone and all cheerful.

"Tell me what you have been doing these past three years?" She asks him.

"Been doing fine without you" He said with a Smart-a.s.s tone.

"Don"t start with me Ryan. Why are you wearing that stuff? I don"t like it at all" She tells him seeming very p.i.s.sed off at him.

"It"s called Emo. It"s a Trend that is Dying, like my Respect for you Minerva" He told her.

"Don"t call me by my first name! f.u.c.king Respect me Ryan" She yells at her.

"Oh, I don"t Respect you at all. Ever since you been gone My life has been getting worse. I have no Friends, I have Severe Depression, and now thanks to you I might not have a girlfriend" He tells her while taking out an AUX cord and plugging it into the Radio.

"You better respect me or you"re going to h.e.l.l. It says in the bible though shall honor thy father and mother" She told him.

"f.u.c.k the bible And f.u.c.k Religion as a whole. There is no G.o.d. Show me proof on that s.h.i.t and I"ll head back to church" He tells her in a Rebellious tone.

Athena was speechless.

She also didn"t know what to say.

Honestly, She Really, Really… Didn"t know what to say or how to handle this coming from her son.

He puts on the song "10 Miles Wide" By Escape the Fate on the Radio and forces her to Listen to it while he looks at her with a Smirk.

"And by the Way I"m not a Satan worshiper. He doesn"t exist" He tells her.

"Oh, SHE Exists you f.u.c.king a.s.shole. SHE exists." She said with a Crazy tone to her voice.

"SHE? Are you Implying the devil is a Woman? If So, I"m Glad Shes Driving me to the mountains against my will" He tells her.

She starts to feel Really hurt now And She doesn"t say anything.

Ryan then puts on the Song "Mama" From My Chemical Romance.

She listens to the song and 3 things appear inside her head. 1 The Person singing this song sounded like Gerard, 2 this song was dark and uncalled for to play in front of his mother, and 3 If Gerard wrote this song about her, he"s not f.u.c.king lying.

After that song was over, she takes his phone from him and they just drive in silence.

About 2 hours of driving She has to break the silence.

"What has happened since I been away these 3 years? Please let me know. Look I know I am never around, and it"s not my fault. Tell me what has happened to you" She asks him.

"Let"s See, I gotten my a.s.s beaten in school by people that used to be my friends, I hit a kid so hard in the throat he almost died of asphyxiation when his throat swelled up, I"ve been suspended from school because of it, I"ve tried suicide by slitting my wrist, and I"ve had been diagnosed with ADHD." He told her in a resentful tone. While Pulling up his sleeve to show her a very nasty scar.

"Ryan Why would you do such a stupid thing like that? Life is f.u.c.king precious you know, that right? The person who created you doesn"t take too kindly to that s.h.i.t you know that right?" She told him while placing her hand on his scar.

"d.a.m.n it you really went deep there" She said as she glanced at his arm while Driving.

"Yep, you missed all the Fun mom. Where were you when I needed you? Oh, that"s right you were "Out Finding Yourself" In Europe. Would have been Great if I died" He said in a Dark sarcastic tone.

"No, it would not! Look Ryan I love you; I know I am never around, but you need to quit being an a.s.shole to me" She tells him with a p.i.s.sed off tone.

Ryan reaches across the Dash and grabs his phone.

"What are you doing?" She asked him in a p.i.s.sed off tone while trying to grab his phone.

"Don"t put on any Devil music Ryan please!" She screamed at him while putting her hand on the wheel.

"It"s not. It"s a Christian band Minerva" He said with an Evil Smirk.

As soon as he called her that She really wanted to Slap him right now, but she was Driving.

He puts on the Song "40 Days" from Blessthefall

They listen to the song for a about a minute and Ryan tells her why he put it on.

"On my Suicide Attempt, do you know what song I was listening to?" He asked her in a polite tone.

She doesn"t say anything, and he points at the Stereo.

"Why did you do it?" She asked him

"Because I felt Alone Mom, Dad works way too much, and never has time to talk to me with my problems. I snapped that day. If you were around, I could honestly say I would have talked to you, but there is no way to get in touch with you. So, I lost the war with myself and almost bleed out. Paige found me pa.s.sed out and called for help. She saved me, but honestly that should have been your job" He told her in a tone that made her feel like this was her fault.

Suddenly the car jerks and starts to bounce.

"d.a.m.n flat tire" She said as she pulls over.

Ryan and his mom then get out of the car and look at the tire that was flat. It was the Rear Left tire. Ryan smiles and gets out the tools and jacks the car up for her. He takes the tire off and gets ready to put the spare. But as he had his back turned his mother heard something from a distance. A car coming down the freeway doing 85 in the fast lane was swerving in and out of lanes in a hurry. It clipped a pickup Truck Towing a trailer and spun out and was headed toward her car. Athena sees this and grabs Ryan"s and pulls him out of the way. The car slowed down during the spin out, but still Slams into their SUV at 45 Miles an hour with Paige still inside and gla.s.s goes flying everywhere. Athena was laying on top of her son as soon as the car crashed into it, and then she gets up and goes to check on Paige. She had her seatbelt on and was sitting on Right side Rear door side behind her brother which saved her from harm. The car crashed into the left rear door, so the Side Airbags absorbed a lot of the energy of the impact.

Athena pulls her out of the car, and she was shaken up and screaming. As soon as she pulls Paige out of the car, she walks over to an Asian girl who was driving the Honda Civic that hit them. She was still holding her cellphone in her hand. Athena opens her door and pulls her out of the car, and Then starts to beat her a.s.s. She leaves the woman b.l.o.o.d.y, battered, and bruised. Witnesses who stopped for the accident then try to pull her off of the Collage aged girl.

When the Police got there, they do a Traffic report and the other girl wanted to sign charges on Athena. But fate would take a turn here, the police realized she didn"t have a valid Driver"s license, was in possession of a Stolen Car, and she was wanted in another state for being involved in a Hit and Run.

The cops Arrest her, and Athena gets off easy. Ryan stood there holding Paige in his arms while she was shaken and traumatized from the impact. She had some cuts on her face, but they weren"t too bad. He held her until his mom got back from talking to the police.

The car gets towed and they all grab their stuff out of the back of it and get a Taxi.

They all Rode 40 miles south back to their home. They take Paige to the hospital to get checked out, then after the all clear, head home and let her rest up. The next day they all decide to go to a water park. They spend all day together riding rides, but Ryan still didn"t respect his mom on a level Paige did.

Paige saw Athena as a mom figure since hers was gone and never coming back. She didn"t care if Athena saw her once every three years, she really liked her. Ryan on the other hand was just the opposite.

All day at the park he was still p.i.s.sed off at her for barging in his life like this making him forfeit a date. He was supposed to have taken Amanda out on a date today. He wanted to teach her how to surf. But nope, his mom is here for a short time, and the world must stop for her.

When they get back to the house Athena confronts him about his att.i.tude all day. He tells her what exactly what he thought of her and this Destroys her. Ryan didn"t hold back even in front of his dad. He starts off a big speech about how she was never around, and how his father is suffering because of her selfish decisions. He screams at her and tells her exactly what he thought of her that night and tells her to don"t even get mad at him for her being the biggest useless person in his life. Then to add icing on the cake he ends his hurtful speech with "Oh yeah by the way I never asked you to save me from that car, you should have let me Die. It"s not like saving me would ever erase these scars" He told her with a p.i.s.sed off dark tone.

Athena looks at him with rage and Slaps him in the face. Athena Then gets up and She walks out the room. She goes into Paige"s room, and gives Her a big hug. Then she leaves without saying goodbye.

When she gets in her car she screams, and tears crash down around her. Shes lost all his respect, and it"s all Discordia"s fault. She Cries heavily as drives down the road to turn her Replacement rental back into the Terminal.