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Dru and Strife appeared in a clearing a few yards away from a camp.

Dru batted sparks out of her eyes in what was becoming a normal manner for her then looked around. It looked like any camp she'd seen on Xena or Hercules. A fire, Argo, some packs laying on the ground, Xena stalking over looking scary, Gabby following her clutching her stick thingy. ~Moron! Hide behind Strife or something before you get killed!~ Her mind screamed at her. She went with that thought and stepped behind Strife.

"Strife. What are you doing here?" Xena asked crossing her arms over and chest and looking sternly at Strife not even glancing at Dru.

"Awwww now is that any way ta talk to ya favorite cuz, Cuz?" Strife asked grinning.

Xena snorted. "Strife you may be family but you've NEVER be my favorite cousin. Now why are you here and who's the girl hiding behind you."

Strife giggled. "Awww I'm not ya favorite? I'm crushed! I don't know how I'm gonna recovered from the pain ya've inflicted on me! An' this is Dru. I'm hangin' wit her for Cupe."

Gabrielle smiled at Dru as she stepped around to the side to see behind Strife. "Hi. I'm Gabrielle. Are you ok? Is Strife being nice to you? Why are you with him anyway?"

"I uh... err... Well Strife is nice. Really nice. And umm I've living with Cupid for a while. Till Zeus can send me home at least." Dru managed to get out.

Gabrielle frowned. "You're living with Cupid? And Why does Zeus need to send you home? Can't you get there your self? Oh one of the other gods could send you?"

Strife spoke before Dru could stammer out an answer. "It's a long story an' she don't feel like goin' though the whole thing again. Short version is she's from really, really, really, really far away an' we don't know how ta get her back at the moment. That 'nuff info fah ya?"

Gabrielle frowned at Strife and peered around him to look at Dru. "Is that true? You don't have to be scared if he's forcing you to do anything. Xena is a Hero. She can beat him up for you if he's hurting you."

Dru burst into laughter and clutched Strife's arms trying to stay upright.

Xena and Gabrielle stared at Dru in open shock while Strife looked down at her as she fell to the ground gasping for air laughing her self nearly to death.

Gabrielle looked from Dru to Strife and back and frowned. "What's so funny?! What did I say that's making her laugh like that?!"

Dru pushed her self off the ground to a sitting position and ran her hand over her face trying to get enough control to speak. "You," giggle snort. "You said Xena could, " Guffaw hiccup. "Could beat up Strife. Well that has to be the most insane thing I've heard! Now unless Strife was feeling nice and threw the fight Xena would be a puddle of ooze. He is a GOD. She is a Demi-God who don't seem to have gotten many if any powers from her dad. There is no way she could win." After managing to say that she fell back into her laughing at the meer thought that Xena could win in a fight between her and Strife.

Gabrielle stomped her foot and huffed. "Stop laughing! It's not funny! Xena could fight Strife and win! She could! She has won fight with gods before! She's won against Ares!"

Now Strife started to laugh. "Uh Gabs. Don't ya know Unk threw teh fight? Threw every fight? He'd never let onea his kids get hurt. Let alone hurt 'em him self."

Now Xena looked shocked. "He What?! What do you mean he threw the fight?! He couldn't have! That was what proved I'm his daughter so the Furies reverse my insanity!"

Strife giggled even more. "Xeen. He let ya win. Do ya REALLY think he'd want his own daughta completely nuts? And If he did he woulda gone straight ta Mania. He was playin' you."

Xena stared open mouthed. "He-He-He what?! He was playing me?! He didn't really want me insane? Then why the Tartarus did he go to all the trouble to get The Furies to drive me insane?!"

Strife grinned. "Well ya see Grampa Zeus was makin' Unk keep down on teh wars Cuz onea his mortal kids was gettin' married so Unk was bored. So he played wit you to entertain him self."

Xena stood there looking dumb founded.

Gabrielle clutched her staff tightly and glared at Strife. "Stop lying! Xena is the best and strongest fighter in the world and you just don't want to admit she beat Ares on her own! So stop making up lies about Ares letting her win!" Dru wondered in Gabrielle would go for the full affect and stomp her feet while she screamed.

Dru sighed and stepped out from behind Strife and walked over and sits on a log. Up to a certain point watching Strife laugh at Xena and Gabrielle just got boring. She let out a small evil laugh as a thought popped into her head.

Strife suddenly stopped laughing as his head shot toward Dru as she started to sing."This is the song the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it it forever just because this is the song the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it it forever just because this is the song the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it it forever just because this is the song the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it it forever just because this is the song-" Dru stopped singing suddenly as a hand clamped over her mouth.

Xena spoke slowly and softly. "Stop. Don't....just don't." then pulled her hand away.

Strife was bent over gasping unable to breathe with how hard he was laughing.

Gabrielle looked like she ate a lemon. "That was worse then even that annoying song of Joxers! ARGH! It's never going to come out of my head!"

Dru giggled. "I know great huh? I just love that song.... but since you guys don't how about...Joxer the mighty roams through the countryside,
he never needs a place to hide,
With Gabby as his sidekick , fighting with her little stick.
Righting wrongs and singing songs, being mighty all day long
He's Joxer, Joxer the mighty
Joxer the mighty he's very tidy,
everyone admirers him he's so handsome its a sin
. When things get grim he'll take it on the chin.
If your in jeopardy, caught by the enemy, don't call the cavalry,
there a better remedy although he doesn't work for free
He's every mans trusty, he's every womens fantasy,
plus he's good with company.
Look out, holy gee, he's Joxer, Joxer the mighty.
Joxer, Joxer the mighty. " Dru burst out laughing when Gabrielle actually clutched her head looking pained.

Strife was now rolling on the ground laughing while Xena glared at both Dru and him. "She's as insane as the gods! Is she one of you?!"

Strife still weak with laughter pushed him self up wiping away tear of laughter. "Nah. She's a mortal. But from what I've seen she'd make a great god! Hmm maybe if Zeus can't get her home he'll make her a goddess..."

That caused Dru to stop laughing at stare at Strife in horror. ~Not get home?! Be stuck with scary insane gods forever?!And/Or get killed by Xena when she gets knocked up by a ghost and goes on a god killing spree?! NOOOOO!!!!~ "WHAT?! What do you mean not get home?! I have to get home! I have a life! Family, friends, a job!"

Strife stopped laughing and cringed slightly. "Uhh well I ment..uhh well Ya know Gramps is lookin' into how ya got here and why and how ta get ya back but...well...he may not find anything..." At Dru's growing look of horror he scrambled for something to keep her from completely panicking. "Bein' a god isn't that bad! You'd have fun ya could be a war god or somethin'! Unk would love ya!"

"Oh God. I have to get home! I have to get home now! Oh God oh God oh God!" Dru moaned wrapping her arms around her self tightly trying to ignore the images of living with Discord, Ares, and Strife and what other scary war gods lived there forever.

Strife bounced up from the ground and ran to Dru and grabbed her arm. "Dru? Uh Dru ya in there? Look!" He flicked a finger towards Gabrielle turning her hair purple and her top and skirt a horrible shade of pink that even Aphrodite would shudder over. "Look! See fun! Gabrielle looks bad! Fun! Dru?"

Dru was too busy freaking out to laughing at Gabrielle's pain. "Home....must...get...home..."

Strife cringed. "I think I broke her...Uh I betta get her back...uhh see ya Cuz." And flashed from back to Olympus hoping Cupid would know what to do with a panicking mortal.

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"CUPE! CUPE! Get ya feathed ass out here!" Strife yelled as they appeared in Cupid temple.

Cupid walked into the room carrying Bliss on his hip both of them covered in paint. "What? What's wrong?"

As soon as Strife let go of her arm Dru had slipped down the the ground and was hugging her self, chanting "Must get home Must get home Must get home Must get home." Over and over.

Cupid looked startled and looked at Strife. "What happened to her?!"

Strife looked sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Uhh well ya see...uhh I might have mentioned somethin' about her nevea gettin' back ta her home..."

Cupid groaned and handed Bliss to Strife. "You go get him cleaned up I'll handle Dru. Gods gramps is gonna kill me!"

Strife took the paint covered godling and walked towards the back rooms with him. "What wrong wit Dwru?" Strife groaned at the question and tried to explain as they walked out of ear shot.

Cupid knelt down next to Dru. "Dru? Can you here me? Strife told me what he said...and as much as I lov-like him he can say stupid things. You're not going to be here forever. You're not. Zeus WILL find a way to get you home. Dru is any of this getting though to you?"

Dru let out a sigh and banged her head on her knees. "It's times like this I wish I was old enough to drink. I could use a stiff drink right now."

Cupid was suddenly holding out a goblet of wine. "Here. This might help."

Dru didn't even bother to think about the fact that she was not only underage but also that drinking was against her faith she just grabbed the goblet and drained it.

Cupid took it back while Dru coughed. "Feel better now?"

Dru nodded blinking back tears still coughing. "Yeah. Much."

Dru stood up then pulled Dru up. "Come on lets get you a bath and a nap. You look like you need both."

Dru shook her head running a hand though her hair. "Are you saying I stink? I don't stink. I showered just before I left the house before all the crap happened..."

Cupid chuckled. "You don't stink I just think a bath will help you relax. You need to take a nap."

Dru frowned at Cupid. "Despite that fact the in godly years I might be a child in human years I'm an adult and I do not take naps!"

"Dru you, were dragged all over where ever Strife took you, had a break down, and drank a goblet of wine extremely fast when you've never drunken before. Trust me you'll be lucky to get into bed before your asleep."

Dru covered her mouth as she yawns. "I'm not tired. I'm...not."

"Uh-huh. Sure." Cupid said as he pushed Dru into a large marble bathroom. He waved a hand filling the large tub with hot steaming water then frowned at Dru. "Are you awake enough to undress and take a bath by your self without drowning?"

Dru blinked at him. "What? Huh?"

Cupid sighed. "Right ok I'm taking that as a no." Cupid frowned eying up Dru's clothes trying to figure out how you get her out of them.

Dru was still awake enough to catch the look. "Stop looking at me like that! You look like Apollo when you look like that!"

Cupid rolled his eyes. "I'm not trying to have sex with you I'm trying to get you into the tub." Cupid said as he yanked her t-shirt over her head.

"HEY!" Dru squeaked trowing her arms over her chest.

Cupid rolled his eyes. "I'm the God of Love. I've seen more woman naked then you've even met. Hey...what is that thing?" He asked looking at her bra.

"It's bra! You act like you've never seen one before...wait...Ancient Greece. No bras...bugger." Dru moaned.

Cupid looked confused and shook his head. "You know I never know what you're talking about..."

"People tell me that all the time. Now maybe you should leave the room and I'll finish this my self?"

Cupid frowned at her. "How do I know you're not going to fall asleep and drown? Gramps and Mom will kill me if I let you die under my own roof!"

"I'm not going to drown! I'm 18 almost 19 I've be taking baths by my self for 14 years! So shoo! Shoo!"

"Ok I'll leave you alone but if you drown I'm going to drag you from the Underworld and lock you in your room forever!" Cupid threatened as he walked out closing the door behind him.

Dru sighed in relief as she finished undressing and slipped into the hot water.

She looked around trying to figure out where the soap was. "Soap....soap. Oh where oh where is the soap." She muttered as she looked around the outside of the tub and the shelves lining the walls.

She looked around as if checking for people or cameras then quickly jumped out and grabbed the first bottle she saw then jumped back into the deep water.

She leaned against one of the walls of the tub that was really closer to a pool and looked at the bottle she had grabbed. "Gah. I don't read greek. Wait. I don't speak greek either so how the hell have I been able to talk to everyone?! Oh hell this is all just insane! I feel like I'm in a whacked out dream! Grr I might as well just use the stuff....Cupid wouldn't have anything dangerous around with a toddler in the house would he?" She unscrewed the top and sniffed at the contents. "Mmm fruity."

She poured some of the liquid into her palm and rubbed it into her arms. "Hmm seems to be soap...oooh tingley....that's weird. Only Peppermint usually tingles..." She mused to her self as she kept washing.

Dru climbed out of the tub after she finished washing and grabbed a large fluffy towel and wrapped her self up. She grabbed her clothes then peeked out the door checking to see if anyone was around before stepping out and making her way towards her room.

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~I'm a moron. I'm a complete and utter moron. How did I get lost?! My room has to be around here somewhere! Oh gods...I'm walking around in nothing but a towel and I can't find my room! Gods what's going to happen next?! Is Apollo going to show up while I'm wandering around here?!~

Dru was on the verge of panicking again. She was a thick piece of terry cloth away from being naked and completely lost. This was soooo not of the good.

"Hey Dru Ya goin' for a new look? If That towel was pink Aunt 'Dite would approve." Strife said snickering as he leaned on the door frame to a room.

Dru yelped and jumped a foot into the air clutching her towel tightly. "Strife! Uh hi. I was just umm looking for my room I'm kind of lost...I was taking a bath and I uh sorta got spun around and um....well can't find my room." Dru blushed from embarrassment.

Strife giggled and walked towards her. "Come on." He walked down the hall and pushed open a door. "This where you were?"

Dru nodded. "Yeah this is the bathroom I was in."

Strife grinned and stepped into the room and walked to a door across the room. "Ya room's here. This is ya privet bathin' chamber. Ya just have two doors ta it."

Dru blushed even harder. "Uhh thanks...I might have been wandering theses halls forever if you hadn't found me." She said as she stepped into her room and almost ran to the dresser to get clothes.

Strife leaned against the door frame and watched her.

"Son of a...no underwear....no underwear! Oi... this just keeps getting worse and worse..." Dru mumbled under her breath. She looked up from the dresser holding a pair of jeans and t-shirt and saw Strife watching her. "What?"

Strife grinned. "You're funny."

Dru glared. "Yeah well your mom dresses you funny!"

Strife blinked, looked down at his clothes, then frowned. "My Ma hasn't dressed me in centuries."

Dru sighed still hugging an arm full of clothes to her chest. "That was a insult Strife. Like saying 'Your moms so fat she jumped in the air and got stuck.' 'Your moms so ugly when she was born the doctor slapped her face.' 'Your mama wears combat boots." Get it?"

Strife stared wide eyed. "Ya know ya shouldn't things like that about The Goddess of Discord. It's bad fer yer health. And Ma does wear Combat boots. What else would a War goddess wear?"

"I didn't...Oh never mind! Could you umm leave so I can get dressed?"

Strife grinned and for a minute looked like he was going to say no but turned and walked back though the bathroom. As he was walking out his eyes hit the bottle Dru had been using. He picked it up and read the label. "Jerkules tits! She used this?! Oh Gramps is gonna freak! Heck She's gonna freak! No wonder I got that power burst before..I just though Joxer tripped somewhere or soemthin'." Strife giggled as he dropped the bottle back down where Dru had left it. "I wonder if she even knows?" He mused as he left the room.

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Dru pulled her hair up in a pony tail hoping that would curve the afro that would come without hair jell. She looked int he mirror and bit her lip. "Black jeans, dark blue t-shirt, and hiking boots. Same old jewelry I had before and and hair that sucks. Well it's as good as I can do." She mumbled as she grabbed her bag off the bed and walked out of the room.

She knew Cupid wanted her to sleep but for some reason she suddenly just felt wide awake and full of energy.

She wandered though the halls just looking at the carvings of naked people doing....stuff.

She sniffed at her arm and tried to figure out just what kind of fruit that smell was. ~Not strawberry. Not Watermelon. Not Kiwi. Not Cherry. Not Grape. Not Apple Not Cantaloupe. Not any fruit I can think of! Man this is going to drive me crazy till I figure out what it is....maybe I'll ask Cupid later...~

Dru just kept walking along the many, many halls trying to ignore the growing boredom.

"Dru? Why are you up? I thought I told you to go to bed?" Cupid said as he stepped out of a door just ahead of where she was walking.

Dru rolled her eyes at Cupid acting like her father yet again. "Well dad. I'm not tired. I took a bath and afterwords I just wasn't tired anymore. I really feel all awake now."

Cupid frowned then shook his head. "Well are you hungry? I can make you something..."

Dru shook her head. "No. I'm fine. But don't you have work to do or something? I mean you ARE a god. You don't just sit around all day doing nothing."

Cupid grinned. "You're one of the first people to see that. And yeah I have some work but mom is covering for me. She has to since it was HER idea for you too stay with me."

"I really don't want to be a pain...I mean you shouldn't have to turn your whole life upside-down just for me." Dru said feeling uncomfortable. She really didn't want to put him out.

Cupid laughed. "Relax. It'll just be like a vacation. The world won't end because I take a break for a few days. Mom and all my brothers and sisters can handle it for now."

Dru sighed. She was never going to win a fight up here. "Ok if you say so..."

Cupid nodded and wrapped an arm around her shoulders as he walked next to her. "Yep I do say so. So what do you want to do? Hey we could go see Pops! I bet he'd love to meet you!"

".... Pops? As in your father? Ares? Large man in black leather who makes wars? Umm you know I think I might take that nap after all..." Dru started to turn around and head back towards her room.

Cupid laughed and garbed her arms pulling her closer to him. "Relax. Pops not that bad. He like a big fluffy puppy. Yeah he can bite but with people he likes he's harmless. Totally. Just chill."

Dru squeezed her eyes closed and wondered how much stress she could handle before she just had a stroke as they flashed away.

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"Pops! Hey Pops! Are you busy?!" Cupid yelled out as they appeared in Ares Temple. Dru opened her eyes. Just like on the show and in every fic. Black, black, black, and just a splash of blood for color.

Ares was leaning over a map layed out on a table and looked up as Cupid yelled out. "I'm not deaf you don't need to yell son. What are you doing here anyway? And what's with the girl?"

Cupid dragged Dru over to Ares. "This is Dru. Mom is having her stay with me for a while till Zeus can find out how to send her back home. I thought you'd like to meet her."

Ares straighten up and looked more closely at Dru. "Can't she get home on her own? Where is she from any way? Dru...is that norse? Did one of them have a kid? She can't control her powers and ended up here or something?"

Cupid gave his father a weird look. "Pops are you feeling ok? She's a mortal. She got...I dunno sent here somehow from a far off land in the future. Zeus is looking for how and why she's here and how to send her home. She's not a goddess."

Ares looked from his son to Dru and back. "Cupid are YOU feeling alright? This girl is a goddess. Infact...she has an Olympian power signature! Cupid! Have you been feeding mortals Ambrosha?! Father is going to skin you!"

Dru looked panicked. "What?! What?! No. NO! I haven't been eating an Ambrosha! I saw Strife, Cupid and Bliss eating it earlier in the morning and made a mental note to my self to avoid it since I don't want to be a goddess! I can't be a goddess!"

Cupid looked horrified as he looked more closely at Dru. "Oh gods...oh gods! How did this happen?! Did Strife give you anything to eat when you where with him before?!"

"No! There was no eating! I haven't eaten anything since breakfast! Uhh first he took me to meet Mania, umm then we went to annoy Xena and Gabby then We took me back to your temple and I took a bath and I skipped the nap since I wasn't tired any more and wandered around till I stumbled into you and we came here! So see! No way for me to be a goddess!"

Cupid closed his eyes and spoke slowly looking pained. "Dru. When you took that bath what did you use? Was there a pinkish bottle? Smelled sorta like fruit? Did you use that?"

Dru stared at him wide eyed. "Yes...why?"

"That...that was something my mom made in one of her experiments. It's a Ambrosha soap. She thought it'd be good for godly skin. I didn't feel like smelling like fruit which isn't the most manly thing so I stuck it in one of the guest bathing chambers figuring if one of my sisters stayed over or if I had daughters...oh gods...that has to be what you used. And...it made you a goddess. I'm a dead god. But before Zeus kills me I'm killing mom!" Cupid yelled making a wall in the middle of the room to bang his head against.

Ares burst into laughter and had to fall down into his thrown he was laughing so hard. "Oh-Oh gods! This is like a bad play! This has to be the funniest thing I've ever heard of. A mortal becoming a goddess by taking a bath! Oh gods that is...." Ares lost the power to speak as he kept laughing.

Cupid glared at his father. "Thanks a lot Dad! Sure! Show no sympathy that your oldest son is going to be killed! Laugh at my pain!"

Ares choked down his laughter gasping. "S-Sorry son. Really. Don't worry we'll figure out a way to blame this on your mother. Zeus really can't blame you. How would you know she'd pick that bottle out of the thousands you keep all over your temple? I'm sure this can be worked out some how."

Dru once more found her self sitting on the floor hugging her self. "Ya know when I got up this morning I thought I'd spend a few hours outside, enjoy the fresh air, get in touch with nature, then come home drop off my stuff and go to work. I never even dreamed I'd end up here spending most of my time having breakdowns and freaking out. This is a very bad day."

Ares rolled his eyes snorting not seeming to be very sympathetic. "Yeah well plans very rarely go as you want or expect them to. Live with it. Cupid pick her up would you? We might as well go see Zeus. He's going to have to find out about her the sooner the better. it might affect whatever he's found out about her."

Cupid bent down and pulled Dru up by the arm. "You really need to stop doing that....your gonna get all bruised if you keep falling down all the time."

"Bruises are the least of my worries." Dru sighed as for the thousandth time that day she was transported.

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"Don't you people ever WALK anywhere?" Dru grumbled as they appeared out side Zeus' office.

Ares snorted. "Do you know how big Olympus is? It'd take a week to get from my temple to here. You're a goddess now. Get used to it."

Aphrodite appeared in a flash of pink light and a flutter of hearts. "What's up Cupie? Why'd you call me and hey...why are we at Daddy's?"

Cupid glared at his mother. "You know that Ambrosha soap you made? Well Dru was taking a bath and she used it. Yeah. She's a goddess now. All thanks to you! Who makes soap from The Food Of The Gods?! Do you see the The Sumerians making soap from their Nectar?! No! It's just not done!"

Aphrodite stared from Dru, to Cupid to Ares. "Please tell me he's joking. Ar? He's joking right? Right?!"

Ares laughed. "Just look at her Dite. She's a goddess. And Now all of us are going to face Zeus. Remember to duck."

Dru moaned and figuring her life might depend on it started running though every episode of Xena and Hercules or any fantasy show she'd ever seen hoping she'd figure out how use her new powers if she had so save her own life.

Ares knocked on the door and after a moment they heard "Come in!" and opened the door walking in.

Zeus was sitting at his desk reading a pile of scrolls some laying open other still rolled. "Yes? What are all of you doing here?" He asked looking up. Suddenly his eyes landed on Dru and widened and he turned his glare on Aphrodite. "What did you do?!"

Aphrodite cringed and started rapidly explaining what had happened.

Zeus pinched the bridge of his nose. "So I told you to keep her safe so you leave her with your son who leaves her with Strife who drags her to the mortal world where she could possibly been killed then she used a soap that YOU made and becomes a goddess? Is that how this happened?"

Aphrodite nodded closing her eyes as if expecting a lighting bolt to hit her any second now.

Zeus sighed. "Well I guess I know which scroll to read now."

Aphrodite opened her eyes and stared at Zeus in confusion. "Huh? What?"

Zeus held up the scroll he had been reading. "I couldn't get anything out of the Fates so I came back here and have been reading all these old visions Apollo had that haven't happened yet. This one here seems to fit. 'A girl will come from a far off land. Called by earth. She will come from the future. A goddess she will be to save all. She will be the one who brings life. Without her there is nothing but death. She will save us all.' That's all there was. Apollo had that vision almost a hundred years ago. It seems to be whats going on here."

Dru stood there with her mouth hanging open. "W-W-What?!? You HAVE to be joking! That can't be about me! It can't!!!"

Cupid frowned. "It could be. You are from a far off land right? And You are from the future. And You are a goddess now. But 'She will be the one who brings life.' What could that mean? Does that mean she's going to have a baby? That she IS having a baby? That she saves someones life? There's so many ways to interpret it..."

"A BABY?! I am NOT HAVING A BABY!" Dru screamed sparks seeming to come out of her eyes.

Cupid quickly tried to calm her down. "Dru chill! It was just an idea! I'm sure I'm wrong! But look on the bright side now we know why your here! And Umm I'm sure Gramps is figuring out how and how to get you home right now! Aren't you Grandfather?"

"Hmm oh yes this is a good step forward now we know why you're here and this is just in one day! I'm sure in no time you'll be back home." Zeus said quickly.

Dru fell into a chair that wasn't there a second ago. "This is all so weird! Argh! Why won't I just wake up and find this was all a bad dream!"

Zeus, Ares, Cupid, and Aphrodite all stared at Dru in shock. "How'd you do that?"

"Do what?" Dru ask though her hands that were over her face.

"Make that chair...we haven't even given you so much as one lesson in how to use your powers...so how'd you know how to make a chair?" Cupid asked.

Dru looked down at the chair she was sitting on. "Huh...I guess watching so much Hercules and Xena and stuff payed off.."

"What did you say about my son?" "What did you say about my daughter?" Zeus and Ares asked at the same time.

"Huh? Oh umm well they both have uhh...plays are them where I'm from. And I've seen the plays a lot." Dru mumbled still staring at the chair she'd made somehow.

Zeus,Cupid, Aphrodite and Ares stared at her for a long few minutes.

Dru looked up "What?! Don't you guys think me being a goddess is a BIT more important then my play watching habits?! What the hell are we going to do?!"

Everyone looked a bit chagrined. "Um yes right of course. Now well the scroll that I read seems to be about you. So it would not be wise to remove your powers yet it ever. It could have grave consequences if we did that. So the only thing we can do is teach you how to use your powers and set you up like we could any new god or goddess." Zeus concluded.

Dru stared at him on horror. "Please tell me you're kidding! I don't wanna be a goddess! I wanna go home! I CAN'T be a goddess! I'm just a teenage girl. I wouldn't be good. The scroll can NOT be about me!" Dru ranted. Colored sparks were starting to come off her hands, eyes and skin as she got more and more upset.

Aphrodite and Cupid stepped closer to her and tried to touch her to calm her down. "Ow!" "Hey!" They yelped as they got shocked by the sparks.

Dru closed her eyes and actually drew blood as she dug her nails into her palms struggling to to calm down and not blow anyone or anything up. "Ok. Let me see if I have all this straight. About a hundred years ago Apollo had a vision and said," She paused as she reached over the desk and picked up the scroll. " 'A girl will come from a far off land. Called by earth. She will come from the future. A goddess she will be to save all. She will be the one who brings life. Without her there is nothing but death. She will save us all.' And now I show up here, get turned into a goddess, and you all assume I'm the girl in the scroll? T-T-This could be anyone or anything. Apollo could have just been drunk! He could have been uh playing a prank or something. I don't see my name anywhere in here. There is nothing that says It's me."

"Dru. Dear. Apollo is not one to play pranks or jokes and he would NEVER fake a vision. Now the scroll does not refer to you by name but everything else does point to you. And what the scroll says points to whoever this girl is as being very important. IF you are the girl in the scroll there could be dire consequences if I removed your powers or did anything else. Just look at what the scroll says. 'Without her there is nothing but death. She will save us all.' That implies that you, or whoever this is about, NEEDS to be a goddess and here or else we might all die." Zeus said slowly.

Dru closed her eyes tightly for a moment then opened then and looked down at the blood dripping from her hands to the carpet. "That's gonna leave a mark...."

Cupid looked worriedly at the suddenly calm Dru and leaned closer to his parents. "Did we break her again?"

Dru looked over at him and smiled slightly. "No you didn't break me. I'm....well not ok but I'm not going to freak out. I think I've freaked more then enough for now. If nothing can be done about this now what am I going to do? If you can't make me mortal again or send me home are you going to give me a godhood? Like tell me what I'm goddess of? Or am I just going to sit around Cupids temple when he's not handing me off to Strife to baby sit me?" She stared at Zeus just looking tired.

Zeus blinked and frowned. "Hmm you're right. you will need a godhood. You'll need a power source. Hmmm..well Debauchery has been vacant since Xena killed Bacchus. Hmm yes. From here on Dru shall be know as the Goddess of Debauchery!" Zeus' voice seemed echoed throughout Olympus and all the God and Goddess heard. Though most just wondered who the Tartarus 'Dru' was and why Zeus had made her the new Goddess of Debauchery.

Dru suddenly swayed and fell to the floor as she was hit by a massive wave of power that had built in the time since Bacchus death.

Everyone in the room crowed around her looking worried as she lay on the floor looking stunned. Suddenly she starting giggling. "Whoa. Talk about a head rush!" She bounced off the floor changing as she rose. Her black jeans and dark t-shirt changed to a black with blood red trim, silky, flowing, slinky toga like thingy and her dark brown hair darkened to black as her already pale skin grew even paler.

She laughed out loud as she looked down at her self and ran her tongue over her new fangs. "Oh man I'm the Goddess of Vampires! Oooh I wonder if this means I can make Spike and Angel have sex while I watch..."

Zeus, Aphrodite, Ares, and Cupid looked stunned as they looked at her.

Dru grinned as she spun around feeling high on her sudden new powers. "Oh man this is wicked! Oh! Balls! I gotta go. My minions have been running rampant since Bacchus died. I gotta go round them up and try to control them before they eat half of Greece!" Dru disappeared in a flash of blood leaving blood droplets falling to the ground before disappearing.

Cupid looked at the spot where she had been standing and summed up all their thoughts with one word. "Crap."

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