Poseidon And Greek Gods

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Long ago, in Mount Olympus there were two gods named Poseidon (the god of water) and Glacia (the goddess of ice). One day, Zeus came up with a contest! That contest was set up to see who are the most creative and helpful gods/goddesses. All the gods and goddesses started competing, but Poseidon and Glacia in particular were extremely competitive. They worried that they were too similar, and that one of them would lose to the other.
“I’m Way better than you!” Glacia says.
“No!I’m better!” Poseidon fights back.The other gods and goddesses took the fighting to one level, but Poseidon and Glacia took it to a whole new one.Their fighting became vicious.
“I bet it will only last a day or two” one Goddess thought out loud.
“We will see about that”
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Zeus, you have to do something about this! this is really getting out of hand.” one god …show more content…
we can do whatever you want to do as long as we do not get banned.” Glacia mumbles with no interest. “ I suppose we could work together, but what could we do to win the contest?” Poseidon asks.
Poseidon and Glacia start storming up ideas. Finally, when they were about to give up Glacia gets a brilliant idea. they would combine their powers to create a watery ice ball to throw down on the earth.
“We could create ice balls to help Zeus in his storm!” She says with excitement.
“Great Idea!” Poseidon agrees.Suddenly,they come running up to zeus.
“Zeus!Zeus! We just came up with a brilliant idea!” They shouted in unison.
Poseidon shoots water up in the air while Glacia freezes it. Zeus watches their creation fall to the ground and create a new type of weather.
“Brilliant! In reward, you both get to help me make storms forever!” Zeus cheers.Once Again Poseidon and Glacia look at each other, not with hate, but this time with excitement. They realize that if they had never stopped fighting, they would have never been able to help Zeus with storms. They would still be fighting to this moment getting nowhere at all. Poseidon and Glacia realize that working together can do something better than working apart. They also realize that they had each made a new friend, each

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