Chapter 1

Date: Present Day

Location: Harlem, New York, New York

My day started off just like it always does. i woke up and took the subway downtown to my job with New York Sanitation Inc., cleaning the streets in areas of town i can't afford to live in. Instead living in an area that looks like all the trash my sweeper picks up is strewn about. All that changed about two hours after I got home, when a knock came at the door. Standing at the door was a man in what looked like a ups delivery uniform, only it was white and had "MODS" on it instead of "UPS". He walked into my apartment and stated "What He sees in someone, such as you I will never understand!" "Who are you talking about and do you have a package or something for me?", I asked him while eyeing him with contempt for just walking in without asking, thinking I am beneath him. "Well ... in a way you are beneath Me, I am after all a God! Hermes at your service Sir! I have come to notify you that you have been selected as a vassal to Zeus, My father, Ruler of Mount Olympus, King of the Gods. I would do my best to please Him if I were you. Have a nice day!" He then walked to my window and jumped. It was then that I noticed the little wings on his Nikes, as they lifted him up into the sky above. I all of a sudden felt very tired and laid down on my bed and passed out. I had this dream:

Date: About 100 years after the Trojan War

Location: Bed Chambers, Mount Olympus

"My dear beloved wife, What I have done to you and our marriage is inexcusable. I have turned our sacred vows into nothing more than a race on the Xystus of Athens. I love you, My wife, I would give up Ambrosia for you, My love. I take My heart and trap it in this amphora, and leave it in your care, for I am yours and you are mine. From this day forth I shall not leave Mount Olympus, I shall have a vassal on earth, and I will draw from this vassal all I can not gain here on Olympus. In exchange HE shall be immortal as long as he remains My vassal. I will bequeath some God-like powers upon him, as long as he pleases Me. Does this meet your satisfaction My love?" "Well it will do for now, but I would bet all the drachmas in Greece that you will break our sacred vows once more. You are lucky I love you so much, or I would have dissapeared long ago!"