A bright blue light, and here I am now laying on the dirty floor. "What is this place?" I ask standing up and dusting myself off. "What's going on?" I see a door and decide it would be better to look around than sit around. Once outside of the room I see a courtyard with a male with long blonde hair playing with some birds. Instead of socialize with someone who honestly seems like they have no knowledge of what's going on, I move on and try to find someone I recognize. "This place reminds me of something… but what? I can't remember…."

And that's when I saw him, "Hades…?" He turned to look at me.

"Aphrodite? You're here too?" He asked.

"Where… is here?" I asked annoyed at the entire situation. My long ankle length blonde hair blew in the wind as I looked around.

"I don't know, honestly, But you should probably get away from me, I'll bring you misfortune," I rolled my eyes at his words. It was always like that with him.

"Yeah yeah, I'm going," I snapped as I left. My ankle long blonde hair flew behind me as my heels clicked as I walked down the hallways.

I came to a room with a large staircase in the middle of it. "It appears that everyone is here," I looked up to the top of the staircase and saw the Greek God Zeus descend the red steps. "Welcome to my garden, to my academy my beloved students."

"Cut the crap!" Another god with blue hair yelled. "You're behind all of this?"

"Japanese god of the sea, Susanoo. Japanese god of the moon, Tsukuyomi. Norse god of light, Balder. God of fire, Loki. God of thunder, Thor. Greek god of the underworld, Hades. God of fertility, Dionysus. God of the sun, Apollon. And goddess of beauty, Aphrodite. You will all learn about humans in order to revive the ancient link between the gods and humanity," Zeus explained.

"Do you really think we'll do as you say?" The Norse god of fire asked.

"Return my brother and I to our world, or else…" Susanoo said before summoning water the surrounded his body.

"There will be hell to pay," Loki said as he raised his hand, flames covering his palm. They both leapt forward, Susanoo growling and Loki laughing as they charged with their elements in hand.

Three. Two. One. Zap. Both gods flew backwards to the bottom of the stairs. "If you use your divine powers indiscriminately, this academy will be destroyed. Therefore," Zeus raised his staff and a bright light filled the room.

I watched as a ring appeared on Apollon's finger. A necklace attached to Hade's neck. An earing hung from Dionysus' ear. An ear cuff appeared on Balder's ear. A band wrapped around Thor's arm. A necklace appeared on Loki's neck. On Susanoo's ankle appeared an anklet and a bracelet appeared on his brother, Tsukyomi's, wrist. Meanwhile, I felt two earrings attach to each ear, my long blonde hair disappear from behind me, and a bead headband lay on my head.

"What is this? I can't get it off!" Loki yelled as he pulled at the necklace.

"Apollon-san…" the girl who's name I hadn't heard said.

"He's right. It won't come off," my eyes widened at Apollon's words. I lifted my hand to the headband and pulled at it, but it didn't even move.

"These shackles seal your divine powers. No one can defy me here. Those shackles are the proof!" Zeus said confidently.

"You made my long hair disappear you bastard!" I yelled furious. "You should know better than to mess with the way a woman looks!"

"That's enough!" Loki held up his hands, but the little bits of fire that he did produce on his fingertips quickly faded away. "What's happening?" he asked as he looked at his palm.

"Same with me," Susanoo said as the water around his hand dissipated.

"You will study here. When you earn the right to graduate, your shackles will remove themselves. Come!" Zeus pointed his staff at the ceiling and a hole opened up and a huge orb lowered into the room. "Once you understand the human heart, this container will be filled. You have one year. In other words, if you cannot fill it within a year, you will all be trapped in this garden… forever."

A few of us gasped. "This isn't funny!" the blue haired god growled.

"Are you serious?" Thor asked.

"Zeus, that's tyrannical!" Hades argued.

"I shall not entertain protests. It has already been decided. Thoth," Zeus called and an Egyptian god stepped out from the shadows. "This man will be your instructor."

"I am the Egyptian god of knowledge, Thoth," he introduced.

"Your classmates will be these many spirits," Zeus said as he tapped his staff against the steps and called forth many souls that filled the hallways and garden's grounds.

"So many in an instant," the other girl gasped. "Amazing."

"Kusanagi Yui," Zeus called. So that's her name.

"Your responsibility is to lead the gods and goddess to graduation. Is that clear?" He asked. Yui looked at him for a moment before Thoth spoke.

"Tomorrow morning, you will gather in the auditorium to prepare for the afternoon's entrance ceremony. That is all. You are dismissed for the day. Kusanagi… come with me," Thoth said before walking off.

"Right!" She said before following Thoth.

I turned and walked off with irritation. I went and found my dorm room quickly and looked at my hair in the mirror. "Why my hair?" I asked holding a lock of my light golden hair. "Curse you, Zeus. You'll pay for taking away my beautiful hair!" I growled and then sighed.

"Princess!" I heard Apollon call out the childhood nickname he had given me years ago. "Come join us for a swim!" I raised an eyebrow before rolling my eyes. "Princess?" He said once again slowly opening my door.

"I'm coming!" I said putting my hand against the door. "Give me a minute," I said taking my clothes off and wrapping a towel around myself.

Once we got there we found Hades standing nearby and Dionysus already dipping his feet into the pool, which actually turned out to be a hot spring. "This dorm even has a hot spring. It's amazing!" Apollon said getting in. Quietly, I went into the spring as well. I was completely in the water, naked like Dionysus and Apollon. The three of us were basically siblings and we've taken baths together since we were little.

"Apollon, are you going to attend the academy?" Dionysus asked.

"Regardless of his methods," Apollon started with a serious expression, "don't you think studying as humans sounds interesting?" he finished excitedly.

"Sounds like too much work to me. Don't you agree, Princess?" Dionysus asked turning to me as I played with my short hair.

"Sounds like a waste of my time," I growled lightly.

"Aww, you too, Princess?" Apollon whined.

"You know how I feel about humans, and now even my beauty has been turned into that of a human. I look disgusting!" I said before dunking my head under the water.

"I'd have to agree with them," Hades said once I came back up for air.

After staying in the water for a bit longer, I got out and went back to my dorm room to go to sleep for the night.