The Sock God strikes again: Trifecta Challenge

“You’re screwing everything up. We gave you this world and you’ve done nothing with it or with yourselves. You have a year to prove your worthiness or we’re reclaiming it,” one of the demi-gods boomed across the world.

After whoever blasted off his mouth, I knew it wouldn’t be long before one of my cousins came sniffing around. It was Eris, real peach that one.

She showed up while I was out on one of my laundry runs. If my only power on this plane is to take unimportant objects, I’m going to do it. I could take anything, but taking a sock while leaving its match? That’s a mindscrambler.

Now it was Eris’s turn. She’d ransacked the whole place, overturning socks I’d stole during the Eisenhower administration.

“What the underworld Eris?” I yelled.

“Sorry,” she said, but she clearly wasn’t. “Trying to determine if you sent out the message….” This part trips everyone up. I’d been manifested by the Greeks, given a purpose, but never really named. The other gods call me the unnamed one, but I’m not the only demi-god somebody forgot to name back then. I call myself Keeper of Unimportant Lost Things, or KULT for short.

“I didn’t. Are we done?” I asked, showing her the exit.

“War is upon us. Time to pick a side.”

“I have no real power. Nobody wants me on their side. My existence here is tenuous as is. I vanish when the world stops believing in me.”

“Look around you. The world believes again, in all of us.”

“This war is pointless and it’ll be just like the last.” I shrugged.

“No, It involves all the Gods now.”

“All?” 

She nodded the answer. That meant all the religions were stepping in. Things were about to get messy. I was still hesitant.

Then she went and found my weak spot. “You fight with us, I promise they will remember you.”

“But will they name me?” She looked away. She didn’t know.

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 Another week, another Trifecta challenge. This week's challenge was Remember:

Remember (verb):

1 :  to bring to mind or think of again
2 :  archaic
   a :  BETHINK
   b :  REMIND
3 a :  to keep in mind for attention or consideration
   b :  REWARD
4 :  to retain in the memory
5 :  to convey greetings from  

My weekend challenge subject wouldn't leave me alone this week. The idea of a demi-god who's only power is stealing mundane objects was just so ripe to me, and I like myself some prankster dieties, so here we are.  I decided to come up with a scenario in which he might be sought out to be valuable. This is what I've come up with so far. I think I'm interested to see where this takes me, so I might do more challenges with KULT in the center. Guess I better brush up on my mythology then heh?

Remember (verb):

1 :  to bring to mind or think of again
2 :  archaic
   a :  BETHINK
   b :  REMIND
3 a :  to keep in mind for attention or consideration
   b :  REWARD
4 :  to retain in the memory
5 :  to convey greetings from

Remember: - See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/#sthash.WLs4xwtL.dpuf