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A Goddess of the Ancient Greek myths.
“Devon,” she whispered as she stood before him. She looked around herself as he moved to
take her hand.
As soon as her hand was in his, he noticed he was in long white robes himself. He felt the heavy golden crown on his head, too, and looked back at Persephone for some clarification.
“Is this a dream?” he asked as he moved closer to her.
“I don’t think so,” she admitted, as lost as him in that moment.
Why was anything able to surprise him anymore?
As soon as he finished that thought, the ground began to shake, disturbing the clouds around them. He grabbed Persephone and pulled her to him, unsure of what was happening.
Pillar after pillar shot up out of the ground, dust flying off them as they grew up toward the sky, encircling him and Persephone. He stared at the columns before sharing a lost look with her.
A stone, smaller than the gigantic pillars, but large enough to reach their midsection, came between them, forcing them apart. Words and symbols carved into the stone glowed, written in a language he did not understand.
Persephone’s eyes widened before narrowing. Almost as if she could remember the words, the symbols, written on them.
“Persephone?” he asked as he moved to stand next to her, his hand coming to the small of her back to try to gain her attention. When she finally turned to him, her eyes were full of confusion.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, and I hardly remember the symbols on there and their meanings… only life… and stone…” She tried to move forward but his hand halted her.
Nodding, she assured him that everything would be alright before she moved closer to inspect the glowing carvings.
“It feels like…” she whispered before she ran her hand over the symbols on the stone. “I’ve never seen anything like this before, but… Ow!”
She pulled her hand away, blue flames running over where drops of her blood had fallen against the stone. The angle of the stone pulling her blood lit in blue to the symbols.
“That was in no way something from a dream. This is more than our subconscious.” She stared
at the already healing wound on her hand before looking to the symbols, the flames there moving as if they were alive and beckoning.
He felt a pull on his power then, as if the stone were alive and begging for him to place his hand upon it as Persephone had.
“I can hear it in my head, telling me to move forward,” as he spoke, the pull became strong enough to move him to the stone, his body jolting as he placed his hand where Persephone had hers, something sharp piercing his skin.
His green flames mingled with hers and his eyebrows shot up, his mind racing as a zap of electricity ran along his nerves and across his body.
Words repeated through his mind obsessively, ones in an old and foreign language he had never heard spoken.
“What is happening?” he asked, watching the dancing flames
As he spoke, the lights and flames were then sucked into the stone as if a vacuum. Their conversation halting as everything became eerily quiet.
The stone suddenly lit up again, blindingly bright, for a mere moment before everything went back to its previous state, the light fading.
Someone stood in front of them, not a human, not a God, but a being made of pure light.
Persephone gasped, blindly reaching out for his hand as she bowed her head, him doing the same after a moment of hesitation.
“I’ve heard of the Gods before the Titans, I descended from your kind, but I’ve never seen one,” she whispered, looking up to the being.
“Persephone, child of the Titans, you have reigned well, as have your sisters. You’ve all done far more than the Titans, child of Cronus and Rhea, but there is a war coming and no generations to follow. As Eros, I am here to bind life and death, so you may be stronger and wiser, rule fair and just, and keep the earth from escalating into war and carnage yet again. I will not do this unwillingly, so you must choose. A choice I hope you make wisely. Do you plan to work as equals, stand strong in the face of your soulmate’s fragility and allow them to carry you when you find yourself at your weakest?”
“There is no breaking something like this. If it even truly works or if any of this is real,” she
