I looked at my annoying brother, "Stop it!" I tell him. Why can't he take a hint? He knows that I hate it when he flashes light around like that.
"What are you going to do?" He asks with a care free smile. I glare at him, but I am unable to make a good comeback. My annoying older brother got to be deity of the sun. My sister, Eos gets to be the deity of the dawn. But what about me? I don't have my powers yet. And Helios is just rubbing it in my face. That's doesn't make it any better.
So, I bottle my anger and walk away. Down the hill I see my bright and bubbly sister Eos.
"Hey, what are you doing? Did you and Helios have a fight?" She wonders as we walk together down the hill. I look at her, giving my sister one of my personal looks which basically says 'What do you think?'
"Oh," She mumbles, "Don't worry, Selene, I am sure you'll get your powers soon." I roll my silvery eyes at my sister.
"Whatever you say," Eos stops but I keep walking down the hill looking at the ground as I walk.
"S...Selene..." Eos stutters. I whirl around, "What?" I ask a bit annoyed. Eos points towards something behind me. Not another joke, I think to myself as I turn around. I expected to find my brother, Helios, but that wasn't it. It was a Giant. The gods said that the war with the Giants was over by Olympus. I never thought that they would come to the East side to the world.
My eyes widen. The Giant was the hugest thing I ever say, not to mention the ugliest. He was big, hairy and powerful. He roared as he saw me and my sister.
This day just gets better and better, I thought to myself as I stayed frozen in my fear. Helios must have heard the monster because he came on his glowing chariot pulled by the fire horses.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" He yelled at the beast. The Giant turned its head from side to side, trying to locate my brother. Helios made the mistake of flying right in front of the Giants face. The Giant simply swatted my brother away like a simple fly.
Helios dropped to the ground. I raced towards my brother. Sure we have our little spats, but this was my brother. We were related. And wither I liked it or not, I would have to help him out even if he is my big brother.
"Helios, can you hear me?" My unconscious sibling doesn't answer. No, he was knocked out cold. That stupid Giant. I stood up to face the beast. Eos stared to hit the monster with rays of light, but they had almost no effect. He reached his huge hand out to her, as if to smash her. I couldn't let that happen.
I picked up a stone and threw it at him. Gaea's son acted like nothing even happened. I ran towards my sister right before his hand reached her. I spread my arms out to protect my little sister.
"Leave us ALONE!" I shout. As I do so, silvery rays form a circle around me then going around like a wave. It hit the monster, he was dazed. I glared at him.
"I said, leave us alone." The Giant stumbled a bit, and then regained his balance. By that time Helios was waking up. Eos must have seen because she gasped, "We're going to be okay."
No offence to my brother but I didn't want him awake. I didn't want his help. I actually may have found my powers and maybe I can do this without his help. If he helped he would go on non-stop teasing me about the time he saved me. I didn't want to be condemned to a life of perpetual teasing.
"Eos," I whispered to my sister.
"Yeah?" She whispered back.
"Double time," Eos smiled at this. The Giant straightened himself and reached his hand out again. Both Eos and I held out our hands. Light came from both, but both different.
The lights were like rays. They hit the Giant with full force. While this happened, I felt drained. The more power I used the more it drained me, but I kept on doing it until the monster fell back and defeat. We may not have killed the beast, but we took care of him. We had defended our home, ourselves and our older brother. Come to think of it, he should be eternally grateful.
"I cannot believe we just did that!" Eos said excitedly as she jumped up and down. "And you got your powers! That was amazing! It was like you had the power over the moon or something."
I raised an eyebrow at her, "The moon, huh?"
"Yeah!"
I didn't really think of the moon at that time. How can my sister automatically assume the moon? Maybe perhaps it was a different kind of light, unlike my siblings'. But from then on, after my Mom (Dad was in the pit of Tartarus along with my uncles) had confirmed that I indeed had the power over the moon, I looked after the moon. It was my responsibility. Much like the sun was Helios' and the dawn was Eos'.