A/N-This is the original myth of Persephone. I hope that my new story will do the original one justice. Thank you and REVIEW PLEASE!!
Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was out picking flowers one day when Hades, the god of the underworld abducted the young woman to have her sit beside him where he reigned as King of the Dead.
Her mother, Demeter was goddess of the harvest. In her mourning of the loss of Persephone, she went on strike and brought about a bitter-cold induced famine. She nagged Zeus, god of the heavens, to rescue their only child. Zeus bade Hades return Persephone-if she had not yet tasted the food of the dead. When it had been discovered that she had already munched on some pomegranate seeds, the arrangement had to be tweaked. The result: she still had to spend one-third of the year with Hades, but the other two-thirds could be spent with Demeter.
When Persephone was with Hades, her mother refused to let anything grow on Earth. In short, she invented winter. When her daughter came back to her, spring would kick in and make the Earth bountiful and beautiful again.