we could lose it all

by piiussima domina

The daughter of Atlas: Queen of Ogygia, fearsome sorceress, and a Titan doomed from the start. Young, lonely Calypso has always been fiercely devoted to her large family. When she's thirteen, an upstart called Zeus starts a war and suddenly her life is falling apart. The First Titan War, from Calypso's perspective.

1. prologue

prologue

Once the Mother of All Rivers bore a child not of her husband.

She was a sly goddess, always looking out for herself, and in her cunning she chose not to conceal it; a good choice as her husband's rage would have been far mightier had she compounded her act with a lie.

But as it was, he was simply angry at her for a few years—mere moments for an immortal as old as they, the first children of Gaea and Uranus. He forbade her from her daughters, from the rivers, the glades, meadows, forests, and flowers over which their daughters from him presided.

Though his anger was neither far reaching nor long lasting, he expelled her for a time from their home, and he was the world ocean, the river that encircled the world as a sea, and for a time, she was without means in the world, for every place in the world she went, she could not stay. Her daughters were too numerous, and where they were not, there was the sea, lapping in waves onto the beach, and she was once again forced to leave.

The only place she found to labor was a rock in the middle of the ocean of Nereus, and the Nereids, his shining-haired daughters, gathered around to witness to the lonely birth.

As the baby was born, the lone rock began to change, and the Nereids could only scatter into the ocean in wonder as the rock became a large island in the middle of the sea.

Though she was forbidden from all of the domains of her daughter's fathered by her husband, she was not forbidden from this one. And as the Nereids crowded around she named the child Hidden One, for the island had come from magic and was hidden from the rest of the world by virtue of its youth, and for this birth had been hidden from all due to her seclusion. And, her months of exile finally over, she raised herself up, gathered her robes about her, and went quickly to her house to rest from the birth.

That is the story of the creation of Ogygia and the birth of Calypso, daughter of Atlas, Titan of Strength, and Tethys, the Mother of All Rivers.

a/n: Hey guys! Revamping this story a bit. Hope you guys like the changes. Let me know what you think.