Fascinations
Chapter One: Our Story Begins
Disclaimer: This story does not appear in Greek mythology, no matter how hard you look. Although all of the gods and goddesses mentioned in the story are real, Aminta, Erric, ect. are my own creations.
Chapter Note: I'm finally getting around to publishing this! This chapter is just sort of an introduction to get you up to speed, so don't expect it to be amazing. Even if you think this chapter is horrid, please stick around for the next chapters. I promise they'll be better.
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Light from candles and the moon mingled and waltzed, catching on a large building. The palace was ghostly silver, and it seemed to glow from within. Lush gardens and forest flourished around it, and a long drive wound up to its thick oak doors.
This was the dwelling place of Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon. It was from ere that each night she drove her pearly horses across the sky, casting her soft shafts of light on the slumbering Earth.
Many have heard of Selene's love for Endymoin. Endymoin had been a young, handsome sheppard when the moon goddess passed over him one night, as he was dozing among his flock.
When she had finished her duties that night, she still could not get the man out of her head. Selene went to Zeus, asking him to grant Endymion eternal sleep, so he would stay young and handsome forever.
Her wish was granted, and he slept on. He dreamt that he held the moon in his arms- but it was no mere dream, for Selene bore him fifty daughters, each sleepy like their father and pale and beautiful like their divine mother.
Among those fifty daughters, there would be one who was far too different for her own good. One who would fulfill a prophecy, and gain herself a spot in the never-ending history of the gods.