KFG24: Oh no! I deleted a bunch of chapters! But then I reposted them with all errors(mostly just the lack of spaces after commas)fixed. Or at least, I hope I got all of them...
The other chapters that remain(not including I Kissed a Girl)will probably be deleted sometime in the near future unless someone would like to see them edited and reposted.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Vocaloids. Not any of the ones appearing in this chapter, and not any of the ones that show up in later chapters of this collection.
I do believe in some of the gods mentioned, but I certainly do not own them, nor do I own the myth of Narcissus and Echo that I based this chapter on.


Narcissus

There was once a sea god who had fallen in love with a pretty, green haired siren who had the most beautiful voice anyone had ever heard. After many months of courting the shy nymph, he was rewarded with her returned affections. Together they had two beautiful children whose golden hair rivaled that of the twin celestial gods, Artemis and Apollo. They named the newborn twins Rin and Len.

The twins were very close and could rarely be separated. Their beauty was only surpassed by their voices, which were just as lovely as, if not even more so than, their mother's. Their voices and looks earned them many admirers of both sexes, all of which were scared away by Rin's fearsome temper.

A particularly spiteful and jealous girl who lived in the same town as the twins told a few friends that the reason that she was rejected was because Rin and Len were involved in an incestuous affair. The friends passed on this information until the rumor had spread throughout the town.

After hearing the rumor, an outraged Rin claimed that it wasn't true, and that she and Len only loved each other as siblings, not lovers. "Let the gods bear witness to this claim and destroy me should I speak falsely!" She said.

Two years, later Rin died on a hunting trip with her brother.

In grief, Len became colder, and instead of apologizing for not returning the feelings of his admirers, he began to cruelly scorn them. With his beloved sister gone, he no longer sang happy songs and didn't socialize unless he absolutely had to. Len only found solace in solitude.

One day, as Len relaxed beneath a shady tree as he sang sadly, a nymph happened to see him. Her name was Neru, and she had been placed under a curse by the goddess Hera for talking too much and helping Zeus, ruler of the gods and Hera's adulterous husband, sneak away from Hera's wrath.

As soon as Neru saw the beautiful boy she fell in love with his beautiful voice and lovely face. But because of her curse, she could not tell him about these new found feelings, nor could she ask him why he sang such sad songs.

But her curse didn't prevent her from watching over him fondly.

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Len was out hunting when he heard a twig snap, Neru would have cursed at her own foolishness if she could have, but Hera's spell prevented her from doing so.

"Who's there?" The boy demanded to know. He was surprised to hear a voice that sounded like his departed sister's echo his words. "Rin?" He asked.

"Rin?" Neru repeated. She wondered who Rin was but, of course, she was unable to ask.

Could it be? Could it possibly be his twin returned from the dead? Or perhaps her spirit? "Rin..." He then repeated the words that had brought the wrath of the gods down on his sister. "I love you!"

Neru felt her heart pounding in her chest. This was her chance! She ran out from behind the thick bushes that she'd been using to hide herself and cried, "I love you!"

Len was shocked by the girl who'd come out of nowhere proclaiming her love for him. She had long blonde hair, almost the same shade as Rin's but with a more pronounced orange tint, golden eyes, and, like most nymphs, she was nude. Neru hugged him tightly, telling him she loved him over and over until he came to his senses and pushed her away.

"Go away." He snarled. "I can't love anyone. Especially not you!" He would only ever loved Rin, there was no room in his broken heart for anyone else.

Neru held back her tears until the young hunter had left. Hera's curse kept her from speaking anything other than what others had said previously, but it could not keep her from sobbing for her broken heart. The nymph stayed in the spot where she had landed after being shoved and wasted away until nothing but her voice was left.

Her voice that continues to echo our words even today.

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And as for Len, he doomed himself the day he rejected the advances of Persephone, goddess of spring and wife of Hades, who had a thing for beautiful young boys. Persephone, who had seen how cruel Len was to his other suitors, begged the love goddess, Aphrodite to teach Len what it was like to suffer from an unrequited love.

Aphrodite knew that Len already was suffering, but she also knew that the boy had to be stopped from breaking hearts as she was getting fewer and fewer sacrifices from his town, which was beginning to lose faith in love because of his cold rejections. "Let this boy who loves none but himself, waste away with want for his mirror image." She gave this blessing to one of her son's golden arrows of love before sending him away on his mission to punish Len.

In spite of Eros's blindfold, his arrows always struck true, and that day was no exception. Len never saw the arrow coming as he leaned forward over the deep lake for some water to quench his thirst. He gasped when he felt a sharp pain in his heart. Then, still wincing in pain, he looked at the lake again and saw, instead of his reflection, Rin.

Rin appeared to be smiling and spread her arms out to him, as if to give him a hug, he was sure it was just a figment of his imagination, but it looked so real! He couldn't help but lean forwards and try to hug her back...

It was a sad day when the town that had been the home of two beautiful twins found Len's body in the lake. "Stupid boy only loved himself." Some said. Which was in a way true. Because Len only ever loved his mirror image, his twin, his Rin.

What a narcissist.


KFG24: If you know the myth, Narcissus stared into a pool of water and, by the will of the gods, fell in love with his reflection, and he died from dehydration(if he took even a sip of water, the ripples would have destroyed his image), pining after his mirror image.
But because I forgot how to spell his name, I looked it up on Wikipedia, and lo and behold, there's a version of the myth in which he had a twin sister! And in this version, Narcissus was in love with his sister, but she died, so when he saw his reflection, he was reminded of his sister and he fell in love. And really, doesn't that just scream Kagamine Twins? ^_^