Hi guys. This is a prologue. Selene is the titan goddess of the moon. All will be explained in later chapters. Review if you like, don't if you don't. As the saying goes, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."

"You are to be placed in deep sleep for exactly one thousand years. Your reign of sleep begins tomorrow at midnight." Zeus, the king of all gods thundered. My mother winced, reminded of her lover.

"Zeus, my lord?" She interrupted. "Let her live at least some of her-"

"Silence!" He roared. "The curse is at it is. It has been set."

"Zeus-"

"I said silence." Zeus hissed.

"Very well." My mother said softly. She looked sadly at me.

I guess I should explain who I am. My name is Estelle Creytren. I've got hair the color of the full moon. My eyes are the color of the night sky. They sparkle like stars.

Literally.

I was created out of space. Everything I am, my hair, my eyes, my being was made out of the space and moon. That is the way children of Selene are born. Well, since there's only three, no one really knows for sure. Anyway, my mother continued looking at me with a deep sadness in her eyes. Zeus looked between us, and satisfied with his curse, teleported out of the room.

"Estelle..." My mother said sorrowfully. Her pitch-black eyes were filled with tears. "My youngest daughter. The only daughter of mine to inherit my powers."

Powers? I thought. What powers?

She stroked my cheek gently. "You have a day to live." She said, almost to herself. "Only a day. Tomorrow you'll be exactly thirteen years old."

I nodded. Tomorrow, December 31, would be my thirteenth birthday. The coldest day of the year. One of the days where breath turns to ice crystals when you breath out.

"Tomorrow I give you a gift." She said. "It will be the most important gift in the world."

"What will it be?"

"I mustn't tell you. It is forbidden." She said. Her voice was barely a whisper now. "Go to a moonbeam, tomorrow, right before midnight. Any moonbeam. I will find you. Stay there until the curse begins. I shall give you the gift before you fall into the slumber."

"Yes mother. Of course."

Thunder boomed in the distance. Selene glanced up. "I must get going. Zeus will have my hide if I don't. Farewell, Estelle."

"Bye." I said. She took one last misery-filled glance at me, and stepped back into a ray of creamy moonlight. Her perfect features shone. Then, she evaporated into the air, leaving nothing but a small envelope and the airy words, "I love you." echoing around the room. I walked to the moonlight and picked up the piece of paper. It had one word on it.

Remember.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and folded up the note. I placed it in my shoe. Then, I walked out of the room, down the flights of stairs, and into the open air.

It was time to live my life. Tomorrow, I would be put into a coma for a thousand years.

I had a lot of living to do before then.