A/N: This is a story I wrote a couple years ago for a class I was taking. So it may not be as good as my other stories. Still when I found the Greek Mythology category, I thought I should put it on the site. So, as always, Enjoy! And remember: Reviews are always appreciated!
"Violet"
As Told By E.G. Desso
There once was a small town in Greece on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Everyone in the town knew everyone else, and they were like one big family. Everyone would go about his or her day, gossiping about local news all the while. By the end of the day, everyone knew the day's news.
One day, a little girl washed up on the shore, after being thrown to sea in a terrible shipwreck. Her name was Violet, and she was easily the most beautiful girl anyone in the town had ever seen.
For the first few nights, the little girl stayed in the local church, while the town officials decided what to do with her. She had no family left to go back to, for they had all died in the shipwreck. So they decided she would stay in the town. Then they asked the people of the town if anyone would like to adopt Violet. Everyone did. They were all captivated by her beauty and they wanted her for themselves.
The town officials didn't know what to do. How could so many people want one child? The officials spent a long time trying to decide what to do with Violet. The townspeople grew impatient, and soon fighting broke out. It was so violent that the fighting soon turned into a war.
Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, saw all of the commotion and soon found out what it was all about. She was enraged to think that something so beautiful could cause so much turmoil.
So for the next few days, Aphrodite tried to think of a solution that would peacefully end all of the fighting. Sadly, she could think of nothing.
Then, one day, as Aphrodite was strolling through her flower garden, she looked at all the lovely flowers and marveled at how they reminded her of Violet.
"In my garden, there are flowers of almost every color of the rainbow. There are blue flowers, pink, red, and yellow flowers, and even orange and white flowers," she thought, "but there aren't any that are…"
That night, while everyone was sleeping, Aphrodite came down from the Heavens to the little town and cast a spell. The next morning, everyone woke up as usual and automatically started fighting over Violet. Then they all slowly began to notice that she wasn't there. Soon everyone was searching high and low, but she was nowhere to be found. By the end of the day all fighting had ceased, and the town became united once more with the common feeling of worry for the well being of the little girl. Everyone went to bed hoping that she would be there in the morning…
…And she was, in a sense. When morning came, everyone awoke to brilliant violet flowers blooming everywhere possible. Every yard had some, but none had more than the churchyard, the one place that Violet had felt safest.
As the days wore on and turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, beautiful violet flowers kept blooming all over Greece, and eventually the world. The story of Violet spread with the flowers, and soon everyone in the world found a new appreciation for the flowers.
No one grew more violet flowers, though, than the townspeople, who used them as a way to sat close to the "most beautiful little girl ever." And Aphrodite had the most wonderful garden, with flowers of every color of the rainbow, including violet.