Chapter 1:

The walls of the great halls echoed with the sounds of his footsteps. Leather soles connected with light gold-tinged marble. The sounds marked the passage of Eros's steps farther into the great halls of the shining castle, and into a large high-ceilinged room. While the castle had many such spacious rooms, this particular one was the central research area for the planet. Everything was done here from genealogy to cosmology; this chamber did it all. Its many levels possessed a labyrinth of knowledge. One could spend their entire lifetime going through every book, scroll, tablet and computer chip, and still they would never be able to learn all the facts this tower had to tell.

Eros himself, as a young boy had often tried to read everything. He finally gave up when his boy's body developed enough for him to realize the other wonders: of the world more specifically, girls. Still, Eros always held a soft spot in his heart for the bondless knowledge the tower had to offer, to this day calling it the Tower of Wonder. Now a fully-grown man, Eros's presence any room often drew the attention of every soul present. He had succeeded to the level of regent when he turned 20, and now ruled over the entire planet. No longer was he able to wander into all the rooms the place had without notice, and dally among its seemingly eternal information.

Today when he walked in, it was as if he were a boy again. Not a single person turned their head at his entry. Instead, all their eyes were sealed to the large jeweled monitors of their computers.

Workers constantly monitored the special reading of the river system, though they seemed to do it today with more intensity. The calm and peaceful atmosphere that he had always found common in the research area's environment seemed to be disturbed today. He watched as around him, each station's worker fingered the keys of the counsel frantically. He moved through the bustling room till he got to Cupid's counsel. Cupid, the palaces expert in science, was only five foot six, and had what was obviously a body meant for a dancer. He didn't ware the conventional rose white over coat like the other scientist, but instead wore deep perfumed blue leather pants and tight cinnamon shit. His woven blond locks, common to the planets population was pulled up in stem then allowed to hang down his back. He had broken just as many hearts with his steel-blue eyes as Eros had. Cupid was the head of this division and was often just as calm as his office usually was. Today, his frantic movement mimicked that of his employees. He glared down at his diamond terminal, his eyes having taken on an uncommon clarity and determination.

It wasn't often that cupid could be found with anything other than a smile on his face; it was even less unlikely that you found him focused on work. Seeing his friend in such a state was enough to give Eros an idea of the enormity of the dilemma that had taken over the room. The question was, what in all the suns was going on?

Looking at his distracted companion, Eros decided that it was well pass the time that he found out what exactly had happened. "What's is it Cupid?" he said, coming to stand at the scientist's back, in order to see what had grabbed the man's attention.

"We found her, Eros." This was the only answer the man gave as he pulled himself way from the terminal to look at his commander and chief.

Eros arched a single brow "Who?"

"Her, Eros, her."

"You don't mean"

"Yes."

"Where?"

Cupid turned back to his computer and, with the push of a few buttons; he brought up the image of a blue and white Planet. He continued pressing keys on the computer until Eros was left looking at a curved island. It was marked at its top and tail by two smaller islands. Together they took the shape of what looked like a dragon or sea creature. Being the regent, Eros knew the name of the planet, but the island remained a mystery to even him. "Do you know the place's name?"

"No."

Looking again at the image he quickly said, "good work. Contact the others," then turned to leave. As he made his way down the glowing halls that made up the castle, he touched the yellow teardrop that hung form his left ear. "Freya."

"Yes, sir," came the soft ringing sounds of Freya's voice.

"Prepare the my ship and for departure, and pack clothing for yourself."

" Where are we going?"

"Earth"

" May I ask why, sir?"

"You just did. And we're going to Earth because we have finally found what we have been looking for all these centuries."

"You mean we've found her?"

"Get ready, and choose the crew carefully. Contact me as soon as all the preparations are made. We must be leaving as soon as possible, while the trail is still fresh."

"Yes, sir."

Odd, or was it just a play on irony, that the place that they were going to find their lost treasure was in fact the very place that all the trouble had began? The Lady Cosmos possessed some sort of twisted humour.

Well that the frist chapter tell me what you think. The names of the charcters are from roman mythology. I'm trying to keep to the english translated version when it comes to the naming.