Chapter 1, part two
The First Encounter -
Synchronized with Eos Anastas, 475 BCE.
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"Ah. So it looks like Eos and her friends may have come across some Isu scriptures in a cave within Sparta." The technician theorised.
"You don't say…" Charlie muttered. "Either way, I must continue with her. She hasn't even discovered what she is yet. And I can't help but shake the feeling that it's potentially connected with King Leonidas's death."
"This… Is… PROGRESS!" The tech joked, playing a joke from a popular Spartan based movie. However, he received no laugh from Charlotte. "Right then… I'll leave you to it. Remember though, you start to feel fuzzy again, pull out…. Ha. Said no modern woman ever…"
"This cave… It gives me the sernetai (creeps)." Came the echoed voice of Iris, a friend to Eos.
"Oh come on…" Encouraged Hector. "Could be treasure in here. May be even some Drachma laid about. Always is in places like this."
"Oh, found a place like this before, have you?" Iris mocked, receiving a huff from Hector himself as Eos pressed on.
"Guys, I'm telling you…" Eos muttered. "There's something… Strange going on in here. And we only got in here through that small opening in a crevice."
"Please, for the love of Apollo; don't be getting all witchy on us!" Hector hissed, holding his torch out as far as his arm could stretch. Yet the glowing energy that flowed through the cracks of the cave walls emitted light strong enough to see.
Eos placed her hand upon the source of flowing energy, closing her eyes. For her, it felt like the energy itself was surging through her own veins, yet it did not seem to have the same impact on her friends.
"You are close to it." A female voice echoed to her, startling Eos as she jumped back, gasping.
"What? Was it a rat?!" Iris panicked, checking her feet. She clung to Hector, which only made the boy smile from his rising ego.
"You didn't hear her?!" Eos asked with widened white eyes. A shake of their heads came from her friends.
"Is that truly you?" The voice spoke again, further scaring Eos as she was the only one to hear it. "You bare her memories. All it takes… Is a singular thought… And your blood will show you."
"Show me what?!" Eos called out.
"Who are you talking to?" Hector asked with a risen eyebrow.
"Eos, let's leave." Suggested Iris, already walking back on herself. "This cave is wrong… And for all the bad reasons. I can feel it."
"You must come to me… Don't you remember who I am?" The voice continued as Eos simply obeyed. A heavy sigh coming from Hector.
"Iris, go back outside." He insisted. "I'll make sure to bring Eos out, I promise." Iris nodded swiftly, running back without a second thought, leaving Hector to do as he said and would follow behind Eos. Out of curiosity? Or because he was her friend?
Bizarre symbols began to light up around them on the obsidian walls, the golden energy giving them their shine.
Strange pyramid shapes around the area, lines of different directions with flicks coming off them.
Were they words? Did the pyramid symbols depict a hidden meaning?
The glow brightened. Both Eos and Hector stood in place, staring ahead of them.
Another pyramid atop a pedestal this time. Its energy three-dimensional. It was powering the entire place.
"This is what I was being brought forward to see…" Eos muttered. Her white eyes illuminated from the shine in front her; luring her forward. Hector remained silent, his gaze shifting from Eos and the object of clear form upon its pedestal.
"A Tetragammaton." Came the unknown voice again. "Touch it." However, Eos was clearly hesitant. "Touch it!" The female insisted, a desperation in her hidden echo. Eos lunged forward, her arm held out before her as her palm contacted the glowing pyramid. A blinding light erupted from it, staggering Hector and causing him to cover his eyes.
Eos gasped, unable to remove her hand, more symbols flashing in front her of as quickly as her eyes would blink. The colour drained from her face. She heard the cries of death. Blood being spilled into the sea. Arrows blocking out the sun as they reigned down from above. The lifeless bodies of Spartan men. A vision? It was yet unclear as Eos struggled against what was shown to her, causing it to fracture in its portrayal.
Pulling her hand off this Tetragammaton, she finally ripped it off the object itself, staggering backwards and falling onto the floor; breathless and scared. The air was silent. The glow calmed.
Eos raised her head up at Hector, her white hues being made to shake more as he appeared halted in time. His body stiff and unmoving.
"Hector!" She called out.
"Let us finally talk." Spoke the voice. Fine beams of energy began to materialise in front of Eos, portraying the image of a hooded woman bearing a long white dress, dressed in beautiful ornaments upon her hood itself, as well as her waist. "You are here. At last."
"What have you done?!" Eos shrieked, scuffling back away from this ghostly figure. "Who are you?!"
"I am J*%... U... ! $ ..NO." The visible woman spoke out. "Though you once called me a God, Eve."
"Eve?" Eos repeated, raising her one hand just over her eyes for the light this Juno emitted was still partially blinding for her. "I am not this Eve you speak to. My name is Eos."
"Ah." Juno hummed, chuckling almost. "How time has elapsed me. Forgive me. My mistake of calling you Eve was because of the blood you share from her. Through her memories."
"What are you talking about?!" Eos demanded, lowering her hand. Her unique eyes capable of defending her against the portrayal of Juno. "Eve. Like, Adam and Eve? That's… Impossible!"
"It is possible because we engineered Eve to be so." Juno revealed so poetically. "She was the first. Our first. The world's first."
Eos steadily got to her feet. "The world's first what?"
"Oracle." Juno swiftly replied. "Just like you are. A relation of Eve herself."
