My name is Athanasia.
I am as old as time itself and I must do my masters bidding to survive.
It is my duty.
My curse, my life.
This is my story;
On the orders of my master Mormo I just killed my temporairily former masters son. I am that Mormos. The villain.
Athanasia means immortal because I am the oldest and first Mormos and have never been slain. Although alot of Mor os like me spend alot time in the underworld when they are not biting the bad children so our king doesn't have to.
Then I heard those voices;
"YOU JUST SHOT OUR SON", a deep mechanical voice said. I flapped my huge bat wings and turned towards the floating caravan with twisting serpents circling it. "AND YOU DARE TO USE MY POWER AGAINST ONE MY DICIPLES. THE OPHIS PTERETOS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FLY IF I HAD NOT CREATED MAGIC", and with that those white feathery wings flapped uselessly and the snakes writhed and fell to the ground. Now the rings of circling snakes were gone I could see the woman clearly again. She was the same woman in the autumn dress and bandana but her eyes glew purple, she had two heads wearing carnival masks protruding from either side of her head. And her hair seemed to lift upwards moving around in the air.
"He-he-hecate", I stuttered. "Do not address me", she said. She pointed a hand into the caravan and a bronze cauldron shot out with many hairs, feather, and bottles. She snapped her finger and they mixed themselves. Two pegasi the size of dogs jumped out and Virginia/Hecate stepped off the caravan and stood on one of the winged horses and the other flew ahead to support her other foot. She walked on undisturbed the pegasi always keeping the small of their back under her big toe in its stilletto heel. Hecate was in front of me now and I quaked in my boots (literally). She slapped me so hard I fell to the ground.
All three heads laughed, but I saw the a tear slide down the one in the middle. She snapped her fingers and a snake wrapped itself around my neck, wing-tips, wrists and ankles and dug their teeth into the ground. The other three lay across my chest, belly and knees digging their tails and teeth into the earth. I started crying and she took no notice. She put a hand out towards the corpse lying on the floor and a bronze fork flew into her hand. Without even saying the word it turned into a short bronze stick.
"Your wand", I gasped. Ever since modern folk-lore Hecate Goddess of witchcraft has had a new symbol of power. Her magic wand.
She slashed it through the air six times and my hands, wing-tips and feet fell of oozing blobs of darkness like blood.
I screamed and my teeth glew gold and the wounds closed painfully.
A little known fact about Mormos's is that we have seven back-up life points in our body. We store our power in our bones. However only the bones on the outside ever touch people. So the seven places we attack with. The claws on our hands; 2, the claws on our feet; 4, the claws on our wingtips;6 and our two front teeth; that's 7. So to send us back to the underworld (Mormos have duties on the underworld so we are banished to stay there not Tarturus like the Furies who gaurd the palace of Hades when they are destroyed) you have to sever our wrists, ankles, wings and neck. So when the teeth and claws glowed they were sending energy to the heart to keep us alive. Anyway I know I go on a bit but I am about to die.
So I knew that once that ancient Goddess severed my throat I would be slayed for the first time. "TAKE THIS AS A WARNING", that scary voice muttered. She leapt down and the samll pegasi turned to dust. Hecate bent down and yanked the neclace off her neck. "YOU DON'T DESERVE MY GIFTS", said and spat on my neck. The saliva sizzled and left a scar. I dissolved into darkness and reappeared in a church graveyard courtesy of Hecate. I decided to wait until sun-down when my limbs would return. Sadly I would be weaker than ever. That ruby was a gift from my Mistress Hecate and if she took it back then I had no magic. I could not fly without flapping and it would be tiring and difficult. I could not summon monsters and I could not summon random, golden pillows and I could not locate that boy anymore without actually looking.