Title: By the God's 3
Author: Serene Earth
Author's Notes: Well here's the next chapter in this series, I really hope you guys like it! I worked really, really hard on it! Writer's block is still visiting me and I'm more then willing to accept ideas on where you guys think "Not Everything is always Perfect." should head. As for this story I should finish it within about three more chapters, maybe one more then that. I'm not too sure yet. I might just send in a huge chapter and not need the rest....but if you people really want to know the best way to get more chapters of both stories come closer and I'll tell you.....*shakes head*......closer......*taps foot*......closer....*whispers*......the secret is......*hollers*......more e-mail, and reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *wipes sweat* There I said it! I want more reviews, and my e-mail box is really hungry! *looks around at the leaving audience* No, No Stop , I'm done, I done talking, don't leave, you can read the story now, go ahead, READ IT!!!!!!!!!
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Warning: I mighta edited this me self! SO feel free to tell me what errors I made, after all, all I can do is be really, really embarrassed or just learn from them!
"Serenity?"
Serenity yawned and opened her eyes to see the most gorgeous pair of eyes ever to grace her vision. See would of sat longer had her eyes not suddenly start to burn. She rubbed at her eyes vigorously, hopping to rid herself of the burning sensation; the cape Endymion gave her fell from her frame in the process. Her shoulders started to burn through the delicate silk material of her cape. She had never felt such a feeling before, except that small sensation of heat she would feel when her brother.... but that would mean that....
"Oh my..." The sun was up high in the sky.
Serenity opened her eyes to see the sun in all of it's blazing glory against the blue heavens, and the ever-handsome Endymion staring at her with a look of curiosity. She quickly picked up Endymion's cape and placed it around her shoulders. From beneath the cape she some how found her way into Endymion's arms.
"My siren what is the cause of your panic?"
Her muffled voice reached Endymion's ears and he chuckled.
"The sun...I am not used to such light."
Endymion pulled Serenity into his arms and began to lead her towards his cottage.
"If you find the light disturbing we can seek refuge in my home, though I am curious. May I inquire as to why you are not used to such light when your brother is the Lord of the Sun?"
Serenity snatched her head up at the thought of her brother.
"Oh my you are a dense mortal, my brother can find me in daylight, he can see all in the light, I need to hid, show me to your shelter."
Endymion laughed.
"Being a dense mortal as I may seem, I find it rather amusing that a Goddess as yourself would hid from her own sibling."
Serenity smacked him playfully.
"I needed a break.... I thought I entrusted that information to you already. You dense mortals!"
Endymion mocked hurt and fell to his knees.
"Oh my siren how you have hurt me so, I am so dense I know not the way back to my cottage. I am afraid that your brother shall now find you1"
Serenity half panicked, half-played and fell down by Endymion's side.
"Come now Endymion, I was just jesting, you are by no means a dense mortal. So let us be on our way now, lead the way back to your shelter."
Serenity stood up and attempted to pull him up with her but only succeeded in falling on top of him.
"My, my having your way with mortals must run in your family?"
Endymion mentally scolded himself as he watched her face fall and become serious from the un-intentional insult of her sister. (An: Remember the curse on Eos, she falls easily in love with mortals.... think of it in an insulting way!)
"I shall find my own shelter."
She started to turn away when she felt a hand wrap around her wrist.
"Let me go mortal!"
Endymion flinched slightly from her tone.
"I believed you to be different from the other animals of this land but I see that all mortals are insulting greedy bastards. I will not have mine or my sister's purity questioned, ever! Understand me?"
"Please forgive me, I did not think properly before I spoke and now your feelings are hurt. I was simply implying that I believe-" he paused slightly, unsure of his feelings and hers. "-that I am falling for your charms."
He saw her face lighten from its angry expression and decided that he did not care of the possibility of rejection.
"I am saying that even though I have just meet you I believe you have me wrapped around those little Goddess fingers of yours. Also that you and your sister have irresistible charms that must have mortals falling for you day in her case and night in yours, and I for one am not immune, nor do I mind being so."
Serenity stood still in her place; she was never one to believe in love or anything for that matter at first site. But her feelings at the moment suggested other wise. That blank void she felt back at her home was no longer as demanding and violent. Instead it was calming and tranquil; it was a feeling she had never experienced before. What was this feeling she pondered.
"Endymion I can not say of my feelings towards you, but I retract my words of your kind. I have not meet many mortals."
She smiled sweetly and placed her hands in his.
"I have met you and I shall let you set the standard at which I hold all mortals at, is that -"
"I will accept that for the time being."
As they stared at each other, new understandings and feelings were uncovered. Though neither knew that these feelings were in fact love at first sight, their adventures and trials in finding this out and keeping it were just beginning.
"Now Endymion if you do not wish to see me leave as of yet, would you lead me to some shelter?"
Endymion nodded never taking his eyes from hers and wrapped his arms around her small body.
"I shall, then I will show you the life of a simple shepherd"
Serenity sighed and leaned into his embrace as they walked.
"Not this simple game again, I would be ecstatic to see how you live your life."
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"Honestly Endymion, one would begin to conclude that you have never attended to a herd of sheep before!"
Serenity hollered out lightly from the side of a wooden gate, a nice sized cottage standing off behind her.
"And why would one conclude that?"
He hollered back as he dove once more to the ground missing his intended target.
"I asked a simple task of you, just petting your beautiful sheep, and yet here I am standing lonely by myself watching the poor sheep run from you. Now come here and be honest Endymion, are you truly a shepherd?"
Endymion wiped the sweat from his brow and smiled sheepishly (An: hahaha.... pun intended)
He stood to the inside of the wooden gate and met her awaiting gaze from under her hood.
"Truthfully, I am no shepherd in experience. I just came here the day before to try my luck with this life, my other existence being too hectic for a simple man like myself."
Serenity lifted her body up the wooden gate to sit as best as she could in her dress. She faced Endymion, her face now level with his, she lifted his blushing head to face hers.
"Do not be ashamed of this, I do not mind. Though I do wish you would have told me sooner so I could of helped you."
She broke contact with him as she picked at his now dirty clothes.
"Instead you get all pig-headed and get yourself filthy."
Serenity jumped off of the gate with much grace and landed in the sheep's grassy pen. She approached the herd of sheep, conviently located opposite of where Endymion stood. The sheep as if under a trance, approached Serenity and allowed her to pet their woolly backs. While Endymion stood amazed off to the side.
"How did you accomplish what even I could not?"
He asked of her when she came back to where he had taken temporary residency on the wooden gate.
"You easily forget that I can perform many tasks with my abilities."
Endymion raised an eyebrow.
"It is impossible for me to forget that you are a Goddess, if you are implying; with that wardrobe, though I seem to be forgetting what you are the Goddess of-" he jested lightly, as she huffed. "-you are not the Goddess of Hunt, are you not?"
She scrunched up her face and replied.
"I do not have to be that...that female to talk to animals!"
Ignoring his previous question and her answer he asked.
"I detected hesitation, please do tell me that the all mighty Ladies of the Moon and Hunt get along with each other?"
Serenity blushed and laughed lightly.
"She is not an easy Goddess to care for, she makes could conversations mind you, but she does not have good relations with those other then her animals."
Endymion nodded as he watched Serenity open the gate door and start to walk towards his cottage.
"And where would you be headed Serenity?"
Endymion had hoped the wooden gate and ran to catch up to her fast pace.
"To your cottage of course!"
Endymion watched in curiosity as she peeled his cape from her shoulders and handed it to him.
"Not to question you my siren, but why are you removing my cape, will your brother not find you?"
Serenity nodded her head, silver wisps of hair gently touching Endymion's face.
"No he should not find me now, the day is almost over. The walk to your shelter was long, dusk shall soon come."
"What of your sister?"
"Eos does not have the same abilities as my brother, she would only be able to detect my presence not my location."
"Oh all right I guess theirs no need for my simple mortal like worrying."
She glared at him and went to speak when a loud noise was brought to her attention. She stuck a small hand in front of Endymion as she came to a halt.
"What was that sound?"
Endymion looked around and focused his attention to the cottage that stood five feet in front of them.
"I have servants here with me, helping me until I am settled. Will that be a problem?"
Serenity nodded hesitantly.
"I stated before that I have not meet many mortals, I am afraid that they will act differently in front of me, unlike yourself."
Endymion nodded.
"I can dismiss them if you please."
This time it was Serenity's turn to nod.
"You will do no such thing, I am intruding on your home, I shall change."
Endymion looked quite shocked as Serenity was surrounded in a bright sliver glow and her dress and cape melted away to be replaced by simpler robes.
"I do not wish to be recognized by your servants, call me...."
Serenity twirled a silver lock in her fingers and pondered.
"I know, with your consent I shall call you Usagi."
Serenity smiled.
"Why that name?"
Endymion reached out and took a hold of one of the two balls of silver hair she had on the top of her head.
"Your hair reminds me of rabbit, the name Usagi means rabbit or bunny in a different dialect here among the Earth."
"Fine mortal, I shall allow you to call me such for the time being. But right now I am in need of nourishment."
Endymion looked down at her in surprise.
"What?"
"I am hungry!"
Serenity or Usagi whined in a very un-Godly like manner, Endymion laughed.
"All right my siren, follow me to my humble home. I only hope it meets your 'standards'."
She scoffed lightly at his sarcasm and followed him into the cottage.
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"Perseus...."
Perseus sat in his throne uncomfortable as he heard a seductive voice call out his name in more of a moan then a request.
"Andro.... Andromeda?"
Perseus tugged at his royal robes, they suddenly felt so constricting. He dwindled in his seat as he watched his wife dismiss the guards in the throne room. She slinked her way up to him, and placed herself on his lap.
"Perseus, my love, I was wondering...."
She let her thoughts slid as her lips traveled to the base of his neck.
"What?"
His voice squeaked as it came out, at that she laughed.
"Will you promise me something?"
Perseus held back a moan in his throat as his minx moved seductively in his lap.
"Any-anything for you...dear..."
Andromeda smiled brightly and dropped her seducing act.
"Well then I guess we're off to visit Endymion tomorrow."
She slowly got up from his lap and left a lingering kiss on his lips, leaving him too stunned to speak.
"I will see you at dinner love."
She left the room head held high, and Perseus just sunk down into the throne, he needed a bath.
"Damn woman...." He muttered as he left the throne room to attend to certain, ahem, personal matters.
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"Damn Gods!"
Artemis angrily cursed her father and his advisors for sending her on this task. She did not even like Serenity and here she was out and about looking for the likes of that woman. The worst of it being was that at the end of dusk she even had to go as far as carrying out that blasted gooses tasks! Well Artemis was not exactly looking for her at the moment, she was currently at a large island. She started her search there, which was conviently the same island where she spotted that mortal. A blush arose on the Goddess' checks as she walked among the mortals of this place. She was invisible to their eyes so she would not be disturbed on her way to the leaders of this island. Artemis had it all planned out. She would seek out the Royals there, then demand the mortal man as a sacrifice to her. After and only after that would she look for the thorn in her side Serenity.
Artemis entered the palace and used her instincts to find her way to the throne room.
"Claudia, would you kindly inform me of the Kings presence?"
The servant named Claudia stepped forward towards the regal figure one of the two thrones and bowed.
"Your majesty he is believed to be spending his time with the Prince."
The Queen bowed her head in thankfulness and suddenly turned her attention to the figure that suddenly appeared in her throne room.
"You must be the Queen of this quaint island, tell me where is your king? I demand his presence."
"Claudia if you would inform Perseus that I request his presence immediately, I would extremely grateful."
Claudia nodded fearfully and left the room as quickly as possible. Artemis' tempered flared at being ignored by the mortal.
"You are a pathetic ruler if you request things from your servants, tell me your name."
The Queen only sat straighter and held her head higher.
"My name is Queen Andromeda of this 'quaint' island. What business do you have here?"
Artemis angrily strode up to the Queens throne and faced her.
"You Mortal! I am the Goddess Artemis, and you dare speak to me in such a disrespectful manner? Bow to me!"
Andromeda looked away from the Goddess, not replying. Artemis noticed this and raise her hand as if to strike her.
"Do not dare Artemis! Whatever business you have here will be carried out with me, not my wife!"
Artemis turned around and smirked.
"My, my, if it is not my half brother Perseus. -" She looked back at Andromeda and tsked. "-You did not tell me that you were my dearest half-brothers wife. You must be pleased to have a demi-God under your control, and yet you still are weak. Really I must..."
"Enough of you Artemis, you speak an infinite deal of nothing and I wish for you to get to the point of your visit before you anger me further!"
Artemis walked down to Perseus and plucked an arrow and a bow from thin air and fired it at his wife.
"Andromeda!"
Perseus watched as the arrow landed right beside her head, he closed his eyes in pain as he saw her quiver in fear.
"What do you want Artemis?"
He growled out.
"Careful with your tone dear half-brother, I do not miss twice."
Perseus sighed in defeat.
"That is more agreeable Perseus. Now what I want from you is simple, you will give me a mortal I am searching for. Understood?"
Perseus' eyes widened.
"No I do not understand none of my subjects have broken any laws concerning you! I demand you leave, you have no jurisdiction here!"
Another arrow whizzed through the air and Andromeda cried out in pain as the delicate materials of her robes were sliced through. Artemis humphed slightly and turned to face her 'brother' again.
"My aim is usually better then that of which you just saw."
Perseus felt powers in him awaken slowly, powers he had not used since he had first saved Andromeda, his demi-God powers.
"Ah there is no reason for you to summon your powers, just listen closely. I meet a mortal with black hair, and blue eyes; the likes of this combination are rare. I want this mortal found and released to me."
Perseus scrunched his face in thought.
"There is not a person with that description, even though as vague as it is such a rarity is not known here."
Andromeda cut in softly as she placed her uninjured hand on her husband's shoulder.
"I was not addressing you mortal!"
"Even though you were not 'addressing' her what my wife spoke was the truth! Now leave!"
Artemis growled in impatience.
"I hope your people will still hold you in high respects after they find out that it was their beloved king that angered the Goddess Artemis."
"What are you threaten me with now?"
Artemis smiled coyly.
"Think hard Perseus, for if I leave without my desired mortal, I will also leave with all of your precious animals. What will your people do then?"
Perseus accepted Andromeda's hand in his own as he thought of such a person with those looks.
"Give me more of a description."
Artemis thought hard.
"He was about 6ft, 4in, with jet black hair and dark blue eyes. I believe he wore robes of a higher quality, indicating that he was important here, now hurry and think Perseus I have other places to be!"
Andromeda whispered in Perseus' ear and he paled.
"What?"
Artemis asked not missing a beat.
"There was a King here with that description but I am afraid that he left. Where the never confided in me, he just told me that I would replace him."
Artemis growled in frustration.
"If I find out that you do not speak the truth, you wife will not live to see morrow!"
With that Artemis disappeared as Andromeda sunk wearily to the floor only to be caught by her husband.
"Perseus she was talking about Endy, we must warn him."
Perseus nodded as he lifted his injured wife into his arms. He left to tend to her wounds, not before he ordered supplies and a carriage to take him to Mt. Latmos by morning.
As Perseus left Artemis reappeared, making herself invisible to the mortals.
"I will find your friend 'Endy', and when I see that he is who I am looking for, your wife will pay."
Artemis left that time to go to her evening tasks.