Written: 7/11/05
Word Count: 100; 100
Ratings: K+ for both
Notes: Possible spoilers for the movie Troy and the epic The Iliad. Written for Weekly Challenge #9: Reincarnation.
Quick rundown of the characters in play here:
Hector -- Favorite prince of Troy (there were 12--the king had multiple wives), the leader of Troy's armies and heir to the throne.
Achilles -- Greatest warrior of the Greeks; his mother was a goddess who had made him impervious to all weapons as a child.
Deiphobus -- One of Hector's half-brothers, one of the three brothers who fought with Hector during the Trojan War.
Paris -- Hector's younger full brother, who kidnapped Helen, the
most beautiful woman in the world and started the Trojan War when her
husband came after her. He was quite a playboy and reluctantly fought
with Hector.
Cassandra -- Hector and Paris' younger sister, a
priestess of Apollo. Apollo fell in love with her and gave her the gift
of foresight, but when she didn't love him back, Apollo cursed her so
that none of her porphecies would be believed.
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Sand and heat. It was all Hector could see right through his visor, and somehow, it felt right.
In front of him, clad in gold, stood Achilles, the greatest of the warriors. Hector blinked against a vision of chocolate locks, golden eyes, and a shining coronet.
Achilles wrenched off his helmet, revealing disheveled brown strands. "Helmet off, Hector!" he cried. "I want to see your face when I kill you!"
The deep purple eyes that were revealed filled Achilles with a strange sense of longing. However, he shook it off.
When Hector fell, Achilles almost cried. He never quite understood why.
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Before the blow struck, Cassandra's face was buried in Deiphobus' neck.
"Oh gods," she heard him moan, and wrapped her arms around him tight.
Why did Apollo have to love her? And why couldn't she have loved him back, instead of her green-eyed brother?
Deiphobus watched as his lover's only surviving full brother was sick over the rampart wall. He ran a hand up his brother's back, stroking the cropped red hair on his head.
Finally, Paris turned back around, his eyes as red as his hair.
Deiphobus wrapped his other arm around Paris, and the three siblings mourned.
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And, in case none of you could get which was which:
Hector -- Sanzo
Achilles -- Goku
Cassandra -- Kanan
Deiphobus -- Hakkai
Paris -- Gojyo
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