Semyl: So that was chapter 2…and I'm trying to slim this story as small as possible so it doesn't become as long as my first one…My Stupid Life all Because of HIM. I don't think I want to do another story that long…my limit is now only 15 chapters. Umm well anything below and or at 20 –smile-
Kyou: Ugh, what's the difference?
Semyl: Umm…I really don't know…
Kyou: Baka…
Semyl: Well anyways here's chapter 3!
Artemis/Diana: Sango
Hades: Miroku
Apollo: InuYasha (Yes a shocker but Kohaku was a little too young and is too kind to kill Apollo)
Persephone: Koharu
Aphrodite: Kagome
Ares: Sesshomaru
And other gods will be just other gods until I think of it a bit more! But the thing is that this is NOT really the true way the story of the Greek Gods goes in case you have no idea what or who the Greek Gods are! It is also part modernized.
Prepare for OOCness!
WARNING THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE MYTH OF ORION AND DIANA AND OTHER'S I HAVE WARNED YOU SO NO FLAMES
Me, a Goddess, in HADES?
Chapter 3
-Recap -
"Why do you bother me over and over? I just met you and yet…" I asked trying to not sound annoyed. I have to give him a chance. I have to give him a chance. I repeated it over and over as if I was praying.
"You interest me," he said simply.
I looked at him curiously and saw him staring at the "stars".
"How?"
"I guess I have to tell you don't I?"
-On with the Story…-
"It started about maybe ----- years ago," Miroku said. And I will just say that the number of years he was to say was more than 2….
(A/N: Of course we know it's more! LOL)
I felt visions start to come into my head and found myself staring at my palace. It was when I didn't really clean the place up. There was vines covering almost everywhere, it looked old and yet it was all white marble. The lake however still looked the same. It was huge and the water was so clean that some would mistake it as a mirror. The moon reflected off it and I saw myself sitting on some stairs that lead down into the lake. I was crying and there holding onto something.
"I was just walking around the woods, not knowing that there was anyone living there, but that was due to the fact that I don't get out much," Miroku said. He was standing right next to me, while watching the vision, "And then I came across you."
I remembered, I was with my pack of wolves and my best friend Shi had just died giving birth to one single wolf. I named that little wolf Shia, after her mother, but one day I let Shia out to go and try to get her own food. She never came back for a week, and I went to look for her. She died from sickness, she must have been so excited to go and finally get her own food that she didn't care if she was sick. But I didn't notice at all! I was ashamed of myself back then. I didn't know what to do. I just went and held her little body in my hands and hugged her tight to me, just trying to will her back to life. But of course she never did.
"I saw you crying over a single thing, a little wolf," He said, "I thought you would try to beg to me like 'Hades give him back!' or something like that, since that's what usually everyone does. Some even come to me, trying to get me to bring the soul back to the body, but you didn't say anything. You weren't even thinking of that."
"How the heck is that interesting?" I asked in a curious voice. He was exaggerating of course, because not ALL of the gods beg for him to bring a loved own back.
"It isn't," he said simply.
I looked at him immediately and then saw that he was staring at the me with the wolf.
"But still, I thought 'I could make this little maiden beg to me' so I willed you to," he said, "for my own amusement of course."
"Well that just sounds stupid," I said.
"Please try to understand, querida," he said while looking at me with this serene look, "It isn't that simple."
"Huh?"
The vision started to change to another time. I was running out in the woods all alone to amuse myself and saw a three headed do approach me. I didn't know what that dog was, since I never really listened to gossip about anything, including Hades. If you ask me where Hermes lived I would tell you I don't know. Which is sadly true…I just like to mind my own business of course.
"I was intrigued with you still, I guess why I was intrigued is still a mystery to me, I guess you could say 'love at first sight'?" he said simply.
I blushed and looked at him. I mean love at first sight? How can that be? There's…no such thing right? But then again Orion…
"Now back to my story," he said, "I sent my Cerberus to you to see what the goddess of the hunt would do. Would you kill him or would you leave him alone and run?"
"I did neither!" I said.
"That you did, "he said calmly, "that you did."
The me in the vision walked up to Cerberus and I held out my hand to it. I played with him, befriended him, I even fed him without getting harmed or harming him. Later in the day I said my goodbyes, just feeling that he wasn't a stray and that he was owned by someone. And that was it.
"Now that was interesting, because no one can get Cerberus to like someone except for me and other certain people," Miroku said.
"So that's how you got interested in me?"
"Yep. That's it."
If that was in anime, I would have fallen over, for that was the stupidest reason to be interested in someone like me. Why in hell would he show me those two scenes just to prove a point when it practically proved nothing? This is it! He must be crazy or something. But…he said he fell in love with me….now that could be true…since I fell in love with Orion at first sight….
" I hate…to intrude, but this Orion is indeed a lover?" he asked curiously. The images faded and we were once again in the 'dream' field sitting down besides each other.
"Umm…he sorta is…," I said quietly. Maybe I should tell him my story since he told me his…it would be fair then, no? He was quiet and just stared at the fake sky, he didn't press on and make me tell him more like Orion usually did when I talked about the gods and goddesses. Hades, was much more calmer than I would think him to me. I used to think that he was just some scary creepy old man who would snap at every word that I would say, but maybe he just isn't?
'A creepy old man? I'm hurt at the thought of being that, querida,' he said in a mockingly sad voice. He mentally laughed a little and found myself laughing with him for the thought of this handsome man being an old creepy man.
"See you find me handsome after all," he said turning toward me with a grin. (He grins a lot, no?)
"I guess I do, but I don't think your ego can handle anymore compliments," I giggled.
"Well shall I make you feel better and tell you that you look even more beautiful than Lady Aphrodite herself?" Hades said.
This made me blush now, for Kagome was extremely beautiful and I looked horrible compared to her. He must be exaggerating now.
"But I'm not," he protested, "You just haven't been looking at mirrors lately have you?"
I smiled at him and decided that I could possibly tell him anyways.
"Orion, was my lover, and not my lover," I said quietly, while making the fun between us turn into a serious conversation. He didn't say anything, but I knew he was listening to my every word.
'That I am, now please go on,' Miroku whispered into my mind.
"It was just a month ago that it happened, but I met my beloved Orion," I said closing my eyes.
-Flashback-
(A/N: I am tweaking the love story of Artemis and Orion of course!)
I was walking slowly toward my palace at night. My lovely moon shinned down on my path so that I wouldn't get lost. (Of course I would never get lost! But it was just nice to have a glowing path…) I didn't have any of my wolves or nymphs with me because I wanted some time alone. I might have walking for hours, but I didn't care, I just wanted to feel this nice sensation of being alone. After all that was what I felt sometimes, as if I was missing a part of myself. However this night was different, while I was walking I stumbled across a human man. He was lying down on the floor from exhaustion. His clothes were all dirty and torn, and I could sense that he hadn't eaten or drank anything for along time.
For some reason, I felt pity for him. I usually would have changed him into a stag and killed him for my wolves, but this time I just didn't feel like doing it. He looked so peaceful lying there on the floor, as if he was truly content even if he was hungry, cold, and thirsty. I walked to him and kneeled down to him asking,
"Are you going to beg for me to save your life?"
He looked up at me, and I noticed the color or his eyes, they were dark blue, like the sea. There was no fear or anything inside them at all. He just said to me in a hoarse voice,
"Are you going to make me beg for you to save my life?"
I almost laughed at that remark, but I didn't feel like being cruel to him, I just kneeled next to him saying nothing. He then stood up and started to walk away from me, in the wrong direction. This man could get lost going in that direction and could end up dying here. And I still felt pity for him and I cried out,
"Hold on, I'll," I paused because I was actually going to grant a Human help, but I wanted to, "I will help you."
He turned to me and nodded and we walked together to my palace. But he didn't complain; ask for any water, or food. He just followed me. It was almost disturbing….
When at my palace I bathed him, fed him, and gave him new clothes. The man was beautiful, in a rough way. His hair was black and was tied back by a string. He was very muscular and story looking, and was a foot taller than me, and he felt intimidating. And here I was a goddess who could kill him at the spot if I wanted to! I later guided him back and when I got to the edge of the forest I watched him walk away from me. He didn't say anything! No thank you, no nothing! I felt like turning him into a stag but he then turned around as if reading my thoughts.
"Orion, at your service lady Diana," he said quietly, "I owe you."
With that he just walked away.
After that, I found myself going out of my forest to visit him almost everyday for a month. And by the end of just one week with him, I fell in love with him. Orion was a kind gentle man, he lived by himself away from the village but he took care of dozens of sheep and even my own wolves took a liking to him! (Although I think they just liked him because he had tons of sheep…)
Well to make a long ending and middle short, my brother Apollo, or InuYasha, found out that I was in love with a human. (A/N: Yes in the myth he isn't REALLY human but I'll just say that he is) and sorta got ballistic at the fact that I was even thinking of making him immortal. He tricked me into killing him, when I really thought it was just a speck in the ocean…but now he's in the stars watching over me…
-End flashback-
"So, you are currently single?" he asked slowly and carefully. I wondered at why he would ask such a thing, but I sorta like him now. He listened to my story about how I feel in love with Orion, even if it was the cheesiest thing he has ever heard.
"Well, yes I guess you can say that…" I responded with a light blush starting to appear on my face.
"How about you come and visit down in the Underworld sometime then? I promise I won't lock you there forever and make you become my…love slave," he said while bringing his hand to my face while stroking my cheek, "To prove it, I'll tell you not to eat anything down from there. I mean it. If you eat something there it could lock you down there for a pretty long time, querida."
I didn't say anything because although I sort of trust him. He was asking me to go down to hell which is sort of a weird invitation…I really don't know….
"Here, take this then," he said taking out a small whistle with a red ribbon tied on it, "Use this and my chariot will come to you and escort you down there. You don't need to decide now, but think about it, dear."
I took it and held it in my palm tightly.
"Now before we both wake up…" he leaned toward my face and kissed my cheek, my brow, and slowly made his way toward my lips. He coaxed them to open and I felt his tounge mingle with mine. I was slow to learn because I never kissed Orion like this before but…
'No thinking of Orion now, querida. It's just you and me.' He whispered into my mind.
We played a little (KISSING NOT ANYTHING MORE I'm like a virgin goddess!) and then before I knew it I woke up with a start. I was alone in my bed, but I swear I could still feel his lips on my lips. I sat up quickly and then noticed there was something in my palm.
It was the whistle.
-To be continued…-
Semyl: -laughing- That was the stupidest way for Miroku to have fallen for Sango!
Kyou: You are laughing at your own story….?
Semyl: -continues laughing-
Kyou: She just feels bad at this…so review if you wish…but I guess it was a bit weird, no?
Semyl: -stops laughing- Oh yes, and then next chapter is going to be the last chapter!
Kyou: O-o So soon…?
Semyl: Yepers! –big smile- So review please!
