Simpler Times
Author: Sassmaster Omega 620
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Claim: Demeter
Springtime. It is the first season and a new beginning for all new life. Also it is undoubtedly my favorite. There is just something about it that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
I could name a hundred reasons why I love it so much, maybe it's because the feel of the rain and wind on my skin is enthralling to say the least. Maybe because my beloved daughter Persephone finally is allowed to come out of that rotten place called the Underworld.
I told her; didn't I tell her not to eat the pomegranate? But did she listen? Noooo, she just had to eat it. She had no consideration for the fact that now for two seasons out of four her poor mother has to bear the cold, wind, and rain all by her lonesome.
Spring is so much better, it's so reviving and the one thing that I look forward to all year is bringing new life and flora to the mortal world with my daughter.
Besides the humans start their new planting season, beans, rice, and wheat. Oh wheat. Do you know what is made from wheat? Cereal, that's what. By far the best thing humans have ever done or made.
Normally all they do is go around ripping up plants, and using them for their own selfish gains. All anyone needs in order to have a stable diet and good life is cereal. I mean please, Global warming? Who do they think that they're kidding? The seasons will always be the seasons while I'm around.
Where was I? Oh yes springtime.
Even though Persephone is also with me in summer, spring is better. Summer is nosier, all those mortal kids running around and trampling good earth and crops. It's ridiculous.
Spring brings so many good things happiness, and new flowers, and a new sense of being born anew if that makes any sense.
Some of the Olympians complain about it, but how can you complain about such a beautiful and reviving season?
Bah. Who am I kidding? They will never understand the magic of it all. It was better millions of years ago when dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals roamed the earth. At least then they didn't try to destroy the only thing in the world that brings me joy.
Besides cereal and Persephone of course.
Spring may seem like just a season, but to me it's much more.
It's seeing the blooms burst from the trees, the children's laughter as they romp all over earth (yes, even though they are destroying my earth, their enthusiasm is catching) and most of all it's the sense that everything isn't all bleak and gray, and winter doesn't last forever.
Spring is hope in the simplest of terms.
Hope for a new phase, a new time, and a new loop in the new-ending circle.
Hope for a new day and another green glorious season.
A/N: And done! Sorry it's a little rushed at the end, but I had some serious writer's block. And then it came to me, and I made a mad dash for my laptop. Hopefully you enjoyed, As much as I enjoyed finishing the darn thing. Thanks to Sonata for being a beta for this piece!
Later!
Sass.