Young Writers Society

Virenna~Goddess of Rain and Serenity~

The man sighed. "I attempted to trick the gods into giving away some of their power to me." he stated.

I grimaced. Okay, maybe this soul wasn't as tortured as I'd thought him to be. Kaia shot me a glance as silently saying "I told you so."

"See! He was angered by the curse they thrusted upon him and cursed us! The Gods were-" Kaia hissed taking a step toward me.

"I'm sure there's more to it than that, young Goddess." I interrupted, calling her immature. My face stayed kind even if she may be rubbing me the wrong way. I inhaled deeply and turned back to Hector, waiting for him to back me up and say something.

Desirae~ Goddess of Lust and Desire~

I followed the flow of music, there could only be one source. The Gods must be throwing a banquet. How rude of them not to invite me. My hands clutched into fists at my side.

My barefeet moved slowly through the trees. I plucked a rose from a near by bush as I passed and slid it in my hair. The moonlight was gorgeous, just as I remembered it. Olympus...oh, how I missed it...

It took me mearly seconds to climb a hill so beautifully laid out for the great banquet house to be held. Lights could be seen shining through the night and I heared the chorus of music louder now.

A God and Goddess slowly entered the front archway. They looked familiar...could it be? Jade, Goddess of the night? I couldn't tell who the man was...

*Sorry, this is all I could come up with!*

Skylark

I fluttered down onto the clearing floor, hopping over to the woman, who I recognised as Terra, the Goddess of nature. I chirped, a little too nervous to switch into my human form.
She looked down at me with a slight smile, dispite her obvious anger at something. I could see it in her eyes; they were still smouldering from the aftermath of fury. I guessed it must have something to so with the skeletons of the perished deer.
The other boy in the clearing eyed me with his head tilted. He probably suspected that I was not in fact, an ordinary jackdaw.
My icy eyes diverted to the nature Goddess again. She seemed to have recovered from her bout of choking, but I still couldn't help but wonder as to what caused it.

*hey Bolt, is Thanatos going to get Famine to kill this boy then? I'm not quite sure what's happening*

Jade

People eyed me as I entered. I held my head up. I was never known for my confidance, but I wasn't going to let them know they were making me feel uncomfortable.

"Relax a little," Lukas laughed at my stiff posture. "This is a party you know."

"Of course I know," I hissed, shooting daggers at him with my eyes. "And that is why I'm so uncomfortable. So I thank the heavens you're not the God of wisdom or else we would all be screwed."

"Maybe," he said, thoughtfully. "Then again, I may just prove you wrong." I sighed. There was use in arguing with him. He always had a reply.

"Well what is there to do then?" I asked. "I'm not going to drink myself stupid, if that's what you brought me here for."

Lukas laughed. "Of course not. Well, that wasn't my direct intention anyway. You know, you can be really silly sometimes. Maybe you shouldn't judge so much."

"Why you-" I stopped. He was right. I was doing the one thing I hated that people did to me. I really was judging him. Lukas cocked an eyebrow and grinned a little.

"Well, I'm not going to say sorry, if that's what you want," I responded, stubbornly.

"We'll see," Lukas replied, taking me to the center of the festival.

Jamie

The girls grabbed my wrists. I looked from James to the woman who seemed to be leading the rulsalki.

I knew Jame could take care of himself, yet I still worried. He seemed different. Weaker. I bent my wrist a little, allowing the dagger I had strapped there fall into my palm. That was why I always wore baggy clothes. I had weapons strapped all over my body. Two on the sides of my stomach, one on my right wrist, another on my left ankle and another two on my upper arms.

The hilt fell perfectly into my hand. I used it to hit one of the rulsalki on the head, effectively knocking her out. I twisted out of the others grip and grabbed another knife from my ankle. I was half crouched, my weapons held ot in front of me.

"What are you doing huntress?" The woman asked bemused. I pursed my lips. What the hell did it look like?

"I'm not going anywhere with you," I replied. "Now let my freind go. We don't plan on dying tonight."

Hector

Yes, yes there is more to it. Hector's thoughts raced.

The group watched him, waiting for an explination.

"Yes, there is much more to it than that. You will let me explain?" Hector hoped they would.

Kaia sighed and nodded, waiting for him to continue.

"Yes, please do." Virenna said.

"Well then you must let me start from the beginning. I was a young man who lived in the city near here. My father was a very powerful man, I do not recall now what he did as it was long ago, but he was very influential. He did not care for any of his family though. My mother and I, we lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of town while my father lived in an estate with his mistress. You should have seen the nights my mother spent sitting alone, crying. It would tear your heart to pieces."

Hector's audience listened politely, yet Kaia seemed bored.

"I'm failing to see the relevence here." she said.

"Let him continue." Virenna insisted, nodding to Hector to keep going.

"My father didn't want us, as I have said, and he was intolerably cruel to my mother especially. He would often come by and proclaim his love for her again and promise to come home but then he would disappear and never come back. I needed to do something about it, I had to teach him a lesson. My father believed deeply in the power of the gods and would even go as far as to stay inside for weeks if your average bum on the street told him the 'gods' would strike him dead. Anyone could tell him anything but if it related to the gods he would obey."

"As he should." Kaia commented.

Virenna glared at her. "Let him continue!"

Hector sighed. "So I had to go to the gods and try to get some sort of power to take my revenge on my father. I knew the gods wouldn't help me regularly as my father had always been faithful, so I had to try to trick them. They found me out and never gave me a chance to explain, not that they would have listened anyway. They punished me like this and took me away from my mother, and my lover. I was going to ask my love to marry me as soon as I had rid this earth of my father. Once I died it killed my mother, and then my love took her own life." Hector finished. "That is the whole truth."

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Whew sorry that was kind of long and filled with info, he just had quite a bit to his story.

Whew! It's been awhile! Sorry about that!

Terra-

I smiled at Skylark, grateful that she had heard me and had come to check on me.

"Are you alright, Terra?" She asked me.

I nodded slightly. "But he will pay," I muttered, clenching my fists, staring in the direction Famine had gone. "Whatever it takes, I will make him pay."

"Who, Terra?" Skylark asked me.

"Famine," I whispered, or more, hissed.

"Ah..." she noted, nodding in acknowledgement. Her cold eyes shifted to my hardened face. "You know, Terra, not everything has to end in violence."

I glanced down at her. "But when it's started in violence? What then?"

"Makes no difference," she told me. "Violence solves nothing at all. Only thing it's good for is potentially releasing anger, which isn't a very good way to do it, by the way."

My face softened a little. I knew she was right, but I refused to hear any of it. Maybe my powers couldn't defeat him, but I knew I wouldn't be alone. I knew the other gods would support me, or, some of them, anyway. If it was a war Famine wanted, it was a war he'd get. The source of life against the cause of death. So be it.

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Oooh...how dramatic! I love it

*GUYS! I need Illana or Alcyna to post.*

**Well, I didn't know how to bring myself in before, but I'll make an attempt now. Someone kick me if I did something wrong.**

Nimriel

The god of the sun stared out at the night sky. This was the time of day when he almost felt...lost. No sun, no daylight. Nothing in the sky to keep him company, nothing that fell into his sphere of influence. While his outer personality would always be as bright as the daylight, inside, he disliked the night.

"Where is that bird?" He murmured to himself. Usually, he was able to pick out Skylark from this spot on Olympus, whether it was night or day. She was one of the few he always felt he could get on with, both of them were connected directly with the sky, and so they got along well.

"Nimriel," Her voice was suddenly echoing in his head, and far below him, in the forests surrounding Olympus, he could see a pale, glowing outline of a bird, "There's a problem...I think Terra wants to kill Famine."

"That is a worry." Nimriel muttered, before transporting himself down to the forests, to a clearing not too far from where he knew Skylark to be. He made his way to that clearing quickly and quietly, not wanting to draw undue attention from any who might oppose him at night.

"Hello Terra, hello Skylark." He said upon arrival, "Is my help needed here?"

Alcina~~

At the door was a knock and at that a crack of light flooded in from the hall light. She fell into the shadows quickly, a skill she learned from the goddess of night herself.

"ANyone here?" A boys voice filled the empty air.

"Yes are you Syn?" Admes asked peering at the dark haired boy.

"How did you know?"

"I am old but still the oracle," Admes smiled and Alcina mentally sighed because she knew a prolouge was about to incur. Suddenly, the earth shifted coming off as an earthquake of sorts.

"What in-?" She whispered, earthquakes only happened when Terra was angry, or someone was waging war.

"Alcina!" Admes called, "Get him out of here!!!"

"Alcina?" The dark haired one looked around seeming confused to where this Alcina was. At that Alcina thrust herself out of the shadows and touched the boy making them both disappear into the darkness.

Skylark

"Nimriel," I greeted him, shifting to my human form and smiling at him. Terra merely nodded, her face still stiffened into an expression of anger. My smile faded slightly.

"He was killing my animals," Terra muttered, turning away as the boy in the corner coughed slightly.

"Oh," I gasped, only acknowledging his presense. "Sorry about that. What's your name?"

He hesitated for a moment. "Draka," he muttered, still keeping his distance from us. Understandably, he was shaken from Famine's attack. I knew Famine to be dangerous but never to attack something other than a creature.

"Did Famine attack you also?" Nimriel asked.

Draka shook his head. "I'm not even sure if he was going to. But even then, we didn't have the chance." He jerked a thumb in Terra's direction.

"I think that it was probably unwise to provoke Famine, Terra. You know what he can be like," I thought outwardly, my icy eyes diverting from Draka to her.

"He has no right to do that."

Nimriel raised an eyebrow, casting an arm over the skeletons that lay crumpled in the clearing. "Is it really worth to take him to war over a deer herd? Countless lives will be lost, innocent ones at that."

The clearing was silent for a few moments.

*sorry not sure what to write *

I need Philomena to post for me to do anything with Elysia =(

Draka -

I didn't enjoy the silence. "So, what was he going to do to me?" I asked, hoping that it would strike up some conversation. The woman who saved me didn't want to speak, and the other two seemed as if they didn't want to speak.

At last, the man said, "Suck out all the energy in your body, turn you into a lifeless husk." He shrugged. "He always tries to do that."

I winced. "Okay then." Seeing that I was in no immediate danger, I had already reversed the transformation. In human form, I was much more comfortable. Besides, it gave me much more of a chance if I was going to be attacked or something.

"He intruded on my domain," my savior finally said. "Famine knew that animals were part of my domain, and he still attacked them."

"If he doesn't do that, he'll die," the man pointed out. "Terra, you and Famine both need to have a compromise about this. This isn't worth war."

Her eyes flashed, and I could tell that things weren't going to get better any time soon. Maybe it would be better if I could just... slip... away...

Okay, forget any chance of that happening with three gods in the clearing next to me.

Illana -

My meeting with everyone was short lived. The earth crumbled and roared, everything beginning to sway or break. That only happened if Terra was angry, but what would that mean for everyone? Just as I was about to ask, Alcina had grabbed Syn and disappeared. I blinked. Normally, mortals wouldn't be allowed to go along for teleportation, but Syn was an interesting case. But anyway, I didn't have time to think about that.

"Admes! What are you doing?" I demanded.

"Illana." Admes frowned. "What are you doing here? I thought you were at Delphi, or Olympus."

"Olympus is having another party, and something interested me about this area. But no more time for that, what were you doing?"

"Alcina requested an audience. Who was I to refuse?"

"Anyway, you have to leave. Now. Forget about everything else, and get somewhere safe. You need to stay out of things for now," I said, looking out at the grounds in apprehension. Terra was definitely angry at something or someone. People killing her animals, it wasn't that new. And she had learned to accept it because it was the only way for them to live. Humans damaging nature was pretty much a given. What else could there be?

"Where can you hide if nature wants to kill you?" Admes asked softly. I paused.

"Never mind," I said, pushing him out the door. "I give you my blessing. Stay protected. Now, go!"

Once Admes was safely outside, I looked out. Deciding that I had best see what was going on, I felt the area around me swirl. Closing my eyes to prepare myself for what was to come, I teleported, feeling the dizzying sensation leave me.

When I next opened my eyes, I was in a forest.

*Sry, this is going too fast. Someone pull me in pls! I am dieing to write here again. Sry Lauren...*

I'll bring you back in.

Elysia

The forest was lovely tonight. Elysia wandered peacefully, distracted somewhat by the starlight that fell through the trees.

A figure stepped out of the trees in front of her, a goddess.

"Hello m'lady." I curtsied, smiling pleasently. "What brings you to the forest tonight?"

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Yeah, not much, but you can do whatever with it.