I looked as the two demigods knelt in front of me.
"So you what to use my Chariot?" I asked my daughter and her friend .
"Yes sir. This boy judges the power of Apollo, he says we are weak." She said glancing up before quickly looking back down.
"You know the story of my child Phaeton, is that correct?" I asked remembering him, he was a foolish boy. He woke up so many monsters!
" Yes sir" My daughter knelt lower.
"Boy!" I snapped. Instead of being frighted at being in the presence of a god he was simply playing with a piece of cloud.
"Is it true you doubt the power of the sun? The very thing that allows your exsitance, and keeps you warm?" I asked oddly liking the way he shivered and crouched down lower. Usually I was nice, but lately with them telling me "to much sun!" or "Its cold!" I had been going as crazy as Aeolus. He was insane because the gods where always telling him to change the weather and he was trying to please every one at once.
" N...No sir, I just said that I could beat her in a bow and arrow contest." He groaned.
"Rise. Both of you. I never thought a daughter of Apollo a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, and arts, could be so foolish. You heard the tale of Phaeton yet you ask me anyways?!" I said my voice growing louder on every bragging word.
"I'm sorry father" she said tears rolling down her face." I was carried away. It was stupid to ask for such a thing."
Regret slammed through me. For a god I felt pretty human right now. Stupid.
"Tell me your name." I said softly, kindly.
"Halcyon" She said softly tears still flowing.
"And yours?" I said turning to the boy.
"Stygian" he moaped. It fit him well.
"Stygian, Halcyon. Go now, leave my palace you don't know what your asking for. I thought back on the horrible day my son died. Yes he was foolish, but full of truth. It was this gift that killed him. He had to prove the truth.
"Yes...father." Halcyon said and smiled. I could tell, like Phaeton, she had he gift of truth.
"And you boy son of Aeolus you must be as crazy as your father, to think that you could beat a child of Apollo!" I said laughing.
They left as Aurora rose her blinds and let dawn seep through her windows. Now she could sleep.
"As you pass tell Lady Aurora good night" I whispered down to them as they walked away.
" And Halcyon." She turned .
" Sweet dreams daughter." I said smiling down on them.She knelt, then got on her pegasus. I watched as my daughter and her foolish friend rode away.
I felt ... proud. Not only because I saved another child that fate, but because I had such wise children. They disappered in to the rosy dawn.
"Be blessed by the gods my daughter." I whispered.
I thought about the gift of truth. I was a horrible yet wonderful gift to bestow. Yet it seemed I gave it out willingly.
The other gods told me I didn't keep well enough track of my children, not even knowing half of there names.
A god of truth, yes, but it seemed some times as if I was more stupid than the most foolish mortal.
I glanced around me. The same four seasons that met Phaeton when he came, were walking around and deciding if Summer was over and it was Autumns turn. I went back to go get my chariot. It was time to go pull it across before the humans notice something wrong.
As I flew I listened into the prayers directed to me. Some for sun, some for rain. I pushed these away and listened to one little voice. "Dear daddy, I don't know if this is how to talk to you, but in church they said if you pray your father can hear you. Daddy if you can hear me mommy and me need you really bad. Mommy's sad and she needs you. Amen, love Haden." It was another one of my children. "Haden." I whispered the name and made a silent promise to save him. To save all my children.
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Stygian=Gloomy
Halcyon= Calm Peaceful
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