There was no doubt about it. Amalthea was not okay.The increasing levels of pain she felt inside of her slowly turned into fatigue, the mornings she spent with Cetus planning the reconstruction of Atlantis were cut short when she started nodding off in the middle of them.It was not normal, not natural. And extremely concerning.The nights were not changed much, Amalthea sought comfort in her path partner’s touch. But she couldn’t take in his love for the entire duration of the night.She would fall asleep then too.Nereus and Cetus talked long about it. And though the topic was infuriating, they discussed the source behind the depletion of Amalthea’s energy.The most obvious culprit would be her separation from her pair. The two of them did not see Arethusa when she was recovering from ending her relationship with her pair. But there was a big possibility that the worthless human was still hurting her.There might be other causes as well.Her dignity was under attack for the entire
It had been a month since the queen of nymphs was present in paradise. But the system that the nymphs had was a solid one, every nymph knew her duty and performed it impeccably.Women were helping around too.They knew change was coming, and they had been informed by the committee that left the island to go negotiate with the men that there were plans to get the women back to Men’s Island.They were not worried about it anymore.The nymphs that took care of them for centuries now knew what was best for women, and the committee that left for negotiation would not risk the women’s wellbeing. It was out of the question.It was fun!The only entertainment women lacked in Paradise was the ability to move around and travel to their heart’s content. And now, they would be able to discover a whole new world.It was called the Odd World.But the men that came to the island were okay, women always had fun with them in a safe environment that was based on mutual respect between the genders under
The mild earthquake that shook the core of the deep sea was not a disturbing one. Cetus’s smile was wide as he spoke to the sea essence’s General who was getting more anxious by the second.“Your excellency, are you not concerned by the second earthquake to hit in the matter of a few mortal moments?”Cetus would not have tolerated such questions had they been presented by any other. But the General’s loyalty had been proven throughout the centuries. If he questioned the next in line for the succession, then it was out of the goodness of the soldier’s heart. He decided to reprimand him in the softest way possible.“We both sensed the depth of the sea shaking, old friend, but can you not fathom the emotion behind it?”The General understood his mistake, he should not have questioned the smile on the face of a being like Cetus.He lowered his head and bowed deeply.“Forgive me, your excellency, I have committed a grave sin,”Cetus’s smile widened.“All in good time, old friend. All in go
The mortal days that had passed after Amalthea was sure she was carrying a new life form inside of her went by as if they were running away from an invisible force that was after them, but they meant so many things to everyone alive in that period of time and witnessing the life-changing events that were taking place left and right.Both the mortal and the immortal world were never going to be the same after. And it was all too fast, two mortal months had gone by after the destruction of that weapon in a blink of an eye.In the very depth of the sea, right where no one thought sea folks would ever gather again, in the forgotten city of Atlantis, Cetus and the General of the sea folks’ army were having their morning meeting. But they weren’t discussing state affairs this time around.“It will be the ceremony of the millennium; it has to be after all this time, right? Oh, and do not think for a moment that I will forgive what you did General!” Cetus’s voice was loud, the waves carried i
“I thought I wouldn’t be here for this,” Hylas said while he was looking out of the window of his room, his tone was grave.Arethusa came closer and stood by next to him, “I will get you what you need, it is on the way, have some more patience,”Hylas scuffed.“Patience, you say?”Hylas was walking and talking patience nowadays. All he did was be patient. He had no other emotion to feel, and he had no other emotion to show.“But is this not a glorious sight to see?” Arethusa could not keep her own feeling in check. This was a day that she had waited long mortal years for, she could not help but feel that one huge sin was being lifted off of her human form’s shoulders.She had too many sins to go around, but this sin was probably the worst of them all.“They should never have left in the first place,” Hylas said.“You cannot undo the past, young one, now rejoice for the future is a brighter one because of their return to where they had always belonged,”Arethusa’s hand twitched to pat
Deep in the night hours, where no soul was still awake after a day like this. The president of New Island, the man of the hour and the hero of the day, walked inside his colosseum.“Did you manage to find a certain location for the enchanted object?” Hylas said.Arethusa was taken aback. She was following him in her spirit form, she had revoked the permission for his eyes to see her and he should not be able to.“How did you know I was next to you,” Arethusa spoke to him, not permitting him still.Things were getting very dangerous right now. Hylas made a mistake. He was able to tell that she was next to him the minute she started following him. He didn’t see her. But he felt her.“How the fuc* should I know? It must be the bond I have with your daughter, there must be something connecting you and me as well,” Hylas said dismissively.“How rude,” her voice echoed all around him.But he knew better, he knew exactly all about the fact that he was able to know she was there, Arethusa had
Inside the colosseum that Arethusa had constructed and gifted to her pair a thousand years ago, and right in the presidential office where Arethusa had spent nights and days with the founding father, Amalthea's mother and the current president of New Island had finally located the enchanted object that continued to distort the history of the Women’s revolution.‘Did it have to be the fuc*ing mirror,’ Hylas thought to himself.“So now we know,” Arethusa choked the words out.“Why are you this bothered by it?” He eyed Arethusa suspiciously. She just shook her head.He couldn’t believe it.“Are you still keeping secrets from me after everything you just told me?!” Hylas exclaimed.“It is not a secret... it is just something painful for me to talk about, young one,”He scuffed at that.“What could be painful about a mirror for you?... Unless…”Hylas remembered what his uncle, the former president, had told him about this particular mirror. It was true that the object was used by each and
The fire essence’s words hurt Arethusa, but she could not have refuted them.Could her love for her daughter be a selfish one?Was she as Amalthea’s mother not allowed to love her selfishly?But it was not the case.“Your excellency, your love for my daughter has been nothing but generous. You have loved her from afar, very much like I have done for my own pair after the short mortal year we spent together…” she trailed off, looking inside two red eyes.“I do not appreciate the comparison,” the fire essence said dismissively, the queen of the nymphs had not responded to his question yet.“It is true, for your love for her is the love of an immortal, a powerful being such as yourself, you had the opportunity to stand by her side, to help her when she needed you, to pick her up when she fell,…”Thud!Hylas picked up a chair and threw it over to the wall. The two immortals were distracted by his burst of anger for a second before they went back to ignoring him.The president did not want
“You ask for the impossible. I cannot be separated from you,” Nereus’s voice was grave. And he was lying bluntly. Amalthea felt him through and through within her core, she knew that he understood. It was just too difficult to let go of the dreams he had for their eternity. “It is what it is, Nereus. I did not choose the shape I was born into.” She was being hard on him because that was what he needed to hear from her right now. He wanted to feel differently about things, but he was filled with an immeasurable amount of acceptance of the fact that she has chosen not to stay in Atlantis with him. He looked at her for a long moment, “ Is this your doing?” She smiled knowingly at him. “Oh? What are you talking about?” Nereus sighed for long. Amalthea had become more than immortal, her physical shape testifies to that as well, and the fact that she was keeping it on her meant that she wanted everyone to respect the upgraded level that she had reached. How could he possibly stand aga
The underground which used to be a place of darkness and inward illumination made a complete transformation. It was not only about the sun that shone in the mornings and then mimicked the soft glow of the moon at night. It was the overflowing energy that came from the mansion of the fire essence where two immortal children were manifesting more extraordinary power with each passing mortal hour, nor their powerful mother that never left their side, it was the change that the fire king exhibited.His energy that was linked with every fire dependent creature within the fire realm was changing qualities, what used to be harsh and dry was now mellow, almost having a liquid quality to its flow.Every fire dependent creature within the fire realm knew that the king’s essence found the peace that he longed for since the beginning of time. And that peace was not only related to the female that his close and loyal subjects knew he had always cared for and loved. But also because of the newly fo
Phosphorus and Hesperus had been sleeping for four days.It was not natural for immortal children to sleep that extra mortal day.Amalthea and Arethusa stood anxiously by the crib of the immortal children. Both babies looked the size of a one-year-old human baby. Apart from the striking opposite hair color the babies had, their features were almost the same.“Beautiful,” Amalthea said as she brushed Phosphorus’s white hair away from his forehead. Then she brushed the back of her hand over Hesperus’s black hair.“Of course they are, they look exactly like you, darling,” Arethusa whispered.“But mother, why do they insist on sleeping for so long?” Amalthea asked her mother, starting to get more anxious by the mortal second now.“Worry not, my dear. Listen to your inner nymph, Amalthea. Do you not feel their overwhelming energy? How magnificently strong they both are? Can you not feel their potential and the amazing possibilities that pave their immortal way?” Arethusa could not get enou
The immortal females sat in Amalthea’s chambers for the longest time that day.“Maybe we have thought about it too much that no ideas will come anymore,” Arethusa complained.It was an impossible criterion to abide by. Two adjectives that were the opposite of each other, yet they completed one another and they were both good!‘Honestly, she is asking for a bit too much if not asking for the impossible altogether!’ Arethusa thought to herself when she saw the stubborn look on her daughter’s face.‘She was always extremely persistent,’ Arethusa admired her daughter on the inside.Amalthea was always like this, in fact, it was the first characteristic that she exhibited during her month of maturity, when she wanted to do something, she followed through with it. Unlike the immortal children that knew by instinct that when you get to live an eternity, what did not happen now was bound to happen at a later date. “You were always unique, my darling,” Arethusa caressed her daughter’s long bl
“Mother,”“Amalthea, my precious!”Arethusa ran with sacred tears coming down from her eyes at the sight and the voice of her daughter. She held her as tight as she could.“I am so sorry for coming so late I wanted to go down immediately, and I kept waiting for a fire medium to come but they never did,” she threw a subtle accusation at the fire king.‘Some things never change’ Amalthea thought to herself as she looked at her mother’s anxious face. She knew that her mother loved her dearly, she most likely cherished her over everything else in the entire universe, but had her mother thought for a couple of seconds, or even paused to consider how Amalthea’s voice made a come back. She would have known that it was all due to the fire essence curing her.Her mother’s face finally registered her daughter's quiet complaints.“How… was he… did he manage to cure you?” She asked.When Arethusa heard her daughter’s voice that she lost the day before after immortal childbirth, she had high hopes
A Thousand years later.A pair later…A path partner later…Amalthea and Hephaestus were finally going to be together. She was already shivering, she wasn’t in his room yet and the long since suppressed tension between them was making a manifestation.She remembered clearly what had been discussed between them, she knew very well what he was about to do to her, and she knew very well why.This was about giving her her voice back, but would they succeed?Amalthea followed the fire king into his chambers. It wasn’t her first time in the room but she saw it with brand new eyes. The light that illuminated everything from within was dim, the bed that they were about to share was wide, and him…He was glowing blue. She stood there, mesmerized by his beauty all over again.“…” she was desperate to tell him that he was so beautiful.Amalthea knew that it was not the correct way to compliment a male but she simply could not help it, the honest words that never left her tongue were lost with he
Deep down in the underground, the fire essence ruled a realm that was considered the core of the earth. The immortal being was one of the first creations, which made him impossibly resourceful.The fire carried healing qualities as is, it disinfected, closed wounds, and it replaced abnormalities with scars of its own.Could the fire essence really heal Amalthea? And with the balance that the universe cherished and operated according to. What would be the exchange for that?To answer that question, the fire king needed to figure out what brought about the absence of her voice.“It is time for us to go back down, Amalthea,”“I will be going down with you, just until she settles down,” Arethusa gave the fire king a meaningful look. The fire essence looked at his queen. He was going to follow her lead on that one. If she did not want the presence of her mother with her underground, then he was not going to allow it.Amalthea simply nodded with her approval.Everyone was starting to notice
At first, no one understood what was happening.The immortal babies were so adorable with their round faces, red pouty lips, and their skin that was fair and soft to the touch. Everyone was absolutely enchanted by them. They took turns holding them and marveling at their beauty and innocence, they felt the warmth of their pure white energy and consequently vowed to protect them for all eternities. It was much deeper than anything the crowd had felt before. The type of loyalty that was demanded by these babies without them asking for it. It was surreal.Everyone who touched them felt exactly how precious they were. A blessing, a gift.Yesterday enemies stood unaware of each other, totally focused on the new arrivals. The immortals viewed them as nature’s miracle and the mortals viewed them as fate’s most glorious smiles.These children had brought a new era to the immortal and the mortal world alike.Hylas was a bit confused.He kept wondering about two things. How come he didn’t rec
Amalthea emerged from the sea in a fire sphere. Her father and her path partner were carried by waves on either of her sides. The second the fire sphere touched the air, Amalthea’s wind surrounded her from all sides.Amalthea smiled, “I missed you too,” she said.“What a peculiar fellow,” the fire essence said.Amalthea knew what the fire king was talking about. She just did not agree with how immortals viewed her relationship with her air medium. It was true that she had never laid eyes on him, but that was just one of his charms. He had been loyal to her since the day she was born into this world, and she would not have it any other way.Once the wind from around them calmed down. Amalthea focused on the view that was in front of her. The Island was in one word, unrecognizable.The place that smelled of death and gave ominous vibes was thriving with the light that covered it from all around. But the source of the light was from within the island. There was a sense of undeniable harm