One thing was for sure, Amalthea's pair was incredibly smart. After the two nymphs and the heiress received Hylas's counteroffer, Amalthea asked herself one question.'Do I trust him?'The answer to her question was easy, the answer to her question was hard.'No, I do not'The nymph that he had in his arms during their first embrace, the one that bared her neck fully for him and wished their fall from the sky to last an eternity, that nymph was no more. While the significance of a nymph baring her neck to someone had nothing to do with survival, it had everything to do with the power of will, and surrender.It all came down to one thing and one thing alone. The nymph's sacred blood when they were in their human forms. To taste a nymph's blood was to have an ultimate power to order her, it was a lot like knowing a medium's name.Amalthea had longed since wondered what caused nature to come up with such a defect. Why would there be an option for creatures to rule over one another like t
Amalthea, was back in her human form, visible in front of her pair's satisfied eyes that she felt fixed on her all the way from his office. Anna and Meliae were invisibly kneeling in front of her. They spoke through the mental link once more.'What hurt you so much in that dreadful room Amal?''It was something from before your time, Meli.''Why do you not talk to me about it, why do you keep it bottled up inside until it applies that much pressure on you?''I do not do it intentionally. Now listen to me carefully, both of you.''Yes, heiress', 'Yes, Amal''My pair is my beloved, the master of my spirit, I belong to him as he belongs to me, but that is that. The nymphs, women island, our queen, and the rest of you. I will not watch as a single one of you gets hurt.''Amal…''No Meli, let me finish first. My pair is our political enemy, but he is not a hopeless case, not before I have the chance to change his heart, I will change him, for sure.'It was Anna who interjected this time.'
"Come in."Alexander had been standing outside of the presidential office for some time now, he was starting to get worried about his cousin with everything, or everyone, that was happening on Men's Island. But Hylas's voice sounded very calm.'Too calm'"Alex, where's Adrian?""He's waiting outside following your summoning orders.""Ask him to untie the rebel, ask them to come in together.""...You know yesterday, she did not need anyone to untie her, or anything.""She thought I would not see her, otherwise she would not have left her cross alone.""But why does it matter? As long as she can undo anything we put on her, why tie her in the first place.""It is not her body that I tie, counselor, it is her mind."Alexander unintentionally reminded the president of a promise he had made to himself."Alex, talk to Ajax, the miner, and ask him to install a cross for me. I want it in my castle by the end of today.""A cross? A cross, alright."Alexander took a glance from the window to th
What Amalthea had not planned in advance for was the reaction of Anna towards her father, the nymph's inner energy shook from deep within, it was a reflection of her father's own grief. The older man's tears started falling, heavy and cold, when his hand extended in the slightest reaching out to her, Anna ran over to him, throwing herself in his arms. He held her tightly but tenderly, and she pressed her cheek on his, they were exactly the same height, and everyone present as witnesses found a resemblance between the father and daughter once they were up that close. Hylas's voice came deep and dangerous."If this is not tr…"Amalthea's fingertips were pressed tenderly on his lips before he was able to continue, her head shook twice, and her voice was an octave over a whisper."Words would cut deeper than what hands can mend right now, my one beloved, this private moment belongs not to us, let us honor them with our silence."The president was conflicted, he was not used to taking orde
Hylas felt rather than saw his nymph's pain inside the pit of his stomach. She felt sorry for the male that had just disappeared."ALEX! TAKE ADRIAN AND HIS DAUGHTER OUTSIDE NOW!"While Alexander and Adrian complied without questions asked, Anna did not move until she locked eyes with her heiress and saw the approval in them, Amalthea felt her pair's need to be left alone with her, she felt how overwhelmed he was, and she felt his insecurities, she wished she could assure him while maintaining her dignity, without depleting her life-force that started wavering as it followed the direction the presidents' thoughts were taking him. He only talked to her once they were left alone in his office."How dare you hurt for another... after you shamelessly proposed to me, hm?"He closed the distance between them, his hand finding the roots of the hair over her neck again, he felt pure exhilaration at the feeling of her satin hair between his fingers, he twisted her black locks and pulled on her
Night came again over Men's Island, too many things had happened that day.Amalthea's heart was heavy after going back to the cross in the middle of the colosseum, she played back the look on the fire's face over and over again in her consciousness. She always dismissed the missing parts in her memory as to having lived for too long, memories of creatures - that live almost as long as immortals do - were bound to slip every now and then. Were they not?'Forgetting something like that is just unacceptable.'Never had she once learned the name of a medium she worked with, that was as true a fact as the sun rising and setting every day or the fact that she was in love with her pair the moment she laid eyes on him. So how could she have forgotten about something so rare that could only have happened once in her lifetimes.'No, someone did this to me.'It was time for her to admit that someone was intentionally blocking her memories from her, and there was one being that was powerful enoug
Hylas approached his witch in a hurry, time knew not how to move forward today, it was without room for comparison, the longest day of his entire life. The paperwork he had knew not how to end, his productivity was at its lowest low. He wondered how the early fathers got anything done with the anticipation of a woman's presence in their home. It must have been wonderful, coming back to her warmth, finding food on the table of a clean room, not worrying about the children growing up neglected, it must have been heaven to have the women in Men's Island.'I will get them back here soon.'His nymph was the key to all of that, but before he used his captured rebel to move forward with his perfect plan, he had to interrogate her and test the limits of her obedience.'At first, I wanted her to hate me, now I rely solely on her inexplainable twisted love.'There she was, right where he had left her the last he saw her from the window to his office, his new favorite view, and she was about to
Hylas pressed himself to the heiress, enjoying the feeling of her tender flesh and the warmth she presented him to no end.He couldn't help measuring her height with his again, she was so tall. Her forehead touched his nose when they were pressed together like that.The president put deliberate pressure on her body while he kept moving forward. She was obediently walking back to where the cross was, he knew she saw the metal thing already, and he knew she recognized what he wanted to do with her over there.Over the cross."Did you think I was going to let your little stunt in my office just go by? You do not know who you are dealing with just yet."As Hylas and Amalthea took the same step, one of them forward and one of them back, something engulfed them at the same time, it was as if they were already one, she held him and he held her back, they inhaled and exhaled at the exact same time, until it was just too much.Both of them had their eyes on the other's lips, they were about to
“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