I awoke from my deep slumber six hours past midnight. I rubbed my eyes and stared at the golden jewelry engraved and living black granite ceiling above my head for a few seconds. I stirred and felt the weight of anothers body on me and looked to my left, on my chest was spread out the long black hair of a blue skinned beautiful nymph that slept with her arms wrapped around my torso, Poseidon had sent her to my palace as messenger about one of his games taking place soon . I thought her blue skin and black sand hair quite exquisite and persuaded her to stay. I tapped her slightly on her shoulder to wake her up, she opened her eyes slowly and tilted her head to meet my golden gaze, a smile opened on her beautiful face “Good morning lord” she said “ I have to get up now “ I said “ “ Oh no my love “tightened her arms around my chest and closed her eyes the sun is not even up yet ” she said. I laughed loud “ exactly" . I never felt irritation from ofaking up at this hour but for the first one thousand years it can be quite repetitive. My bed room is a size greater than most palaces of human royalty, a high domed ceiling that draped blue sashes from the ceiling with stars on them, and the walls of my palace bedroom was solid black marble but engraved with golden designs, some designs tales of my stories that human tribes had told each other since the beginning of a civilization, other just random paintings I had drew. My bed cover was plush purple as well, a gift from one of the muses but I can’t remember which on, after the first seven it gets kind of hard remembering which is which . I gently pushed the barely awake nymph to the side , promised I would be back and got out of the bed with heavy footsteps that echoed in the rooms in hallways, I stretched my long arms one last time and teleported to my bathing pool. I could’ve just as easily skipped this portion of my daily routine and made myself magically clean but sometimes I feel that having limitless god powers takes the fun out of everything. My Bathing pool was a geyser on the edge of a mountain in the far eastern hemisphere where my golden palace was located, it was built into the edge of the mountain at point high enough that it overlooked the entire world, talk about bird’s eye view. Although the real estate wouldn’t have mattered, part of being a sun god was the power of all seeing eyes so most of what I saw from there could’ve seen from my bed room. As I bathed in the cool pool i wondered on what I was going to do for the day after work, Hephaestus had invited me to his forges for a race… I don’t know how that was going to function with somebody who lacks use of the main components you need to I thought with a smirk, Poseidon was holding a mini war game between his whales in his kingdom so that could serve as some excitement, but then there was that village in thebes that had prayed to him for there crops to grow again, t he offering they gave was actually pretty tasty so I figured I might pay them a visit and make their whole garden bountiful of fruit and vegetables, bless one of their sons with luck in war or something along the lines of that. As he spread out relaxed in the pool he opened his right hand a flask of mango juice appeared in his hand, he drunk it with great fevor and licked my lips at the taste. God Demeter is a wonder with her nectar and wines” I said to myself. And took another sip “ I wonder what does she taste like” , my mind reminiscing over her earth tone hair and her voluptuous figure, I hadn’t seen her since the whole kidnapping persophone thing that hades had done. I grimaced to myself in memory of the crops and plantations that a went dry and the tribes that starved of hunger because at the anger of the harvest goddess. After I bathed and lounged in my pool for a couple of minutes I stood up and disappeared and reappeared in chariot room, a solid gold cave like a room the size of a Olympic stadium with a roofless top and a entrance with giant solid doors. My chariot stood in the middle of the room with my assistant and steeds already there waiting for me. The golden light shining from it was enough to light up the whole arena like room and shined out the exiting shut in the roof. Attached to it by purple reins as thick as tree trunks were four gigantic red orange steeds with mains of curling and whipping flame. Right now they stood calmly waiting for my arrival, once they were aware that I was there they started nickering softly and clicking there hooves. I smiled at them, conjured a couple of apples like always and threw it at them to divide amongst themselves. As they ate the luscious apples greedily I walked up to the side of the chariot which remained so clear that I could see my reflection in it. “good morning my lord” my assistant said brightly with a sly smile on his feral face “ how was your nymph- I mean night ?” I laughed loud My assistant happened to be a son of hermes named Pan with a sense of wit that rivaled his father, that I was babysitting at the moment for a few years, he appeared to be a satyr, with the goat hooves for the lower half of his body and ivory horns on his head and all; he also possessed the budding powers of a God and was just now learning to control them. “It went by smoothly for me and her “I said with a wink “ she got to rise with sun In a way few have ever known” Pan grinned even more wide “ I doubt that my lord” and stepped into the chariot and closed the little door at the back of it. He ran his hands all over the golden material that formed the chariot, thinking about the day head of him” sooooo when will you to let me drive this thing by myself?” pan said eagerly” when you can radiate and manifest the light that lifts mortals out of there bed, gives life to there crops, and that makes the budding astronomers play with there toys” Helios responded. “ by radiant light you mean stomach flatulence I have plenty of that” pan said before laughing and walking to the exit of the arena back to his chambers. Helios smiled after him as he left, “I think out of all my assistants up until this point he is my favorite “ he said to horses, “what do you guys think?” his horses neighed an answer that he swore sounded like ” he smells of pine trees and forest nymphs”. Although Helios approved of his company he didn’t expect to have pan for much longer, even though he loved his company he was aware that pan was to become a mighty god of the wild life and forests, and being that it probably required him living in his own kingdom with the lush wildlife and not on a mountain palace at the edge of the world his company wouldn’t be ever present. “Alright my beauties! Let’s go “he yelled to the horses attached to his chariot, grabbed the black reins thst wrapped around there body an hung the chariot and cracked them hard the horses neighed hard and ran forward building speed they approached the other side of the doom shaped roofless stables. Helios strongly pulled the reins down to his hips and the horses pulled up sharply, riding into the air dragging the sun chariot along with them. As the bright chariot passed the ceiling, Helios saw with his all-seeing vision the eastern side of the world beginning to light up, he saw training camps with soldiers in there beds start to stir in their sleep, he saw cheating husbands and wives sneak from there hidden lovers homes at night on, he even saw the flowers seeming to reach from the ground to the sky with pedals like open palms hungry for the Suns touch Few hours later
The sun was setting or rather I was setting on the horizon as I approached the western side of the world, the heart of my chariot burning bright and wide, my light never dying like the ever blazing flames of hades below the earth. "alright my babies it’s time for the sun to go home and rest “ I said as the chariot finally lowered close to the water near a beautiful heart shaped isle. my steeds all neighed in response sadly , It never got old , my horses are the pure expression of what it means to be a horse, a free animal who roamed across the lands and sea in all their freedom and glory, never wanting the adventure to cease. After a few rides through world I would let them free and run through the plains of Olympus in search of other divine horse kind although things got kind of one time when there had crossed wit of then centaur of chiron ad tried to mount him. Talk about an embarrassing moment.." I’ll let you guys lead the chariot back home ” I said. I rarely did this sense they generally could not control the chariot without but I had trust in my animals and if anything could happen I would know it before they did “make sure your guys make it home safety" said with affection in my voice then jumped out of the chariot and descended unto the ocean landing in the sand of the island that was west of the coast of a the land where the people there worshiped gods in the form of eagles and jaguars that walked in between this world and the next. I spent a couple days around them in disguise as one of their people, good times good liquor, even better women. I stood on the beach , admiring once again all of the beauty that was around me and laid down on the golden sand, The clear breeze caressed my face with scent of freshwater from the ocean, the sounds of the clear waves on the shores tickled my ears. My giant golden cup of a boat was tied to the shore of the island that I use sometimes to sail back to my palace (don’t ask I have a thing about golden goblets) but at the moment now I just felt like relaxing for a while and forgetting about all if any worries that a God could possess and looked out on the water before me. I pretended for a moment like it wasn’t in my power to see even past all the oceans, lakes, rivers unto even a boy’s commemoration of manhood with a lovely maiden in Athens and marveled at the beautiful sight of waves before me. When the day turned unto dark and relied upon only moonlight to be the torch that lit the earth my sister Selene, bright and beautiful came to traverse the blue sky in her silver chariot. The radiance from her wheels smiled and cascaded upon the earth in light grey rays that played on the oceans waves. Amongst the sound of rolling waves and the soft breeze I heard a voice pure with nurturing whisper in my ear ”Hey big brother,” I smiled to myself and raised a long golden arm to the sky, from my palm flashed a golden light bright as a distance star in response . I felt it was time to leave, without another thought I disappeared, although rather stop back to my palace I’d stop by the home of a particularly beautiful mortal who had caught my eye as I was riding in earlier. I licked my lips at the anticipation of my next conquest, those large brown eyes, that long dark hair. Less than second later I was standing in a quaint little village, invisible to the mortal eye. Surrounding the village was a thick forest with vines curled around the trunks of thick oak trees, deer’s running thought fields wild and free. I walked through oak and maple trees, a strong contrast to the open palmed trees that I was sprawled under less than ten minutes ago until I got near the edge of a small waterfall carved into the rocky side of a large hill stream. The water cascaded down the side of the hill into a large oval shaped pool that my sisters light shimmered on the surface of at the feet of the fall; surrounded by wild grass and vine plants ripe with the grapes that Dionyus was famous for. There in this beautiful setting not too far from the edge of the earth she waited for me without knowing. I paused for a moment to marvel at the beauty of the woman, as she bathed slowly humming sweet tunes to herself, a wash rag in one hand a bottle of washing oils in the other. I walked up slowly to the edge of the pool that faced her side, once I got at least a few feet away from the pool I dropped my cloak and let my power and presence be felt. The true form of a god is much too strong for a mortal o see all at once, some had even burned in divine fire up in there process of witnessing a true god (aka Dionysus mother) so I am always sure to tone down a little bit. But even with my form hidden to certain extent the radiance of the suns till shined through and lit the whole area in a blaze of golden light, from a mortals eye it must have been a marvelous sight. The woman stopped bathing .and turned around slowly to see where the light had out of nowhere appeared. I don’t know what her first thought on what she would see when turned would be but doubtless from the look on her beautiful face as her bow shaped lips dropped open in shock that it wasn’t me. One mortal before who saw me in my lowered form described after the encounter as a gigantic beautiful man, whose body was bathed in sunlight and whose golden eyes pierced your soul with a feeling of warmth and content. She dropped the washing rag she and been holding bath with, she met my gaze briefly and then looked down to the water like a shy child on his first day of school. I smiled kindly" hello maiden what is your name?" "she stood dumbfounded for a few seconds before answering which I didn’t mind, after a while i was used to that type of reaction " Maritha ,' she said meekly," i extended my hand over the soft earth to her, opened to receive her hand and one , she extended here in re return " it’s a pleasure to meet Maritha" and griped it slightly,. 'who, who are you she asked shyly?" I pulled her arm not hard but firmly out of the water on to the ground in my embrace not minding that her body was still dripping wet. I wrapped my arms around her waist and with a grin replied" I am Helios the Sun God.....
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