Prologue: The Birth and History
Hi, my name is Ariya Element. To tell you my story, I need to start at the beginning. Originally, elementals lived away from humans, and other creatures, because of our powers. We started to be hunted and put in prisons because it is very hard to kill an elemental. When I was born, it was back when everyone believed in the Greek and Roman gods.
My mother was half elemental and half god. Her Father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Do to my mother being half god, she had the ability to control the weather; lightning bolts, and any type of storm, water, and the wing like her mother. Her mother was the strongest wind elemental user there was at the time. My mother was named Helena, she was the first elemental to be able to control the weather without the aid of another elemental.
She knew who her father was, but she only met him once when she was older. By then she had met my father Perseus. He was very taken by her, but he was considered to be a dark elemental. He was able to control fire as his natural element, but he had figured out how to take another elementals abilities making them human. At the time that was unheard of unless another elemental gifted you their abilities because they wanted a human life, but to steal their abilities. By the time the two of them met he was able to control fire, earth, the darkness, and some abilities he had were not originally the abilities of an elemental. He learned how to see into the past and the furture. He was perplixed when he would try to see into hers, there was something about Helena that made him unable to look at her past and into her furture.
Perseus would later learn how to burn an animals life force into the life force of an elemental, giving them the strengths of those animals. He started to experiment with his blood trying to become even more powerful. His experiments started to become more and more grewsome. He started to experiment on others not just himself. A lot of elementals went crazy do to the experiments. He started to infuse his blood wiht animal blood, to see if it would give him the ability to shapeshift into that animal.
He didnt want to be like a werewolf or lycan bound to shift at the full moon; what he didn't know was that they could shift when they wanted to but still always had to shift on the full moon. He didn't want to be like a vampire doomed to live in the night never seeingthe sun again. Perseus would figure out centuries later, how to create a elemental that was also a shapeshifter. He would use rouge werewolfs to do his biding, he would befriend vampires. Perseus had been with other elementals having children with them, jest so that he could experiment on the babies and mother to see if he could create a new elemental from birth. When he had met Helena; he ahd a son form his first wife Calypso another fire elemental. Their son being a very strong fire elemental they named Pyrite. He also had a set of twin boy's form his second wife Iris. Iris was a very rare elemental that could control light waves.
By the time he met Iris, he had control of dark waves or shadows. the two boys were named Darkness and Lightess. As their name say you could guess what they controled. One was like his mom only controling light waves. The other only controling shadows. Iris, like Calypso left him wanting nothing to d with his experiments. But Iris took lightess with her. He was left with Pyrite and Darkness.
When Perseus courted my mother, I had three older sibilings. They say that he really loved her; that thier love story was something that you would read in books. Sadly, I never got to ask her if it was true. That she fell head over heels for him. My brothers accepted her as a mother figure. They married after three months of courtship. She was pregnant with us by the fourth month. Soon after she told him, Perseus told herthat they could never have triplets. She asked why and all he told her was "They will be my down fall." She knew then that she would have to hide two heartbeats somehow during the pregnancy. She used a glamor to make it appear like there was only one heartbeat with hers. It worked for awhile until he started the exiperments trying to make the one baby stronger. Which he did, I ended up being the one who got the most from the blood and abilities he would pour into cuts that were small but deep enough to reach the womb.
The blood never affected Helena. It did effect Ry the least letting him talk to animals. Then Arya it gave her the ability to create rain storms because of her elemental ability being water. I was the one most effected, we just never knew how much until later. I was able to use my ablities way before my siblings. Elementals started to generally use their abilities at the age of five. I started using mine ten minutes after I was born. The one thing that we did realize was that I was able to hide my siblings during the exiperments and protect them from the exiperments. A week before we were born she went to talk to her father Zeus. Together they came up with the plan to have the three of us teleport to Mount. Olympus after birth and that we would be riased by the gods. So they setup a link for the teleportation.
My mother knew she was going to die. She made sure that she would go out the way she needed to. she know that during our birht that she couldn't hide us anymore. We were born on the 23rd of October, as our mother went into labor my grandmother was there helping her with the delivery. Perseus burst into the room now that he could hear more then two hearbeats. My grandmother made the wind act as a sheild so that he couldn't get to us.
I was born first, two minutes before Arya and five minutes before Ry. As my grandmother was delivering Ry, her wind shield failed. Somehow I was able to put a sheild made of lightning around my grandmother and us. My mother wouldn't let me put it over her. Perseus went after my mother. He watched as Ry was delivered growling the whole time. He watched as we vanished leaving him with my grandmother and mother Helena. He started to choke her as she was giving my grandmother her abilities to transfer to her three babies to make them have more of a fighting chance. As she finished my father yelled in anger, "Why would you want to see the end of me? Why not stay with me forever?" She replied with her remaining strength, "Because you are out of control, exiperments on your own newborn babies."
My grandmother stood up to see her daughter dying. She hit him with a strong rush of wind knocking him into the wall. Then grabbed my mother, she teleported them to Sicily an little island off the coast of Greece. She held her as she was passing away; Zeus appeared to his daughter one last time with tears in his eyes, he told her " Your children will always have a place and home here amoung the gods. They are here and they are safe." She got to see as one last time being held by our family. Artimis holding me, Posiden holding Arya, and Hera holding Ry. With that she took her last breath as Hades appeared he took her soul to her final resting place the Elysian Fields. With a wave of his hand a tombstone of rock appeared above her head. My grandmother held her daugther and whept her loss. Hades appeared again, "I'm going to take her body to the underwold so that it will never decay. That way, you may still see her and one day her babies can see what she looked like." He picked her up as my grandmother teleported to Mount Olympus to give her grandchildren their mothers powers. Hades heard softly on the wind a "Thank you for taking care of my daughter." He simply replied "I would do anything to take care of my niece, or my family."
Our grandmother appeared and gave us our mothers powers, I was givin my mothers storms and lightning abilities, Arya, her ability to control rain storms increased and Ry was givin my mothers wind abilites. My grandmother also have Arya and Ry her abilites. Making Ry a very strong wind elemental. When she was giving some to Arya it changed and Arya got the ability to control nature. Then she left for a human life, because her heart was broken from what her had to exiperence. The gods decided that the three of us staying on Mount Olympus would create a target. Posiden took Arya to live with him and to teach her more about her abilites. Zeus and Hera took me to help me with my abilities but when Persephone would be with Hades they would have my go stay with Hades in the Underworld. Demeter took care of Ry raising him, but when I was down in the Underworld he would be with Zeus and Hera. Artemis would also take care of my while I was with Hera and Zeus. Apllo would also take care of Ry while he was with Hera and Zeus. But they would always make sure that we would get to see each other and we knew about each other. Until our 18th birthday, when I started showing other powers. I didn't know what my father did to us in our mother's womb, but I started to show the ability to control more than just lightning, any type of storm; I was able to control. The lightning blots that I controlled muplited; changed colors, and became stronger.
I was then sent to fight mythical creatures. No one knows how bad of an idea that would be. I started going to towns and looking for jobs that people would need help with. Also, to talk to people and get any information on mythical creatures that could be near by. It always gave me time to think about everything that had happened to that point.
So how was I able to use my powers when I was less than ten minute old... Most aren't able to use their powers until they are 3-5 years of age. I have always had access to my powers and my siblings didn't get theirs until 3. What experiments did our father do on our mother while she was pregnant? He wanted to have kids, but why never more than one at a time? Do we have more family than just us three? Why did I teleport us to the Gods on Olphymus? Well, if I'm going to get answers, there are a couple people I need to start with... The Fates. Guess I should go find Hades and Zeus so that they can come with me.
I look at the family I am currently helping. But do I just finish helping or disappear from these people? I went back to taking care of the wheat that needed to be cut on the farm that they had. But as I looked down, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. How is that possible? It's daytime. Werewolves shouldn't be able to shift right now. "I need all of you to go inside, lock the door and shut all of the windows. NOW" I said to the family, my eyes never leaving the creature.
Just as they shut the door, I removed my glamour, to show my armor and weapons that I was carrying. I guess that conversation with The Fates is going to have to wait for a bit. I started to walk towards the forest as I pulled my sword and formed a lightning blot in my other hand.