Blessed

Daddy issues

"Selene, I couldn't feel your presence in this realm for some time now. Where were you?" he said sounding demanding. I didn't have enough of mental capacity to listen to him barking over the phone so I gritted my teeth which caused a new pain in my head.

"Nice to hear from you, father. I missed you too, how are you?" After two thousand years of existing in this constant turmoil caused by my family I couldn't ignore the fact that in the middle of all that chaos was him. His actions caused all this s**t storm, my mothers death, all the pain I endured, grandfathers imprisonment, everything. So, I allowed myself once in a while to push his buttons by being sarcastic and downright unpleasant.

"I see you visited your mother," he said coldly. "You don't have to hide mirror fountain in another dimension. I won't take it away."

He was the one who gave me the fountain to communicate with mom but once he found out I was trying to free her, he tried to take it away. I had to move it to a location that only I knew and that is one of my most protected secrets.

"How is Hera?" he asked, but I could hear from his tone that he didn't really care. It made me furious. I could feel the floor underneath my feet starting to vibrate. "Is she still a vengeful pain in the ass?" Zeus provoked further.

Although my eyes were hot white now I could see that sunshine was unnaturally quickly exchanged for a stormy sky and wind was going wild. I could hear the sounds of frightened birds trying to find a shelter from the sudden storm. Lightnings pierced the sky, the waves furiously crashed the shore. The cries of unsuspecting humas could be heard as the wind and the sand whipped them.

"Still an uncontrolled child, I see. After all these years of me trying to teach you..." he pushed and I could feel losing it. Part of me was fighting to regain control but I could tell it was a loosing game.

The trees started to crack being uprooted from the ground by the sheer power of my fury. "What a waste of time..." Zeus sneered. That did it.

I could see the palm trees flying in front of my window. My subconscious was trying to calm down the terrible power surge but I was too far gone. Everything around me was levitating and I could feel my feet getting up from the floor. I screamed and the windows desintegrated. Glass shards and other debris flew around me like a shield and I moved through the window. The lightning was dancing on my right and I quickly grabbed it. It felt warm and alive in my hands. I noticed my skin was dark red with silver vines going in irregular paterns.

"FATHER!" I screamed and looked to the gray skies. The rain was pouring, it was the middle of morning but it was dark outside. I didn't care that humans could see me, I didn't care I could hurt innocents. I was levitating in the middle of a shore. All the pain that I felt that morning when I saw my mother and had to tell her that I can't help her, that I have to leave her in a place where she feels no sensation besides pain and fear and infinite longing, came to the surface. I felt another scream building in my chest and I let it out. The ground and air shakes in synchrony with my pain and fury. It was then I noticed that I smashed my phone in my fist so I used telepathy. "YOU WILL NOT SPEAK ABOUT MY MOTHER YOU SELFISH PIECE OF..." I couldn't finish my sentence as I heard his angry roar inside my head and also near me.

His tall blonde figure was looming several hundred meters in front of me. Zeus had muscular body, shaped like the model of male supremacy. Every muscle was defined. His face was beautiful, with piercing green eyes and thin lips half hidden in blonde beard. He exuded the aura of power that was intimidating to all. His stance was ready for battle and my bloodlust was maddening. I could hear a tiny voice in the back of my mind begging me to stop but I didn't care. In this form i didn't have any mercy or humanity.

Summoning more of my power I moved towards him using my super speed and attacked swinging the lightning in my hand. Zeus countered with his bare hand blocking and I could see his skin cracking and blue blood starting to trickle down his forearm. I stretched my lips in a sinister smile, "Getting old, dear father?" I asked smelling his blood. The need to destroy him was overpowering me and I swung again. Zeus dodges and catches a lightning for himself. "Not at all, little girl. I can see you need to be teached to respect your ruler and father.", he says but I can see a flash of insecurity in his green eyes.

"I changed, daddy. I'm much stronger now and I have no ruler. Bet you can feel it. I can smell your blood and I wanna taste it." I said feeling my elongated canines with my tongue.

"Disgusting," Zeus says grabbing his wounded arm to seal it shut and I decide to use that opportunity to strike again. He dodges to the left but I'm ready and I kick him hard. He grabs my leg and sends current through my body that leaves me disoriented for few seconds. He uses the time to teleport away from me. Getting back my senses I bring the lightning I was holding to my lips and whisper to it "Seek." and I throw it as hard as I can. I stand still for a moment listening and soon I can hear a painful roar in my mind and Zeus's words "Damn you, Selene, you spiteful cursed child!"

The pain in his voice soothes the monster I've become and I can feel my subconscious self trying to take control. I look at my hands, red skin looking raw and notice the silver swirls starting to fade. Another second more and the storm I created starts to subside but the storm in my heart continues to rage. I feel exhausted, not physically but mentally as I can remember the look of disgust and fear my father wore in my presence. The rain doesn't stop as the weather can mirror my emotions and I plop from the air to a wet sand. I kneel on the ground and look up allowing the rain to wash away my pain and loneliness. But it can't. Nothing can.

I'm forever the cursed child that nobody wants to deal with. Gods and humans fear me. The ones that don't fear me - hate me. I just want someone to care for me, to not use me or try to kill me or both. Is that so much to ask?

My vision starts to blur as tears start coming and all I can do is sit there, cry and pray that something or someone finally kills me so all this can come to an end.

Blinking my tears away I look at myself. I have no wounds but my pretty pink dress i torn to shreds, covering just enough of my body to not be naked. As I inspect the damage done to my outfit in my little temper tantrum I feel someones power teleporting me. Oh no.

"Hi, uncle Hades." I say as i find myself standing in the middle of his throne room.

"Selene, what did I tell you about selfcontrol?" he asks clearly not impressed with my actions from before.

He's the only family that doesn't quiver in fear in front of me and I'm pretty sure he doesn't hate me. My mother and him weren't close despite they're family but they had one strong connection. They hate my father with a passion that made them allies. My life story is the ultimate greek tragedy.

When I was growing up and had to endure my share od Zeus's 'fatherly love and care' while he was training me to use my powers and not go insane because of them, uncle Hades was my only friend. He came to talk with me, bring me balms for my injury's and I started to view him as a father figure I desperately needed. That was until he tried to use me to destroy the world by freeing my mother.

Hades sits on his throne in a relaxed manner, his dark robe slightly open at his muscular chest. His hair is raven black and it falls on his shoulders. His eyes are icy blue shade and he glares at me. He slowly gets up from his throne and comes to me because I was not budging and towers above me. Although he's over 6 ft tall I'm not afraid. Nothing scares me.

All the gods are blessed with unnatural beauty and are tall but not me. I'm barely 5 ft and 4 inches, thin but curvy in the right places. I have my fathers blonde hair and would have my mother's green eyes but...

As I look up in his eyes I notice his dark undereyes and his tangled hair. It looks like he went through it with his hands far too many times.

"Did I make you nervouse, uncle?" I asked and then it hit me. He knew about my little outburst because he was the ruler of the underworld. How many lives did I take with my actions? Guilt caused heavy sickness in my stomach and I placed my arms around me. Oh gods, no! What did I do? How could I let this happen? If he teleported me to his domain then he must have been swamped with the souls of the dead I sent his way. There was no way I can fix this. The only power I don't have is to bring the dead back to life. Ashamed and sick to my stomach I ask through clenched teeth "How many did I kill?".

Hades looks at me with a annoyance and says "You didn't kill anyone, Selene. All the ones who came today died naturally or by other's actions. What you did was cause an earthquake in my domain and several vulcano eruptions." he said annoyed by my show of guilty conscience and added "No casualties, only minor injuries and lost limbs." Hades laughed when he saw my pale and somber face and said "I'm kidding! Jeez, relax!"

Not impressed with his humor I asked "Why do you look so stressed? I thought I killed enough humans to overload hell and that's the reason you look so disheveled."

"You did worse."

"What?!"

"You hurt your precious father with your sneak attack."

"And why are you concerned? You want him dead not just injured," I said feeling a little pleasure I gave Zeus pain.

"Because my wife had to go to care for her wounded father and left me," he says spitting the word father with a disgusted look on his face.

Hades was not the pleasant uncle I once hoped he would be, he was cruel, manipulative, sadistic, vengeful and evil. But he loved my cousin Persephone with a passion that always left me feeling a little jealous. I knew he would give everything for her including his life. And I knew that her going to Zeus to tend to his wounds made him crazy. Gods are pretty protective and selfish when it comes to anything including love. But Hades had another problem. He could be with Persephone only 6 months every year and she had to spend remaining 6 months with Zeus and Demeter, her mother. That is another lovely arrangement my father made. Persephone hated it, Hades hated it so it made Zeus happy. Because of that, uncle Hades really hated it when she left him when it was his turn to spend time with her.

"What was that all about, kiddo?" he asked.

"He made me angry, insulted my mother." I explained what went down in details. His face held an expression between amusement and annoyance but said "You are the only person alive that cannot blow of steam the way you did just now."

"I know, ok, but today I went to see mom and I haven't been sleeping well, her consciousness added to my own nightmares... It just got too much. And he kept pushing with his cruel words and smug looks..." I explained hating myself for the lack of control I demonstrated.

"It's not an excuse but hey, who am I to say. If you really mean it, the two of us can quickly go grab Cronos, free Hera and then beat Zeus to a bloody pulp. I'm game if you are!" he said in a joking manner but I knew him well enough to know he was dead serious.

"Anyway, kudos to Epialés. I thought he wouldn't dare to send dark Oneroi to attack your dreams after the last beating you gave him." he said sardonically.

"I don't think this is dark Oneroi work. This was me. Maybe it is some kind of premonition, I don't know... All i know is that it's messing with my head." I said rubbing my temples.

This piqued his interest and he mustered a semblance of a smile to his lips as he said "Well, why don't you tell me all about it?"