My Mate is a Traitor

1. The unexpected choice

The Hall of Glory in the Crystal Palace of Nivalis

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Today was the day. The day when one of us the fate Goddesses would be chosen to go to Earth.

Every God and Goddess were gathered here today in the Hall of Glory in the Crystal Palace just to see which of us would be the one that could go back to our previous home. And of course there was another reason why they were there. Each time there was a huge party after the announcement and today this party was made by our mother. There was no one who would miss the opportunity to be at the great farewell party made by Goddess of the Darkness Nyx herself.

The Gods and Goddesses would never disrespect my mother with not showing in, because everyone knew how dangerous and unpredictable Nyx could be when she got angry.

Last time when she got angry the minor Goddess of violence Bia was trapped for almost hundred years in the everlasting cold dungeon and watched by my mother’s loving pet Python. It was a huge serpent monster that my mother saved from the Earth and raised alone down in dungeon. I never saw this monster but I heard that it’s teeths are highly poisoned even for Gods. So even when the God would be bitten, he would suffer till the end in huge pain. I heard that exactly that was what happened to Bia. She was bitten by Python and suffered in great pain again and again almost hundred years just because she dared to come late on the last party made by Nyx.

No one was sure if the story was right but the fact was that when Bia came again she changed and she never spoke what happened to her. Therefore everyone believed that the story was truth and they were scared of our mother.

Oh and there was another reason why everyone came today. It was really simple, everyone wanted to have a fun. Such parties were only entertainment in this cold planet. At least everyone thought so.

Honestly, I never understood why almost no one saw how beautiful this new world actually was.

We called this planet Nivalis which meant snowy planet because the whole planet was covered by everlasting ice and snow. This place was wild and cold but also beautiful and breathtaking. I was happy to call this land our home because I loved every piece of this beautiful planet from the first sight. But there weren’t many that had the same thoughts as me. On the other hand most of the Gods thought that this place was terrible and they hated it. They even thought that it was our punishment to be there. They hated this new world and they wanted to go badly back to Earth. I knew that some Gods were even jealous that one of us was chosen every thousand years to go back to Earth, because they didn’t have such opportunity as we. But they never understood that it wasn’t opportunity to us. More than opportunity it was like a nightmare that each of us hated more than anything. And the most terrible was that we didn’t have a choice to refuse because we were the Fate Goddesses and it was one of our responsibility to go to Earth to be a mere human and to learn more about them.

I hated to go back. Earth was never my home and I never liked that place and now the Earth was even full of various creatures that my parents created.

I sighed knowing that this time it would be even harder to stay there.

As I said I never liked Earth but now knowing that I would surely met vampires I wanted to vomit.

Suddenly I felt someone’s hand touching my shoulder. I took a deep breath and her scent hit me. It was my oldest sister Clotho.

She looked at me and I felt suddenly way better.

Even without mind reading I knew that her intention was to show me that no matter what she would be always with me.

It was perfect to know that I had such perfect sisters that would always stay behind me. It calmed me and I raised my head prepared for my destiny because this time it should be my turn to be chosen.

I was the one that would be surely chosen this time because we were always rotating and my sisters were both already there. The last time was Clotho’s turn and thousand years before it was Atropos that was down there. More or less everyone knew that this announcement would be just a formality.

I looked around because I was searching for my lover. I told her that after the announcement I would spend the night with her. Her name was Thaleia, one of the Charites, known as Goddess of good cheer, joy and mirth. She was my new lover and I somehow liked to be with her because she wanted nothing from me and the other reason was that her mind was too simple. So when I saw her on the other side of the hall I smiled at her showing her that I didn’t forget my promise.

Seeing that I looked at her she smiled happily and lovingly back and my heart skipped a beat. When I saw how lovingly she looked at me, I knew that it was time. Time to break another heart. It was time again to end another of my relationships but there wasn’t a space for love in my life. As the one of the Fate Goddesses I couldn’t never fall in love with somebody. This was one of the rules that me and my sisters should follow. So each time when I found out that my lover was falling in love with me I better ended our relationship before I would made a mistake and I would fall in love too.

I was changing the lovers too often but I was always honest to each of my lovers from the beginning. Before even the relationship even started I explained that I want just to have a fun and that it would be never serious. I explained that I would never fall in love and as soon as I found out that they started to fall in love with me I would end our relationship. I always asked each of them if they are okay with it and when they agreed we became lovers. So each of my lovers knew exactly my condition yet soon everyone started to call me unfaithful b…tch.

Knowing that this time it would be the same my heart got heavy. I didn’t want to hurt anyone but on the same time I didn’t want to be alone because I loved s*x too much to be alone. But maybe after today I should stay better some time alone.

I suddenly smirked because I knew that this was just my wish. I would never stay alone longer than few hours even when I wanted to be. Everyone knew how amazing lover I was so even when they knew how bad my reputation was everyone wanted to be with me. So there was no chance that my bed was empty for more than couple of hours.

I looked around once again because I was wondering who would end in my bed this time. I wasn’t too picky. For me it wasn’t important if it was God or Goddess or if they had some skills or not. I was alone skillful enough in bed so the only preference that I had was that it should be someone simple minded.

I was thinking who would be the best candidate when my thoughts were interrupted by Hermes the God of Travel. He was not only the the God of Travel but he was also the God’s messenger.

The one that each time announced who from us would be chosen. This time he had again the golden scroll in his hands. He took a deep breath and looked at everyone. Then he opened the scroll and without any other words he started to read:

“The world has changed. To be able to understand this changes is one of the Fate Goddesses chosen to go back as a human. Only then she could learn how hard the humans' life actually is. The one that was chosen this time is Clotho known as the Spinner. She is the one that should go back to the human world as a human being! She is the one that need to prove that she is able to be a true Fate Goddess! ..”

Wait!

WHAT?!

I didn’t hear it right because this couldn’t be a true! I heard him clearly said Clotho but it wasn’t her turn!

I was confused.

I looked at my sisters but they looked as much confused as I. I had to speak with my sisters as soon as possible because I needed to find out what the hell was going on.

Damn!

This was something that no one would expect.