Between Twin Gods (Suite&Violence)
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				Title: <strong>Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Surrender</strong> on <strong>09-06-2009, 02:38:59</strong>
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				It was Artemis' favorite time of the day - early morning. The dew sparkled on the leaves of her sacred grove, in which she wandered, armed with her bow and arrows for protection. Not protection of her, mind you, she could protect herself well enough. No, it was for the protection of the animals, among these lions, panthers, stags, and a number of other animals, protected and reveared in her grove. The sun wasn't yet above the trees, and it cast a yellow sheen on her plants and even herself, and everything else in sight. <br><br>For once, she was without her nymphs. Usually, the could be found trailing behind her, a few in stride with her as the roamed mountains and uncultivated lands. They hunted anything they could find, an open contradiction to her fierce protection and possessiveness of animals everywhere. It seemed she molded the rules to suit herself, ignoring anything she didn't want to adhere to and pushing the boundaries of anything she did. <br><br>But something was off. Even someone as attune to the creatures and beings in her grove as she was could have sensed it. She could feel something, someone, nearby. Narrowing her eyes, and prepping her bow and arrow, she set off to find out who would dare to be in her gardens at this time in the morning, especially without her permission. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Violence</strong> on <strong>10-06-2009, 05:46:07</strong>
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				If the most elegant poetry and penetrating music were given the form of a man, he could very casually suggest that it would look something like him.&nbsp; This theoretical being would have to be beautiful, and he was beautiful.&nbsp; His long blond hair and delicate features were utterly without flaw.&nbsp; This being would have to be soft, and he was soft.&nbsp; The contours of his flesh rippled only in vague insinuations where muscle and bone twisted against perfect skin.&nbsp; This being would have to be graceful, and he was graceful.&nbsp; Even now he sat so delicately upon a ray of morning light his foot... just the very tip of it... touching the cool water as it ran beneath him.<br><br>It would not be arrogance for him to assume that this theoretical being would have to look just like him.&nbsp; For it was exactly this nature that he had been created.&nbsp; He was the first born son of Zeus.&nbsp; Where his uncles and aunts and parents all embodied such raw and vicious things as thunder and war and the sea... he was something so much more precious and indefinable.&nbsp; Music and poetry and light...<br><br>"Dear sister," he mused listlessly as Artemis approached him, his gaze off in the distance... it was possible that he was looking at the mortal girl in the grove beyond the forest.&nbsp; But he was not so much like his father, was he?&nbsp; To lust for the rotting flesh of the ending kind?&nbsp; "There is but one thing in all the world that surpasses the light I bring each morning," it would have been easy to take the words as a compliment if he'd been looking at her.&nbsp; But his gaze was ever locked in the distance.&nbsp; In the grove just beyond the forest.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Surrender</strong> on <strong>11-06-2009, 04:31:54</strong>
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				"Brother," Artemis regarded him, astute eyes narrowing as she sensed something amiss. She lowered her bow and arrows, but didn't put them away just yet. She might still have need of them. Her sharp eyes followed his gaze, and...was that not the fabric of a dress, pushed up from the wind of running legs? Perhaps the flash of curled hair between trees far in the distance?<br><br>She didn't like what she thought was going on here, and when Artemis didn't like something, well, it simply didn't happen. <br><br>While her brother was the light, she was the dark. Her thick brown hair was naturally twisted into ornate curls, then drawn back from her face with a band of leather. Supple skin was stretched over sharp, refined bones, not a blemish or mark to be found as it disappeared under her clothes. Sinuous muscle stretched with every step, every movement of her body lithe and skilled. While her brother was born to be fair and much more delicate, she was born to hunt and protect, and was outfitted with everything she could even think of needing. <br><br>As Artemis neared him, she stopped by the edge of the lake. She had some idea of what was going on, and the thought caused her nose to wrinkle in displeasure and disgust. "Darling brother, what brings you here so early? While my work has just ended, yours has just begun. Unless you intend to impress all your brilliance upon my lowly grove and it's inhabitants, I would think you are in the wrong place." Her voice was condescending, as if he were a much younger sibling instead of her equal. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Violence</strong> on <strong>13-06-2009, 05:48:30</strong>
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				"Would you have me depart from here, dearest sister?" he questioned listlessly with a longing sigh, "Can not the chariot be pulled empty for one day?&nbsp; Why should I leave paradise when all that I desire falls before my eyes here, dearest sister?&nbsp; Should I bring luminescance to the world at the expense of the things which bring light to me?"<br><br>Perhaps they were questions best left unasked, but the answers were fairly true and even in his fondness for the dramatic, he seemed to understand the importance of the roles placed upon them by their father.&nbsp; Without him to guide the chariot, light could not pass from east to west each day.&nbsp; With only the darkness people would grow solemn and uninspired... and in time, even the darkness would lose meaning without the comparison of light.<br><br>"Beloved, precious sister," he implored, "Will you watch over true beauty for me... for one day?&nbsp; For a hundred days?&nbsp; For all the days that it shall grace the edge of your forest?" he begged of her as he cradled her leg to help&nbsp; him get to his feet, eventually holding her.&nbsp; His precious sister.&nbsp; His trusted confidant.&nbsp; She who could do him no wrong...
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Surrender</strong> on <strong>13-06-2009, 19:56:01</strong>
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				Artemis stayed silent, merely observing him through slitted eyes. Although his affection for the dramatic amused her relatives, it fell flat with her at moments like this. She much preferred things straightforward and uncomplicated, and these were in low supply when Apollo was near.<br><br>She leaned into his embrace, wrapping her own arms around him. For a moment, he was her darling brother again, not some smitten, fanatical fool. "Perhaps, my dear, cherished brother, true beauty is better off left alone. Admire it perchance, and then disregard it. It will only bring trouble." With a chaste kiss on the cheek, she stepped back, her eyes dark and serious as she scanned his face. "Now, go. There will be more then a few people distressed if you continue to stall." <br><br>Artemis waited for him to leave before turning back into the huntress she was so reveared for. Starting at a light, silent jog, she headed off into the forest, towards the direction she had last seen the flash of skirt and pale skin between trees. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Violence</strong> on <strong>16-06-2009, 07:39:17</strong>
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				"Disregard?" he chuckled softly, "Such silly things you say, sister," he yawned as he walked away using the beam of light he'd been sitting on, now as a bridge.&nbsp; A bemused smile upon his dreamy expression, "Could the ocean forget Poseidon?&nbsp; Could the flame forget Hephestus?&nbsp; Could the sky forget our father?&nbsp; Could the sun forget me?" He asked.&nbsp; These things could be taken as utter blasphemy if they weren't actually spoken by something of the divine.<br><br>Whatever it was that he saw in this girl, it was compared to the nature of worship to him.&nbsp; She enthralled him.&nbsp; Bound him by some form of witchcraft that even the gods were not allowed to know.<br><br>He made his way to the charriot, bringing light to the world below him while Helios brought warmth and heat.&nbsp; The two of them rode together, taunting one another as to whom was more important to the sun... an argument Apollo won, by rightly pointing out that mortal men would eventually forget Helios' name, yet would tribute Apollo with their first steps into the heavens.<br><br>These things were for Apollo to know.&nbsp; The future.&nbsp; The oracles were his to whisper into the ears... but there were certain questions he never dared peer to the answer.&nbsp; Things he could not face.&nbsp; Such as the fate of the beautiful girl that had captured everything about him that made him divine...
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Surrender</strong> on <strong>20-06-2009, 18:49:53</strong>
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				Artemis set her sweet mouth into a firm line, watching her brother leave the grove and head to his chariot. As soon as he was out of range, she called to her nymphs, gathering them around her and quieting them. "We will take part in a merry chase today, fore there is something in my woods that doesn't belong. A mortal girl, all alone, who has not asked my permission to saunter through my grove. We'll be gentle with her, for now; no harm shall come to her unless I say it is to be. Now, come! It will be a challenge, as she is surely smarter then the stags and boars." <br><br>With enthusiastic twittering agreement, Artemis and her nymphs set off after the being who enthralled Apollo. It didn't take them long to find her; they were swift, quiet, and efficient, whereas she seemed to be stuck in a world of her own. Every few moments, she raised her eyes to the brilliant sun, words of worship and adoration falling from her lush lips before she continued on her way. <br><br>Signalling to the nymphs to remain hidden and silent, Artemis moved gracefully into the mortals sight. "Who are you, that wanders through my land without my consent?" Her voice was powerful and loud, forcing the girl to stop in her tracks. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Violence</strong> on <strong>23-06-2009, 06:58:28</strong>
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				The sun, as it was prone to do every day, would eventually set.&nbsp; Apollo's solitary duty done for the day... guiding the chariot from east to west, morning into night, he would once again find himself beyond the horizon.&nbsp; Let the gods of other lands worry about the light for their people, Apollo had no need to bring light or song to those who did not even acknowledge him.<br><br>Now was once again his sister's time.&nbsp; The twilight, the begining of evening.&nbsp; Once again he could bring kind words to his sister, grace her with his poetry and song and tribute to the beautiful figure that had so utterly and thoroughly bewitched him.&nbsp; Stubborn though she may be, surely if he were to compose a true tribute, even his sister could appreciate the beauty of the girl that his eyes had taken in...<br><br>"Sister," he called as he descended upon the last light of day, "Sister, where are you?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: Between Twin Gods (Suite&amp;Violence)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Surrender</strong> on <strong>23-06-2009, 19:59:47</strong>
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				With a quick glance at the setting sun, Artemis knew she only had a little time left to pry answers from this mortal. Her eyes narrowed as she approached the girl, and arrow notched in her bow, ready to be aimed and fired. <br><br>"What have you done to my brother? Bewitched him? Pleaded to Aphrodite for his love?" She neared the girl, cocking her bow and aiming, hoping to frighten her into confessing to something. The poor girl looked sorry to have incurred Artemis' wrath, and started talking. "Please, most Divine Goddess, he.. he loves me, and I feel the same. I have done nothing, nothing wrong, and I am sorry to have provoked your anger. Please, forgive me,"<br><br>Her words rang true, and even Artemis could see it. But Apollo could not spend his time cavorting with this maiden around on earth, eventually asking for immortality so he could spend forever in love. No, that couldn't happen. He would neglect his work, and focus on nothing but her, and that would benefit no one. <br><br>Making a quick decision, she pulled back her bowstring, sending a speeding arrow right through her heart. The girl slumped onto the ground, a small bubble of blood bursting from her lips as Artemis turned around, dismissing the nymphs to head up and do her nightly job.<br><br>A small smile played on her lips as she heard Apollo calling for her; the incident was already out of her mind, and Artemis was focused on the night ahead. "Calm yourself, brother. Here I am, ready to pick up where you left off."
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