[Greek Mythology] Picking up a little moon

When Roxina fell on the flower field, Artis felt that his breathing stopped suddenly.But when he was completely sure that Roxina was dead, he miraculously calmed down.

Roxina is "human", not a god, so she must die.But... Aponis is a god.Roxina is dead, but what about Aponis?She shouldn't die, she must...

Altis immediately decided to leave.If there are no accidents, as a god, Aponis might be in Hades——

But Artis ignored the most important question.Aponis is the goddess of the sun, possessing the light and heat of the sun—and Hades is so dark and gloomy, representing the bright and warm sun that it is impossible to appear there.

Although he has no intention of paying attention to Zephyros, the god of the west wind, he dared to hurt Loksina—whether he was trying to grab Yacinthos' attention from Loksina, or simply because he didn't like her ...

But Zephyrus hurt Aponis, and he will pay for his actions.

So Artis came to Hades, but she couldn't see Aponis.

"Where is she?" The crescent moon god's expression was cold and stern, and the icy aura around him made him look like an ordinary god of the underworld. "Where did you hide Aponis?"

The three pairs of eyes of the three-headed giant dog Cerberus turned and turned at him, only yelling at him, but there was no response at all.

Just as Artis was about to take out his bow and arrow again, he suddenly thought of something.The black-haired male god stretched out his hand and stroked his almost windless long hair behind his head, and with a wave of his hand, a pair of shiny bows and arrows appeared in his hand.

The last time he came to Hades, he also came because of the disappearance of Aponis.At that time, he almost shot and killed this Cerberus, just to force the master of Hades to show up.At that time, he was too naive and too bold, and this time, although he would not force Cerberus again, he would definitely use other methods to force its owner to show up.

Probably because of the previous (intimidated) experience, when Cerberus saw the bow and arrow in Artis's hand, he made a chaotic barking sound in fright, and even struggled violently, trying to break free from his neck chains on.Altis looked at him with raised eyebrows, and didn't intend to take back the bow and arrow at all - even pulled the bowstring harder.

After Cerberus struggled for a long time, his master, Hecate, the goddess of the moon, came late.

"Long time no see, Altis," the black-robed goddess had a serious expression on her face that could be called gorgeous, making her look more dignified and elegant, "What's your business in Hades?  … ...and, stop bullying my Cerberus."

Artis silently put away the bow and arrow in his hand, and looked at Hecate expressionlessly.

"You really don't know what I'm here for, Hecate?" After staring at her for a while, the black-haired male god suddenly showed a slightly sarcastic smile, "Do you really think that I Will you obediently be deceived by you like everyone else?"

"Cheating?" Hecate raised his eyebrows, "God of Crescent Moon, God of Light, what do you mean by that? I have never lied to you—you tell me, what did I lie to you?"

Artis was speechless for a moment.Hecate was indeed...not a single word lied to him.

"Why are you still the same as before, yelling when you see me, I really don't know how Aponis endures you."

As soon as he heard Aponis's name, Artis couldn't control the tearing pain in his heart.

"Shut up! You are not allowed to mention her!" He said angrily, with uncontrollable pain in his voice.

"Why don't you let me mention it?" Hecate sneered, "Who do you think you are? Why do you care about me? You are just..."

"I am not someone, I am the god of crescent moon, the god of light, the god of hunting..." He interrupted Hecate's words out of control, and counted his god positions one by one, but suddenly realized that this Neither was the answer he wanted.

"Why don't you say it, huh?" The black-haired goddess waved her hand, and a purple light flashed, and the bow and arrow that Altis made for him by Aponis shattered like that, and turned into sunlight and moonlight again, and disappeared here. the world.

Artis calmed down unexpectedly this time.

Because of Roxina's death and the disappearance of Aponis, he completely lost control—he completely lost his original calmness and self-control, and even lost his reason—he became nothing like the original Artis.

But isn't this "original Artis" actually existing because of Aponis?If there is no Aponis, how can there be this "original Artis"?

"Wait, are you...?!" Came back to his senses, Artis looked at Hecate in shock, "Why is your divine power..."

Hecate smiled slightly, with a little malice on the corner of his mouth, "This is not my divine power."

"Why is it the same as mine?" Artis raised his hand in disbelief, and he casually transformed a moonlight arrow, using the light arrow as a medium to use his power, which is also a special purple light, "Why ..."

"Because it's not divine power, it's... magic." Hecate's voice was so low that Artis almost couldn't hear it clearly—but he did hear it clearly.

Artis looked at her in disbelief.

"How is it possible? Magic?" The black-haired male god had obvious disbelief on his face, "You and I are gods, how could we have those..."

"So what about gods?" Hecate asked him back, "If there are no gods, how can there be human beings?"

"But..." Artis stared dumbfounded at Hecate and waved his hand away, snatching the light arrow from his hand, "This is impossible, how can divine power and magic co-exist?"

Hearing what he said, Hecate slightly hooked the corners of her mouth, with an inexplicable smile on her face.

"I'm the goddess of magic, so in me, magic and divine power can coexist." She only said this, and didn't say anything else. She just looked at Artis quietly, and the smile with no clear meaning Still hanging on the face.

Hecate knew that Artis was actually quite smart, and he must be able to figure out what she was going to say by himself.

Altis was stunned.

"But, you are the goddess of magic, but I..." Artis found that he seemed to be unable to think, and he couldn't even speak clearly, "I am the god of the crescent moon, and I have nothing to do with magic... "

"That's wrong," Hecate interrupted him, "Magic has one of the most important mediums—that is moonlight. As the moon god, you naturally possess the energy of magic."

Although there seemed to be nothing wrong with saying this, Artis was keenly aware of the problem.

"Phoebe doesn't have magic, and neither does Selene." He looked Hecate straight in the eyes. "It's just you and me. Why?"

Hecate froze for a moment, but didn't speak.

It seemed that after a lot of struggle, she finally decided to tell Artis the so-called "truth" he wanted.

In fact, according to the guidance of the goddess of fate, Leto should have two children, the god of the sun and the god of the moon—that is, Aponis and Artis.But because of Goddess of Fate's dereliction of duty, and because Leto was too exhausted from escaping from Hera's pursuit—the soul of Artis, the moon god, did not enter Leto's stomach at all, but was left in Atlanta. In the sea of ​​Tees.

At that time, Hecate and Asteria happened to pass by, rescued the weak Artis, and let him survive in the body transformed by Hecate's magic power.And for a long period of time, no one knew that there was such a god in this world—until then, in order to save Leto and her daughter, Asteria allowed their mother and daughter to enter Delos. island.

And at that time, it was also the time when Artis and Aponis met.

"Your fate lines should be entangled." Hecate said, "You were born to be together, but because of the negligence of the goddess of fate, you were forced to separate. In order to save your fate, and to let you get your Deserved happiness——I did those things. But I didn't expect that my magic would stay in your body, let alone that you could still use it."

Artis has not spoken, just quietly listening to Hecate, and unconsciously staring at his hands that can use magic.

"I didn't intend to hide from you," the goddess said in a heavy tone, "but... Aponis loves you too much. She has predicted your fate, and predicted that Zeus will attack one of you, and that god It will be turned into a human being, and it should have been predicted that the day you will be separated like this... When I revealed your identity a little bit, she should have made up her mind, and I thought she would tell you..."

Altis didn't speak any more.

He never thought that the truth turned out to be because of that.

Aponis had known for a long time that one of him and her would be turned into a human by Zeus—but because she was the daughter of Zeus, and he was just a god of unknown origin, he might even come from a place he was very afraid of. Titan Protoss...

So she took the risk, killed the giant, and was blamed by Zeus for relegation——

until death.

And all this, he didn't know anything.

It's his fault?yes.If he wasn't so entangled and hesitant, how would Aponis know that he cared so much?How could you push yourself to this point?

But it's also Zeus' fault, right?If Zeus hadn't provoked Leto and allowed her to be hunted down by Hera, he wouldn't be what he is now.If Zeus hadn't killed Asclepius, how could Aponis have challenged him and killed herself like this?

He must make Zeus pay for Aponis.