[Greek Mythology] The Ordinary Journey of the Moon God

Kassandra was staying at the temple at Delphi, caring for Apollo with Pythia, Apollo's priest at Delphi.

"I'm going to see how Her Highness Artemis is doing." Pythia said after helping Apollo tidy up his clothes, "Cassandra, do you want to go together?"

Cassandra frowned, her beautiful face clearly showing displeasure: "I am the priest of His Royal Highness Apollo, not the goddess Artemis."

Nor did Pythia force her.But because His Royal Highness Apollo told her to let her take care of Artemis with Iphigenia before she fell asleep, she would not disrespect His Royal Highness Apollo's order.

After Pythia left, she still stayed by Apollo's side.Looking at Apollo's sleeping face, she felt a pain in her heart, lowered her head, and let her forehead touch this almost perfect male god.

She hates Artemis.But she didn't hate her, because Artemis helped her take care of Apollo for a long time.What she really hates is Zeus.

Because she should be Apollo's real sister, she should be the crescent moon goddess Artemis.But because of a curse, she had to change from a goddess on Mount Olympus to an ordinary human princess—if Apollo hadn't protected her, she would definitely die this time.

Cassandra should be Artemis.And that so-called Artemis is actually just an ordinary person who came out of nowhere.

Seeing Apollo like this, Cassandra felt distressed.That should have been her younger brother, who should have been born with her, should have been intimate with her, but now he is sleeping here because of that ordinary human who doesn't know where he came from.

She doesn't understand.She knew that Apollo had long known that the woman was not her, but Apollo still gave everything for her, and even let himself sleep here in order to keep the woman's soul—didn't Apollo know that she was him? sister?Wasn't that what made her his priest?

Cassandra never understood the question.She didn't understand why Apollo did this.

"Cassandra, what are you doing?" Pythia came out and asked sharply when she saw that Cassandra was holding Apollo's hand.Cassandra didn't intend to pay attention to her, she calmly put Apollo's hand away, and continued to sit beside him in a daze.

"Don't think about what will happen with His Royal Highness Apollo, Cassandra." Pythia warned, then ignored Cassandra and left alone.

Hearing Pythia's warning, Cassandra only felt an unspeakable pain in her heart.She should be Apollo's sister, who was forced to part with him for so long, and now seeing him sleeping there, she has absolutely no ability to help him except for the power of prophecy given to her by Apollo.

"Mother! My venerable mother Leto, if you can hear the prayer of your real daughter, if you can feel the presence of your real daughter..."

"Who the hell are you?" a voice interrupted Cassandra's prayer.Cassandra raised her head and saw a handsome male god with golden hair - he was so similar to Apollo, but obviously more powerful and powerful.That is the god king Zeus.

Cassandra bowed her head.

"If I say that I should be the real Artemis...will you believe me?"

"Look up and look at me."

Cassandra raised her head and met the eyes of the noble God King.

"Did you know that I would hear it, so you waited for me on purpose?" Zeus looked at Cassandra with a sense of oppression. She was not afraid, but looked at him stubbornly.

"I knew someone would come, but I didn't know it would be you." Cassandra said without fear, "Although I knew that Mother Goddess Leto would definitely not appear, I thought there would be a miracle."

"You are expecting a miracle. Do you think that Artemis will wake up and give you back your body? Or do you think that Apollo will wake up and admit that you are his sister?" Zeus's mouth curled up. With an ironic chuckle, Cassandra frowned.

"I have never had such an extravagant wish." Cassandra closed her eyes, "When I knew that I had entered a human body, I knew that I would never be able to become Artemis again. I thought , the person who became Artemis will take good care of Apollo for me, but I was wrong. However, even if I hate her, I can't regain the body that should belong to me."

"Apollo loves her." Zeus said in a deep voice, "Apollo is willing to pay any price for her, and you should know that."

what is love?Apollo can do this for her. In their hearts, what is love?

"I don't know what love is." Cassandra said hoarsely, "I just hope Apollo is doing well."

"Apollo will be fine." Zeus put his hand on Cassandra's shoulder lightly, like an ordinary elder, "Al also loves Apollo. Although they never said it, but I Know."

"But their love makes them lie here at the same time." Cassandra widened her tear-filled eyes, "Is this love?! Sacrifice others for that so-called stupid love?!"

"You don't understand, Artemis." Zeus called her that for the first time, which made Cassandra stare blankly at Zeus, as if forgetting to shed tears, "You will understand the relationship between them one day of."

Cassandra shook her head. "I don't want to know, and I don't want to know. It would make me weak."

"You love Apollo, and you love Leto, don't you?" said Zeus. "Your love for them is love for your relatives—so you will understand someday."

Cassandra was silent.

Zeus left.He gave Cassandra the ability to guard the bodies of Al and Apollo who were sleeping in the temple.

Cassandra knew that this was Zeus' compensation for her true daughter.

Leto had also come to see her and treated her very well, as if to make up for the girl who was supposed to be her real daughter.Cassandra is very attached to Leto, such warm feelings make her want to cry.

As time went on, she started to hate the girl who took her place as Artemis less.She heard a lot of stories about the relationship between Al and Apollo from Leto, and she began to feel that this girl is not so bad, not as bad as she imagined.

"Cassandra, my child, I know you will like her. She is not an annoying child." Leto stroked her long hair in relief, "But I still have to apologize to you for letting you Not being able to really be yourself..."

"It's not your fault, Mother... Your Highness Leto." Cassandra almost blurted out "Mother", but she changed her words in time, "As long as that girl takes good care of Apollo and you for me, as long as she Really took the responsibility that she should have, and I don't mind that."

"Call me mother, son." Leto hugged Cassandra, "I'll call you by your name too."

"Mother!" Cassandra couldn't hold back, her voice was crying.

"But I can't call you Artemis anymore. You two share the same name—" Leto looked at her with some hesitation, for fear that she would be unhappy.

"You can call me Diana." Cassandra smiled, "I don't think Artemis would mind if I use that name."

Leto had another daughter, Diana, who, like Artemis, possessed the power of the moon god.This is news known to the gods on Mount Olympus.

And Zeus was a little panicked when he heard it.He came to Cassandra as soon as she left Apollo's temple.

"After all, you have become Leto's daughter." Zeus looked at the girl with complicated eyes.

"She is my mother, the mother of Apollo and Al." Now, she can call the girl who replaced her as Artemis as Al without any qualms, "They are not here now, and I am here." ...I need to take my own responsibility to protect her and take care of her."

"You did well, my daughter." Zeus admitted her identity for the first time, which surprised Cassandra, "But, with my admission, you still can't go back to Mount Olympus, Feel sorry."

Hearing such words, Cassandra was already very calm.

"May I know why?"

"Because it is my fault that you have become like this. I am cursed by my father god Cronus."

Does this have anything to do with her?Cassandra felt as if she had caught something.

"Cronus cursed you, so that your life will be full of twists and turns, and you will not even be able to become a god. And you and that Al suffered the result of the curse at the same time. So she has a god's body and a human soul, and You are just the opposite—her soul cannot control the divine power in her body and is often in danger, and she would have died early if it hadn't been for Apollo to protect her. But you were reborn in a human body, with a tragic twist."

Cassandra was silent for a moment, looking up at him.

"Apollo protected me. I'm still alive. He asked Al to take me to Delphi."

Zeus nodded.

"Although I still don't want to hand over the position of God King to Apollo so early, I have to admit that he is indeed very suitable to be God King—except for you, the people of Delphi are also well protected by him. .”

"Apollo will be delighted to hear that," Cassandra replied.

Zeus nodded and said nothing.But Cassandra knew that Zeus would not target Apollo again—after he and that Al came back.

Zeus also left.Cassandra now has divine power, although she still cannot leave Delphi (this is the site of Apollo, and Apollo prevented her from leaving in order to protect her), but she is already a goddess.Sometimes she sat high on the top of the Delphi Temple, looking at the prosperous scene of Delphi; sometimes she would go hunting in the nearby forest, but she dared not go far.

Until one day, when she was hunting, she met an extremely handsome man, whose brightness and beauty could even rival Apollo-the man told her that his name was Adonis, the god of plants.