The Lover of Medusa

Chapter 6

PRAGMA

Lyra woke up when she heard women murmuring something behind her, she could feel a soft mattress below her but the room smells of lavender and Jasmine indicating that she is not in her room. She didn't move yet, she remained still listening as the two woman spoke beside her.

"The woman said that the young lady must be offered to the beast or else this city would fall." Said the younger woman, Lyra became even more nervous when she heard about it.

"I felt pity for the young lady. She's too young to die and I'm sure that she will die in pain and not in peace...that beast would surely eat her alive and while." Cold sweat breaks out of Lyra's body, what does they mean by that? She thought... She keep on thinking as to what beast will they offer her and why her? Above all people why her?

"She will be brought there tomorrow, when the moon turns red they say."

"Yes. Let's just pray for her, may the Gods guide her soul." Lyra then heard them leave and that's when she sat up. Her heart still pounding loudly as if it's ready to pop out of her chest, tears streams down her face as fear engulf her... She needs to ask for help...

Slowly Lyra gets down on her knees and prayed, she called out for her goddess, she cried out her name, she waited for her she hoped for her... She did everything she knows that would help her...

The sun again was already setting down when the servants returned for her. The saw her still kneeling by her bedside crying.

"My lady, you need to stand up now. You need to take a bath." The servant said pulling her up to her feet, once standing up they slowly undress her.

"My lady... Please stop crying." The servant named Dalea said wiping her tears away.

"Please, you are doing this for your people...you are saving them from the enemy, you are saving this city... You will be remembered, you will be a hero. The Gods demands this." Dalea said that made Lyra stops, she looked at Dalea with confused looked.

"What do you mean that Gods demands this?" Dalea wipes her tears again before she apply a scented oil on Lyra's soft hair.

"The woman who delivered the message said that the Gods chooses to save this city from demise, but they must appease the beast, so they decided to offer you." Lyra shakes her head refusing to believe what Dalea said. Her goddesses won't allow it, they wouldn't let Lyra suffer from such fate. They wouldn't allow her to just die.

"Come now my lady, your done. You just need to rest... tomorrow will be a start of your new journey...may the Gods bless you." After the servants were done dressing her they left her alone by herself and at that moment she hadn't felt so lonely, so she decided to pray again and again still calling for her Goddesses to help her. To save her.

APHRODITE

Poor human... that's what she thought as she watched Lyra prayed and prayed hoping and waiting for her Goddesses to come and rescue her, sadly that won't happen... Because currently her Goddesses are busy... She looks up to see the Gods gathering at the large table in mount olympus... Some are already drunk... Today to distract the Gods and Goddesses Aphrodite persuade Dionysus to throw another party and here she is laying beside him naked...

"So how was it?" He asked grinning at her, she smiled down at him and hugged him making sure to bury his face in-between her chest.

"Oh my sweet Dionysus! You made love like a girl." She sweetly said caressing his hair. They are being covered by a curtain to shield their nakedness from the eyes of the other gods. She suddenly heard Dionysus gasp and exclaimed.

"I'm a lesbian!!!" With his big eyes sparkling brightly at her. She the heated chaos from the outside with Ares and his sister Eris shouting.

"War! War! War!" They chanted together adding up to the noise... She stood up and pick up her clothes that was carelessly discarded to the floor and wear it. She made her presence known again and everyone's eyes fell down on her.... A wicked idea crossed her mind and she released her charms to every deity in the room making them hot and wanting to mate... And of course the one to be affected first is none other than Zeus himself... Now she just needs to make sure that Athena and Artemis is truly occupied she looked for them... Artemis was with her brother Apollo playing archery while surrounded by beautiful young Deities and nymphs Athena on the other hand is engage in a serious conversation with Hestia and Demeter.... It seems that everything is smoothly going as to what she had plan... And now she returned her attention back to Lyra, the poor girl was still crying and praying but her Goddesses is preoccupied.

"Don't you think that you will get into so much trouble for doing this?" She looks up when she heard her son's voice, Eros stood in front of her.

"Eros, I didn't know you were here." Eros looked at her blankly, she gave him a sweet smile in return.

"Mother...must you really do this? The human hasn't done anything. " She squinted her eyes on him not knowing  how he found out about her plans.

"How did you know about this?" She asked tilting her head to the side to see if she could guess how he found out about it.

"It doesn't matter." Eros took a deep breath and sighed before he looked at her pleadingly.

"Just... Be careful, the goddess of war and wisdom isn't someone that should be mess with." After he said that he turned around and walked away from her. It was a warning, and she knows the consequences that she will face once the Goddess Athena found out that her favorite human is missing, and not only that! She is moving against three Goddesses. Artemis is a close friend of Lyra and Hera is her guardian... But it they all look pathetic to her... She didn't know that a simple celebration would greatly distract them... Hera was busy watching over her husband, Artemis is having a bet with his brother, Athena... She's still busy talking about war strategies... This guardian had already failed, they are unaware that Lyra is about to be served to a beast.

She couldn't wait to see their reaction once they noticed that Lyra is missing.