The Love of an Earth Goddess

Taurus, the Bull

Earth has been learning, healing, growing. She has been alone for a little while now, lost in the desert plains. She is collecting pretty rocks, smooth bones, and colorful shells to replace the treasures that had been stolen from her before. And thats where he finds her. Taurus, the bull, is big, strong, and stubborn. He is a man used to getting what he wants. Right now, he has decided he wants Earth, no matter how she feels about it. 

At first Earth has her reservations. She is still healing from her previous love mishaps. But stubborn Taurus is not a patient man. He takes what he wants and makes it his. He comes to visit her everyday. He showers her in affection and attention. He pleads with her to run away with him, to be his, to let him wrap her up in his arms and protect her. 

Earth is hesitant at first. She is supposed to be healing, growing. Changing. But eventually she caves in a little, and agrees to out with him. "Alright! Let's go little mama, I know a place you are just going to LOVE!" he exclaims. 

He leads her to a canyon nearby. "I saw the scars of your canyons and rivers that cover your body, Earth. I don't know if someone hurt you or if you did these things to yourself, but I wanted to show you just how secretly beautiful those canyons can be."  Taurus leads her over to a giant crack in the canyon wall. "Look inside," he told her. Earth gasps as she takes in the millions of hidden crystals within the canyon wall.
"Wow," she breathes.
"This is how I see you," he tells her.

The next day, Taurus takes her to a river, not much different from the ones cutting across her body. He smiles, laughs and points out all the shiny treasures to her as they walk along the water on the sand. He picks her up and throws her in the water. "You're beautiful when you're soaking," he laughs as she clings around him in the water, letting him carry them both. Taurus is sweet. Taurus is kind. Taurus is funny. Taurus makes Earth feel like she is the center of his world. Earth kisses him in the water, and allows him to take a diamond from deep inside her. 

The next day Earth waits for Taurus to show up, but he never does.  Worried and confused, she backtracks back to the river from the day before to see if he's there. He is. But Earth's heart is ripped to pieces again as she spots him. He is with another woman, a fairy. He took Earth as his, since he wanted her, and then it was no longer exciting for him. Like the big kid that Taurus really is, he just moved on to a newer toy.

Earth screams at him, interrupting his conversation with the fairy. She sees confliction cross his face, he didn't mean to hurt her, he was just having a good time with her. But Earth wasn't just having fun, she had trusted him, fell for him, and given him one of her diamonds. She brushes him off and makes her way out of the forest and into the desert. She is crying, blinding herself with her tears. She no longer cares where she goes, as long as it is not back the way she came.  He will never have her again.