The hero and the fox

Exposure

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It has been two weeks since Aurora started high school. She also started fighting crime with Captain Man and Kid Danger whenever she was able to help. And of course, the duo couldn't contact her yet, so they could only hope for the foxy heroine to show up. Right now she was standing by her locker surrounded by her friends, Henry, Charlotte, and Jasper. They had traded out their numbers and hung out after school a couple of times. The moment she opened her bag, she shrieked softly.

"Something wrong?" Charlotte asked.

"N-no." Aurora stuttered as she closed her bag. "I just need to go to the toilet." And with that, she ran off towards the bathroom. She looked around if someone was there, but she was alone. She opened her bag again. "Really? You couldn't stay home?" She asked her niffler. Shiny just looked at her innocently. "You have to behave now. I don't know what will happen when they catch you." The niffler just blinked at her. "Fine, but don't expect me to always cover your tracks." And with that, she walked towards the classroom. Here she took a seat next to Charlotte. Just as Charlotte wanted to ask the girl why it took so long, the teacher spoke up.

"Alright class, today we will start with mythology. Take notes, this will be in your test." The teacher told them. Now, this is something Aurora really liked to study. All the students pulled out their notebooks and started to take notes. "In the beginning, there was only Chaos, the god of windy nothingness, Nyx, the goddess of the night, Erebus, the god of unending darkness, and Tartarus, the god of the underworld's darkest place and the abyss. Nyx, the goddess of the night, in the form of a giant black bird laid a golden egg, and in the form of the bird, she sat on it for a great amount of time." Aurora noticed something slip from her bag. She knew who it was, but she didn't want to make it oblivious to the other classmates what was happening. "Finally, life started within the egg, and when it burst, Eros, the god of love sprung out. One half of the eggshell rose upwards and became the sky, and one fell downwards and became the earth. Eros and Chaos then mated, and from that union came birds, the first living beings that predate even the gods. Because both Eros and Chaos were winged, so are the birds winged and able to fly. After that, Eros gathered all the necessary ingredients to create the Immortals, starting with Uranus and Gaia, and all the other gods. Then, eventually, the gods created humans, and the world was fully created."

Aurora did listen half to the teacher but kept her eyes wandering around the room looking for her niffler. "Uranus, the god of the sky, and Gaia, the goddess of the earth, became the first gods to rule the world. Together, they gave birth to the first Titans and are grandparents or great-grandparents of most of the gods." The niffler wrapped his hands around a bracelet hanging from someone's bag. Aurora watched him intensely. "Every night, Uranus covered Gaia and slept with her. Gaia gave him children: the twelve Titans, the Ekatonheires or Centimanes (beings with 100 arms) and the Cyclopes. However, Uranus hated his children and didn't want to see them, so he imprisoned them deep inside Gaia, or in Tartarus (depending on the myth)." The niffler moved on and made his way to his next victim. "This pained Gaia greatly, and she forged a giant sickle out of stone. She then implored her children to castrate Uranus. None of her children seemed to want to rise against their father, except the youngest Titan, Cronos. Cronos was ambitious and he accepted Gaia's offer." Shiny then made his way toward the front desk. How he got there without being noticed, Aurora didn't know. "Gaia had him ambush Uranus. Indeed, Cronos did so successfully, and cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea. From the blood there came the Giants, the Erinyes (or Furies), and the Meliae, the ash tree nymphs. From the foam that was created when the genitalia fell into the sea, there came Aphrodite." The niffler grabbed a couple of silver rings that lay on the desk and hid them in his pouch. "Cronos took the throne, married his sister the Titan Rhea, and gave rise to the Golden Age, an age where there was no immorality and no need for laws, because everyone, gods and humans, did the right thing on their own." Shiny made his way back into her bag. And so it went on for the rest of the lesson.