Olympus: Story of a mortal god

CHAPTER 12: THE VISIT

Celeste's P.O.V 🌟✨
It's been a whole year since my sixteenth birthday and I'm turning seventeen tomorrow. I feel like there's nothing good about this birthday because it's the last one I'm going to celebrate with my family.

It's night time and I'm staring at the sky and thinking about how my life's going to change after tomorrow. I can't stop thinking about how Morpheus is coming back for me.

What does he want with me anyways. Does he need a mortal for some weird god stuff? .... No. If he needed a mortal right away he would have taken me there and then. He was about to but he didn't.

Whatever, I should just go to sleep and hope for the best. But everytime my head touches my pillow that dark presence appears. I don't know what went wrong. How did my life take such a drastic turn.

" What did go wrong?" I ask myself in a half whisper as I turn from the window to walk to my bed. As I walked closer to the bed, I noticed a pair of little silver earrings. I don't remember leaving those there.

So I picked them up and looked at them for a while until I realized that they look exactly like the earrings that Morpheus took on my sixteenth birthday.

But instead of being made of gold and emeralds, they were silver and had sapphires. Then the candles in my room were suddenly blown out, it got cold and ....... Someone was standing behind me.

I can feel someone standing there but what if it's all in my head. Yeah, let me just turn around and have a look. But when I did someone was actually there. A tall figure, definitely male. It's him.

" ......Y-you......" I Whispered as my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I collapsed.

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I remember sitting by the window and the jewelry and he was there but how did I get in bed. I kept my eyes closed as I tried to remember what happened.

Then I felt something in my hand. Someone's holding my hand. Julius or Stella must have found me on the floor and put me in bed. But the room's still cold.

" Julius...?" I asked with my eyes still closed. No response. " Stella..." still no response.

Could it be...

So I decided to slowly open my eyes as I sat up, then I looked to the side and he was there, sitting on my bed in a long navy blue robe and looking directly at me.

" You're awake." Morpheus said flatly with an expressionless face. I didn't know what to do.

There's a god in my room, sitting on my bed and holding my hand. The only thing I could do was stare at our hands.

" Are you scared of me." He asked, but I didn't answer. What if my answer upsets him and he decides to kill me. " Just answer honestly, I won't do anything to hurt you." But that didn't convince me. Then he lifted my chin up making me look at him. " Do I scare you?" He asked.

" Yes." I Whispered.

" You don't need to be afraid of me. I won't hurt you. I know that I've done things in the past to make you think otherwise. But I'll make this promise to you and you alone, I will never hurt you and I'll never make you feel afraid." He said and then he kissed my forehead.

" Promise....?" What in the world is going on!

" Yes. A promise is-"

" I know what a promise is." I said out loud using a sort of rude tone. " -Oh ! Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt I- I..." I tried to explain

" No no, it's okay." Morpheus said with a reassuring smile. 'But why is he here?' I asked myself as I shivered a little. " Are you cold?" He asked, still smiling at me.