The Journey of the Lost Son

The Birth

The amazons celebrated, the sounds of cheers and the blowing of horns signified the coming of a joyous day. The day Queen Hippolyta would give birth to her first child. They feasted and danced. Sang songs and read poems of valor.

In the Queen's chambers, Hippolyta, accompanied by her sisters, Astarte, Antiope, Atalanta, and her general Philippus.

Antiope:" Come on, Hippolyta, you are almost there." Antiope told the woman. She Held her hands out and slowly received the child's head as Hippolyta pushed with all her might.

Hippolyta:" GAAAAAAAAAH!"

Hippolyta gave one last hard push, screaming to the top of her lungs as she did so. The women all smiled as the sound of a baby's wails filled the air around them.

Antiope took the small babe into her strong hands; she cut the umbilical from the babe's stomach and then handed it over to Atalanta and Astarte for cleansing.

Antiope:" You did great, Hippolyta."

Hippolyta:" Where is she? Let me see my child."

Hippolyta spoke. Her breathing was hard, and her voice was tired, and yet the woman's body was still as strong as ever. Hippolyta sat up from her bed without much trouble at all and looked to her two other sisters as they cleaned the babe.

Hippolyta looked on and watched as the smiles on the faces of her sisters changed to dread. What could it be that's spooked them so? Was something wrong with the little girl? Oh, just the thought terrified Hippolyta.

Hippolyta:" Astarte? Atalanta? What is wrong?"

Astarte:" Sister, the baby."

Hipployta:" Yes? What is it?"

Hippolyta asked. Her concern began growing more and more by the second. What could it possibly be?

Astarte handed the baby to Antiope and the woman, sighed. She then turned to Hippolyta and held the baby up to the woman's face. Hippolyta grabbed the child and brought it close to her chest.

Antiope:" It is a boy, sister."

Hippolyta's world nearly shattered to pieces. The woman could not believe what had happened. Hippolyta despaired. It was rare that a male be born on Themyscira, let alone for the Queen to give birth to one.

Antiope:" What are we going to do?" Antiope asked.

Atalanta:" Kill it. It is what we have always done."

Atalanta told the woman. She grabbed her sword, ready to strike, but Hippolyta stopped the woman without hesitation.

Hipployta:" No, sister."

Atalanta:" What are you doing sister?"

Atalanta demanded to know. Enraged that what Hipployta was doing, men have been the enemy of the Amazons for centuries even if Man's World forget about them, the Amazons never forget their enemy

Atalanta:" It is a rule that has been for years. No man is allowed to be on Themyscira. We must get rid of this child." She exclaimed.

Hipployta:" You would kill a child of Zeus sister, and risk his wrath on all of themyscira?"

Hippolyta told the women in the room as she look dead in the eyes of the innocent newborn boy.

Hipployta:" We cannot kill him."

Antiope:" Then what are you going to do, sister?"

Hipployta:" Astarte, tell the amazons, that the child died during birth."