Chapter One
Leto watched in happiness as her little children ran around the beach playing, it had been a complete change for her life ever since Apollo got rid of the snake that Hera sent to torment her day by day. Sure they may still hide, but at least they no longer had to run. A small shack of building stood at the edge of the forest that resembled their home now. A few friendly dryads and satyrs took pity on her and helped her built the place.
"Mama, Apollo is teasing me again," cried little Artemis as she run back to her mother's arms closely followed by his brother
"What did you do this time Apollo?" asked Leto as she cooed at the little four-year old goddess that clung to her.
"Nothing mama, I just told her that I am older than her," protested the blond-haired kid. "She won't accept it so I splashed her with water from the sea,"
"My eyes hurt you meanie!" shouted Artemis waving her tiny fists at her brother making Leto smile at how cute it is.
"It's water Arty," defended her male child. "Water doesn't hurt at all,"
"It's salty,"
"So?"
"It hurts!"
"No it doesn't!"
"Why don't you try it then?"
"Alright you two enough," chided Leto gently. "Apollo say sorry to your sister about splashing her. Artemis calm down,"
"But mama I didn't do anything wrong!" whined her male child.
"Apollo!"
"Yes mama. Sorry Arty about splashing you," said Apollo making her sister smile at him.
"Let's build castles again mama," laughed Artemis as she crawled down her mother before grabbing her hand and dragging her to the beach laughing loudly.
Leto chuckled despite herself as she watched the two argue back and forth as they built the sand castle. Leto smiled at the simplicity of it all, it seems like only yesterday when she is pregnant with the two and is running for their lives as they are tracked by the monster sent by Zeus' wife.
She does not blame Hera at all with her actions, the queen of the gods have every right to be angry with her husbands' infidelity. If she was her, she'll be doing the same thing as Hera. It was Zeus' fault that things turn out the way they were. Even though she was tricked by the King of the gods by lying about him having no wife yet, Leto knew that partly she is also to blame. She should have made Zeus swore to the River Styx before she allowed him on her bed. Still what's done is done already, and Leto was happy having her twin children with her.
"Mama look, its my castle," Apollo called out as she pointed the odd lump of dirt that resembled an ice cream as his castle.
"That's no castle," Artemis called out to the side. "Mama look, my castle's better than Apollo's," Leto had to admit she had a point. Her castle at least looked like a castle, unlike Apollo's.
"Ha, mine's taller than yours Arty!" smirked Apollo as he looked down at the sand that resembles his.
"At least mine has design," sniffed Artemis. "And don't call me Arty!"
"A castle must be big, not pretty," pointed out Apollo and Leto sighed as the two siblings began arguing again. Sometimes she wondered if the two are ever brother and sister. They keep on squabbling with one another for no reason and she can't help but be the mediator on most of their arguments.
"The perks of being a mother," sighed Leto as she sat on the beach a few yards away from the squabbling of the teenagers.
Looking at the sunset, Leto smiled at it. No matter how long it is she had lived, she had always loved watching the sun set on the ocean. An orange glow covered the sky bringing the end of the day and Leto knew that its going to be dinner time soon. Dusting herself off, she turned to the two siblings which is still arguing their sand castles now forgotten on the beach.
