Once Defiant

Prologue

Prologue - Part One

Zeus sat upon his throne, resting at the highest point of Mount Olympus. Along with the animals created by his children Ares and Aphrodite, the Mortals of Earth created by Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades roamed the Mortal Earth. However, the Mortals were dying out due to their lack of abilities -- his children's animals were killing the Mortals because they could not defend themselves.

Zeus could not rule a kingdom where there were no followers. He had asked a favor from his brother Hades. Zeus asked his brother to give life to the corpse of a Mortal teenage girl, but along with life, he wanted the girl to be more.

Hades gave the girl life, as commanded, but also gave her immortality, beauty, power, seductivity and a special, locked ability, that not even Hades knew about.

Hades presented the Immortal Mortal to Zeus, and he was pleased. He gave the girl the name Anabelle, forever to be known to the Mortals as their Savior.

Anabelle fought the creatures of the world that threatened humanity. Hades was proud of his creation, and constantly visited her on Earth, leaving his throne in Tartarus.

Hades eventually started giving gifts to his creation. The first gift was the ability to see the future, but only at a blur. Anabelle's first vision was of a man and a woman holding a child, and Hades said it was probably a Mortal family that would be thanking his beloved creation one day. He quickly put aside the vision she had had.

Zeus was beginning to be angry with Hades for leaving the underworld, and had forbidden him from going to the Mortal world again. Before he went, Hades gave Anabelle the ability of telepathy, or the ability to speak through the mind. Then, Hades left for Tartarus and never returned.

Through her telepathy, Anabelle spoke to Hades constantly. However, along with her telepathy, Anabelle had also received the ability to move things with her mind, and to read the minds of others. While communicating with Hades, she had tried reading his mind, and found he had fallen in love with her.

Anabelle, upon finding out this information, fled from the Mortal world to Tartarus to find Hades, and they fell madly in love. During her absence, they had a child and named her Alexei, and thus the first vampire was born; a half-God, half-Mortal with immortal abilities. (Anabelle was considered a Mortal). With the power of her father, and the abilities of her mother, Alexei was extremely powerful and beautiful, but unlike her mother, was pale and dark haired.

Alexei was like her mother, but was a completely different person. Where her mother ate animals to stay alive, Alexei could only drink human blood. Hades used demon blood as a substitute, but Alexei's power was at minimal with this substitute.

When Zeus found out an Immortal Demi-God had been created, he had killed Anabelle. Through his anger, he had struck lightning on the Mortal Earth, giving the Mortals the knowledge of fire.

Out of anger towards Zeus for killing his beloved, Hades sent Alexei to the Roman Empire, and told her to present herself to Jupiter, and told her to drain the blood of

as many humans add she needed to raise her power to its fullest. He told her to help Happier Jupiter in what he needed once she got to Rome. Once she had become even more powerful than her mother could have dreamed to be, Alexei set out for Rome.

In Rome, Alexei told the Roman Gods of what the Olympians had -- about what she was. Jupiter, the king of the Roman Gods, was outraged, and called forth Earth, the Goddess of Life. He commanded that from a hair of Alexei and a hair from a wolf, Earth would create a hybrid of Demi-God and wolf, known as a werewolf.

Earth agreed, and Alexei did as her father instructed. Alexei gave a piece of her hair to Earth, and Earth made a mixture of Alexei's DNA and a wolf's DNA. Soon, the first werewolf known as Iexela (I - ex - illa) was born.

Iexela, born fully grown, sensed Alexei, and took her as an enemy. Iexela attacked Alexei, and through the sudden anger, transformed into a wolf. Alexei fled back to Greece, for she was much more agile and could flee much faster.

With this news reaching Zeus, he commanded Alexei use her venom to transform Mortals into vampires, rather than draining them completely. Alexei did as told, and fled as far as China and Greenland to build her army.

Jupiter gave Iexela the power of a venomous scratch. This scratch would infect Mortals into werewolves. Jupiter, in spite of jealousy, instructed Iexela to do the same as Alexei -- build an army.

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After years of battling, Zeus had had enough. He called upon his children, Artemis and Ares, to help put an end to the war. Ares used his power of the Sun to cast a spell on the vampires. While in the Sun, vampires would lose their powers of immortality -- they'd simply be mortals.

Artemis used her power of the Moon to cast a spell on the werewolves. If the Moon were in any form besides the New Moon, the werewolves would be forcefully and painfully changed into normal wolves until the Sun came up. In their wolf firm, the wolves would have natural instincts, and their humanity would be temporarily ripped from their minds.

Now known as the Immortal Sisters in legends, Alexei and Iexela still roam the world, changing the Mortals into soldiers for their dying out armies. However, with a deal made to Pluto, both sisters visited the demonic Goddess and gained their immortality against Ares and Artemis's spells.

Thanks to Pluto, the sisters could change Mortals without passing on the effects of the spell, but to keep Jupiter and Zeus from knowing, the sisters change very rarely, not wanting to attract attention. Zeus occasionally found a Vampire or Werewolf, but suspected they were one of the few remaining originals.

Legends say that to this day, the two sisters still build their races, with the differences and anger between the two races causing more and more accidental transformations.

...and those legends are true.