When Darkness Met Her

Something Wicked This Way Comes

She sat against the cool glass, watching as the drops of water cascaded down from the sky as the weather gave way to whatever god or goddess was causing it. Her pale skin glowed almost white as it reflected against the window, as did her buttercup yellow hair that flowed down in waves and curls all the way past her back. Mother hated when she let it down. The Goddess of the earth and crops of the world would not allow her daughter to let that tangled mess of a hair loose like some mere mortal. No, Persephone, Goddess of Spring, needed to be prim, proper, and of all things, constantly under watch.

She sighed and bumped her head against the glass as her breath fogged up around her. It had been nearly a millennium since the old days where gods and goddesses ruled the land, when mortals actually believed in them. Now in this day and age, where horses and chariots were replaced by cars and planes, a god seemed almost mundane compared to the advances the mortals had made. Still, the gods knew not to try and fight change, so instead of hindering the mortals with their advances, they latched on to them. Now the once gods and goddesses of the world owned some of the most widely known and powerful companies in the world. Poseidon had maintained full control over all businesses that had anything to do with the sea, while Zeus, king of the gods, took hold of any major electric corporation he could get his hands on. All the other gods took on their own respective roles in the new world, using their powers to their own devices.

Now Persephone sat in one of the most lavish and expensive high rise apartments that sat right above her mothers own corporation that dealt with the worlds top agricultural businesses.

The walls were golden brown, with beautiful and detailed flower bouquets in expensive vases decorating the corners in various mother had decorated walls in all the original artwork of old Renaissance paintings that depicted her or Persephone herself. She always blushed at the ones about her, showing the young goddess in nothing but a robe that barely covered her breasts. As if she would have ever dressed like that, she wasn't pulling a Aphrodite. The furniture was all very high end, very rustic looking, so her mother could show a sort of earthly persona even in her own household. Demeter, Goddess of the Earth and Crops, sat down at a earth colored lavish desk scribbling notes to herself as Persephone sighed once more thinking all of it was just bureaucracy and showing off who had the more expensive what.

"Stop sighing Kore" her mother said annoyed "You know how I hate it. You've been rather melancholy lately."

"I just hate being stuck indoors all day" Persephone said, hating the name "Kore" that her mother insisted on calling her.

"Well then go in the gardens once the rain stops" Demeter said "Just take the guards along with you."

"That's the problem" Persephone mumbled "I can't even breathe outside without them taking note of it."

"Do stop mumbling dear, it's not lady like" Demeter said as she tucked away more notes into her desk.

"Mother, when will I ever be able to leave without the guards?" Persephone said finally getting up, letting the dark green dress she wore fall around her legs.

"Kore, we've discussed this" Demeter said looking up at her daughter, her bright green eyes sharp as her auburn hair was pulled tightly back against her head in a elaborate bun "Ever since that maniac kidnapped you-"

"For the last time" Persephone groaned "He is not a maniac!"

"Kore" her mother said getting up and coming over to her daughter, her suit the same color dark green as Persephone "I've been meaning to speak with you over the subject."

"Oh no" she groaned and rolled her eyes, ready to hear her mother's usual rant about how Persephone was married to a lunatic and how she needed to talk to Zeus about staying with her mother permanently.