Marked by The Moon and Sun

Prologue: 500 BC

"And so, my darling, the king banished Prometheus to the underworld, and every day on the same hour came an eagle who would eat his liver, and everyday it would grow back." Hedyla told her daughter the most requested bedtime story she got that week.

Cathenna Vasiliás looked up at her mother and yawned. She had so many questions to ask. Like why would Zeus sentence the Titan that risked so much for him to the underworld, just because he gave mankind fire?

"Mother," Cathenna pipped up. "Must you leave tomorrow?"

Hedyla smoothed her daughter's hair. Her eyes rested on Cathenna's gray eyes, and kissed her daughter's forehead. "My dear, Cathenna." She cooed. "There isn't much to explain to you now, but when you're older-"

"You mean when I'm queen." She interrupted her mother.

Hedyla gave her daughter a slight smile, "Maybe when you're queen you'll understand what I must do to keep you safe."

Hedyla kissed her daughter on the forehead again and went towards the door, only to be stopped by a question from Cathenna.

"Mother, will father be alright alone?"

Hedyla looked at her daughter confused, but gave her a slight smile. "Your father won't be alone, he has you."

*

"Faster Cathenna!" Screeched Aegeus Vasiliás, king of Cyrene. He was in the middle of teaching his ten-year old daughter how to spar.

Cathenna tried to hold the fifty pound sword in her hands, meleeing with that object seemed obscured in her eyes. However, she picked the sword up to where it felt natural in her hands and slowly swung at her father. Aegeus quickly blocked the attack with his own sword, sending her's flying to the other side of the pasture. Aegeus knocked his daughter down, where she was laying on the floor with the point of his sword pressured on her neck.

"You must be more firm Cathenna, more stable, faster." He growled at her.

"I know father." She mumbled.

He has been extremely hard on her the past three years since her mother died. 

"I just don't understand why I need this training." She said under her breath.

Aegeus quickly picked up his daughter and pinned her against a tree that was behind him. "Cathenna if I don't show you how to defend yourself, how can you be prepared if you were attacked? I don't need the same to happen to you like it did your mother." He chocked back the last words. 

He quickly released his daughter, where she landed on her feet. Her first response was to run, run away from this crazy, but she knew as a princess her duty was to the kingdom, to her father. She picked up the sword.

*

"C'mon old man," Cathenna urged her father, "Is that the best you can do?"

Aegeus grinned as he looked at his teenage daughter as she taunted him in a spar. He had to admit with his training, Cathenna was able to take on any danger and at least escape alive.

"I think that is enough for today, Cathenna." He gave up.

He watched as her shoulders dropped and her face made the same expression. She soon realized what she was doing and quickly changed her mood and sheathed her sword on the belt that was hanging from her waist.

Cathenna moved over to her horse as Aegeus made his way to his.

"Did you call it quits today because I was finally going to beat you, father?" She laughed at her own joke.