My Name Is MEDUSA

Chapter 4

My little river one day produced a set of eyes. I thought it was in my head but right there before me looking full of hatrred and lust were the eyes of none other than Posidon. Like the men before him, he just dazed at my beauty. He said he wanted to marry me, shocked I rejected and explained to him why. I had to be a virgin forever to be a high priestess in Athena's temple. Maybe I should not have said that cause all his eyes gave me was an evil glare. I thought I might just turn to stone. He continued to try and woo me but I still refused. His advances continued for weeks until it happened. That day I went to the river and I saw Posidon In his human form. He grabbed me with his arms and raped me. Tears fell from my face like a river just like the one my blood now flowed into. When he was done. I ran to the temple crying and bleeding profously.  I cried my way up to where I saw Athena. She looked at me in sadness and a bit of pleasure. I cried my heart out to her but she seemed unmoved by my story. She stated her law of virginity in her temple among her high priestess and then the worst of the worst happened. Instead of consoling me and sending me home. She cursed me turning my hair into snakes. I looked at my once lovely hair turn into snakes. I marvelled at the way the gods we claim to be good could be so human. With the hatred in me I became evil. No longer did men behold my beauty, the once lovely eyes and hair they adored would now turn them to stone. My name became more famous but not fot beauty but as Medusa the snakeish evil.