Blinded by hate. Saved by love.

Chapter 1

Y/N POV   (6 years old)
"(Y/N) get your ass back here NOW or else!!" screamed my so called "father" just because I won't go to the temple of Athena to give my blessings to the goddess. I have always worshipped the goddess Artemis because I spend all my time in the forest hunting rabbits and deer.

Ducking behind a few crates and barrels to hide from my "father" my mind go to the thought of my mother. 'Mom where ever you are please save me from him!' I never knew my mother. She supposedly died giving birth to me from what my "father" told me. But I know that my mother is alive out there somewhere. All of a sudden an Adder snake dropped onto my lap and it's facing me in my eyes. Without a hint of fear I reach down and start petting it's head and body.

As if knowing that I don't mean harm to it, the snake curled up into a ball and fell asleep in my lap. We've must have stayed like this for hours just us until a soft voice broke me out of my thoughts, "By the gods child! Do you need help with that?"

Looking up I saw the priestess Medusa with worried eyes pointed towards me. With a hushed voice I told her "Shush you'll wake her up." I may have said that with a bit of a harsh tone, because she looked shocked that I spoke that way with her.

She opened her mouth to say something but I heard the one voice I cursed the most in this world. "There you are you little paliópaido!"  I froze in terror. He had been drinking due to the jar of wine in his hand and by the way he walks. He shoves Medusa our of his way and grabs me by my shoulders hard.

It takes him a moment to think before he brings out his knife with an evil glint in his eyes.

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Paliópaido means brat in Greek.

And please tell me how I did on my first attempt to a story please.