Sky Girl

A New World

The breeze carried through the pillars and up the stairs. Grey clouds surrounded the kingdom as we trained with Artie. He descended from the goddess of the hunt and wild, Artemis. Demetri and I were descended from Apollo. We always trained with family. There were no longer generations around us that had witnessed the power of our Gods and Goddesses; all they left behind were us as proof they once existed. If we didn't believe they forged us, our families would banish us from the kingdom. Here on Earth, it would be to the seas. Back on Olympias, it was the same. Only being on Earth changed things. There was land. A hope we could survive on the ground. We had never lived like this before. And honestly, I quite liked it.

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The rim of the horizon had reached its midnight dusk as us sky watchers gazed and danced across the clouds. Nothing like literally touching the sky at the tip of our fingers. Thunderstorms were music to my ears. Lightning storms raved as we would dance among the seas striking light with our feet. Back home on Olympias, Demetri and I would soar and shoot with the stars. We blended in with the night fall. We couldn't touch the seas as Poseidon's creatures would awaken. We were told to not go near the water which is why we did. We dared back on Olympias. So we dared among Earth's seas.

"Ada!" someone screamed my name.

I turned around and ran toward Artie.

"You need to be careful. We don't know what's down there. Especially when we don't know this planet."

"I'm sure it's exactly the same as back home," I believed. "If anything, it's possible that Earthlings wouldn't even believe in our Nereids and Oceanids, the horses of Poseidon, and the Cetus monsters."

"Or it could be worse," Artie pointed out. "If we can arrive safely on this planet, who knows what else can?"

"Kryptonians. Starhavenites," my quick response surprised even myself.

"Plural?"

"Yeah, there's more than one Kryptonian. That woman said she wasn't the only one," I recalled.

"Starhavenites? Are you sure?" Artie held his hand out to climb the clouds back to the temple.

"I saw heaps of them. Even aliens that I couldn't identify."

"What are 'aliens'?" Artie's confused eyes opened at a disturbing thought.

"I don't know. It's something the little ground people called someone who didn't look like their own kind."

"Do we look anything like them?"

"Like who? Aliens?" my one track thought stopped at the red lights at a crossroads.

"Not the aliens, the Earthlings. Do we look anything like them?"

"Yeah, if we drop the spears, and cover our skin, we could easily fit in. They cloak their bodies. It's strange."

"Wouldn't our skin give us away?"

"No, their races are just like ours. We have light and dark tones just like them. They seemed to have more light skinned people."

"How can they have more light skinned?" Artie stopped walking.

"You got me there. I have no clue," I faced him. "They're like a light tan."

Demetri raced up and down the night cloak as clouds darkened Poseidon's oceans striking light with his hands and feet. He soared from one end to the other as his claps to the music echoed out thunder.