Winging It: The Truth [On Hold]

It's Complicated

Chapter Three: It’s Complicated

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❦ Pippa's POV ❦

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"So, what’s Harmony like?" I asked. I still couldn't believe my luck. I had a sister! "Wait. How old is she?"

"Ermmm well she's 18." He slurred. Maybe it was a bad idea to give him alcohol when I want to find out about my sister? WAIT!?! 18. That's the same age as me. "She's your twin."

"Wait, what!?" I coughed, chocking on my beer. "I have a twin sister!?"

"Yes, you have a twin sister!" He excalimed, spilling the beer all over the floor. Maybe I should take it off him.

"What's she like then? Tell me everything?" I took the, now empty, beer bottle of my dad and put it on the coffee table. Then I snuggle up to my dad again.

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"Anyways, I see you've already developed your powers?" He grinned.

"Yeah, I guess I have but I don't get why I have powers?" I asked.

"Ahhh, well." He took a deep breath and sighed."You see, for many centuries’ now people have been going on about witches, werewolves, fairies, shape-shifters, dragons et cetera. These superstitions aren’t real; they are just excuses that the God’s came up with to hide their real identity. You, my darling, are one of those God’s. You’re a goddess called Alcyone.” Really? I love God's!

“Yeah I've heard of her before. Myth has it that Alcyone, also said "Halcyone," is the Goddess of the Sea, the Moon, Calm, and Tranquillity? She made her nest on the beach, and waves were big and scary, but the gods made the sea calm so she could lay her eggs?”

“Yeah more or less. How'd you know?"

"Well I love Greek mythology." A smile crept across my father's face. "But could you tell me more about her story, personally?"

“I will have to start from the beginning then. In Greek mythology, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus. She married Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star. They were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's account, often sacrilegiously called each other "Zeus" and "Hera". This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea, the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship. Soon after, Morpheus (God of Dreams) disguised as Ceyx appeared to Alcyone as an apparition to tell her of his fate, and she threw herself into the sea in her grief. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into halcyon birds, named after her. Ovid and Hyginus both make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for "halcyon days," the seven days in winter when storms never occur. They state that these were originally the seven days each year, either side of the shortest day of the year, during which Alcyone laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety. The phrase has since become a term used to describe a peaceful time generally.”

"Wow. That's a lot to take in but I'm kind of liking her." Considering she was me.

"Now remember: it is she who brings life to death and death to life. She has the power to move any object or teleport any person. You also have the power to heal anybody's wounds with your tears and you have another power to do with killing people but nobody is quite sure what it is.”

"Oh, How come I've only just developed these powers?"

"Well it's starts when you turn 18." What about Harmony then? One question was really playing on my mind: