Bow of Acropolis

Chapter V : A Fairytale

"Huh?" Edlynne asked for elucidation.

"Your father is greek. Isn't he?"

Edlynne didn't answer and waited for the next words.

"Formerly, i like to give my gold owl necklace—which is my sign, to everyone who is my descendants, have my blood. And let them bequeathed it to the next generations. Like you"

"Wait. But you are the virgin goddess. You haven't a kid" said Edlynne refused to believe.

Athena giggled.

"Do you know how i was born? I didn't born with any mother. I came from Zeus's brain. As you can see, everything could possible to have a kid"

Edlynne remained silent.

"Unthinkable and improbable" Edlynne made her inferences at one time.

"Wanna hear a fairytale?" Athena asked softly.

Edlynne nodded instantaneously.

Athena craned her hands to Edlynne.

"Come" said Athena.

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(The Acropolis on 12th century)

"Where did you take me" asked Edlynne to Athena.

"Is it..."

"Yes. The Acropolis 800 years ago before your epoch" said Athena.

Edlynne out of words.

"What a pity! In my epoch it go to pieces"

She was concerned about The Acropolis structures nowadays which was almost collapsed.

"Wow. is that your sculpture?" asked Edlynne vigorously.

Athena little smiled said, "It called Athena Promachos. Must be already collapsed on your epoch"

"This place make me remember about yesterday. The last day me and my parents met" said Edlynne out of nowhere.

Athena who was beside her, listened to it thoroughly.

"Actually, this place is where were we stood right before i saw the chamber" Edlynne appended.

Edlynne recalled the memory of how was topsy-turvy yesterday.
Her eyes began to glaze. Her tears ready to drop and overflow at anytime.

Athena heard that properly. She directly averted her eyes to Edlynne.

"I miss them"

Said Edlynne as her tears began to fall.

"Whats your fairytale then?" she wiped her tears immediately.

"A couple of years ago i came to Hephaestus's workshop to ask for weapons. However, the black-smith god tried to seduce me, which fled in disgust. Hephaestus chased me and managed to catch me just so he could rape me. I resisted and his semen fell onto my thight. I took some wool to wipe it away and threw it on the ground. Out of that semen, Erichthonius—my son, your ancestors was born. Since that i decided to raise him secretly. Only few of Olympians knew about this, one of them Poseidon"

Edlynne stopped crying. She started frowned her face dumbfounded.

"Wait. I don't get it"

"How in this world your son could born from the semen that didn't even dropped on your womb" asked Edlynne over wonderment.

"That's basically the reason why in this world i could have a child even though i'm still virgin"

"I threw the semen on the earth thus Gaia, The Goddess of Earth who was actually got pregnant to Hephaestus's semen and not me" Athena explained patiently.

Edlynne maintained to silent as her puzzled face still wonder.

"Later when Gaia gave born to Erichthonius, she gave him to me. I raised him as my son secretly, however Poseidon found out"

"When Erichthonius grew, he told that he wanted independent life away from here. I resisted his desire. Therefore he came to Poseidon for helped and he agreed. He helped my son to go away from Athens through the sea. In returned he changed his name to Erechtheus and putted Poseidon's name on his last name as 'Erechtheus Poseidon'"

"When i figured it out i was so mad to Poseidon and i cursed my son and all of his descendants that whoever has his blood must repatriated the necklace as my proven posterity"

Edlynne speechless.

Now everything made sense to her. From when his father told that his favorite Greek Gods was Poseidon to Athena's explained all connected by the end.

"Holy Moly. So you said i'm your descendant? The Goddess of Wisdom is my ancestors how crazy is that?

Athena shrugged her shoulders.

"Well..."

Edlynne looked straight to Athena, "So this is the reason why i'm here? Cause i have to return this necklace to you?"

Athena replied, "Unfortunately, yes"

"Yet, not only for that" she added.