Sun and Moon {Apollo}

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Silence, minus the occasional rustle of the leaves at the slight provocation from the wind. Diana closed her eyes as the Alpine wind picked up her raven hair and let it play in the air. She opened her eyes with the release of a silent breath, pulling the string of her bow, having the end of the arrow kissing her lip on the string before she let it fly into the air. A few seconds later a thud could be hear in the silence as a bird of prey descended from the heavens, killed by an arrow from a goddess.

Diana placed the bow around her as she made her way towards her prize. Walking in silence she couldn't help but feel relaxed. This was her escape. It was a bit awkward without her hunters, she always felt like she would have to turn around to make sure they were all okay. But no, they were in America, not Europe, especially not in the Alps. No, Diana was here alone. She needed to try to relax, get her thoughts in order. With the war on the verge of beginning she was starting to feel anxiety with the memories of the last war still far too recent. The faces of the dead hunters staring blankly up towards the heavens, holding their wounds. The screams they let loose as their immortality left them while they defended the homage to the gods.

Why did Saturn have to come back? Every time someone was foolish enough to let him loose again death and destruction joined him, hand in hand. You couldn't have one without the other and to all those naive children who believed it was possible Diana want to shoot them point blank. Where did they conceive that foolish notion? Did they not recall that Saturn ate his children? No, instead they let the gods petty personalities get to them and decide to take teenage retaliation to a whole new extreme. Foolish demigods and mortals. Foolish gods for acting like they owned the place and could do whatever they bloody well pleased.

She approached the lifeless bird and stared at it for a few solid moments. How many hunters were going to be like that bird within the coming months? Dead, lifeless with their wound still fresh. Another soft thud could be heard in the silence of the forest as Diana dropped to her knees, feeling the warmth of the saltwater falling from her eyes as she started crying softly. It was a good thing she was alone, she normally didn't let the facade of a strong goddess ever falter. But all the faces of her hunters who had fallen came to her head. Zoe Nigthshade, gods, if there ever was a better hunter. She had died in the events of the last war. Bianca DeAngelo, a recent recruit had died during a quest leading up to the war. Many more. Diana remembered all their names and faces. It was getting to be too much as she began to thing about the hunters she had know, wondering how many weren't going to be with her next year due to this war. The silent cry had now become audible as Diana let her raw emotion come out into the silence of the forest.

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Sometimes Apollo needed to get some free time, some moment to think freely, to be himself and forget about war and problems, he had always been a laid back god, something that he usually didn't care about. He loved to be like that, to be what humans might called a hippie, always thinking that everything had a cool solution and that nothing was really worthy to worry about. Even last war when rumors about Saturn waking up, he was plenty convinced that the demigods would be capable to save the day.

But that was last war... in that war he lost many children, not only Roman, but also Greek. It was difficult to make that change of heart, roman to Greek or viseversa, but when it was about his children, he remembered them all and each of them were open wounds in his immortal soul. So this time he wanted to be more active, he wanted to be there for them, be an archer watching their backs, be a medic ready to heal their wounds. He wasn't going to let the Titan to kill other of his children, he would do all in his power to avoid his children of that pain.

But before that moment came, he needed to have some free time, some moment to clear his mind and become a better, not only god but also, father, grandfather, brother and son. so he went to Europe, his original home and went to practice what he was good at, Archery! He would never accept it, but he was a better musician than archer, diana his older sister was much better in archery... but well he would never accept it out loud. 

He was running down a cliff following a birn on the sky, it would be a great prey! suddenly he saw an arrow and the bird fell to the ground. He cursed in several languages, specially greek and Roman, then he walked at a medium speed to the place where the bird fell, he wanted to see who had been capable to kill such an amazing prey. Suddenly he stopped, he saw the silvered shine, and also the the sound of the voice, which even when it was crying, was perfectly distinguishable.

"Diana?" he asked as he walked closer. He was about if she was also angry because someone else killed the bird, but then he saw the silvered arrow, he knew it had been her prey then. But then he wondered why was she crying. He put his bow around his back as always and walked closer to his sister. "diana, what's wrong? are you injured? your huntresses? I swear I haven't talked to them since Adsila left" He said because sometimes she was so mad at him that she cried too.

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Diana stiffened at the mention of her name and turned to look at her approaching twin brother. The contrast between them becoming prominent as he walked almost bathing in the color of the sun while she reflected the shin of the moon. As he continued talking, asking if the reason she was crying was his fault, she shook her head no. As often as he flirted with her hunters, even stealing some from the hunt like their most recent deserter, the reason for the waterfall flowing from her eyes was not his fault. She wiped the tears away from her face and rubbed her eyes at an attempt to make it not look like she was crying, though why even bother? Apollo had already seen her cry.

Diana took a deep breath and looked at her brother with big, sad eyes. "No, nothings wrong. Nothings wrong with my hunters. Its just... I was thinking of the last war. I'm not ready to deal with it again." Diana said in reference to those who fell at the last war. It wasn't just her who lost people. Her brother lost children and she saw the crushed look he had once he figured out all who he had lost. And then everyone else. It was devastating. Diana retreated from Olympus for a couple of months after that. Of course it was under the premise of recruiting when really it was her time to mourn. She usually let the hunters do their own thing and aim towards recruiting while she seeked solitude and let herself grieve. Was it selfish of her? Probably. But immortals have emotions too.

She stood up and looked up at her twin brother. Twin. Nobody would even guess with the way they looked. They were opposites, in looks and personalities. It's hard to imagine that they both came from the same parents. Then again, it was probably hard to believe that Diana had to help her mother give birth to Apollo within minutes after her birth since Apollo was still too big headed even before he saw the Earth the first time. Her brother, even though they had their bad times, he was someone she could always depend on, since day one. Thats how she found herself wrapping her arms around him and giving him one of her very rare sibling hugs. She just felt maybe he would need some comfort too, with what has happened and what had yet to come. Plus, she just needed someone at this moment too.

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Tag:  Diana

Word: 427

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The god of the sun waited standing there for the one that was in front of him. He was sure it was his sister, no mater what he would always recognize his sister. Twins... people would never understand what was to be a twin, not even the gods. they didn't know how it was to sense someone, always knowing if that person was fine or not, was injured maybe or felt lonely. It was a kind of weird to try to explain others what it was to feel that all the time, and how the absense of that would mean something terrible! She hadn't said a word about her feeling, about what she is in that moment thinking or if she was lonely or injured, but it wasn't necessary, Apollon could sense the pain in his sister, that was why his hint went with her huntresses first. 

Seconds later, his sister got up and faced him, she had tried to wipe the tears that still got her pale skin slightly wet. When she looked at him, her eyes broke his heart. only few could do that, sometimes his kids and grandkids, almost none of the women that he had spent special moments with, and Diana. But his sister was the one that no matter what happened, the moment she would have those eyes on her face, Apollo's heart would break and he would look for the possible evil one who had hurt his sister and he would kill them all!! Adsila was just a slight exception.

Diana told him what was troubling her and it only made him produce a long sigh. sometimes even he was surprised about how alike they were sometimes. so she was also worried about it?... He smiled softly, gently... even in a shy way, Apollo was never shy, but with his sister. "Then I guess twins DO think alike..." she moved slowly and gracefully as only his sister could do it and wrapped her delicate arms around him and gave him a tight hug. They usually never did that, but in that moment it was needed, not only she needed a hug, but he needed it too. and not the kind of hug that a lover could provice with, but a hug that only his other half in a weird literal way, could give him.

He hugged her tightly and kissed her forehead, then sighed and continued "I'm not ready either, sis... But this time is different, this time we will lose lees kids in this foolish war."

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