An atheist demigod of Mars (A Lucy Tempest rant) by tyw7, literature
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An atheist demigod of Mars (A Lucy Tempest rant)
Imagine being a demigod and suddenly finding out that you’re a daughter of an ancient Roman God. This happened to me when I was age 15. I found that instead of my mom, an ugly half-woman half-bat creature (called a fury) was waiting for me downstairs. The fury aligned with Gaia, who wanted to overthrow the gods. And that’s right. I said gods, with a small g and an s at the end. While I may not know if God, with a capital G, i.e., the god of the Abrahamic religion, existed, I know that the gods of many of the ancient pantheon did. Mars certainly did. He and my mom… how do I put it in a PG-13 manner… hooked up. And bam! You get a sassy read haired demigod. Me. Jupiter (or Zeus as the Greeks know him) also existed. So as Juno (Hera) and Venus (Aphrodite). And the House of Life channel the gods of the Egyptian religion. And the Asgardians of the Norse also had demigods. So how do I remain an atheist in a world of gods? Simple. While I don’t think the Abrahamic god is real
A guide to new demigods: The Grey Sisters taxi by tyw7, literature
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A guide to new demigods: The Grey Sisters taxi
In ancient Greece, the Grey sisters helped Perseus (or rather ransomed by Perseus) into spilling the secret of killing Medusa. Then Greece fell. Not much is known about them during the Roman times, however. Nowadays, you will find the Sisters driving a taxi service for demigods. You can summon them by dropping a drachma onto the ground and yelling, ""Stêthi, Ô hárma diabolês!" This translates into "Stop, Chariot of Damnation!" That name accurately describes the Grey Sisters taxi service. Though they are one of the fastest modes of transport across the continental United States, they are very expensive! A Camp to Camp travel will take about an hour but cost upwards of 1200 drachmas or $2400! They charge like 20 drachmas per minute. Yes, you read that right. It's per minute not per mile. Don't think about paying with American Dollars. Their exchange rate is very steep, even worse than what is offered by the Fawns. And the comfort riding one of the taxis is like 1*. It is
Your friendly neighborhood demigod by tyw7, literature
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Your friendly neighborhood demigod
Being a demigod and a student was extra hard. In addition to deadlines, you will get monsters wanting to kill you every now and then.
But what do you mean, you may ask. A demigod? Does that mean you're an alien like Thor? And to answer your question, no.
The Olympians are beings that supposedly created the Earth. One thing you must know is that these gods are very horny. If you look at Greek history, you will see these beings have kids with mortals, ie non-gods, all the time. Hercules was a demigod. And Perseus.
These were the more famous demigods. No surprise since their dad was also one of the Big Three, a collective term referr
Lu stood nervously outside the SHIELD director's office. She had previously saved Coulson during the Hydra attack uprising, and she hoped to use that event to pull in a favor from him.
Lu was the type of person to seize the opportunity to climb to greatness. And after the collapse of SHIELD during the events of the Hydra uprising, SHIELD had lost its containment facilities to house and store powerful artifacts and prevent from getting into the wrong hands.
But gods being gods, objects were constantly being lost all the time. A few weeks ago, Lu had undertaken a quest to retrieve Venus's mirror. As with other objects used by the gods, th
Who am I?
Am I just the weird girl
Who sees monsters
And fights them to save the world?
No I am so much more.
Am I just a daughter of Mars
A warrior
Living under my father’s shadow?
No I am so much more.
Am I just a sinner
Deserving hell
For loving another woman?
No I am so much more.
I am not just the sum of my parts
I am Lucy Tempest.
Being a demigod had its upsides. For once it gave me superhuman durability. While not on the same level of Thor or Superman with their impenetrable skin, I can withstand most attacks that would otherwise kill a normal human being. Also, while I do not have super fast healing, nectar was a good substitute. It can heal most wounds within minutes. Major wounds within hours.
And for the record, Thor is NOT a demigod, not matter what the media said. He’s a god period. Demi is the latin word for half and god… well is god. Thus a demigod is half god, half mortal. Also, the media had referred Thor and the Norse gods as extradimensional b
Lucy’s feet barely touched the dirt plain she ran across. Behind her she could hear the loud chanting of creatures speaking a foreign tongue. It sounded like a mixture of Greek and Latin speech mixed a third unknown language. She could pick up phrases of ‘she rises’ and ‘the tree of life shall begin anew.’ The smell of acrid smell hit her nose causing a sharp burning sensation deep in her nasal cavities.
From the corner of her eyes she could see that the creatures, which resembled harpies but with blue skin and tusks jutting from their mouth, was trying to flank her. The outer edges of the line was trying t
Brianna felt different. Somehow to her time moved slowly. She felt her heart pounding rapidly in her chest. Her normally soft bed felt extremely hard.
It was then she slowly opened her eyes. She was in a glass cell, observed on by a guy in trenchcoat and notepad. Around her was fragments of a dark crystalline item. "Subject emerge from cocoon. No physical difference," he jotted down on the notepad.
Although she was still groggy, slowly her memories returned. She was on a bus from the new Bus Campus to the exam venue at the old Singleton Campus 30 minutes away. There was a loud bang followed by screaming. She saw masked men enterin
Nothingness.
That was how Brianna felt when she died at the hands of Gaia. Her gun failed her at a crucial moment and Gaia managed to kill her with a beam of light.
The next thing she remembered was facing a tribunal at the underworld. "I must be dreaming, " she thought. One can understand Brianna's reaction as sitting on the tribunal were people who were dead: Shakespeare, John Marshall, Plato, and Pluto himself.
The death of a child was always a touchy matter. Children usually never live a full life before they died, so it was hard to judge them.
Brianna was different. She died trying to end the terror that was plaguing her friends