Ananke Greek Mythology Novels & Stories

Of all the beauty, hers was the most divine. Her purple eyes gleamed with her grey armor as she rose from the ashes, did her purple gaze shine with her tears or her enemy’s blood? They were afraid to call her by her name……. Athena. I am Athena Raven Lark, and this is my Story.

he recited what sounded like a prophecy. “What? Sixteen maidens? Sixteen mothers? I’m not sure you have your math correct. I have fourteen children.” I shook my head. He just stared at me with a blank expression. “Eunice and Anthylla… are you saying….” I ran my hand over my muzzle. “Minos will return them to Athens. To their families. Eunice will be forced to marry some old man her father had selected. And Anthylla was supposed to become a priestess of Athena.” I frowned.

Her daughter, lying on the ground, unconscious and Achilles Eliades with a broken and bleeding nose. The slave that was with them had said that Achilles had demanded the submission of Persephone, who had blatantly refused to submit, and as he tried getting her to kneel, she had hit him. Nektaria nearly went mad with fear. Her daughter, kept being unconscious and though Charilaus called unto his Patron god, Apollo, and many medicine men, all they said was that she had offended Ares, the god of war and that this was her sin for being disobedient.

They were all silent until the old woman broke the silence. "My name is Ananke, I'm the great oracle of old and now of new. The reason I brought you here was for you two to break the blood oath by making another oath to the gods ". The girls just stared at her, too tired to speak. That made the old woman smile and she again continued to speak. "Your friend, the boy who is two in one. What was his name?..... Ah Asher? Was it? Yes I think so. He brought you to me. He left just minutes after you woke.

Caught off guard I stumble for words and so was Zeus who swiftly moves his drink away before he chokes. "What did you just say?" A blood thirsty aura explodes from the god of the Underworld as he takes a threatening step forward forcing the Captain to inch back. "She consumed nectar, my lord." Vald replies trying to keep his cool and I almost fall back to the couch as I stand. Nectar was the drink of gods and immortals and could be consumed by demigods but it was lethal to other mortals. "How?" Hades grinds out the word, his jaw tense in frost, his entire demeanor hostile.