Medusa’s Son

Chapter 7

Third person POV

Arachne was a weaver who acquired such skill in her art that she ventured to challenge Athena, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason. Athena wove a tapestry depicting the gods in majesty, while that of Arachne showed their amorous adventures.

Enraged at the perfection of her rival's work, Athena tore it to pieces, and in despair Arachne hanged herself. But the goddess out of pity loosened the rope, which became a cobweb; Arachne herself was changed into a spider.

whence the name of the zoological class to which spiders belong, Arachnida.

ravens are associated with Apollo, the god of prophecy. They are said to be a symbol of bad luck, and were the god's messengers in the mortal world.

According to the mythological narration, Apollo sent a white raven, or crow in some versions to spy on his lover, Coronis. When the raven brought back the news that Coronis had been unfaithful to him.

Apollo scorched the raven in his fury, turning the animal's feathers black. That's why all ravens are black today.

According to Livy, the Roman general Marcus Valerius Corvus had a raven settle on his helmet during a combat with a gigantic Gaul, which distracted the enemy's attention by flying in his face.

"CROW" A bird familiar of Athena, who angered the goddess either by revealing the secret of the baby Erikhthonios to the daughters of Kekrops, or by reporting to her as an overly keen tell-tale that the girls had opened the secret chest. In either case the goddess punished him by turning his white feathers to black and banishing him from her company.

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He woke up on a hard ground. His right cheek was faced down on the cold concrete. He scrunched his face up when he felt dust fall on-top of him. He opened his eyes but immediately closed them due to the dust getting in them.

He scrunched up his face as he placed both palms on the ground and lifted himself up. He was about half way up before he blinked his eyes opened, the dust falling to the ground. He tucked his knees under himself as he sat up more.

He brought the back of his hand up to his face and wiped the dirt off. He lifted his head up and looked around. It looked like he was in some sort of ruin, it was dark and echoey, you could hear a pen drop on the ground.

He looked up and saw a whole in the roof where light was shining through, likely where he came. He was about to shout if anyone was there before a voice called out to him. "Your finally awake" someone called.

Priamos stood up and turned around so fast he thought he would get whiplash. There stood two people who looked strangely like Medusa to him. He eyed the placed before focusing his attention on them.

"Who are you, what am I doing here?” he questioned them. It wasn't a surprise that he wanted answers, he was taken out of no where to a place he didn't know of and now two weird looking people are talking to him.

"I'm stheno and this is Euryale" she answered gesturing to her sister. Priamos looked at them more confused as ever. "As in Medusa's sisters" he asked. They nodded. His face scrunched up more showing an even more confusing face.

"What do you want" he decided to calm down and ask the most important question right now. Both gorgons looked at each other before looking back at priamos. "I think you need to sit to hear this" euryale told him.

He did has they said and sat back on the ground crisscross applesauce looking at them expectantly. "Do you know the story of Medusa" stheno started by asking a question. He nodded his head. "She was raped by Poseidon in his castle" he said.

"And what happened after that" euryale asked. He looked at them suspiciously but kept going. "Athena punished her because she thought she was having an affair with Poseidon" he continued.

"Years later she was be-headed by some one not relevant" he stated. He also tried not to laugh at his own dumb joke. "Yes that is all correct, except your missing just one part that wasn't in your history books" stheno spoke.

It was crazy, cause what she was about to see say was going to change his life and how he felt. This information thats going to be told to him will be a dangerous one, but one that has to be done.

"Your Medusa's descendant"

The words rang in his ears like a bell. His face was emotionless but inside his emotions were running rapid with feelings. It was like he was told that his sister died in a fire, like his whole life was a lie.

Of course he would feel some type of way about this. He didn't even think about denying it, why would Medusa's sister tell such a dumb lie like that, he wasn't stupid. He clutched his short between his delicate fingers.

He felt anger and sadness somehow. Why? Well it was obvious. He was basically Medusa's son, her blood runs through his veins. Now your telling him that his mother died before he got to know her, it inconceivable.

But just like that he didn't have time to feel anger or mourn. Cause suddenly the whole ruin shook. The gorgons looked up for a couple seconds before looking at each other with a determined look on their face.

They found them