Broken God

A Hero Is Born

     Long ago, there was the god of the moon, and the goddess of the sun. The two fought for dominance over the lost island, a place where only immortals live. Zaleus, the god of the moon, sent his wife to run away and take their son, Daniel, to the mortal world to be safe. As Zaleus was fighting the goddess of the sun, Amelorty, he had been stabbed and fell to the ground. "I will kill your wife and son." Amelorty whispered into Zaleus's ear. With that, Zaleus screamed and used all the energy he could to stand, before Amelorty could react, Zaleus has already pierced the sharp blade through her stomach. After Amelorty fell lifeless on the ground, soon, Zaleus fell into the arms of his best friend, Philip, the god of every creature known to mankind, and whispered "Keep my son and wife safe...Daniel..my dear son..needs to finish what I have started.." with that, Zaleus took his last breath.

          "Dan, wake up man." The dark headed boy whispered to his best friend. Daniel woke up and looked at the fifteen year old with a glare. "I'm starting to think that on my eighteenth birthday, which is in fact a couple months away, I shouldn't adopt you out of this orphanage." Daniel said staring straight at the boy in front of him. Mark looked at him laughing as he said, "we both know you wouldn't do that." Before Dan could reply they heard the familiar sound of bells that meant it was time for breakfast.

        All the foster kids lined up to feed their rumbling stomachs, including Daniel and Mark. Once Daniel plopped down into his seat to start eating, he heard the familiar silence of his young friend PJ, who has never spoke in his life, and the high pitched chatter of the 16 year old girl, Dodie. "So everyone is starting to make up an urban legend about PJ, saying something like the sisters cut off his tongue as a child because he was disrespectful." Dodie said as PJ silently laughed making a horrified face.

"So Dodie...what's your dream once you get out of here?" Mark asked with heart eyes.

"I want to get a really good job and then maybe have a family, what about you Dan?"

       Dan looked up at his friends then back down at his oatmeal. "I..I want to find my parents." The three teenagers all looked at him with shock and sadness. "Dan-" Before Dodie could finish they all heard the sounds of screeching. The alarm. Bombs were coming. Every orphan walked in a straight line to the bomb shelters, some scared, and some who lost so much humanity to where they welcomed death.

     The four friends huddled up on the floor listening to jets up above and the headcount coming from the lead sister. Daniel started to get dizzy, he heard the faint names of children being called, "and Daniel-" All of a sudden something busted from the ceiling causing everyone to scream

This is it.

    Dan was so sure it was time for him to die. But to his knowledge, he only felt the sharp pain in his chest, as he couldn't breath. And that was when a hero was born.

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   Daniel opened his eyes and rested them upon a man standing before him. He looked around to see he was in a grass field that had a forest next to it. He looked at the man confused and instinctively backed up, "who are you? Where am I? Where are my friends?" The man held up a hand and spoke words Daniel could not believe, words that were just horrifying. "I am Christopher, also known as Chris, the god of all gods. I have brought you home, here, the Lost Island of gods, where immortals live. Your friends are fine, they are back at the orphanage." Daniel looked at him in disbelief, "I don't believe you." Chris only smiled and said, "of course you don't, but you see that "birthmark" right there on your wrist, the moon?" Dan looked at his birthmark of the moon that was dark with white speckles and said, "yeah. And?" Chris grabbed his shoulder, "you are the son of the god of the moon Daniel." Before Dan could protest he felt his eyes drop and looked into what seemed like a dream..

Philip stood in the forest as he watched the troops of the sun god line up those who were loyal to the god of the moon. He looked at Katrina, Zaleus's wife kneeling on the ground, hands tied to her back while the daughter of the sun goddess held a sword to her neck, "where is the future god of the moon?" Katrina smirked, "you shall never find him until it is his time to come back home and kill you, saving this island, saving his family." The daughter of the sun goddess, kilra, beheaded Katrina and motioned for her soldiers to kill all the others. Philip looked away with a tear rolling down his face.

    Daniel fell to the ground with tears in his eyes. "N-no! I will not believe you! I won't!" The teenage boy got up and ran into the forest, trying to get as far away from that man as he could.