Superhero Me!: An Urban Fantasy Thriller (Mortality Bites Book 3) by Ramy Vance

Author:Ramy Vance [Vance, Ramy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keep Evolving Studios
Published: 2018-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

End of Part 2

Prologue

How cruel the god Apollo had been that fateful day they met. Not that she had meant to draw in the sun with her song. It was not her fault that her voice attracted the god’s attention. Nor was it her fault that her beauty drove him mad with passion.

And so he came at her like a stray dog in heat, panting and begging. So distasteful. She rejected him, as was her right. Nay, more than her right—it was her nature. For when her father, King Priam, lay with her mother, Hecuba, they had enticed the muse Calliope to touch her soul and the siren Ligeia to gift her with song and beauty unmatched. And as the two divine creatures touched the newly born baby, they set her on a course to be something … more.

None could deny that Cassandra was the most beautiful girl in all of creation—even more beautiful than her sister Helen, whose face had launched a thousand ships.

But true beauty is oft accompanied by vile arrogance, and in this way Cassandra was not immune. Suitors would come from far off, lured in by Cassandra’s song, only to be turned away once the hook of her perfection had pierced their hearts, its metal infecting their souls with the rabies of rejection.

On the island of Troy there is a cliff called Cassandra’s Bluff, its name earned by all the failed suitors who jumped to a watery grave rather than live a life without the woman they loved with all their being.

And so that became Cassandra’s curse: to love her with undeniable passion, only to find that love unfulfilled and unrequited.

Cassandra might have continued this way had her song not been heard by the sun god Apollo. Disguising himself as a human, he too sought to win her hand.

And he, like the rest of them, was refused.

But in all of creation there is no creature more vindictive than a god spurned, and refusing Cassandra’s refusal, he tied her to a sacrificial altar on Mt. Olympus’s Stefani Peak. There he scooped out her eyes and gouged out her tongue.

Cassandra, bloodied and in so much pain that she was near death, screamed in agony, pleading for mercy. Apollo, god of music, truth and prophesy, possessed no mercy in his pierced heart.

He replaced Cassandra’s eyes with two of the all-seeing eyes of the Cyclops, so that she would be cursed with the eyes of foresight, but he made sure that the only future Cassandra could see would be the tragic death of others.

Once that was done, he sewed the vile tongue of Medacius, the spirit of fraud and deception, into her screaming mouth so that no one would believe her prophesies.

Born out of love, reborn out of pain, Cassandra awoke. She was no longer the girl gifted with beauty and song, but rather the woman who saw death and could do nothing about it for she was never to be believed.

Leaving her bleeding body, which because of Apollo’s Frankenstein-esque

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