Avenging by Holly Kelly

Author:Holly Kelly [Kelly, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Published: 2015-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Darkness surrounded Nicole. A spot of light appeared in the distance. It increased until a vision filled her view, stealing her breath and gaining her full attention. She was in the great hall of Olympus. How she knew, she wasn’t quite sure. The room was bright with white marble floors and columns that reached up into the blue sky. The place was filled with people, all wearing robes of various colors, many of them stitched with gold thread and fine needlework. Each person glowed, casting light as bright as the sun on everything around them. Nicole was shocked to find she could look directly at them, despite the brightness.

She looked down. Her mother was sitting on a golden throne. To the left of her sat a large, muscular man with black hair. Tyche smiled at a newborn cradled in her arms. “Beautiful princess,” she cooed.

The baby’s blue eyes sparkled with merriment as she sloppily sucked on her fist.

“Here they come, my love,” the man sitting next to her mother whispered in her ear. Tyche looked and scanned a crowd as it filled the court. A dark man with burning, red eyes approached the throne. Nicole could smell the spicy scent of applewood and mahogany burning off his skin. The fire of his power blazed in his eyes as he looked the baby over.

“Petros, my brother… my king, you know I owe you for my freedom, and for my ability to exercise power. I owe you much and my gift to your daughter is this. I will take the life of any who wishes Nikoleta harm and grant immortality to another of her choosing. This must be done simultaneously—a death for a life. All she needs to do is speak the words.”

The baby was named Nikoleta? Nicole’s eyes widened as she looked at the babe and realized she was seeing herself. Her attention diverted as the air shifted around her and power surged, emanating from the god—the gift had been given.

“That is generous, Hades,” Petros said.

“No more generous than you have been to me.”

Another man came next. Each step he made sounded like the rushing waves of the sea. The irises of his blue eyes swirled around his pupils as the scent of the briny sea blew across the hall. A smile touched the man’s lips as he looked at the babe.

“Brother, welcome.” Petros smiled.

“Thank you, Majesty. My gift to your daughter is this. I will raise an island just for her. It will be lush, beautiful—a place of refuge, should she ever need it. No other shall step upon its shores without her invitation—with the exception of her father, of course.”

Her father smiled. “Of course.”

Again, great power rushed from this man—that gift, too, had been given.

A third man came next. Electricity crackled and sparked as his feet struck the marble floors. He was smiling, but Nikoleta shrunk away from this man. This was Zeus, she was sure of it. The man spoke. “Brother, sister-in-law, I have not seen a star in the sky, moon in the heavens, nor sun that shines as brightly as your daughter.

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