their Princesses eyes and they reveled in gifts that the new Prince brought.
Chaos looked in to the happy faces of ‘his people.’ Their acceptance of a complete stranger strangely humbled him. He was at a loss. The emotions that pummeled were intense , but his new brides steadying hand grounded him. The more time he spent with these mortals, the more he understood how short their lives were , yet how deep their emotions ran . Their emotions were magic. He realized how addictive their feelings could be. He siphoned from them their hopes, their dreams, their fears, pain, love, anger, hatred, and jealousy. The more he became a part of their Kingdom, the more he felt the complexity of the wars on Earth. The more time he spent with Zoe, the more emotions sprung from him naturally.
“May we leave? Have we spent enough time adhering to your people’s customs?”
Zoe looked at him wide-eyed and nodded. With good natured jeers, the couple made their way out of the great hall to their new living quarters. He was adamant that they would share everything. There would be no separate beds, just Zoe and him.
She looked at herself in the reflection of the mirror. Her luminous gown was almost transparent and she shivered with the knowledge that tonight she would take the final step into womanhood. Her bridesmaid giggled as they combed her hair and remarked about her husband’s handsomeness. She was nervous. She was told of the ways between a man and woman’s marriage bed, but he was not a man. She still didn’t fully understand what he was. Then he was there and her giggling bridesmaids left the room. She stood in front of him barely clothed, nervous, tense, yet beguiled by the desire she saw in his eyes.
Chaos looked at his chosen mate and was struck by her beauty. Her frame was slender, and her brown hair shown with the different hues of the Earth. Her skin was the color of muted gold but through his eyes, her Aura made her seem like a golden statue. Amber eyes looked at him, and in their depths he recognized his kindred spirit that he released eons ago to create this enticing being standing in front of him. He saw her apprehension just as he saw her desire for this physical manifestation of his form.
He took her trembling hand and guided her over to the chaise. He sat down on the chaise and pulled her small form onto his lap. From his will he brought into being a cloak made of the softest wool and covered them to ward off the light chill in the night air. He enclosed her in his arms and her head lay on his chest listening to his beating heart. They lay that way for some time and the tension left her body. The tension was replaced by desire that fed into his desire. His hands softly caressed her back in circular motions as her body melted into his on a soft sigh. She’d never been held like this or touched so tenderly. Then he began to tell his story.
“I don’t know where my name comes from. It just was. I have no past. I have ju st always been. I walked alone since the beginning of time. I didn’t feel the emotions that you humans feel so I was content, but bored. I walked in darkness. The starts were my children, the darkness my form as I held them close to me. I do not know how old I am, perhaps I am time itself. As the millennium’s passed me by I became lonely. I longed for another to share my life with, to communicate with so I created my children from the matter within me. I created Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx, and Eros.
Erebus was my first creation. I say creation because unlike you mortals, he came into being through my manifestations. So yes he is my child, but through a piece of me he was created. He is the darkness with the absence of light. He is the shadow that keeps oversight as the moon blankets the sun offering rest to the children that sprout from the first