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    Thalia and the trek across the Universe.

    My brother was taken by the Astros , the people of the stars, and I was sent to find him. My name? Thalia daughter of the Moon and Music. I’m quite young to be on this journey, Hercules was 25 , Perseus 27, Achilles only 21. I am 17 trekking across the Universe! Zeus expects me to be back before the next moonless sky. I don’t think I can be back by then.

    Luna ,my mother, blessed me before I left. Jenia ,my best friend, wished me a farewell and bestowed on me a container of liquid. “What’s this?” I asked her she chuckled “It’s a vile of special blessed water. You have complete control of it, you can make it into anything. But” she admonished me “Do not, I really mean this, DO NOT let it go un-supervised! It will reek havoc and completely devour the surrounding area .” I heeded her warning and climbed onto Kertleg my flying horse. As I rode away into the Stars, I gazed down at the floating city. I sighed, this is going to be a very interesting journey.

    Venus appeared on the horizon of my vision like a red, lifeless ball. I quickly landed on a cluster of rocks. A creature greeted me with a bow. “What an honor this is, Lady Thalia” said the ungainly thing. “Yes, I suppose it is an honor to be on a Quest.” The creature peered at me with interest , cocking its head slightly to one side. “What Quest is this?” “Well my brother , Metan, was taken by the Astros…” “Tsk tsk..” interrupted the creature “… And I was sent by Zeus to find him.”. The creature scratched what seemed to be its head, and said “Well then, that’s a very interesting Quest. Won’t you come inside my abode?”. I thought about it for second “I must really be searching your planet but… I guess I could…” “Oh yeah!” exclaimed the creature. “Ok then.” I said under my breath. We entered a cave that was lined with bones. I shivered. “Um…What are you exactly?”. The creature chuckled “I am Venus, the ruler of this miserable planet!” “Oh.”. Venus made cups of tea, what looked like tea, and sat down at a round table. “Thalia, would you like to know why this planet is so barren?”. I gazed around the room before replying “Yes, I would like that very much!” . She cleared her throat. “It all stared thousands of years ago, when the universe was just being formed. I told the Sun that the Earth people stole his fire. And of course, being the idiot he is, Sun believed me…” .She laughed at what she said. “…So he traveled closer to the Earth and demanded that they give him his fire back. He waited there for six months. Then when the people wouldn’t give him the fire, he left for another six months. Which made what the mortals call Winter and Summer. Sun found out that I had lied and cursed my planet to be forever covered with fire and lava.” She sighed. “Wow, I’ve never heard that before” I said “Well of course you haven’t, they don’t teach it in Greek Mythology.”. “Hmm, well that’s all very interesting but, I must really be going.”. With that I left the cave and searched the planet. I sadly found nothing.

    I approached Mercury with great speed. I found nothing there. I flew to the Milky Way next. I searched there with great intensity. Scavenging all of the rocks for any trace of my brother. The search was beginning to infuriate me. I blasted a nearby asteroid with a moonbeam. I quickly realized that a part of the asteroid was heading directly for Mars! I arrived to late to stop the meteor. I was aghast what I had done! The once abundant landscape was now complete devastation. While I searched for my brother I covered up all traces of there ever being a society of a meteor. I found no traces of Metan there either. I moved onto Jupiter.

    Jupiter, a giant ball of gas. I needed help searching this planet. I called on the vile of water that Jenia gave me. “I am at your service, Lady Thalia.” the watery form bowed. “ I want you to search the southern hemisphere of this planet . Okay?” “Yes, my Lady”. The figure floated off glancing left and right as it went. I went on my own way searching for my brother. I found no trace of him or the Astros, but a wind had started up as I got closer to the southern hemisphere. I heard a terrible wailing and I looked up. “I command you to STOP!” I screamed at the top of my lungs at the watery figure. It just laughed at me “You did not heed Jenia’s warning!” I thought about what she had said. “But I did supervise you! I commanded you to search half the planet, you did. You’re the one not listening!”. The figure just laughed at me. “To late now…” The figure floated about twenty yards in front of me and started chanting “ IN SOM SE NE IN SOM SE NE…” and kept on repeating it for a minute. Then a huge red cloud formed above him. The cloud looked like a huge hurricane, it started to spin around in circles. “This is the wrath of the Red Cloud!” screeched the figure. “Is is possible to stop it?” I shouted “ If you attempt to stop it then you will perish!” laughed the figure. I didn’t attempt to stop the Red Cloud. I left the gas planet to its fate.

    Saturn awaited me. There I hoped to find some clue as to where Metan was. Just as I had hoped, I did. I found a race of people, they called themselves the Deserttes meaning, in their language, the people of the sand and wind. These people said that if I fixed Saturn’s rings then they would give me a piece of information as to where Metan was. They told me what parts to fix with what they called ‘ring dust’. I quickly fixed the rings and told the Deserttes. They thanked me greatly and gave me a Seeing Stone. They said that it would give me the ability to see into the past and future. I thanked them deeply and promised that I would correspond with them.

    I scanned Uranus and Neptune, but found nothing out of the ordinary. I moved onto Pluto. The last possible place that Metan could be.

    Pluto the smallest planet. I searched the planet very quickly. When I reached the last spot that I had not yet checked, I found them. The Astros had a limp Metan in their hands. I flew over to them as quickly as possible. “ I demand that you hand over my brother right now!” the Astros just laughed at me. “And why would we do that Lady Thalia” said Sinvice. “Because if you don’t my people will cause a war with your race. Then everything will be destroyed. Now do you really want that to happen? Hmmm..?” The Astros contemplated my statement. “Hmmm…” said Sinvice “Well, I guess that you are right. Here you can have your brother”. Sinvice threw Metan over to me and disappeared. “Metan! Are you okay?”. No response from him. “Metan?”. I was struck with horror as the realization that he was dead came over me. I started to cry. I had never cried before. The sensation was a new thing to me. I finally knew what it felt like to loose someone that you loved. I cried the whole trip back to Olympia.

    When I arrived everyone started cheering. Upon landing everyone was silent because they could see Metan’s limp body laying across Kertleg. I saw Jenia and mother in the crowd first. I couldn’t control my tears. They spilled over like an unstoppable force of nature. “ I…I…I tried to save him!” I said in between sobs.

    The whole next month was dedicated to Metan. All of his favorite things were done; jousting , Pegasus riding, canoeing, fire breathing, discs throwing, and feasting. I didn’t speak for several weeks. Only making hand motions that only Jenia and mother understood. To this very day, three hundred twenty six days later, I still morn my lost brother. I don’t think that I will every recover. The Astros are my sworn enemies. The Olympians declared war on the Astros not long after my return. The Deserttes and Venus joined the fight. Happily we won the long fight. The Astros are no longer dwelling in this Galaxy. Most everything is normal, except for Jenia having a baby that is made of water and always slips down the drain. Most is peaceful now. No one has gone on a Quest since I returned, and as promised I kept in touch with the Deserttes. I miss my brother badly but I can cope with the loss.