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Astraea Short Story

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Once upon a time, up above the solar system lied a beautiful astrological goddess. Her name was Astraea, she was the goddess of the stars. Astraea was competitive, confident, and careless. Even though she was the goddess of the stars, she was never properly told how to make stars or what to do. Through day and night, the solar system was blank and dark as if all you could see was black with the only source of light was the tiny light shining called the sun. As Astraea grew up, her archenemy, Helius, would always boast about how he was supposed to grow up to be the biggest and brightest star in the universe. Every time he said that, Astraea grew envious of Helius. Astraea was the goddess of the stars, she should be the biggest and brightest …show more content…

If you really want to battle, fine, but you’ll have to take down two people.” Helius said with a smirk. Astraea was puzzled, what did he mean?
“SELENE!” Helius called. Selene came rushing into the room. She had beautiful long dark hair with fair skin. She looked confident and ready for whatever happened next. She looked over to Astraea and said, “My name is Selene, goddess of the moon, as well as sister to Helius.”
“Astraea here wants to battle, so let's do her the favor and defeat her, Helius said with a smirk. The three gods fought bravely and proudly, days and nights passed where they were still battling. Astraea only grew sronger with anger and despite as she battled. Helius grew weaker and weaker as parts of the sun would break off into tinier stars. Because Astraea fought so powerfully, billions of pieces of the sun broke off into tinier stars. Selene, goddess of the moon, told her brother she could no longer fight Astraea, she was to powerful, so she left her brother to fight Astraea by himself. Helius did not care, he was determined to win against Astraea. More years passed off relentless fighting, eventually both astraea and Helius gave up in weakness. Astraea flew back to her palace where she reigned, she was tired and exhausted no longer able to use her powers. As night came, she expected darkness, but the solar system was lit up with billions of stars filling space. Astraea paused and looked up at the blank space,

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