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Sunny Daze Short Story

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Sunny Daze
Chapter One
The Beginning
One day Zoi, the goddess of life, was walking through the forest when she came to a clearing with many paths that looked the exact same as the one she had come out of. She saw some pretty flowers in the center of the clearing, and she ran to them, her beautiful red hair flowing around her neck. She bent down and, took in the wonderful aroma of the flowers. When she got up she brushed the dirt off of her blue and green toga and dusted off the silk flowers that had been sewed on. She picked up her winged staff and started off again when she realized that she didn’t know which way she had come. Soon it was night, and Zoi was sleepy so she ( being the goddess of life ) immediately grew a bed of moss to sleep …show more content…

“ Hello fine sir,” he said in a British accent to Helios.
“ What brings us together this wonderful day?” Helios replied, again, in a British accent.
“ Let’s sit down shall we?” Misó said ignoring the question and conjuring up a table and chairs.
“ I happen to have brought some wine,” he said pulling out the bottle of poison and a bottle of wine. He then conjured up two wine glasses. “ Well I see you always come prepared.” said Helios surprised. “ Let’s drink…”
“ To earth!” they shouted in unison. Helios, not knowing that his glass had the poison, drank happily. He drank then within a minute he fell dead.
When Zoi found out that he had been assassinated, she was devastated. She wished she could do something about it but every day she tried to help but instead felt the cold touch of a dead body. She wondered who would have done it. Her brain was coming up with all sorts of ideas. Prince Neal? Another one of the gods? Misó Massari? She Had no idea who did it! Could it really be Misó? “ But I locked him away a thousand years ago.” By this time she had planned to go up to Misó Massari's castle and get her revenge. Just as she was about to leave, she realized that when Helios died the sun lost its

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