English litterateur. paragraph homework

Gods at War

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Part 1: Encounter with Darkness

Persephone, a young girl in her early teenage years, is picking flowers for her mother Demeter. Her mother is the wife to Zeus the great Greek god. She is keen to get only the best flowers the flower garden has to offer.

Persephone: (smiling broadly) Come here you! I am pretty sure you will make my mother very happy as you have made me. This should be the happiest day of your life because you get to shower in the presence of the goddess of life. (Looking at other flowers on the side) Do not worry, your day will come just as mine will. One day, you will be picked to please me. (Chuckles at the mere thought of what she has said). When I become a goddess like my mother, I will ensure that no one will ever die or be taken away from their loved ones by anyone or anything. That I promise to you my dearest of friends. Come on, blossom, blossom, blossom…. (She is cut short by a loud thunder-like sound coming from the ground. Dark Veda, Persephone’s uncle and god of the damned rises from below covered in black ashes and fire)

Dark Veda: There you are the fairest of all princesses….

Persephone: Go away evil monster!

Dark Veda: (Disappointed) What is the matter my dear? Do you not know you are destined to be wife? (Lifting hands up to the sky with fire burning from them) You will become the Queen of the Damned world and everyone will respect you.

Persephone: No, I disagree completely. My father would never allow that to happen at all, Never I tell you! He would strike you down with his great hand of wrath! (throwing the flowers at her Uncle).

Dark Veda: Ooh, so you do not know of the secret pact between me and your father?! Well, you will learn of it very soon, my dear. For now, go home and prepare yourself. I will come for you tomorrow.

Persephone: (Lifting herself up angrily with tears running freely down her cheeks). Nooo! This cannot be. (she runs back to the palace eager to face her father to know the truth about the “secret pact”).

Demeter: ( seeing the distraught face of her running daughter ) What is it my daughter? Please answer me my sweet child? (her tears were welling up in her eyes when she saw her daughter crying).

Persephone: Where is father? I need to talk to him this instant! (she had completely forgotten she was addressing her mother due to anger).

Zeus: What is it my daughter? (Walking down the corridors of the palace). Talk to me dear.

Persephone: ( trying very hard not to sob out her anguish ) How could you father? Why did you give me out to Uncle? He is coming tomorrow to take me with him?

Zeus: (Looking distraught. He was more afraid and shocked that the truth had come out) (Turning away as if to hide his shame) You will understand one day my daughter.

Demeter: ( who was eavesdropping ) Oh no! Was that the price we had to pay? Was it, Zeus?!

Zeus: Unfortunately, it was. It was either that or we lose the whole world to him.

Demeter: He can have me but not my daughter. I will die before he takes her.

Zeus: It has been decided and the other gods will be angry with us if we do not oblige.

Demeter: You are a god too and so am I!

Zeus: Surely we cannot fight them off all of them.

Persephone: I will go with him. If it will save my mother and the whole world from Uncle Veda’s fury.

Demeter: No, You will not. If there is anyone going anywhere it will be me.

Zeus: Oh why did it have to be like this.

Demeter: I am going and that’s final!

Part 2: A new god is born

There is a meeting where Dark Veda has come to claim what was promised to him years ago. Zeus, Demeter and Persephone are in attendance seated opposite to Dark Veda.

Dark Veda: Well, let us get on with it then, I see no one is in the mood to talk.

Demeter: You will not take my daughter, you pedophile! You will take me and me alone.

Dark Veda: I appreciate the offer but I will pass. I want Persephone and Persephone alone. Zeus you do know the consequences of this imminent rebelliousness.

Zeus: Come down everyone. Persephone will go with Dark Veda and that is final.

(Dark Veda unleashes his powerful fiery arms and opens the earth right before Persephone. She is quickly swallowed by the earth itself and the earth quickly closes out. Demeter tries to suck the life out of Dark Veda but she is held back by Zeus knowing all too well that if she managed to suck life out of him, she would have to die because he is more powerful than her. Dark Veda also escapes into the ground. When being hugged by Zeus has husband, an idea struck her)

Demeter: ( Speaking inwardly to herself ) What if I took Zeus’s power, surely I can defeat Veda. And what’s more Zeus will not die because he is stronger than me. But this would kill me. Well, it is the price I have to pay.

(Demeter sucks power from Zeus who is left on the ground crouching in pain for, you see, taking power from a god is like plucking the skin of a human being. With the increased power she struck lightening into the earth and tore it apart. She could now see her daughter being pulled downwards. She strikes the hands of Dark Veda with so much fury he had to let go. Demeter manages to pull her daughter back unharmed. But now she faces the angry Dark Veda. The two fight in the palace and destroy almost everything. Finally, Dark Veda overpowers Demeter and is about to kill her when….)

Persephone: You will not kill her! (She unleashes a very powerful lash of light that strikes kill Dark Veda on the spot. Her goddess power was finally strong enough to show. This would be remembered as the day she saved her family and rid the world of the King of the Damned.)