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  Have you ever wondered what happens afterward we take read 'and they lived happily always after'? I have.

I beloved the ancient myths, but I have always wondered what happened the next day, side by side week or next yr. What did the Olympians do at the stop of the stories?

Their lives must accept connected long afterwards the

last of their tales were told. But how?

This is what I believe happened after

Bellerophon rode Pegasus for the offset time to slay

the Chimera. And a very long time subsequently Perseus

killed Medusa which precipitated the birth

of our beloved stallion, Pegasus.

My stories are not retellings of the ancient myths

– as they are already perfect.

These are the new tales of what happened a

long time after those ended . . .

Contents

Title Page

Introduction

In the Long Distant Past

Affiliate i

Chapter 2

Chapter iii

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter xi

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter xiv

Chapter xv

Affiliate 16

Chapter 17

Chapter eighteen

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Affiliate 26

Affiliate 27

Chapter 28

Affiliate 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Affiliate 35

Chapter 36

Affiliate 37

Chapter 38

Acknowledgements

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In the Long Distant Past

The war between the Olympians and the Titans had been fought and won. Jupiter, leader of Olympus, his two brothers, Neptune and Pluto, plus Chiron the Centaur and the three giant Hundred-handers gathered in the remnants of the throne room, facing the almost vicious Titan warriors.

The final battle had played out on Olympus. The landscape effectually them was scorched and destroyed. The beauty of the world, fouled. Just from the ashes of battle, Olympus would rise over again. It would be greater and more than breathtaking than could always be imagined.

Continuing earlier Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto – also known every bit the Big Three – was Saturn, their begetter and leader of the Titans. His manacled hands shook with rage as he glared at his sons. Locked in chains beside him were his brothers and most powerful followers, defeated, only withal utterly defiant.

'You expect me to kneel before yous?' Saturn sneered. 'Beg my children's forgiveness for their challenge to my power?'

Jupiter looked at his two brothers and shook his head sadly. 'No, Begetter, nosotros do not seek your apology. Nor would we believe its sincerity if you did apologize. Your words mean nothing to the states.'

'Then what?' Saturn demanded. 'What can you do to me? You cannot destroy me or any Titan; we are too powerful.'

'Y'all are correct, Father. We cannot destroy you. It grieves united states of america that y'all would even suggest such a thing. We are nonetheless your children.'

'My children?' Saturn spat at the ground. 'You should never have escaped Tartarus. Ungrateful orphans – that is what you are. You are no children of mine!'

Neptune sighed. 'Your words and actions reveal the depth of your hatred for u.s.a.. All you know is lust for power. You are a sickness that must be cut from our lives before yous can spread your infection further.'

Saturn laughed with contempt. 'I'll inquire again: what can you do to me? Y'all are naught more than than shadows of my greatness!'

'No, Father, we are not shadows,' Neptune said. 'It is you who fought with shadows.'

'You tortured innocent beings in guild to create your army of Shadow Titans,' Pluto agreed. 'But even they could non defeat us. They are gone and we are however here.'

'Information technology was your hole-and-corner weapon that destroyed my Shadow Titans, not yous. Yous have hidden the girl from me, only that is simply a temporary setback. I will find her and when I do, my Shadow Titans will rise over again and I shall finally dominion these worlds equally is my destiny.'

'Emily is beyond your reach!' Jupiter shouted. 'The state of war is over. You were defeated!'

'Jupe, at-home down,' Neptune said. 'He is trying to allurement you.'

Jupiter took a deep calming breath. 'Peace has returned to the worlds and in time Olympus, Titus and World volition heal. Your dark presence will be erased and you lot will be forgotten.'

Jupiter rose to his feet to give his judgement: 'Saturn of Titus, you lot have been found guilty of crimes against Olympus. Nosotros condemn y'all to the same fate y'all set for u.s.. Yous will exist taken from here and imprisoned in the depths of Tartarus, never to feel freedom again.'

'Tartarus will never confine me!' Saturn shouted. 'Give up now and I volition be merciful.'

Jupiter shook his head. 'You lot practise not know the significant of the word mercy. No, Father, this ends now. Yous and your people will be taken to Tartarus and locked in the bowels of the prison. You will never see the light of day once more.'

'You volition yearn for death, Begetter,' Pluto said darkly. 'But I volition not grant it. Y'all will exist and you volition suffer equally we did for so long.'

Saturn raised his hands. The heavy, metallic manacles began to rattle. Every bit his fury exploded, flames and lightning bolts burst from his hands towards his sons.

Instinctively, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto raised their hands together to create a shield to deflect the shot. Flames bounced wildly around the throne room, melting rubble and turning stone to drinking glass. Olympians ran for cover and crouched behind columns, simply thankfully the Big Three's defences protected them from whatsoever harm.

'Male parent, stop!' Jupiter boomed. 'You lot cannot win!'

'So I will destroy us all!'

Saturn's flames and lightning surged fifty-fifty higher until he began to tire and the blast weakened then tapered off completely. Saturn stood earlier his sons, covered in a film of sweat and panting to catch his breath. 'This changes cypher.'

Jupiter shook his caput in disgust. 'It changes everything.' He nodded to the Hundred-handers.

'Take them away from our sight.'

The three loyal giants, each with fifty heads, nodded and bowed awkwardly. Using their one hundred arms they defenseless concur of the protesting prisoners and dragged them abroad.

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Olympus at night was as beautiful as it was by solar day. The air was clean and fresh and a sense of peace prevailed. The temperature dropped, only only past a fraction. Flowers that only bloomed after dark unfurled their delicate petals and released their fragrant perfume into the air.

This was the time when the dark dwellers emerged from their homes. Their stake, thin skin most glowed in the starlight. Their voices hushed. Night dweller children never raised their voices – fifty-fifty while they played. And similar all Olympians, the dark dwellers bowed in respect as Emily, Flame of Olympus, strolle

d past.

Emily walked through the gardens at the dorsum of Jupiter'southward palace with her dog, Mike, leaping playfully at her side. Mike was her newest family unit member, brought dorsum from Athens on her last trip to the Human being World. Information technology seemed like a lifetime agone, fifty-fifty though information technology hadn't been that long.

Approaching the river, Emily saw the glow of torches and heard the audio of laughter. She smiled as she recognized her friends Joel and Paelen's yelps and hurried her steps and so that she could bring together in the fun.

Just ahead she spotted Pegasus. The winged stallion'due south caput was held majestically high, his wings immaculately clean-cut as he glowed brightly with health and joy. The sight of him still stole Emily'south jiff away.

She stopped to appreciate the beauty of the stallion and just how much he meant to her. Her entire life inverse the moment they met and they'd been through and so much together. He was such a part of her now, she couldn't imagine a day without him in it.

Pegasus was with his twin brother, the winged boar, Chrysaor, who looked much less groomed. His coarse brown feathers stood at odd angles and he looked every bit though he'd recently been rolling in mud.

Iii young night dwellers were with them. A daughter in her early on teens with long white pilus and a voice equally soft equally a gentle breeze turned and greeted Emily with a formal bow as she approached. 'Flame, information technology is an honour to encounter you this night.'

'Howdy,' Emily said back. 'Please, you don't have to bow to me. Just call me Emily.'

The nighttime dweller gasped. 'But you are the Flame of Olympus! I cannot call y'all anything else. It is said you have powers greater than Jupiter himself! Yous must be respected at all times.'

Emily chuckled. She withal wasn't used to this elevated status. It was true that she fed the Flame of Olympus – the source of Olympus'due south power. And there was even a temple dedicated to her. But most of the time she just felt like Emily Jacobs; a girl from New York City who happened to have a winged stallion as her all-time friend.

She smiled at the night dweller. 'I may be the Flame and aye I do have powers, only I'm still just a girl like you. Please, equally a favour, would you telephone call me Emily?'

An odd color rose in the girl'south ghostly-stake complexion and she nodded. 'I am Fawn. This is my brother, Dax, and our little sister, Sapphire.' Fawn smiled extra wide, displaying her small, sharply pointed teeth.

The boy was a bit older than his sis, and even shyer. There was a at-home dazzler about them both as they stood with Pegasus. Emily was certain if you held their hands upwardly to a brilliant lite information technology would polish correct through them.

Their young sister looked well-nigh five or half-dozen. She was bright and bubbly and seemed more interested in petting Chrysaor's wings as she talked non-stop to the winged boar.

'I run into you've met Pegasus,' Emily said, trying to draw Dax out. She stepped upward to the winged stallion. 'Hiya, Pegs – isn't information technology beautiful out?'

Pegasus nickered and pressed his head close to her.

'You are magnificent,' Fawn said to Pegasus equally she stroked the stallion's cage. 'I have seen you around Olympus all my life, but this is the first fourth dimension we have had the opportunity to encounter.' She looked wistfully into his eyes. 'It must be wonderful to have wings and fly.' She turned back to Emily. 'You are and then fortunate to be friends.'

'I know,' Emily agreed. 'I'd be lost without Pegasus.'

Emily watched Pegasus blush under the compliments. Then he neighed and pawed the basis lightly.

Fawn'south dark eyes sparkled. 'May we?'

'What did he say?' Emily asked. Even though she had lived on Olympus for a very long time, she was still unable to understand the stallion's words.

Fawn was practically jumping out of her skin. 'He said that one evening we tin all become flying together. He will let me ride on his back.'

'That's a great thought,' Emily agreed. 'There'south nothing amend than flight with him – especially at night.'

The stallion'southward caput bobbed up and down and he nickered softly to Fawn. She dropped her head shyly. 'Thank you lot, Pegasus.'

Emily had no idea what he said, but from the expression on her face up, it had fabricated Fawn very happy.

Mike was barking, desperate for someone to play with him. Dax leaned over to pat him and before he knew it the large dog jumped up and wrestled Dax downward to the ground. The night dweller's soft laughter rang out every bit they rolled on the grass together.

'We're going for a swim,' Emily offered. 'Do you desire to join usa?'

'Thank you, Flame – I mean, Emily,' Fawn said. 'Only nosotros must go to work.'

'What exercise you practise?'

'Nosotros work in the nectar-tree orchards,' Dax explained every bit he wrestled with Mike. 'It is our job to describe nectar from the flowers. This tin only exist done when the sun is downward and the stars are shining, which opens the flowers.'

'I bear water,' Sapphire said. 'Information technology is a big job.'

'I'one thousand sure it is,' Emily agreed, completely enchanted by the immature dark dweller.

Dax released Mike and rose to his feet. He caught his little sis by the arm. 'I am distressing, merely nosotros must exist going.' He smiled shyly at Emily and she noticed how strangely attractive he was. His eyes were elliptical like a snake'due south and even though they were as black as night, they however sparkled and shone. His features were sharp, but non unpleasant. It was and then Emily noticed that his ears were pointed like elves' ears. Fawn's and Sapphire's ears were mostly hidden by their long white hair, but Emily could now see their pointy tops sticking out.

'Of course,' Emily said. She focused on Fawn. 'Just let me know when you take a free evening and nosotros can go for that flight.'

Fawn's eyes sparkled with excitement equally her brother led them away.

'Pegs,' Emily asked, watching them leave, 'dorsum when Jupiter allowed visits to World, did whatsoever night dwellers go?'

The stallion nickered and bobbed his head.

'I've heard that they never go out in daylight considering it hurts their eyes and burns their thin peel. Is that true?'

Over again, Pegasus nodded.

'Hmmm,' Emily mused as she studied the other night dwellers in the area. 'I wonder if they are the origins of the vampire myth on Earth. They accept large, dark optics and pale skin that burns in sunlight, only like vampires. I know the dwellers don't drink blood, but their teeth are pointy and the nectar they collect is red – possibly that'south it.'

Both Pegasus and Chrysaor nickered and squealed, simply the meaning of their words remained a mystery to Emily. As they walked over to the river the sounds of shouts and laughter grew louder. Mike ran alee and when he saw Joel in the water, he leaped in.

Joel laughed every bit the dog paddled over to him. He looked up to Paelen, who was standing on the diving board. 'C'mon, Paelen, just like I showed you – bound!'

It had taken some endeavor for Joel to convince Jupiter that they needed a diving board. But once it was built, many of the Olympians enjoyed using it and there was talk of making another, taller lath for where the river was deeper.

Emily watched Paelen bouncing on the end of the lath, wearing his silken Olympian h2o trunks. They weren't besides unlike from baggy shorts, simply were solid white and had tiny, neatly folded pleats. His body was smooth and thin, but it didn't reveal the slap-up forcefulness or unique ability it held to stretch out and manipulate its shape to fit whatsoever space or reach almost whatever distance. Emily met Paelen dorsum when he had used these skills to be a slap-up thief but, with those days behind him, Paelen was now ane of Emily's closest friends.

Emily's father, Steve, stood at the side of the river giving Paelen diving instructions, merely they weren't helping. As Paelen sprang on the lath, he soared high into the air and over the h2o. Simply instead of putting out his artillery and line-fishing his body to dive, he crashed into the surface on his stomach.

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Ouch!' her father cried.

Paelen resurfaced, coughing and spewing out water. 'I will never larn.'

'Sure you volition,' Joel laughed. 'Information technology just takes do.'

Joel's laughter made Emily's heart flutter and a grin rise to her lips. Similar her, he had come to Olympus from New York City. And fifty-fifty though he was human, Joel looked right at home. His broad, strong chest and handsome Italian features meant he could easily exist mistaken for an Olympian. The but affair that prepare him apart was his silver right shoulder and arm. He had lost his real 1 during the fight with the Gorgons, and Vulcan had made this powerful replacement.

Three h2o nymphs surfaced behind Joel. Their pale eyes sparkled as they stroked Joel's silver shoulder, where his bogus arm met his trunk. In the torchlight, the metal looked blazing gold.

Both Joel and Paelen blushed at the beautiful nymphs as they started to sing.

Paelen swam closer to them. 'Yep, Joel has a silver arm, just await what I can do.' He lifted his arm out of the h2o and used his powers to stretch the bones and muscles out. He wiggled the fingers on his hand. 'Is this not as amazing equally a silver arm?'

The three h2o nymphs weren't impressed. They turned from Paelen and smiled once again at Joel, giggled softly and disappeared beneath the surface.

'Expect, practice not leave,' Paelen cried in disappointment. 'Come up dorsum!'

'Allow 'em go,' Joel said. 'You lot've nevertheless got to learn to swoop.' When his eyes landed on Emily at the shore he grinned. 'Hey, Em, would you delight show Paelen how to dive?'

Any traces of jealousy Emily might accept felt towards the beautiful water nymphs vanished when she was the focus of Joel's bright grin. She handed her towel to her begetter and climbed up on to the diving board. She bounced twice and leaped gracefully into the air, performing a perfect dive.

Joel splashed water at Paelen. 'See, that's how yous practice it!'

'That is exactly what I did,' Paelen said. 'I just looked a little different.'

Joel burst out laughing. 'What are you lot talking about? You lot belly-flopped!'

'Same matter,' Paelen said as Pegasus entered the water, followed by Chrysaor. As Emily swam over to the stallion she noticed Paelen and Joel staring at something. Emily followed their gaze to see Diana, the great Huntress, striding towards the river.

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