Week 7 Story: The Girl That Got Away

I belched out in despair to my father, the king of gods "Oh father what ever shall I do? I have been deemed unlovable by the woman that I love more than life!"
In that moment he calmly responded "dearest son, you must'n worry for you will find your path and true love".



You see, weeks leading up to this exact moment I was ecstatic and filled with excitemnt because I had been given several gifts from my relatives for my birthday and was FINALLY allowed to live in their neighborhood. I'm sure you all are wondering what the big deal is.. but these gifts were not just any ordinary gifts and this neighborhood was not just any neighborhood! This neighborhood was an out of world experience where all gods, goddesses, queens, kings, nymphs, and Demi-gods lived, here they overlooked human activities.. and here is where I found my true love.



Pull up a chair and have a seat, I'm going to tell you a story.


So it all started with one warm and sunny day when I noticed something fishy happening off in a distance, so naturally I decided to approach it. As I neared the site in question I noticed that there were dead fishes and birds sprawled across the beach. I continue to approach this unforgiving scene and low and behold the damn ocean splits in two! I'm in my flight or fight mode but I remembered my father saying that I needed to man up if I ever expected to get into his neighborhood. I then also remembered the amazing gifts that my family had given me and that they had told me to use them if I ever was in despair.
I decided that this was a moment of despair as this 5 headed sea monster was lunging at me, open mouth, bugged eye, and all!
I pull out my handy gifts: one a stick, another a liquid in some weird shell, and the other a ball to catch Pokemon? WHAT?!
Throwing the stick I see nothing happened so I throw the weird liquid in a shell but once again nothing happened! My last resort is to throw this weird Pokemon ball so I do! I throw far and hard and hit the weird monster with it, all while holding my breath to the point of almost passing out.
Somehow, someway this weird Pokemon ball worked and this 5 headed sea monster was trapped in it!
Within seconds my father, his brothers, and his sisters appear in front of me to take me to my new nieghborhood that I wanted so badly to live in! Alas, I'm finally there!
So one night out with the boys I noticed a girl from across the room, she's wearing some amazing makeup with cat eyes, and had medium length black hair that was straight.. her outfit caught my attention, it was like nothing I had ever seen before. I decide to approach her and ask her her name. She tells me its Cleopatra.

Feeling myself because I had captured some weird sea creature, been admitted to the new 'hood, and turned 21, so I ask her for a dance. She agrees!
We danced, laughed, and talked the night away so I decided to ask her out on a date. She agreed again! I'm on a roll!



Fastforward to just this morning and I think that things are going great with Cleopatra, we're even planning on going to visit a tropical island soon. Then this morning she sends me a messenger pigeon telling me things aren't working out and that it's me, not her.. she tells me that I will never be loved because I'm just not loveable. I'm in shock so I call my dad and this is full circle to how we got here.

I still don't know why I'm not loveable or why my father says that it's for the best, that I must complete a quest. Can you help me on this quest?

    Picture information: Here is my love Cleopatra one Sunday evening


Authors Notes: The original story from where I got my idea for this one is Indra and Arjuna. In the original story Arjuna (Indra's son) is given gifts from the gods, taken tot celestial city where they all reside and is cursed to never love. Arjuna then goes to fight demons and beings from the underworld, he succeeds, and then continues on to the underworld where he again wins. Upon defeating the creatures of the underworld he is given another gift from his father.


Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913). Found here! 

Reading Notes: The Death of Krishna, Part D

People knew that something bad was about to happen but nobody could pinpoint what it was.
Eventually people knew that Dwarka was about to be destroyed and a figure came in the night.. the figure was said to be Yama who is the god of the underworld.
Krishna told everybody to perform devotions on the beach with wine to try to ignore and ward the evil off.
There was a woman who arrived and brought spirits who stole jewels from the women and weapons from the men. (omen)
Krishna's chakra (spirit) went to heaven, the end of the Yadavas (group of people) was coming up, and the asparas told people to come to heaven. (omen)
The people feasting on the beach with wine drank heavily and fights broke out. Everybody killed everybody (omen)
Krishna and his brother Balarama went to the jungle where they both died. The world serpent came out of Balarama's mouth and Krishna was shot by a hunter who mistook him for something else.. the arrow pierced his foot which was his weak point and the only place that could kill him. Krishna went to his heaven called Goloka.
Krishna seemed to know his fate so had one sent for Arjuna once he died. Arjuna arrived to find Vasudeva (Krishna's father), his 4 widows, Krishna, and Balarama all dead so he cremated them.
Arjuna then left and headed to Indraprastha and the city of Dwarka was taken by the sea (lost city of atlantis?)

Picture information : Death of Balarama, Krishna's brother

Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913). Death of Krishna 

Reading Notes: Arjuna and Indra Part C

Arjuna (Hercules) who is the son of Indra (Much like Zeus) receives "celestial" gifts from his father who is the kind gods, Varuna who is the god of waters (much like Poseidon), Yama who is the king of dead (Hades), and Kubera who is the god of wealth.
         What gifts did they give?
          Other gods similar to those, not just in Greek and Roman mythology


Indra then took Arjuna to the celestial and heavenly city of Svarga (replace with a seaside city or island?) where everything was just dandy. In this city were apsaras (nymphs maybe?) as well as gandharva who were male nature spirits.. all were rejoicing except one aspara approached him with a lot of hate because she had been tricked and mistreated by the god of love, Kama (Aphrodite, cupid, etc). She vowed that he would not find love
            What city can replace this one, maybe a seaside city with mermaids or sirens?
            What are other similar gods and deities?
            
Arjuna was reassured that this curse would be for the best in the end
             How else can I use this or can I omit maybe?


Patala , (volcano maybe) the underworld housed daityas (demons basically) and danavas (not necessarily bad or good). Arjuna went to fight them and when he arrived the water divided and he saw monstrous creatures who were deployed to fight him by the daityas and danavas. He won.
             Lots of fire and water
             Use of Celestial weapons
             What if the danavas join his team later on?

Arjuna then drove in his father's chariot to the city of demons and giants. All the giant women called to him but het ignored them which resulted in their deaths. Within the city he destroyed it.
Indra gave Arjuna a gold chain, diadem, and a war shell that had a thunder like blast in it.


Maybe change point of view to be the main character and in first person?
Maybe have the characters converse within the story?

                                Picture source: statue of Arjuna


Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913). Arjuna and Indra