The Balled Of The Goddess And The Cyclops                By Nadja Lee      21/03/01

English is not my native language. Please forgive me my mistakes.

Disclaimer: “X-men” and all the characters here belong to Marvel , 20 Century Fox and I intend no infringement, this is a piece of amateur fan fiction, and I make no money of it.

Only the original idea contained within this work is the property of the author. Please do not copy this story to any website or archive without permission of the author.

Timeline: Set in an alternative universe

Universe: Set in an AU

Pairing: Scott/Ororo

Summary: It is told that in ancient times there lived a Cyclops…and his love for a Goddess…

Archiving: Want, ASK, take, have.

Feedback: Yes, please. My e-mail address is neh@post10.tele.dk.

Rating: PG

Dedicated to: Helene, Jemi, Misty and L. Burke. Thanks for your kindness and friendship.

Thanks to Christina for the Beta.

Warning: Character death!

*mmmm * is telepathically thoughts spoken in the mind. “ mmmmm ”  is spoken out loud.

 

Part 1:

It is told

That many years ago

When time was young

And the world was new

The Gods ruled

Over all mankind

 

A brave warrior was born

By a mortal woman

And the God of Compassion

The only God who

Held any kind feelings

Towards the fragile humans

Which the Gods had created

For their own amusement

 

The woman gave birth

In secret

But the King of the Gods

Saw her and

Punished her boldness

With the kiss of death

The God of Compassion

Begged for her life

His sister took pity on him

But spared only the child

 

Angered by his brother’s betrayal

The King of the Gods

Threw the God of Compassion

Over the edge of the world

And into eternal darkness

The King said that if

He’ll punish the woman’s people

With war and prosecution

He would be saved

 

Standing tall

The God of Compassion

Denied

Angered by his brother’s

Defiance

The King took away

His godliness

And pushed him over

Falling towards eternal darkness

Yet refusing to beg for help

The King felt a flicker of sadness

As he whispered his brother’s name…

Charles….

 

Twenty years passed

And the child

Grew up to be a man

Never knowing

Who his real parents were

Until one day

The sister who had saved him

Appeared before him

 

Summers,

She called him

And though the boy had known

No other human to this day

He remembered the sister’s

Soft and gentle voice

As he did the name

Summers, thou are a man

Of great importance

Thy father

Was my brother, now he

Suffers an eternal darkness

 

My brother came to me

Begging me to protect thou

For 20 years thou have

Lived under my protection

But now is the time for

Thou to know who thou are

And thy destiny

 

I named thee Summers

After the season

In which thou were born

Thy mother was a

Brave mortal woman

Holding great strength

And courage in her heart

Her name was Betsy but oh,

She was punished with

The kiss of death

By the King of the Gods, Magnus,

For daring to mingle with

The Gods

 

Who are thou, my Angel

Of mercy?

For thou must be a Goddess

And the Gods

I know

Care little or not

For the lives of mortal men

Like me

 

Summers, thou are not a

Mere mortal

Thou have the power

Of a God

I, Jean, Goddess of love and war, will

Unleash the power

Within thee

For thy quest

Thou`ll need it

 

And the sister

Touched the hero’s eyes

And out of them

A beam of light emerged

She had given him

A great curse and a

Great blessing

He was now a Cyclops

Brave and strong

But a warning she

Delivered

 

Hear me now, child,

And hear me well

Alone thou must

Wander and fight

For thy people

Against the Gods

And any injustice thou see

But thou must never

Give your heart away

If thou do that I’ll

No longer protect thee

 

The King’s wrath

Thou must always fear

I’ll shield thee

Protect thee

But break thy oath

Fall in love

And I’ll

Let the King’s wrath

Reach thee

 

The Cyclops agreed to all this

Eager to fight injustice

Fight for a dream of peace

And avenge his parents

Whose only crime

Had been a

Forbidden love

 

Time passed

The Cyclops fought

Many great battles

And with his power

And the sister’s help

He won them all

 

But then came

The day

Where he met

The Weather Goddess

She was rumoured to be

The most beautiful

Of all the Goddesses

Her hair as white

As new fallen snow

Her skin as brown

As leaves in autumn

And when the Cyclops

First saw her

He knew

The rumour was true

 

But oh, the King had heard

Of this rebelling warrior

Called Cyclops

And though unaware of his inheritance still

The King searched for him

But couldn’t find him

Due to the sister’s

Protection of the hero

 

Angered by his failure

To find the hero

The King had ordered

That should any of the Gods

Lay eyes on the hero

They were to kill him

At once

 

Also the Weather Goddess

Had been given this command

But when she saw

The hero

She fell in love

For the first time

In all her immortal

Existence

 

The hero remembered

The sister’s warning

But his heart conquered

Over his head

As he kneeled before the Goddess

And gave his heart away

 

The sister felt the hero’s heart

Change hands from hers to

The Weather Goddess’s

Angered she let her shield

Around the hero

Disappear and the King

Saw the two lovers

In a tender embrace

 

Laying eyes on the hero

The King saw his brother’s image

And he knew the truth

Angered by his very existence

And the Goddess’s disobedience

He appeared before them

And demanded that

The Goddess froze

The hero to ice

As the King’s heart

Had frozen

 

The Weather Goddess

Refused

Declaring her love

For the hero

As the hero did the same

For her

Fearless and forgetting

The sister’s warning

About the wrath of the King

The hero attacked the King

To protect his love

 

Filled with rage

The King froze the hero in time

Turning him into stone

The Weather Goddess

Pleaded the King

To curse her too

With the stone prison

He had given her lover

But the King refused

 

Years passed

And the Weather Goddess

Faded more and more

In her misery

For in the end to

Disappear

Only the breeze remained of her

And every time

The wind blows over the land

It is the Weather Goddess

Caressing the frozen face

Of her lover

 

Over the years

The stone of the hero

Crumbled and shattered

To always be able

To be near him

The Weather Goddess

Made a wind

Scatter the stone pieces all over the world

 

When tears falls from heaven

It is the sister

Crying for the two lovers

As they are unable to

Do so themselves

When a teardrop of rain

Falls on a stone

And glitters in the sunlight

The wind will gently kiss it away

Always keeping verge

Over her love

 

That was the balled of

The Goddess and the Cyclops

Look closely at the wind

And the stones where ever you are

When the wind

Blows over the stones

It is her trying to reach him

Touching but never feeling

Together but eternally apart