| Myrmidon Pantheon | SFW & NSFW | 1 |
Hello my lovelies! While I am still sick, I hope I feel well enough to at least bring out some pieces of writing. This is not request - I've been thinking about writing something that includes Myrmidon Pantheon for quite a long time, as I love the skin and the concept behind it.
I used to be a huge lover of mythology but my knowledge has been getting quite rusty. It's been a long time since I improved what I know on Greek mythology. It's hard to do so when university gets so demanding.
Anyways - the reason why I have chosen this particular topic is because I got my hands on the skin recently, from a reroll. And for the first time in my time playing league, I had the most kills in my team. As a support. It was an incredible experience, to play Pantheon support and actually carry the game. My adc was just behind chilling while I was destroying Yasuo in 1v1s lol.
Enjoy this and more will come soon! Hopefully.
~ Your floral, ethereal town was a modest one. You lived far away from the huge, colorful cities - brimming with life, light and chaos. That's what your father had told you, at the very least. A veteran in many wars. A man who has retreated to the happy little town you lived in now. The town where he fell in love with your mother, a strong and proud woman who refused to leave her home and go to the vain, corrupted lands of the cities.
~ You grew up happy and oblivious to the struggles your parents were forced to face at your age. That didn't make you boastful or spoiled. You were grateful for what you had.
~ For the simple but spacious house built at the edge of the forest, facing the vast and bountiful fields of golden light. For your loving and still youthful parents. For your sweet little siblings, two brothers and a sister. For the good health you were blessed with - long, beautiful hair and dewy eyes, bright with life and sparkling with a thirst for living that surprised even your energetic parents.
~ When you reached your the tender age of 17, they didn't try to marry you off. No - you were their little treasure, their oldest child. They wished for you to have good future, of course.
~ But as a couple who married out of love - not for money or beauty - they were the last parents in the world who would arrange a marriage for their children. In their eyes, love was more important than anything else.
~ To be blessed by the Gods in such a wonderful way - it was pure blasphemy to ignore their gift.
~ To ignore Cupid's arrow.
~ And so you lived on through the early years of your life, blissfully unaware of the cruelty of the world. A child blessed by Apollo himself, smiled upon by the Gods and favored by the everlasting touch of the nature around you.
~ And you loved the Gods. You loved them as much as you loved your own parents. You venerated them with pure devotion, bringing them offerings of fruits and vegetables and flowers, carefully grown by your nimble and soft fingers. Your love for them was that of a daughter, quiet and full of wonder and excitement.
~ You never expected something back. And you would have never guessed that the soft glow of your skin, the endearing beauty of your imperfections - you would have never guessed that their blessings might be so nimbly hidden in the human nature of your being.
~ But those around you could easily see it. They could see the almost divine aura that rested upon you. Not in the perfect beauty the Gods themselves possessed - you were not perfect by any means - but by the beauty that could be found in the imperfect existence of humanity.
~ You were breathtaking through your whole being. And your parents weren't surprised when young boys started gathering around you, trying to court their eldest into marriage.
~ But you never gave them any attention. Like a priestess of Vesta, you proved to be fully unbothered by their growing efforts to gain your attention.
~ They never learned. Old ones would leave, new youngsters would come along over the years of your teenagerhood.
~ But you never gave in to their efforts, no matter how handsome or strong they were.
~ To your mother, it almost seemed like you were waiting for something. Someone. A person you had never met. But such a deep yearning touched your soul... it was impossible to ignore it.
~ You couldn't quench that thirst with the love of another man.
~ And it made you feel ashamed. Yearning for a person you didn't even know, ignoring all the attention you were blessed with.
~ During those times you would pray to Apollo, the God you venerated through your studies and sharp mind - you begged him to forgive you for how ungrateful you were to what the Gods gave you.
~ Your prayers would always remain unanswered. But your heart felt lighter afterwards.
~ When you were 19 years old, the wars started. You didn't know where or when exactly. But it brought worry and wrinkles to your parents' eyes and foreheads.
~ The war made them look old. You hated it for that.
~ As the newly appointed assistant of the town's healer, you saw soldiers pass on the main road. Men and young boys you have known your whole life, full of life and optimism. You hated thinking about it - knowing that they might die out there, alone. On the battlefield.
~ You didn't expect them to come. After all, you were only a small town. Prosperity boomed in this small Paradise, yes - but no one was truly interested in settling here, away from the raw power and energy of the cities. Nobles would come during summer and leave after only a few months, ready to embrace the heart of civilization again.
~ Your skin prickled when you first caught sight of them. They were so different from the people you knew. They were...
~ A gasp left your mouth as you dropped the large jar of healing balm you were holding. The loud sound of shattering glass escaped your ears. Your eyes remained glued on the marching troops, strong and bigger than any men you've seen up to this point.
~ They were regal. They possessed a sense of strength impossible to match by the simple folk of your people. You trembled in fear and awe at the sight of them.
~ The kind-hearted healer, old but as sharp as ever, came to your side to gently scold you. Even if there was an abundance of ingredients and herbs, it was bad practice to waste any of the blessings offered by the Gods. He stopped when he followed your gaze out the window, a loud gasp leaving his dry and chapped lips.
~ "By Zeus... it's them." His words were a reverent whisper next to you.
~ It pulled you from the spell of their power.
~ "Are they going to hurt us? Why are they here, Argus? What could they possibly want from us?" The words tumbled from your lips, louder than they should've been. They were marching just outside the open door, after all. They were loud - but not loud enough to fully drown your panicked words. " Why would they bring their petty wars here?!" You went down on your knees, shaky fingers gathering the remains of the broken jar.
~ Your teacher didn't give you an answer. You raised your eyes, wishing to continue your little ramble - when you caught sight of the door. A man was standing just outside the house.
~ He was even bigger than the rest of them. Broad shoulders, incredibly well toned - he was the prime example of dominance, authority and godly power. His attire was different. You paled when you realized that he must be of some great importance - a leader, perhaps?
~ It only made you pale further. Did he hear your words? His eyes were pure magma, staring into your very soul. Impossible to read. Impossible to decipher.
~ His stare made you shiver. It made your breath catch violently in your chest, crushing you with the intensity of his presence. And you didn't talk. You couldn't utter another word.
~ He washed you in waves of heat and ice simultaneously.
~ Then his gaze moved abruptly to your teacher.
~ "We have wounded men, healer. We will pay you well for your services."
~ His voice. Molten lava. Burning amber. Pines and fresh rain. It left a taste of ash and cold, crisp winds on the back of your tongue. It felt invigorating and frightening at the same time.
~ Were they all like this? Were they all so... powerful? Would they all shake your very being?
~ You watched as he gave you one last, lingering look before he followed his men in the same strong, disciplined march. Head held high, spear in one hand and his shield in the other - muscles rippling with tension under skin, taunt and permanently prepared for a vicious fight.
~ His skin... it was grey. The color of ashes.
~ Your working day finished much later than it usually did. On normal days, you'd leave your teacher's house early in the evening. You would pass by the market to buy some fruits and talk to your old friends, most of them swollen with babies or holding toddlers on their hips. You'd play with their children, cooing at them lovingly before you took your slow and patient walk home through the quiet fields. It wasn't a long walk - but it was enough for you to daydream about a stranger that you'd love. About a home and children of your own.
~ But now... by the time you finished patching the wounds of patient and kind soldiers, it was well past midnight. You were shocked by how polite and well-spoken these men were, different from the stories you've heard about soldiers. They didn't rape, destroy or steal. They were disciplined and intelligent. Almost regal in their silent suffering, grateful for your gentle and healing touch.
~ But they didn't compare to that man you'd seen earlier in the day. And you tried your best to ignore the way his memory made your heart clench with tension, the way your whole body would surge up with a nervous energy.
~ It left you incredibly troubled and confused. And you refused to think about it.
~ When you returned to the healer's house to grab the shawl left behind by your younger brother - sent that evening by your parents to search for you after you failed to make it in time for dinner -, everything seemed to succumb to a calm, dark silence. There were few lights on the street. But the moon was enough to guide your uncertain steps as you grew more and more worried at the prospect of returning home at such a late hour. After all, it might be for the best to remain at your teacher's house until morning. He had insisted on it, saying that it wasn't safe for a young girl like you to go running around in the late hours of the night.
~ And then you saw him. Waiting in front of the door. Unmoving. A statue made out of flesh and blood.
~ It stopped you in your track and, for a few long moments, all you could hear was the erratic beating of your heart. Why was he here? Why was he waiting in front of the door? Would he hurt you?
~ The old healer appeared in the doorframe. "Here you are! Come closer, dear child. The general has offered to walk you home - it's not good for you to travel alone in the dark hours of the night. The soldiers are honorable, of course. But there are many men that wouldn't harbor good thoughts." You shivered at his words - and you saw the general tense at their bluntness.
~ "I will take care of her, healer." The words were clipped but still polite as the broad man gave your teacher a curt bow and turned to face you. He was still wearing his armor - his graceful helmet -, holding a bright torch with his right hand. His left one held your basket and the summer shawl made by your youngest sister. The sharp steel of the spear glinted behind his shoulder. The shield was nowhere in sight.
~ You didn't wait for him to tell you anything. Instead, you approached him with unsteady and frightened steps, too nervous to gaze into his eyes again. How could your teacher leave you alone with this man? You'd die of nerves before reaching the comfort of your home.
~ As you reached for the shawl with softly spoken words of thanks, your chilly fingers brushed against his heated ones. It made your insides quiver. It made your entire being shiver. He was so close to you. He radiated heat. He smelled of fire and ashes. Of pines and dirt. Of thunderstorms.
~ You blinked away the sleep settling on your heavy eyes as you wrapped the shawl around your naked shoulders, hiding a soft yawn behind your hand.
~ And you followed him on the empty, quiet road. A hand resting on his arm to keep steady on the uneven path, you could barely keep your fingers from trembling.
~ It was hard to keep steady and calm. Not when he was so, so close to you - not when you could feel the heat of his skin, the strong ripples of muscle underneath.
~ He kept his pace steady, matching yours.
~ And it felt... different. The strong breeze of the late summer night, the soft rustle of the wind through the fields and the leaves of trees scattered around in the darkness. To feel the touch of a man so close to you. To actually feel bothered by such a proximity. No one -boy or man - had ever made you feel in such a way.
~ He made you feel alive. He made you feel like a woman. He filled you with something very similar to anticipation, knitting the nerves in your stomach and chest in such a strange manner. He made your skin prickle with an electric feeling.
~ And you didn't even know his name.
~ You only knew he was their general.
~ The Myrmidon.