Demeter: A Narrative Fiction

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In time when people worshiped gods, when there wasn’t cars or electricity, when fruit was on the ground. But this would soon change.
Once upon a time, on an island of peace and harmony where only animals roamed, and goats ruled the island. This was the island of Lesvos, Greece in 160 B.C.E. The goats population was flourishing and their food was plentiful; they were filled with joy and blessed with health. Everyday they filled their bellies with fresh Oak Apples from the ground and went to bed full and gleeful.
One day, Demeter the goddess of harvest, came down to visit the peaceful island of Lesvos where she finds a dreadful sight. All the fruit was eaten; the plants were ripped from the ground. Demeter was furious and decides to investigate
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She searched far and vast, being very meticulous to check every nook and cranny.
“Why, when I find those scoundrels, I’ll tear them limb from limb,” she roared. She was in an absolutely terrifying rage. In fact, she was so mad, she started making an army of nature to venture out and seize whoever did this. After days and hours of vast searching she had finally come to the conclusion that this had been the doing of the goats! When she found out she was so infuriated, that she decided to do the only logical thing she could think of.She was going to starve the goats to death to teach them a lesson. She would go and gloat to the goats about how they will have to find their food somewhere else. She will boast about her plan to will move the fruits to the trees since goats are unable to reach the fruit.
She entered the goat village, ready to spill the beans about her plan. She walked up to the center of village, where a stone from long ago laid. She climbed upon the stone, and towered over all of the
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They had regained their strength and numbers, they began their battle training. They learned to strike, and parry, and dodge. Pan gave them adamantite very strong armour for the battle, and horns on their helmets.
Meanwhile while the goats were training, word got to Demeter that Pan was building a goat army and was training them to defeat her. So she decided to set out to build own army. She was furious that a fellow god would try to attack her and kill her. She decided to try and attack them before they would her, and try to them off balance. She would not be defeated by a some four legged furry metal eating goat.
Demeter quickly got to work with her army of trees Dryads, tree nymphs. She built her army quickly and set to work on training them. She had an agreement with Ares, god of war, to train them but not to interfere. She would show the goat they were nothing to her, and she would annihilate

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