Why Did Hercules Capture My Stag?

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To begin in 2000 BC. The day started out peacefully. I was overseeing my animals because I’m the goddess of wild animals, hunting, the wilderness, and the Goddess of the moon. They call me Artemis I’m a Goddess, to say, everyday is the same thing over and over each day. Everyone knows I protect and watch over the wild animals, and I make sure all the hunters are in check.
I have been watching king Eurystheus because I have noticed that he has been wanting my stag. To continue my stag is said to be the a gorgeous creature it is like a sunset on a beach, but my stag is something you can never stop being amazed from. To say it has golden antlers, but it is not harmful to anyone it protects itself by its glorious speed.

One day I heard that Hercules was sent to capture my stag, to say I’m a protector of all animal huge or tiny so I have watched over the stage for over a year. Watching Hercules magnificent plans fail.I cherish my stag it makes me furious to think that Hercules wants to hunt my stag and keep it for a pet. That will just not pass by me!
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Then all the sudden I overheard Hera the goddess of marriage talk to another.
“ I’m so glad,” Hera said to another Goddess in a jealous tone, “that Hercules is going after the stag of Artemis so that Artemis might get mad at Hercules and hurts him I may think his birth was outrageous, I’m Zeus's wife not the mother of

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