Dust River – Berry Sweet Sims & Supernaturals

Freedom: Granpapa! Swim?

Dust: You wanna go in your pool? Okay Pumpkin, let’s go for a swim.

Freedom: Yay!

She doesn’t look too excited about learning to talk there Dragonfruit.

Dragonfruit: Wait… it says here you’re like dating Aphrodite. Isn’t she the goddess of beauty and love? Why would you slum with me?

Ares: laughs Don’t sell yourself short there kid. Besides, all us gods like to kick it with Humans sometimes. You fascinate us.

Dragonfruit: Wait… humans without any sort of super power, fascinate the all powerful greek gods with untold power?

Ares: Look, we survive using our power. You humans have no power, yet you get by just fine. How could that not fascinate us?

Dust: It’s okay Dreamer, the TV’s not going to hurt you.

We talked for a long time. He explained to me what life was like for him as a demigod, and how grandma never back down from her destiny. Papa told me that he wasn’t able to carry on her legacy because his traits didn’t match up with the heroes the gods were trying to create. I thought that was bologna, but Papa waved it off. Maybe I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions when he had told me about it being my destiny now… it couldn’t be too bad?

Dragonfruit: Papa… why didn’t you tell me your mom had the same fate?

Dust: You didn’t let me get that far. You were just so against it. I would have chosen it for myself if I could have, but I… don’t have the same qualities.

Dragonfruit: Papa…

Dust: No it’s okay, I don’t hold a grudge. But you see son, you think this is a fate you wouldn’t want to force on your children, but it’s not that. I never felt forced into this life. You shouldn’t either. Has the god who showed up for you forced you to do anything?

Dragonfruit: No… I guess you have a point.

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Dragonfruit: So when do I find out when my curse starts?

Dust: Dragie…

Dragonfruit: When, Papa?

Dust: On your next birth… when you come of age, the first god will choose you.

That’s why he chose today. Exactly one year before it was going to happen. He chose then to tell me of what was going to happen. Maybe it was so I knew there was no way out, no running from it. I’m not sure. But I wasn’t looking forward to my next birthday at all.

Dust: How would you feel if someday in the future someone said you weren’t real, just because no one has seen you in thousands of years?

Dragonfruit: This is insane Papa! You’re telling me, some fictional god is going to come down from wherever the hell they are hiding and use me to make some demigod heroes who will save the world and then run away back to their little thrones and leave me to raise the kids all by myself, and I’m just suppose to let them?

Dust: The ones that choose you yes. It’s a great honor Dragie…

Dragonfruit: Is… is this why dad left?

Dust: Sigh Yes… when I told him about your destiny, he didn’t want that life for you, so he left.

I didn’t blame him. I wanted to run away too, as far as I could. This all sounded like nonsense to me, and if it was true, it was unfair that I would be stuck with this stupid thing. And then have those kids be cursed to have the same fate. I didn’t want that. But something told me no matter how far I ran, I still wouldn’t be able to avoid this… destiny thrown at me.