Daphne’s Story
By Natalie
Daphne was the daughter of the books protector, the god of books, Hephaestus. Daphne has long brown hair, big blue eyes, and also she is kind of tall. Daphne loved reading so much. Almost everywhere, Daphne would read a book.
Daphne and her father lived there together in a huge house. Daphne had a giant library in her house. In her dad’s office, the library, were so many wonderful new books each day. The most special thing was that only Daphne and her father Hephaestus could enter the library.
One day, the sun and poetry god, Apollo, saw Daphne walking in the hallway. Apollo followed after Daphne. Daphne did not notice that Apollo was following after her until Apollo spoken to her softly.
“I will not harm you oh lovely Daphne, please be my wife, I am the god of poetry and of the sun!”
“Well…” Daphne replied. She was freak out.
Of course, Daphne is still really young and didn’t want to get married but Apollo didn’t seem to notice at all or even care. Then Apollo came face to face with Daphne in the hallway. Poor Daphne being the closest to her first period English class, ran into the room and slammed the door behind her with a sigh of relief but she didn't know that she would be saved only by an hour or so.
Apollo, waiting patiently for Daphne to go back out, went into her locker waiting to talk to Daphne about marriage. Daphne looked outside for any signs of the god, Apollo. She sighed in relief again thinking Apollo had finally left her alone and had returned back to the heavens. Daphne, unaware of Apollo, opened her locker to get her math materials and to her surprise, there Apollo hid. When Apollo was just about to talk to her quickly, Daphne ran as fast as lightning straight to her next period, Math, with her math materials.
Daphne, hiding the door behind her, was once again relieved but not for long. Mr. Brockington, Daphne’s Math teacher, was surprised of how Daphne acted and was so curious that he asked Daphne what happened. Daphne replied with a shaky voice,
“Sorry about how worried you are. I accidently forgot all my materials and was scared I was going to be late.”
Mr. Brockington, an understanding man, was glad everything was okay even though she was on time.
“Good, I am glad you’re on time and get to class.”
Apollo, waiting outside of a classroom wondered, why Daphne wouldn’t speak to him. Once the bell rang, Apollo looked for Daphne but there was no sign of her. Daphne was in Mr. Brockington's classroom but Apollo went to Mrs.Gerster’s classroom, which taught about the basics of algebra. Daphne, still aware of Apollo being at school, ran as fast as she could straight to the cafeteria. Daphne went to her usual table where all her friends were sitting and started eating.
While Daphne and her friends were chatting, Apollo under the flat table, unaware of Daphne watching at him, waited to come up and talk, but gods can get hungry so he took some of Daphne's food since they were getting “married” and ate. Each time Daphne looked away from her lunch, a chunk or a sip would have disappeared. Daphne more surprised than she was before, checked under the table. But she couldn’t let her friends know she was a gods daughter and there is a god following her, so she dropped her bread on the ground and picked it up. There, Apollo was under the table.
Luckily, it was time to go to class, so without saying anything, she headed straight to the hallways. While she was running and had stopped for a breath, there Apollo was, teleported right in front of her. To her surprise, she wasn't close to her science class so she headed to the media center where his dad was since he was the god of books and writing. Daphne remembering her dad was there, screamed for help, “Help! Help! Father! Help me.,” and to Apollo’s surprise Daphne had disappeared. Daphne had turned into a big bookshelf!
Apollo was so down, he make sure she would never die. He made her unbreakable, and turned himself into a book so he and Daphne could be together for all eternity.
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