Greek Heroes

From Create Your Own Story

The Birth of a Hero

You've heard of Perseus, Jason, Odysseus, and Heracles- some of the celebrated heroes of the Greek myths; well all those characters were simply based off of one real hero:

Diaphanes.

Diaphenes was born translucent. He wasn't completely see-through, but he wasn't completely visible either. He was born in the city of Athens. He was the son of Selcareh who was the son of Zeus. being the grandson of Zeus he inherited his grandfathers strength. Now having godly strength he was able to do a many great things. some of which are the time he joined the great ships the Gogonauts in their adventure of the Golden Blanket. On the way Diaphenes was able to help them in their quest. One way was he helped build the ship any time they had a wreck. When they finally got to the island of the Golden Blanket he was able to help them locate the Blanket. He was also able to defeat the evil dragon. The monster kept blowing fire at Diaphenes, but it couldn't hit him because of his translucency. It had trouble finding him. He got the Golden Blanket and on his way back to the ship he found a statue of a old man. He went up to it and found another and another. Finlay he came to a cave were he found a whole room full of statues. He heard breathing and his accomplice look behind him and turned to stone. This was when Diaphenes realized he was in the lair of the Borgon Medusaba. Using his run of the day mirror he was able to look at her. Also luckily because of his translucency she didn't see him. So he was able to slice her head off. He took her head and rapped it in his cape and took it to his ship. He returned to Athens and got married to Medealopeia.