Trojan war

(Diana's POV)

As I cut the head of another blood ghoul, I can only regret loss of life. I only got here after all of the villages have been massacred. We have been hunting this creatures wherever we could.

Mum and dad were first to discover them, somewhere on the coast of Africa. Over the years they run into few of them, and after Avalon was made mum captured one and started researching what they are.

She discovered that they originated from some kind of disease, but it is oddly specific in what way it spreads. It spreads in similar way Hybrids are made, by consuming blood of an infected, and dying with it in their system. Except while Hybrids are reborn, bodies of this ghouls are reanimated. Mum described them as being halfway to become Vampires, but still missing a crucial part. What ever that means.

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After cleaning the blood of my sword and burning the bodies, I make my way back to Sparta. In recent years I have become friends with Helen, Queen of Sparta.

She is incredibly nice woman, but really naive. She has this idealised picture of the word that is far from reality. But she is a gentle soul, and people can't help them self but protect her, well her beauty might have something with that too.

"Diana you are back. Where did you disappear to?" Helen asked me while I was coming towards her through the garden.

"I had to do something for my family." I say as I sit next to her and start playing with Princess Hermione.

"Ah yes, your family" Helen said, and looked at me knowingly. No matter how many times I tell her differently Helen keeps believing that I am somehow related to Olympus.

While I did meet Hercules once while hunting one of the magical creatures for Avalon, I prefer my family thank you.

Olympians seem to spend most of their time trying to make each others life's miserable. Thankfully time they spend on earth is short, most of gods from different pantheons had made a deal not to get involved in progression of human societies to much.

According to dad they made that deal out of necessity, if they didn't make those rules wars between them would never stop.

"I told you so many times Helen, I am not related to gods. My parents are mages." I say with an eye roll.

She proceeds wave that away, and after coming close to me she whispers "I have been to see the seer."

I just sigh at that. Greeks seam to have this obsession with predictions.

"She told me that something will happen soon to allow me to get rid of my husband." She spat that last word out with a lot of venom.

When Helen was younger she got the opportunity to choose her husband among many, and of course being a stupid fourteen year old she choose a best looking one. While he doesn't treat her badly, there isn't any love between them. He treats her as a trophy, to be shown off on events and stay in her room when not needed.

I would have offered to turn her, she has an adventurous spirit, and would fit with my amazons, but that would be a bad idea. Most people we turn are presumed dead before they get turned, and we can't just fake death of a queen of Sparta who has a daughter to think about. It would create to much chaos, and our priority is to stay hidden.

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It has been few months since I last visited Helen and today as I walk towards the palace I can see an army gathering in front of it. After being unable to find Helen anywhere in the palace, I searched for some to ask what is happening.

I found Menelaus, Helen's husband and asked him what happened. "She went with that cursed prince of Troy, Paris, they robbed the royal treasury and left for Troy."

After he said that I stood there frozen 'But how, that, that doesn't make any sense. I know she was unhappy with Menelaus, but she loves Sparta, and what of Hermione'

"Where is Hermione, did they take her with them?" I asked.

"No she is with my brothers wife being taken care of, while we take our revenge." After finding out that Hermione is alright, I had to find out what happened to Helen. 'I refuse to believe, that she would do something like this.'

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After my conversation with Menelaus I portkeyed to Avalon. After moving through the castle, I finally found my sister in the library.

Grey eyes, midnight black hair, and pale skin Zatanna is waring a white shirt, black short shorts, black high boots, and a black cloak.

"Hey big sis, what brings you to my humble abode?" she says.

"It nice to see you too little sister." After giving her a hug I continue "Do you have any free time, I really need your help."

She rises her eyebrow at that and asks "What can I help you with?"

"Do you remember my friend Helen?" I ask. "Yes, she is that princess you rescued few years back and befriended. What happened to her?" she asks.

I explain what happened and she says "So do you thinks she was bewitched. It is possible Troy has few mages. No matter what they say those walls of their weren't built by gods but the mages."

"So what do we do?" I ask.

"Well let me get somethings, and the we go to the palace in Sparta." After saying that she goes and gets staff she needs from storage, after she puts it in her bag we leave for Sparta.

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After we returned to Sparta Zatanna started moving around the dining room where Spartans welcomed Troy's delegation. She was using chalk to write runes on different parts of the room, then she put a bowl filled with water in the middle and called me over.

"This is divination ritual, I made it to show us last instance anything magical happened here." Zatanna explained.

We watched how water from the bowl rose in a shape of humans. It showed a woman drinking something and then looking at a man come close to her, and then they kissed.

"What was that?" I asked.

"Well I would guess that she consumed a potion, but it was in a wine cup, so she probably didn't know what it was, and that kiss sealed the magic." She explained.

"What do you mean sealed?" I asked.

"When she consumed the potion she was basically opened to fall for the first person that kissed her. It is probably a love potion." As I heard that I started seeing red, next thing I know Zatanna was standing in front of me with her wand pointed at me. She was sweating, "Sis, please stop, that armor of yours is incredibly powerful."

I relaxed "Diana you can't just run there, Troy has mages and a lot of soldiers." Zatanna said.

"So what should I do?" I asked.

"Well use humans. Since Spartans are going to attack the Troy, help them, make sure they get in. After they do snake in, and get Helen out."

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And I did as Zatanna said, I helped attackers where I had to. War was bloody, but when Greeks got inside of Troy I snuck in and faked Helen's death.

After clearing her from potions I offered to turn her and she accepted. Now she is training with rest of the amazons. She looks after Hermione as much she can, and she will wist her and explain everything when she is old enough.

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AN: Finally I finished this chapter. I am not sure I like it, but it is what it is. I wanted to show that Hybrids actually interact with humanity and that they influence how history plays out.