Chapter 36: The Burning Earth
A lot of gods have lovers and Helios was one of them. However unlike other gods, Helios never seem to be able to have a child. This maybe due to desparity of power between him and his lover. That's why when he found out that he had a son he was shocked.
His son was named Phaeton. He was the son of Cylmene a water nymph, one of the many lovers of Helios.
When Clymene first met Helios, they were both in love. Everyday they would stay together. Helios would sing beautifull songs and Clymene would dance to it with her beauty. However it all came crashing down when Clymene discovered Helios affair.
When she found out about this she ran away and maried King Miros of Ethiopia. Unbeknownst to her she was pregnant with Helios Children. She was pregnant with seven daughters of Helios and Phaeton.
Ever since Phaeton was little, his mother would tell him about his biological father, Helios. She would te him how strong, brave, and hansome Helios is.
This made Phaeton idolized Helios. He would dream of meeting his father and te everyone he knew that his father is Helios. Unfortunately for him, his friend don't believe him.
And so when Phaeton was older, he traveled to the temple of Helios. There Phaeton proclaim his identity and asked the God Helios to help him prove that he is Helios's son. When Helios found out he was shocked and after veryfying that Phaeton is really hi son. Helios became very happy and told Phaeton that he is His son.
But Phaeton felt that he needed more prove. He asked Helios for a chance to ride his sun car and Helios agreed due to Phaeton pleading.
So on one fatefull day, Phaeton rode the suncar. At first it was going fine. But in the middle of the journey, Phaeton made a mistake causing the sun to fall to the earth. This fall cause the world to burn and Phaeton to die. Many lives was lost that day. Luckily some of the silver humans was saved by Gaia. Helios, one of the culprit that causes this catastrophe was backlash by the world causing him to be seriouslly injured. Selene, seeing her brother injury brought him to her temple to heal. And so the catastrophe of the burning earth have come to an end.