Friday, January 14, 2011

History of the Amazons part 1.

The Amazon's
     Ever since Wonder Woman's creation she has been the princess of the Amazons. She has always been blessed with the fact that she comes from royalty. In most movies or books the prince or princess is the one who's spoiled and needs to be taught a lesson. Not Diana. Raised with Amazon Ethics of honor and respectability, she knows not to over step her boundaries and how to be a nice person. She was taught compassion by her amazon sisters and loves them all.


Most of the time.


You see, the Amazons, while nice and compassionate, are born warriors. They were killed by evil people during the era of the caveman. Each and everyone of them was a good person who got taken from their existance far to soon. The gods of Olympus realized this, and when Artemis, Athena, Mercury and Aphrodite brought up the subject of the Amazons, a group of women who would teach the rest of the world how to behave in times of darkness, they decided to use the lost spirits of the women to create the Amazons, giving these people new bodies and memories.

Things didn't go well for the Amazons however. The strong, bold, arrogant Herakles (know as Hercules in modern day culture), invaded the Amazons as part of his twelve trials. The Amazons defeated him however, and he realized that he needed to use trickery in order to beat the Amazons in battle. He decided to throw a party for the ones who defeated him, and made love to the fair lady who lead the Amazons to victory, Hyppolyta. What Hyppolyta (Polly) didn't realize however was that Herakles had put drugs into the wine that made her weakened and stole her magic girdle which gave the amazons the power to win the battle. He then had his troops invade the Amazons once again. The Amazons were imprisoned and powerless.

For weeks or maybe even months, the Amazons were imprisoned. At first the gods decided to not help the Amazons escape because they had failed to help teach the outside world, but then Athena lightened up, and gave the Amazons the power to escape imprisonment from Herakles army. They managed to run off, but the Amazons had to decide wether to become immortals and live on an island that was seperated from the rest of the world or stay the warriors they were born to be and fend for themselves in the outside world....

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