Sarah B.

Many years ago, even before the beginning time there were three sisters. Cyra, Adela and Tara. They ruled what is now called the outer planets. Each one had a planet for their own and there was one that they all shared. It is now called Jupiter. Cyra owned Saturn. Adela owned Neptune and Tara owned Pluto. Since Cyra was the oldest she got to choose first. Then Adela and then finally Tara. The three sisters barely got into any fights with each other after they had finally settled on their new homes because they were all trained with the same methods. When they were little girls their parents let them be trained by the most powerful of all trainers. Athena the goddess of war. When Cyra was fully trained, Athena let her train her sisters while she had her own personal business to take care of.

That’s when they found the planets. After the younger sisters’ training was complete they found the planets and started new lives there. One day Athena came to Cyra asking for her help.

“Cyra! Please, oh please help me!! One of my warriors Darius has turned on me and wants me killed. The only way that I know how to fight him is with you and your sisters. Please Cyra! My student. My daughter. Help me!” she cried to Cyra so suddenly that she couldn’t come up with an answer. She didn’t know what to do at first but when her sisters came she realized what needed to be done. They had to take the warrior out.

Immediately they started to train again. First at the basics and then they got to the harder techniques. Athena then trained them on something that was very different from the girls’ previous knowledge. Making a sword invisible. They tried and tried but they couldn’t get the technique down. Athena gave up on teaching them the new skill and helped them freshen up on their other moves.

It was a very dark and gloomy day near the outer planets where the four of them stood waiting for Darius. Cyra was standing tall and Adela was stiff. Tara was thinking to herself about what she had accomplished the night before. While Cyra, Adela and Athena were talking about strategy she went off and started to train. She wanted to try the new technique that Athena had tried to teach them earlier. She focused so hard that her ears almost popped. It didn’t happen. Then she tried again. It didn’t happen again. Finally she just got so irritated that she threw the sword on the ground and stormed off. After a few steps had been taken she turned around and went back to retrieve her sword. But when she got there all she could see was the little scratch on the dirt that the sword had made when she threw it down. She slowly out stretched her hand and she felt it. The sword was invisible! She had done it! The youngest and the most doubtful sister had done something that the older two couldn’t! She decided not to tell anyone. Even Athena. For she feared that something might go bad if she did.

They were waiting there for what seemed like days when Darius finally arrived. He had a very strong build and had a bow draped over his chest. There were a container of arrows on his back and there were two swords at his sides. His armor was a black color and he was wearing a helmet that looked like eagle wings were on the side of it. Behind him was a great scorpion which later they realized was Scorpio. The one who had killed Orion before any of the girls were even born. Now he had betrayed his master as well.

“Darius. I see that you have brought company. How nice.” Athena said obviously not amused.

“Yes my lady. An old friend who also has a score to settle with you. As do I.” his voice was sharp and firm. He looked behind Athena to look at the girls. “So this is your army. A couple of girls are here to fight me? The most powerful warrior of all? Now that is a shame. To see three very beautiful young ladies get killed along with their master before their lives have even begun.” He said and he shook his head slowly.

It then began. Athena lunged at him drawing her sword quicker than the eye could see. All the girls could hear were the clashing of their swords. They were moving so fast that they couldn’t even be seen. When he knew that his new master was alright, Scorpio came lunging at the girls. Cyra was the first one to strike him. She had scraped the top of his head with her sword and even though it barely seemed to leave a mark the scorpion cried out a shriek of hatred. He snapped at Cyra and had gotten her leg when Adela had come with her sword drawn out.

She slashed a long red line that had blood rushing down from its gaping open point, across his claw. He quickly let go of Cyra’s leg and scurried back towards its master. Adela followed him while Tara rushed to her sister. Cyra was crying that she was alright, that Tara had to help Adela and Athena. Hesitantly Tara followed her sisters orders and rushed over to help Adela. But before she could even get over to her sister, Athena’s sword flew over her head and fell a ways beside her. She looked over at Darius who now had his sword on Athena’s neck and she was on her knees panting.

“Now you see that I am the better warrior out of all that you have trained my lady. Even poor Orion is no match for me.” He said and raised his sword over his head.
“NO!” Tara screamed before he could finish what he came here for. He just looked at her surprised that she was speaking to him in such a rude manner. She strode forward slowly so that he did not turn on her. She stopped next to Athena who was still on the ground. Tara glared at Darius and she focused on her own sword at her side. Athena looked over at her and she could tell what she was doing. Tara took a deep breath and she pulled her now invisible sword from her side and swung near Darius’s head.

He quickly met her sword with his. His eyes were wide in shock. He had never seen a young lady of Tara’s age achieve this skill so quickly. She had an advantage over him now. They started to battle. Every once in a while there were sparks flying off of Darius’s sword with his own rage building up inside of him. Soon Tara had him on his knees in front of her and both of their swords in an X shape around his neck. He glanced up at her in awe.

“How do you know this young one? This is such a difficult skill that even I couldn’t master.” He said not realizing that he himself was calling himself a bad warrior.

“Well. If you were the best warrior you would know how to achieve this skill.” She said and ran the swords through the sides of his neck. Tara then went over to Athena who was now standing over Cyra’s body on the ground. Adela was knelt beside her sister, soothing her as the pain was now getting more and more intense. When Tara reached them they all looked up at her in shock. They didn’t know how she, the youngest and most inexperienced of all, mastered that technique.

In honor of their bravery, the three sisters were awarded three stars in the sky. Cyra named hers Bristol for her mother. Adela’s was Rhea in honor of Zeus’s mother. Tara decided to name her star Darius. She named it after the warrior because every time someone would look into the sky they would see the star of the warrior who thought that he was the best of them all, but had gotten killed by a little girl who was very much less experienced than he was. The sisters three stars make out the heads of them in the sky. Cyra is on the left. Adela is on the right and Tara is in the middle.

The constellation is near the outer planets in memory of the three sisters homes and is only seen every 200 years. You can tell that it is the sisters when you take your finger and count 20 stars above the North star. When you see three stars in a row that are not exactly in equal size you have found the sisters. They are always watching over us and are protecting us from evil.


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"Code Lyoko closed cuz no one has been posting Forum Gaia Online." Welcome to Gaia Gaia Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Feb. 2010. .