The Belt of Stars
Whats this? Me posting in under a week of the previous post? Today I have another short story but this one is my longest yet. I have been working on it for multiple months and finally finalized it. I hope that you enjoy it and feel like the time you use to read it was worthwhile. Many people know of Orion's belt, the three stars that make a straight line in the sky. They have heard of the tales of how Zeus placed him in the stars to be forever remembered, but really it was all because of his final adventure with his firend Hespheratiomus. Orion was a great huntsman and had defeated many foes and hunted many creatures. He was well known as a hero and a good one at that. One day, when coming home after a long hunt, he met a tired messenger boy who had an important message for him. It was a request from Lord Hespheratiomus, a relative of the god of the forge Hephaestus. Hespheratiomus’s city, Forgerate, had been attacked by a great monster and he needed assi