Part 1

The Set-up: Ascella was a huntress who lived alone in a secluded area in Crete. She was someone who survived on foraging and the animals she hunted with her bow and arrow. For the most part, this was how she lived for most of her life, though she had at times wondered and was curious about the world outside and the people out there. But because she had no idea what was out there, she did not have the courage to leave the comfort of her home.

Call to Action: One day as Ascella was out hunting, she had accidentally shot her arrow at a large golden eagle that came out of nowhere. Her arrow had went through the eagle’s wing and caused the creature to fall. By the time she found it, the eagle was unconscious and wounded, but still alive.

Call Refusal: Normally, Ascella only hunted when she needed to eat, but her accidentally shooting at something she had no intention of catching, she felt sorry for it and had to rush the eagle back to her place to tend to it’s wound. Once done, the eagle woke up not long after and saw that it’s wounded wing had been bandaged.

No Return: The eagle thanked Ascella. She was shocked that it could speak. The eagle introduced itself as Aetos Dios, the Eagle of Zeus. Once again, she was shocked, and deeply apologised for causing harm to it’s wing. But the eagle was reasonable and disagreed that she was at fault, because Aetos Dios had been the one who interrupted her arrow from catching her true prey and got himself wounded.

1st Struggle: To thank her for looking after him and in compensation of taking her meal from her, Aetos Dios told her stories about the outside world and about his master Zeus. Ascella was fascinated by the eagle’s stories and until the wound was healed after several days, she had learnt many things about what was out there beyond the area she lived in.

Commitment: On the day the eagle’s wing was healed enough to take flight again, the two parted ways with good feelings. Ascella’s encounter with Aetos Dios had inspired her to explore the outside world, and so she decided to pack some essentials along with her bow and arrows, and left her home for adventure.

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Part 2

2nd Struggle: For the next few years, Ascella travelled and visited many places and met various people in Greece. What she observed was that while the outside world was indeed a very beautiful place, she also discovered that the people who lived in the outside world were not so much. War, death, fame, cruelty, shrewdness; she saw many of those things and felt disappointed in what she saw. Particularly, she hated people who hunted animals for sport.

Crisis: One day she caught wind of a group of hunters who were searching for a large eagle that had been spotted on a nearby mountain. Fearing for the eagle’s life, Ascella also searched for the eagle in hope that she could protect it from it’s fated demise. After some time of searching, she found the large eagle perched on top of a rock and quickly went to warn it of pursuers.

Climax: Unfortunately, the other hunters also happened to spot the eagle and fired an arrow it hoping to catch it. As an expert hunter herself, Ascella heard the sound of the arrow in flight and jumped into it’s trajectory to save the eagle. The arrow stabbed into her upper back and she fell. Startled but safe, the eagle flew away, and the hunters left in disappointment, unaware that the arrow had hit something else.

Aftermath: Ascella died to the arrow wound. The eagle in fact was actually Zeus, the King of Gods in disguise. He had seen her bravery by taking the arrow for him. Zeus was also aware that she was the one who nursed Aetos Dios back to health, such kindness had touched him deeply. So he decided to revive Ascella, and made her with her bow and arrows as the personification of Sagittarius, giving her a place amongst the stars.