Athena's Curse

By Marianne Mkrtchian

Athenas Curse is the untold adventures of Princess Athena who is cursed by evil Queen Silvia to become evil. Athena teams up with the mutants from the haunted sewer to take revenge on Prince Arthur and the villagers. Together they go on a series of mischievous adventures that shatter the love and friendship she had. Throughout the story, Athena fights with her divided self of good and evil expressing her feelings and inner fights in monologues and emotional songs. Will she be able to conquer her dark side or will the evil devour her forever? Join Athena in her journey to find her true self and discover whether she fits in the world of good or evil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503538436

Marianne Mkrtchian

Marianne Mkrtchian, the author of Athena’s Curse, was born in New York City in 2005. She is an American-Armenian who is very proud of her heritage. She loves reading and her favorite series are The Sisters Grimm and Wayside School. Marianne writes stories, diaries, comics and beautiful poems. Athena’s Curse is the first book of Marianne, which she wrote in 3rd grade at John G. Dinkelmeyer Elementary. She was very much inspired by her mother’s and her teacher’s ideas about perseverance and staying true to your values. Marianne now lives in Long Island. She also attends Armenian Saturday School, takes piano and violin lessons, and devotes her free time to reading and writing. Currently she is working on her second book The Vikings of Valor.

Book preview

Athena’s

Curse

MARIANNE MKRTCHIAN

Illustrated By Kenn Yapsangco

Copyright © 2015 by Marianne Mkrtchian. 697614

ISBN:   Softcover     978-1-5035-3842-9

             EBook          978-1-5035-3843-6

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 04/15/2015

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Queen’s Revenge

Chapter 2 Mutant Creatures

Chapter 3 The Struggle Against Two

Chapter 4 The Rescue

Chapter 5 A Wish Granted

Chapter 6 Back Again

Chapter 7 Change of Plans

Chapter 8 The Masquerade is Ruined

Chapter 9 The Grave of a Loved One

~ This book is dedicated to ~

My dear mother Anna Ghasabyan and my third grade teacher Dr. Potucek

who inspired me to start this journey of writing

and who taught me

that everything in the world is within our reach

if we only wish and persevere.

Acknowledgements

First and always, thanks to my parents, Robert and Anna,

for believing in me and making my dream book a reality;

to my grandparents, family members and friends for their ongoing encouragement during the process of writing and publishing my first book.

Special thanks to my mother for being my exceptional editor and

to my dear brother Vladimir for being the first reader of my story and

sharing his insights with me.

Thank you.

CHAPTER ONE

The Queen’s Revenge

O nce upon a time, there lived a beautiful young princess who was too beautiful for her age. She was far more beautiful than any ord inary princess. Her name was Athena. Athena’s mother died at childbirth, which made her very lonely. Her father, a royal king, was sad and lonely too, so he decided to marry again. He married a beautiful but heartless woman named Queen Silvia.

Queen Silvia was very selfish and jealous. She never loved Athena and was treating her like a servant. Nevertheless, Athena didin’t stop being kind and hard-working hoping that one day Queen Silvia would finally love her like her own daughter. Alas, Queen Silvia was very cruel and one day she ordered her huntsman to take Athena to the forest and kill her. Athena had to escape for her life and after running a while in the forest, she met the gnomes who hid her in their cottage. But the evil Queen Silvia found Athena and poisoned her. Furious, the gnomes killed the evil Queen Silvia as revenge. When Prince Arthur received the news of what had happened to Athena, he came to see her. He was so unhappy. He kissed Athena and magically woke her up from her deep sleep. Then, Prince Arthur invited Athena to stay in his castle. Everything looked happy and normal until one day…

One day, Queen Silvia who was dead and was living in the Spiritworld decided to have revenge on Athena. She had an evil plan. She