All Characters Are Over 18 Years old! This is a fantasy story all the gods and goddesses were once revered. Hawaiian mythology is quite fun to research. It was all handed down orally thus there are different accounts of almost everything. As an example Hi'iaka is Pele's youngest sister. In one telling she is youngest of 20, in another youngest of 12 and another says she is all the sisters combined. I make no value judgments in writing this opus. I spent a lot of time doing my research. I know the spellings of some names look weird but they are correct in Hawaiian. In Hawaiian mythology your body when revived from death is as it was at the time of death. Please feel free to critique and comment of course I wish you to rate this story. Please enjoy yourself this work is a departure from my usual work it is just 8+K. I do know there is no Hawaiian Open track meet but I had to use a little poetic license. If you like the story please refer people to it but you may not usurp it.
Pondering Her Future
Lillie Johansen needed to think. It had been a wild year for her and now she had decisions to make. She had risen to the top echelon of her two events. She was a threat at any meet she entered. Like most, it took her years to get her footwork and speed up so she could get the distance she knew was possible. Eastern Europeans were the competition: Russians, Poles, Germans, and Belorussians dominated and had for years. Now there was a new girl on the block and she was bad! Lillie had set the world mark in both the hammer and discus. She was paid top dollar to appear. People were in awe of her combination of strength and grace. The speed she achieved was blinding in the hammer throw. Of course, the discus was slower but she was the fastest. She had worked for years on her weight training to build the speed and whipping motion both skills required.
Lillie would go back to her college coach every so often for his critique. He was honest, and could be brutal, but he had outlined her career. He helped her overcome the savage injury she had suffered when the wire on her hammer broke, throwing her back into an unnatural position. It took her two years to get back to where she had been. And then she had had to work eight more years to be able to be invited to major meets. Lillie's competition knew she had potential if she could just perfect her footwork. She already had the muscles. Her coaches sent her to a dance teacher to learn how to move her feet as quickly as she could. This was slow going. Lillie had to unlearn everything from before and retrain the instincts. You couldn't think what you wanted -- it had to just happen. She spent hours visualizing and it paid off as her distances increased.
She carried no fat but she was not slender. Her arms were bulging masses, as were her legs. She was ripped in both her back and abdomen.
She had no time for relationships. When the need for sex hit her, she would find a partner of either sex. Dark brown hair and eyes, a pretty face, smallish bosom due to all the exercise, right at six feet tall. She was not a selfish lover by any means. Her partners never thought of being so she was intimidating. Lillie had a quick wit that she used on everyone. She was kind and never played mind games at competitions. Over the years she had found that a big throw was the best way to get into people's heads. Three years ago she had started to qualify for finals in major events, and then her confidence built. Over time she moved up, placing fourth or fifth regularly. After a while she had moved into medaling. On very good days her distances had climbed above the mid-seventies into the top 10 all-time best throws.
As Lillie kept improving, she was a threat to break 80 meters -- this was rarified area. At the world championships in 2015 she did just that, coming with 80.24 meters, a world record at the time. Now she was Big Time. Her discus distances were slower to increase, but they were now in the 74-meter range, and she was winning her share of big meets. She lost the hammer record to a strong Pole -- it was now 82.98 meters and she wanted it back. At this level long throws were a matter of everything being perfect, not just good. Any little thing would cause a throw to come up short. Big distance throws were very rare and super exciting for the crowd to watch. At the U.S. Olympic trials, Lillie had a career day. On her first throw in the finals, she popped an 83.46 m blast -- the crowd went wild. On her third, she improved radically, unloading 85.18 m. The entire track and field world was stunned. To top off this best performance of her life, on her last attempt, she could 'feel it' coming. With an ecstatic smile, she set up to throw -- the result was 87.89 m, longer than the men's record. When she exited the cage, all her teammates, both male and female, were there to greet her. Every one of them knew it would be a very long standing record. Lillie was looking forward to the games in Rio. She had a lust for gold. She was to be in the discus also, but a double was probably too much to ask for.
The discus changed everything for Lillie. On her first attempt, she uncorked a long throw. On the second, she slipped during her spin. And the old back injury came back, slamming her hard. Worse than before. Her throw netted her silver -- not bad. But she was in trouble for her best event.
The next day were the hammer finals. Lillie had spent as much time with trainers as she could. On the first attempt, she got that feeling again and was filled with righteous hope. She prepared to throw. She was faster than ever. Just as she released, there was an audible snap. Lillie's body exploded in pain. She had to exit the back of the ring by herself, without touching the ring or the ground outside anywhere else. Lillie managed to roll over and crawl out. And she collapsed. She was taken off the field. Her throw, 80.04 m, placed her third. She could not climb the podium and sat in a wheelchair. She was mobbed by all the hammer throwers, both men and women. No one ever wanted to see this kind of thing happen.
Lillie flew home in an air ambulance. X-rays and a CT scan revealed that one of the disks in her lumbar spine had ruptured as a result of the torque of her throw. Two ligaments of her spine were torn. As she put it, she was 'Fucked Up'. She underwent treatments for many weeks. By then she had detrained badly -- she could not throw due to continued severe pain. Lillie was also fighting depression. Her whole life had changed in two days. Now she was forced to make new plans. She also wanted to get away from the reporters who were hounding her with inane questions. When she felt able, she took a vacation to Hawaii for some time alone.
