Untouched History

The main gate leading to the legendary library (designated SCP 4001) opens with a whooshing sound. When one of the O5 Council member's keycard touches the electric panel located on the left of the gate. It had taken him more than 15 minutes to get here but he knew why the library required so much security so he doesn't mind it. He had been busy with the termination attempts on SCP096 and cant remember the last time he took a break and went outside his lavish office.

He had come to the library to read old books. He enters the library, he can see the shelves stretched as far as his eyes can see. The bright lights catch his attention. He starts walking and takes a left turn from the entrance and immediately finds a collection of ancient, old books. He turns around, confused. His guards hadn’t reached. Strange because he had asked for 3 highly trained security guards and he couldn't see any of them behind him in the distance. Despite knowing the possible terrible outcomes, he keeps walking because he had been to this library many times and he can relocate after he is done what he came for.

He keeps walking and picks an interesting looking book that catches his attention out of the books from one of the many seemingly endless shelves. He opens it and reads the title, “Aphrodite” it says. This seemed strange to him as he had not seen any file in the foundation archives related to the name ‘Aphrodite’ before.

He sits down on one of the benches near the shelf and opens the book. To his surprise it is that the book refers to the the Greek Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation, ‘Aphrodite’. He flips open the book out of curiosity. On the first page is the usual thing you would find when you open a book in SCP 4001. The book contained the records of her birth and everything she had done in her lifespan. He flips to a random page in the thick book and stumbles across a chapter which he had not yet heard about. He holds a great interest in the Greek Gods so this was unusual. He starts reading and finds out that this chapter had meant to be kept a secret and that's why no-one knew about it until then.

The chapter narrates a tale related to Apollo, the God of sun, light and healing. It was about Aphrodite secretly liking Apollo, but him not knowing about it. Aphrodite kept this to herself until one day she decided to tell this to her friend, Hecate, the Goddess of magic. Hecate told Aphrodite to confess her love to Apollo or to try to win over his heart. Aphrodite agrees and tries to gain Apollo's attention in every way possible, but he never got a clue about what it all was and was busy with his own work all the time that he didn't have a minute to spare for Aphrodite. After a few attempts, Aphrodite decides to give up.

Hecate finds her crying in her room one day and approaches her. She reassures her that everything will be alright. Aphrodite wipes her tears, gets up and holds the hand Hecate was lending out to her. She follows her and they walk into a room she had created for the magic she wanted to perform. She just needed the approval of Aphrodite. Hecate chanted, “Apokalýpto̱!” Commanding a black curtain that could only be seen when Hecate wanted it to be. The curtain reveals, Hecate opens it and takes Aphrodite through it. Hecate keeps talking about the magic she is going to do but Aphrodite does not seem to understand a single bit of it. They enter a room which seems to be made out of glass when walking on it, but none of the walls were reflectant, neither were the ceiling or the floor. Aphrodite assumes it was made out of magic. She keeps walking as Hecate guides her through emptiness. Just as she thought she had been walking for so long and she should ask Hecate about what it was all about, she spots a huge pillar in front of her in the distance which has a bright light, contained in a piece of glass. As soon as Aphrodite took a glance at it, she had to immediately look away because of how bright the light was. Hecate looks at Aphrodite and somehow Aphrodite knows exactly what she was asking. Maybe because she felt this anomaly was one that people deserved and needed to not go through the same situation. Aphrodite nods and Hecate lifts up the glass which now looked like a curtain because of how Hecate lifted it up. The strange bright light now seems to be rapidly growing in size and it makes Aphrodite look away and then it passes through the ceiling with ease as if it didn't exist. Aphrodite looks through her window and sees the bright light divide into several parts and then it splinters away into the day light.

He closes the cover of the book and reflects to himself while he stares into nothingness. Thinking about what he had just read realizing that the anomaly was in fact the emotion of love affecting everyone's subconscious. The anomaly was so close to everyone that it existed in the human psychosphere.

As soon as he closes the book, he hears a small stampede then stands up and follows the footsteps. He meets his guards again and they escort him out of the library.