Hades No Longer
Prologue: The Plan
Melinoe is a chthonic nymph, and the daughter of Hades. She was sick and tried of Thanatos the God of death getting all the tiles from her father. All she got was the job of soul's passage. She hated her job and she knew that her father knew this very well. Her grandfather, Cronus, the titan of time was making a terrible plan with a mortal dead king named Sisyphus to overthrow her father. Cronus comes up with a plan to take away Hades god powers and make him mortal. Cronus also knows that his two youngest son's Zeus and Poseidon will not come help their older brother. He was all his.
"Do you think it will work Lord Cronus?" Melinoe asked. Cronus looked at his granddaughter and smiled an evil smile.
"Yes Melinoe, my son, your father, Hades is a sucker for a deal. All you have to do is trick him into thinking that Thanatos can run the underworld better than him. Then I will steal his power and make him mortal." Cronus said laughing with Melinoe.
"Than we will be able to take over the underworld and you my Lord will get your throne back from Uncle Zeus." Melinoe said to him. Melinoe and Cronus begin planning on how the plan will work and how to keep Zeus from finding out.
"You will take Hades' place for the meetings and just tell them that he needed a break from the dead. I will make sure that Hades forgets who he is." Cronus said who was watching for his son to come back from the monthly meetings that Zeus called for that morning.
"Soon I will have my power back and my kingdom back that was taken from me by my own children. But what about you child what do you desire?" Cronus said to Melinoe.
"I wish for only my power of fear back my Lord. And..."
"And...what?" Cronus asked.
"For Thanatos to see that I am the only true immortal to rule death." Melinoe said.
"My granddaughter, you will get your wish." Cronus said.
"Thank you my Lord." Said Melinoe almost in a dream.
"It will happen child, it will happen." Cronus said looking around his cave.
"My Lord what about me?" King Sisyphus of Ephrya finally spoke to the two immortals. Melinoe rolled her eyes at the little king.
"Little King your part in the plan is nothing important. All you will do is hold down my father to allow Lord Cronus to take his immortal powers from him. You should not get anything." Melinoe said to Sisyphus who looked at her with cold hard eyes.
"Now Melinoe you know King Sisyphus is putting his neck on the line for helping us out with the plan. Pushing that horrible boulder up that hill until the end of time. I think the mortal king has had enough. I shall grant any gift that you want Sisyphus. What shall it be?" Cronus asked the King.
King Sisyphus smiled at the titan and bowed to him. "I want my life returned to me my Lord. I want to live again and rule Ephrya as I once did." Sisyphus said with pure longing in his eyes. He was always fearful of death. He had tried to cheat death twice and this is the reason for his pushing up that boulder in Tartarus for all eternity, but that is a different story for another time.
"I will have to trick the fates into freeing your soul from the Underworld Sisyphus. But do not worry little mortal king you will get your gift. Oh and to sweeten the gift. I will grant you immortally that you will never have to fear death again." Cronus said laughing to himself.
"Now let us go over the plan once more before Hades comes back from Olympus." Cronus said to the both of them. They began to go over the plans.