The God, the King and the Hero-Wannabe.
Author's Note: Since the 20th Anniversary of the release of Hercules is this coming Tuesday, I was struggling to either update Kingdom Hearts: Before Crisis or Kingdom Hearts III: Second War, or start this up, I've finally admitted defeat and gone for this which, while following the storyline of the film, is set within Sailor Moon Continuum, set one year before the events of Kingdom Hearts: Crisis Core.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts. It rightfully belongs to Disney and Square Enix. I don't even own the songs...yes, this is my first somewhat musical fanfic.
CHAPTER 1: Birth of a New God.
Long ago, in a world of ancient Greece that lived in the golden age of powerful gods and extraordinary heroes. And the greatest and strongest of all these heroes was the mighty Hercules. Though the question was what the measures of being a true hero. Well, for one thing, he wasn't alone, and there were other heroes in other worlds who had their own tales. But this story-
"Would you listen to this girl?" A voice asked irritably cutting in.
Huh, what?
Four women on the vase of Hercules fighting against a lion came to life. They were the Muses. The voice came from the short tubby woman, Thalia, who continued as she took the mask from Melepomene and puts it on in a dramatic gesture, continuing, clearly very annoyed, "She's making the story sound like some greek tragedy."
I am not!
"Lighten up, sis!" Said Terpsichore, agreeing with Thalia, while Melepomene took her mask back from the shortest woman in annoyance.
Hoping to avoid any arguments, the tallest woman of the five, Calliope, spoke up, "We'll take it from here, sweetheart."
Uh...okay. Be my guest. So...just ignore me and we'll continue on, shall we?
The four Muses gazed their gaze at the readers/viewers, with Calliope beginning as she introduced herself and her fellow Muses, "We are the Muses. Goddesses of the Arts, and proclaimers of heroes!"
"Heroes like Hercules." Terpsichore added, as she took a leaf close to her and fanned herself, feeling the heat of romance.
"Honey, you mean 'Hunk-ules'!" Thalia grinned, before sliding down to the picture of Hercules as though she was up close to the real thing, muttering as she is madly in love, "Woo-oo, I'd like to make some sweet music with-" before humming.
"Our story," Calliope said sharply while glaring at Thalia, before resuming her calm position as she turned her back to the audience, "Actually begins long before Hercules...many eons ago."
She moved her hand so that the lining part of the vase turned into stairs, before the three of them began dancing their way down to begin narrating in their own style, with Calliope continuing, "~Back when the world was new~"
Thalia caught and realise that she was left behind, yelping, "Whoa!" and quickly dashed after her friends before joining the dance, while Calliope continued, not paying attention, "The Entire World was down on its luck
And Everywhere, Gigantic brutes called Titans
Ran Amok~"
They past a moving vase of a volcano titan, an ice titan, an rock titan, and a tornado titan. Parts of the vases shattered from the pots and broke into several pieces onto the ground, and Thalia flinched out of the way to avoid in getting hit, continuing, while tip-toing her way to avoid in breaking anymore of the pottery, "~It was a nasty place!
There was a mess wherever you stepped."
"~Where chaos reigned
And earthquake and volcanoes never slept.~" Calliope continued, all five of them lining up, knowing what was coming up next.
"Whoo! Say it, girlfriend!" Thalia told her.
Soon all four of them sang, "~And then along came Zeus~" while They past a moving vase of a man with black hair, blue eyes, and a mustache, who wore a white coat with blue pants and gold boots. He then held up a thunderbolt and shot it at the Titans, as the ground broke underneath them and they fell in a small hole, before Zeus zapped another lightning bolt to make it into a cage, where they would remain forever trapped.
"~He hurled his thunderbolts, He zapped! Locked those suckers in a vault!
They're trapped! And on his own stopped chaos in its tracks! And that's the gospel truth! The guy was too type A to just relax!~" The five of them narrated as they went.
"~And that's the world's first dish.~" Terpsichore continued.
"Yeah, baby!" Thalia grinned.
"~Zeus tamed the globe while still in his youth.~" Terpsichore continued, before she and her friends continued, as they now approached another vase that showed a beautiful scenery of greece, and there, was Mount Olympus.
"~Though, honey, it may seem imposs'ble, That's the gospel truth! On Mount Olympus life was neat And smooth as sweet vermouth, Although, honey, it may seem imposs'ble, That's the gospel truth!~" They concluded as they showed off the area...And here is where the story really begins.
The tale of The God, the King and the Hero-Wanna-Be.
Eleven years before the events of Sailor Moon-0: Birth By Sleep...
Realm of Light Time-1977...
On the top of the luxurious mountain of Olympus in the golden Utopia of the gods, a celebration was taking place. The reason: A son had been born to the head gods Zeus and Hera. A son they named Hercules. In the crowd of chattering gods, a woman with wavy pink hair and brown eyes was watching over the baby with Zeus who was wearing a purple robe. The woman was Hera, Zeus's wife, the baby's mother and the goddess of marriage. The baby was giggling.
"Hercules!" Hera smiled, before she laughed as her son reaches up and removes her tiara. She then placed it back onto her head as she whispered, "Behave yourself." then placed the baby in a bassinet that materialized in the form of the clouds.
Hercules, had blue eyes and orange hair. He also wore a white silk robe and had an orange glow. Almost immediately, his father, Zeus, appeared above him, smiling happily at his son, "Oh, look at this, look how cute he is." Zeus chuckled. "Hey!"
Zeus then babbled and made silly faces while wriggling his finger which made Hercules laugh before the latter grabbed it and to Zeus's surprise and delight, lifts him up high clear over his crib and holds him there. "Hah! Oh, he's strong! Like his dad." Zeus commented at Hercules' amazing strength.
Just then, the Gods messenger, Hermes who always wore sunglasses and was coloured in glowing blue, flew past the other gods who some of them got a little annoyed despite his polite apology, "Whoa! Excuse me! Hot stuff coming through!" Hermes said, before passing Ares. "Excuse me, one side, Ares."
Eventually he made it to the trio and held out a lovely bouquet of glowing flowers to Hera who smiled warmly at such a wonderful gift, gently take them from the messenger, "Why, Hermes. They're lovely."
"Yeah, you know I had Orpheus do the arrangement. Isn't that too nutty?" Harmes said with a smile. He then flew close to Zeus. "Fabulous party, you know I haven't seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself!"
Narcissus himself, glowing in purple and quite handsome, was grinning lovingly at...his reflection a hand mirror he was holding, styling his hair before making kissing noises as he made to try and kiss his reflection. In the meantime, Hercules, seeing one of the Lightning Bolts in Zeus's pockets, reached out to grab one and happily began to play with it, much to Hera's chargin.
"Dear!" She scolded at her husband, "Keep those away from the baby."
As Zeus also noticed, he shook his head and told his wife, "Aww, he won't hurt himself. Let the kid have a little fun."
As baby Hercules made to try and eat it, as all babies would try to eat things that aren't food, the moment he put it in his mouth, it shocked him, literally, and fuzzed his hair like an electric socket...Well, he did try to eight the lightning bolt, so it was electric socket...only without the socket part. With a comical shocked(non-literally) expression, he then tossed it aside, sticking his tongue out in frustration and disgust. Three gods jump away from its path, until Athena hits it with her sword so it hits a pillar, which immediately reappears. That had been too close. None the less, everything was fine.
Zeus smiled as Hera held Hercules once more, before the God spoke to the other Gods at the party, "On behalf of my son, I want to thank you all for your wonderful gifts." gesturing at tons of gifts and toys that were given to Baby Hercules; A golden Sword, a Cape of Dreams, a Book that was ever written or would be written, a rocking horse, a Cloud slide, a perfectly working globe with water running as it would in the real world, and a lamp that sprouted a rainbow.
"What about our gift, dear?" Hera asked.
Zeus thought about it, before he had an idea and gazed at the mists that floated around. "Well, let's see here ... we'll take, hmm, yes, a little cirrus, and now hmm, a touch of nimbostratus," as he was saying this, he binds the two pieces of cloud together in a little horse shape, before finally concluding, "And a dash of cumulus." as he put the last piece which made wings.
Zeus held it out to Hercules who made to touch it. The baby was surprised when a baby horse's head popped out, white with blue mane and eyes. The baby new-born Pegasus shook off the rest of the clouds that formed into a real body, as Zeus introduced his son to his gift, "His name is Pegasus, and he's all yours, son."
Pegasus, curious at his new surroundings, sniffed at Hercules and nearly fell off Zeus's hand before the baby horse realised, as his little wings flapped to keep him in the air, that he could fly. Hercules, smiling, bonked his forehead against Baby Pegasus' and laughed. Pegasus whinned happily and licked Hercules who was about to cry, before the baby horse snuggled up against him lovingly. Hercules in return smiled and happily hugged his new found best friend affectionly.
"Awww." The rest of the Gods smiled warmly at the adorable and heart-warming scene.
Hera then handed Hercules to Zeus who suddenly felt himself nervous and afraid that he might hurt the baby, as his wife told him carefully, "Mind his head."
"He's so tiny." Zeus admitted, while Hercules tried to bite his golden medallion that hang around his neck, a medallion that had the symbol of the gods. It wasn't long before the baby felt tired and yawned, and Zeus smiled, playing his son into the cot, "My boy. My little Hercules." Kissing him gently on the head.
"How sentimental." A voice spoke across the room, which made everyone turn to where the voice came from. There in the corner, was Hades, the God of the Underworld and Lord of the Dead, as well as being Zeus's brother. He was a blue skinned man with blue fire on his head as hair. He wore a black robe.
Hades then made a joke, "You know, I haven't been choked up about this since I got a hunk of moussaka lodged in my throat. Huh?" waiting for a laugh, which didn't come. Instead, he gained skeptical looks from most of the party. "So is this an audience or a mosaic?"
He then went to greet the other Gods, saying to the God of Wine, "Hey, how you doin'?" before saying to Aphrodite, gesturing at her outfit, "Lookin' good. Nice dress."
"So Hades," Zeus said smiling as he pulled his brother in an one-arm hug, which made Hades give him a small glare, "You finally made it. How are things in the Underworld?" plonking his hand onto the other god's shoulder.
As Hades removed Zeus's hand, he shrugged, "Well, they're just fine, y'know, a little dark, a little gloomy and as always, hey, full of dead people. What are you going to do?" before noticing the baby behind the latter.
"Ah, there's the little sunspot. Little smootchie." Hades said as he approached the cot, smirking as Hercules woke up to see another new face. The Lord of the Dead then materalized a skull-shaped sucker with spikes, continuing, "And here, is a sucker for the little sucker. Here you go, ya just-"
But as Hades made to put the sucker into the baby's mouth, Hercules grabs his finger instead, squeezing it so tightly that Hades cried out in pain as he felt his finger about to be broken. After a struggle, he finally pulled it free, and winched as his finger had been squeezed so tightly that it was thin as a stick and flopped loosely like a broken stick, "Sheesh!"
Baby Pegasus reacted by giggling at what just happened. Hades cringed while his finger was recovering, muttering in pain and astondment by the fact on how strong the kid was, "Uh...powerful...little tyke."
"Come on, Hades, don't be such a stiff." Zeus said as he threw his arm around Hades again, "Join the celebration."
Hades reacted by ducking his way out of his brother's arm and told him plainly, "Hey...Love to, babe, but unlike you guys lounging about up here, I regrettably have a full time gig, that you, by the way so charitably bestowed on me, Zeus. So…can't. Love to, but can't."
As Hades made his way to make his leave, Zeus told him with a suggestion, "You oughta slow down - you'll work yourself to death." before realising he just made a joke that made him begin to laugh hysterically, "Ha! Work yourself to death! Ha!"
That made everyone else(save for Hades) laugh hysterically. Zeus was laughing so hard that he was beginning to have trouble breathing and collasped into a chair that materialized so that he wouldn't hurt himself, pounding the arms and shaking with laughter., "Oh, I kill myself!"
Hades on the other hand, not finding the joke funny and was secretly plotting something that would change everything for everyone's future, just laughed politely, "If only." before sneering at himself secretly, "...If only." making his way back to his domains.
The Muses, still continuing to re-tell the story, stood next a vase with the picture of Hades in the Underworld riding on a boat over the river Styx in which a skeleton was rowing.
"If there's one god you don't want to get steamed up, it's Hades." Calliope said to the readers.
"Cause he had an evil plan." Terpsichore added.
To which Thalia took over and narrated while singing.
"~He ran the Underworld...But thought the dead was dull and uncouth,~"
Hades, having came back to what he'd known as home, just leaned against the front of the boat while the skeletion behind him rowed him towards his domain through the river of souls, annoyed and bored. Just then, a couple of dead souls came out from the river and clawed at his robe, much to his disgust.
"~He was mean as he was ruthless~"
He then immediately blasted them with fire that forced them to let go and sink back into the river, before he turned away and blew his finger to rid the lingering smoke like a pistol.
"~And that's the Gospel Truth.~"
Soon, the gates to the Underworld opened and by the side-shorelines, Cerberus, the three headed giant dog growled at them, to which Hades responded by dully tossing a hunk of steak carelessly to keep his pet busy, in which, while he sailed safely by, Cerberus began a tug of war with it's three heads for the meat.
"~He had a plan to set things up, And that's Gospel Truth.~"
Finally, making to his skull-shaped domain, Hades got out of the boat before shouting up towards the stairs, agitated, "Pain!"
A stumpy pink devil, named...well, Pain, ran down the stairs, calling, "Coming, your most lugubriousness." before tripping and rolled down the stairs and then gets seated on a sharp trident on his backside, where he screamed, "OW!"
Considering the fact that he's clumsy and always hurts himself...No wonder he's called Pain.
"Panic!" Hades shouted again.
A green, thinner devil, named Panic, came running down the stairs. "Oh! I'm sorry!" he stuttered. "I can handle it!"
But as he did, while Pain managed to free himself and rub his sore bottom, Panic accidently crashed into him, sending the two minions flying before crashing onto the ground and instead of being stuck in a pile, Panic's landed by having his horns get stuck onto Pain's butt at the very same spot the trident was, causing Pain to scream hysterically in agony. This clumsy moment only made Hades roll his eyes. Yep, same old life within the Underworld.
"Pain! Ow..." Pain saluted.
"And Panic! Oh!" Panic saluted.
"Reporting for duty." They said in unison.
"Fine, fine, fine." Hades said calmly, heading up towards the stairs before giving out his orders, "Just let me know the instant the Fates arrive." while Pain pulled Panic out of his butt and puts him down onto the ground.
Suddenly remembering something, Panic replied to his boss, "Oh, they're here."
"WHAT!?" Hades yelled, turning fiery red and yellow in anger as he shouted at the two bumbling idiots, "The Fates are here and you didn't tell me!?"
Terrified, Pain and Panic shuddered before groveling in guilt, saying, "We are worms!" and to demostrate this, they shape-shift so that they really do look like big, ugly worms. "Worthless worms!" and began to cry, letting loose water-works.
"Memo to me, memo to me." Hades rubbed his forehead as he calmed down, moving to leave as he concluded, "Maim you, after my meeting."
Pain and Panic just glanced at each other worriedly. This was why they tried to be careful in not angering their boss; or else they would suffer very severe consenquences.
In the large carven of the Domain that had a round table that showed the world with miniture models that looked like menopoly pieces, the three Fates were waiting for Hades's arrival. While they waited, they spent that time doing what they always did best.
"Darling, hold that mortal's thread of life good and tight." Said Atropos, the shortest of the three, skin pink and had a single eye. Her sister, the tallest, Clotho, held a thin sting very tightly that it stretched. Atropos, blue skin and two empty eye sockets, then slowly held out a pair of sharp black sissors and...
Snip! Twang!
"Arrraaaggghhh!" A woman's scream echoed all around.
"Incoming!" Lachesis, having green skin and two empty eye sockets like Clotho, called, before all three of them laughed, as an unfortunate soul of a woman came drifting into the chamber, and passed Hades who just watched the soul enter a tunnel were green light was shining from within.
Above the entrance was a toll count, which turned from 5,000,000,000 to 5,000,000,001 served. That count would never stop and that, in Hades' opinion, was really dull and uncouth. He was sick of doing this 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Which is why this meeting today was very important to him and despite that it would break all rules, he didn't care.
Then he turned to the Fates and said, "Ladies! Hah! I'm so sorry that I'm—"
"Late." Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis finished for him together, while Pain and Panic came into the room as well.
"We knew you would be." Clotho said, smugly as she pulled the single eye out of Atropos's eye socket, placing it into her own left eye socket.
"We know everything." Lachesis added.
"Past." Clotho said, before Lachesis took the eye and placed it into her right socket.
"Present." Lachesis continued, before Atropos took the eye back into her single eye socket.
"And future." Atropos concluded, before whispering to a very nervous Panic, "Indoor plumbing...it's gonna be big."
"Great, great." Hades said casually, before he began to get straight to the point, "Anyway, see, ladies, I was at this party and I lost track of-"
"We know." The Fates bragged.
"Yeah, I know you know." Hades said crispy as he walked towards the table that had models of everything, including Mount Olympus and Zeus, continuing, "So...here's the deal. Zeus. Mr. High and Mighty," He quoted the 'Mr. High and Mighty' with four fingers with his hands, continuing, "Mr. "Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud". Now he has a-"
"Bouncing baby brat." The Fates finished for him again, while Lachesis took the eye from Atropos and put back into her right eye-socket as she said, in exasperation, "We know!"
"I KNOW!" Hades snapped as he briefly glowed red again before he recomposed himself out of fear of offending the three people he needed the most. "You know. I know. I got it. I got the concept. So, lemme just ask ... is this kid gonna mess up my hostile take-over bid or what? Whaddaya think?"
"Well..." Lachesis began, only to be silenced by Clotho who grabbed her nose.
"Oh, no you don't." Clotho warned, "We are not supposed to reveal the future."
Hades was clearly annoyed by this response. Fat lotta help they were, he thought. On the other hand, Lachesis seemed eager in wanting to tell him despite what Clotho said, and then he thought of a devious idea to get what he wanted. He was good in plotting schemes with others.
"Wait, sorry, time out, can I ask you a question by the way?" Hades spoke up, approaching Lachesis while gesturing at her wriggly worm-like hair, saying charmingly, "Did you cut your hair, or something? I mean you look fabulous.. I mean, you look like a fate worse then death."
This made Lachesis giggle like a school-girl, which made her sisters so annoyed that Clotho bonked her on the head with fist that caused the eye to pop out...and land right into Panic's hands, unfortunately.
"Oh, gross!" Panic groaned in disgust, handing it over to Pain who was just as disgusting.
"Yuck!" Pain groaned, disgusted as he shoved it away, cringing, "It's blinkin'!" and then kicked it away from him and Panic, where it landed neatly in Hades's hand as he caught it with ease.
"Ladies, please." Hades continued, not fazed at all, or if he was, he was certainly doing a good job in hiding his disgust, handing the eyeball back to Lachesis, "My fate is in your lovely hands."
"Ooh..." Lachesis said, blushing before looking pleadingly at the other two who, seeing this look and knowing that they weren't going to get out of it, gave up in the end.
"Oh, alright." Clotho conceded in annoyance.
Pleased, Lachesis then held out the eye which, under a spell, leviatated on it's own as it began to glow brightly in white light, placing it with, showing everyone in the room the future; first, it showed nine planets lining up in a perfect line, as Lachesis began, "In 18 years precisely, the planets will align ever so nicely."
"Ay. Verse. Oy." Hades groaned. What was so special about planets? Sure, he had a fair idea of other worlds beyond the Underworld and Greece. But never once ventured out to them as it was against the rules. Besides, he didn't believe in those stupid myths. Still, he continued to observe the Fates telling him the future.
"A time to come will be at hand! Unleash the Titans, your monstrous plan." Lachesis continued, as the eye showed the Titans roaming free and climbing Mount Olympus.
"Mmm-hmm...good, good." Hades commented. So the planet align will reveal the location of the Titan's prison and he can release them? So far, so good. Sounded easy.
"Then the once proud Zeus will finally fall." Lachesis continued, "And you, Hades WILL RULE ALL!"
Hades saw Zeus disappearing, and himself enlarge, ruling over the entire world. This is definitely liked! "YES! Hades rules!" he yelled, triumpthly.
However, that moment was short-lived as Atropos quickly interjected, "A word of caution to this tale,"
"'Cuse me?" Hades blinked, now confused and quickly worried. To his shock and horror, his future-self was quickly defeated by what he recongised as an adult Hercules, riding on an adult Pegasus, and with him, were...a young man and...a human-sized mouse with a key-like sword? Yet before that, with the young mouse were three teenagers, each also having key-like swords, a young teenaged woman with long silver hair and a cresent moon wand, an eleven year old boy, and a humaniod lizard in different time-frames in the near future.
"Should Hercules and eight mortals fight, you will fail." Atropos concluded.
With that, the Fates cackled as the vision ended and the trio then absorbed themselves into the eye ball which then disappeared and they were gone in a matter of seconds, their job and visit done, the laughter fading in the air, leaving Hades alone with Pain and Panic. Then, after a few moments of tensed silence...
"WHAAAAAAATTTT!?" Hades roared, as a venerable volcano of pure fire busted from his head and singed the ceiling, unable to believe that the little God-Brat and a bunch of mortal brats were going to get the better of him. Hercules was bad enough, but a bunch of mortal teenagers, a young swordsman, two humaniod-animals and a kid going up against him too!?
He then immediately regained his composure and calmed down, running a hand through his fire-blue hair, "Okay, fine, fine, I'm cool, I'm fine."
Okay, so in order to prevent that future from happening, he first had to get rid of Hercules while the kid was still just an infant. Luckily for Hades, he quickly knew the key in how to get that kid out of his scheme.
Hades brought Pain and Panic to a chamber; where he kept all his tools for his schemes.(Bell dinging in the background) This chamber had multiple potions he'd pried from learned wizards who all died and certainly would come in handy. Like now for example.
"Pain? Panic?" Hades spoke to the two minions who both cowered in fear when he said their names. Fortunately for them, he wasn't going to attack them. Instead, he casually quired at a little game, "Got a little riddle for ya'. How do you kill a god?"
"I do not...know." Pain tried and failed miserably to answer. How can you kill a god?
Panic, being the smarter one out of both of them, excitedly jumped his chance to answer and guessed correctly, "You can't. They're immortal?"
"Bingo!" Hades smirked, for once impressed and relieved that Panic caught on the scheme. "They're immortal."
With that, he pulled out a small vial from an altar. The vial had pinky-red liquid with a skull-shaped stopper, as he shook it, the bubbles inside the liquid had skulls inside them, as he gave out his order to the two devils, "So, first you've got to turn the little sunspot…mortal."
With this vial, once Hercules drank it, it would turn him mortal and make it far easier to kill him.
Later that day, at Mount Olympus at dusk, the God of Night rode past in his chariot, bringing the night-time sky with him, having everyone in the world, both in Mount Olympus and in the Mortal world to go to bed for the night. In the bassist, baby Hercules and baby Pegasus slept together peacefully and comfortly, and cutely snoring...and fully unaware of the dangers and tragedy that was about to occure on this very night of darkness.
As the two babies slept, menacing shadows slightly crept over towards them...
In the master room of Mount Olympus, Zeus and Hera were both sleeping until the sounds of glass breaking and unfamiliar twittering awoke the two from their sleep as they blink sleepily. The two wondered at first on what was going on until a horrible thought quickly entered their minds and they both gasped, "The baby!"
Zeus and Hera quickly got up and raced to the nursery, only to become horrified as the entire room was scattered; all of the gifts were lying around. Pegasus got his head stuck in a cornucopia until the baby horse got himself free, only to whine in horror as the cot he'd just been sleeping in...was upside down and his best friend...was gone! Kidnapped by the menacing shadows that attacked him and took the god-baby.
"HERCULES!" Hera cried out in horror, before sobbing at the loss of her baby son.
Zeus was horrified beyond belief. His only son...was kidnapped! The very idea and reality of it, and not knowing who had done such a thing or where the kidnapper had gone, angered him by the second which grew stronger. Eyes narrowing, finally, as his anger triggered a storm all around Olympus and into the mortal world...he roared, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
As he yelled, lightning flashed all over the mortal world below and around the god world above. Whoever had done this was going to pay for it. But first things first; find and rescue his son before it was too late.
As they quickly made their escape with baby Hercules, now awake, in their grasp towards the nearest place to kill him, Pain and Panic were hurrying down as fast as they could, while narrowly avoiding the lightning strikes which no doubt was caused by Zeus' sheer anger, yet the God did not yet know it was them who had kidnapped his only son.
"Now we did it!" Panic groaned, quickly becoming paranoid and terrified, "Zeus is gonna use us for target practice!"
"Just hang onto the kid, Panic!" Yelled Pain.
Just then, as they were arguing, they saw too late as dead trees came into view and before the trio knew it, they hit them and crash landed onto the ground. While the two devils grunted and moaned at brusies that quickly developed, Hercules, hurt, immediately wailed and cried.
Worried that the noise might cause attention from possibly mortal humans, Panic held onto the crying baby's arm and quickly told his friend, "Hurry! Let's just kill the kid and get it over with, okay?"
"Here you go, kid." Said Pain, putting a rubber baby bottle cap on the vial. "A little grecian formula." shoving it into Hercules's mouth. The moment the baby did, he began to drink uncertainly at the vial's potion, and as he did, slowly but surely, his immortality was quickly fading, his glow disappearing, turning him into a mortal human.
"Look at that!" Panic cried out, "He's...changing!" before hysterically asked, his voice becoming high-pitched with axienty, "Can we do it now?"
"No, no, no!" Pain answered, as he concentrated in having Hercules drink all of the potion. "He has to drink the whole potion. Every last drop!"
Unfortunately, Panic's fear came true, as an unfamiliar man's voice called out from around the corner, "Who's there?"
Panicking, the two of them screamed and immediately ran to hide. This was grave mistake on their part. One; the vial was forced out of Hercules' mouth and the baby resumed his crying. Two; the vial broke into pieces of glass. Three; the only drop left of the potion that hasn't been drunk yet, fell onto the ground and evaporated away into nothingness, never to be drunk. While it did succeed in turning Hercules mortal, there was one side-effect that would effect the future.
An old man, holding a touch to see where he was going, named Amphitryon, came around the corner and his eyes widened to see a new born baby, crying and left alone. Immediately, he called out to his wife, "Alcmene, over here."
Alcmene, coming around the corner as well, gasped as she saw the lonely and adorable infant, immediately went over to Hercules, gently picking him up as she cradled him in her arms, saying gently to calm him down, "Oh, you poor thing! Oh, don't cry."
"Is anybody there?" Amphitryon called out once more, and when he got no answer, he joined his wife and gazed at the apparently orphaned child.
Pain and Panic, peaking from behind a rock, and seeing that this was the only chance now to kill Hercules, as Panic whispered to his friend, "Now?"
"Now." Pain grinned evilly. He and Panic then slowly and silently crept up towards the unbeknownest trio, shape-shifting into that of carnivorous snakes to kill all three of them.
"Oh, well, he must have been abandoned." Amphitryon shrugged, immediately feeling sorry for the small child.
Alcmene smiled and whispered, "Amphitryon, for so many years we've prayed to the gods to bless us with a child. Perhaps they've answered our prayers." while Amphitryon looked at the medallion around the baby's neck. There was a lightning bolt symbol on one side and his apparent name on the other.
"Perhaps they have..." Amphitryon thought, before frowning in confusion at such an odd name on the medallion, "Hercules?"
While Hercules had calmed down to be in a pressence of very kind people that would become his mortal adoptive parents, just then all three of them heard and the couple became horrified as two snakes came to attack the baby. To their shock and surprise, and to Pain and Panic's horror and utter confusion, Hercules grabbed the two minions in snake-form with a big smile, giggling happily as he began to play with them with his still god-like strength that remained inside him. He began banging them onto the ground several times before tying them up into a knot, whirls them around a few times and lets go, sending them flying.
"Help, help, help! HEEELLLP!" Pain and Panic both screamed as they were blasted off really far away.
Amphitryon and Alcmene stare with they jaws dropped in awe while Hercules giggled. This baby was something else with incredible strength. None the less, he just unexpectedly saved them and himself from two snakes. Well...at least they finally had a child to look after and love. They just have to get used to his unusual strength.
"AAAHHH!" Pain and Panic screamed until the smashed right into a rock before falling onto the ground a second later where they landed, turning back to normal.
"Oh man!" Panic groaned, becoming hysterical with worry and fear. "Hades is gonna kills us when he finds out what happened!"
"You mean, if, he finds out." Pain pointed out with a smirk after quick thinking.
"Of course he's gonna f-" Panic cuts himself off, realizing what his companion was talking about, then whispered, smiling, "If.. if is good."
The two smiled and knew what they had to do. As long as Hercules never knew about his past as a god, Hades wouldn't suspect a single thing and maybe his plan could still work out as long as the kid was mortal and raised by normal humans. So, Pain and Panic would lie and reveal that the kid was dead just to make sure they don't get killed themselves.
That was mistake number four.
Back to the Muses, Calliope narrated in sorrow as it was demostrated in the Realm of Light, "It was tragic. Zeus lead all the gods on a frantic search."
"But by the time they found the baby, it was too late." Terpsichore added sadly. Then Melepomene started singing to continue the story.
"~Young Herc was mortal now. But since he did not drink the last drop, He still retained his god-like strength. So thank his lucky star!~"
"Tell 'em, girl!" Calliope nodded.
When they heard the news, Zeus and Hera were so sorrowed that all they could do was gaze at the empty crib their only child had just been not hours ago, and now knowing that somehow their child was made mortal, they would never see him again and he was unable to return to Mount Olympus. Hera weeped in her husband's arms. Baby Pegasus, saddened at the loss of his best friend, could only hover sorrowfully.
"~But Zeus and Hera wept. Because their son could never come home, They have to watch their precious baby, Grow up from afar.~"
Unbeknownest to Hercules as he was growing up under his new adoptive parents, as years went by, he lived a normal life, despite still having his incredible strength. And while this was going on, Hades, fully unaware that the kid was still alive, was very pleased with the results and began the next eighteen years plotting his plans that would make him ruler of the entire Mount Olympus and the Mortal World.
"~So Hades' horrid plan, Was hatched before he cut his first tooth, The boy grew stronger every day, And that's the Gospel Truth!~"
This was only just the beginning of many challenges that lied ahead, and eleven years later...the future had set it's course for Hercules and friends he would make once he would understand the truth.
A/N: I'm pretty terrible at this, I know, but this was nagging at me for the past week now. I've been meaning to write this for a while, but never got into it until now. See you in the next chapter where the adventure really begins!