"Come on, stupid shoes, we have one more stop to go."
I mumbled. The flying shoes almost given out when I finally reached Hades' underground mansion. I had gone to 127 places sending the same message: "You are cordially invited to Zeus' party. Attendance is mandatory on pain of death by electrocution."
I rang the doorbell, as I had thousands of times before. The door opened, I was ready to greet the god of the underworld with the appropriate amount of groveling and shameless boot-licking. One has to know how to survive around one's fellow gods, but instead, Persephone, his wife, opened the door.
Surprised, I quickly regained my bearings in my usual, super-suave messenger-of-the-gods style. "Umm…..hey, Persephone, can you give a message to Hades for me?"
"Oh, hello, Hermes. Sure, what's the message?" she replied.
"Zeus is having a big party and he wants all his siblings and children to come on pain of death by electrocution."
"Oh, fun," she muttered, "when is it? Here, you should probably come in and tell Hades yourself; you know how he gets when there's nobody but souls and the Fates to talk to."
I shrugged. "Sure, this is my last stop."
Persephone opened the door wider and I stepped inside the largest and most gloomy mansion I have ever and probably will ever see. Cerberus ran toward me, sliding on the tile floor with an unpleasant scratching of claws, and his tongue one on each of the three heads licked my face, covering me with so much slobber I thought I might drown. Persephone yelled something I couldn't understand, as I was too busy being mauled by a three headed monster. "Nice to see you too, buddy," I managed to gasp after I wiped slobber off my face.
The mutt simply drooled all over my winged shoes.
Once Persephone got Cerberus into his massive kennel made of celestial bronze and filled with what appeared to be titan bones, she apologized for him with a murmured "he doesn't get to leave this place a lot". Persephone then led me to a even gloomier room. Hades was sitting there reading " The Greek Universe." " Hades, we have company." Persephone mumbled. "Oh, hello Hermes What brings you here to this gloomy place." Hades was wearing a lot of black punk clothing with many skulls and stuff. Most people would think that Hades was evil and just wants to kill people, if you think this then your wrong. He just wore dark things, but on the inside he was a pretty nice guy… most of the time. I snapped back to reality and answered " You are cordially invited to Zeus's party. Attendance is mandatory on pain of death by electrocution." Hades calmly nodded his head, obviously annoyed that Zeus was making him go whether he liked it or not. " Very well we will definitely be there" Zeus said with a twinkle in his eye. Persephone opened her mouth to speak but quickly closed it. I all gone, she was now a dark, depressing soul. I suddenly realized that me and Persephone had locked eyes as if we were thinking the same exact thing. We quickly broke eye contact and I turned my attention to Hades. Hades was already babbling about how Zeus was so full of himself. I nodded my head not really caring considering the fact that I was Zeus's personal agent. My eyes fell upon Persephone once again I could tell she was miserable in this gloomy place. No sunshine, no life, and no happiness. Starting to get bored being at Hades gloomy mansion I quickly excused myself to leave, before Hades started to ramble on about another god/goddess he disliked. He smiled and shook my hand saying have a good day Hermes, come back soon. I smiled innocently even though I was actually thinking " Not in a few thousand years." I quickly walked out the door and flew away.