Disclaimer: I don't own Hercules or Beyblade in any way, I only own my OCs Kiri, Pyro and Carlyle. I have permission from Smiffyizdabest to use Hiroko and John. Anything else is purely coincidental.
A Legend Brought To Life
Chapter 1: A New God
Many vases, statues and jars, all of Greek origin, could be seen as a young man came in with a notebook balanced in his arms, he looked down at it, looked back up and a took a deep breath as he began to read from it.
"Long ago, in a land in Greece. Many, many years ago, there was a time of powerful gods and miraculous heroes, though no hero stood out more in history than the one named Kai..." the man said as he walked over to one of the vases which shone brighter than the others and had a picture of this Kai fighting a powerful monster. "What is the measure of a true hero though? How far must they go to..." continued the man until he was interrupted.
"Oh, listen to him, anyone would think it's a tragedy." exclaimed a young woman, who was indeed one of the Muses.
"Hilary's right, I mean, lighten up, DJ." said another Muse.
Another Muse, who seemed like the leader, spoke up at that moment. "Hilary, Mariah, take it easy." then she turned to DJ. "We'll take it from here." she said to him.
"Okay, Julia, you and your girl gang tell these people what they can be expecting." said DJ as he left the Muses.
The other two Muses, who had yet to say anything, looked up at Julia.
"Okay, Mariam, Mathilda, Hilary and Mariah, let's go." said Julia and the five Muses jumped onto some steps in a line-up. "We are the Muses, we are the proclaimers of heroes." she started.
"Heroes like Kai." said Mariah and she smiled.
"Heh, you mean Kaisy, he's a real sweetie." said Hilary as she went into a daydream.
"Actually, our story begins long before Kai, eons ago." said Julia. "Back when the world was new, giant monsters named Titans ran amok..." she started.
"It was a nasty place, everywhere you stepped was a mess." said Hilary.
"Chaos reigned, earthquakes rocked the planet and volcanoes never slept..." Julia continued.
"Then along came Susumu, leader of the gods, he hurled his thunderbolt and trapped those suckers in a vault and alone stopped chaos in its tracks." all five Muses said together.
"It may sound like a lie, but believe us, it's the gospel truth." said Julia. "On Mount Olympus, life was nice, calm and completely at peace, take a look..." said Julia.
She waved her arm over to the mountain in the distance, a very high mountain that reached into the clouds and at the top, behind large, golden gates was Olympus itself. All the gods were mingling at some kind of get-together and in the background was a woman with dual grey hair in highlights with violet eyes and she was holding a little baby.
"Kai, behave." she said with a chuckle as she placed the baby back in his cot. As she did, a man with brown hair and violet eyes, darker than his wife's, came over.
"Oh, Hiroko, look how cute he is." he said and let his son play with his finger. Next minute and the baby lifted his father above the cot.
"Strong like his father, isn't he, Susumu?" chuckled Hiroko then Kai put his father down.
Then, through the crowd, dodging everybody, but tripping over a goddesses' spear at the end, came a small person with indigo hair and maroon eyes. Once he was back in balance from tripping, he handed Hiroko a bouquet of flowers.
"Ian, they're lovely." she said as she sniffed them.
"I know, I had someone help with the arrangement, too nutty right?" he asked then approached Susumu. "Fabulous party by the way, I haven't seen this much love in a room for decades." he added.
As the two adults spoke with Ian, Kai took hold of one of his father's lightning bolts and played with it.
"Susumu, keep those away from Kai." Hiroko scolded of her husband.
"Oh, he won't hurt himself, let the kid have some fun." Susumu said in a carefree way.
Kai looked up at his parents then chewed the lightning bolt and it zapped him, so he whined and threw it, a couple of gods dived aside until one hit it into a pillar that was destroyed, but fixed itself.
Susumu chuckled and patted his son's head, who Hiroko had now picked up again. "On behalf of my precious son, I'd like to thank you all for your wonderful gifts." he said to the crowd.
"Susumu, what about our gift?" Hiroko asked.
"Well, let's see..." he said then clicked his fingers and upon mixing some clouds into a shape of a bird, and adding life to it, presented it to his son.
Kai looked at it in confusion and the white cloud-shaped bird was revealed to be a red coloured, baby phoenix.
"His name is Dranzer and he's all yours, Son." said Susumu. The phoenix started to flap its wings and fly in front of Kai, who looked a little nervous until it huggled up to him and he hugged it back.
Susumu held his son and then gently placed him back in his cot. Kai chewed on the medallion around his neck then yawned.
"My little Kai." said Susumu as he kissed his son's cheek.
"Urgh, how sentimental." said a voice and everyone turned to see a man with black and red hair and light brown eyes. He emerged from the shadows and faced Susumu.
"So, Pyro, you made it. How's the Underworld going?" Susumu asked in a friendly manner.
"Dark, gloomy and full of dead people, not much different than usual. So, here's the new pest." said Pyro as he looked down at Kai in his cot.
He was about to touch Kai when Kai grabbed his finger and crushed it. Dranzer chuckled as Pyro got free.
"Powerful little tyke..." Pyro muttered as he got feeling back in his finger.
"Come on, Pyro, don't be a stiff, join the celebration." said Susumu.
"Heh, love to, but can't. Unlike you guys with your unlimited leisure time, I have a full-time job to do, which, you, Susumu, bestowed on me, so love to, but can't." said Pyro and began to leave.
"You ought to slow down, you'll work yourself to death..." said Susumu then started to laugh. "Work yourself to death...oh, I kill myself!" he finished as he sat back laughing more.
"Hn, if only, if only..." muttered Pyro as he left.