I am making this a crossover fanfiction of Greek Mythology and Soul Eater because I am using the tale of Hades and Persephone and just inserting Soul Eater characters and making my own twist but heavily borrowing the Greek Mythology ideas, just that you readers know.
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"Kid, I have something to tell you," Lord Death beckoned his son.
"What is it, honorable father? If it is something you have to tell me then it must be very important," Kid said, bluntly blocking out his two most trusted advisors, Soul Eater Evans and Black*Star, just to listen to what his father had to say at the moment. He looked at them and they bowed and went out of the room, leaving Hades with his Son.
"It has come to be at this age that you might need to reign the Underworld for me," Lord Death looked at his son, and continued to speak when Kid nodded for him to go on.
"You will have to find a girl to marry, in order to carry the title of 'Pluto' after me," Lord Death held up a finger to silence his protesting son, "And you have one year to find a suitable girl. She can be mortal or immortal, but she has to suit your interests in the ideal mate. Then only will you able to be the King of Death after me."
"Fine…" Kid muttered, clenching his fists.
"You might want to go prepare your chariot right away. Although I gave you one year, do consider it that it is not enough time to fall in love," Lord Death looked at his son.
"Then why didn't you tell me several years ago? So I could have extra time?" Kid asked his father with annoyance.
"I don't know but oh well," Lord Death childishly shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well off you go, Kiddo."
"Soul! Black*Star!" Kid yelled.
"Yes, ouji-sama," they bowed once they entered the room.
"Get my chariot ready," Kid ordered, "I have a mission to accomplish."
Soul and Black*Star looked at each other in confusion but didn't dare to question his authority or else he would have their heads for doing such a thing, or to the least he would demote them from their high ranking of his trusted advisors, which took them centuries and millenniums to obtain.
"Yes, ouji-sama," they bowed in perfect synchronization, fulfilling Kid's symmetry obsession, before leaving the room do complete his order.
"I will accomplish the task, father," Kid said with a straight face and left the Death Room once his advisors called out to him saying his chariot was ready.
"I know you can Kid, I know you can," Lord Death smiled as he whispered the words that Kid failed to hear.
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"Maka! Make sure you don't go too far! Danger could lurk there and I won't be able to save you!" Kami, the goddess of harvest, yelled to her daughter, Maka, the goddess of spring.
"You know, Maka, your mother is right," Liz nervously added.
"She cares about you, Maka!" Patty grinned really wide.
"She loves you very much," Tsubaki warmly smiled at the girl who put a wreath of olive branches in her hair like a crown she will never wear.
"Yeah I know," Maka smiled, though at times, Kami seemed like a person who will choke the life out of her with her over-protectiveness from her father, nicknamed 'Zeus', fearing that her father's playing personality might rub off on her. Kami also wanted to make sure Hera didn't hurt her one bit.
"You should stay careful. I heard that Lord Death is having his son marry any girl he likes," Liz said, "He just set him free, I can sense it. If you snag the son's interest, he will stop at no costs just to own you as his fiancé. And we can't hide you much longer. The gods can't protect you because of your immortality and the fact that your looks and straightforward personality makes gods and mortals bow and kiss the dirt you walk on," Liz said.
Maka sweat-dropped. Liz was the gossipy one and the otaku when it came to her love life.
"Yeah, sure Liz, I will keep that in mind. I just want to get flowers, okay? Mother didn't let me out until today and I just want to enjoy what nature has to offer to me," Maka laughed.
"Just stay safe, Maka, that is what we're trying to tell you," Tsubaki briefly hugged Maka.
"Okay…" Maka trailed off.
She grabbed her basket and smoothed out all the crinkles in her sundress that reached her ankles. Not even bothering to put on her sandals, she just skipped outside, thanking herself that her mother was too busy with harvest than to scold her about forgetting proper footwear.
Maka went, weaving in and out of the forest until she reached a pretty stream and a field of wild flowers beside it. Maka set it down in wonder and happily breathed a gasp of air moaning at how sharp and fresh and sweet the air was compared to her cramped up home was.
"So fresh," she mumbled as she picked flowers of all sorts.
"Just like you," a cold voice stopped her dead in her tracks.
Turning around 180 degrees she came face to face with a boy with three white stripes in his hair and a huge black cloak in a coal black chariot and onyx colored horses with steel reigns.
"Son of Death?" Maka murmured.
"Yes. Apparently I am interested in you," Kid said, "Come with me."
"Never, I will not. I was warned about you and I will not go to the underworld with you," Maka growled, and took off for her home, making Kid's heart skip a beat at her splendid beauty.
Maka ran as fast as she could and panicked when the gallops of horse feet came closer and closer and closer to her.
A cold hand grasped her right arm and yanked her onto the chariot, flush against a chest. There was another stream nearby and Kid muttered something underneath his breath. Maka was confused, until she saw the land rip open at the command of Death the Kid.
"MOTHER HELP ME!" Maka screamed before Kid dove quickly into the opening and sealing it after them.
From all the way at the cottage that Maka had secretly lived at, Kami heard her daughter's agonized yell and dragged her three maidens along with her.
Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki couldn't find one trace of the Spring Goddess and Kami sunk to the ground and yelled, "MAKA!"
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The chariot halted to a stop and Kid swung Maka in her arms bridal-style and stormed the doors open to the Death Room, and said, "Honorable Father, I am in love with her."
"Persephone? The spring goddess, daughter of Demeter?" Lord Death's eyes couldn't bulge out more from behind his mask.
"Yes, I am in love with her, and I wish to keep her," Kid said, and Lord Death knew that his son was madly in love at first sight, by looking at his soul.
"Well she seems hesitant to being your wife, Kiddo. You can't just force a maiden into marrying you," Lord Death, "And I know I gave you a year. I expected at the least that you could find a girl in a month, not a day. I just assigned this to you this morning."
"I don't want another maiden, even if you round up one thousand immortals in this room," Kid said honestly, "I just want this girl. Her and her only."
That comment made Maka feel warm inside but then she had to internally slap herself about focusing on hating the idiot that kidnapped her just a few minutes ago.
"I want her, Father," Kid stated.
"I know what you mean but…oh you won't change your mind, will you?" Lord Death asked in annoyance.
"No," Kid said triumphantly.
"Fine," Lord Death said, "But make sure she doesn't mind marrying you."
Kid froze. Maka wasn't too pleased with him kidnapping her at first sight. Looking at the maiden in his arms, she glared at him enough to kill him had he not been immortal. But his heart was set and he would probably just fall apart if Maka left him.
"I will, honorable father," Kid said with a pair of determined golden eyes.
"Well then you will need all the good luck you can get, Kiddo, she's a hard one to please," Lord Death sweat-dropped.
Kid nodded before leaving the room with an angry Maka in his arms.
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Kid gently placed Maka on his bed and she gladly escaped his arms and she scooted as far away from Kid as humanely possible.
"Are you hungry, my love?" Kid gently smoothed her hair out of their ponytails and Maka glared at him with full intensity.
"Don't you dare touch me," Maka glared even though her heart skipped a beat when his hand caressed her hair.
"You have to eat something, Maka," Kid sighed.
"How do you know my name? Let alone, how did you know I existed?!" Maka hissed.
"I knew. I knew for a very long time," Kid said honestly and a little to bluntly.
Maka didn't respond and Kid became very much worried. Reaching out to her he said, "You must eat, Maka, you haven't eaten anything."
If by any chance you are abducted into the Land of the Dead, Maka, do NOT eat a morsel of food there. If you do, then you will be tied down there and there is nothing I can do to save you.
Kami's words flashed in her mind and Maka mumbled, "You're…right…I haven't eaten yet…"
Kid smiled, hoping that she would understand.
"And I will keep it that way," Maka decided and turned her back on him.
Kid became disappointed, and knew why she was deciding to starve herself. She didn't want to be tied down to the Underworld. But he has to try to convince her to eat something and if she doesn't, he will just have to go with Plan B…
"Please Maka? You are thin," Kid pleaded with the blonde, only to get a glare.
"So what? Is my mom an anorexic?" Maka glared daggers through the reaper's head.
"N-No I didn't mean it that way," Kid trailed off, but Maka didn't let him finish.
"I'm not eating at all," Maka turned her back to him and said, "And that is final."
Kid felt saddened, but nevertheless nodded, and said, "Anytime you want to eat, Maka."
Maka just glared and looked at the black walls that had imprints of skulls on it, not even muttering one word even after the sad reaper left the large bedroom.
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[One Month Later]
Kami mourned for Maka all day and all night on Mt. Olympus, ignoring Spirit's stare when she said nothing when all twelve Olympians were situated at the table.
"Demeter?" Spirit called.
"What do you want, Zeus?" Kami icily remarked.
"The vegetation on Earth is dying, Demeter. You can't do this, people will die," Spirit looked at Kami in understanding.
"Yeah, well, Hades's son has my daughter and I want her back," Kami spat.
"I will try to tell Hades to warn his son. If I do that, will you have some mercy on people? They are starving on Earth," Spirit begged Kami.
"No. I want Persephone back and then I will lighten up the dying vegetation," Kami glared at the marble table. Spirit sighed. Kami was a stubborn person at heart, especially when Maka was her only daughter, unlike him or Apollo who apparently had many sons and daughters with mortals.
"All right. I will tell Hades to let her go. I can't enter his realm because I am not welcome there just like he isn't welcome here," Spirit said, "But I will make Hermes take the message to Hades."
Kami nodded, feeling hope bloom within her chest.
"Thank you, Zeus, thank you."
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[One Week Later]
Lord Death glared at the scroll given to him by Hermes, who left.
"Soul, Black*Star, bring Kid over here," Lord Death ordered them.
They nodded and a few minutes later, Kid came to the Death Room, raising an eyebrow at his father, asking, "What now, honorable father?"
"Since when did you snap at me, young man?" Lord Death glared at his son's rudeness, "Show some respect for your age."
"Yeah, I bet I am probably 5000 years old," Kid rolled his eyes.
"You are not! And even if you were, that is relatively young for an immortal god," Lord Death glared at his son.
"6000 years?"
"Kid!"
"Look, if you called me to discuss about my possible age or manners, then please call me later. Maka is refusing to eat anything and that is she doesn't want to tie herself to the Underworld!" Kid yelled, losing his normal I-Don't-Care façade that he normally wore around the realm.
"Exactly the point. Orders came from my detested brother, Zeus. He wants you to return Maka-chan back to her mother, or else she is going to kill everybody on Earth by starving them to death," Lord Death sadly looked at his son, "Kid it is serious. If you can't make her fall in love with you then find someone else. Her mother is downright serious."
"No, I am not returning her. I will find a way," Kid clenched his fists, and Lord Death sighed.
"Well find a way fast. Make her eat something," Lord Death suggested.
"I tried, father, but she won't. She complains that our food is too 'bland', which is not true. What can I do?" Kid asked.
"Bring food from the Earth," Lord Death rubbed his mask.
"Hello~~~! You just said that her mother is starving all traces of life on Earth!"
"Then search every nook and cranny for some life. Look for some fruits that haven't been rotten. Maka will be able to sense if it is food from the Underworld or food from Earth."
Kid hesitated and then said, "Well I will make that a last resort. I will get some fresh fruit and preserve it. If she still restrains from eating, then I will give her the fruit and she will eat it, knowing it is from the land of the living."
"Yes that is a good idea, but do know, time is running out, Kid," Lord Death sighed, "Go now, Kid and find something that is fresh from the world of the living before Demeter really kills all of the crops."
Kid nodded and Soul and Black*Star came up to him and asked, "Ouji-sama, shall we get your chariot ready?"
Kid nodded and they went to go get the chariot ready when he called them, "Wait."
Soul and Black*Star reverently turned around and bowed.
"Is there any other favor you would like us to perform? Please tell us, ouji-sama," the two bowed down and Kid's lips curved into a faint smile.
"Yes. I want you two to come with me to Earth in order to find some fresh fruit before Demeter kills all harvest on Earth," Kid smiled.
They nodded their heads in consent and followed Kid onto his chariot on the quest to find a fresh fruit before Demeter wipes it out for good.
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