The Ghost OF You
Chapter 1
Knowing Too Much Could Get You Hurt
The Underworld
Inside the dark, cold, dank and dead world were the three fates, who were like witches but much more ugly, while they waited for Hades to return from the world above .
"Darlin, hold the victim's thred of life good and tight" Atropos, third fate, said in a croaky voice as she raised the scissors and in a second the thread was cut clean in half. "Hiden come in!" Clotho, the second fate, called out as the spirit of the now dead mortal floated through the passage way between the two worlds they laughed as the spirit drifted down into the pool of souls where the ghosts of the dead go around in circles for all time. "Hey sorry I'm late guys, I had to go to this-" Hades tried to explain for his absense when the first fate cut him off. "God meeting we know" Lachesis groaned, "we know everything!" Clotho added grabbing the one eyeball between them, "past!" Lachesis said as she taken the eyeball from her and placed it inside her empty left eye hole. "Present!" Clotho snatched it back "and future" Atropos then grabbed the eyeball and nudged at Pain as she said, "Malificent's movie coming out next year it's gonna be big."
Hades nodded as he walked towards the table where he kept the map of the San Jose University campus where he planned to kill Hercules so he can take over the role as the head God and rule the world. "So the first attempt didn't work," he said as he paced back and fourth, "we know!" the three fates shouted "I KNOW!" Hades roared back as the blue flames on his head turned a bright orange colour and spreaded down his neck then quickly shrank back to the way it was before. "I know, you know, I get it, I've got the concept" Hades said before turning back to the table "so now this is my only chance to push off Hercules so are his little buddies gonna get in the way of my chances what do you think?" Hades asked getting straight to the point before he could get cut off again.
"Oh no you don't we aren't supposed to reveal the future" Lachesis scrolled "that's what got you into the mess in the first place" Atropos muttered Hades frowned at this as the fates where his only chance of defeating Hercules once and for all. "Ladies please, I know where I went wrong, I've still got Meg's soul under my power heck I got the whole lot of them!" Hades tried to convince the fates to give him a second chance but they didn't believe him judging from the last attempt almost eighteen years ago. "Oh did you do something to your face? wow you look more beauiful as Aphrodite herself" Hades tried to sweet talk them into it as he smiled at Clotho who was the softest when it came to Hades.
"Oh alright" Lachesis sighed as she turned to Atropos who still had the eyeball inside her one empty eye hole, also sighing she pulled it out and held it up as the other two fates crowded around her. "When Winter falls the planets will aline ever so nicely," Atropos, who had the power to see into the future narrated as the eyeball turned into a small screen showing all the planets lined straight. "Time to act will be at hand kill the heir of Olympus" Lachesis added as the picture changed to a small image of Hercules dying " and the one proud Zeus will finally fall and you Hades will rule all!" Clotho exclaimed. Like before, Hades got exictied until Atropos came to the downfall, "a word of caution to this tale should any mortal know of this you will fail" and in a second all three fates vanished.
"WHAAAT!" Hades erupted bursting out in orange flames, both Pain and Panic ran for cover behind two small rocks in the corner of the chamber, Hades turned to his small minions with a plan already forming in his mind. "Pain, Panic find Meg and bring her to me" Hades smirked as if he was already visioning himself in Zeus' place, "yes sir!" Pain saulted and ran to the exit. "That would be easier said than done, Meg has been seeing Hercules for quite some time now. . . she won't do it" Panic tried to explain then flinched exepting another explosion of flames but much to his suprise there wasn't anything. "Oh she will. . . but if not I could always use someone else" Hades shrugged then walked to the large window and looked out into the horizon of the underworld he stayed there for around five minutes when he noticed Panic was still watching him. "Why are you still here? go!" he yelled at the blue creature who then hurried after Pain, "honestly you just can't get the minions these days" Hades sighed.
San Jose University
1.12.12
RRIINNGG RRIINNGG!
The bell echoed throughout the building signalling for all students favourite part of the day, lunch break as they all rushed out of their classes and into the canteen only had one more week to go before they pack up their stuff and return home for Winter Vacation.
At the back table, Mulan was already tucking into her sushi, "see your into Japanese food now" Shang said as he sat down next to her with a warm stirfry "I like to try new things" Mulan shrugged "the snow looks kinda pretty today," she sighed as she glanced though the window. "If I was a kid I might just be excited" Shang muttered "have you heard from your dad lately?" Mulan asked turning back to Shang. "No he would be too busy now that he's the Generel" Shang sighed, "you can come over to mine for christmas" Mulan offered as she felt sorry for her boyfriend who had no family to go back to. "Since when do your family celebrate christmas?" Shang asked, "well not normally, but grandma always wants to for the fun of it" Mulan laughed as she thought of her grandma. "I guess I could go. . . but be sure to let your parents know," Shang told her "why are you so nervous? they really like having you around and your the only one who actually listens to dad's old war stories" Mulan said and gave her boyfriend a quick kiss.
"If you guys are going to start making out go back to your apartment" Meg said sarcasticly as she seated herself down along with the others, "Meg!" Esmeralda snapped as he hit the brunette at the back of her head. "What? it's gross when you guys make out in public" Meg muttered, "look whose talking miss- snog- under- a- tree" Phoebus smirked as he just loved teasing Meg. "I am so going to kill you" Meg glared at the blonde, "may I rest in peace" Phoebus laughed along with John while Hercules was just smiled.
"Okay guys that's enough. . . so have any of you got any plans for Winter break?" Mulan asked "I might go back to Paris and meet Clopin I haven't seen that guy in ages" Esmeralda sighed "Quasi will be missing you since he's still hidden inside that bell tower" Phoebus said "he hasn't gone to university?" Pocahontas stared in concern. "No places would exept him because he hasn't got the grades" Phoebus sighed "surely there must be some place he could study!" Pocahontas snapped "well at least that Frollo creep is gone" John tried to point out a postive side but it didn't work. "That's one thing, hopefully Quasi still be there" Esmeralda sighed "what do you mean still be there? he's worked at that cathedal all his life" Phoebus asked with a confused look on his face.
"He's had a sad life hasn't he? no family, no friends to see and you said so yourself he hasn't got the grades to get into a university! he's been all alone in that tower for the past five years he could of commited suicide for all we know" Esmeralda replied as she almost cried. "Qausimoto's not like that if he was he would of done long ago" Shang pointed out, "I hope your right" Esmeralda sighed then went back to eating her curry. "I haven't the foggiest what I'm doing" Meg muttered "you can come with me when I go back to my mam and pop's they like christmas" Hercules said "dunno I'm not into the whole 'merry christmas thing' I hate the carols" Meg said.
"Okay then," Hercules sighed as he turned back to his chicken sandwich, "I'll just be doing what I usually do, travel from place to place" John shrugged "I don't know about that with all this snow and they say more is on the way" Pocahontas glanced though the window where snow was still pouring down. "Ah that brings back memories, I always beated you at snow ball fights" Phoebus smiled "yeah when we were in preschool" John chuckled, "uh huh and in high school" Phoebus said "that's when I beated you, you looked were a snow man by the time the bell rang for class" John joked. "I still have to get you back for that don't I?" Phoebus muttered "your six years too late" John told him, "damn" Phoebus almost groaned "so it's really working out for you guys then?" Esmeralda smiled at the Mulan and Shang "yeah as I said before my family really like having Shang around. . . my mom's always been praying that I'll find a guy that I won't injure" Mulan said. "You've injured guys?" Shang raised an eyebrow at her not believing it "by accident. . . . most of the time" Mulan said anxiously then turned to Shang who was starting to look a little worried "kidding it was always an accident like Herc, I'm a total klutz" she told him.
"Well I hope it goes well for you, it's a good sign if your dad gets along with your boyfriend" Pocahontas said, "has the old man given you the warning yet?" John asked. "The what?" Shang looked back confused, "I'll take that as a no, basically he tells you if you hurt his daughter he will kill you I remember the one Pocahontas' dad gave me. . . he said I'll never see light of another day if I hurted her" John told him. "Esme's dad said he'll give me the 'king's treatment' if I even looked Esmeralda in a wrong way" Phoebus said "the king's treatment?" Shang looked at Phoebus more confused since that didn't sound as near as threatening as the one John got.
Sighing, Phoebus raised one arm above his head and the other wrapped around his throat and pulled a choking face, "oh" Shang gulped now seeing the meaning of the 'king's treatment' "he'll hang you? that's harsh" Hercules said. "He's much more protective over me since the Frollo incident" Esmeralda sighed "that creep desevered everything he got" Meg looked up at her Gypsy friend, there was an awkward slience amongst the eight friends as they remembered that 'incident.' "So what have you got next Meg?" Hercules asked "after this me and Mulan have got Mrs DunBroch for history" Meg replied.
"Is DunBroch lecturing you about the Nazis cos that's what she's been doing with my class" Phoebus asked "oh don't remind me it was awful, their worse than Frollo!" Esmeralda snapped. "I'm sure if Frollo had been around at the time he would of been one himself," John said "and Ratcliffe he won't stop calling me savage" Pocahontas groaned "I think him and Frollo should go out together some time they're exactly alike" Phoebus said "deffo so what are you guys doing?" Mulan asked. "We have gym practise, Phil's working us to the bone as usual" Hercules said. "He wants you guys to actually go the distance unlike the past teams he's trained" Mulan pointed out, "he told you about Achillies" Hercules asked, "everyone knows about it here was here almost ten years before we came" Esmeralda shrugged. "Laters" Meg said as she left the table "lunch hasn't finshed yet Meg," Pocahontas tried to tell her but she was already out of earshot, "what's with her?" John asked "your guess is as good as mine John" Pocahontas sighed.
Meg rushed into the bathroom, she had been dreading this day ever since she had gone back to the underworld to see what Hades wanted of her she still couldn't believe that she's even suprised after all for as long as she's ever known the God his only goal in life was to rule Olympus and the only way he could get that is to kill Hercules. She protested as she loved Hercules to much to even think of killing him, but now she has no choice because if she fails the task at hand Hades will lock her away into the underworld til her time of death comes, however if she does Hades will give back her soul which is what she had always wanted. But what good would a soul be if she didn't have Hercules? and she was sure if any of her friends found out about it they would no longer want anything to do with her.
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Later That Afternoon
Drenched in sweat the guys had just finshed their weekly football practise for their upcoming game in a couple weeks time and were now getting ready to chill out for the night. "That went well" Phoebus said in his usual postive tone, "so meet up at my place tonight for pizza?" he added "sounds cool are you guys coming?" John turned to Shang and Hercules normally the two would never eat anything that was considered 'junk.'
"Sure I'll meet you guys there" Shang said then walked out to the showers, "well I've got nothing else to do and I think Meg would be doing something with the girls tonight" Hercules shrugged as he slipped off his white jersey top. "Not this time, you know our girls wouldn't miss a chance of pizza night" Phoebus joked, "laters coming John?" he turned to his blond friend before leaving the small room. "Yep" John muttered as he threw his rucksack over his shoulder and followed Phoebus, Hercules shrugged as he entered the showers for a quick wash, before dressing back into his brown jumper and black jeans then leaving the changing rooms altogether.
Around fifteen minutes after he left, Shang was heading out himself when he heard Meg's voice at the end of the corridor, eh what's she doing here? he thought puzzeled. Usually she would be hanging around with Hercules by this time, he listened carefully to what Meg was saying and as he walked futher down the corridor he saw a strange man with her. He looked by far the strangest thing he had ever seen, his skin was a dirty shade of blue and on his head there was blue flames like the ones you see on a gas fire. "You remember the plan?" the strange man said, "kill at midnight" Meg replied, this doesn't make any sense! Shang kept moving closer and closer to the door as many ideas went through his mind as to what they were talking about. "So when I say I want the boy's head you say?. . ." the strange man asked Meg sighed before saying, "medium or well done?"
She's going to murder some kid? how could I not notice that she's a murder! How am I going to warn the others aswell as Hercules he loves Meg to bits, Shang never felt so confused in his life. He had always thought of Meg as a good friend so it would of confused him to think she would be a murder.
In a second the strange man vanished in a puff of black and blue smoke, "Meg!" Shang yelled as he broke open the doors giving Meg a right fright. "Y- you saw that?" Meg asked nervously, "heard every word and your not going to get away with this" Shang glared with his eyes full of anger. "You completely took advantage of us to cover up your murders!" he shouted at this moment Meg was starting to panic that someone would over hear and that's the last thing she needs. "I haven't murdered anyone. . . you can't tell anyone about this, please Shang!" Meg begged him as she knows what will come if the word got out. "Why so you can slip off to kill some kid that's just messed up Meg, I can't believe I was stupid enough to think of you as a friend!" Shang went on. Over his shoulder she noticed Vannessa hanging around in a darkened corner with a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, "Shang listen I'm not going to murder anyone, but please for your sake don't say a word of this" Meg tried again but with him being so stubbon he didn't listen. There was a moment of silence as they stared straight at eachother until Meg sprinted out towards the next corridor, Shang was about to run after her when he felt a metal dagger pierce through the right side of his rib "get off!" he screamed as he tried to fight off Vannessa, "who are you!"
"You know too much Shang, take this as a warning. . . . speak to one soul and your dead" Vannessa hissed still pointing the blood stained knife at his face, at this point Shang was stunned with pain as the blood was spilling out of his body. "I'll take that as a yes, remember this warning" she added before sneaking off into the corner she came from, "damn it" Shang gasped as he tried to stand himself back up while clutching the wound.
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Around three hours later
"What's keeping Shang? he should be here by now" Phoebus asked as he read the watch on his wrist it was getting close to nine o'clock and the group had already eaten their share of the pineapple pizza. "Hercules did he look alright while you were with him?" Mulan asked "yeah he was his normal self. . . do you think he forgot?" Hercules was just as confused as the others, exept Meg who knew exactally what had happened to Shang but was too frightened to tell them. "This was a short notice and it's not like he's an old man with Alztimers" Pocahontas pointed out, "I'm gonna call him incase you've forgotten we've got cellphones" John sighed as he picked up his own and clicked on Shang's number then waited for his voice. Just after the fifth beep, Shang came through the door "we were wondering where you were," John said canceling the call while all the others stared in fright. "You look awful wait is that. . . . Phoebus get a towel and water now!" Esmeralda panicked, "what is it?" Phoebus asked who clearly hadn't noticed the blood. "Just do it!" Esmeralda yelled again sighing he obeyed his girlfriend's orders, "ah Shang you don't half get yourself into a mess" Mulan moved his hand to look at the wound which looked like a small stab but had so much blood around it though the leak was slowing down. "What happened to you anyway?" John asked and that's when Shang cracked "Meg happened!"
"You've gone mad it couldn't be Meg she was here with us the whole time and there isn't any other Meg in this college!" Hercules barked, "hey calm it! we'll talk it over tommrow" Esmeralda glared over her shoulder at him but before she could turn back to Shang he had already stormed out of the apartment. "Just great" Phoebus sighed "he was blaming Meg!" Hercules shouted "quiet down there's neighbours around!" Esmeralda hissed, "don't take it to heart Meg, Shang gets like this when he's confused" Mulan tried to reassure Meg who felt more sick by the minute. "Hercules you go and talk to Shang outside it would cause too much trouble if you do it here" Pocahontas said "fine" Hercules muttered as he stormed out of the room.
"Why Meg? she hadn't said a word tonight let alone done anything!" He shouted instantly slamming the door behind him "she's playing you for a sap! she's been using you, using all of us to cover up her murders!" Shang yelled as he jumped out from a dark corner. "Why are you doing this? you know how much I love Meg!" Hercules yelled, "she don't love you, she's a no good, lying mur-"
"Shut up!" Hercules roared as he pushed Shang over to the ground, "you don't want to face the facts fine. . . .but don't come crying to me when you get hurt!" Shang growled then stormed back off to his own apartment. "Some friend you turned out to be!" Hercules yelled out to him before returning back to Esmeralda's, as Shang walked through the campus his heart beated viciously inside his chest he felt like smashing something up but there was nothing to break. Once he got inside the apartment Vanessa, who had seen the whole fight stood by the unlocked door just waiting for the right moment to strike she watched him through a crack in the door as he tried to pounch the wall in a way to get out the boild anger inside of him then went into the small kitchen and poured himself some water. That was when she decided to attack, however before she entered she used her powers to turn herself into Meg and switched off the light. "Ah for goodness sake" Shang muttered as he tried to search for the torch thinking it was just a power cut.
"I warned you Li," Vannessa said holding her gun ready to shoot "whose there?" Shang pointed the torch around as he trying to find her when the lights turned back on "Meg" his eyes narrowed "so you've came to shoot me you know they'll see through you in the end." "Ha ha your so funny Shang, not exactly what I would use for my last words" Vanessa smirked as she raised the hand gun, "really then what would you use!" Shang yelled as he tried to kick her but before his foot got anywhere near her she changed into Mulan. "You wouldn't hurt your own girlfriend would you?" she said at that moment Shang froze in confusion though he didn't have much time to think about it when. . . .
BANG!