This story is dedicated to Gau Meo, the artist who gave me her permission to turn her comics into a story. She has the full credit to this storyline as well as the character designs/concepts that will appear in this story, I'm just turning her comic universe into a story.

Gau Meo is someone I can honestly call one of the friends I have made over the internet and she has drawn without a doubt, one of the best 'Hades and Persephone' comics I have ever seen.

Once upon a time there was a god named Hades, he was the ruler of the chthonic kingdom known to the mortals as the Underworld. One day he found himself facing a growing obsession that come day by day he discovered would only grow worse and worse to the point that he could no longer bear to stand it!

Desperately Hades went to his older brothers for their consultation on what he should do, and so our story began… But wait a minute, don't you want to know what it was that Hades was so obsessed about. Well, he was obsessed with a girl, or to be more specific, she was a goddess and her name was…

"Persephone!" A young girl's voice echoed across a meadow as she searched for the goddess. "Persephone! Persephone!" Her calls ceased the minute she found the goddess working under the shade of a massive tree. In the fields surrounding them mortals were harvesting grain.

"What is it Despoina?" Persephone replied as she carefully placed the flowers she was holding on the ground.

"I need your help. Today is my mother's birthday and I want to give my mother this pot of flowers as a gift." She paused for a second as she glanced at the pot she was holding, "But the buds haven't bloomed in time."

Persephone crouched down and knee-length light brown hair framed her face as she squinted her spring-green eyes, as she carefully examined the plants, "Hmm, let me see what I can do you." She raised her hand and the buds began to glow, Persephone took a deep breath, channeling her powers and as soon as she splayed her hand, the buds blossomed, revealing beautiful orange marigold petals.

Despoina stood shocked for a minute, "Wow! That was amazing! Thank you so much!" She exclaimed.

Persephone smiled in return, "Your welcome. Today's the Eleusinia, I'm required to be there; so I'll walk with you back to Eleusis."

She took up the little girl's hand and they walked along an old, well-worn path back to the village, completely unaware that they were being watched from above.

"It's her." A young male's voice quickly stated as he watched the girls through a cloud vison on Mount Olympus, the man was none other than Hades himself.

"Are you sure." Came the reply from Poseidon as he pointed at the teenage girl.

"Well her name is Persephone." Zeus insisted, clasping his hands together as all three brothers watched the vison.

"I am." Hades replied, as he crossed his arms across his stomach.

Zeus looked at the vision again and rubbed his beard in thought, "Well she's Demeter's daughter. This is not going to be easy, I must say."

"Really? But I thought you guys are professionals." Hades said dryly.

Poseidon awkwardly ran his fingers through his hair. "Well Demeter is a single mother, and this girl is her only child. I suppose she would be rather over protective to her daughter."

Hades turned and began to walk away saying, "Well if you can't help me, brothers I guess that's fine. Perhaps I should ask Aphrodite for her advice."

Zeus quickly ran up to Hades and casually slung his arm across his younger brother's shoulders. "Woah! Woah! Woah! Now hold up for just a minute. We said it's not going to be easy, we didn't say it was impossible. That blonde can do nothing for you, brother!" Zeus pulled away from Hades before he continued, "While we have plenty of tricks to get girls."

Poseidon grinned, pointing to Zeus and himself. "Yeah! We're the masters of seduction! The ultimate womanisers! Of course, we have tricks that could get you any girl you want."

"Masters of seduction? Your wives must be so proud." Hades commented sarcastically. "Wait, what do you mean by tricks?" Hades frowned, as he glanced at both of his older brothers.

Zeus interjected enthusiastically, "You're a god Hades, you have serious power. For this type of girl, I'd suggest you use you shape shift to approach her and- "

Zeus was cut-off mid-sentence as Hades quickly exclaimed, "No! I won't turn into cattle or a bird! C'mon Zeus, do you know how hard it's getting to tell people we're related. It's embarrassing!" He crossed his arms, fighting off an oncoming blush.

Poseidon rolled his eyes, "Oh, come on little brother! As long as it works, who cares about the embarrassment?"

Suddenly, an idea entered Zeus' head, "Hey! How about some drastic measures? Seems pretty fit to your style, huh?"

Poseidon frowned slightly, "Wait! Zeus do you mean…abduction?"

Hades stood there in thought. Abducting Persephone wouldn't be that hard; he knew that there were days when she worked alone. He glanced at the vision again, seeing her dancing to Pan's music during the festivities of the Eleusinia, sealed his decision.

"Hmmm, if you two think so…"

On the next day, Persephone was wondering in the forest, picking flowers as she went. Her arms were full of larkspur, lilies, roses, irises and violets. Metaneira, one of her mother's priestesses, had taught her a few weeks earlier how to make clothing dye and she planned to put that knowledge to good use.

It would have been easier if she'd simply used her powers but it would have taken the fun of locating plants in the natural landscape, besides the scent of the flowers seemed to sooth her nerves, the last few weeks had been strange. She could swear that there were times where she honestly felt like she was being watched by something. As she walked further through the forest and into the clearing, a sudden chill took over her. The strange 'watching' feeling suddenly felt stronger than it had been for the past few weeks.

In the centre of a small clearing on the forest, stood a lone narcissus. Placing her bundle of flowers down beside her, she knelt before it. Persephone wrapped her nimble fingers around the roped stem and pulled, but the narcissus was not going to be easy to pluck from the ground. She tried again, two hands viced, tugging and grunting, hissing and clenching the rows of pearl white teeth. Finally the stem snapped sending Persephone onto her back, she gasped as the strength returned to her body and she started at her flower in shock, trying to make sense as to why it had been so hard to pick.

Suddenly the earth began to shake violently, opening into a dark chasm that led into the depths of the earth. The thick scent of sulphur and moist earth hit her nose and she instantly curled up and gagged. Panic filled her and she sprinted across the field trying to run away from the gaping chasm. To her horror the ground beneath her feet followed suit and, she fell screaming.

"Nooooo!"

As she fell into the earth, her fingers scrambled to try and grab hold of… well… anything that would stop her from falling any deeper. Her fingers closed around the root of an ancient tree and for a moment she was relieved. Then the root started fraying, then snapped and she fell once more. She heard something that almost resembled thunder, and then she heard the whinnying of horses.

Despite her panic she saw for pure black steeds with blood red eyes pulling an equally dark chariot. Driving the chariot was a helmeted and cloaked figure. In a single swift motion the driver took one hand off the reigns, held their gauntleted arm out and caught Persephone, knocking the air out of her chest.

She learnt that the driver must've been a male when she heard him urge the horses on. It was in that moment she realised she was being abducted. She instantly felt sick straight to her stomach. She hit him as hard she could until her hands hurt from her wasted effort.

Instinctively, she screamed. "Mother! Mother! Mother, please! Help me! Please!"

As they disappeared into the darkness of the earth, she gave one final scream of "MOTHER!"

In a nearby pasture, every single one of Demeter's instincts told her something was wrong. An image flashed through her mind, her scythe slipped from her fingers and a single name came to her lips. "Persephone!?"

The Eleusinia was a festival held in honour of Demeter and Kore. This festival was unconnected with the Eleusinian Mysteries despite the similarity of names. The Eleusinia, which included games and contests, was held every two years, probably in the month of Metageitnion (August–September). Every second festival had a particularly elaborate observance and was known as the Great Eleusinia. Its purpose was thanksgiving and sacrifice to Demeter for the gift of grain.

The name "Eleusinia" was however used as a title for the Greater and Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries in Eleusis.