Addiction

Disclaimer: I do not own Kid Icarus Uprising. I own the interpretation of the Greek characters like the Amazon race or Gods like Ares, Persephone, Hecate, Hypnos, etc. I also own Daedalus and Flauros.

Summary: Pandora was the next in line to lead the Amazons. She was more concerned with being a hero to those who needed saviors. It was not her intentions to save an attractive archangel from the evil Kensei nor did she expect to fall in love with the man that would result in the betrayal of her tribe and the loss of her body.

Pairing: Pandora/Daedalus, Hades/Persephone and implied Pit/Dark Pit

Rated: M (for mature)

Genre: Romance, Angst, Tragedy, Drama and Hurt/Comfort

Warning: Swearing, dark themes, violence, sexual violence and unintentional OOC

I don't think anyone has done a backstory for Amazon Pandora. Compared to the other characters in Kid Icarus, it was genuinely difficult to come up with a story for her, but given how in my Smash Brothers universe introduces Daedalus and his obsession with Pandora, I think her point of view is equally important. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Love


We're going to take things back way before the 2000 year war. All the drama was said to have begun during that time period resulting in the deaths of many important goddesses and the loss of sanity for the others after not to mention the many bodies of the angels, demons, humans and other races that piled up due to the Great Evil coming back.

The estimated time of this event is at least 500 years before the 2000 year war. This was when the Gods weren't at each other's throats that much but they were still fighting over power in an indirect way. As a result, they tended to ignore their subjects unless it concerned them. Unfortunately, the Goddess of Light and Goddess of Darkness did a poor job managing Skyworld, the realm of the angels. Without them to supervise the angels, they ended up creating their own hierarchy that was no different to the human realm. The Angel Assembly and the archangels had more power than those who served under the Goddesses (but they couldn't be kicked out without alerting the divine beings). This was made worse when the head of the archangel was also the leader of the Angel Assembly. His name was Kensei Ebony and he had absolute control over the heavens as a result being able to choose who could go to heaven and who would be thrown to hell. Kensei was the extremist who saw corruption everywhere except his own. He ruled everyone with an iron fist and there was nothing they could do about it…that was until a defiant Amazon stormed into heaven to deliver him a humble pie.

Her name was Amazon Pandora. Actually it was just Pandora but everybody in the Amazon race had that title slapped in front of their name for emphasis on their demon race. Pandora was a beautiful woman with blue hair and purple eyes. She was depicted as the strongest Amazon warrior in the Underworld feared by many due to her trickery and ability to pick up abilities from other fighters and incorporate it into her own fighting.

Because she was the strongest in her tribe, she was set to be the next in line to lead the Amazon group. The Amazons were a group of tribal demonic women with most of them. Only the divine bloodline of Ares, the God of War but over time, the leaders of the Amazon tribe ended up having blue hair instead of red like Ares. Unlike the average warrior that was a redhead like one of the main Gods they worshiped, being a bluenette was actually rare to the point that you had no chance of ruling the Amazon race unless you had blue hair.

The current leader had four children. All four of them had blue hair (but of different shades of course). Their names were in order from oldest to youngest were Livy, Anima, Pandora and Psyche. Normally the oldest sibling would obtain the title of leading the race, but Pandora showed herself to be exceptionally powerful compared to the other sisters. Many of her moves were self-taught along with being shown by her mother how to use Amazon techniques. She quickly became the favorite of her mother and decided that she would lead within a few years. Once she found a mate, then things would be in place. This would lead to her two older sisters to shun and envy Pandora.

Pandora couldn't care about the head position of the Amazon line though. Despite Pandora constantly insisting that Livy should be in charge, her life was already decided for her. That frustrated her to no end. While having power would make any demon happy as well as gaining the position, Pandora valued freedom over all else. She wanted to leave the Underworld and see the other realms of the universe that she was told as a child. The most interesting place to her would be heaven. She wanted to cause a ruckus there especially since angels were known for prancing around acting like they were the good guys. Demons were capable of being heroic too and she would show that by helping the weak.

The reality of Pandora's hero complex that she developed over the years is that it was mainly driven by ego. Demons by default were supposed to be proud of being evil and doing horrible things to others. To Pandora, she saw this as a social construct in the similar vein of being forced to inherit the title of head Amazon. She would break all the rules just so she would be disqualified for the position.

It wasn't to say that she didn't enjoy saving people. Pandora was good at heart that was hidden behind her sassiness and quirkiness. She was just a wild child at heart that drove a lot of people up the wall. Fortunately for her this attitude had earned her many friends from other demon realms and even a couple of angels who were just as wacky as she was. For example, the psychic angel known as Oberon was probably the most eccentric person she had ever met and it said a lot given Pandora was described as such, but it probably had to do with how fabulous and defiant he was to Kensei (and not getting in trouble for it).

But that was beside the point. Pandora would eventually cross paths with Kensei when he was shown bullying one of his subordinates at an angel festival. The angels or rather Oberon in particular wanted to lift everyone's spirits and everyone was invited to participate in the capital. Unknown to Oberon, Kensei wanted to use this festival to demonstrate more of his authority and he was going to use his subordinate as the victim.

It was a horrible sight for on lookers to see. There were implications that Kensei tricked his subordinate into making the very item that was used to humiliate thinking that he was going to be using it for a joyful occasion.

Pandora could see that the victim was a frail looking archangel with dark brown hair and blue eyes receiving the blunt of the humiliation. Kensei had ordered his men to tie the young man up and force him into a rather lewd position with his legs spread out and his arms tied above him. He begged for mercy to be released from this position and was only met by Kensei pushing the audience to throw vegetables at him saying awful things such as, "He's been a very naught boy. You're allowed to throw food at him until your heart's content. This is the fun I bring."

Some angels were just awful individuals to the poor archangel. Tomatoes were the first thing thrown at his face before eggplants and other vegetables. Not only was this wasteful but it was cruel beyond relief made worse that the angels who normally would have stopped it were being held back by his guards threatening them with their lives if they stopped the fun that the other angels enjoyed. The fun Kensei was giving was happiness of the misfortune of others. If one angel were suffering, then everyone else who might have it worse would feel better seeing the miserable state the brunette was being put in.

Pandora would not stand for it and shielded the man with her body. She took out her sword and sliced whatever vegetables were thrown this way and managed to cut a stone that was suddenly thrown. The angels gasped at the sudden interference and stepped back seeing the rage in Kensei's eyes.

"And you call yourself the face of angels! You have no shame! This man is your inventor and this is how you treat him! What kind of man are you?!"

"Hah! A demon mistress is telling me what to do. You better apologize or I'll execute you right here."

"You can try!"

Kensei may have prided himself on being the leader of the angels, but he sure as hell wasn't the strongest. Pandora demonstrated the difference in strength when she closed the gap between the two of them and pointed her sword toward his neck. She snickered as she cut the bottom of Kensei's tunic revealing a wet stain on his boxers. Only a few angels chuckled nervously and only Oberon burst out laughing.

"Y-You witch!"

"You better go back to your bathroom, big boy. You can't mess with the big kids if you keep wetting yourself. You're an adult, so it is pretty embarrassing."

"You bitch! I will kill you!"

"Yeah, yeah. I heard that before. Just something you should know…"

Pandora turned her back on Kensei to assist the fragile angel who was shaking from what had just occurred. She extended her hand toward him. The brunette was reluctant to do anything unless Kensei vanished.

"If you harm anyone in my presence again, I won't hesitate to do more than just give you bladder failure. So take my advice and piss off."

Kensei's temper rose as he wanted to do nothing but execute the Amazon at that moment. He had to be taken away because the other angels could tell she was too powerful for him. They needed to think of a plan to get back at her later, so the angel guards ended up dragging him away.

"That's what you get you fucker for ruining my festival!" Oberon cursed as he flipped Kensei off once he was a little out of sight. "Man, what am I going to tell the beautiful Penelope now? She's going to cry if she finds out I allowed Kensei to do this!"

Pandora rolled her eyes at how much of a drama queen Oberon was. Penelope was a beautiful and kind demon succubus. Pandora had only met her once, but the bluenette knew she was the type of girl to forgive easily therefore Oberon was worried over nothing. He should be more concerned with the fragile archangel who was attacked. Pandora glared at the other angels who were still circling around. They didn't like the look she gave and they immediately scattered seeing as how the festival was cancelled with the event.

"I can't believe he did that to you! You're his most faithful dog, and he thought it would be entertaining to bring you to despair for this festival? How is that man an angel? He's worse than the devil!"

"…I'm sorry…"

"Hey, don't be. I hate men like him. They leave a bad taste in my mouth."

The brunette was still reluctant to receive help from the beautiful demon. However, he finally accepted her hand and she helped him up. The archangel quickly brushed the food that got onto his tunic off but he wasn't really happy with the eggplants that crumbled all over him.

"The name is Pandora. Be a little more careful around him. He's a slippery fellow, and it won't be long before he sends his men to kill you in your sleep."

"…He won't…he needs me to keep building…unfortunately."

"Well, guess what? You have the power to say no. He has no power over you. You are your own person. You got four wings. You got two feet. You can run as far as you want and he wouldn't be able to catch you."

The brunette blinked at her advice. Pandora realized that might have sounded too cheesy so she changed the subject.

"S-So, what is your name?"

"…Daedalus."

"Daedalus the inventor…"

"…If you already knew my name why did you ask?"

"Well…I gave you mine so…"

Pandora was not good with talking to men. That was the reality of the situation especially ones that looked ready to cry at any moment. Pandora was used to being surrounded by powerful individuals with dynamic personalities but Daedalus was different. He refused to look her in the eye, but when he did, there was a look she couldn't quite grasp. He was fidgeting from where he was standing and when he spoke, his voice was incredibly quiet that she felt like she had to lean in to hear him. There was only one word to describe him.

Pitiful.

Not like she would say that in front of the person she just saved because even if he were rather pathetic to look at despite that display, Pandora would soon realize that Daedalus would become a drug to her.


Me: TBC with 2554 words.

Li: So I thought this was a one-shot.

Me: It is, but like Glove Slap, I decided to split this one-shot into four parts because its too long (already past 10K again). Notes!

1. As mentioned above, Amazons in my universe would be classified under demons. In Disgaea, the archer class is the most closely associated with the Amazon hence I also put them in this category as well. In a female society where they only mate once a year keeping the girls and throwing away the boys, one would imagine that the one with the strongest girl would be the leader. I had Pandora be next in line given her profile states she is the strongest Underworld soldier. I interpret this as strongest Amazon in the tribe. This of course would lead to Pandora having issues within her own family. Pandora does not care about her position and would happily give it to any of her sisters since she's going around playing hero. Pandora plays hero mainly out of defying the stereotype of demons and overall stroking her own ego since she is very vain in Uprising upon getting her body back.

2. Most of this scene is a retelling of Daedalus's flashback in Piano Man only from Pandora's POV (hence you actually get the dialogue of Oberon who is only heard shouting in Daedalus' flashback but you don't know what he said).

That's it. Reviews are appreciated. Ja ne!