This two-shot fic is written purely for fun and exists alongside HoTT and PVDeTCT and apart from the characters taken from my Hades&Seph Saga has nothing else to do with those fics and it's timeline… just like the House of Mouse had very little to do with the timelines and canon of the film characters who appear in the series. For disclaimers sake I don't own Disney or House of Mouse (cause if I did there would be more episodes with better jokes in it).. Anyway, on with the story, R&R, but mostly.. enjoy… X

The Two Sides of Death

Dedicated to all Thanatos' biggest fans… cause this pyroboy's fan club seems to be growing :O xx

Part One: How Death's Personality Split

The House of Mouse clapped and cheered enthusiastically as the cartoon that had been playing on the big screen vanished into a dot and Mickey Mouse reappeared on the stage.

'Wowie folks wasn't that a great cartoon? And we got another one coming right up, but first I'd like to welcome Professor VonDrake, who wants to introduce his, latest invention..'

Immediately the crowd went into a succession of deep groaning which caused the mouse to raise his hand and try to subdue the 'booing' issuing from the crowd.

'Alright, alright..' Mickey sounded in a slightly sympathetic tone, understanding the audience's reservation. '-I know you guys have some reservations after the 'incident' with the Professor's Time-Contraption-Thingy which involved some of our kids.' The mouse paused as his eyes glanced over to his daughter Molly who was stood beside her mother. Minnie had her back to the stage and was talking into her headset as she was getting everything ready for the next part of the show, her white-gloved fingers clutching her clipboard as she did this. Eight-year old Molly beamed at her father and motioned him to continue. Mickey then turned back to the crowd and smiled in a sunny manner that matched his daughter.

'But they returned to us safe and sound and the Professor has since dismantled the machine so we mustn't hold that against him, must we?' The mouse added looking imploringly at the crowd. Immediately the audience hummed and hawed in thought. Many of the animals and other nice toons shook their heads. Aladdin and Jasmine shared a glance, as did Hercules and Meg but the two couples smiled at each other then glanced at their two boys. Hyllos smiled a little uneasy by his parents smiling at him while Sinbad scowled at his.

'Why are you smiling at me?' He asked looking slightly weirded out and annoyed by them. Both Aladdin and Jasmine only laughed lightly at this which made the teenage Arabian prince scowl harder.

In the back of the theatre was another story entirely.

'Fat chance..' Jafar glared deeply at the mouse, there was no way in Allah he was ever going to forgive that inept duck for losing his son in time. His dark eyes narrowed as he saw Mickey's pleading grin. As far as he was concerned if it hadn't been for the Petra Loa none of their children would ever have got back safe… of course it had completely escaped his mind that it had been his own son that had created the barrier from prohibiting the adults from interfering.

'You say something father?' Alcezar asked in a distracted polite tone. His navy eyes solely focused on the book of sorcery he'd been reading.

'Nothing of importance Alcezar.' The vizier replied his eyes still narrowed.

'That's what I assumed.' The son of Jafar responded with a flick of his black fringe. This made Jafar's eyes widen in shock.

'He didn't even bring our kids back!' Squawked Maleficent in outrage and many villains around her made noises of agreement. 'The Petra Loa did!'

'Actually mother, it was Thanatos-' Savannah began but the horned witch/fairy glared at her daughter.

'Hold your tongue.' Maleficent snapped at her daughter. 'Ever since you returned from your little trip through time you've been overly opinionated, clearly it was far too stimulating.' The fairy concluded with a sniff of disaproval.

'Urgh..' Savannah groaned in irritation at her mother. 'Sorry I spoke..' She uttered mockingly.

'That's better my pet..' Maleficent replied lightly and Savannah slapped her face, clearly sarcasm was wasted on her mother.

Mickey shrugged airily at the divide of opinions in the audience.

'Ah-hah! Oh well, can't please everybody..' He spoke lightly then threw out an arm. '-without further ado, I give you… Professor Ludwig VonDrake!' The Austrian duck came out to a mixture of cheering and booing.

'Ah stop vith die booing you grouchy villains.. Nobody cares vhat you think.' Professor Ludwig sounded waving off the 'booing' which was coming from most of the villains in their section. A ripple of laughter came from the nice toons which made many villains glare back threateningly at them…

'I care what they think..' Hades sounded sulkily, folding his arms.

'Of course you do dad, most of them are your friends..' Thanatos replied in a bored voice from his father's right hand side.

'Friends..' The fiery god sounded, his flames billowing yellow as his head snapped around to his son. Persephone, wisely, chose to take a sip of her pomtini and just let her pyroboys duke it out. 'I don't have any friends!' Hades said in outrage.

'Sure you don't..' Thanatos sounded in a derisive tone before it quickly turned serious. '-and I'm Iris, Goddess of Rainbows, I just forgot to put my make-up on this morinin'..' He moved his brows mock-suggestively. This caused his blonde mother suddenly snort in amusement and began giggling into her pomtini. Hades on the other hand didn't look impressed.

'Well Iris..' The blue-flamed god responded making Persephone snicker again. He barely flashed his wife a disapproving glare before continuing. '-it may interest you to know real villains don't have friends.'

'So what's Jafar?' The golden-flamed teen sounded intrigued. 'Is he your Ganymede?'

'Is he my 'what'?' Hades actually blinked confused, genuinely not having a clue what his son was talking about.

'He better not be!' Persephone glared from her husband's other side. 'That's taking 'bromance' to a whole new level..'

'You said it mom..' Thanatos shivered causing his flames to ripple. Hades blinked confused by his family and flared in annoyance.

'What are you people on about? Who in Tartarus is 'Ganymede'?'

'Zeus' latest lover..' Thanatos sounded offhandedly.

'So what else is new..' Hades' flames returned blue and he slumped back in his seat frowning, his family were making a big deal of nothing. '-Zeus got it on with another chick, big deal..' The fiery god rolled his eyes and necked his nectar on the rocks. Thanatos raised his brows in amazement at his father then kinked a brow at his mother in an 'is he for real' manner. Persephone sighed heavily then immediately placed a hand on her husband's and moved in closer to him.

'Sweetie, Ganymede is a guy's name..' The goddess broke this to her husband as gently as she could and immediately his yellow eyes snapped to her, wide with incredulity. For a spilt second he searched her eyes for truth and when he saw it staring back at him the god coughed up his nectar in shock.

'Aww… Zeus!' Hades declared in revulsion. 'I'm never lookin' at that guy in the same way again..'

'So your not gonna look at him with absolute disgust again?' Thanatos quipped with a boyish smirk. Hades glared at his son as his flames flickered orange.

'Your bitin' for a smitin' mister..' Hades' eyes flashed dangerously to his first-born son.

'And what does that even mean?' Thanatos sounded perplexed causing Persephone to scowl and roll her green eyes. Thanatos just had to push his luck.

'It means: Can it, brat!' The fiery god snarled angrily before turning his eyes back to the old duck scientist on stage.

…While the immortal Underworld family had been conversing between themselves Professor Ludwig VonDrake had been waffling on stage about some ray-type gun he was holding in his left hand.

'-und so, vhen I push dis little button here den point it directly at die mind of somebody it vill alter der perception of good und bad.' He then turned the gun on the audience and it scanned them as he continued. 'For example: Good vill become bad und bad vill become good. Heroes vill behave like villains und villains vill behave like heroes.. Simple as dat.' He smiled widely at Mickey Mouse who was looking warily at the mind-altering gun in Professor Ludwig's white-feathered hand.

'Uh, gee.. That's swell but can the process be reversed?' Mickey sounded curiously. It was all very well swapping the mind-set of people but could the process be fixed before complete chaos happened.

'Of course Mickey..' Ludwig sounded airily either not seeing the mouse wipe his brow with relief and sigh or ignoring it completely. '-I vould never dream of altering perception vithout having a vay to reverse it handy… I'm not an idiot.' The old scowled at Mickey and pursed his bill. Mickey chose not to respond to this, nearly everything he had brought in had backfired in someway or another. Either the old duck had Alzheimer's or he conveniently 'forgot' about his past disasters in the club.

'Ha-hah! I never said you were an idiot Professor..' Mickey sounded nervously, not wanting to give away that he sometimes wondered that fact.

'Den stop trying to undermine mien invention.' Ludwig VonDrake scowled at the mouse then turned to the audience. 'How about a demonstration?' He declared brightly.

'Uh… I dunno if that's sucha good idea Professor..' Mickey sounded unsurely.

'Nonsense mien boy it ist perfectly safe..' His attention turned back to the audience who, like Mickey, were looking wary of the invention… none of them keen to swap their morals. 'Nien volunteers?' He asked the crowd before turning his attention to Donald who was standing at the side with Daisy and his daughter Darcy.

'Ahh, nephew! How about you?' The professor asked and immediately beamed at Donald.

'Oh gee, I just remembered something..' Donald quacked offhandedly and ran out of the exit before anyone could stop him. Both Darcy and Daisy exchanged a confused look as he vanished behind the curtain.

'Urh.. Forgetful boy, he'd forget his own head if ist vasn't screwed on..' The old duck shook his head with a smirk. 'So..' He turned back to the audience. '-nobody ist brave enough of try mien gizmo?' His eyes scanned the audience once more but they remained silent… at lest they did until…

'Oh for the love of Erebus… I'll do it!' The sound of an irritable boyish voice spoke out and immediately everybody's attention was drawn to Thanatos who was getting up from his seat. Both Hades and Persephone's faces looked shocked by his words. 'Anythin' to get this frickin' show on the road!' The golden-flamed godling declared impatiently but before he could move towards the stage his arm snagged on something. Turning back Thanatos realised that it was his blue-flamed father that had gripped his sleave, both he and Persephone were frowning concerned.

'Than, ya sure ya wanna let that senile old duck shoot ya with his mind-ray?' Hades' brow kinked upwards inquisitively at his son, he'd learnt long ago that nagging would only ignite his flames so there was no point.

'You don't know what it will do, do you?' Persephone chimed in instantly, her green eyes wide with worry as she searched her son's calm face for any sign that he did.

'Huh? Nahhh..' The golden-flamed godling drawled, waving his mother's words off. 'I'm immortal and impartial to the minor conflicts of good and evil, what's the worst that could happen?' He shrugged airily smirking proudly at his ability not to be swayed by the petty squabbles of his peers.

'Than..' Hades' golden eyes narrowed even further as his flames rippled yellow over his shoulders in annoyance with his child. '-ya wanna maybe think about this first?' The blue-flamed god sounded in his best stern-father voice.

'You don't know what will happen if you let him shoot you with that thing?' Persephone once again instantly voiced in an anxious-motherly voice. Her green eyes looked scared by the prospect of something going wrong.

'Mom.. Dad.. ya both seriously need to re-lax, ok?'Thanatos flashed both his concerned parents a wide leer then wrenched his arm out of his father's grip. 'Like I said, what's could happen?' He added airily, then the God of Death turned away from them and headed up the aisle towards the old duck.

'Urrrrh, 'what could happen'..' Hades drawled in an irritable low voice as he repeated his son's last words. His narrowed eyes remained locked on Thanatos as he swaggered up the aisle with confidence. '-don't come cryin' to us when it backfires on ya short-flames..'

'Heh, you say that every time, yet you always help him out..' Persephone let out a small titter at her husband's griping. Though she was worried about their child she couldn't help smiling at Hades, who worried in a different way.

'Yeh, well..' The fiery god's eyes rolled wearily. '-he's too much like me when I was that age.' He slumped back in his seat.

'I know, that's why you keep bailing him out no matter how much you kvetch.' Persephone smiled sweetly, picking up his tumbler of nectar and passing it to him with a kiss.

'Yeh, yeh..' The god sounded with a sigh. '-I'ma first class schnook..' He then took a swig of his drink.

'No your not, you're a good father..' Persephone sounded in a soothing voice as she rested her head against his shoulder and smiled up at him adding, '-who's concerned about his son's safety.' Hades hummed in a tone that neither agreed nor disagreed with her statement but his fingers curled themselves into her long blonde hair as his large pupils locked onto their son again.

Many toons swivelled in their seats to watch as the thirteen year old godling strutted up towards Ludwig VonDrake with his arms out and a wide smirk stretching his handsome boyish face. Savannah's eyes widened in surprise at the godling. Alcezar Jafar actually stared at his best friend wide-eyed with trepidation while his father sighed heavily in an unimpressed manner. Dr Faciler who had been casually shuffling his tarot cards accidentally sprayed them in a fifty-two pick-up style as he gawped towards the god. The theatre was as silent as the grave… everybody staring at the god in shock walking up to the old scientist..

'Alright old timer..' Thanatos called out confidently. '-hit me with ya best shot!'

'Are you sure you vant me to do dis?' Ludwig VonDrake asked as he rotated the triggering mechanism which moved into place with a sharp click and the gun was armed. He then pointed it directly at Thanatos' flame-covered forehead.

'Yeh, yeh, yeh.. Let's do this while the audience is still living..' Thanatos made a 'come on' gesture towards the old duck impatiently.

'Oh-kay-dokey, vhatever you say..' Ludwig VonDrake replied brightly completely missing the look of horror that crossed Mickey's face.

'Professor, he's justa kid!' The infamous mouse cried out, pushing a hand out to the mind-gun..

'He's die only one who volunteered..' Ludwig scowled at Mickey irritably, pulling the gun out of the mouse's reach.

'Yeh!-!' A voice sounded out in the crowd and when everybody turned to see who spoke. Gaston was glaring at Mickey. 'Let's shoot the kid so we can keep this show moving!' Mickey blinked in shock at Gaston, as did several other nice toons around him.

'Finally!' Thanatos declared in a loud obnoxious voice. 'Somebody agrees with me!'

'Nobody agrees like Gaston..' The huntsman sounded with pride.

'Shut it!' Thanatos snapped, his flames flaring angrily orange.

'I'll be good..' Gaston responded meekly to the God of Death and ducked back down in his seat. Thanatos' flames calmed as he turned back towards Ludwig with a satisfied smirk.

'Vell Mickey?' The old professor addressed the infamous mouse.

'Urrh, fiiine.. shoot him but don't expect me to help you if this backfires..' Mickey scowled as he threw his arms up in exasperation and marched off the stage irritably. He joined Minnie who had ditched her headset and rubbed her husband's arm as he appeared. Molly flashed her father a glance but her eyes turned quickly back towards Ludwig VonDrake.

'You vorry too much mien freund, nothing vill go wrong..' The old scientist replied waving the mouse off and turning the mind-gun back onto the godling standing in front of the stage. 'Alright, you still vant me to shoot you, yah?' The old duck asked the golden-flamed teen.

'Well duh.. You think I'm standin' here waitin' for ya to drop dead?' Thanatos responded sarcastically while kinking a brow at the elderly duck, privately thinking that with his age and track record he wouldn't have to wait long anyway.

'Der's nohh need to be giving me die business mien kinder.' Ludwig scowled at the young godling. 'Dats die problem vith youth dese days, always gotta answer for everything..' He checked over his mind-gun once more in a final check.

'Hah, he's got your number kid..' Hades snickered in amusement at this and Persephone smiled fondly out towards her son.

'Quite frankly, I blame his father.' Professor VonDrake added concussively, sounding like a physiatrist making a prognosis. A ripple of laughter ran around the audience, the first time both villains and heroes laugh at the same moment. Hades glared at the duck infuriated by this remark as Ludwig smirked knowingly at him through his half-moon spectacles. Persephone, who had been sipping a pomtini, spat up her drink and laughed out loud with the crowd.

'Heh-heh, he's got your number Hades.' Hercules chuckled in amusement causing the blue-flamed god to lance a dangerous scowl in his direction.

'Great, now Jerkules is stealin' my quips..' He sounded petulantly through gritted teeth.

Thanatos only rolled his eyes as the old duck threw back his own smart jibes.

'You gonna shot me or lecture me?' The fiery godling sounded getting impatient. At this point Donald had decided to brave a return to the theatre and the duck slapped his face.

'Uh-oh, now he's gone an' done it..' The infamous duck retorted, he knew exactly how his uncle would respond.

Back on stage Ludwig frowned slightly at the godling's cheek before he silently aimed the mind-gun at him, without any pause he fired the mechanism in his hand.. There was no sound and a bright light shot straight at Thanatos.

The godling yelled out in shock as a strange, and unforeseen, feeling overcame him. Immediately his golden-flames billowed upwards as he clutched his aching cranium, like his brain was trying to leave his skull. As his flames burned brighter his skin burnt off and the godling dropped to his knees. The light from the mind-gun died at the point but the godling still continued to cry out in agony as his mind struggled with what was happening to it.

As Thanatos' wails filled theatre all the toons witnessing this could do was stare. Suddenly smoke began surrounding the burning skeletal godling and as his cries of pain died the smoky darkness engulfed him and billowed upwards.

The whole theatre then filled with an evil sounding laughter as the smoke flew down and began to take form. As the figure appeared the audience took a collective gasp..

Alcezar and Jafar gawped stupidly..

Maleficent and Savannah gazed in amazement..

Aladdin, Jasmine, Meg, Hercules and their children stared in both shock and dread..

Hades and Persephone looked on in worry, clutching each other's fingers for support..

Mickey, Ludwig and the rest of the House of Mouse staff looked horrified..

…Out from the smoke a tall, thin skeleton with soulless black sockets and a piercing black aura appeared, gazing ominously around the collection of toons staring fearfully at him.

'What're ya'll starin' at!' The skeleton demeaned aggressively in a deep demonic tone, glaring impossibly harder through his bony brow. This made many toons in the audience jump and instantly try, and fail, to look away from the terrifying being in front of them.

'So nothing will go wrong Professor?' Mickey sounded in a derisive tone, his eyebrow kinking with the hint of an amused smirk curling his mouth. He knew this would backfire, just like the rest of the inventions he brought in.

'It vorked, didn't it? His mind-set has been altered has ist not?' Ludwig replied, waving the mind-gun casually as he illustrated his point. 'Now, ve'll just reset his brain before anything too drastic happens..' He aimed the mind-gun towards the skeletal Thanatos but immediately the skeleton whipped around to the old scientist.

'Reset my mind?' The grim skeleton declared offended, his black aura flaring dangerously. 'There's nothing to reset old duck, you can't change Death!' The skeleton instantly threw his bony arm forwards and the mind-altering gun flew out of Ludwig VonDrake's arm and smashed against the back wall of the stage.

'Oohh.. du ist enie- Bahhh!' The Austrian duck growled as he tailed off from his foreign ranting, his fists bawled in fury, but since he was facing a deity who would kill him by touch alone there was no point in being mad.

'Now is it backfiring?' Mickey asked the old duck.

'A minor set-back..' Ludwig scowled back at the smug mouse, not yet ready to admit it was more than that.

'Now that that's dealt with..' The grim skeleton of Thanatos leered evilly around the crowd of toons before rising into the air surrounded by a billow of smoke. '-I feel like painting this town dead!-!' He declared brightly and his grin turned more sinister causing some of the fluffy nice toons actually ducked down their table and clutched the tablecloth in fear.

'I don't think so!-!' Another, very familiar, boyish voice suddenly declared causing the skeleton's sockets to widen in surprise and he swivelled to this new voice… as did all the other toons. They'd heard the voice but couldn't see where it was coming from.

'You sir..' A white boyish-hand appeared from by an empty table right at the front. '-are still bound by the Cosmic Laws set down by Ouranus and Gaia and witnessed by Chronos himself at the dawn of time-' Immediately Thanatos rose upwards, levitating himself upright so he remained ridged, his golden flames burning brightly. '-which means ya can't kill anyone who doesn't appear on the list!' At these words the grim skeletal floating in the House of Mouse theatre threw Thanatos a leering evil smirk.

'Well, well, if it isn't my better half..' He sounded, 'better' coming out with more venom than the rest of his words. '-spouting his piffy rules.'

Everyone in the audience blinked both confused and scared by what they were witnessing.

'Oh my god, there's two of them!' Savannah exclaimed, loudly proclaiming her shock, recognising Thanatos in both his forms.

'I don't believe it!' Alcezar gasped out.

'Impossible..' Jafar sounded in disbelief. Murmuring of confusion broke out amongst the audience as they stared in shock at the two sides of the same god. Both Hades and Persephone were staring slack-jawed and horrified at their son/sons as the two deities began arguing.

'Rules you have to follow..' The flame-headed Thanatos replied calmly with a smile..

'Rules were made to be broken!' The skeletal Thanatos declared angrily, his black aura flaring.

'Not these ones..' Thanatos responded insistently, looking almost panicked by his other-half's disregard. 'The consequences of not sticking to these laws could result in-'

'Ah, shut up!' The skeletal Thanatos roared furiously, making a swiping movement and causing his other half to fly backwards at incredible speed. The flame-haired Thanatos hurtled backwards and smashed into an empty booth and collapsed in an unconscious heap on the floor.

'Thanatos!-!' Persephone screeched out in panic and shot out of her seat towards her fallen son. His skeletal half let out a burst of cruel laughter.

'What in Tartarus do ya think your doin'?' This angry voice caused the skeleton to whip around, as well as the rest of the toons, and find Hades glaring furiously at him, all flames blazing. The red-skinned fiery god stormed up the aisle towards him and the skeletal godling merely took a relaxed stance as he waited. 'You are gonna pull yourself together, right now mister! Or I swear by the Styx you are gonna be in serious trouble..' Hades pushed his scowl right up into his teenage skeletal son and hissed the last part nastily. Instantly Thanatos' skeletal brow narrowed almost as viciously as his father.

'Sorry Hades, no deal..' The grim skeleton spat out coldly causing Persephone, who had turned at her husband's words, to widen her eyes in shock at the other half of her son. The skeleton continued without noticing. '-you may have his-' He jabbed his bony finger towards his unconscious other half. '-loyalty but I'm not your minion you don't control me.' Without another word the skeletal godling vanished out into smoky darkness, still glaring at his father as he left.. Hades felt his blood boil as he fumed silently at his son's indifference towards his words. His eyes turned towards his wife to see a muddle of confusion and upset in her wide green eyes. He could feel himself calm down before he'd even noticed his flames return to blue and his expression softened as he saw his son spread angled and bald on the ground beside Persephone.

'Can you revive him?' Hades sounded, his voice and persona suddenly turning business-like. Persephone nodded quickly. 'Do it-' He said and immediately his wife placed her hands over Thanatos' heart as white light surrounded her palms.

'Still think this is a minor setback?' Mickey asked Ludwig VonDrake but before the duck could respond Hades whipped around to them.

'-and you.' He continued his sentence flawlessly with a scowl to the old scientist. 'What did you do to my son..' The fiery god snarled aggressively.

'I think we'd all like to know the answer to that..' Mickey said seriously, folding his arms over his chest and waited for Professor Ludwig to answer.

'It ist quite simple Mickey..' VonDrake sounded in his best psychiatrists voice. 'Mien mind-altering gun has caused Thanatos' Ich, der Id, to become separated from his Es, der Ego, ist classic Freud. Vhen die beam from mien mind-altering gun connected with your son-' He addressed Hades but the entire club was hanging onto the old duck's every word. '-his personality, vhich ist nether affiliated vith gut nor evil, split into two and since he ist a god it created two existences out of himself.' Mickey blinked looking completely blown away by this while Hades kinked a brow following him but sketchy on the finer details.

'Oh-kaay… So my son has a split-personality complex..' The blue-flamed god sounded then shrugged carelessly. '-huh, doesn't take a genius to see that. How do we fix this?' The Lord of the Dead asked Professor VonDrake.

'Ve can't fix this.' Ludwig responded and this caused many murmurs to bubble in the crowd as Hades blinked in surprise. 'Only der Ego, der control,' He pointed towards the unconscious Thanatos that Persephone was pushing life into. '-can fix dis. Der id, his inner desires, ist a subconscious being burning vith all his rage, his desire to cause death, create destruction and break all die boundaries der Ego hast created to control him. Thanatos must confront his other side in order to become whole.'

'Oy vey… I think that's gonna be easier said than done.' Hades groaned, feeling a headache coming on. Suddenly Persephone's voice rang out.

'He's coming to..'

Little Notes:

Hey peeps, I was inspired by one of my favourite childhood cartoons 'Beetlejuice' which as some fans know, inspired some things in creating both Thanatos and Savannah's relationship. In the particular episode 'Not so Peaceful Pines' when Beetlejuice split into evil and good.. His evil side terrorised the town and with a lot of bad puns and (to be honest) poor story work Beetlejuice was made whole again.

Thanatos himself already has a split personality, as some of you may have noticed. He acts colder as a skeleton than in his usual flaming form so creating his ID and EGO was fairly easy. And I am using Sigmund' Freud's theory on the mind for this fic as a basis for it..

Stay tuned for part two in 2013...

~Ditzy x