Disclaimer: I don't own Hercules or Beyblade in any way, I only own my OCs Kiri, Pyro and Carlyle. I have permission from Smiffyizdabest to use Hiroko and John. Anything else is purely coincidental.
Chapter 2: Taste of Mortality
Back with the Muses, Julia stood in front of the others and sighed as she began to explain who Pyro was.
"If there is one god you don't want to fire up, it's Pyro, especially now, as he has an evil plan. He ran the Underworld and thought nothing of the dead, and treated them with no respect. He was mean, ruthless...and heartless, and that is no lie, not at all." she said.
In the Underworld, Pyro fed his three-headed dog to stop the dog attacking his own master, then stepped off his boat onto the shore.
"John, get down here right now!" shouted Pyro.
"Coming, my lord." said a young man as he ran down the stairs. He had blonde hair and brown eyes and as he ran, he tripped and landed against a spear and yelled.
"My god..." muttered Pyro then shouted: "Carlyle!"
"Oh, I'm coming, my lord, I'm coming!" came the reply and a moment later another young man came running in, he had green hair in a pointy style with the edges dyed black and his eyes were dark brown.
As he ran down, he banged into John who backed away from the spear and they both fell down the remaining stairs coming to a stop at Pyro's feet with Carlyle on top of John in a heap.
"Oh...ow...um, John..." the blonde haired man began as he got up with a small salute.
"Ow...and Carlyle..." said the green haired man as he stood up and saluted also.
"Ready for work." they said together.
"Fine, fine, whatever, now just tell me when the Fates arrive." said Pyro as he turned away from the pests.
"Oh, my lord...um, they're here..." said Carlyle nervously.
"What?! They're here and you didn't say anything?!" shouted Pyro and a red glow surrounded him in his anger at his minions.
"Sorry..." muttered Carlyle nervously and John just backed away.
Pyro stopped glowing and sighed. "Remind me to punish you after my meeting." he said then left to meet the Fates.
In another room, the Fates were just cutting a mortal's thread of life and as the scream echoed and the person's spirit went into hell, Pyro entered.
"I'm here." he said boringly as he approached them.
"You're late." one of them said.
"Yeah, we knew you would be as we know everything." the second said.
"Past, present and future, my friend." the third continued.
"Anyway, I paid a visit to this party and..." started Pyro.
"We know." said the Fates.
"All right, I know...you know. Anyway, Mr. Mighty Susumu now has a..." continued Pyro, but was interrupted again.
"A baby brat, we know all right!" the Fates snapped.
Pyro growled. "I know, now simple question for you: Is this kid going to mess up my plans for takeover?" he asked.
"Oh no. No, no, no, we are not supposed to reveal the future." said one of the Fates.
The Fates discussed it, one begging almost to get her chance telling the future.
"Come on, my future is in your hands." said Pyro with a smirk.
The Fates agreed to tell the future and one of them began:
"In 18 years precisely, the planets will align in a perfect vertical line..." she started.
"Hn, get on with it." muttered Pyro quietly.
"It will be time to act, release your minions: the Titans." the Fate continued.
"Hm, sounds good." said Pyro.
"Susumu will finally fall, and you, Pyro, will rule the world!" exclaimed the Fate as she finished.
"Yes, just what I need, to rule this pathetic place at last." said Pyro excitedly as an evil smile appeared on his face.
"Excuse me, oh great, evil Pyro." said another Fate.
"Go on..." he said slowly.
"Should Susumu's son, Kai, fight, your plan will be reduced to dust." said the Fates and they disappeared in a flash of black smoke cackling.
"What???!!! That can't be!!" Pyro shouted and glowed bright red in anger then the glow disappeared as he calmed down. "Okay, I'm fine, just need a plan."
He entered into one of his chambers with John and Carlyle at his side.
"Got a riddle for you, guys. How do you kill a god?" he asked.
"I...don't have the faintest clue." said John with a frown.
"Ooh, I know this. You can't, they're immortal!" Carlyle burst out.
"Got it in one, Carlyle." said Pyro as he picked out a small vial of purple potion from a centre-piece. "So, first you got to turn the little brat...mortal." he said with an evil smirk.
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Up in Olympus, it reached night-time and young Kai was asleep with Dranzer cuddled up to him. There were a few sounds of crashing glass and noises and in another room, Susumu and Hiroko awakened.
"Huh, what could that be?" asked Hiroko then she turned to Susumu and he looked back at her.
"Kai!" they both said in worry.
They ran to the other room to find the cradle tipped over and Dranzer stuck, once he got out, he shrieked in fright that his friend was gone.
"Kai...no, no!!!" shouted Hiroko in grief and started to cry.
"No!!!!!" shouted Susumu in anger.
Away from Olympus, John and Carlyle were getting away as fast as they could.
"Oh man, this is not good. Susumu will use us for target practice." exclaimed Carlyle in fear.
"Just hold onto the kid would you, Carlyle?" complained John.
They fell and baby Kai started to cry.
"Oh, get it over with would ya." whined Carlyle.
"Okay, okay." said John as he got the vial ready. "Here you, go, Kiddo." he said and stuck the vial into Kai's mouth forcing him to drink it. As he did, the glowing which indicated his being a god started to diminish.
"Oh, he's changing, can we do it now?" asked Carlyle.
"No, no, he has to drink the whole potion, every last drop." said John.
"Who's there?" asked a voice.
The voice startled John and Carlyle, so John dropped the bottle and it cracked in half, the last drop of the potion fell into the ground.
"Over here, Sandra." continued the voice, which originated from a man.
"Oh." the woman said as she came round the corner. "You poor little darling." she said as she picked up Kai who was crying.
"Is anyone there?" asked the man.
John and Carlyle nodded to each other and came out of their hiding place with weapons.
"Maybe he was abandoned." said the man after concluding no one else was there.
"Oh, Patrick, we've prayed for so many years for a child, maybe they've answered." said Sandra.
"Maybe..." said Patrick and he looked at the medallion the baby was wearing. "Kai." he read from it.
Suddenly, John and Carlyle attacked, but Kai caught them out and managed to send them careening into a mountain. Patrick and Sandra stared at the giggling baby in shock.
"Oh, this sucks, Pyro is going to kill us when he finds out the kid's alive." Carlyle panicked.
"You mean IF he finds out." said John sneakily.
"Of course he's going to...wait, if is good." said Carlyle and he smirked, as did John.