The Gods

Part 4

Ten minutes later Nico and Hades stood in the living room in the middle of the floor, facing the fireplace. Nico's mom had left the house to go shopping; she didn't like looking at the portal that much. She said it reminded her too much of death and how her father died. Hades looked down at his son. Even though Nico was tall but Hades hovered a lot which made him taller than his son.

"Ready to go?" he asked his son. Nico nodded. Hades opened the portal which looked a lot like a giant circle type door way that he used to travel from the Underworld to Grace's house and back again when he needed to visit his son. Though sometimes he just came through it under the pretending that he was here to see his son but he was really there just to see Grace. Hades and Nico stepped through the portal and into the darkness of the Underworld.

Hades turned around and closed the portal as Nico looked around his second 'home'. Though you couldn't really call it home; it was the Underworld, where all the souls of dead people went. The whole place was dark. Hades had built an extra bedroom for his son so that his son could actually come and visit since Nico wasn't planned and had come as a surprise for both his parents. Neither of them thought that it was possible for gods and humans to have kids together. There were no myths or history about it. Nico walked down the steps that led to the portal and over to the door that led to his room and opened it. Of course the door was black, since it went with the rest of the setting of the Underworld. It looked the same as he left it when he had last visited; dark walls, dark bed, dark ceiling, dark everything really.

There came a knock from the open door. Nico put down his bag on his bed and turned around. Hades' two minions Dark and Demon stood there smiling a lot like the idiotic pair they were. They were both short, but one was fatter and a dark pink colour, and his name was Dark while the other was skinnier and a dark but pale blue colour and his name was Demon.

"Welcome back young Master," they plodded in. No one would call how the walked walking really. Hades had been training his son on how to control his powers and to try and understand how to use them and his minions always wanted to be involved in some way or the other. Sometimes.. well a lot of the time they could get in the way and Hades was always threatening them in some way or the other with something. Hades walked into his son's room.

"What did I tell you idiots not to do?" he asked, looking at his minions with a look on his face that said if they did one thing wrong he would get mad. The minions looked at each other before looking at their Master.

"Not to annoy your son?" Dark replied happily, though that was probably because he knew the answer for once. Demon slapped his large forehead and muttered to himself, knowing what was coming. Hades flames went bright red.

"Why did you come in here then?" he yelled at them, his flames getting a darker and brighter red by the second. Nico sat down on his bed to watch the scene before him. It could be very funny when his dad kicked off. Well it was funny to him but maybe that was because Nico never got told off by his father. Dark and Demon yelped and ran out of the room instead of facing their Master's anger. Nico looked at his father and Hades looked back. His flames slowly turned back to blue. Once they had they smiled at each other and laughed.

"Hades!" a voice roared from outside in the main entrance to the Underworld. Hades sighed and walked out of the room to go greet the person the voice belonged to. Hades knew who it was since you didn't find many people down here other than dead souls or gods. Nico followed his father into the main entrance, curious to see who it was.

"Hades, where are you?" the voice boomed even louder than had been before. If a normal human was down here surely they could go deaf momentarily by just hearing how loud that voice was. Nico looked around and saw Zeus walking down the steps and into the Underworld. Zeus was Hades older brother, not that they liked people to know about that fact. Zeus smiled when he saw Nico.

"Nico my boy, how are you?" he greeted his nephew by putting an arm around Nico's shoulders. He didn't get to see his nephew often but he really did enjoy seeing him. He was a part of his family after all.

"Good thanks," he smiled at his uncle. Hades and Zeus looked nothing a like, while Hades was dark, Zeus was more likely to wear lighter robes and enjoyed the sunlight. Suddenly a white horse came flying in with a tall lean rider on its back.

"Zeus what did I tell you about keeping that thing under control," Hades muttered angrily. It was almost as if he hated that horse more than his brother. Zeus smiled as they all watched his son Hercules, who looked a lot like his father, land Pegasus down safely. Hercules jumped off the creature and smiled at his family.

"Alright uncle?" he smiled, knowing that his uncle was mad because he had brought Pegasus down into the Underworld and that Hades hated that horse. Hades flames went bright red in anger. Hercules laughed because Hades couldn't try to hurt him when his father was around. That's why he always came to and then saw Nico. "Hey man!" he gave his cousin a high five. Nico smiled. It was nice to see his cousin again. He didn't get to see him often and secretly he found it quite funny how much his cousin seemed to be able to annoy his father. Hades looked at Zeus.

"Get that thing off my property before I zap it dead," he pointed to Pegasus, warning his brother. Pegasus smiled at Hades, winding the god up even more if that was even possible at this moment in time. Zeus looked at his son knowing exactly what he was doing.

"Take him home son, I'll be right behind you. I just need to talk to your uncle," he instructed his son. Hercules nodded, jumped back on Pegasus' back and flew out of the portal that led him home. Zeus watched his son disappear out of the portal before turning to face his brother. "We need to talk now," he told his brother. Hades sighed and nodded before leading the way to his office. Nico watched his father and his uncle. They didn't look very happy, whatever they were going to talk about wasn't good. Nico wanted to ask what the hell was making them like that but he knew he wouldn't get told and he would get told off for even trying to ask. Nico couldn't read the minds of his god family, it just didn't work for some reason, no matter how many times he had tried when he was younger. He turned around and walked towards his room knowing he might as well go finish his homework because whatever his father and uncle were talking about, they would be a while talking about it.