Four
"H-Hercules?" She says amazed. He holds out his hand and she grips it, causing him to squeeze painfully as he pulls her up. She stand quickly, gripping her hand with pain. "That hurt."
"I am so sorry. I never meant to hurt you…how did you know my name?" He asks, looking down her body and taking in the amount of skin bared and blushes furiously.
"I know you-" She cuts herself off, not wanting to reveal anything. "I heard about you from your parents…" She mumbles, biting her lip as her face flushes. "You look like a tomato, why is your face red?" He laughs, and gestures at her body.
"You um…what are you wearing?" He blushes further, the blush creeping towards his neck. She looks down at her body and forgets that she was still wearing modern clothes.
"Oh, these are clothes from my home town…Sydney." She says quickly, hoping that he doesn't question her further.
"Strange clothing…and what is this thing? A weird growth?" He leans down on one knee and lifts the treble clef piercing dangling from her belly button.
"That is a piercing. In my home town if you have one it looks desirable." She smiles, and thanks that he cannnot see her tattoos, as he would question them further. "Well, nice ot meet you, I should be on my way home." She runs off, before he can stop her to catch her name.
"But I never caught your name!" Hercules runs after Kasti, trying to follow her home. She ducks through every alleyway she can, to lose him. He catches up with her and sees a glimpse of her climbing over the wall. He grins, and tries to slow to climb it but instead crashes through it into a pottery shop.
"AMPHITRYON!" The man yells at the top of his lungs, pulling a pot off his head, his hair sticking up in all directions. "This is the last time I let you come near me!" He shouts, and starts to throw pots at Hercules as he runs out apologising. Before he can stop himself he crashes into a cart, where his father is sitting.
"Father, I am sorry but I was trying to follow a girl and she disappeared…" He looks around, but Kasti is long gone, now already back in the Underworld. "Where could she be?" He thinks, leaning against the cart at the memory of her passes through his brain, and the way she looked in the fading sun.
"I will find her." He says defiantly, stepping up away from the cart, causing it to rock.
BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD
"Kasti!" Hades screams at the top of his lungs, flames shooting out from his skull-shaped palace. "I will find that girl." He growls, and soon sees her walking in, tears streaming from her eyes. "Kasti?" He asks softly, and wraps his smoky arm around her waist, pulling her to him and sitting her on the arm of his throne.
"You burnt me." She says coldly. "I rain off and met Hercules who judged me for wearing this…do you have clothing I can change into?" She asks, wiping the tears. A dark purple dress with a black sash appears on her body, and she feel self-conscious about her tattoos. "Thank you Hades." She kisses his cheek and stands to leave.
"Wait, so along with that piercing you have drawings on your body babe?" He asks, pulling her back. "Devil and angel…" He whispers. He grins at her devilishly. "Suits you." She smiles.
"Sleep babe, I will wake you in the morning…I think a certain someone wants to see you again."
