My bad guys I thought this was posted already but apparently it didn't go through.
"Now normally I'm one that likes ta mind his own business." A mysterious voice said with an extremely heavy Louisiana accent. "And I was under da distinct impression so was you Hades but here I am finding you trying to reap da souls a what don't belong ta ya."
Here Peter looked up to see who was talking. It was a Black Man he instantly recognized. He had a cane with a golden skull head at well the head of the cane. For the eyes sockets of the skull there were two rubies. The man himself had a cigar in his mouth and was dressed in a tuxedo and top hat with skull paint of his face. His eyes were glowing a jack o lantern orange. Peter noted immediately that he always carried himself kinda like how Peter did when he was Spider-Man. Oozing confidence.
"Well that's cuz game recognizes game there little spider." The man said as if he could hear Peter's thoughts.
"Leave! These poor souls are mine."
Before the man could reply. A voice rang out.
"If this bitch would stop fighting me I'd have been able to get us out of here." Turning Peter looked at the person next to him. They had the body of Zatanna but that was definitely an inhuman voice.
"I feel so useless." The woman who was dressed sort of like a ninja said as she was being held by black chains. All three of them had been restrained by these magic chains summoned by Hades. Currently the chains were on there way to squeezing them to death like an Anaconda.
"Fuck who you calling bitch? You ancient dried up pussy slut!" Now that was definitely Zatanna's voice.
Oh you're all probably lost right? Well quick recap since this has something to do with Kingdom of the wicked original plot of mine. This currently adventure is just a little tiny tidbit of the giant overall narrative.
Peter and a certain wife of his wound up trapped in the DC universe cept this time Peter's accepting of more than one love interest and his memories are intact from both realities so we're taking a massively experienced Peter here. Currently he's trying to save one of those interests Rachel Roth. You know her as Raven.
Raven was recently kidnapped by the Demon God Trigon. Her daddy for those not in the know. The Titans ,using Peter's connections, opened a portal to the underworld. Problem was they were in Japan when they cast the spell so they ended up in Yomi. A mystery force pushed the Titans out of the Yomi but Peter remained. He wound up finding a Goddess who he only recently discovered was Izanami ,his lover Amaterasu's mother. She helped him leave Yomi and the two were going the long way to Trigon's realm since Peter couldn't just teleport there for various plot reasons.
(Additionally info about that will actually come in the upcoming Izanami Divine moments chapter)
Now a couple years ago June Moon was separated from Anita the Enchantress from DC (if you guys recall I named the DC Enchantress back in the Anubis Trial chapter in season one). Now we all know how disastrous that can be and so with some help the JL was able to force Anita back into someone. Problem was that someone wasn't June. That's right Anita went from June who wasn't really made for magic to Zatanna who was born for it. Safe to say the Enchantress's power stacked on top of Zatanna. Problem was Z was losing control to Anita pretty quickly. Rather than let the old witch loose upon the world Z killed herself and took the soul of Anita with her. However with Peter in the underworld Anita forced Z to find Peter and Izanami. So they ended up linking up with them. Long story short their constant fighting got the attention of Hades and here we are. Yeah I left out a shit ton but hey no true spoilers. Moving on.
"Uncle 'nonsi told me ta come down here and see about helping out his champion with something. And did you forget we ain't in Greece or even Rome. We in the Americas right now. If there's anyone whose authority over the dead take precedence it'd be mine." The way he delivered that sentence was happy and jovial at first but that very last line was delivered menacingly and the smile that had been gracing the man's lips vanished. It was replaced by a look of supreme menace and his eyes began glowing red.
But just as quickly as the look of seriousness appeared it vanished even faster replaced by his easygoing personality once again.
"I'll only say this... one more time. Leave!" At that Hades began creating a massive fireball that he held over his head. Clearly he was threatening the man.
"So you're gonna be Goku? I guess I should be Aizen then!" The man said as Hades threw the fireball the size of a building at him. And just when it hit the man where he was standing he appeared in front of Peter and his chained companions as if he had never been there in the first place.
Next the man's Ruby eyed cane changed color from red to black as the shadows converged on Hades until his body was placed inside a coffin of black shadows.
"Let me help ya out there cousin." The man said before tapping his cane on the ground and several snakes appeared. They then began eating the chains away freeing the trio.
"Thanks for the help Sammy but since when did I become your cousin?"
"I'm sorry do I know you?" The man so far identified as Sammy said. After taking a closer look at Zatanna Sammy snapped his fingers. "Enchantress is that you? Wow you're looking mighty fine today. I heard they seperated ya from that other girl but I had no idea they stuck ya with Z here. Gonna have ta keep a closer eye on ya."
"And Izzy as I live and breath outside of Yomi and looking like ya old did I see."
"What are you talking about." Izanami was under the impression she was still a rotting corpse. A text she had been trying to hide from Peter this far. He was the first anything in a long time that seemed to actually give a shit about her and she wasn't about to just leave him alone in the underworlds. That said she was using her ninja disguise to one hide what she looked like. And two to actually help Peter out in fights. That said the further she got from Yomi the weaker she felt. And here in Hades's personal realm all of them might as well be ants to him. Course that didn't apply to Sammy who I'll reveal in just a second.
Sammy tapped his cane and Izzy's clothes disappeared and were replaced by more modern black jeans and blouse. She looked like a well endowed Japanese woman if a little short. Everyone present was bigger than her by at least three inches.
"I told ya can years ago all you needed to fix your appearance was a little Spider fertilizer." Sammy took off his top hat and seemingly pulled a mirror out of nothing and showed it to Izzy. Upon seeing her former beauty restored Izzy was understandably astonished.
"How is this possible."
"When you eat in the underworld your body dies. Regardless of if you're a god or otherwise. All the life energy leaves you and is replaced by death energy. The spider over there feeds off Chaotic energy ,and death energy is a part of that. So it's possible he can... heh heh inject Tantic energy. Life energy that is into something."
"So when we..."
"Because your death energy was Divine in nature the life event he was channeling was Divine. That said his body isn't really ready to house Divine life energy just yet so it went ta the only place that could. Back home!"
"So when I get out of here I'll be alive again. Actually alive!" Izzy said realization and excitement seeing in. She wanted to see her children again after all.
"That's great for you but that still doesn't answer just who is your cousin Baron Samedi?"
"Heh heh heh ha ha ha ha." The fully revealed Baron Samedi ,Loa of the Dead, Afterlife, partying, and Crossroads, laughed out loud at Peter's question. But suddenly he stopped laughing when he realized everybody was still staring at him and nobody had joined in. "Wait ya serious ain't ya? I believe I called him Uncle 'nonsi. And if he considered you his grandson and I'm his nephew?"
"Hold up you're talking about THE ANANSI?! You're saying he considers Peter here to be his grandson and your his nephew so..." Zatanna ,who seemed to be in control, trailed off for a moment.
"That would make Peter your cousin." Izanami finished for her.
"Hold up for a moment we'll continue this later. I've got business ta take care of." With that Baron Samedi turned around to see the coffin had finally collapsed leaving a lifeless body of Hades on the ground. Then suddenly there were flashes of lightning that struck the body. Like a zombie Hades rose again. His eyes solid white.
He then began conjuring the fireball again except this time it morphed into a lightning ball that was even larger that the other one.
"Well Taker of souls I guess I should have been Beerus." With that Hades sent his fireball at Baron Samedi again. "It's over."
In response the Baron tapped the bottom of his cane on the ground again to time the greens glowed green as a ball of souls gathered above the cane before Baron used a gesture with the cane to throw the ball at Hades oncoming one.
"Au Revoir." And with that these two green lasers shot out of the cane's eyes and struck Baron's struggling soul ball. The attack turned the Baron's ball into a beam of exploding souls that devoured Hades attack and then blasted he, himself.
After that Hades had fallen to the ground but once again he rose.
"The way I see it ya got three choices. Keep in mind we're about five minutes away ta midnight and I don't think ya want ta be fighting me when that happens. Option one ya let me take my cousin and his lady friends and we be on our way. Option two I can open up this here coffin." As he said that a coffin appeared from under him out of nowhere and he was currently sitting on it. Additionally his eyes were going red again. "And we can all have a bad time."
Once again the Baron's demeanor returned to it's jovial norm. With a shrug he added. "Or I could go with the nuclear option and summon Uncle 'nonsi see how he feels about what you trying ta do ta cus' here. I'm sure his anger issues will let ya get away with it."
Hades just stared at Baron before looking at Peter and then he smirked before he vanished in a flash of lightning.
Afterwards the Baron escorted Peter and the others to his realm, the crossroads. Using his realm he could take them to any other realm . Well nearly he couldn't take them directly to Trigon's home dimension but he could take them somewhere else that theoretically could. The realm of Erebus. The primordial god of darkness and shadow. Though according to Samedi he only existed as a spirit these days and that he no longer had a body. Plus he was lazy.
Now I just want to give you guys one bit of this journey in the following. A conversation between Baron and Peter.
"So can you explain to me back there how you were able to beat a god. I mean you said you weren't one so what exactly are you?" Peter asked as they walked down a New Orleans street. Though not exactly. They were literally in the crossroads. A realm that existed between all the others.
It was the only place that you could see every other realm simultaneously. It made reaping souls for Samedi easier. However they were also now in New Orleans. Well the actual location. Apparently Samedi was taking them to his house. He wanted them to spend the night and time in the crossroads flowed however way Baron wanted it to and no one else. Well no one else save for his wife but more on her later.
"Well I trust ya know how a god's Power is measured?"
"Yeah according to Thor there's a lot to it but it boils down to their Authority multiplied by how old they are. Stack on top of that how many have worshipped them and you get a rough estimate of how powerful they are. Though no one ever recommends gods fighting each other." Peter replied thinking back to Tony grilling Thor on it he was stronger than Hercules.
"The broader your Authority the more potent ya are. At least that's how gods work but I'm not a god I'm a Loa. My powers come from different sources in subtle ways.
For starters we Loa don't have worshippers we have those that serve us. Now let me tell ya about that one in a sec, first let me say this about what we actually are. Think of a Loa as a living embodiment of a Divine law. We've all been living people who in some way embody the meaning of one of the laws passed down by the one above all. That's where are base power comes from."
"And what law do you enjoy exactly?" Peter asked.
"That all things must come to an end. Unlike death gods I don't just show up to end lives. No my presence brings an end to all sorts of things. But that isn't why Hades wouldn't want to fight me. That had to do where some of my other power comes from. Ya see as King of the Crossroads unlike Izanami or Hades my powers are constant. They don't weaken no matter where I am. That said I couldn't challenge a demon god in they home turf usually. But not right now. Right now I could."
"Why is that?" Peter asked.
"Let me ask you how many times do you think people save special events for Saturday? How many times have you heard somebody had a birthday during the week but they save the party for Saturday?"
And then it hit Peter today was Saturday. But what he was remembering was French from his AI Paris. Samedi was the French word for Saturday. Baron Samedi was literally the Lord of Saturday. This being in front of him didn't just get his power from reaping souls. He got it from a day of the week!
And then Baron Samedi added something else. "You could say I embody a lot of Divine laws like keep the Sabbath day holy."
'Sabbath day? Saturday keep Saturday holy!' Peter said in his head. And then he remembered what was said earlier to him. 'Loa aren't worshipped like gods their served. So every time something in the words ends it feeds into his power but not only that every time someone in the world treats Saturday special it feeds into his power. The amount of Power he should have on Saturday itself...' Peter didn't need to finish that train of thought. The proof was in the way the Baron carried himself. He didn't worry about a thing because in a way his Peter was absolute. Like a Divine law. (See what I did there)
(Time skip)
When they got to the Baron's house ,which looked like a regular lower middle class home, there was a party in full swing. Every person there had come to see cousin Peter ,as Baron kept calling him. And sure Peter felt welcomed but everyday here cussed a lot. From the demons that he could see since they were in the crossroads after all top the humans. Everybody was partying like they could see each other and Peter was pretty sure some of the humans weren't magic in any way.
Baron even introduced his wife to Peter. A woman he called Mama Bridgitte. She was a beautiful red head that reminded him of MJ. Cept she was significantly more well endowed. And well a potty mouthed slut. But so was Samedi so Peter guessed it evened out. He had seen her flirt with a guy in front of Baron while he flirted with a girl. And they didn't even seem bothered by each other trying to get laid by others.
Eventually even the Baron saw that Peter wasn't really into things like Izanami and Anita ,who Peter had convinced Zatanna to let Anita be in full control only at night and in Peter's presence, were doing. Izzy was just happy to be a living thing again and just wanted to celebrate.
"Now I know you've had Asgardian mead and that shit is good but ya haven't lived or died till you've had the Baron's Brew." He then pulled out a bottle of moonshine that was a specially made by Samedi himself. Now yep things you guys should not. Thanks to saving Asgard Peter had a steady supply of their mead. And thanks to his healing factor he'd built up an immunity to the stuff. That's right Peter legit couldn't get drunk anymore.
Second thing to note Peter had witnessed what the Baron's Brew could do. (heh) Peter had witnessed Baron give a random guy coming home from work a sip and the man dropped dead. Baron told him it was the man's time last week but that he decided to let him live long enough to see his youngest daughter go to prom. Which was tonight by the way. And on another occasion on the way to the Baron's house they witnessed a car run over a little kids pet dog. Samedi poured some on the dog and the next thing anybody knew the dog was walking again. The shit could kill you or bring you back to life.
"Come now live a little and let the hysteria move you." The Loa insisted.
However for whatever reason Peter decided to take just a sip. He promptly blacked out.
The next morning he woke up to see several females ,sans clothes, in a room he didn't recognize. Then he noticed he had a hangover. He also noted he was without clothes as well. Then he before recognizing the faces that were in the room. Izzy was laying on him. Anita was in the bed next to him. Zatanna way resting her head on Anita's bare pussy.
Peter blinked at that. "Wait how'd they get seperated?"
Additionally Peter saw the demons Mephista, Satanna, Morrigan Aensland, and Lilith Aensland. And finally to Peter's super astonishment he could see Morana and Demetria webbed to the ceiling. Dried cum in clear view.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Now why is this door locked." Peter could hear the Baron's voice say. "Hey cousin Peter ya seen Mama this morning?"
"No." Peter started to reply when suddenly the covers over his body were thrown off and he could see himself hard and clearly in between her tits.
"Bitch why do you need me?" The red headed Loa asked.
I have a poll but if you choose to review which i hope you do please let me know if you want to see the scene of how Baron helps Peter rescue Raven.Next story up is Lloyd see you this Friday hopefully.
