Eventually, they settled to playing cards and then Phil came back, still unable to win himself a girl.
Phil passed them and stopped. "Somethin's missin' here... And I can't think of what..."
"Time for plan: Distract the Satyr." Atticus whispered to Cherry.
Atticus then went up to the satyr to start the plan.
"Missing? Nothing's missing." Atticus said.
"Somethin' feels off, don't ya think?" Phil asked them.
"I don't feel much of anything anymore..." Cherry said as she took a card and put it into her stack.
"Hmm..." Phil looked at them. "Well... Okay..." he then walked off. "I better check on Pegasus, you two stay outta trouble."
"No promises..." Cherry said, staring at her cards.
"Yeah, we'll try to stay out of trouble, but no promises." Atticus said.
Phil hummed at them and then walked off, still not noticing Hercules was missing. Atticus laid out four kings. Cherry laid out five aces and leaned back, putting her hands behind her back.
"Dang it, where did you learn to play so good?" Atticus asked.
"I really wanna go to Las Vegas someday." Cherry rested her chin underneath her joined hands.
"Well, I'm sure that you would beat everyone there," Atticus said. "One more game."
"Very well..." Cherry took the card deck and shuffled them. "So, what do you think they're doing?"
"Herc and Meg?" Atticus asked.
Cherry nodded as she shuffled the best she could, based on how she saw it done on card tricks.
"Who knows, probably having a wonderful time together," Atticus shrugged before he sighed. "I sure wish I could be as strong as him, I mean, don't get me wrong I love that I found my parents and I am so glad I met Mo and that you and me are friends, but it would be great to be strong as Hercules, that way I can help with the car sometimes."
"Hm..." Cherry shrugged. "At least you've found love."
"You'll find love someday." Atticus assured her.
"Nah..." Cherry ignored that and passed some cards to him and back to herself.
"Oh, come on, Cherry, you'll find love someday, you really will." Atticus said.
"Sure..." Cherry said as she made the cards fly into her hand in the air. "And I suppose pigs will sprout wings and fly like birdies!" she then said, optimistic and cheerful to highlight her sarcasm.
Phil kept coming back once in a while, the sun was going down and he was now realizing that Hercules was gone. Pegasus came to Phil.
"You know where he is?" Phil asked Pegasus.
Pegasus smiled proudly with a nod.
"What?! How do you know?!" Atticus asked out of shock and surprise.
Pegasus smirked.
Phil looked at Cherry and Atticus. "You know where he is?"
"Welllll..." Cherry drawled out, avoiding eye contact with the satyr.
"Um..." Atticus drawled out as well, while avoiding eye contact with the satyr.
Phil folded his arms at the kids. "I'm ashamed of ya two!" he then hopped onto Pegasus. "Get on the horse, we're findin' him!"
Cherry and Atticus sighed and got onto Pegasus. Once they were on, Pegasus spread his wings and flew them out as it was getting very dark outside.
"It's getting very dark, we won't be able to find them in the dark." Atticus said before he gasped and covered his mouth.
Phil had an idea, he found some sort of light and attached to Pegasus. "We'll find him... Now, who's them?"
Cherry folded her arms at Atticus. "No one..."
"I'll show you no one..." Phil glanced at her.
"How does that make any sense?" Atticus asked the satyr.
"Shuddap." Phil snapped, he was very angry that Hercules had wandered off.
Hercules and Meg were alone together in the darkness, feeling a romantic atmosphere and were about to kiss, but that was when Phil came to break it up like an overprotective father.
"ALRIGHT, BREAK IT UP, BREAK IT UP!" Phil yelled through a megaphone. "PARTY'S OVER! WE'VE BEEN LOOKIN' ALL OVER THIS TOWN!"
"Sorry, Herc and Meg, we distracted him as long as we could." Atticus apologized.
"That's okay..." Hercules replied, though sounded a little sad about the interruption.
Phil was scolding Meg and she was arguing with him back and claimed it was all her fault.
"AND AS FOR YOU, YA BUM," Phil snapped at Hercules. "YOU'RE GONNA GO TO THE STADIUM AND YOU GONNA BE PUT THROUGH THE WORK-OUT OF YOUR LIFE! NOW GET ON THE HORSE!"
"Okay... Okay..." Hercules lazily agreed.
"Sorry." Meg apologized to the demigod.
"Ah, he'll get over it..." Hercules shrugged it off for her sake. He then found a flower and gave it to her, even getting a chance to kiss her.
Meg was shocked as if she had never been kissed before.
"MOVE!" Phil repeated himself over and over until Hercules would be on board Pegasus.
"Calm down, Phil, he's coming." Atticus said.
Pegasus took off once Hercules was on. Hercules was looking back at Meg, very dazed due to being madly head over heels in love with her.
"Hey, watch it!" Phil kept trying to dodge branches due to Hercules not properly 'driving' Pegasus. "Ooh, watch it! Keep your goo-goo eyes on the-" He was then knocked off by one branch and fell off as Pegasus kept flying without him. "Next time I drive..." he muttered woozily.
"I'm sure that Phil will catch up with us." Atticus shrugged.
"Whatever..." Cherry sounded uncaring.
Pegasus kept flying until they were at the stadium while Hercules was still just as sappy in love as ever.
"And seems like someone is in L-O-V-E." Atticus said.
"Oh, barf..." Cherry rolled her eyes.
Pegasus landed in the stadium. Hercules hopped off and decided to focus on his training, but of course, due to falling in love, he had only one real thing on his mind.
"I'm gonna go throw up..." Cherry walked away mysteriously, disappearing behind the bleachers.
"I'll never understand that girl." Atticus rolled his eyes.
Pegasus snorted and whinnied in agreement.
Cherry decided to start looking for Phil, the Muses and Meg were singing about how she would refuse to say she was in love, but she gave in and had to admit she was. She then rolled her eyes and was about to walk away, but then, the beautiful scenes were instantly fading away and they were interrupted by Hades's appearance.
"So, what's up, huh, Meg?" Hades asked. "What's the weak link in Wonder Boy's chain?"
"Get yourself another girl, I'm through." Meg ignored him.
"I'm sorry, you mind runnin' that by me again?" Hades asked, thinking maybe she had to be joking. "I must've had a chunk of brimstone stuck in my ear or somethin'..."
"Then read my lips!" Meg got in his face, more icy than she normally was. "Forget it!" She then began to walk away from him, not wanting to do anything for him ever again.
Cherry saw her coming and backed up a bit. Pain and Panic grabbed her arms and started to pull on her.
"Hey, let go!" Cherry groaned.
"We got business to take care of!" Pain told her.
"Ya ever shape shift before?" Panic asked.
"No, why?" Cherry asked.
"You're about to," Pain grinned evilly to his 'friend'. "Right, Panic?"
"That's right, Pain." Panic grinned evilly back.
"Let go!" Cherry called, but they refused to.
Pain and Panic rushed her as Hades was talking with Meg, little did anyone know, Phil recovered and he heard every word.