As usual most of the characters belong to Disney but Persephone comes from P.o.P… the two stories are not directly linked but those who've read P.o.P will have a better understanding of Persephone and her character in general.

There is also a character profile of Persephone in my own profile so check it out if you want…

Thanks for reading… lots of Love Ditzy xXx

Dedicated to all my loyal fans for waiting so patiently for this chap… xXx

House of Twisted Toons

Chapter Ten:The Troubles of Twisted Toons

Aladdin and Hercules felt an invisible blow hit them in the chests as Persephone flicked her wrists. They hurtled backwards at an incredible speed, shooting towards the back wall of the theatre. They closed their eyes and braced themselves for immense pain, but instead of colliding into the wall, they burst into shimmering orbs with yells of shock and sailed through the brick and mortar to the main street of Toontown instead.

Meg and Jasmine were waiting out front with Max and Roxanne, they knew that letting their other halves take on all the villains was a stupid idea, but their boys were annoyingly stubborn when it came to this sort of thing. Why couldn't they be smart and get out of there like Phoebus had? Esmarelda had squealed out in a mixture of delight and relief at the sight of her hunky blonde man. The two had kissed and he had swept her off on horse back stating that this was 'no place for a lady'. Needless to say both Meg and Jasmine felt a small twinge of jealousy towards the gypsy girl as her boyfriend took her to safety, she was the lucky one…

The next second both women's scowls twisted into looks of fear as two sets of large blue orbs sailed out of the red brick wall at an tremendous speed. Both Roxanne and Max, who had been worrying over whether Goofy and the rest of the staff of House of Mouse were ok, spun around startled as the two sets of orbs began merging into two solid blue objects, instantly two men materialized out of them and sailed over all four toons heads.

'Hercules!!' Meg cried out as Jasmine squealed,

'Aladdin!!' All four toons shot across the street as the heroes smashed into a newspaper stand. Copies of the Evening Toon Times spilled out all over the sidewalk as both men groaned out in agony before sitting up looking bemused.

'Are you guys ok?' Jasmine asked concerned as she and Roxanne helped Aladdin to his feet and both Max and Meg helped Hercules up.

'What happened in there?' Meg asked as Hercules was trying to get his bearings.

'We were ambushed!' Aladdin responded immediately. 'The villains had us totally outnumbered and then Persephone ejected us from the club!'

'Gods I can't believe I gave her the benefit of the doubt!' Hercules sounded suddenly angry with himself. 'I kept saying to myself.. 'give her a chance, give her a chance just 'cause she's with Hades it doesn't mean she's a villain'..' He slapped his head in annoyance. 'Rrrrr, I am so stupid!!'

'No your not..' Meg sounded placing a hand on her boyfriend and smiling. '-you just want to see the best in people.'

'Yehh…' Hercules sounded sarcastically. '-and look where that's got me.'

'Don't beat yourself up Hercules.' Jasmine sounded softly.

'Yeh, you weren't to know man besides, she was bound to pick a side sooner or later.' Aladdin smiled warmly at his friend and Hercules returned it gratefully.

'Yeh..' Roxanne sighed brushing some of her red hair off her face. '-shame it wasn't our side..' Max nodded thoughtfully then turned to the two heroes.

'You guys didn't happen to see my dad or any of the others when you were in there?' He asked hopefully but both heroes shook their heads.

'Sorry Max…' Aladdin sounded. '-we didn't see anyone other than villains.'

'Oh…' The teen sounded slightly disappointed.

'That doesn't mean he didn't get out. ' Meg said turning to Max.

'Wait…' Roxanne sounded perking up slightly. '-isn't there another exit round the back of the kitchen?'

'Hey your right..' Max suddenly beamed at her. 'Maybe he's back there..' He suddenly took off heading for the narrow alleyway that lead to the rear exit.

'Max!' Roxanne called out as she ran after him. 'Hey, wait for me!!' Hercules and Aladdin glanced at each other.

'C'mon..' Hercules sounded and both heroes shot off after the two teenagers. Meg and Jasmine had the exact same look of disbelief, then both girls moved in sync: placing both hands on their slightly swayed hips sighing irritably.

'Here we go again…'

'Well I think the first thing we ought to do is get rid of these wretched things!' Cruella called out ripping the nearest 'No Smoking' sign off the wall. The other villains cheered their approval as the entrepreneur rolled the sign then lit it before pulling out a cigarette. Cruella then drew deeply before exhaling and sending smoke everywhere with a satisfied smirk across her ruby lips.

Hades shook his flaming head amused as he watched the entrepreneur continue to rip signs off the wall.

'Is it always this lively when you and your friends get together?' Persephone asked looking around the room with interest, the villains around her sure knew how to celebrate a successful coop.

'Heh, yehhh..' Hades drawled wrapping an arm around Persephone middle, the god had been keeping his missus close to him ever since she had been singled out to take care of the bratty heroes earlier. She didn't have to blast them out of the club, he'd have swooped in and hauled her out of there before the villains could even think of turning on her. He'd been fishing for some kind of excuse to leave anyway, that would have been perfect. Ok, so he'd have lost a little credit for saving her, boo-hoo, all he had to do was remind them that he was the only reason that the lot of them weren't perpetually stuck in Tartarus and they'd be grovelling at his feet. Sometimes running the Underworld had it's perks. The only reason the fiery god hadn't let Scar out of there was because that wily old lion was the only villain that had done one better than him, the guy had actually killed his own brother! He certainly didn't want that puffed-up furball rubbing that in his face… mind you, he'd met a sticky end when his minions had turned on him. Guess Ol' Scarface forgot rule number one of the Villainy Code…

Hah!! So much for being prepared!!

This last thought made Hades smirk to himself as Persephone lent into him, her green eyes remained focused on their company as some of the villains around them were congratulating her on getting rid of the heroes without even smashing the wall of the club. That was so typical of his Sephykins, always thinking ahead… one of those other guys would probably have smashed the pair through the wall leaving a gaping hole out onto the street. That would have made them vulnerable for future attack, which was likely as those nice toons couldn't take defeat lying down… unfortunately.

Hades began to lightly stroke his missus' silky golden hair unable to restrain the slight concern that swept over him. Despite what she liked to think, Persephone was still young and highly susceptible to the influences of others and considering that she was now surrounded by some less than reputable characters, this placed her in a very dangerous position. Hades just hoped that Persephone knew what she was letting herself in for, if anything happened to her, he'd never hear the end of it from the Large Green Smother Machine, a.k.a. Demeter. Ohhh, he was not looking forward to having her as a mother-in-law…

'Hey…' Persephone's soft voice brought Hades back, he quickly realised that he had been subconsciously frowning. '-you alright?' His facial expression instantly softened as he took in the look of uncertainty in her green eyes. Hades suddenly shook his head pulling her right up against his side smirking.

'Sure, now c'mere and gimmie some sugar..' He sounded huskily curling Persephone around into his chest.

'Heh, careful..' His missus smirked and placing her finger on his pouted lips that were inches from hers, '-don't want to appear soft, do we?' Hades' lips curled in amusement.

'Re-lax… they already think that.' He purred before leaning his missus back and laying a passionate kiss on her. The villains around the pair all made noises of disgust as they caught sight of the two kissing deities.

'Urgh…'

'Get a room…' Were amongst the lines thrown at the pair along with plenty jeering and some childish sniggering that came from the three hyenas in the corner. Hades finally pulled away from Persephone and scowled at the villains.

'Yeh, yeh… how'd ya like to get an afterlife?!' He sounded and the taunting died down instantly. Hades smirked amused by their sudden silence, he could still put the fear of god into them when he wanted to…

'Wow…' An awe-stuck Persephone sounded as a smoke ring issued from her mouth, she still lent back in his arms with an almost dreamy smile across her face. The god raised both brows at her then brought her gently to her feet once more.

'Whatta ya say we blow this pita stand…' Hades purred slowly in her ear making the goddess' eyes widen in shock. For a moment Persephone looked taken aback then wiggled out of his grip.

'We can't leave!' She snorted suddenly giggling. 'This place is just starting to get interesting, c'mon…' The goddess suddenly gripped the wrist of her other half and dragged him through the club. Hades groaned inwardly… this was going to be a long night…

Maleficent watched her fellows with a slight smile, the Captain of the Jolly Rodger was drinking his sixth bottle of rum and cursing Peter Pan while drunkenly waving his hook around, yet again. He was demonstrating to his wary shipmates around him, who were ducking and weaving to avoid the silver instrument, how he would slice and dice the bratty Pan. At least he was until he became so intoxicated by the rum's influence that he fell over knocking the bottle clean off the table. The toons around him sniggered in mirth.

The Captain of the Jolly Rodger didn't find the situation amusing when he finally resurfaced from the floor and found his booze missing.

'Which one of you scurvy dogs swiped me rum?!' He glared around the table at the toon pirates he was with, they were looking at each other trying to suppress their sniggers.

'Fine… if you won't tell me where ya hid it, then I'll tear y'all a new belly button!!' His shipmates around the table quickly realised that he was serious and fled as the now paralytic and psychotic Captain of the Jolly Rodger chased after them yelling enraged.

'Come back ya mutinous cowards!!'

'I see Hook has lost his rum again…' Jafar sounded appearing in the seat beside Maleficent watching the Captain disapprovingly.

'So he has…' The witch turned allowing herself to gaze over at Hook who shot past Hades and Persephone. The two startled deities broke apart from their passionate embrace at the sound of yelling, Hades recovered first and lent across the table grinning widely.

'Send 'em on down to Tartarus Hooky!!' He bellowed gleefully making Persephone elbow him in the ribs and sound with mock-scolding,

'Hoi!! You promised that you wouldn't mention work tonight!!' She turned away folding her arms and pouting, ruining the effect slightly by glancing back to make sure his focus was solely on her. Hades merely smirked amused then pulled her close to him, leaning his head on her shoulder.

'Aww, c'mon babe, I was only lookin' out for my interests…' Persephone threw him an unimpressed look.

'Ahem…' She sounded turning to him making the god sit up then leer at her with a wide fanged smirk. '-I have you know that tonight, I'm your only interest…' She suddenly yanked him by the neck of his robes with a seductive smirk of her own '-you got that Mr?' Her voice sounded sternly and Hades eyes narrowed playfully.

'Yes ma'am…' He sounded throatily making Persephone pull him into another kiss.

Both Jafar and Maleficent glanced at each other to see how the other would react to such an open display of affection. In sync they shared a look of pure disgust and necked the last of their drinks to wash the bad taste in their mouths.

'I need some air…' Maleficent sounded dispassionately while slamming her empty glass on the table and rising from her seat. She did not want to spend all evening watching Hades and his little hussy tongue wrestling.

'Quite understandable after that nauseous display…' The former advisor sounded in a monotonous voice watching the witch leave, then when she was out of sight he turned back and took a fleeting glance at the two deities on the opposite side of the room. He sighed heavily with a slightly wistful look on his face. Jafar was usually very straight-thinking, with a clear vision of what he approved of and disapproved of but tonight he was feeling slightly confused. He knew deep down that this loved-up spectacle was totally inappropriate and unbefitting of any villain, even Hades who seemed hell bent on breaking rule number two of the Villainy Code…

But if it was so wrong… why was pictures of himself doing the exact same thing with Maleficent plaguing his mind? Shaking his head roughly Jafar decided that what he really needed was another Snake Bite…

Maleficent sighed heavily leaning up against the wall of the dark cool reception area of the House of Mouse. The room was cool and soothing compared to the now sweltering theatre where the rest of her fellows were. Although the witch enjoyed plotting with her fellows, it was nice to have some peace from them. Especially Jafar… the former advisor had been acting very strangely tonight. He was more distracted than usual and as a result he was being very quiet and brooding. Maleficent wasn't sure what it was that she'd done to upset him but she hoped he'd snap out of it soon, she much preferred the usual sneering Jafar to this gloomy one… he'd been giving her funny looks all night…

The sound of someone else approaching brought Maleficent out of her thoughts, this made the witch silently pray that Jafar hadn't followed her out…

Luckily, it wasn't him… Persephone stepped into the open reception area while lighting a cigarette with a small silver lighter, the young goddess snapped it shut and pocketed it as she took a long drag and sighed sending the smoke everywhere. For a few moments both women stood there silently. Maleficent watched Persephone amused as the young goddess puffed lazily on her cigarette remaining blissfully ignorant of the witch's presence.

'You didn't have to come out here just to smoke that… this is our house now, smoke where you want.'

'Oh.' Persephone sounded smiling slightly relived once she'd located Maleficent's presence. '-yeh…' She glanced at her cigarette unnecessarily. '-I know. I just wanted some fresh air… it's roasting in there.'

'I thought you liked the heat?' Maleficent sounded amused by Persephone's words. After all she was dating a man with flames for hair.

'I do… but even I have my limits y'know…'The goddess took the last drag and stubbed her cigarette out before flicking it in the bin beside Daisy's deserted desk. Maleficent merely smiled amused for a moment.

'So I see…' She sounded in a hinted tone making Persephone scowl.

'What's that supposed to mean?' The goddess sounded affronted folding her arms crossly.

'Nothing…' Maleficent sounded innocently. Persephone continued to eye her shrewdly clearly not convinced as the witch turned and headed for the theatre to rejoin her fellows.

'Go on… say what you really think.' The goddess sounded in a challenging tone. Maleficent turned back around still standing in the doorway with a dangerously serene smile on her lips. Persephone didn't flinch but remained firm and stood her ground.

'But my dear…' The witch sounded softly in long deliberate tones. '-you already know the truth… Hades is a villain… and all villains are constantly seeking something better than what they've got. You're a nice piece of eye-candy to him but at the end of the day he'll drop you and move on… then where will you be?' Persephone glared at Maleficent hotly as her blonde hair flickered into flames..

'Careful…' The young goddess sounded through gritted teeth. '-you don't want me to get in your way do you…' Maleficent's smile widened as a soft laugh escaped her thin purple lips.

'There's nothing you can do, little flower…' The witch sneered openly before swivelling quickly around and stalking off back into the theatre. Persephone glowered after her balling her fists trying to suppress the anger she felt bubbling inside her.

'Don't be so sure witch…' She sounded softly.

'Lemmie go, lemmie go… I've gotta save Mickey!!' Donald squawked angrily as Daisy was holding him back.

'Donald… it's suicide…' Daisy sounded horrified trying to hold back her boyfriend.

'I don't care…' Donald puffed struggling to free himself. '-he'd come back for me!!' Goofy who'd been slumped on a crate beside a weepy Minnie worrying about his son suddenly looked around at the two struggling ducks.

'Donald's right…' The toon dog stood up startling both Minnie and Daisy.

'I am…' The moody duck sounded surprised, then realising that Daisy had loosened her grip he yanked his arms free then beamed at Goofy glad to have an ally.

'Mickey's always been there for us when we've been in trouble, right?' He looked around the group and they all nodded in agreement. '-now he's the one in trouble! It's time to repay the favour people…'

'I'm with you guys…' Minnie suddenly stood up too, wiping the tears off of her face. 'We can't just sit here and wallow in self pity, Mickey's counting on us..'

'Am I the only one who thinks this is nuts!!' Daisy suddenly sounded crossly. 'The whole club is crawling with villains and there's only four of us!!'

'Don't forget Gus…' Minnie sounded pointing at the chubby goose.

'Uhh… if you don't mind Minnie-' Gus piped up at the mention of his name. '-I'd rather sit this one out.. I've had more than enough excitement for one day..' Minnie blinked at him but sighed.

'Ok, ok… so there's only four of us…' She sighed.

'Dad!!' A voice sounded as if on cue from the entrance of the alley.

'Max?' Goofy sounded turning around with a smile. The other four toons swivelled around staring as Max Goof shot down the alleyway followed closely by his girlfriend, Aladdin, Hercules and their girlfriends.

'Max!!' Goofy shoot forward and embraced his son in a tight hug.

'Dad, your ok…' Max sounded with relief making Goofy chuckle.

'Yup… take more than a few nasty villains to finish me off.' He sounded as they broke apart smiling at each other.

While the two Goof's had been embracing Aladdin and Hercules had been talking to Donald Duck who was telling the two heroes the situation.

'Mickey's trapped inside!!' Hercules sounded shocked. Both Jasmine and Meg shared the same look, they knew what would come next…

'We'll help you out any way we can Donald…' Aladdin sounded solemnly making Minnie beam with gratitude from the duck's left side. Daisy sighed heavily shaking her head realising that she would have no choice but to take part in this mission now.

'Ok, fine… but we need to figure out how we're going to get inside first…' She sounded decisively. Suddenly the sound of grinding metal made all the toons look around at the back door. After a moment the door opened and someone from inside stepped out on to the back step.

'Perhaps I can help you out…'

Little Notes:

OMG, I am so, so sorry about the really long pause between chapters!! My stupid, creaky, old laptop crashed and had to go into repairs! But thank god, it's back and so am I to update you with this chap which is waaaay overdue…. XXx

Ok first of, we all know the heroes have Hero Rules so now the villains have the Code of Villainy. Here's the first two rules which are noted in this chap….

1:- Never trust Minions longer than you can throw them

2:- Don't let anybody in close enough to destroy you

I must admit, Captain Hook drunk is kind of like Jack Sparrow isn't it- 'Where's the rum gone?'- I admit that was not intentional, it was just a coincidence I noticed after writing it…

I love how Maleficent has no clue about how Jafar feels about her despite it being blindingly obvious to all those who are in love themselves… will she ever get a clue??

I hope you like Jafar's drink! A Snake Bite is also an actual drink... lager with a shot of blackcurant juice in it!! I'm trying to pick drinks that suit the character's themselves, feel free to offer suggestions...

Thanks for staying with me, the next chapter should be updated a lot quicker.

Take care… Lots of Love Ditzy xXx

P.S. For those that didn't know… my new avatar is a drawing of Persephone (might have to go into my profile to see her properly). Please let me know what you think of her. I'm working on other drawings too at the mo… thank you xXx