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Olympus
"Stop pouting Leana, you will get the chance to talk to them after we return to the underword" Hades said I had just seen everybody that was important to me standing infront of the cave. And jet I could not talk to them.
"Who knows how long that will take" I said still pouting, but I knew it wasn't going to help. We had other business to take care off.
" its not like I am looking forward to a nice long vacation on Mt. Olympus. So don't worry I am not planning to stay there any longer than possible" he said irritated, he really wasn't looking forward to this.
"Hmmm" I anserd him.
We were high in the sky and it was cold.
I put my arms around myself and moved them up and down to get myself a bit warmer. Hades noticed me warming myself up and streched out his arm. His long black shawl was wrapped around me. I felt my cheeks blush and felt myself becoming a bit warmer. He pulled me even closer and smirked. "What?" I asked " whats so funny"
" at least I get to tease you, your blushing face is just to cute"
"O just you wait, when we go back your worst nightmare will come true" I said grinning and thougt of my brothers and father. They had once said the man who I will bring home had to go throug a hard judgement from them all. "What?" He said looking nervous.
"You have to get my father and brothers approval. Just so you know, they will be hard to convince" I said grinning more.
"I think I did rater fight a Titan than go through that" he said and sighed. He turned his head and looked forward. The littel smile I had created with my remark just now dissapeared immediately.
"Look there is Olympus" he said and pointed infront of us.
There lay a huge mountain floating above the clouds. A bright yellow light seemed to surround the mountain. Around it was stood a huge pure white wall. When we got closer I could see a gate with guards. As we appoached the gate the guards crossed there spears closing the entrance to us.
" King Hades, you are not permitted in Olympus. What buisness do you have here!"
Hades put his arm infront of me and pushed me behind him.
" Zeus has called upon all the gods, I has wel have been summond. Were you not informed of this!" he yelled.
The two guards discussed something and then one of them yelled.
" we were not informed that you would also arrive, we will go and confirme your story. Wait for a moment please" Hades sighed and stood tall.
"Why not burst in" I said.
" then Zeus would have the pleasure of blaming me. If I burst in he could acuse me of attacking Olympus. We just have to wait a bit thats all. This is just another game of him to insult me" He said while looking calm, but his voice hinted towards anger.
"Why would he do that?" I said, but I regretted my words the moment I spoke them. The relationship between Hades and his brothers wasn't as the relationship between me and my brothers. Therse was filled with hate, scheming, betrayal and death.
" he did that to make it look like I wasn't inportand enough to mention" Poor Hades, he has been hated and shunned sinds long before.
"I love you" I said to him. I wanted him to feel he was no longer alone. That I was there for him. After a while the guard returned and nodded that we could enter.
With his head high and full of pride ,Hades rode Olympus in.
After we let the chariots behind we walked towars the biggest building on the mountain. It looked like the temple you coulds see in Athene, only this one seemed to shine. Not long after we reached the entrance of the palace of zeus Thanatos joined us. He had used his flying shoes to catch up to us.
" as quick as the death " Hades said laughing.
" you could learn something from your brothr Charon, the way you ferry people over the river thakes ages" Hades continued.
" well I am very sorry King Hades but I like to take my time for certain things, unlike brother" Charon said smiling a bit.
"Brothers!" I yelled out lout, suprised.
Thanatos leaned his ellbow on Charon shoulder and they both smiled at me.
"You didn't knew my queen. Charon and I are twins" Thanatos said. And Charon took of his cap revealing his face.
"Now that you say it, you two indeed look a lot like each other"
Thanatos smiled and ruffed his hand through Charons hair. He sighed and walked ahead of us.
"Let us go my king and queen, we do not want to be late" Charon said.
And with that said we enterd the palace.
Inside we got even more stares and wispers. We continued our way to the throne room.
Before the entrance of the throne room stood a serious looking man.
"Hermes" Thanatos said.
The man called Hermes sighed and opend the curtain separating the hallway and the room.
"Entering the room, king Hades of the underworld. Messenger of the death Thanatos. Charon, ferryman of the death and Princess Hekate, inheritor of the knife.
We stepped into the room wich was surrounded in light. Across the room I saw Apollon sitting on the right side closest to a man who seemed to rule the room. He sat on a throne wich stood on a higher level .It was obvious he was Zeus, only he wasn't the old man pictured in the literature. He was in his mid thirties, had a short blond beard and half long blond hair. He wore a blue robe with golden lines. Besides him sat a beautiful woman, who seemed like she could pierce me any moment. Her hair was brown, and her robe was red with golden lines. She was Hera, Zeus wife.
Hades and the rest were guided towards some stone chairs in the beginning of the room furthest away from Zeus. "Princess Hekate, if you would be so kind as to follow me. I will bring you to your seat" Hermes said and he hold out his hand. I looked at Hades who nodded yes. I took his hand and followd him towards a chair next to Apollon.
He looked at me and smiled. I looked short at the room around me and saw that all the gods and goddesses were seated together with there husbands or wifes. Then I flashed my eyes to Zeus, gave him a quick glare and walked back to the back of the room. Towards Hades.
"Leana, you are invited to sit besides me, there is no other seat available" Apollon said. I ignored him and sat down at Hades feet.
"I noticed everybody in this room is sitting with there partner in marriage, I shall not be a exception and sit besides my husband. Or husband to be in my case" I said "Leana, you..." Apollon said and looked very hurt.
"Nou nou, let it be Apollon. If she has chosen to sit there she will not leave, no matter what. The blood of Hekate is stubborn" Zeus said and looked at me with a smirk.
"Well then now that everybody is here I would like to explain the situation to you all. I am sure you have all heard some rumors about this" Zeus started.
"The Titans are escaping, my son Apollon fought one bravely together with princess Hekate, and they defeated that one. Did you found anything in Tataros that looked like a escape path Hades" Zeus said.
"No, Thanatos and I went to search for it personally. To be sure we enforced the barriers around the prison cells. We also checked who was away, but non of the named Titans were missing" Hades said. " so with other words there are things that are going on in Tataros that even its king doesn't know of. And they are escaping, what a worthless guard you are" Hera said while laughing at Hades. Some of the other goddesses laughed with her while some of the gods just smiled silent.
'That's right' I thought 'Hades is also the guard of the Titans'
Hades sat down, and took the insult in silence. He formed a fist with his hands, and when I saw that I laid my hand on his fist. He relexed in a instance.
"Then what is the solution to this problem, the first and foremost reason we locked the Titans away is because we could not kill them" a woman with a owl on her shoulder said.
"Athene, the solution is sitting right besides Hades. Princess Hekate can call upon the knife that can kill them using Apollons blood"
Again some wisper went through the croud.
"Princess Hekate, are you capable of killing a Titan" Athene said Hades pulled my hand a bit as a sign to stand up, so I did.
" Athene, I am not a fighter and I know that. But my knife can indeed kill a Titan. And with the help of the people around me I am confident I can kill a Titan" " and who are the people around you?" a man wearing a dark green robe said "Poseidon is right, who are they?"
I looked behind me and grabbed Hades his hand. I dragged him towards the seat were Apollon sat and grabbed his hand as well. As the three of us stood in the middle of the room I began to speak.
"only with both light and darkness at her side this child will be able to win. This is part of the profecy, I figured that light is Apollon and that Darkness is Hades. If they both fight with me I am confident we can stop the attack of the Titans" I said and looked at both of the man standing besides me.
" and I would like the help of you all" I ended.
I looked at Zeus who looked down at me, still with that evil dirty smirk of him.
" all right then, I will lend you the strength of the heavens" Zeus said.
" and I will lend you the strenght of the seven seas" poseidon said.
" and ofcourse the underworld wil give its strenght to its queen" Hades said.
" you said you aren't a fighter, princess Hekate. So with the permission of both Zeus and Hades I would like to train you" Athene said.
"That is fine with me, Athene" Zeus said and Hades nodded towards her.
We all retuned to our seats and Zeus began to speak again.
"We shall now go throug all the detail regarding the Titans, there names, age abilities. The old generation already knows them but the new one, our children don't know about the battle af the Titans"
I looked at Hades.
" this is going to be a long lecture" I said sighing.
"You did better pay attention this time, it is not school"he said grinning.
(I will put a list of titans, and all that is known about them in my story list, Titan list cold flame, I will only mention the ones I am going to use for my story)
"Finally he's done talking, I thought it would never end" I said to Hades as we walked out of the throne room. We had just survived a long houres long lecture about the known weaknesses of the Titans like Cronos, Atlas and Oceanus.
" I can't disagree with what you say, he talks way to long. It just like a teacher" Apollon said and he popped up behind us all of the sudden.
" Apollon"I yelled and gave him a hug.
"Its good to see you again"he said to me ignoring Hades obvious murder intent. " here, I got Thanatos his message. Its good so see you so alive here" he said and he handed me my earring. I put the earring back at original place.
" Leana I want to warn you" he said while grabbing my shoulders.
"My father obviously has gotten a intrest in you, that means you"and he pointed towards Hades" can't leave her alone. Because she will have to watch out for Zeus and Hera' wrath" "I was planning that from the beginning" Hades said to Apollon.
Then Apollon kneeled infront of me.
" I wish to congratulate my uncle Hades, king of the underworld with his marriage to princess Hekate. I hope both of you will be happy until eternity ends" Althoug I should be used to my position as queen by now seening Apollon bow to me made it difficult to accept it.
"Also I pledge my loyalty to queen Leana, whenever you need me I will be there for you"he said and he looked up. I saw it in his eyes, he had given up on me. For what would be the last intimacy he would give me, he grabbed my hand and placed a kiss ontop of it.
" be happy" he wisperd and his breath tickled my skin. Then he stood up and walked away.
I looked into the direction Apollon dissapeared in when a thug on my arm pulled me back.
"Leana?" Hades asked.
"I feel like I just lost a good friend and at the same time gained a stronger friendship with him" on the same time I said that my stomach started to growl.
Thanatos and Charon began to gniffel and even Hades made a little smile.
" lets go and find something to eat for my mortal queen" and he offered me his arm.
It was late in the evening. Hades and I had decided to respectfully retreat ourself of the festivities that were going on. Thanatos and Charon had done the same, but where those two went was a mystery.
We were standing on a terrace talking about things that happend a long time ago. About our dreams, hopes and little secrets we had.
All of the sudden a figure appeared that made Hades stop in his laughter of the story I just told him.
It was a woman.
She wore a beautiful green robe and her hair was as brown as earth.
"Hades"she said.
I looked at Hades who in his turn looked at the woman infront of him. He looked at her as if he was petrified.
"Hades"I said while tugging his sleeve. That seemed to bring him out of whatever he was in right now. "Demeter"he said.
Demeter! She was the mother of earth. The mother of Persephone. "Can I speak to your new queen for a moment?" She asked.
I looked at Hades, he was clearly shocked. Of course he would be, he was the one who kidnapped her daughter and drove her in dispair.
"I'll be fine, go and find Thanatos and drink something"
He pulled me in a soft hug and wisperd.
"Don't let your guard down"
"Bring her to my room after you are done talking, Demeter" Hades said while leaving the terrace.
For a while she stared at me before saying something.
"Does he treat you poorly, young woman?"
"No" Then again it was silent.
"I'm sorry, but what do you really want to speak about Demeter"
"You are looking right through me" she said while smiling.
"I have a favour to ask of you" she said.
"Is it about Persephone?" First she looked shocked but then she said.
"Im suprised he told you about her"
"He didn't really told me about it. Everyone on earth knows the myth about Hades and Persephone , he only told me how she ... ended" I told her.
"Ahh thats right you're human" she said and she lay her hand tender on mine.
"Can you aks him to give her back to me, if she can return to earth she can be reincarnated" I looked at the woman infront of me. The experience of live was written upon her face. Grief stood in her eyes.
"Ma'm I will do my best to convince him, altough I can't promise anything" I said to Demeter.
All of the sudden Demeter pulled me into a hug.
"Im so glad he has you now, I know it wasn't his fault Persphone comitted suiced. He and I are old friends and I wish him all the happiness in the world" She said to me.
As promised Demeter walked me back to me and Hades's room. "Thank you sweetheart" she said and walked away.
"That woman is supposed to hate me, I took away her most precious thing in the world and yet, she doesn't seem capable to hate me" Hades said laying a hand on my shoulder. I grabbed it and looked at the back of Demeter dissappearing in the distance.
" and what did she wanted to talk about with you"
"I will say that after we have returned" I said.
"Keeping secrets from me, my queen. Thats no good I need to punish you again" and he wanted to pull me into his arms but I was quicker. I hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "If you can catch me that is" and I ran into the room followd by Hades who had regained the smile on his face.
IT HAS BEEN SOO LONG, how are you all.
i got a comment saying that maby someone of the devils would fall in love with Leana.
Now even if they did they would never admit it, leana is the lover if there king afther all.
But I would love the idea though so maybe I will write a spinoff with one of the twin devils.
~Shiroyuki42
