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Chapter XXVII-- Hades and Persephone 'Defeat' Hecate and Prepare to Go Up Against the Worst Monster of Them All

It was Hecate who spoke first; a stunned, "Oh my gods" and then nothing more. It was if she was unable to speak.

Hades came up to Persephone, almost breathlessly, and after a minute of speechlessness, said, "Ok, how did you do that?"

Persephone landed lightly, but her hair, eyes and dress still stayed unchanged. "I—" She realized she had been thinking the same thing. "I'm not sure," she said, "It's never happened before."

"But that was…that was amazing!" said Hades, grinning, "I can't even do that!"

"No, you just explode when you get mad," replied Persephone, with a grin of her own, "We're kind of evenly matched."

Hades started to retort, but his attention was instead directed to Hecate, who was still staring at the newly created mint plant in awe.

"So, Hecate," said Hades, now with a smirk, "Let's keep our deal, 'k? I get the Underworld…" Here, he paused and lightly pushed Persephone towards Hecate, "…and you get Persephone."

Hecate just looked from Persephone to what used to be Menthe, back and forth and back and forth. Then she said, "About that…ah…perhaps…we can just…call off this whole silly 'deal' thing…right? I mean, there's no need to—"

She broke off abruptly when Hades turned orange and Persephone began to float again.

"Ok, ok…ok, fine…" Hecate bit her lower lip and seemed to be considering her options—eyeing Hades and Persephone all the while.

She seemed to realize that what was happening—her trembling before Hades and his wife—did nothing for her karma points, and only made her look worse (villain-wise).

Her expression changed instantaneously. From her frightened, panicky expression to one of pure hate and anger. She looked to her wolves, then back to Hades.

The twin demons caught the hint and flew to her side, growling and snarling, baring their teeth.

And Hecate raised one finger to Hades and Persephone, a cruel smile creeping onto her face as she commanded: "Sic 'em."

Hades winced and rolled his eyes towards the ceiling with a quick sigh of 'Great…' Honestly, the last thing he needed right now was to be attacked by dogs—and with Persephone on his arm, in her glowy-green-anger mode (which, by the way, she looked extremely hot in), he didn't think would be able to summon what it took to kill these things.

'These things' were smiling, one remarking, "Ah…the thrill of the hunt," before they both lunged at the couple.

Seconds before the winged wolves hit them, Persephone shot up in the air again, and blasted a wave of green light at them.

The light missed one wolf, but hit the other on the tail—he howled and leapt backwards, then twisting around to see that damage.

His tail was now a long thorny vine.

Persephone landed again, Hades beamed at her, Hecate's mouth dropped open again, and the wolves took several steps backwards.

"What are you doing?!" Hecate finally screamed at her minions, "I told you to attack them! ATTACK THEM!"

They only stepped back again.

"What are you, crazy?!" said one.

"Look what she did to my tail!" protested the other, "She'll turn us into freakin' flowers, and then he'll turn us into toast! No way, Hec, I'm outta here." He flew out the door, and his partner followed, calling out, "Seeya!"

Hecate was at a total loss, and she eventually managed to say, "Minions. You just can't find good help these days, huh?"

"So true," agreed Hades, "However, this time, I think your minions might have been right." He flared up and turned orange again, pulling Persephone, still in anger-mode, but not floating, to him and holding her hand tightly.

They both put on bright (fake) smiles, and stared at Hecate in a way that made her shiver.

"…Hades…?" she said questioningly.

He kept his expression the same, only narrowing his eyes slightly. "If I were you, I'd get out of here," he said, in that same eerily cheerful way.

Persephone's smile brightened as she added, "Before we do something painful to you."

Hecate's eyes widened, and she, deciding that the best thing to do would be to listen to them, vanished into blue light.

Her voice still echoed through the room: "But don't you worry, Hades, this isn't the last you'll see of me…"


"They let her go?!" exclaimed Bob, "Why on Earth would they do that?!"

"They were in a fairly good mood that moment," said Macaria simply.

Hercules blinked. "But…then they're just gonna have to fight her again and again…" Under his breath he muttered, "And then they're gonna ask me to fight her…"

"I do not know of the logic behind my parents' actions," snapped Macaria to Bob and Hercules, "So kindly stop questioning me and let me finish telling the story. It's almost over anyhow, so you can wait a little longer to ask me stupid questions, ok?"

No-one said anything. Macaria took this as a sign to continue (it pretty much was) and did so:


"We did it," said Persephone incredulously, as she tried to keep her floating hair in one place. Her nonexistent wind was still blowing her hair and dress around.

"We?" said Hades, leaning backwards against nothing, with an extremely satisfied smirk on his face, "We; yeah, right. It was all you, babe."

Persephone grinned. "You helped. I've never acted maniacal before. I couldn't have done it without you."

Hades sneered. "Very funny."

She smirked. "I wasn't kidding." Still trying to calm down her hair (and switch to regular-mode), she walked over to the Menthe-plant and knelt down. "What should we do with her?"

"Burn her," suggested Hades, and a fireball appeared in his hand.

"Oh no. That's just cruel," said Persephone. The little mint plant seemed to think the same thing.

"Step on her."

"That's just plant abuse." She turned her gaze to Hades. "I'm not an abuser."

"Plant abuse, sheesh," he muttered, and then pointed out, "Seph, she looks just like any other plant. She'll get stepped on anyway." He appeared next to her, a devilish smirk on his face. "Don't you want the satisfaction of crushing her first?"

"Vengance isn't my thing," responded Persephone, "and I don't want her to be crushed by anyone." She thought for a second, then waved her hand. Another flash of green spread over Menthe. And then—

"Ok, what did you do, and what is that smell?" said Hades.

"The smell is Menthe," said Persephone, "See, now everyone will smell mint when they come across her, and then no-one will step on her."

Hades was quiet for a second, then said, "I still say we burn her."

Persephone just shook her head, and stood up. Then Hades remembered something, and he put a hand on her glowing green shoulder. "Seph? Are you ok? I mean, Hecate totally stuck that stick straight through you; I don't know how anyone can be ok after that."

"I'm fine," said Persephone, "I'm a goddess, Hades."

"You were unconscious," he pointed out.

"I was not. Weak, yes, unconscious, no."

"I'll bet the only reason you're standing is because you're like that." And he gestured towards her and her glowing green-ness.

"I'm fine, Hades," insisted Persephone, and then she switched back to normal, her hair not floating around anymore, her dress changing back to tattered black, her hair returning to its normal blonde, and her eyes becoming violet again.

Hades had been right, though;when she changed back, the hole in her middle reappeared, and she collapsed—into Hades' arms.

He smirked despite himself. "You're fine, huh?"

"Shut up," she snapped, but there was the hint of a smile on her face.

He eyed her wound carefully (and suddenly found himself despising Hecate even more then before). After a second he declared, "I can probably fix it, but we'll have to go to the Underworld. And if I can't fix it, Charon'll be able to. I think he has a degree in medical stuff…"

As he carried her away from hecate's cave-hideout, Persephone started to speak again.

"You know we'll still have to go to Mt. Olympus and tell mom I'm ok."

He looked at her as if she had three heads. "Ok? Having a hole in your middle is not OK…"

She gave him a look. "You know what I mean."

"Yeah, yeah, I know." He glanced back towards Hecate's cave. "At least the worst part's over."

"Hardly."

"Huh?"

Persephone gave a short laugh. "You think Hecate's bad? Wait 'til you see my mother in one of her moods. And oh boy, will this be one of her moods." She laughed again, but this time bitterly. "She's the worst monster of them all."

As Hades transported them to the Underworld, he realized he had been thinking the exact same thing.


~Author's Notes~ LOL for the longest chapter title, like, ever!

Again, my apologies for not updating in a while. Weird Writer's Block again, but the next chapter will come faster, promise!

Also--I apologize if this chapter (what they do with Hecate, I mean) is anti-climatic--but seriously, Hades had just witnessed his wife become even hotter (LOL), turn someone into a plant, AND he has thus discovered she's ok (for the moment at least); he's ecstatically happy, and does not really want to zap Hecate at the moment. Perhaps she's amusing to him?? And anyway, she appears in the series, so I couldn't have them kill her (not to mention she's a goddess).

I'm happy with it. If you're not, oh well; don't read the story. ^^

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