Poseidon snickered as he saw Zeus, covered in dog's slobbers, sitting in his platinum throne, looked miffed.

"You looked fashionable, little brother." the Sea God commented.

"SHUT UP!"

Demeter took this as a cue for her to speak, "Well, that's what you get for trying to peek on the nymphs in your stupid eagle's form..."

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

Hera huffed. "It's too bad that Cerberus didn't just swallowed you whole."

Zeus gritted his teeth as he glared to Hades, who still looked calm as if nothing is wrong. "YOU!"

"Yes, it's me," Hades shrugged. "What?"

"KEEP YOUR MONSTER LOCKED IN YOUR DOMAIN!" Zeus shouted. "HOW DARE YOU UNLEASHED IT TO ATTACK ME?!"

Before Hades could reply, Hera stopped him. "Hold. Let me speak first, Hades."

The Queen of the Gods proceed to kick Zeus in his groin, causing every male god in the vicinity winced.

She then turned to face Hades, with a smile. "As the Queen of Olympus, I granted you permission to allow Cerberus to roam free in Olympus. As long as you assure us that he will behave."

Zeus looked betrayed. "W-why?"

Hera scowled. "It is clear that Cerberus can detect any malicious and unkind intent from everyone, including from gods. And since Hades already told us that his dog had detected your... perverted intention to those nymphs, well, this could be a good opportunity for me to keep you loyal to our marriage bond."

"As I said, Cerberus only hostile to those with malicious intention," Hades added. "Cerberus may have considered Zeus' action as something of an annoyance, that's why he decided to play around with him."

Poseidon guffawed.

"What a good dog!" The Sea God praised. "I wonder if I can train my Kraken to be as good as Cerberus?"

Zeus flinched at the thought of a huge sea monster flayed him around like a baby toy.

"We could ask Ares to train some of his war dogs as an additional guard for Olympus," Demeter suggested. "maybe it would lessen his bloodthirsty tendency for wars if Ares is busy doing something useful. I'm sure you and Zeus would like it."

Hera nodded, while Zeus winced at the thought of his own son set some of his vicious-looking dogs to him.

"Since it's obvious there's nothing more important to talk here, meeting adjourned." Hera declared.

As some gods left the room, Hades turned to Poseidon. "Is it always like this?"

"Yeah, countless boring meetings," Poseidon sighed. "Sometimes I wonder why I even want to be part of the Olympian Council on the first place."

"Zeus probably wants to be seen as someone important, hence the meeting." Hades said.

"What a waste of time if you ask me," Poseidon said. "Say, what are you going to do after this?"

"Oh, Hestia invited me to have tea with her in her Temple. Do you want to join?" Hades asked.

"No, thanks. I have important schedule in the next few minutes. Diplomatic visit to Pacific Ocean," Poseidon murmured. "Tell Hestia that I said 'hi', okay?"

"Sure." Hades smiled.

"It's nice of you that you visit me, Persephone," Hestia said as she poured nectar tea to the Goddess of Spring's cup. "My other nephews and nieces are too busy in their own domains to visit me."

Persephone just smiled. Hestia is her favorite aunt. The Hearth Goddess never angry and she always care for her family well-beings. She may know more about Hades considered that Hermes had mentioned that Hestia sometimes visit the King of Underworld and she's also Hades's sister.

"Oh, it's nothing, Aunt Hestia," Persephone said as she took a sip of her drink. "I had just finished my godly duties for today and I missed you, Auntie."

Hestia smiled. "I see. Are you sure you're not here to ask me about my brother, Hades?"

The Goddess of Spring almost choked from her drink. "H-how do you-?"

"Hermes told me yesterday." Hestia answered. "but enough about it. What do you want to ask me about?"

There are so many questions that Persephone wants to ask, but she had no idea which one she should go first. Then she remembered the different opinions of him. Athena had summed up how dangerous Hades is, while her own mother told her of how good Hades is.

"I was wondering of why Hades was painted in such a dark light. Why the other gods are so afraid of him?"

Hestia sighed. "Because Zeus feared him."

"Huh?"

"My brother, your father, had spread many false rumors regarding of Hades. Zeus feared Hades's power and authority over deaths. He really believed that stupid general opinion of those who lived and from Underworld are all evil and dark, and since Hades is older than him... well, you know how annoyed your father is whenever your uncle Poseidon brought that on."

That's probably adding another negative point to Zeus in Persephone's mind. She started to really, really disliked her father now.

"Do you think Hades will allow me to visit his realm?" Persephone asked. To be honest, she is getting more curious about the Underworld, thanks to the way Hermes described it. She wondered if there is a certain type of plant that only grown in Underworld.

"Who I will allow to visit my realm?"

Persephone almost shrieked at the sudden voice came up from behind her.

"Brother!" Hestia suddenly stood up from her seat as she greeted Hades. "You're here. I assume your today job in Underworld is finished?"

Hades nodded. "Almost. Since my realm got a sudden influx of new souls last week, I don't think my job to judge them all will be finish by the end of the day. I only gotten Thanatos to take over for a moment, I don't think I will stay sane from all of that."

He then glanced toward Persephone. "Hestia, I didn't know you have a guest. Who is this?" Hades asked he took a closer look at Persephone's face, studying her.

Persephone couldn't help but mentally admired his dark onyx eyes. It was gorgeous—until she stopped herself for moment. 'Wait, why am I thinking like that?'

Hestia laughed. "Oh, Hades. How come you forgot? That's Persephone, remember? You used to hold her when she was a little baby."

A spark of recognition shone from his dark eyes. "Oh! Demeter's daughter. Yes, I remember now."

Persephone couldn't help but blushed a bit. 'I can't believe I used to be held by a dark handsome god—Chaos! Where in the world that thought come from?!'

"Hello there, Persephone," Hades smiled. "It's been so long since I last meet you. I remembered how you used to try to climb onto my chariot where we were not looking at you."

"Indeed! It was funny considering how so small she was," Hestia added. "Demeter almost fainted when you saw that her baby was trying to climb onto one of your horse's legs instead after giving up from trying to climb onto the chariot."

Persephone only looked embarrassed. She couldn't believe she was that fussy when she was a baby!

'Oh well, I guess I can try to get to know him from the guy himself...' she thought as she mustered her courage to try to speak to Hades.

AUTHOR NOTE: Finally! I am able to post an update for this story. Speaking of story, I'm currently putting up a poll in my profile. I was planning to write my first Harry Potter fic, but I have three ideas of it and I want to know which one I should do first. If you guys interested, go to my profile to vote! Unless if you guys only interested with HadesXPersephone, try to imagine baby Persephone hiding in Hades's chariot instead! (lolwhut?)

EDIT: I have no idea how to make the poll to only allowed ONE choice per users, as apparently someone thought it was funny to submit two answers. I reset the poll again and asked you guys to vote only ONE of those, not multiple answers. And I still hate guest reviews because they're sucks- at this rate, I may have to go to AO3 if FFN wouldn't give us a solution to permanently block guest reviews. I hate to moderate their reviews.