Chapter 3: Rules of Rose-#1-Don't mess with the Mist Wolves…

Hades could only keep staring.

"What in Tartarus does she feed these guys, a whole cow each?"

Rose was over with the biggest wolf and he was BIG. His fur was a deep black that had the sheen of a raven's wing. Deep gold eyes matched the Shapeshifter's perfectly with the only difference being that hers were almost molten metallic. All in all, the wolf's shoulder must have reached the top of the teen's head and she must have been at least 5 foot 6"!

"That's not fitting in my chariot."

"Hades, come say hi to Dark Heart!" Rose called.

"Sure, sure, right after I jump into the Styx!" he said quietly. Maybe if he just pretended he didn't hear her….

The wolf (Dark Heart apparently) decided that wouldn't do. He swiveled his enormous head toward the Lord of the Dead and stared fixedly at him with his golf ball-sized eyes.

Slowly, he started to pad over to where the blue god stood.

Hades froze.

"Maybe it's not really that big. Maybe he's just really shaggy wolf." No such luck. Dark Heart was pure muscle and his fur did nothing to hide it.

"This is not my day…."

Dark Heart had stopped about a foot away from Hades. And then he did something amazing. He lay down on the cloudy ground of the front gates of Olympus and cocked his head up at the god.

"Awww, look at my boys bonding!" Rose thought sarcastically. Hades looked like he was gonna wet himself with Dark Heart looking up at him with an extraordinarily amused look on his lupine face.

She had to laugh too though. He'd have to get used to Dark Heart soon enough.

"You can give him a scratch if you want," she said coming up behind the black wolf.

"Uh, yeah, not feelin' it babe," Hades said with his sleazy smile.

"Ever notice that he smiles when he is trying to get out of something," spoke Dark Heart.

"Yeah I did, actually," Rose said out loud.

Hades suddenly got a confused look on his face.

"Uh, Babe? Who ya talkin' to?"

"Ok, now she's talkin to herself. Great!"

"Oh that's right, you don't know!" Rose gasped out, looking like she'd just remembered something really important.

"Oy, yeah, 'kay. This, this is where you explain, babe."

"They're mist wolves!" she stated authoritatively.

"Remind me again what that is," Hades quipped looking bored with his long fingers forming a steeple.

"They are a type of wolf that can change into mist at will," She explained patiently.

"And you're talking to him, why?" Hades asked, quirking his eyebrows.

"He's TELEPATHIC! Mist wolves are telepathic!" she said excitedly. "Cool huh?"

"You're telling me that that thing is intelligent?" Hades said with wide eyes.

Up until this point, Dark Heart had been feeling fine with the blue-skinned god. He seemed intelligent and cunning if not a little bit cowardly. But as the conversation continued, the black wolf became steadily more irritated by the moronic questions that were coming out of Hades' mouth. Finally, at the god's question of his intelligence, the wolf snapped. Rising to his great paws the Dark Heart's fur started to bristle. Baring his enormous fangs, he released a growl that made the air shake. Hades' skin became even paler than its usual hue.

"What in Tartarus his problem!" shouted Hades to Rose.

Snarling louder was Dark Heart's only answer.

"Now you did it," said Rose ominously.

Hades quickly turned to Dark Heart.

"Dark Heart, heeeeey my brother! You wouldn't bite good ol' Hades," *Heh heh*, "Would you?"

Ominous rumbling came from the black wolf. Nobody called him stupid. Not without serious repercussions.

Picking Hades up like a chew toy, Dark Heart shook the god roughly and then dropped him.

"That will teach him not to call a mist wolf stupid," Dark Heart said irritably to Rose.

Hades could only look on in wonder as the black wolf curled around Rose's feet and glared at him with his huge gold eyes.

"Well," said Rose thoughtfully, "I guess this brings us to rule #1…"

"Excuse me?" asked Hades, "Rule #1 of what?"

"Rules of Rose-#1- Don't mess with the mist wolves," she said simply. "Why? Because they mess back."

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