Hades' POV (Still In The Underworld)
"I thought you would be older…and uglier." she said.
Why I ought to… I thought angrily.
"And you really should put some couches in here."
This woman is getting on my nerves I thought.
"Shut. Up." I menacingly said.
She did.
"Now, what did Zeus do to you?"
"What he did to me? It's more like what he didn't do!"
"Ok, what didn't he do?"
"He didn't come back for me or my baby boy! He just knocked me up, told me he'd come back, and never even came back!"
I blinked.
"And you're… surprised?" I slowly let out and thought the woman a fool.
"Well, yea I'm surprised. I called his cell phone and emailed hundreds of letters to him! Plus, I mailed him photos of his baby boy!"
"Do you realize that he does this everyday? Or did you know that he'll deny that he is the father of your child? And, did you also know that he's fathered more than eight million babies, not counting twins, triplets, or quadruplets?" I asked her.
"It still doesn't mean he had to leave me in the dust. He was so sweet when we first met but so ferocious in-"
"I do not want to know what he was like in…err…intercourse." I said bluntly.
"Fine, then, so be it."
"Good. Now what punishment should I give you? Ah, well you're first offence is probably being a whore-"
"I am NOT a whore just because I slept around with some men-!"
"Shut up and let me speak. Your second offence is harassing my brother-"
"Yeah? Well he RAPED me!"
"Um, it's not rape if you let him. You're third offence is bragging to everybody how you got your son conceived, which was absolutely disgusting that the maidens you told you're little "secret" to are in mental shock and are dying right now."
"It's ALL his fault!" she shouted.
"And you're final and worst offence was killing yourself because you didn't want to raise a child and you thought I could help you. Wrong choice."
She was gaping at me. Yup, I have that effect on people.
"So… you're going to do nothing?" She squeaked.
"Actually, I'm going to put you in a holding room for a time. I'll talk to Zeus and Hera about your son and let them do what is fitting to him. Put her in one of the holding rooms." I said and the shadows did as they were told to do.
"Wow. That was incredible. You didn't even lunge out at her in anger when she was ticking you off." Hermes said.
"She wasn't. She just got on my nerves and I acted as if I was going to kill her." I said in a bored tone.
"Brilliant. Ok, it's off to see Zeus, the magical world of Zeus!" He sang and flew to my steeds.
Ugh, I hate going to Mt. Olympus. It's so…bright and shiny it's as if Apollo was riding his sun chariot up there.
"Um, Hades, why do you have white and black separately colored horses?" Hermes asked when he saw my horses.
"They symbolize my kingdom." I said in an annoyed tone.
"How?"
"Why don't you use that little brain of yours and figure it out yourself." I said really annoyed.
He somehow got the message and began to fly away with his winged sandals to the gates of the living. As soon as he was out of ear range of my voice, I
began to murmur sweet words to my steeds. The doors to each stall slid simultaneously to the side and they all walked toward me happily. I gave each of
them a pat.
"Who will come with me to Mt. Olympus?" I asked them.
One of my most shyest and most beautiful white mares stepped towards me and gently caressed my cheek with her head. She knew that I would need
her to show that I did have the most beautiful thing and that I took care of it. I readied her for the journey. Once done, I mounted her and bid a farewell to
all of the other horses. We were soon off quickly to the gates. The whole ride took only ten minutes because my horse was bred from a unicorn and
Pegasus but I manipulated it so it wouldn't appear like either one.
"Where's the elevator?"
I asked myself as I began to search for the small rock in the ground that served as a button. I finally found it near a pile of small rocks and let my horse
step on it. Soon after it was pushed a big enough piece of mountain began to slide off to one side. I soon lightly kicked my horse to run inside the dark
tunnel. The piece of mountain quickly closed behind my horse and we were both alone in the dark tunnel until the lights flickered on.
"Finally!" I grumbled angrily.
I jumped off my horse and led it to a large elevator near the end of the tunnel and pressed a button. The elevator doors quickly opened and I led my horse
into it. It calmly watched me as I pushed another button and we were off. When we finally reached the top, I slowly lead my horse to a golden stall full of
oats that I knew my horse wouldn't eat. From there, I put on some super dark glasses and a black cloak to cover up my still exposed face, hands, and
forearm. Once I went through the throne room door everything gold in the room began to reflect themselves onto me, causing me more damage to my
eyes than it already had.
"I HATE GOLD!" I yelled out in frustration.
"Ah, brother, I see you have arrived!" Zeus painfully yelled out.
My ears would've been popped and bleeding if I weren't immortal! I emitted a small growl and looked up at my tan bare chest brother. Some mortals
would've thought I was the younger one in the family, since Zeus looked to be my father instead of my brother. Probably because he has white curly long
hair and a chiseled white beard. I, on the other hand, had NO facial hair at all except for my perfect eyebrows.
"Where's Hera? I need to talk to you both." I said rather coldly.
"She's down there, on earth looking for me."
"Figures." I said loud enough for him to hear.
"What 'figures'?" He asked me.
"Well lets see. She has stayed faithfully with you for 3 million years while you, on the other had, have been getting MORTAL women pregnant! Did I also
forget to say you also knocked up half of the goddesses here? Yet, she has to pay for your consequences for your actions! And did she ever cheat on you?
No, of course not! She LOVES you Zeus. YOU don't even deserve her!"
I was breathing heavily by the time I finished. As soon as I was almost quieted down Zeus decided it was a great time to finally speak.
"Getting lonely down in the ol' Underworld Hades?" He cockily said.
If looks could kill, Zeus would already be chopped, sliced, flayed, baked, and burned. Did I forget to mention, DEAD?
"What, does it matter?"
"I'm just inquiring about your love life."
"I have never complained about anything or my share of the world and now that you think I'm complaining you want to use it against me!?"
"Hades, shh!" Hera might-"
"ZEUS!"
"Shit." Was all Zeus could say.
"Finally." I grumbled angrily.
The queen goddess came into the room with a white business suit on her thin frame and a cell phone in hand.
"Hello Hades."
"Hera." I said coldly.
"Zeus." She said angrily.
"Now Hera, there's company-"
"I don't care! They could rot in hell for all I care! No offense Hades."
"None taken."
Zeus was finally going to know what true fear was.
"Zeus, do you have any idea how many WOMEN called saying you were the father of their child?!"
"That's actually what I came here for-" I said.
"What?!" they said in unison.
"Please don't tell me he knocked you up too, Hades!" Hera exclaimed.
"You're a girl? Zeus said, looking at me differently.
"No and NO! Apparently, Zeus knocked up a woman, who shortly after the birth of her son, killed herself thinking I was going to help her."
"And that applies to me because…?" He obliviously said.
I saw Hera smack her forehead. I groaned.
"I can't believe I married the dumb ass!" She whispered ferociously.
"It means that YOU have to figure out where you're going to put your half mortal son." I said slowly.
"I'll get my secretary to do it to figure that out." Zeus scoffed.
"Uh, hello? I AM the secretary!!" yelled Hera.
"Is it that time of the month, honey? Cuz' you're acting really over the top."
Hera suddenly grew to an immense size and Zeus, well, lets just say Zeus grew to the size of a 4 year-old god.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" screamed Hera.
I covered my ears from Hera's mighty roar but even that didn't help. Zeus, seeing his very deranged wife on a murderous rampage suddenly got smart and
kneeled down, put his hands together, and did the puppy eye trick. Hera's defensives suddenly got knocked over with one glimpse of her husband and she
returned to her original size.
"I can never be mad at you." She huffed out quietly and turned away from Zeus.
"Ha, it always works." Zeus triumphantly said.
Hera looked as if she was going to kill her husband.
"Now Hera don't do anything irrationally." I said.
It was then I spotted a goddess who looked to be around 17 summers right next me and staring down at me.