Just Another Reason Why
Chapter Two: Harmless Sickness part two
Over World
Zeus paced around. Waiting for Hera to yell at him to stop moving so she can paint the scenery behind him.
"Zeus, father, what has caused you much worry." Ares, the god of war asked.
"Nothing, it's just that, have you been going to any wars lately?" Zeus asked his son.
"Yes, they keep coming back, there's a whole riot out there right now. They just won't die." Ares said, while scratching the back of his head.
Zeus thought about the night a few days ago. He asked Hades to not kill.
"Zeus, I still think our brother causes deaths for a reason." Hera said, standing up with the painting.
"Me too, but we can't be certain yet." Zeus said.
Suddenly a portal opened in the shadow next to them and Hypnos came out of the shadow to meet the King of gods and his son and wife.
Hypnos stared at the blond haired family, still thinking that Hades looks a lot younger then Zeus.
"I hope you don't mind me stopping by, but Hades has another message for you Zeus." Hypnos said, not even bothering to say lord in front of his name.
"No, I don't mind." Zeus said, not noticing the fact Hypnos didn't say Lord Zeus.
"Hades wants to visit you tomorrow and only you, Thanatos and I will be at his side for his… reasons." Hypnos said unaffected by the worry look Zeus as been giving him.
"Ok, only me?" Zeus asked.
"Yes, only you." Hypnos answered.
"Ok, tomorrow it is." Zeus said.
"He'll come at night." Hypnos added and then left through the same shadow he came from to get there.
Zeus was still surprised that Hypnos and Thanatos will be at his older brother's side when he comes to visit worried him even more.
Underworld
Hypnos laughed. Hades chuckled slightly then began to even laugh a little.
"Thank you Hypnos and now phase two of my 'Era of Sickness'," Hades said, "Hecate, your good in makeup, right?" Hades asked.
"Yes my lord." Hecate said.
"Good, how pale can you make my skin, something more ghostly than I have now?" Hades asked again.
"Pretty pale, may I start." Hecate answered and asked.
"You may." Hades said.
Hecate started to make Hades' skin paler. Soon enough, he was a little bit whiter like a ghost, then he was before, but not by much.
Hecate took a mirror and handed to Hades.
Hades took it and looked at Hecate's work.
"Nice work Hecate." Hades praised.
"Thank you my lord." Hecate thanked.
"My lord, night approaches, shall we get going?" Hypnos said looking at Hades.
"Yes we shall. Hecate keep everything running smoothly when we're gone, okay." Hades said.
"Yes sir, have a nice pretend sick visit." Hecate said and waved to her friends.
"We shall." They said and vanished instantly.
Over World
Zeus waited patiently for his older brother, and his 'workers'.
Suddenly, there was a flash, and Hades appeared. Thanatos was holding him up with his arm, and Hypnos was making sure his back was straight.
"Hello brother." Hades said weakly, and coughed harshly.
"Hades, what happened?" Zeus said worriedly.
Hades pretended to look confused for a second, but was enjoying Zeus's worry.
"Nothing's wrong brother." Hades said his eyes in a steel blue color. Hades' eyes were about to close unless Thanatos snapped his fingers to keep him awake.
"Brother, are you sick? I should get Hestia." Zeus said getting up from his throne of gold to get his older sister.
"No need for that." Hades said quickly, but was too late, which was his plan all along.
Hestia came toward her brothers in a second.
"Hades, what happened to you, you look sick… let me take your temperature." Hestia said and ran up to her favorite older brother, yet Hades doesn't know that.
Hestia felt Hades' head, but before she can touch it, the heat it gave off burned her hand.
Hestia quickly withdrew her hand and started to blow on it.
"130 degrees Celsius." Hestia said.
"That's high," Said Hera when she walked in after hearing Hestia yell.
"I'm fine, no need to worry." Hades said.
"Hades, what happened?" Zeus demanded, now the gods and goddesses on Olympus started to stare.
"Well if you must know Zeus, Hades started to grow weaker after you told him to stop causing deaths, that's how he gains power you know." Hypnos said.
Zeus, now starting to feel guilty about asking Hades to stop taking lives, thought a moment.
Hades pretended to cough harshly, even longer than before.
"Hades, I want you to take lives back again." Zeus asked.
"No can do Zeus." Hades said weakly, about to close his eyes again very slowly.
"What, why can't you?" Zeus asked, now worried. Hera, Demeter, and Hestia also begun to worry.
"Zeus, I can't undo anything I have done, what's done is done, if I die because of your asking, then I die. Nothing more nothing less, no more is needed to say." Hades said hiding a smile.
"What do you mean?" Zeus asked.
"Lord Hades can't undo what he did. If you knew your brother you'll know what makes him strong. When you learn your lesson talk to Hades about it. You might want to learn quickly, because Hades grows weaker and weaker each day." Thanatos said, and all three of them vanished in a snap of a finger by Hypnos.
"What have I done?" Zeus asked himself.
"I'll tell you what you did, your killing our favorite and only older brother." Hestia said.
"If Hades dies, god knows what he'll leave in his place." Demeter said.
"How about we visit him tomorrow, as a surprise, and you can tell him to try and reverse it. Anyone of us would do it, if we had his power." Athena suggested.
"Yes… I think I'll try. Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, would you accompany me?" Zeus asked.
"Yes, for Hades' sake." The brothers and sisters agreed, and would visit Hades' realm tomorrow.
Underworld
"And that's a rap." Hades said.
"We got them good." Hypnos agreed, laughing.
"I think the next time we or they visit we should make your skin really pale, as a spirit or such, and paint your hair silver or grey." Thanatos suggested, smirking his way to a laugh.
"That would get them, they'll feel sorry. I bet Zeus was worried sick, I saw his face, and your sisters and other brother were sickened by your sick look." Hypnos said to Hades.
"Then let us keep up the act a little while longer, that wouldn't hurt, now would it. Thanatos, I agree to go with my skin as pale as a spirit and my hair silver. 'We'll make sure my power is known, and that I will to all that no one cares about the death gods'." Hades said, keeping a thought on the last part.