AN: Hejsan, svejsan. This chapter was supposed to be earlier, but it wasn't. Hope you like, I'm happy with it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, it belongs to Constance M Burge, I think.
Zeus was a very vain jerk. I felt sorry for Chris.
"But, looking like a kid might be good, couldn't it? Though, maybe not? But, if if speed po the aging process he won't have had the time to mature properly, which, in turn, could lead to the worst consequence of all."
"Tough decision," I said sarcastically.
"Yes! I mean, I could end up with no-"
That's when I left. Zeus was too vain for me to handle.
"So, you're his replacement?" a raspy, and quite frankly scary voice asked. Hel's voice.
"I don't want to be," I said.
"I didn't want him to die," she said.
"I know. You told me, no, him, not to do it. And you refused to kill him. I'm scared of water, you know. Wasn't before, but I am now, all thanks to you."
"You're not sure of who you are, right?" she asked.
"I am."
"No, you're not. You're him, and you're you, at the same time. Problem is, he wants to be in charge, but since it's your body, you also wants to be in charge. And he's subtle, so you're only noticing it subconsciously, but since you're not really sure, you aren't putting up the fight that you probably could put up, if you wanted."
"How do you know all that?" Not that what she was saying was true, but...
"When's the first time that we met?"
"Hello."
I can't show fear, they'll eat me alive then. I turned around, quickly, and hoped that I managed to not look too nervous. Then I yelped when I saw the creature' s face.
"I would have thought, that with a father like yours, you wouldn't be that scared of someone as harmless as me."
"Are you, female?"
"My gender doesn't matter, my name is Hel, and I'm the one who runs the death business down here."
"Yeah? Then how come the dead gets lost on the way?" I said, and didn't feel that scared anymore. This was something that I knew about. I knew about the problems with the death business. And I was going to put them right.
"When I was new to, no, today, no, we, um, sometime," was the final answer. When the hell did we meet? I mean, I've met her before, I know that I have, but yet...
"You're pitying me," I said suddenly.
"No, because I think that it's you-"
"You can't lie to him. Me, I mean. Empath. No!"
I can't be that.
"I told you that he's trying to take over," she said, sounding really proud over being right.
"Well, he won't. And he's not."
The ground shook, and I lost my balance. Hel just stood there, like the divine goddess that she thought she was. Though she did look a bit worried, I think. It's hard to read emotions on a face that ugly.
"I have to go and get King Arthur, so that I can finally kill those bastards," I told Hel.
"Don't forget princess. I may hate him, but he can pack a punch."
"Dearest brother, what do you think?" a woman, with white hair and white toga, asked. She was pregnant. And looked like Zeus would if he was a woman.
"What have you done now?"
"I wanted to see if I could do it. And don't you think that I am pretty gorgeous?" Zeus twirled.
"What do you think that the Elders will think about this?"
"Well, what do I care? They're not in charge of me, I'm in charge of them."
"Yet you've given them enough power to, combined, take you down."
"Meh. They wouldn't dare, I'm a god, brother. Well, goddess, I suppose."
"I thought that you were here," Hel said, as she walked into the room, getting prettier the closer she got to Zeus. "As a girl. Just like my father. What a copycat you are."
"But I'm a god, and he was only-"
"He wasn't only anything," Hel snapped.
Her family was a sore subject for her, since they didn't exactly agree with each other. The only one that she didn't have anything against was Jormungand, her snake of a brother. She had even given him a job in the Demonic Wastelands, a fact that made me fell safer around her since it was proof that she actually had a heart. That, and how protective she was for the dead women and children.
"Ben? You don't look like you anymore," Prue said, after she had let me in. She looked scared, and uncertain. "And, why are you two persons? I mean, you were like that before, but now it's more than ever. Yeah."
"Well, I'm fine, so you don't have to worry," I told her.
Then Leo came thundering down the stairs.
"Where the hell is Chris?" he asked, red in the face.
"He's somewhere, what should I care?"
Then Wyatt, who had orbed down, tried to hit me, only his hand went straight through. Felt scalding.
"What the hell did you do that for? No, don't answer, we need to hurry, because soon, the Underworld is going to fall, and that's not good."
"Why do you care so much about the Underworld, when you kill demons?" Prue asked.
"I don't!" I exclaimed. Leo looked as if he wanted to hit me. "Forget it, the point is that the Underworld is full of powerful demons who all know how to fight. If they fall, then things don't bode well for you, do they? Anyway, Wyatt, we're out of here."
I grabbed his hand, and we shadowed to Heaven, where Chris/Zeus was sitting upside down in one of the throne chairs, looking bored out of his mind.
"Wyatt!" he called and hugged Wyatt, who looked shocked. And he was mad at me.
"What do you say we kill some Titans?"
"Well..." Chris/Zeus said. He doesn't want to fight now?
"The fight has started, you need to hurry up now before I kill everyone!" Zeus tugged at my arm.
"Yeah, but, maybe we could reach a peaceful, um, something."
"Don't be stupid, that won't work. And here I thought that you were smart." Zeus shook his head, trying to look sad, but failing.
"I am."
"Well, come on then. Please," he added, and then I realized that my battle was already lost. Zeus had had me wrapped around his finger since birth.
"Chris, Zeus, whatever, are you scared?"
"Well, I am. You're crazy, and evil," Wyatt said.
"Yeah, Wyatt, I am. In my spare time, I kill puppies. I've always found it a fascinating hobby." Wyatt glowered at me, and gripped his sword, which had somehow magically appeared, tighter.
"I am not scared, so let's go," Chris/Zeus said.
At least he's coming.
Even though he's scared out of his wits.
"Is this really so important?" Wyatt whined.
"What, you want the world in smithereens?"
"No, but..." he trailed off.
"Show some spirit, it'll be a fight!" Chris/Zeus said, and a big goofy smile stretched across his face. Wyatt looked sick.
"And, how come I haven't been affected, or you?" Wyatt asked.
"I am affected, and you're not because my dear brother, no, because, the jerk, gaah." I took a deep breath. "Poseidon can't come because he isn't dead."
"And how come you're messing up nouns, and Chris isn't."
"It's pronouns. And I'm fighting it. Somehow. Chris isn't."
"So what, you're saying that Chris is weak?"
"No! I'm just saying that-"
"This is all very interesting, but could we hurry up?" Chris/Zeus asked.
"Before you crap your pants, you mean?" I asked. "No, you're right, let's hurry up."
Then my cellphone buzzed.
How it going? Mikhail texted.
Off to battle with CO sons, I replied.
Make sure W don't die. Important in rituals.
And kidnappings, I added. Wyatt glared at me, as though he knew what I was texting about.
Lol.
I'm sure.
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"Are you the ones who are going to stop us?" I glanced at Chris/Zeus and Wyatt. They looked more scared than I thought that someone was able to look.
