Alright after watching the episode a few times, I believe I've got an idea on how to write this chapter, I just hope everyone likes it.

Also just to let everybody know for future references, I can't do lemons, just some fan-service stuff, but not full on lemons.

The Brother Of Hercules

Chapter 23

Maelstrom And The Phil Factor

Speedy Pita

It was quite a hectic week for Maelstrom, since he paid Rachnera, Cerea and Tempest back in full, with each one wanting a date with him, first there was Rachnera, since he did ask her before the amazon-pair, where he found out NOT to give Rachnera any coffee, since the stuff makes her drunk. (A.N. No science to find out about the caffeine in the coffee.)

Maelstrom can honestly say that it was pretty embarrassing to carry Rachnera home that day, since the spider-girl wanted to rub him in certain places.

Then it was Tempest turn, though her date was different than what he had expected, Tempest's idea of a date was a hunting trip, where they'd both go hunting for game, mostly deer and rabbits, but Maelstrom kinda enjoyed it, though the Amazon Princess thought it'd be a good idea to set up camp, unfortunately a heavy shower had hit them, with the two only managing to make up one tent, meaning they had to share, but they didn't really care since they did things on the Amazon Island that they don't want anyone to know about, with the other girls being apart of it.

Afterwards was Cerea's turn, with the centaur girl's date being the more normal, since they just went to watch a play, had some light dinner, then a blushing Cerea had asked Maelstrom to hold her hand as they walked in public, since for Cerea, it was one thing to do embarrassing stuff in the bedroom, but it was another thing to make such contact outside where people can see you another thing altogether, though when her face became bright red and her ears began flapping happily, Maelstrom couldn't help but comment on how cute she was being, making the centaur girl even more embarrassed.

But now, Maelstrom was hanging out with his brother and hero coach at Speedy Pita, since his girls were off doing their own thing, with Cassandra going(dragged) with her parents on a family holiday, Cerea and Tempest went to the Amazon Island for training and Rachnera was off somewhere, having taken Kurama with her, to do who knows what, though he did hear the arachnid say something about a prank involving Adonis and a hair-growing oil, but he denied wanting to find out what she was planing, since he didn't want to have anything to do with their pranks and be blamed for it, though if anything it's really Adonis's own fault for being arrogant.

"Hey are you two gonna eat that!?"

Hearing the voice of their coach had knocked Maelstrom from his thoughts, with the brothers seeing Phil eyeing and drooling at their paper wraps that they were using to hold their Pitas, with both shrugging and handing the paper to the man, with the goat-man eating it up and letting loose a loud belch.

With lunch out of the way, the three make their way around town, until they spotted a ruckus at Pillars Parchment, "Huh, I wonder what the excitement is!?" Asked Hercules, causing Maelstrom to shrug his shoulders, until...

"RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"

A loud roaring screech was heard, scarring everyone except the brothers and coach, with them seeing the monster Memnon making an entrance, with Hercules exclaiming, "HOW'D HE GET OUTTA THE UNDERWORLD!?"

With Phil replying, "THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO YOU GET HIM BACK THERE, REMEMBER KIDS WATCH HIS TAIL!" With the satyr pushing the brothers towards the monster.

Maelstrom was about to attack the monster to send him back to the Underworld, but Hercules had other ideas, "As a hero-in-training, I order you back to the Underworld from whence you came!" Using his "Hero-voice" without realising.

Though Maelstrom face-palmed, "Hercules, we've talked about this, the "hero-voice" that you use doesn't have that much push with people." This caused Hercules to become slightly embarrassed.

"Ahem! And Why should I return to the Underworld!?"

This question from the monster caused the brothers to look at each other in puzzlement, having no idea why a monster of the underworld would ask such an obvious question, with Hercules uncomfortably replying.

"U-Um, b-because you're a monster!?"

Though it sounded like a question, Maelstrom agreed, "Ye~ah, i-it's kinda a monster's M.O. ya know, and pretty obvious really!"

This reply caused the monster to rub it's face at such an answer, "Oh, you eat a few hundred people and you're labelled for life," Suddenly he got in their faces, "Oh common, they were just kids!" Here Memnon grabbed the two brothers by their arms while they were distracted, then the monster flicked them away with his tail, causing both brothers to tumble into a troth with water in it, which splashes a centaur signing some scrolls.

"STOP SPLASHING ME BOYS!"

Though the loud foot steps distracted the three, with the centaur throwing insults at the monster, with the monster throwing his own insults as well, with both getting in each others faces, looking like they were about to throw-down, but they both began to laugh, since it turned out the monster only went there to gain an autograph from Chiron the centaur, hero and trainer of heroes, with the monster finishing what he wanted to do, along with getting an autograph for his daughter, Memnon left back to the Underworld waving bye to Chiron.

With Phil helping the brothers up, along with Maelstrom saying out loud, "Alright, that's the last time I let my guard down because of a monster's dumb question." With Hercules agreeing, while Phil told the two to let it be a learning experience to never let your guard down.

"Philoctetes! And the demigod brothers! the little heroes who couldn't!" Chiron laughs out loud at the expense of the brothers, with Phil defending the two, while Maelstrom was sorely tempted to layout Chiron then and there, but he knew better than to use his strength on such arrogant people, which is why he'll leave it to Kurama to prank such people, though it'd be difficult to target such an experienced hero and trainer, though Kurama loves challenges and the fox did feel like he was stuck in a rut with Adonis.

Anyway, Chiron started poking holes in Phil's training, since Phil never actually did any heroic accomplishments.

Training Grounds

After Phil's humiliation from Chiron, the three went back to Phil's island for training, though Phil wasn't really paying attention, though the problem was Hercules being blindfolded while training, as one of the equipment was spinning the other was about to hit Hercules, with the teen getting hit in the face, though Maelstrom was about to warn him.

"P-Phil, I could use a little coaching here!"

With Phil waving it off, "Ah, ya doing fine!"

With the two brothers looking at each other, though Hercules removed the blindfold showing the black eye he got, "You call THIS fine!?"

Though the satyr didn't take too kindly to be questioned, "Okay, okay, calm down Phil, you've really let Chiron get to ya with his comment, if ya want, I could have Kurama to prank him, since the fox is getting in a rut."

Phil smirked slightly, along with Hercules, cheering the satyr up slightly, "Nah, that's alright kid, besides, if Chiron ever found out that a fox got the best of him, the guy'll skin the fox alive."

With Hercules adding, "Yeah, also Phil, no-one knows more about being a hero than you!"

Now that gave Phil an idea, "Yeah, you know what, you're right rookie!" With Hercules being surprised at being right about something.

With Maelstrom saying out loud, "Huh, maybe Phil should be the hero and we be the coach hey Herc!" With the two brothers laughing at that.

"You know with everything I know, I could be a hero!" Hearing Phil's exclamation caused the brothers to stop their laughing.

With both looking to Phil in worry, "I-It was a joke Phil!" Maelstrom tried to tell the goat man, with Hercules nodding, though it didn't change the satyr's mind, Phil ended up rushing into his house, opening a scroll, though he ripped out a part of it about a lonely nymph, causing the brothers to sigh at Phil's reaction, until he began reading the wanted ads for heroes, causing the two brothers to become even more nervous with each request, "I-IT WAS A JOKE PHIL!" With Hercules exclaiming their part.

Unfortunately, that didn't stop Phil from continuing, until Hercules had enough, "L-Look, if you're gonna do this, then start small, look at this one, "cockatrice terrorising, we're being egged to death!"." With Maelstrom looking at the scroll, "huh, it really does say egged to death!"

With Phil waving it off, "Ah common, it's just a chicken!"

But Hercules was quick with the punches for such an answer, "Ah, ah, ahhh, there are no small foes, just small heroes!"

With Phil being sold after that, since Hercules quoted a hero rule, with that the trio went to Hero Depot to get Phil his hero gear, with Hercules being curious about one of the equipment, unfortunately he got bashed on the head by it, causing him to have a dizzy-spell and fall over, while Maelstrom didn't really want anything since he's still got his gear.

While looking around Hercules noticed a crossbow, wanting to show off a little he acted like a soldier, putting it against his shoulder, unfortunately, his clumsiness made another appearance, sending the arrow flying through the air, causing a dominoes effect on not only the store but the buildings around the place, with Phil replying, "ALWAYS check the safety!"

While they were at the check out, it turns out Phil needed a licence in order to be a hero, making the trio to have to wait in line for it, though Phil wasn't too happy about it, the trio could kinda understand the reasoning, though Maelstrom decided to get one himself, just to see if he could qualify for a hero licence, though while Phil got a perfect score, Maelstrom had about a 68% right, making him close to qualify, but still needs to learn, which he was okay with, though when Phil heard about it allowing a 25% off at Hero Depot he wasn't happy.

With Phil showing off his new equipment, Maelstrom and Hercules had an uncomfortable look on their faces, though when they heard a clucking roar(you heard me), they looked up and saw the giant chicken with barbs on it's head, with Hercules saying out loud, "That is one giant chicken!"

Though the brothers wanted to stop the chicken, Phil made them promise not to help him, though it pained them they promised, though Maelstrom walked away with a deadpan, "I'll get the healing kit." Hercules, hearing this just watched his brother walk away, while him and Phil had an exploding egg blow up in their faces.

After that, it all kinda went down hill for Phil. (A.N. Pretty much like in canon, since Phil made Maelstrom and Hercules promise not to help him.)

Sunset

With each battle was a painful defeat for Phil, with the goat-man having bandages here and there, with Hercules helping him with the bandages, trying to brighten Phil's mood, unfortunately, his mood only worsened, "That's it, I'm done, I'm getting outta the hero business while I still got my horns!"

Though as he jumped down they kinda broke off, make Maelstrom and Hercules nervous and worried, though luckily Hercules hammered them back into place, "W-Well, anyway, c-common Phil, let's get back to training!" The two brothers were about to walk until...

"DON'T YA HEAR ME, I'm giving the WHOLE THING UP! I'm resigning as your trainer!" Phil interrupted and got their attention.

The two brothers were now worried, "W-Wait Phil, common," The two were trying to talk Phil out of it, but the satyr was set in his ways, believing that the two brothers could end up failing because of Phil, since the goat-man didn't have any actual hero experience, with Phil telling the two that his uncle runs a spear company.

With that, Phil had left the boys to themselves, though Hercules wanted to go after him to try and change Phil's mind, Maelstrom stopped him, knowing how stubborn Phil can be, "Give him a few days Herc, in time he might change his mind."

Knowing his brother was right, the two began trying to come up with another training plan.

Next Day

While Icarus was with the two brothers, Maelstrom was trying to stop his brother from following the training instructions written by Chiron, since it was him who made Phil doubt his worth in the first place, but like Phil, Hercules was just as stubborn, following the instructions to the letter, unfortunately it was one of Chiron's tricks of making Hercules look foolish.

Seeing this, Maelstrom grabbed the scroll from Icarus's hands, yanking them away, causing the frazzled boy to spin around and become dizzy until he fell over, then using his godly strength, Maelstrom balled the paper, scroll and all, then threw it away, having enough of Chiron for the time being.

"Listen Herc, how about we try my training for the time being, after all, you still need practice on how to fully control your strength, so lets start from there."

While Hercules was a little put off from Maelstrom's roughness of Chiron's scroll, Hercules couldn't really dispute his brother's thinking, so with that in mind, the two brothers got a couple of paper blocks, where Hercules had to stack them without breaking them, though when Icarus got up he questioned the training, until Maelstrom explained that it was how he was able to control his own godly strength, making Icarus concede with what Maelstrom was saying since the results speak for themselves.

Though Hercules was having trouble, getting frustrated, Maelstrom managed to calm his brother down to focus on the task at hand.

After a few hours of block training, Maelstrom decided that it's best to call it a break, at least for a while, maybe having a fly around to clear their heads, as well as possibly finding Phil, since Maelstrom also stated that his training can only do so much.

So with that the brothers travelled around looking for Phil, though it's seems their fortune lucked up for them when a screaming grey-haired woman was yelling out someone rescue them from him, though the boys thought it was a monster, until it turned out to be Phil trying to sale spears to people, and driving them nuts with his sales campaign.

Once the two finally found Phil, Hercules was so happy that he hugged the goat-man, Maelstrom just smiled, praying to the gods in his mind that Phil would hopefully return as their teacher, but the satyr wasn't moving, though before Phil really got into it, the monster known as Catoblepas appeared. (A.N. I'm not describing it so you best look it up on google.)

Once the two got a look at the bull-like monster, Phil began describing it in his own way, with both Hercules and Maelstrom getting ready to face off against the monster, with both taking their own place, with Hercules getting ready to use a spear against the monster, while Maelstrom uses Glenda to fire one of his bows for climbing buildings, getting a high ground vantage point, waiting for the perfect shot to take the monster down.

Though before the two could truly move, the official who gave Phil his hero licence stopped them, though thankfully the official gave the two brothers a heroes permit, which allowed them to do heroic act before 5pm, which really confused Maelstrom.

But with that out of the way, the two made their way to their marks, though Phil gave the brothers advise on what to do, "DON'T BREATH NEAR IT AND DON'T LOOK IT IN THE EYE!" With Hercules asking why not, with Phil pointing out, "Ask THAT guy!"

The two brothers looked at the official who, for some unknown reason, was trying to give the monster-bull a ticket or something, but the monster's eyes glowed, causing the official to look it in the eyes, causing the person to sudden seize up like a statue, then fell over because of the bulls snorting.

Unfortunately, due to the bull's bronze-like hide, the spear Hercules threw just bounced off of it, along with denting the spear, now having no weapon Hercules was in trouble, which caused Phil to rush off and returned with a sash that he wrapped around Hercules's eyes.

After a few maneuvers, with Hercules using his ears to listen for the bull's charge, Hercules managed to get on to the bull's back, taking the sash off his eyes to wrap around the monster's own eyes, which caused the bull to start bucking, trying to knock Hercules off it's back.

Maelstrom was waiting for the perfect shot, since he couldn't aim for the hide, he had to wait until the monster was in position and, "RAAAAAAOOOOOORRRRR!"

He let the beam from the bow fly, hitting the monster in it's mouth flash-frying the insides, causing the monster to collapse instantly, which allowed Hercules to clamber off of the now dead monster, being thankful that he held his breath, with Maelstrom jumping back to ground level, using his strength to brace himself and land without causing damage.

"Good job there boys, your teamwork was perfect, you both did me proud." Phil yelled out to them.

With the two brothers patting each other on the back, with the towns folk thanking the two boys for their heroic job, but Hercules and Maelstrom explained that it was actually Phil that saved the day, because if it wasn't for him the brothers never would've survived the monster, though Phil was about to deny it, saying he was getting the hang of being a salesman, though that didn't sit well with the town folk, making Phil nervous to become Maelstrom's and Hercules's hero coach again.

With the monster-bull dead, the town celebrated, while giving the corpse to the two boys, though Phil was against it, he realised that the two needed armour to protect themselves with it, but they needed some "godly" help with that.

So Maelstrom and Hercules prayed for Hephaestus, where the god of the forge, at first was angry at being called while he was busy working, until Maelstrom cunningly replied, "Well~ I guess the God Of The Forge doesn't want to forge the hide of the Catoblepas into armour for us, oh well, I guess we'll just throw it into the sea to get rid of the smell." Knowing that Hephaestus couldn't pass the opportunity for such a forging.

Hearing the words, Forge, Catoblepas and Armour, got the god's attention, "Alright, alright boys, ha hah, you've got my attention, I'll take the monster and fashion the hide into armour for you two, I must admit it's surprising that you two managed something like this, but I'll make sure it works with your hero clothes and I'll make sure the stench is completely removed, but remember, while the hide is protected it is NOT invincible." Not wanting to skip such forge.

With that the god and the corpse vanished, with the three knowing that the god will do an amazing job, so with that the three made their way home, happy to finally have their trainer back, with Phil also happy to be back teaching the two.

The End.

There you have it, the chapter is finished, as you can tell, I made so that the Catoblepas didn't sink into the sea, since I figured it'd be a waste of the strong hide, also I figured Hephaestus would love the chance to make the brothers armour for their outfits, with Hercules basically being the same as before.

Though I think I'll leave it up to the readers on what you think the armour for Maelstrom should be like, please leave it in the review.

I Do Not Own Naruto Or Hercules.