Medusa’s Son

Chapter 8

Third person POV

Hades, the god of the underworld, was the first-born son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as a younger brother, Poseidon, all of whom had been swallowed whole by their father as soon as they were born.

Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release, the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged the elder gods for power in the Titanomachy, a divine war. The war lasted for ten years and ended with the victory of the younger gods.

Following their victory, Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots for realms to rule. Zeus received the sky, Poseidon received the seas, and Hades received the underworld, the unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the world as well as any and all things beneath the earth.

Some myths suggest that Hades was dissatisfied with his turnout, but had no choice and moved to his new realm.

Despite modern connotations of death as evil, Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Hades was often portrayed as passive rather than evil; his role was often maintaining relative balance.

That said, he was also depicted as cold and stern, and he held all of his subjects equally accountable to his laws. Any other individual aspects of his personality are not given, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.

Hades ruled the dead, assisted by others over whom he had complete authority. The House of Hades was described as full of 'guests', though he rarely left the Underworld. He cared little about what happened in the world above, as his primary attention was ensuring none of his subjects ever left his domain.

He strictly forbade his subjects to leave his domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave, or if someone tried to steal the souls from his realm. His wrath was equally terrible for anyone who tried to cheat death or otherwise crossed him.

During his lifetime, he became a famous and talented physician, who eventually was able to bring the dead back to life. Feeling cheated, Plouton persuaded Zeus to kill him with a thunderbolt. After his death, he was brought to Olympus where he became a god.

Hades was only depicted outside of the Underworld once in myth, and even that is believed to have been an instance where he had just left the gates of the Underworld, which was when Heracles shot him with an arrow as Hades was attempting to defend the city of Pylos.

After he was shot, however, he traveled to Olympus to heal. Besides Heracles, the only other living people who ventured to the Underworld were also heroes: Odysseus, Aeneas (accompanied by the Sibyl).

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Priamos abruptly stood up as the gorgons flanked him. There was a banging sound constantly until it just stop, they were here. Priamos looked up again and noticed the sky was suddenly dark, when did it become night?. He asked himself.

"They can definitely sense where we are" stheno spoke. Priamoss nerves just spiked immensely, he was terrified. They both grabbed onto priamoss arms and tried to teleport but nothing happened, they tried again but still nothing.

Stheno looked around with an angry look on her face. "Damn" she cursed. Priamos looked at her with a look that said he was confused and terrified at the same time. "What?” He asked. Euryale looked at him.

"They spelled the place"

Now he was more confused then ever. "With what" he asked another question. "Boundary spell, are magic is limited now" stheno explained, venom laced in her voice. The two gorgons looked at each other.

"I'll stay behind and hold whoever off it is" euryale spoke. Stheno nodded, but before her sister could leave she embraced her tightly, 'stay safe' she murmured in her ear before letting go. She then grabbed priamoss arm and booked it down one of the hallways.

As they were running priamos decided to ask the important questions. "Where are we exactly" he asked. She eyed him in the corner of her eye before focusing back on running ahead. "We're still on earth" she said silently.

His eyes widened at what she said. "Why didn't you take us to Olympus or your home" he asked. She gritted her teeth as she turned a corner still running. "If we went to any of those places they would have found us in a second" she explained.

He went silent after that continued to run with stheno. He let his mind take over. He wondered if euryale was alright, he didn't want her to end up dead because of him, he wouldn't be able to take that.

Suddenly stheno stopped causing him to run into her back. He looked around her to see them now him some huge room with no exit, just lamps hanging on the side and a stepping stone on the right side.

They walked until they were in the middle of the room, that's when they felt a sudden aura behind them. They quickly turned around to face a beautiful woman in front of them. "Aphrodite" stheno muttered.

She was wearing a long-sleeved white dress that reached to her feet, there was a slit down the side showing her leg. She had golden jewelry on her neck and wrist, a white shiny aura surrounded her in an instant.

"Please stheno, don't make this harder than it has to be, hand over the boy" she spoke softly with a smile holding her hand out expectantly. Stheno looked at it briefly before looking back at her not moving once.

"Does it depress you" stheno asked.

"What does"

"To know just how alone you really are"

Aphrodite smiled even harder, almost like it was hurting. She sighed heavily before letting down her hand. With a flick of the wrist stheno was sent flying across the room in an instant. Then Aphrodite was right in front of him.

"NO!" Stheno screamed.

The next thing she new, she was alone in the room.