Chapter 3

Staying in the underworld was frankly quite boring. All I ever did was scheme, eat, bathe and sex. Let's not forget running from Persephone. Apparently Hades can't stand up to her so I run away everytime she shows up....I mean, the bitch is crazy so I understand what I'm dealing with. The only sad part, I haven't seen my kids after their birth. I only know I had two girls, two beautiful girls.

Hades felt they were safer with a caretaker as I was busy planning a war, a war I didn't want to be part of and now, I would never see my girls until this war was over. That's if we won and I make it out alive. The only hope I had was this child growing in me, and everytime I felt it kick or move, I knew I wasn't just fighting for me, but to make sure no one else faces such woes by the hands of the so called 'gods'. 

The castle felt even more lonely as everyone was busy with Hades' war but I had a few friends, there was a maid called Madeline and she was a good person. She was a hundred percent human, why she was a maid in the underworld? She made a deal like yours truly to serve Hades in exchange for waiting for a ray of hope, of anything to heal her heart, and the day she saw me, she knew she had found her ray of hope.....I didn't see what she saw but what I've learnt so far, whatever drives a woman, drives her to the very end and I couldn't stop Madeline, and I wouldn't stop myself.

Balchazar and I had developed the most wonderful of friendships. I had told him about my plan to just use Hades and leave this dump when this is all over, to my surprise, he supported me every inch, well except the part of leaving my girls here with Hades. 

"I'll talk to him, to make him hand them over to me to send to a friend of mine, she'll take good care of your children Medusa."

"Thank you Balchazar."

That's how my kids were sent to a safer place than some hellhound caretaker. Now that everything was in place, all I longed for was to see my sisters, I hadn't seen them since all this rubbish started, my mother too.  I need to talk to Hades about this.

Hades was alone in his chambers and I knew I would have a lot of influence when I'm with him alone than with all his minions confusing his brains.

"My Lord!"

"Medusa darling, a queen does not bow before anyone. Get up."

"Thank you Hades."

"What do you want my queen?" He looked at me with so much interest than he was doing to those sheets on his table.

"I know I promised you, I'll be yours but I can't help but..."

"Your sisters?" How did he know!

"Yes...yes!  How did you know?"

"I miss Zeus sometimes, even though he can be an asshole. That's the bad part of family, you find yourself coming back, no matter what happens, they'll always have a place in your heart. And I can't take away that place they have in yours."

"So you'll let me go see them!"

"I could never stop you." He looked like he was sad, I had to stay strong, he was just a tool, I can't catch feelings.

"Thank you Hades." Indeed there was still a part of him that felt love, he wasn't that cold monster banished to torture the souls of the lost and evil, he felt their pain, he was as miserable as the souls he tortured. His whole tough guy stuff was all a lie. Deep down, he had feelings.

"So, anything else my love?" 

"Not at all, thank you."

I left to go plan my trip, before I left the chambers, he called to me.

"Medusa?"

"Yes Hades?"

"Promise me you'll come back, please."

"I promise."

TWO WEEKS LATER....

"Balchazar!"

"Yes Medusa."

"I'm you're queen and you'll address me as such okay?"

"Yeah, and I'm not the only one who knows you've been lieing to everyone and yourself since you got here." We both giggled, it was true, Balchazar found out as soon as I stepped foot into Hades castle that I wasn't here just for fun.

"Look, Persephone would soon return, I need to get out of here, we all know how she can be." 

Balchazar looked at me knowingly, Persephone was crazy on a whole other level. Even Hades and I couldn't deal with her and I'm supposed to be the crazy one.....way to judge me Olympus.

Why was I actually having this discussion again? Right, I wanted to leave before Persephone came to 'check up' on Hades, more like to be sure he doesn't have another woman, that's why I can't be here when that happens. Wouldn't want to be in her bad books, no one gets out alive. Ever heard of Debs? No? Exactly, she no longer exists.....I'm going off point here.

"Get the gateway ready , I'm leaving for earth in an hour Balchazar."

"Yes my queen, should I get your escorts too?"

"I can tell when someone is being sarcastic, I'm not Hades." Hades was bad like that, couldn't see what was right in front of him even when it hits him in the face.

"Alright Medusa." He chuckled. "So no escorts, it would be ready in a few moments."

"Thank you." 

Hades walked out from his chambers and I tried my best to avoid him but he saw me, it's like the universe is trying to get me killed....oh wait, they already did that! Stupid gods! Curse y'all.

"Ah Medusa! You look all dressed up, where you going?" 

Away from you and your psycho wife. Like it isn't already obvious.

"I'm going to earth Hades, to see my sisters." Well it wasn't totally a lie, I had to tell them I still breathe and live! Though Scylla wouldn't be that amazed to see me but fuck it.

"Yes, I guessed so." 

Then why the hell did he ask me in the first place?! You see what I was talking about, so oblivious of the obvious.

"..but I want a round before you go."

"I'm sorry my little dragon, not today, I'm already late."

I turned around, zipped my dress, gave Hades a kiss on the cheek and left for the gateway. I knew he would punish me for this later but anything beats being killed by Persephone and having a second burial, besides I was just going to see my sisters.

Then again, knowing the kind of person or god in this case that Hades is, the end plan is to make me pay, even if it means attending my burial with Persephone by his side. Once hell is handed over to me, he'll be history.... literally.

Reaching the gateway, I was transported in a flash of light and green smoke and soon I was in....Greece. Greece! What the hell are those brats doing in Greece! Aren't they to have moved to England or somewhere! Anyway, if they were in Greece, they must still be in the house, the house we all grew up in. So that's where I was headed.

I reached the house and the door was haunting me with memories, wonder what would happen if I went in? I didn't want to but I did anyway. Scylla was smack right there, like she was expecting me but she wasn't, I saw it in the way her face changed for only a brief second. She was shocked to see me but soon enough, she soon had her signature proud immortal look on her face. I could tell this was gonna be a long time. Why I was here? I was yet to find out.

"Hello sister, how does immortality feel?" I'm guessing she put two and two together and came to a conclusion. Expected from smarty-pants.

"Hello Scylla."

"C'mon, I can see the frustration and annoyance drip from your voice, at least hide it a little. Hope you'll love your time in hell my queen."

Talk about dripping annoyance. And great, everyone knew Hades as a pervert.

"It's not as nice as you think."

"Hmmph, we all say that."

"I don't have the charisma or strength for this. Where's Euryale?"

"In her room, just a warning, knock first."

"I'll try." 

Down the lobby felt like a painful process. I remembered my childhood, my innocence, my zeal for Athena the days I walked this lobby as a child. Now I was walking this same lobby but I was immortal, I was no longer innocent. I sought revenge. I had snakes for hair. 

I looked at the monster in the mirror, it was me. Tall, beautiful, green dress worn well, snake hair packed into a neat ponytail. I felt abused *smash* The glass broke to pieces when it made contact with my hands, the pain was useless cause I hardly felt it. I opened Euryale's door and I wish I had knocked.

There was a huge satyr in her bed with her and no, they weren't have a tea party for all I know. I thought she would have changed after all these years, I guess change wasn't her area of speciality.

"Oh! Medusa you're here, I didn't know you were coming, sorry about the mess."

"5...4...3...2...1"

"Medusa! You're alive and here!"

"Took you long enough!" I smiled at my little sister.

"I'm Soo happy to see you? How are you even here?!"

"Clean up here and meet us in the main room, I'll explain everything."

"Yes, right away!"

Euryale met us in the main room. Scylla sat in dad's chair and the rest of us sat facing ourselves.

"Sooooo, isn't anyone gonna tell me how Medusa is here?" Euryale asked with excitement.

"Obviously you've got no brains left so I'll do the math for you, as always..."

"And as always, you're still an asshole Scylla! I'll tell you Euryale. Hades didn't let me go into the abyss. He gave me a second chance, but I don't have my soul yet, so I'm still his property."

"But why? What reason could you have given him?"

"I'm getting revenge on Athena and Olympus and he's helping."

"You've officially lost it!" Scylla threw her arms in the air as she got up from her chair. "Of all the ways to end yourself, you choose to be slaughtered in battle by Athena! The same person who put you in this, this...mess!"

"I'm not a child Scylla, you can stop acting like you're worried about my safety!"

"Really! Cause it seems likes you've lost all senses of your adult body!"

"For once, let someone else do something good, you can't always be the perfect one."

"Putting up with your trash and Euryale's stupidity doesn't make me perfect, it means I still have the littlest bit of sanity and brains left in this family!"

"You're always a bitch, always been one, you know that right?"

"Please stop fighting, Scylla please just hear Medusa out and Medusa please be nice to Scylla, she's been there for us for our entire lives."

"Fine, I'll be nice to the bitch."

"And I'll hear the idiot out."

Aren't we just the perfect family, monster parents, bitch first child, crazy second child and a stupid angel prostitute, perfect family.

"We plan on going to war with the gods, Hades has promised to give me an army and he has our backs, no funny business."

"Then what Mrs smarty-pants."

"Then we get Zeus bolt and kill all the other gods, I get my soul from Hades and we never have to see another fucking god for the rest of our lives!"

"Sounds a bit okay....what do you think Scylla?"

"I think we keep the bolt."

"WHAT! Why in all of Olympus would we do that!"

"Cause we need it....do I have to say it in stupid before you get it."

"Need it for what! To kill me and Eurayle! Huh is that what you need it for huh Scylla! So that you never have to deal with our stupidity cause you're the only smart one around!"

"What if Hades comes after her Scylla? We can't risk that."

"So now you grow brains! We need the bolt and that's final!"

"Nothing would make me get you that bolt, nothing!"

"Not even our mother's dying body."

The room was silent, only our steady breaths of air could be heard. Scylla looked at me with her god like look...

"I thought as much. Bring us the bolt Medusa, we don't care about your stupid war."

The bitch put herself together and headed out the room

"I want to see her." I whispered for her to hear it.

"Excuse you?"

"You heard me Scylla, don't act bitch with me or I'll slit your throat before you can even blink."

"You forget the only thing that kills me is a god....get your shit together dumbass."

"Don't you dare walk out on me! "

"Then close your fucking eyes or I'll help you by carving them out."

Our mother was dying and here we were trying to end the little family she left behind, father would be pleased to see us so violent...if only the gods hadn't ended him.

"I just want to see my mother!" I didn't realize that tears had started to flow from my eyes. 

"You can't see her Medusa."

"Why Eurayle! Why! Why can't I see my own mother!"

"She doesn't want you see her sick."

"She doesn't want any of us to see her.....not even Euryale is allowed near her home, she has an enchantment round it. The only one there is Andromeda."

"That bitch! She's the wife of the man that slit my head off! How can you allow her near mother!"

"Because when Perseus saw your children, he couldn't bear what he had done so he offered Andromeda to mother, as a replacement for you and your children....but mother was always too soft! She took that slimy bitch in as a daughter and called her family! And I have had to live everyday since you died with that monster's cock sucker and call her family!!!!! Do you know how hard that is? No you don't and you were alive and stayed with the same gods that planned your death!"

Scylla was always an emotional child, disadvantages of growing up too fast. But, I couldn't blame her for anything, I was at fault too. We grew up together,closer than anyone can imagine and I abandoned them for years, even if I could have come to see them, I didn't. 

"Look, I'm sorry for not showing up sooner but, you have to promise me that nothing is gonna happen to mom! Okay!"

"Andromeda would notify us if anything goes wrong....right Scylla?"

Scylla wiped her tears away with he back of her hands.

"Yep, cause I already told that bitch, my mom dies, so do you."

I laughed at her 'cool' words and jus imagining how terrified Andromeda must have been. Euryale pulled us both into a hug.

"Thank you girls so much."

"No more tears, both of you."

Scylla laughed....that's a bad sign.

"No more tears." And she began to cry. Talk about a short promise.

In that moment, that hug, I realized that come what may, we'll never be torn apart. Not by a curse or whatever was trying to take our mom from us. We were all crying but then again it's how we knew we were going to be okay. We cried when I left for Athena's temple, we cried when I got my curse, cried when we all learnt to control our gorgon form, cried when I died, I could see the tears drop from their eyes as my head dropped from my neck. I'm guessing it was fate that kept us together....if we were to be the downfall of Olympus then that's what we'll do, and not even the gods of Olympus can stop us.