You guys might not like my model for Aides, but he is very attractive to ME.

I will probably change him like another 6 times but 🤷🏿‍♀️
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I run as far as my feet could carry me into the unfamiliar world of Olympus, blind to its beauty due to my misty eyes. I search aimlessly for a place to cry, far away from Zeus and my mother.

How could she lie to me all these years?

How could she embarrass me in front of everyone?

Not only was she one of the famed Olympians, she was a mistress and lover to Zeus... my father?

My father....is Zeus...

I enter into the humid garden where I had opened gifts earlier and find solace beneath its trees.

"Kore? Kore!" my mother yells for me. I hide in the bushes, desperate to distance myself from her.

I needed my space to think.

My heart paces as she walks closer to where I'm hidden. She only hanged her head with regret and cursed as she realized her foolishness.

She surveyed the garden once more but finally gave up and departed the room to continue her search.

I untangle my dress from the branches and plop onto the soil, weaving my fingers thorough the grass to produce life.

Harvesting always took my mind off of things.

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"Hera please!" Zeus's sweaty hands moved to grab Hera's slender waist.

"I told you! I begged you! I said any woman but Demeter! And now, 16 years later, I find out that not only did you lay with her, but also implanted your seed into her body!!" she roars.

"Hera that child is not mine!" he lied, desperate to maintain Hera's peace.

"Even a blinded cyclop can see that child is yours. Your eyes, your lips...your nose...she has everything." she curses.

"It is merely a coincidence" he lied pathetically.

"Demeter was once known to be barren" Hera whispered softly, "did you grant her fertility?" her tears began to flow again.

"Yes"

Her hard slap against his cheek echoed through the quiet room.

"Hera... please" the pathetic god fell to his knees in forgiveness.

"You think you can just cry and beg for my forgiveness and I will take you back? It has worked many times in the past hasn't it" she says under a icy tone.

"Hera. I will never betray you again. I promise"

"Oh mighty Zeus" she chuckled, "do not make a promise I know you cannot keep" she grinned through her tears. She walks over to the mirror in the corner to reapply her gloss and wiped away her tears.

"I do know a promise you can keep" she gloated. Zeus only looked in silence; he knew the danger it would mean to speak.

"Get rid of her."

"Who?"

"You may be many things Zeus, but you are not dumb" she shrugs.

"But how...?"

"Cast her to the lake of fire.
Kill her!
Entrap her in dungeon.
Curse her to the underworld for all I care. But you will get rid of her. Do you understand me?"

"She is just an innocent maiden my wife...surely there is another way?"

"I will kill her myself if my eyes rest upon her physique once more...then I will go to kill you" Hera threatened with ease.

"You cannot kill a godess my love. She is a full blood" Zeus suggests.

Hera grabbed her husband's slender jaw and kissed it softly, "There are ways Zeus. There is ALWAYS a way" she smiled evilly and left the thunder god alone in the room to think.

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About 2 hours later
Aidoneus POV

"You are not my brother Poseidon! You should have warned me!" Zeus curses.

"I shouldn't have done anything. She had every right to know who her neglectful father was."

"Not under those circumstances! Demeter not only embarrassed Hera but brought shame to me!"

"Like you needed help with that" Poseidon scoffed.

"Am I interrupting a duel to the death?" I sound, bravely entering into their heated exchange.

"Aidoneus ! So glad you could make it to the meeting" Zeus teases me for my tardiness.

"Something came up" I grumbled. Of course nothing came up, but any opportunity I had to avoid Mt. Olympus, I would. I had no desire to be here.

Poseidon stared at me, observing my sullen figure.

"What are you looking at?" I frown.

"You look more sinister than ever" he jokes, "they feed you in your desolate wasteland?" he chuckles.

"Shut up" I push him out of the way and observe the turmoil of the meeting room.

"So what did I walk into?" I ask observing the broken chairs and crumbled scrolls across the floor.

"Zeus here has been hiding his daughter from Hera. The truth was revealed by Demeter in front of the 12 well... 11" Poseidon hinted at my tardiness.

A satisfied smirk forms across my lips, my spirits gloating at Zeus's impudence. He would never learn from his mistakes but never stray away from his philandering ways. Ignorance was common to Zeus but Hera was as foolish to stay with him.

"Nothing surprises me about you brother" I sigh, lazily observing the scene.

"Your statement challenges me brother" he grinned, prideful of his indefinitely.

"You'll never learn" I rolled my eyes and began the journey back to my kingdom.

"Says the man who has an underworld full of insignificant nymphs!" Zeus retorted, "how is your mistress...uhhh?" he tapped his chin trying to remember a name he had never saved.

"Minthe is just fine" I correct her title.

"Last time I heard, you and her were—" Poseidon begins.

"Tell Hermes to seal his loose lips or more trouble may come his way." I threatened preventing Poseidon from finishing his statement. Every deity treated me like some innocent child just because I was the youngest of them all.

"I am Aidoneus. I can possess 200 mistresses and no one will bat an eye. My dark demeanor comes with the gloomy territory? Plus... I am only 2000 years old. This is the time to be reckless" (he's 20 in god years...so he's super young...just...imagine it okay?)

"That is the same old excuse you always use" Zeus crosses his arms.

"You are supposed to be chief deity, the perfect example to all."

"Bull*t" he curses.

"If you wanted to have a life full of infidelity with no consequences you should have been ruler of the Underworld" I brag.

"Well if you two will excuse me, I have to go find Kore." Poseidon interjected, bored of our conversation of wit, and stepped away to search for the girl.

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"So how's life in the underworld baby brother?" Zeus grabs my shoulders and leads me to the hallways of Olympus.

"Dead" I reply coldly. I knew my brothers worried about me, me being the youngest. I never got to experience life and was dragged to be king of darkness at a young age.

We walk in silence until he leads me to the garden of Gethseme.

"Why are you taking me here?" I grumbled, wanting to return to my realm. He only chuckled as he led me to a tall tree in the center. He turns my head to face a goddess swinging peacefully on a seat made of vines.

My eyes trail down to her striking physique. Her rich ebony skin glistened in the setting sun; I had never seen a glow so magnificent. Her curly black hair fell softly onto her almond shaped face.

And my god her lips...

They were two soft pillows I wanted to rest my wandering tongue between for an eternity.

She was more beautiful than Aphrodite and Athena combined.

She was an elegant flower .
A perfect queen of Darkness.
And I was instantly infatuated.

"Who is that" I whisper impatiently, my heart racing for answer.

"She's beautiful isn't she?" Zeus smiled pridefully.

I continue to observe her as she cried in the garden. I could read the atmosphere and knew it was his daughter.

"Is that her?"

He nods his head and continued to stare, his mind probably racing of the things he would to do her if he could. (and he did in Greek mythology! Trash bucket Zeus raped his own daughter but what else do we expect from a flop like him?)

"You are a father to many. You can build an army to rival each galaxy in the sky" I frown, surprised at his wandering eyes. He truly was unhinged.

"Aidoneus" he speaks, "you have been the talk among all the gods. You are being slammed by the others for not settling. Bringing mistress after mistress to gatherings and parties...it's not a good look"

"Since when did you care about my reputation?" I spit.

Zeus nodded in agreement and led me to another bush. With the wave of his hand, we were instantly invisible as we continued to watch her.

"I am only 2000... I have enough time to fool around. Plus...I am not the only brother with relationship issues." I take a dig at his character.

"You have expressed the desire for a wife."

"I have not." I protest.

"Despite your rigid exterior brother, I know you desire companionship. Every god does; that's what makes us whole" he bragged, squeezing my shoulders. I silently observe the goddess on the swing as he continued.

"So what is the outcome of this conversation brother?"

"Take her as yours and she will be your wife."

"The god of thunder and jokes? " I grin devilishly.

"I am serious! She is my daughter! You may take her to be yours"

"What is her title"

"Kore goddess of harvesting. Her name means maiden".

"Kore" I whisper, enjoying the way the syllables sounded against my lips.

"But you have not been the patriarch in her eyes; it is Demeter who must approve of the Union"

"And you know she will never give her to you." Zeus curses with truth.

I observe her again as her soft face falls into the grass. Her lips curled with intrigue as she lifted a yellow flower from the ground.

"Maiden means....virgin? She is promised to innocence for an eternity?" I question.

"Some things are easier to take? Aren't they dear  Aidôneus" Zeus hinted.

"Her spirit is too rich with love....but her innonce turns me on...I can plant darkness into her" I gloat.

"She picks flowers and harvests the third day of every week. Take a blackened rose with thorns and put alesium into its folds so she will be lured and tempted to prick it. Once she pricks the rose, she will be allowed into the underworld. Then you can take her as yours"

"But the rose will only allow her entry into the Underworld" I grumble.

"Once she passes your gates, you can have your way with her. Keep her as your prisoner? Chain her to your throne?" he suggests indifferently.

"And why are you helping me? Why are you so quick to dispose of her?" I squint my eyes as suspicions arose.

"The very sight of her displeases me. She will bring nothing but hardship to Hera and I. Demeter is not the mother goddess everyone paints her to be. Kore and her will make my life hell on heaven. Take her out of the mortal realm and my peace will be restored." he smiled cheekily.

"You are sneaky brother...more conniving than I"

"I will not tell a soul. Think of it as our little secret" he pats me coldly and walks back to Olympus to find Hera.

I observe her once more as she laid in the grass and transported back to the Underworld.

I would make her mine.

Author Note:

And I ooop—