Becoming the Queen of the Underworld wasn't in her plans. Kore's a young, innocent and fair goddess of spring who's life's about to change as she unexpectedly becomes the wife of Hades, God of the Underworld. Darkness and passion; She will discover...
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Hades is sitting at the edge of the bed, where the feet go. He is putting his shirt on with an unamused face. Hera is lying naked in bed looking at him from behind with a blissful face. Before he could stand up, she reaches for him and hugs him from behind. He lets a sigh out.
- "Oh c'mon now, Hades. You enjoy this as much as I do."
- "It is irrelevant." He says while pushing her hands away.
- "You don't say" she laughs. "Go and get another to do it with then." She says while raising her hand.
- "You're the only one who can come and go from this world without getting stranded, and you're the only one who comes... uninvited."
- "Exactly. I'm all you've got." She tells him as she stands up from bed and starts getting dressed. "The way I see it, dear, I'm doing you a favor honoring you with my pleasuring company, and at the same time, I'm getting what I want." She leans in front of him to kiss him, while Hades is still unamused receiving the kiss.
- "Go now." He says while standing up from bed and walking further away from her.
- "Oh dear brother, you have to learn to be more grateful." She says with her voice turning rough. "It's a waste. You... expending eternity in this place, alone... with your boring servants and damned souls. No one to share it with... but what am I saying... there's nothing to share." She says with a mocking voice.
Hera walks towards Hades, she get so close to him she can speak near his hear.
- "No one... will ever... be by your side, you'll be alone forever." She says while touching his face. "But I...I will always come and go, and you... you'll always receive me."
She disappears leaving dust in the air. Hades sighs as he's still unamused by Hera's words. He walks towards the door of the room, goes out and closes the door behind him.
-HUMAN REALM: THE GARDEN-
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Kore's at the side of a river with some nymphs who were nurturing the trees nearby and stopped to rest by the water.
- "Kore, I heard you've been summoned to meet the high gods at Olympus." Nereid says in an excited tone.
- "Yes." Kore says while smiling. "I'm a little nervous, to be honest with you all." She sits on a rock by the river.
- "Are you perhaps, afraid of the gods?" another nymph says.
- "No." Kore says while making a silly face. "I have never interacted with other beings, beside you and mother. That's why I'm nervous. It's kind of exiting actually." She says innocently. "Meeting father... I'm looking forward to meet his highness."
- "I've heard the gods are ruthless". Says the nymph.
- "I've heard their fairness is like no other. Just like your mother. Just like yourself." Says Nereid while raising Kore's chin.
- "Well I've heard they are scary." Says another nymph.
- "They are not scary; they keep the world in balance." Kore says while picking a dead flower from the ground and reviving it, making it glow and putting in it on the water. "I'm a goddess... am I scary?" she says looking at the nymph with a gentle smile.
- "NO!" All the nymphs shout in denial.
- "Kore, you have been raised down here, with us." Says Nereid. "You haven't lived amongst gods. Some say it's quite a tense situation."
- "Some say or mother said?" Kore says.
- "I've heard tales about how Zeus turns those who disobey his commands into ashes just by looking at them." Says one nymph.
- "I've heard songs about how Ares wrath burns civilizations to the ground!" Says another nymph while all the other nymphs are filled with fear with their hands on their mouths.
- "Well I've seen the most frightening of all, Hades himself!" says a nymph while the others are amazed, in disbelief, and another nymph faints.
- "Don't mention his name!" A nymph yells.
- "It's true! He is the one to be terrified of. I saw with my own eyes as he carried from the human realm more than a 100,000 souls to the shore, all by himself, and left them there... as they begged and screamed for him to let them pass and have compassion."
- "The shore?" Kore asked confused.
- "Yes... it's the beach that antecedes the underworld. Souls arrive there and proceed to wait years, and centuries even, waiting for the keeper to take them to the underworld." The nymph says. "It's worst than hell itself. Souls are in between realms. They can feel pain; they can feel hunger all the time, but not die from these. Hades is truly...the most evil god there is."
- "So scary! Zeus! have mercy." A nymph yells.
Kore's face turned from blissful to scared.
- "Enough Meliae! You're scaring the child." Says Nereid.
- "I'm just saying the truth. Kore's needs to be careful with the gods." Says Meliae.
The nymphs all get back to work on the trees and the river, while Kore is still sitting on a rock, thinking...
