Devil's Witch

Chapter 5: Make Mine Mitten

Myrrhine climbed up the stairs that led to the castle. Charon had just let her and while she could transform and fly again, she preferred walking. As she entered the main throne room, she was surprised by two things.

One, Hades was not in his usual place by the throne and two, there was an unusual brightness coming from the outer windows. Walking to one of them, she looked out and down only to shield her eyes by lifting her hand.

The sun was chained at the backyard of the castle, letting it float close to the ceiling of the cavern that hosted the whole Underworld. By the base, Hades was on a sun tanning chair, with sunglasses on and his skin already getting a tan.

It was as if he had gone to some good beach on vacations and all that he was missing was some fancy drink and maybe someone to cast him some air with a palm leaf. Shaking her head, she decided to go and see the god of the Underworld and her boss. By the time she was out of the castle, she had trouble seeing clearly from the intense sunlight; let alone the heat radiating from the sun.

A pair of shades was formed in front of her eyes, and she was actually thankful for that. She turned to her Boss whose skin was now a tanned brown.

"Myrrhine, my baby. Come, have a seat and enjoy the perks of my plan" he said with a grin, one hand behind his head as he kept looking up.

"I think I will pass. Don't you think this is a bad idea? I mean, the whole tan thing?" she placed a hand on her waist, finally earning enough attention from the god to turn his head and look at her.

"Not at all. I think this colour actually suits me more. Don't you think?" he was only met with a pair of rolled eyes, barely visible behind the shades. "Fine but either way. Those gods are too stupid to understand. And hey if they do, there is always spray tanning you know".

She didn't comment. Folding her hands in front of her chest she shook her head slightly. "I do not like this"

Hades turned to look back at the sun again. "Well, get used to it, babe. Soon, I will be ruling Olympus. Oh, speaking of Olympus" he stood up, tossing his shades to the side.

It was only then Myrrhine noticed that the God of the Underworld had removed his upper tunic to get a better tan. She would not admit loudly but Hades was in shape, something she did not truly expect.

His tunic reformed, covering the sight before he stretched. "Pain! Panic!"

"We are here you lordshipness" the duo said, quickly running outside and standing next to the witch.

Then, he turned to look at his 3 minions, "I have a meeting on Olympus. Soon, Zeus will pay for what he did and I, will take his place" he grinned in pride. "However, for the plan to work I need the sun to stay here. Until I need to retrieve it and be the hero" leaning slightly forward, towering above them with his tone at a threatening level. "For that, I leave you 3 responsible for it. Better not to fail me or else..." he never continued, his hair flames turning from blue to red for a moment before he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

The 3 minions coughed as the smoke cloud disappeared. They looked at one another before the two Imps quickly rushed to get comfortable on Hade's seat. Grabbing their own shades, they lied and left a sigh of joy once the warm shades of the sun hit their skin.

"I am surrounded by..." with a sigh, Myrrhine tossed her shades to the side, rubbing the side of her temple.

It was times like that she missed the island or even Hercules. At least she had Cassandra and life was more tolerable. Shaking her head, she started to walk away from the two imps and back into the castle.

"Hey! Where do you think you are going?" Pain asked her, lifting his shades.

She stopped, looking at them above her shoulder. "To my room. I have studying to do, and I do not want to end up as brown as Hades".