Godling Of The Underworld

Carnival On Flames

The carnival bustled with happy laughs from families alike as the Family Fun Day commenced. Every family seemed to be having a great time... but there was only one without a family.

Crusher glanced around with a sigh. He wished his Grammy was there, but she was still travelling too far for her to make it. Guess he was alone today.

"Crusher...?"

He turned to see Pickle glance up as he noticed his face.

"Are you doing okay? I know today can't be easy."

"Grammy is just 10,000 miles away, Pickle," Crusher rolled his eyes sarcastically. "The only family I have, gone. How should I be acting?"

"Yeah… I'm sorry," Pickle sighed. "If you want, you can hang with my family for a while?"

"That'd be nice," Crusher smiled as he pecked Pickle's cheek.

"Hey, Crusher," Blaze greeted as he and AJ approached, all alone. "Pickle told us that Grammy was gonna be gone for a while, so we wanted to see if you were okay."

"I'm fine," Crusher shrugged.

"Do you wanna hang out with us?" Pickle asked. "Me, Crusher and my family were going to get cotton candy."

"Sure!" AJ exclaimed happily. "Sounds great!"

"I think the others are hanging out over that way too," said Blaze. "We can all get some together."

"I think that would be cool," Crusher let a weak smile through.

They all went over to the cotton candy stand, and found all of their friends conversing with Pickle's grandpa, Baby Gherkin and Pickle's cousins.

It was all happy and peaceful between the friends. Crusher thought the day was turning itself around in a good way.

Until, he felt a familiar presence.

"Hey, Crusher, something wrong?" Stripes asked.

"Yeah, just… I need to check on something real quick!" Crusher excused himself away from the group.

He soon made it to the entrance of the Family Fun Day to find a black and blue truck with flaming blue hair at the entrance. He smirked at Crusher.

"Surprise,"

"Dad? What are you doing here?" Crusher hushly asked.

"Come on, it's Family Fun Day, Syntrívon," Hades chuckled, stating Crusher's Greek name.

"If people see you hear, they're gonna freak!" Crusher said worriedly. "They're not supposed to see you!" He then rolled his eyes. "And I really don't like my other name. I just wanna be called Crusher."

"Sure thing, Syntrívon, sure," Hades teased with a laugh.

"Daaaad," Crusher hissed. "I love you, but you can't be here!"

"Come on, that's nonsense, I fit in the word family, after all," Hades laughed.

"Okay, okay, fine! But you're not gonna look like… that. We need you to change and not look like you're about to kill someone." Crusher insisted.

"Fine, fine," Hades shifted his form for his hair to calm and his appearance to look more blue. "Is that better?"

"Okay... that looks better," Crusher said. "But... if you're here, shouldn't your unicorn be here too? Where is he?"

"He's here, but he's hiding with yours," Hades shrugged. "You really need to hide yours better,"

"I try, okay? My friends really like unicorns, and would go CRAZY if they knew I had one of my own," Crusher exaggerated. "Especially one as unique as my girl. Okay... let's go introduce you."