Is she really the daughter of Hades? She doesn't look like that. Then who is her mom? Why Hades hiding her from the world? What makes him this much scared?
Vany doesn't remember anything. The only things she remembers are she woke up in the underwo...
"Well, as our dad said you were born before more than three thousand years ago..."
What is he talking? More than three thousand years...!? I know that gods are immortal and they can take any appearance they like. But I don't think I'm an immortal too. I don't feel so.
"...you'd died when you were 17 years old. You were near to be 17 years old... I don't know how you died. Dad didn't tell me anything about it. He told me that he gave you life back but you didn't wake up. You've been sleeping all this time and he had been hiding you in here, in the underworld."
I've died? Maybe it's true. Hades is the god of underworld so, maybe it's true. "Well, do you know why didn't I woke up and why did he hide me?"
"I'm sorry Vany. Dad said that he also didn't know why you didn't wake up and he said he was afraid of your safety so, he hid you..." his eyes ran everywhere and ignored me. There must be something else more than the things he told me.
Then we heard someone's footsteps. That person must be walking with a big pressure for it. Actually, it was a zombie! There was an axe on his head. Surprisingly, I didn't feel any disgust about it. He said something but I didn't understand what he said as it was gibberish.
Nico turned to me after that zombie finished what he said. "Well, this is Marlo. A zombie..." that zombie roared to Nico. Nico gave a scary stare to that zombie and it stepped back. Marlo was scared of Nico...? "... he's here to tell that our dinner is ready. You've been sleeping here for three days after you passed out. You'll pass out again if your stomach keep empty" Nico smirked. His smile was beautiful... don't take me wrong, I meant I thought that there's only pain show me in that sad face.
"Ah, yeah. Let's go" Vany smiled a little.
The underworld dinning room wasn't as I thought. There were flowers everywhere and also a wheaty roof and wheat on the table. It looked so funny.
"Those flowery things were done by Persephone. Every time she got angry while having our meals, flowers popped out from those skulls and those wheats were results of Demeter's anger" Nico mumbled to my ear. I looked at the skulls that have flowers came out of there eye holed, nose holes, mouths and ears. I wanted to laugh but I stopped it by biting my lips.
I looked at Demeter's art work too. The roof of the dinning room was filled with wheat plants and the dinning table that was made of human bones also had wheat plants in the holes of the joints. I can understand how a hard life that Hades is living.
"Ah, mom!!! I can't eat oats every day. I... I'm tired of eating oats. Why don't we order a pizza?" Persephone complained. Demeter looked at the bowl of oats on the table. "Pizza!!! Are you kidding me Persephone? They are junk food and not healthy like oats. Just shut up and eat this!"
Then Demeter looked at me. "Who is this? A new farmer?"
"Mom!!! stop joking and eat your stupid, disgusting oats!!!" Persephone looked at the oat bowl in a disgusting way.
Demeter should be my grandma and aunt. Demeter is Hades' sister and Persephone's mother. What are these gods doing? It's so hard to understand their relationships!
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Demeter is the goddess of harvest... she always talking about farming and eating seeds. Her god position must be the reason for it. Who gave her this position? She's talking too much about farming and those stuff!!!
We had our meal silently. I spent a week to discover the underworld. I don't remember anything so, I better get know about my surrounding. But they didn't let me look what's inside the big hole named Tartarus. They said that it's not good for my health to go into it.
"Actually, I went into Tartarus once. I tell you... don't even think of going into that hell. I said this is hell but it's the hell of hell. Ah... I don't know how to explain it." Nico scratched his head. On my 8th day of underworld, I went to Hades.
"Dad...?" I looked at Hades suspiciously. I don't know what am I suppose to call them. My head starts to hurt when I try to recall my memory. So, the best way for me is to go as my life flows.
"Yeah Vany? Do you need anything?"
"Um... well... dad I want to go to the out world" I said the last part so fast. Did Hades understand what I said? I looked at him. He was sinking in his thoughts.
"OK... I'll give you permission to go to the out world. But you should stay beside Nico at always when you're at the out world. If you promise me that, I'll let you go" Hades' voice took a serious sound.
My mind went blank for a while. "Tha... thank youdad!!!" I can go out... since when I woke up, I only saw those stupid walls madeof skulls and stones, bones, zombies, skulls with flowers, roof with wheat,ghosts and monsters. I'm sick of them. I need to explore something new.
