Eris: Daughter of Hades

Sixteen Years Later...

AN: Eris is voiced by Salli Richardson. 

As the years passed, Hades recruited many to join him in the uprising when the Titans were free. Those he recruited were the monsters that the mortals feared. And none hesitated to join the God Hades. Eris also grew into a lovely teenage goddess and helped her father in his ventures. When she was not assisting Hades, Eris was causing choas in the mortal world. Eris' powers grew over the years as she did, and her appearance changed since she was a baby, much to the dismay of Hades, who would prefer his daughter to stay the same forever. Eris' hair grew longer, and her one-shoulder, purple dress floated around her feet like smoke.

The Fates had done as they promised years ago by teaching Eris how to create threads, but Eris decided to put her twist on it. She sometimes pulls a thread from an enchanted globe to generate choas in the mortal world. But Eris likes a more hands-on approach when it comes to choas.

In the countryside, Eris watches the mortals go through their daily, sometimes boring, life, waiting for the opportunity to cause choas to present itself. And soon enough, it did.

A wagon with a lot of hay moves along the road unnaturally fast, and then Eris sees Amphitryon and his mule sitting before it. A teenage boy was pulling the wagon. Eris recognizes the boy after all these years as her cousin Hercules. The same Hercules that was saved by her meddling years ago.

"This is going to be fun," Eris said before turning into smoke and disappearing with no trace.

"Hercules, slow down!" Amphitryon yelled, "Look out!"

Hercules ran under the archway, which is under construction, to the market plaza, hitting three burly workers on the top of the gate.

Hercules looks over his shoulder, "Oops! S-s-sorry guys!"

The three workers hung on the entrance yelling back at Hercules, "Hey, watch where you're goin'! Sunday driver!"

Hercules continues to run into the marketplace as animals and people jump out of his way. Hercules dug his sandals in the middle of the square to stop, burying himself into the ground, shoulders-deep. Eris reappeared atop a pillar, watching the mortals below.

"Thanks, son," Amphitryon told Hercules as his son hopped out of the hole and fixed his toga. Amphitryon then checked on the mule's ankle in the cloth sling. "When old Penelope twisted her ankle back there, I thought we were done for."

"No problem, Pop," Hercules said as he lifted bundles of hay with one hand with no trouble.

"Uh, don't-don't-don't unload just yet. First: I have to finagle with Phideas."

"Okay," Hercules drops the hay on the cart, which makes Penelope fly up into the sky. "Oops, sorry, Penelope."

"Now, Hercules, this time, please just—" Amphitryon began telling his son.

"I know, I know," Hercules catches falling Penelope, "Stay by the cart."

"That's my boy," Amphitryon said before he walked away.

"I believe that's my cue," Eris smirked before spotting a pottery shop and saw a man carrying a large pot. A wicked grin formed on the young Goddess's face. Eris snapped her fingers, and soon the man struggled to keep his balance with the large clay pot.

Hercules stays by the wagon until he sees Demetrius in his store, losing balance with a big, heavy clay pot.

"Oh, my goodness. Whoa!" Demetrius gasped as he almost dropped the large pot.

Hercules catches him just in time, "Careful!"

"Why thank you," Demetrius said.

"No problem," Hercules told Demetrius as he poked his head around the clay pot.

Upon seeing Hercules, Demetrius looks frightened, "Why, Hercules! It's you!

"Let me, let me help you with that," Hercules offered.

"No, no, no, no, no, I got it," Demetrius told the teenager as he moved the giant clay pot away before he almost fell under it," I'm fine, you just run along."

"Are you sure?"

"Oh, yes. Absolutely."

Demetrius closes the curtain to his shop, leaving Hercules outside in the street. A discus falls to Hercules's feet before he picks it up and sees three boys close to his age approaching.

"Yo! Give it here!" A blonde teenage boy wearing a red toga called out to Hercules. His two friends were close behind. One is a teenage boy wearing a blue toga skirt, and the other is wearing an Illyrian helmet and a brown toga.

The boys gasped and stopped when they realized Hercules held their frisbee. Based on what she had witnessed, Eris surmised that Hercules caused so much choas and destruction around Thebes before. Eris knew she had made the right decision by coming to Thebes instead of Sparta. But for some reason, Eris felt that the name "Hercules" was familiar to her and could not figure out why.

"Hey, you need an extra guy?" Hercules asked, hoping the teenagers would let him play. The blonde boy's friends pushed him toward Hercules as they were too nervous to approach.

"Uh.. sorry, Herc. We already got.... five," The blonde boy told Hercules. "And we want to keep it an even number."

"Hey, wait a second. Five isn't an even—" Hercules began.

The blonde boy snatched the frisbee from Hercules before running away with his friends, "See ya, Herc."

"What a geek!" The boy wearing the Illyrian helmet said.

"Destructo boy," The boy wearing the blue toga called Hercules.

"Maybe we should call him "Jerkules"," The blonde boy suggested to his friends.

Hercules had a defeated expression as he watched the three teenagers run off. He walks over to the well in the center of the square, sitting along until the discus appears above his head.

"Heads up!" The blonde boy yelled.

Hercules runs to catch the discus, hoping the teenage boys will allow him to join, "I-I got it!"

"No! Stop!" The blonde boy exclaimed, but it was too late.

Hercules jumped and caught the discus, but he crashed into a column. Hercules slid to the ground before looking up and saw the column wavering, side to side.

"Uh-oh... Oh no!.. It's okay..."

Hercules quickly stands up and tries to hold the column he has hit, but he accidentally hits another. Soon the columns begin falling one by one, like dominos. He sees that and throws the column he was holding away, but it hits another standing column, and another domino wave starts going around the plaza. Hercules stops and chases the second domino wave while the people in the plaza run away.

"Son!" Amphitryon called Hercules.

"Hang on, Pop! Be right back!" Hercules told his father as he continued to run after the wave in an attempt to stop it and save the marketplace.

The two-column domino waves were toppling toward Demetrius's clay pot shop. The store owner, holding various clay pots, watched in fear as the waves got closer with each passing second. Demetrius closed his eyes, bracing himself for the impending domino waves and the destruction of his shop. Eris snapped her fingers, causing the last two pillars to stop above the clay store owner's head. Demetrius sighs, relaxed, but Hercules, who was running to save him, slips and slides to him fast.

"Watch out!" Hercules exclaimed before he crashed into Demetrius, causing the two remaining columns to collapse.

The marketplace was now destroyed. Hercules stands in the rubble and feels ashamed as he looks around at the ruins before his father approaches him. The young Goddess felt cheerful and let out a wicked laugh at the destruction caused by Hercules.

"I should come out here more often," Eris said, smiling. "This has been fun, but I'm afraid I must leave now."

Eris then disappeared in a puff of smoke, returning to the Underworld, not telling her father that Hercules was alive. She was a teenager, and it was only natural for her to keep secrets from her father.