Arguing

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"Tartarus" Hades answered, holding Maleficent close to him.

"Okay.." she mumbled, scared out of her mind. "So how do we get out of here?"

"The doors of death."

"The huh of what?"

Hades chuckled a bit and pointed out into the distance to a far hill. "You see the small silhouette on top of that hill?"

"Yeah?"

"That's where we're going. On that hill are what we call the doors of death. It's what keeps the dead from escaping."

Maleficent wasn't exactly a fan of waking through the Greek equivalent of Hell, even if Hades was with her. She looked back up at the cliff they fell through. "I'd rather climb."

Hades laughed, pointing in the direction of the doors. "as fun as that would be to see, it's safer to head that way."

Maleficent sighed, "if you say so." Hades took her hand and the couple started the way to long walk to get out of this literal hell hole. Hades noticed she had a slight limp while walking, but she reassured him that she was fine. Maleficent looked around at any souls who were actually stuck here; a guy rolling a boulder up a hill, another guy on a flaming wheel tried up with snakes, one in a small pound with food right above him; she didn't understand how that last one was a punishment, and a different guy tied to a chair again with snakes being whipped by some demon ladies. She wondered how some of them ended up here, but at the same time she wasn't sure she wanted to know. One soul that caught her attention was an older looking guy in a black rope with a strange "T" on it. His hands her changed to the flower with barbed wire and a demon his hitting him repeatedly with a bat that had nails shooting from it.

"I'm going to regret this question, but what did that guy do?" Maleficent asked pointing to the old soul.

Hades looked at the soul in question, "oh that fuck." He groaned. "He's a Catholic priest that would make his congregation raise money for foster kids, only to spend all the money on booze, drugs and hookers. He was also known to be very hateful to anyone not in his congregation, especially gays, trans people, woman, and anyone not catholic."

"....I only understood about half of those words but that sounds awful."

"Yeah, he's a bastard and I hate people like him." Hades created a fireball in his hand and threw it at the priest, causing him to holler in pain. Hades smiled at the man's suffering, while Maleficent was still trying to figure out what the hell "catholic" meant and why the guy had a T on his robe...and what a priest was. They couple continued on, occasionally stopping to seeing the souls who were being tortured. It was a bit of a surprise to Maleficent how many humans could be such monsters. "Gods...I knew humans could be cruel..but this is crazy."

"Yeah." Hades agreed "I wanna say everyone here has been here since ancient times, but a good chunk are actually here from the past few years."

"Somehow I'm not surpri—ahh!" Maleficent yelped in pain, dropping to her knees.

Hades caught her in his arm, concerned by her sudden pain. "Maleficent!? What's wrong!?"

"N..nothing..!" She groaned, holding her leg in pain.

Hades moved her hand and saw one of her scars had opened back up. "Mali why didn't you tell me you were hurt!?"

"I...I didnt want to worry you more than you already were." She answered.

Hades groaned in frustration, "gods why is this woman so stubborn!?" He took his jacket off and ripped part of it to wrap around her leg. He tied the torn fabric around the cut, hoping this would work till they got back to the castle. "That feel okay?"

"Yeah." Maleficent nodded.

"Good." He stood up and held his hands out. "Can you walk?"

She took his hand and stood "Yeah I thin-ah!" She winced in pain.

"Mal?!" Hades sat her back on the rock and crouched in front of her.

"Ya know, I think it would be easier to just fly."

"Fly?"

The mischievous smirk on her face and the green shimmer in her eyes made it pretty clear what she was thinking, and hades wanted no part of it. "No."

"But-"

"Maleficent no." Hades snapped.

"Give me one good reason why?"

"Aside from the fact your hurt?"

"I'm fine!" She argued.

"You are literally bleeding."

"And? I only need 3 legs to land."

"I am not letting you turn into a dragon! Especially because yesterday you completely lost it, went dragon crazy and almost ripped my throat out!!" Hades yelled.

Maleficent was honestly hurt by that. Hades knew damn well that she didn't have control of her magic at the time and was just reacting in self defense. And I guess she also acted in defense cause she slapped him across the face."How fucking dare you!! You know I didn't have control of my magic, and I was trying to protect myself, Jackass!"

Hades didn't know how to respond to that...or how to react to Maleficent slapping him (even if he deserved it). His brain only started working again when Maleficent pushed him away and stormed off on the original path. "Where are you going!?"

"Where do you think asshole!?"

"Do you even know how to get there!?" He yelled following her.

"It's a straight fucking line from what I can see! Can't be to hard to figure out."

Hades rolled his eyes and ran up to her, grabbing her arm to make her stop. "Maleficent you're going to get lost or worse killed."

"What do you care? I'll probably just lose it and go dragon crazy again won't I?!" She mocked him.

"You know that's not what I meant!"

"Kinda hard to believe you meant anything else!!"

"Hahahahaha!!! Wow, you guys are as nuts as those imps said!" Maleficent and Hades looked to see some goth chick standing off the side of the path, laughing at them.

"Who the fuck are you?!" Maleficent snapped.

"Now now, no need for that language." The woman said in a calm voice. "And I'm surprised Hades hasn't mentioned me."

Maleficent looked back at her boyfriend and he just seemed annoyed. Pinching the bridge of his nose with a "I'm 110% done with life" look on his face. "Lotus flower, this is Nyx, the goddess of night. And an absolute pain in my ass."

"Oh I'm not that bad!" Nyx hopped down and walked over to the couple. "Now, I heard someone mention a dragon?"

"Can you fuck off?" Maleficent said harshly, not wanting to deal with this woman.

"Ow, rude." Nyx said, dramatically putting a hand to her chest. "I only came to have a conversation."

"No you came for gossip." Hades groaned.

"You can get gossip through a conversation." Nyx looked down at Maleficents leg for a second. "You know your bleeding right?" She asked pointing to the wound that had bled through the makeshift bandage Hades made.

"Huh—fuck!!" She cursed in anger.

"Does she always cuss this much?"

"Only when she's mad." Hades answered, pulling Maleficent over to a different spot to sit while he tried to stop the bleeding.

"Hades quit it!" Maleficent yelled trying to push him away. "I'm fine!"

"No you're not! Stop lying that you are and let me help you!"

Maleficent opened her mouth to speak but Hades stopped her. "And if you say a word about why would I care or I shouldn't help cause we're fighting, I will throw you over my shoulder and carry you back to the fucking palace! Understand?!"

Maleficent glared at him, but shut her mouth and nodded.

"Good girl."

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