The Promethus Affair

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"Hercules! Let's go! Phil's going to have a heart attack if you don't get to training soon!" Millenia yelled at Hercules as he ran over. She had rode over on Pegasus to pick him up, not something she often did. He jumped on, excited.
"Sorry, Millenia! But I'm skipping training today!" Millenia gave him a look as they flew off.
"Say what? You know Phil won't approve of that!" He still grinned.
"Yeah, but there's this guy called Prometheus, whose been trapped on a rock for a while! I'm gonna go rescue him!" Millenia gasped.
"But, uh, Hercules? You can't-" he cut her off.
"Hero Rule 88: if a hero heard there's a wrong to right, he's got to right that wrong! Right?" Millenia thought for a moment, then swallowed.
"Right, but the thing is, the God who put Prometheus there was-" Hercules cheered.
"I knew you'd understand!" She sighed, then used her magic to give him a spear and shield.
"I'll, send Phil a letter letting him know what's going on." She said, doing just that. As they neared the rock, Millenia gulped. It's been a few years since she last saw Prometheus, after her father had put him on that rock. She wondered if he would recognise her.
"I am a hero in training! And I'm here to free Prometheus!" Hercules called. I buried my face in my hands. Prometheus's eyes widened.
"Good news for a change." The eagle, who was currently munching on his liver, shook his head.
"As your eternal tormentor, I must say, I'm against this!" Then he flew at us, and I did what any level headed goddess would do. Made Jewels come out of the necklace and flew away from the eagle, who had knocked Hercules off of Pegasus and came at me.
"Wait! Stop!" I called, holding out my hands. "Eagle its me! Millenia!" As my father was his appointed employer, he should know who I was. "Zeus's daughter!" The Eagle stopped and looked at me, then grinned.
"Hey, Millenia! I ain't seen you since you was a little squirt! How's it been?" I wasn't so easily sidetracked.
"Eagle, listen. Be careful, what you do. That kid's my-" just as I was about to say it, Hercules and Pegasus came up and rammed the Eagle, knocking him far away. I smacked my forehead. Then I followed Hercules down to Prometheus.
"I'm Hercules! I just heard about this great injustice!" Prometheus looked to the sun for the time.
"Huh, must've been a slow news day." As I landed on his leg, Hercules introduced me.
"And this is my sister Millenia." Prometheus looked at me suspiciously.
"Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" I shook my head quickly.
"Nope! I've never seen you before in my life!" Then Hercules popped some of his chains off. Prometheus looked at him in awe.
"Hey now, your pretty strong!" He said. "But I gotta warn ya sonny, ya know who put me here, right?" Hercules kept pulling at other parts of the chains as he spoke.
"Yeah, some very hot-headed, narrow-minded God!"
"I'll say!" I giggled at them, but nervously.
"But don't worry! Because, our father is Zeus!" He finished popping off the chains and wiped the sweat off of his forehead, then jumped back onto Pegasus as I jumped back onto Jewel. "So, I don't really have to worry about some petty, second rate God!" Prometheus and I glanced at each other as he snickered.
"Okay, then!" Oh no. This was not going to end well.

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