Hercules and the Modern Girl

World's First Doctor - Part 3

World's First Doctor - Part 3

Everyone was dying in Athens; they were all moaning and turning green. Hippocrates tried to help a patient by giving him water and placing a wet rag on his forehead, but nothing helped.

"Incoming!" Icarus cried as Hercules arrived with a new patient, who was green and lifeless. Icarus and Hercules carried him to the hospital.

Meanwhile, a random patient asked Cassandra if he was going to die.

"Relax, mister; you'll live." Cassandra answered the random patient; then her eyes swirled and said, "Until that chariot accident nine years from now." The man's eyes grew wide in fear.

Hercules rushed out of the building, calling for Hippocrates' help, "Doctor, there's an alert in ICU! A patient's in danger!" Hippocrates stopped what he was doing and rushed to the hospital with Hercules.

They arrived with Icarus in ICU. A patient was dying, but he wasn't green yet.

"We have no time to lose!" Hippocrates cried. "Fluids!" Icarus did what the doctor ordered and poured water into the pot.

"Breathing shallow!" Hercules said.

Hippocrates was trying CPR and cried out, "Suction!"

Hercules put his ear against the patient's chest to hear his heartbeat, "Heart rate slow."

"Mustard plaster!" Hippocrates cried.

"I'm losing the pulse!" Hercules cried in panic.

"Come on! Come on!" Hippocrates cried to the patient, "Live!" He shook the patient roughly, "Live you, idiot!" Hippocrates got out his stethoscope to check for a heartbeat but didn't hear a single pattern. The patient's body turned green, becoming lifeless. Hippocrates sighed in defeat, covering the dead man's face with a sheet. "We lost him. I... lost him..."

Icarus, Hercules, and Hippocrates lowered their heads with sadness.

But not everyone was grieving the dead.

~000~000~000~

"Oh yeah!" Hades cried as confetti rained on him and his minions. "We are open for business!"

Pain and Panic were dancing around, cheering, "Hurray!"

Nattie returned to the Underworld with a sweaty and parched throat but gained a complete project. Instead of baking a cake again, Miss Euphrosyne suggested sculpting planet earth out of clay. Making the dessert wouldn't be fresh by Monday anyway. Throughout detention, Nattie did just that in the art room and finished with little time to spare. Now Nattie can have a reprieve and a drink.

Before Nattie could ask about the raining paper, a pair of large spider hands grabbed her waist from behind. She yelped with fright, holding planet earth as if her life depended on it. He spun her in the air, making her head spin. Her legs were flying, kicking a few feet from the ground.

"This is great! I'm on top of the world now, baby!"

Nattie didn't know what brought Hades in a good mood; she didn't ask. She closed her eyes as the room became a grey fuzz, begging, "Ah! Put me down! Put me down now!"

"Yeah!" Hades dropped the girl onto the stone ground; the painful expression on her face showed that her tailbone might bruise. On the plus side, her project remained in shape. Hades didn't mind her lying, dizzy body as he cheered for the dead people floating down the steps. "Oh yeah, get down! Come on now! Oy! Come on now!"

Pain and Panic stood on either side of Nattie's head, shaking their heads and smirking at her poor condition.

"Sounds like we are the only ones who can handle the heat," Pain taunted.