Daughter of Hades

Panic and Fear

I watched as my mother, Persephone, and my father, Hades, carried on with the rest of the Gods and Goddesses and rolled my eyes. Once a year we all were forced to come together on Olympus and act as if we weren't all a bunch of incestuous, jealous, egotistical, narcissistic beings with too much power. I mean where in the world is your Grandmother and Grandfather also your aunt and uncle, your father is also your uncle and your mother, well my mother is just my mother. Out of all the immortals I have known in my lifetime I love her more than any of them. I just hate that I resembled my father so much. I've known since I was a child the malice he holds against me. How he has this murderous look in his eyes when he sees me, as if he wishes he could kill me at any given moment. It matters not, I feel for him the same as he feels for me. The last fourteen years I have watched him carry on as if he should be someone important, as if a man like him actually deserves the power Zeus has. Don't even get me started on my grandfather, the hero. Hah, he tricked a Titan by having him swallow a rock with his mommy's help, in what way does that make him a hero. Zeus was nothing but a pathetic man who gained power by instilling fear in those with guilt. "I saved you, make me your King." Asshole. All he did was fuck anything with a hole, sister, cousin, daughter, mortal, animal, he was disgusting. I don't know how Hera put up with him.

"You're thinking hard" I looked over to see Aphrodite's and her mother's lover, Hermes, daughter Hermaphrodite, Herma for short, coming over to me with a wide smile on her face.

"I hate these fucking things" She laughed at me and sat down on the rocking bench, sitting way to close for comfort. I liked Herma though, she was a great friend to me.

"Oh come on sug, their family" She placed an arm around my back and laid her head on my shoulder.

"So my sixteenth birthday is close and I have my Goddess party coming up, I would love if you showed up" Her Goddess party was what a mortal would call a sweet sixteen only it was so much more. She would be given her goddess hood and actually become a Goddess, she would finally feast on Ambrosia and Nectar making her immortal and her true powers would come into fruition.

"So what do you say, don't say no" I looked down at her face and frowned at how absolutely beautiful she was. I mean it was expected being Aphrodite's daughter, but she was beautiful beyond means, almost androgynous, to where she was so beautiful as a girl, but she would be just as beautiful as a boy.

"If I can't say no, what other choices does that give me Herma" She smiled and sat up hugging me carefully. She had gotten a taste of what it was to touch me when I did not okay it. She almost died from the toxins in my skin. My father was not happy about that at all and had sent me to Tartarus for a week as punishment. I think he had hoped that little trip would kill me. It had only gained me a broader perspective of the Underworld, how sick and twisted beings could be even in death.

"Well now that, that is settled, come join us, we are so bored and have nothing pretty to look at" I couldn't help the smirk that came when I was called pretty. I didn't consider myself ugly, Aphrodite told me time and time again how she was jealous of my beauty, which scared me at times. I've seen what happens to those whose beauty challenges hers. It's just even amongst the weird family I had, I was different, my skin was almost an translucent green and my eyes were a fiery red, I looked like death and a flower. Like a Venus Flytrap. I allowed Herma to take my gloved hand and walked over with her towards the younger God's and Goddesses.

"Well, well, well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes" I sighed as Dionysus and Apollo looked me up and down as if I was a treat just waiting to be devoured.

"If it isn't Hade's little brat" A voice came from behind me and I turned to see a God I hated above all Gods. A God that if I could I would watch wither away until there was nothing left of him but black ash.