Darla's Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess

chapter 9

"Oh, yeah!" Atticus stretched before flexing his arms.

Cherry just rolled her eyes and shook her head with a small smirk to that. Hera just stood there in annoyance and crossed her arms at the winners.

"Aw, what's wrong?" Drell teased. "Sad that ya lost?"

"Shut up!" Hera glared.

"Aw, why don't ya make me?" Drell mocked.

The others gasped as that seemed like a bad thing to do with a dangerous goddess.

"Maybe I will." Hera glared.

"All right... Go ahead and try it." Drell smirked.

"Are you NUTS?!" Cherry asked him. "That is Hera, the jealous girlfriend of Zeus!"

"Yeah!" Mo told him.

"I'll be fine." Drell told them.

The others looked nervous.

"Go ahead, Hera, give me your best shot," Drell tempted the goddess. "I'm sure Zeus would love it."

Hera stammered about that and that somehow made her give up and leave him alone.

"Knew it." Drell smirked.

"How did you...?" Mo was about to ask.

"Oh, Hera, she's just all talk and no show sometimes," Drell replied. "She just lets her jealousy make her look big and loud."

"Artemis, shouldn't you be turning a friend of ours back to human?" Darla asked, referring to Gabrielle who was still an eagle.

"Oh, right." Artemis smiled nervously before she soon used her powers to turn Gabrielle back into a human.

POOF! and soon, Gabrielle was brought back to being human again.

Gabrielle looked dizzy at first, but she settled back into her true form at long lost.

"Gabrielle, can you ever forgive me?" Xena frowned.

"There's nothing to forgive," Gabrielle smiled as she took the warrior princess's hand. "I knew you'd come through for me; I sorta enjoyed the flying part."

"How could you not?" Mo smiled back.

"It's good to have you back though." Darla added.

"Thank you, sweetheart." Gabrielle smiled and gave Darla a hug.

Zeus soon came over to the group. The others looked over in high respect to the god of all gods, and they all soon bowed to him.

"I really appreciate the help you all have given for Mount Olympus." Zeus smiled to all of them, letting them rise.

"It was our pleasure." Darla smiled back.

"I'd love to reward you all." Zeus said.

"Oh, you don't have to do that, sir," Mo replied. "Our hard work was reward enough."

"No, no, I insist." Zeus said.

"Well, what did you have in mind?" Darla asked.

"The Nile?" Cherry smirked with a slight joke.

"Be serious." Mo said.

"Hey, just trying to have some fun." Cherry replied.

"I insist you all come back for a future visit, like Hercules should..." Zeus invited.

"We will," Mo smiled. "We promise."

"Splendid," Zeus smiled back. "Alcmene and I would like that."