Life Of Beth

Chapter Two What is This?

Hades' POV

Today was my twelfth birthday, and I was supposed to meet my future wife. She was only ten, and a Demi-Goddess. Seriously the best my father could do for me was a puny weak little Demi-Goddess. She is also a mermaid, but that's just what hear from my cousins. She surly can't fend for herself and I doubt she knows how to rule the Underworld.

My cousins and my brother, Zeus, head down for the beach. My "wife" just got here and I didnt want to meet her yet. It might seem childish, but I didn't want to have that responsibility. She would be a liability and if she got hurt it would be my fault. We were all splashing each other in the water when I saw a girl running over to us. She had golden hair, and deep blue eyes that sparkled in the sun. She was a little pale, and had beauty marks all over her arms. They looked like sprinkles on her perfect skin. She was beautiful. It was insane. I had realized I had slipped away when Zeus was smacking my shoulder because he was laughing so hard. I started to laugh too and it was because of how stupid he looked.

They started to argue when she asked Aphrodite for her necklace. She put it on and then something happened and she swam away. The boys went back to splashing in the ocean and I walked over to Aphrodite.

"Who is she?" I asked her mesmerized by the thought of her hair flowing in the wind as she was running.

"My cousin, Elizabeth, but we all call her Beth. She is a real beauty," She said looking in the direction that Beth had swam in.

"I think I'll call her Eliza then," I told her.

"Why?"

"So I can be original. I am going to marry her in time you know." I knew that she knew because her father had to have told her. I just needed to figure out how I am going to introduce myself. We didn't really start out on the best terms, and I kinda want to marry her now that I've seen her. Her looks could have had a role in that, but I think it was destiny that we get married.

Some time later she gets back with Poseidon. They are hugging and I get very angry over this. She is mine, and he knows that. I go over and yank her necklace off, and she s back in her white toga. She looks at me and glares, so I smirk back at her and hold the necklace tighter. I know it has some importance to her, so I want to tease her with it. I only get to hold onto it for a few more moments before I'm tackled and then yelled at by Poseidon.

"You really are an idiot," He tells me after she runs away crying.

"And you really should not touch my wife-to-be," I hissed back at him.

"Yeah like she would want to marry you," He hissed back.

"Well she doesn't have a choice. Her father promised me her hand."

"Her father is now regretting that choice," said a voice from behind me. The next thing I know I'm up in the air and can't breathe. The more I struggle the tighter his grip gets on my neck. I hear him yelling at me and asking me why I made her cry, when I don't even know myself. I beg him to give me another chance, when the voice of an angle saves me.

"Father, what are you doing to my poor cousin?" She asks, when she knows exactly what's happening. He lets me down and I run over to her and grab the bottom of her dress and beg for her forgiveness.

"What's your name?" She asks me.

"Hades."