The Inner Workings of Olympus

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The next thing he knew, Jimin was staring at the sky, the clouds seemingly swirling around his face. His head was spinning slightly, he must've taken a hard fall. He noticed his bow and arrows were scattered across the ground, some stretching to several feet away. He didn't worry though, as he was sure he wasn't followed. He heard footsteps inching towards him, but could not find the energy to sit up.

"Aren't you supposed to be sly and secretive, Eros? Your disguise is a little obvious, don't you think?" a deep but strong voice questioned, and a face came into view. Dark, slightly curled locks hung over the man's forehead, and his lips were curled into a smirk, as he peered down at the beautiful blond god before him.

Jimin's eyes finally met his, and they immediately widened in panic.

Hades. Oh fuck me.

He shot up, and tried to smooth out the wrinkles of his toga. "Oh, um, I just.. I had a request from Olympus, and-" he was cut off by the raising of a long, pale hand. "Stop blabbering. I know what you were doing, Eros. You don't need to explain yourself to me." In a way, his voice was soothing, almost relaxing to Jimin. The god clasped his hands behind his back, and took a step around Jimin, starting in a circle around him. A little ravenous, but that's Hades for you.

Jimin had encountered the god before, but Hades wasn't known for interacting with the others- no, he preferred to keep to himself, but Jimin had nonetheless pried at him one day, asking about his love life with Persephone and if it needed any "spice". Jimin remembered that day clearly, as he had never seen actual fire rise from the palm of a hand before. Despite that incident, at any other godly meeting, Hades was indifferent, maybe even slightly pleasant, towards Jimin.

The younger cleared his throat and tried to bullshit an excuse off the top of his head. "I'm sorry, Hades, but quite honestly, Olympus is boring and I'm sick of being up there. I just wanted to have a little fun."

Why did I tell him the exact truth?!

"You seem to forget my powers, Eros." Hades' face remained stone cold until his expression softened a bit. "But it's alright, and you can call me Yoongi, you know. Why do you think I'm in hell? Hell is an escape compared to Olympus." he kicked at some rocks along the hardened and now cracking ground.

Jimin couldn't possibly wrap his mind around how hell, actual hell, could be better than a life among the gods. Sunshine, parties, and attention- what more could you ask for? He stared at Yoongi, baffled by his disinterest in Olympus. As he was about to speak, however, the other god began trailing back to the newly-created stairway to hell.

"If you don't mind, I'm gonna get back to the underworld and my wife. Goodbye, Eros. And please, try to make next time's mischief more interesting. You'd be doing us both a favor." With a sweep of his cloak, he stalked off back into the earth.

And, for some reason, Jimin's feet began walking themselves towards Hades, following him in the Underworld.

Hades stopped his descent. He slowly looked over his shoulder to see the same blonde haired, blue eyed god following him with a puppy-dog sort of neediness, eyes narrowing at him.

"Just what the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Following you?"

"Um, no."

"You don't make the rules."

This kid must be joking. "It's my fucking realm. So yeah, I do make the rules. You can't follow me down here when you belong up there". Yoongi stated a little snappier than before, and motioned back to Olympus, taking a few steps back to meet Jimin's level.

His normally blue eyes flickered with dashes of orange, no doubt the fire Hades kept hidden within himself. "Now, leave, Eros."

"It's Jimin."

Yoongi huffed, not amused.

"Alright. Leave, Jimin."

"Not without this."

And with that, Jimin pulled a small arrow out of his back pocket and jammed it into Yoongi's thigh in one swift motion.

Yoongi looked stunned, and his face turned from annoyance to anger. The cloak on his shoulder began to slip, revealing a growing wing of black feathers underneath.

Jimin was satisfied, as part one of his prank had been a success. But now, he had to find some unassuming mortal to fire the second arrow, to choose who Yoongi would pine after.

Before he could do so, however, he felt a sharp piercing on the back of his neck. He reached up and pulled out one of his own magic arrows.

"How did- hey!" He quickly turned just in time to see a mortal woman run off back into the city. You see, Jimin had forgotten his weapons laid astray in the field when Hades' entrance literally shook the ground.

He thought to himself how could he make such a mistake, how some mortal was able to wield the godly weapon, and how he would eventually have to explain himself to Zeus and Apollo themselves.

And then he remembered that out of all people, Hades was the one he had shot.

Eros was eternally screwed.