Depths

21. Ugly

This chapter has been edited.

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Just a reminder, all of the songs that Danny mentions in these chapters are all cover songs originally made by Chase Holfelder. So not only do the songs not belong to me, but I don't want you to get the Chase Holfelder version mixed up with the original creator's version. Every song in this Fanfic is Chase Holfelder. I just think his dark and ominous major to minor key songs fit the story so well, and I'm not creative enough to make my own song and music.

By the way, on a side note, I'm not sure if you realize it yet, but the OC "Arisoal" is actually a play on Arial from the little mermaid. However, in this fic, we are going to pretend that the movie "The Little Mermaid" doesn't exist.

Also, I start my next semester in college next Tuesday, and I can already tell that I'm going to have a crap load of homework, so these fast updates might slow back down to one update a week. Sorry. 

Warning: attempted rape, major character death.

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Zeus stared down on the human world with a twitch of his eyebrow, a specific merman who was being punished by the god of the underworld in his sights. His sister and wife, Hera stood next to him, staring down at the siren with a little more appreciation than her husband appeared to have.

"What's the matter?" the goddess asked, already knowing the answer, but only to an extent. She knew how dangerous the siren was, but she had no idea how Zeus would handle him. To her, the merman didn't appear to pose a threat to the humans, or at least not more of a threat than any other human posed. 

"I'm fearful Hera," the ruler of the gods said, "my brother is not one to allow this particular species to live peacefully." Sure Hades had made it so that Phantom still had all his powers, and living a peaceful life would prove to be difficult, but it appeared that the merman was adjusting easier than the god of the underworld fancied.

He worried that Hades would break rules, specific rules, that keep order in both the human world and the underworld. The humans were not a part of heaven nor hell, they simply coexisted, and the gods had no control over what happened in their lives. What the gods juried, was what happened to their souls after death, and nothing else. 

It was a law that they didn't do anything to manipulate a human's fate. They could not control a human's choices, and they could not choose their paths for them, the gods could only decide what to do with them after they are dead. However, Zeus knew that his brother was rebellious when it came to rules if the incident 100 years ago with Hercules was any indication.

Hera looked up at her husband, "Do you think Hades is plotting something?"

Zeus nodded, "Most definitely, however, at the moment, I cannot be sure what. I fear for young Daniel's life though. A demon and a human's life have been entertained, and nothing good ever comes from that."

"It went well for Arisoal, and that human she married," Hera suggested. It was unfair that a demon seeks the life of a human, wanting nothing more than to just live peacefully with their mate, only for Hades to interfere with them.

"Arisoal got lucky, I'm not sure it will work a second time." Zeus appeared to be stressed out, and rightfully so. 

Hera looked down at Phantom and Daniel as the two boys got ready for school. The merman was powerful, but not at all anymore threatening than every other human around him. It wouldn't be fair if Hades interfered with their lives, not that Hades knew what the word fair meant. He was the one that decided to put the merman on human legs, he forced him to live with the humans. Hades was the one enforcing punishment for something that shouldn't even be considered wrong, it wasn't right for him to make Phantom suffer any more than he already was.