I wanted to give him a lesson !

Part 8 : I believe in you.

Three weeks after the ball.

Cassandra didn't remember a time where she was that happy.

She had an adorable girlfriend with who she was more and more falling in love as time passed, Icarus was finally leaving her alone (YES !), and she hadn't had a vision of the future since a long, long time.

Everything was good and okay.

It was strange for her to say or think that, but... yes, it was true.

She was happy.

Hercules even had succeeded to get a date with Tempest, after he had this dance with her, and after he had surprisingly succeeded to make the singer Orpheus go to the Promethean school and make a concert during the Aphrodite's ball (yes, Cassandra didn't really pay attention to his presence, since she was completely drowned into Galatea's eyes).

And even Adonis, if he hadn't stopped acting like a real jerk, had been really less annoying these last times with other people since his break-up with Helen !

Yes, I know, that's just a fucking miracle !

Helen and her relationship with Paris were going really well too, and no catastrophe including Hercules had happened since at least months !

So yes, now, everything was good and okay.

It just couldn't last, right ?

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The mother of all monsters, Echidna, with her husband Typhon next to her, and with her baby in her arms, surrounded by Orthos, her two-headed Bi-Clops' son, she looked at her visitor.

It was not the first – nor the last, unfortunately, she already knew it – time that she was seeing Hades come at her house in order to propose to her some stupid plan to conquer/destroy/ annihilate/insert other aleatory synonyms here, the world.

So yes, to say the truth, she was quite suspicious about it.

"Tell me, Hades, Echidna asked him, frowning and crossing her arms, what are you doing here ? And what do you want to ask to me ?"

He immediately gave her an innocent look – or so he tried – in which she obviously didn't believe at all.

"But my dear Echidna, he said, trying not to be too much charming with her – Typhon was just next to her and was glaring at him in a furious way, not really wanting the god of the Underworld to flirt with his wife – you're completely misunderstanding the reason of my presence here ! He exclaimed, trying to be as much convincing as possible.

She raised a skeptical eyebrow, her arms still crossed on her chest, her baby now lying on his bed, sleeping peacefully.

- Oh, really ? You're not going to ask me, my husbands and my children for our help in order to try to use a stupid plan which will consist in you and us trying to conquer/annihilate/destroy/insert another synonymy here, the town of Athene or the Olympus ?

Because all the times you came here, it was for this only reason ! Not that I don't mind a little massacre, the monstrous creature admitted easily, but I would want it to work, this time !

- What do you mean ? He demanded, still trying to keep his innocent air on his face.

She sent him death stares.

- Oh, but that's very simple, Hades, king of the Underworld ! She almost screamed. I am tired of being every time ridiculed or defeated by this not so really hero and annoying demigod, your nephew, Hercules !