eighteen

Third person POV

In Greek mythology, Hera was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and mother of Ares, Hebe, and Eileithyia, all with Zeus. Hera also gave birth alone to Hephaistos in retaliation for Zeus' similarly single-handed birth of Athena.

However, Hera threw Hephaistos from Mount Olympus because of his ugliness, and crashing to earth, the god became lame. In other accounts, Hephaistos was thrown from the heavens by Zeus precisely because of his lameness.

In any case, Hephaistos held a grudge against his mother and even imprisoned her in a special throne. Hera was only released from the device by promising her son the hand of Aphrodite in marriage.

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It was a nightmare, it was like his life flashed before his eyes. The picture in front of his face was tragic, but seeing it right now, in front of him was completely different, the house set a flame with both of his most important people.

Thinking went out of the system as he ran towards the door looking to go inside but was soon stopped by someone pulling him back. "Hades let go of me!" Priamos yelled at him, all he could think bout was saving his family.

After Zeus showed him the hologram hades instantly teleported the up to earth and what they saw here was tragic. "Not until you snap out of it"hades told him. "My family is in there!" He yelled, his voice cracking.

Hades snapped his fingers and the once set aflame house was now just a burnt building. Priamos didn't have time to think him as he ran into the building full force. He coughed as he breathed in the left over smoke.

He heard coughing coming from the living so he went there to see his little sister on the ground breathing heavily. "Stheno" he yelled. She instantly came by his side, she took his sister away away and went back outside.

He hesitantly looked around the living room but no vale. He walked across the hallway to his moms room and opened the door to find nothing but charcoaled floor, ceiling, and walls.

He walked back out bad checked the rest of the house but no vale. The last place he was going to check was his room. He had hope that she was gonna be in here, still breathing and alive.

But god wasn't on his side.

Their laying slumped over his bed like a sack of potatoes, was his mom burnt to a crisp. It was like the world stopped moving, tears blurred his eyes and suddenly he couldn't see anymore. The thing before him killed him.

He clutched his stomach as he fell to his knees. He put one hand on the wall for support as he put his head down. A heartbreaking sob came out of his mouth, he scrunched up to his knees and kneeled over.

Then next he let out a blood-curdling scream, it was a screaming that could shake the earth. It was as if you could hear the pain in his voice. That's when suddenly hades appeared with somewhat worried look on his face.

Then he saw the dead body and then he saw priamos, crumbling down like a piece of dirt. Hades doesn't normally do comforting but he knew that this boy needed it more than ever.

He went down to his level and put a hand an priamoss shoulder. He flinched and looked up to see hades staring down at him with a blank expression on his face but a worried one.

Anther sob left him as hades pulled him into a hug. He clutched hades jacket like it was his life, he pressed his face hard against his chest and let his tears soak the shirt completely, he was completely broken.

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His sister was rushed to the hospital but his mom was now dead, really dead. He stopped by Casey's house to asked her to watch over Marie since he wasn't going to be able to do that.

They were now back in the underworld and priamos was sitting on his bed with about four white snakes slithering on it. Hades was leaned against the door watching priamos like a hawk.

He had no light in his eyes anymore.

"I want do do it" priamos spoke interrupting hades inside thoughts. He looked at priamos curiously. "Do what" he asked looking him up and down "I want to ...

"Release all the monsters in Tartarus"