I woke up calmly the next morning, a lot earlier than I usually did everyday. I looked at the bedside next to me and found it empty. Where had Hades gone?It was weird how we shared the same bed room but it never felt that way. We hardly went to sleep at the same time and never did we ever wake up with the other still in bed. I was either gone or he was. The only proof that he slept here was the dent on his pillow and also the fact that he woke me up in the middle of the night to perform my wifely duties.Today was different though, and I thought he would be here with me, at least to give me a little of the support he had shown me last night. But he wasn't here, and I felt a weird kind of disappointment.I got up myself and went about mymorning routine, normally I would do this with my maids but today was different, I wanted to feel like my old self again. I wanted to go through my routine and prepare myself for today's challenge, just like I would if I was going on a mission.I we
The host, a council member, looked animal-like, literally like an animal. He was huge, about seven feet in height, there was almost too much hair on his body and he reminded me of the demon wolves here. Half wolf half human. He was dressed in a uniform of sorts, and I watched as he walked all the way to where we stood."Ladies and gentlemen. We all gathered her to witness the first ever! Throne challenge! Miss Persephone has challenged our reigning Queen to a fight to claim the rights as Queen of the underworld" he started.The screams of the spectators didn't die down one bit, if anything it only got louder."Winner has to either kill the other, or make them submit. There are no rules" he added before stepping away. Far away a bell rang in the distance, signalling whatever this was can startI and Persephone stood in limbo for a moment, sizing the other, taking a deep breath, just being before we both went into motion. Persephone pulled out a gun from somewhere, I had no idea, and i
I didn't think as I straightened the spears in my hands, tightening my hands around them. My focus zoned in on the twelve or so attackers coming my way, and I went for them.I was so focused I didn't realise how fast I was going. So fast in fact, that the crowd could hardly see me. I was a blur, running from one demon wolf to another and slicing through only to go after the next. I went through them all in a matter of seconds, and stopped, breathing very hard. My eyes looked around, searching for my next target. I had only gone so deep into my feral state once, that was in the fighting realm, when I and several of the competitors had been put in a cage. I was feral right now, but I was also in control, all I wanted to do was kill all that wanted to attack me, nothing less.More demon wolves burst out of aninner cave, they looked deadly and angry. Persephone had really planned this down to the last detail, since she had so many of the demon wolves on her side. I smiled as I balanced
His arm around my waist squeezed reassuringly, giving me strength. I was finally able to raise my head up and face the council members, and we started the meeting."First of all. Persephone's warriors. I have had my head of warriors form a small group to go far to the southern and eastern lands in search of any men or warriors that she has left. I want none of them living in my realm" he said immediately."Yes Sir. We have been speaking and he has gone even farther than you directed. All warriors found under her name are being annihilated" said one of the council members."Good. Let the news go far and wide. No warrior of hers is allowed to live, all must die. No one in support of her should live, no one that stands for her should live" he added gravely.There was silence in the room, a quiet intense one. The king had just given out an order, and all must follow. I took a deep breath and cleared my throat. That had been aggressive."Emmm. Mandira, you wanted to speak with us" I said i
"It did, and then some. We were all quite shocked when we finally met with you, you were calm and a way nicer version that what the books had painted you to be" said Feta."And you were so... different looking than what we had imagined. A beautiful Queen you made" added Ira."I guess" I said "but why are you barefoot though? I thought you would be getting on the horses?" I was still curious about that."Maids and servants are not allowed on horses, ever" said Ira quietly."Why not?" I asked."Well, we are only slaves," she said with a straight face, as if this was a normal thing to say."What? Slaves? Did you just sayslaves?" I asked her, I was truly shocked."Yes my queen. Our parents have served the royal family for generations. Thousands and thousands of us, we serve hell and it's master" said Rega happily."Thousands? And that is...normal here?" I asked, I didn't want to offend anyone."Of course. Only the strongest families are chosen to serve Hades. We were very honoured" said
I never realised but the history of hell went even farther than I had thought. It was the first realm that was created, an underworld filled with the darkest and deepest evil of all kinds. This realm was the beginning of life, and it made sense that it was also the end and where all life came back to after it had done its time.Hades had been King for all that time, finding solace only in doing what he had been made to do, collecting souls and transporting them into the afterlife. That was his job and responsibility as King, the work of moving lost souls through the barrier and into hell, and where these souls would change and be converted to a creature of sorts, depending on how bad a deed they had committed when they were alive. The not so bad ones were converted into high ranking creatures, and the most terrible ones into the very hideous ugly looking creatures, all depending on the severity of the bad things they did when they were alive.Hades crossed them over and changed the
We rode for the rest of the day, and I lived in my little world with the book as my universe. I let myself get lost in its pages, going from one thing to another and then back. There were just so many interesting things to learn about hell, the past and how things came to be the way they were now, I was completely captivated and didn't even realise time was going. I remember my maids coming back and serving me lunch, and then leaving again. I thought felt Hades presence at some point but that was it, my eyes were trained in the pages of the book for most of the duration of the travel that day, then it slowly became nightfall, the environment getting a little darker as the hours went by.Soon enough I could hear noises of servants and guards as they ran around and got busy, and that finally took me out of the haze I was in. Iraised my head up from the pillow and looked around below me, we had stopped for the evening. I could see a few tents had been made up and stuff, lots of servan
I sighed for what could be the hundredth time, I could see the side looks my maids were giving me, they looked a bit worried but they didn't have to be, since I had a huge smile on my face and a dreamy far away look on my face as well. My body rocked back and forth over and over, something I had gotten used to since yesterday when we started this journey. We had woken up at the crack of dawn and had immediately continued moving, I had been told we had about three cities to pass through today and we would be continuing the ceremony. Nobody realised that I and my husband and the creatures of the parallels had our own little....ceremony yesterday evening.After that beautiful kiss shared between I and Hades, he stepped away and let me do the rituals. Many of the parallels, older looking ones males and females had gotten around me holding differently coloured eggs, they had gone round and around me and then presented the eggs to me, apparently all I needed to do was blow air into them