Myths Collide pt 2 A Great Evil Arises

Hippolyta led the men to her office. She would have killed them already had they not helped re-capture the unicorn.She frowned as she noticed their build. They were both obviously very strong men. She recognized one as the great Hercules. She ordered them to sit in one of the chairs in the office. One of the men accepted, but Hercules did not. She asked him kindly and he obeyed. She knew Hercules as an extremely strong man, and the son of Zeus. He was a demigod, and everyone knew it. She sat herself, and despite knowing one of them, said:

"State your names."
"I'm Hercules," Hercules stated
"Odysseus," the other man said
"Well, men. I must thank you kindly for capturing that unicorn for us. It took us nearly 50 years to capture it the first time. You men just captured it within minutes. I must ask what you would like in return."

Hercules smiled as if he had expected this to happen.
"We only ask that you join us to stop the destruction of people everywhere."
Hippolyta blinked.
"Excuse me?"
"Help us destroy a great evil."
Odysseus seemed stunned as well. Hippolyta calmed down.
"I humbly accept," she responded
"Good," Hercules said, "Now let us retrieve the next member."
"Are you saying that we're leaving right now?"
"Aye."
"Why don't you stay and at least get a good night's rest."
"Ah, I would. Except the last person that did that was never seen again."
"What? How did you know that?"
"Zeus knows all," he replied sarcastically
Hippolyta watched as lightning struck both Hercules and Odysseus at the same time. She tried to dive when it came for her, but it was too fast.

She got hit.

***

Poseidon sighed as he flipped the channel on his waterproof TV. He had been waiting for Hercules to come back for hours. 

What's on? he thought

He flipped through an Opera show, a musical, High School Musical, and Shrek the Musical.

Man is it music day or something? he thought, annoyed at how there were no good channels on. Then he heard rumbling.

Now that's sounds like a good show, he thought, sitting up

When he saw the TV, it didn't look like what he was hearing. He saw a flash of lightning at the surface.

"Ah Zeus! You're ruining my TV time!" he yelled over the commotion

Zeus ignored his comment, and made lightning strike the water. 

"OW!" screamed Poseidon, averting his eyes from the light

He slowly looked that way again, and saw a bright figure within the midst of the strike. Two more strikes sounded and Poseidon looked away again. Once it got a bit darker, he could make out two men, and one woman. As the light faded, he saw Hercules' face. He cursed Zeus for sending them there at such a horrible time. 

A huge blast of thunder sounded, signifying that Zeus was angry. Poseidon stuck his tongue out. He put it back in once it was obvious that Hercules and the others could see him. He found that one of the others was Odysseus, and the other was the Amazon queen, Hippolyta. Once Odysseus saw Poseidon, his eyes widened and he bowed. Poseidon was surprised. He liked this guy already.

"Wow," he said, "Nobody had done that for me in a long time. In fact, the last person who did it was Hippolyta. And that was just about 35 years ago. I helped her capture a unicorn in return."

Odysseus, looking embarrassed, got back up. Poseidon laughed.

"It's fine, boy. I like it. You couldn't tell when I told you what I did for Hippolyta?"

Odysseus looked up a bit more.

"Now," Poseidon said, "When do we get started?"

***

These have been the records of Hippolyta, the Amazon Queen, and Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea.

Written by: Jo Crew

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