"When fire dances it is best to stay away"

"I never thought I would see the day that my brother would marry the girl that he was destined to be with" The violet eyed girl speaks. She sits on top of his desk as they are in his office. "Yes, it is surprising yet not as much as the darkness bowing before the light" He says to her and she rolls her eyes at him and his words. Referring to the thing that she as the evil being that she is has come over to the light and started to be good and abandon her evil thoughts.

However, both know that they have both been doing that for, once Hades was the one that did evil every single day. Tortured the sinners of the human world and enjoyed it with a wicked grin on his face yet because of Arabella and the love the two share for one another he has grown softer than he was. Luna has too, she made a friend and has changed. "Your bride to be will soon be ready, yet I see that you have not even dressed" Luna speaks to him. Like she had done with Arabella's dress, she and Thalia created the clothing that Hades will be wearing.

That way it can match and according to the two of them, Arabella and Hades need to match as their hearts are already one and soon they will be one in marriage too. "I will be, little sister" He tells her. He sits down on his desk and goes over some papers. He has been forbidden to see the throne room for Thalia and his sister have taken over and decorated everything, along with the guards to help them. The two girls had taken over the wedding planning and decoration.

Yet they know it will be to their liking. "The wedding is not for another hour. But, why are you not with my soon to be wife?" He asks her. Luna takes up a bottle of an alcoholic drink that was on his desk. The bottle was half-full but she shrugs that off and starts to drink it. "She is with her father" Was all that she says as she chugs the rest of the liquid inside the bottle and then puts it back to where to was. Hades rolls his eyes at his little sister and pushes her off the desk.

She falls down to the ground and when she stands up again she glares at him as she walks over to the shadows and disappears and reappears outside the door with a wicked grin on her face. Kicking the doors open to the point where they are almost falling off their hinges, startling her brother whole doing so. Though, Hades would never let it show that he did get startled by her and never would be admit that he did. "Sister, do you have to break my doors?" He asks her as he rolls his eyes at her.

"This day is the most important of your life and you sit here and work while you should be getting ready to be wed" She tells him. Frankly the violet eyed girl had done that to get his attention and make sure he understands that while this might be the hundred or so times that he gets married, this day is important to Arabella and Luna cares so much about that girl to let her big day get ruined by the groom for he has done it many times and all he looks forward to is when he finally claims her as his.

He stands up and walks over to her and puts his hands on her shoulders. "Perhaps it has went past your mind, little sister yet men are not as long as women at get ready and I have been around longer than the idea of dressing in any sort of material. I do believe I know how to get ready in short amount of time" He tells her but she stares at him with annoyed expression that tells him everything that he needs to know. He is supposed to get ready now and not later.

Hades rolls his eyes. "All right, I shall get dressed. Tend to my bride" He says, dismissing her completely. Her violet eyes glare daggers into his skull and if looks could kill then he'd be lying dead at the moment. However she can't have him dead, she needs him to get married to the sweetest girl that she has ever met (she truly hasn't met that many in her lifetime, other than trying to kill them). "Only because all shall be perfect for her" Luna speaks as she walks out of the room and pasts the broken doors which she does grin at.

"Your beauty is unlike any other" Arabella's father speaks as he stands in her room. Hades had sent someone to bring him to the Underworld and now she has her father with her. A father that she has not known for long yet she does love him. She smiles as she looks at herself in a mirror that was presented to her when Thalia and Luna had helped her into the wedding dress which she now wears. "Thank you" She whispers to him. He walks over to her and stands beside her as she watches herself in the looking glass.

Not believing that this is her that stands there in the dress that she was finally able to see. The beauty of it shocked her and she could not understand how she became that lucky to have friends like that to make her the prettiest wedding dress of all time. "I understand you are nervous?" He asks her and she looks up at him and nods her head. Her heart has not stopped pounding within her chest and while she does know that everything will be all right, she can't help it to feel nervous.

Thalia and Luna had reassured her that all was well yet that doesn't stop the thoughts inside her to wonder. "The bride is always going to be nervous yet the groom is equally as nervous. That I can tell you, your feelings now are what both of you are experiencing" He tells her and she smiles up at him before her fire eyes return to her own reflection. The girl who stares back at her is not the person she was only a few months ago. She has grown and become better that she was and it shows. She has become happier and wild and free.

Arabella is a Queen of a kingdom that most humans fear but she could never fear this place. Not now at least, never now. Perhaps when she first came there, though she can remember that she was afraid but she can also remember that she liked it and she felt safe. "That is why I have a gift for you. In my kingdom it is a custom for the father to present the daughter with a gift before the wedding. And I understand those traditions might not be here, I still wish to do it" He says to her and she turns to face him.

From his pocket he makes out a small box. "This was a gift from my mother to give to my heir at birth. I could not do that so I thought this was the golden opportunity to give it to you" He tells her and opens he box to show her what he wants to give her and once her fire eyes catch what is inside the box she gasps and the smile that was already on her face grows only brighter and wider as she sees what is inside the box and what her father wants to give her.

Inside the box is a small necklace. Not much but she can tell that it means the world to her father and now it will mean the world to her. The necklace is made out gold and the chain is old looking but on the necklace is one charm made out of a red stone, she would have to guess a ruby. The stone has been shaped like a heart with gold teardrop shapes around the heart itself that connect to the chain. "It is beautiful, I do not know how I can take this" She says.

The necklace truly does look beautiful in her eyes and she now realize that it is the first thing that her father has ever given her, the father that she is so proud to have on this day. As she takes the necklace into her hands she starts to see the ruby stone starts to darken until it has become pitch black. Her eyes then look up at her father to see that has disappeared completely, as if he was never there at all as she did not hear the door open nor close. Confused her eyes travel back to the necklace in her hands.

Softly she starts to hear the whispers again, this time they aren't as loud nor as painful as before but they do annoy her more than anything. Putting the necklace down into the box, reality takes a hold on her once again as her eyes shift away from the necklace for about a second before she looks back at it again and then the stone is back to it's normal red ruby color and her father is in the room. "Are you feeling all right? You are looking rather pale, shall I fetch the name?" He asks her.

"I am all right, I suppose I do feel the nerves take over me as closer it get to the wedding" She answers. It is her wedding day and she does not wish to bother anyone with the things that have been happening to her. As confusing as that is, she doesn't want anyone to worry. They have been through so much and now she is finally getting her happiness. There won't be anything ruining her day, not illusion that every so often happen nor anything else, this day will be perfect and she will make sure of that.

The door opens and Luna walks inside. "All right, now it is time for the final touches. And you shall leave while we do that" Luna speaks harshly to the King that is Arabella's father, though she could not care any less about that for she doesn't like humans but she will make exceptions for the ones that Arabella knows and loves. Her father leaves as he does not want to argue with a girl that can literally kill him with a flick of her hand and one shall not anger a person that can do that.

Especially when that is Luna. "Something bothers you, tell me what it is and I shall fix it" Luna speaks when Arabella's father has left the room and closed the door. Arabella sits down on the chair, making sure not to mess up her dress. Putting the necklace on the table she looks at herself in the mirror. Her eyes are black, fully black and now her hairs has gone to the same shade as Luna's. Looking away from her own reflection in the mirror and to Luna she smiles at her, once again no wanting to bother her. "I am fine" She simply says.

"And I am not my brother, I am also of the female population and I do know the signs when one is feeling down and I can see fear inside your eyes. Fear and slaughter and inspiring fear is what I do every day, it is what I do and yet I see fear inside your eyes. When you try to hide it, you can never hide fear from me. I can feel it coming from you, the energy is strong. And it is not of the wedding nor the wedding night. It something else. You will not be marrying unless you have spoken to me about what troubles you" Luna speaks as she sits on the bed.

Arabella sighs as she looks at her future sister in law in sorrow and she doesn't know what she can say, how she will put the things that she and only she can hear, feel and see. She opens her mouth to speak but no words come out, not knowing what to say and having a hard time finding the voice inside her is hard when she is this nervous and for the flirts time this day, she's nervous about something other than the wedding and getting married to the love of her life.

The wait makes the midnight black haired girl raise an eyebrow at the other one. Luna may look like a normal girl but she is rather intelligent, despite others doubting her as she has been in prison for a long time. Arabella lets out another sighs as she soon starts to explain to the sister of the man that she is about to marry in less than half an hour, she tells her about how it started and about the whispers and what she has been seeing.

Throughout it all, Luna listened. Her face remained emotionless the entire time, leaving the fire haired girl not knowing how she was taking the information or if she deemed her insane for when she begins to explain and tells everything, she realizes herself that these are things that a insane person that should be taken away. She sounds like she has lost her mind and perhaps she has and that thought alone does frighten her. When she has finished telling everything Luna juts nods her head at her, and looks as if she is thinking.

"I believe I know what is happening to you" Luna tells her. Arabella stands up and walks over to the bed to sit down next to the girl with a hopeful look on her face as she waits for her to explain. The two of them had joined hand and hold each other tightly. They have grown close over the last couple of weeks and the bond that has formed is never ending. Both have made promises that they will honor even if it kills them. Luna only smiles at her as they hold hands and she squeezes her hand but not too much so she'd hurt her.

"When Hades was born, there were no humans. There was not much in the world like with all of my brothers. They are the elements after all but I think he has told you that he did not always get along with my other brothers. Until I was born and we grew close or as close as beings like us can. Earth as you know it was not formed yet and creatures dominated the planet until they were wiped out. Soon after that humans appeared and with them, the sins" Luna begins to explain.

This story has already been told to Arabella so she doesn't understand why she is telling her this story again, nor why it is important to know and how it connects to her being insane. She doesn't understand it. "You know how the Underworld was created, what the stories and my brother will not speak about is how sinners affected him" Luna tells her and she gives her a confused look. Now she is going somewhere new with the story and perhaps it will make sense or perhaps it will not, all she knows that she wants to hear it. However, Luna better hurry for she is about to be married in twenty minutes.

"The more humans sinned, and their souls came here to be tortured for all eternity. His moods changed rapidly. One minute he was angry and the next he was madly blood-thirsty. When he had accepted the throne and his destiny to be the King of the Underworld, it had taken something from him. Perhaps his sanity, I do not know. However, he was never the same after that. One night I heard him howling in pain and when I found him, he told me that he heard whispers and it hurt him. As you had now just said" She continues with the story and Arabella gasps.

What she never knew is how Hades went through what she is going through now, though it would've been better if he had told her that this happened to him. Since, she is now going through this and she wants a way to take it away, to make her normal again. Somehow she feels inside herself that she will not be the same, not fully at least. "It never went away, even today I believe he hears the whispers and sees things that others do not" She then says.

This truly breaks Arabella. She has been feeling this for a less than a day and it is taking everything out of her and he has been dealing with this for so long. She wonders how he can tell reality with illusion, she wonders how he can deal with the pain and perhaps that pain that he feels is the cause for his anger and why he enjoys inflicting to others to forget his own pain that he has to go through. The fire eyed girl also wonders if she will have to feel this pain for the rest of her life which could be a long one.

Arabella looks at herself in the mirror and at her own reflection. One of her eye is black while the other one is normal. Her hair is pitch black in color and as she stares at herself she feels something inside her change, something that she knew was there before but locked away. Hidden away from her and the rest of the world and as she continues to stare at herself in the looking glass, the part inside her only grows and it grows stronger almost.

She can feel it move around inside her. It doesn't pain her, not it is something that has been inside her veins her whole life. She knew it was there yet only her subconscious knew about it while her mind and body had no clue but now it is as clear as day that it is there and she feels it. She wants it, she craves it. Arabella longs to have this inside her she wants to release it out into the world without knowing why. Perhaps because that part inside of her is evil and it is coming for all that live.