Hades Compare And Contrast

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Everybody knows Hades, the greek god who got swallowed by his father and is the ruler of the underworld, but like everybody else Hades wanted to have a wife, a partner, someone to love. Now, nobody really wanted to be Hades’s wife because they were all terrified of him but he was still desperate for someone to call his and he was determined to have a wife. One day, with every girl rejecting his offer to be his wife, he became impatient and went on a search for Aphrodite.

Aphrodite was the most beautiful goddess of them all, and being the most beautiful goddess, she had a magic girdle that could make anybody fall in love with her madly. Of course that was inconvenient to Hades but he still wanted to go see Aphrodite to see if there was some
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Eros came rushing down as soon as his mother called for him, Aphrodite ordered Eros to shoot Hades and to shoot the creation who was going to appear from the pot any second.

Obediently, but confused Eros did as he was told and shoot Hades with his arrow.
Hades became woozy, feverish, he didn’t feel like himself and he felt as if he were going to faint any second but he still struggled to keep his eyes open to catch a glimpse of his new wife.

Hades squinted his vision and as soon as felt done and couldn’t keep his eyes restrained any longer, a figure appeared. It floated up almost touching the ceiling before it fell back down with a thud on the marble kitchen floor.

As soon as the figure fell Hades’s woozy moment disappeared and he was back to normal, he watched Eros shoot the figure and go back upstairs like it was a normal, everyday thing.

Hades walked slowly, towards the girl who was hugging her knees to her chest, looking up to him.

She was beautiful, Hades thought.

She had perfect olive colored skin, long black hair and the most gorgeous green eyes. There was no flaw whatsoever and Hades immediately fell in love with her. The girl seemed to fall in love with Hades as well because she had the biggest smile plastered on her

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