Comedy Of Arrows


Carissa was taking some quizzes with Pain and Panic from one of their magazines.

"Would you A) Want a guy to give you chocolate? B) Flowers? or C) His undying love?" Carissa read to herself. "A, duh." She stopped when she heard her father come up behind her making her turn around.

"Oh look, a flower." Hades was looking at the newly bloomed plant that just grew in front of him. "Nature's cheerful little reminder that I DESPISE SPRING!!" With that he flamed up turning the flower into a steaming pile of ashes.

"Pain, did you take the body image quiz?" Panic asked not looking up from the magazine they were reading.

"Uh huh, I'm a pear shape." Pain answered.

Carissa rolled her eyes and looked back showing Hades that he has her attention. "Every year it's the same, temperatures go up! And my numbers go down."

"Carissa would you wear that?" Pain asked showing her a picture of a newly designed tunic.

"Will you guys shut up." Carissa snapped as Hades came over and burned their magazine.

"Here's how it works." Hades said grabbing his two minions. "I talk, you listen." He then smashed their skulls together. "GOT IT! Good, now I just wanna know why every spring this place is well..."

"Dead?" Carissa guessed.

"Exactly." Hades nodded.

"Oh oh! I know this one." Pain held up the magazine that was still on fire. "Page 26, Spring love equals long lives."

"LOVE?! Blech." Carissa and Hades both gagged.

"It says so right here, studies show people in lasting relationships live longer." Panic read.

"That can't be right." Carissa shook her head not believing it.

Hades burned the magazine completely. "I got it! Spring is bad for business." Hades then tapped his chin in thought. "So.... so.... ssssooo lets making it our business to be bad for love! Yeah!"

"Yeah!" Pain cheered.

"Lets do the evil thing you're thinking."

"Can we like have a hint?" Pain asked.

"Oy, minions." Hades sighed after he slapped them away.

"So what is your plan dad?" Carissa asked.

"Well who is responsible for Spring love?" Hades quizzed her.

"Cupid."

"That's right." Hades ruffled her hair. "You're so smart."

Carissa rolled her eyes and looked up at him. "So what? We sabotage Cupid?"

"Exactly!"

"You're trusting the imps?"

"Nope, they screw up way too much."

"Then who's going?"

Hades gave her a smirk with a raised eyebrow making Carissa making her frown with her eyes widen. "No, no way, no no no no no!"

Carissa made a run for it but Hades used his smoke arm to catch her. "Carissa, my sweet, my treasure, my pride and joy, daddy just needs you to do this tiny little thing for him."

Carissa whined. "But daddy, no one is allowed in there except cherubs."

"Well lucky me I have a little Goddess to be who has the ability to change her appearance." Hades grinned at her.

"I don't want to!"

Hades gave a dramatic sigh. "Ok, don't help me. After all I'm just your father who raised you, took care of you and..."

Carissa groaned. "Alright, alright, I'll go to Cupid's temple and see what I can do."

"That's my girl!"

With a sigh Carissa turned to leave. "I think I hate spring more than him now"

Hades grabbed her again "Hold it, I need to make sure you really look the part."

"Oh come on daddy, I already said I'm going."

"Gotta make sure."

Carissa's hair flamed up but with a groan she made herself look just like a cherub.

"Aw look at you, I miss you being this small"

Carissa turned back to normal giving him a glare. "Maybe on your birthday, now I gotta go before I die of embarrassment."

Hades smirked shrugging his shoulders. "If your kid find you embarrassing you're doing a great job being a parent."

Carissa made it to Cupid's temple just in time for a meeting. She quickly turned back into her cherub and blended in with the crowd.

"Welcome and good morning cherubs!" Cupid greeted.

"Good morning cupid." All the cherubs replied happily.

Carissa rolled her eyes and mumbled. "Dad better raise my allowance for this."

"Ok I'll make this quick cause I know everyone is eager to spread some...."

"Love." The cherubs sighed finishing Cupid's sentence.

"Oh yes! Spring has sprung and the big L is in the air! Now you trainees have a tough job ahead of ya. We're not just dishing heart all cord here we.. hey hey there fella aren't you a little tall for a cherub?"

Carissa looked to where Cupid was staring and dropped her jaw seeing Icarus dressed as a cherub.

"Ah no! I'm not too tall, I'm just vertically challenged!" Icarus snapped.

"Whoa take it easy, love doesn't discriminate and neither do we." Cupid told him. "Alright! Who's ready to rock and roll on the love patrol? Lets get down to business. Now last years numbers were good but this year we can make it great! We're looking for solid love action. Puppy love, endless love, tough love, the whole sha bang a lang a ding dong! You will be working with our new and improved super high test love arrows."

"Hello." Icarus stared at it drooling.

Carissa figured out why he was here now, he wants Cassandra to fall in love with him.

"To handle the power of love properly is a tall order." Cupid turned to Icarus. "No offence Stretch. Rule number one, get a moray for your money, look for couples who already show the tall tale signs of love. These would be hand holding, pet names and wasting two months salary on a sparkly rock. Once you spy a potential love your mission is to seal the deal!"

"Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah." Icarus spoke up. "That's nice and all but when do we get to shoot these babies?" Icarus asked holding up a couple of love arrows.

Carissa rolled her eyes, how can cupid not see it's a mortal not a cherub holding those arrows?

"Everyone, what is love?" Cupid asked.

"Patients." All the cherubs answered.

"That's right, now follow me to the production floor." Cupid lead the way to the love factory with looked kinda like a depressing place. "Quality control is job one."

Carissa looked to see what she can use to ruin this whole business, her dad was counting on her. Carissa spotted Icarus making some of those arrows but when he touched them they turned green and sinister looking.

Cupid gasped and blew a whistle. "Nobody move! Someone's not in there happy place. We've been through this, if you don't make these arrows with perfectly loving intentions they would come out arrowdious. Get it?'

Carissa rolled her eyes at the bad joke but got closer to hear what he was saying.

"Focus cherubs, some here has made the most dangerous kind of arrows. The opposite of love arrows! AKA Loath Arrows."

All the cherubs gasped while Carissa grinned. "Now we're getting somewhere."

"We gotta dump these bad boys." Cupid announced after he went to fire Icarus who made them.

"I'll do it sir." Carissa took all the loath arrows except the one in Icarus's hand and flew out.

When she reached the underworld she turned back into her true form. "I hope I never have to turn into that again."

Hades appeared behind her. "There's my little cherub."

Carissa groaned and turned to him. "PLEASE, never call me that again."

"So how did it go? Good. Cupid's operation a no show?"

Carissa just gave him the box of arrows.

Hades stared at them for a bit. "Carissa, you're grounded."

"What!" She flamed up. "I had to turn into a cherub! Listen to Cupid's stupid speeches! And Listening to all that cooing!"

"I sent you to sabotage Cupid and you just bring me his lousy love arrow!"

"Do these look like love arrows to you?" Carissa snapped grabbing one and waving it in his face before she throws it at Cerberus making him attack Pain and Panic.

Hades watched with interest. "What just happened?"

"They're not love arrows, they're loath arrows."

"You mean these babies make love just vanish? Disappear? Just boom, bada bing go bye bye?!"

"Yep."

"I like." Hades grinned.

"And I'd like an apology and maybe a few other things." Carissa told him.

Hades's face dropped remembering what just happened. "Ah, right, sorry about that babe, I'll make it up to you."

"You're darn right you will."

Hades shouted down at Pain and Panic who were still being chased by Cerberus. "Quit teasing the dog boys! We have work to do!" Hades looked back at the loath arrow in his hands and grinned. "Can you feel the loath tonight?"

Pain and Panic were sent to shoot everyone with the loath arrows while Carissa and Hades set traps for the cherubs.

In no time at all every mortal was attacking each other and all the cherubs were stuck to Cherub-be-gone fly paper.

"Cherubs, babes, huh STICK around!" Hades chuckled at his own joke. "Too cute gotta love it."

"No, you don't have to." Carissa replied covering her ears to block out the annoying cooing and cries for help.

Meanwhile Hercules was told that the whole school had to go to war, when he saw Pain and Panic he knew Hades was behind it.

"He must have gotten a hold of those loath arrows." Icarus explained.

After Hercules forced Icarus to tell him everything he dragged him to Cupid's temple to explain.

"Where are my cherubs?" Cupid kept asking after seeing all the chaos.

"I think I know." Hercules said.

In the Underworld Carissa and Hades were both flaming red just by listening to the cherubs.

"Daddy! Make them shut up!" Carissa demanded.

Hades turned to the cherubs and growled. "Enough with the cooing already, can't you guys get a new bit?"

"HADES!" Hercules came in and pointed to him. "I ORDER YOU TO STOP!"

"IN THE NAME OF LOVE!" Icarus added still in his cherub outfit.

"Dude, you're still in that?" Carissa asked a little grossed out.

"Oh catchy let me try." Hades laughed. "Stop! In the name of lava."

Carissa grinned. "Now that I love."

"Hades Hades Hades, everyone knows you can't control love."

Carissa and Hades both smirked as they used their powers to completely cover the floor with lava making Icarus scream and dance around in it.

The two high fived each other and laughed till Cupid flew up to them. "The jumbo cherub is right, stick to stiffs. Love is my job!"

"Hey you know what, love stinks!" Hades told him before he gagged. "Speaking of which, when was the last time you checked your diap-diap you know what I mean babe?"

"OK first of all, EW! You actually use that? And second you really believe the stupid sun stroke mortal is a cherub? No wonder Cupid rhymes with Stupid."

Hades burst out laughing. "Good one princess."

Cupid badly blushed before he grabbed his arrows. "Oh yeah, well check this Hades!"

Hades blasted each arrow that was shot at him. "Oh almost! Nice shot! Been working out?"

Carissa was behind him laugh and clapping as she jumped cheering. "Go Daddy! Show Stupid Cupid Love Burns!" They were so distracted they didn't notice Hercules freed all the Cherubs and surrounded Hades.

"What what what WHAT! WHAT!" Hades snapped at them, the the cherubs each shot him with love arrows. "Ha! I'm a God you fools, what you think these arrows are going to affect me? Come on, hey come on." He waved them off like flies. "Come on! I'll get a cherub zapper and I'll have you all..."

"OW!!" Hades turned around to see they shot Carissa making him growl.

Carissa opened her eyes and plucked the arrow right out of her. "Seriously? What's wrong with you freaks?"

"Huh why isn't Carissa effected?" Icarus asked confused.

Carissa burned the love arrow and smirked. "Because the first face I saw was my dad and I already love him."

Hades smiles proudly. "Now... GET OUT OF MY UNDERWORLD!!!"

All the cherubs, Cupid, Hercules and Icarus didn't have to be told twice. They had to leave to fix the world. Soon everyone was shot with a love arrow making Carissa sigh disappointed.

"Sorry it didn't work dad."

Hades grinned and ruffles her hair. "It's alright, I'm just glad you didn't fall in love with that winged idiot or worse." He chocked out. "Jercules."

"Ew dad, don't make me gag."

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