Among saving people and stopping power-mad despots, Hercules and Iolaus
sometimes got the time to enjoy the luxury their popularity created.
Sometimes it was to be embarrassingly honored by the inhabitants of villages
they saved, but today it was judging a beauty contest in Poteideia,
Gabrielle's home town. While the bard and Xena were over in Phyrgia, the son
of Zeus and his best friend got to look over the most beautiful the town had
to offer.
"I'm voting on Lila, Gabrielle's sister." Iolaus picked up a quill.
"Because you think she's worthy," Hercules asked. "Or because you think you
owe it to her."
"Both." Iolaus answered as the emcee stood before everyone. "And now, our
last contestant, Pandia !!!"
"Who ?" Hercules looked up with a start. Pandia seemed to have it all.
Intoxicating figure, big mysterious brown eyes and long brown hair which
draped down over her busom. She was flawlessly perfect as she grinned and
enraptured all the men before her. The ladies and other contestants felt
unworthy and then insecure as Pandia pretended to lose her top.
"Whoops !" She cooed. "They don't make these the way they used to...." She
giggled precociously."
"Oh boy...." Hercules rolled his eyes unimpressed.
"I think we have a winner !!!" Iolaus stood up and screamed in delight.
"Herc ?"
"I don't think so." Hercules whispered. "Pandia's my sister. She lives for
this stuff. That's why others call her the goddess of beauty and perfection
and I'm not getting into another fight between her and Aphrodite. This
contest is for mortals only."
"But Hercules..........." Pandia had heard him as the townsfolk of this
farming community went wild.
"Sorry," Hercules stood and wandered up in front of her. "But Lila's the
winner."
There was a moment of shock and confusion as Lila made a second look and
beamed happily. Pandia dropped her alabaster jaw in disgrace and shot a
dirty look at her half-brother.
"Hercules, how could you ?!"
"Take it up with our father." Hercules looked at her closing up her top as
Iolaus grinned at the peek. "Or better yet, your mother, the moon-goddess."
"But everyone knows I'm the most beautiful......"
"Get over it." Athena appeared in a burst of light in her armor and pushed
her aside. "Hercules, we have a problem."
"Tell Ares to take a hike." Hercules passed by Iolaus as they moved out of
the tent.
"It's not that.........." Athena looked at him with her gray eyes. "Father
has been poisoned."
"Daddy ?" Pandia stood shocked.
"Zeus ?" Iolaus looked over. "What happened ?"
"Discord became possessed by the spirit of a Naga and stormed Olympus."
Athena continued talking as she removed her helmet to her long dark hair.
"With its power, she took over Olympus and conquered the main pantheon, but
most of everyone fled for cover. I took father to Heliopolis to be cured by
Imhotep, the Egyptian god of medicene, but he can't do it alone."
"So what does he need ?" Hercules was hesitant to help the gods, but they
were still the only family he had left.
"Ingrediants owned by the Coatli, the gods of the west." Athena answered.
"I've only been in touch with one of them and I hear they're mostly
disagreeable. I want you to come with me as back up."
"Hercules ?" Iolaus looked at him. Pandia acted vulnerably as she tried to
think of something to add.
"Okay," Hercules answered. "But what sort of gods are these Coatli ? Are
they dangerous ?"
"Their worshippers are on a continent as far from us as we are from Chin."
Athena replied. "They live in the realm of Xibalba and I'm told they demand
blood sacrifices."
"Oh boy," Hercules didn't have a chance to change his mind.




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