97 92: A chance.

Zagreus was panting, he was tired. Klein has been roughly playing with his body for hours and did not even seem to be tired, repressing a painful moan, Zagreus lost the strength in his lower body and fell forward just to be. caught by Klein, who sighed and said: "You did well for during for so long, I'm impressed you were able to keep up with me after hours of... training." Zagreus knew why Klein was hesitant to call that training, he has been beaten into a pulp by Klein several times, he was merciless in destroying him! Zagreus first had to dodge electric spheres that got faster and faster every single second, then he began fighting with his fists in a way Zagreus couldn't keep up, and then he used the environment to attack Zagreus... Literally.

The place he asked to be set for his training was completely and utterly destroyed by Klein's strength. Zagreus was impressed, but also scared of what else he would be taught by Klein... Persephone, when she saw how tired Zagreus was and saw the purple marks on his body, thought that Zagreus had finally taken the next step and congratulated him just to be disappointed next when Zagreus, blushing red like a tomato, explained what happened. Klein was playing with lightning as Zeus does all the time, this not only did impress Persephone but also impressed Hades. Hades knew that Zeus was the only Greek God that controlled lightning and that he was arrogant enough to say that no one could use lightning better than him...

If Zeus knew of Klein, then he would arrogantly challenge Klein to a duel, which Klein would certainly win, and anger the God of Olympus that would then try to kill him just because he was better than him at doing something... This sounded like what Zeus would do.

Hades decided to watch the next practice and was surprised to see Zagreus dodging several lightning spheres, arrows, and javelins alike as his body moved and he moved out of the way just enough for it to miss him. Hades could see how his son was slowly developing, but when he saw one of the arrows hit Zagreus's shoulder, he was surprised to see it was not hurting him permanently, just shocking him slightly and making him feel momentary pain. Hades observed next as Klein fought hand in hand against Zagreus and then began to control the stone and dirt around, making it attack Zagreus forming spears of stone from the ground and even sandstorms around Zagreus, taking his vision completely and the sound of the wind was too loud, taking his hearing out as well.

Klein was harsh in just training, but he did not permanently hurt Zagreus, just momentary pain and some bruises that would heal slowly. In the end, Zagreus was feeling a little courage after fighting against Klein and not dying, he decided to try his luck with a flirtatious joke his mentor Achilles told him once about training with Patroclus: "You are always so rough with me... I can't feel my legs after you're done." Klein halted his movements and stared at Zagreus with a surprised expression, he didn't know Zagreus could make dirty jokes like this! 'Maybe he was told this and thought it would be funny if he tells me?' Klein thought as he could see Zagreus's innocent smile, even though the boy knew what sex was, he still didn't understand the concept of sex jokes.

"Maybe next time I will be rougher so you can't even talk after we're done," Klein said and Zagreus felt like something was wrong about what Klein said, but assuming he was talking about the training he just shivered, there is no way Klein can be rougher than this...

Hades: 👁👄👁

-Scene Cut-

[Timeskip for a few days]

This new training routine was followed by Zagreus every day, he would wake up, eat, exercise, and then train with Klein for hours before going back to bed. He didn't exactly have things to do as the Prince of the Underworld... Is he just took his free time, in this case, all of his time, to train with Klein. The training also bore(?) results! Zagreus's reflexes were improved drastically, his sense of movement and balance was also improved as well!

Klein also began to teach him how to control Divine Energy by having him burn it completely first to try and feel it, every time he defies death, he burns Divine Energy to be reborn instantly, so Klein had to fight Zagreus a lot to the death until he young God could finally feel the Divine Energy inside him with Klein's guidance. It took him more days to even learn how to move it inside his body without having to die to do it, he was so happy! Klein taught him for the next few days how to use it, but the most basic method Zagreus could use the energy was to reinforce his body and make himself faster and stronger.

Today Zagreus wanted to ask Klein on a date, he thinks he has focused too much on training and that they should take a break, he wants to invite Klein to drink some Nectar with him and eat some Ambrosia too. And he did! Klein surprisingly accepted, Zagreus thought he would reject his invitation on what could be considered a date, but Klein never ate Ambrosia or drank Nectar in his life! He could feel the tiny bits of Divine Energy in the bottle of Nectar and the piece of Ambrosia... When they were drinking and talking, string near the balcony of Zagreus's room in the palace that was the Halls of Hades, Zagreus sighed deeply. One of the things about Nectar is that Nectar is the most intoxicating beverage you could drink!

For a mortal, it would be some sips, but for God's, just half of a bottle could make you drunk. For Demigods, it healed them while making them sick... Maybe because Nectar is good for their God side but bad to their human side, which causes them to be sick. Or because they are just not strong enough to drink Nectar!

Zagreus groggily shook his head and rested his head on Klein's shoulder, saying: "You know I love you, right?" Klein was a bit taken back, he was still sober but Zagreus was almost completely drunk because he drank more than half of the Nectar bottle. "Yeah, I know." Answered Klein, Zagreus eyes widened and he began to shake as his eyes began to water: "Then why do you act like you don't know? You like to see me make a fool of myself? You like to see me suffer while trying to get your attention? You like to see me struggle? I just want a chance!" Klein sighed and shook his head with a smirk, he approached the drunk Zagreus, threw the nectar bottle away, held his chin up so he could look at him in the eyes, and said:

"You want a chance? I will give you one, make me fall for you... Prince of the Underworld. I will give you one year..."

-Scene Ends-

Author Note:

Things are going to get spicy!

No Nectar bottles were hurt while writing this scene.