Page 55 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Hades and Cerberus

Have you ever heard the story of the boy who was left to his own devices?

A boy with a loud family always at war with each other?

A boy who simply wanted peace and quiet and could not find it in the confines of a mountain populated with Gods?

And what does a boy like that, who does not like his own kind, do for company?

On one of his walks away from the mountain, he passes through a village.

And he finds a little puppy abandoned on the street.

Very much like him, the dog does not fit in.

It has three heads and, fearing it is cursed by the Gods, no one wants it.

So the boy picks up the puppy. Holds it close to his chest. All three of the puppy’s heads whine and nestle closer to him.

He wraps the dog inside his clothes and brings it to his mountain home to raise it as his own.

Calls it Cerberus and blesses it with immortality, and, like any good story which involves two beings finding family and understanding in each other, the two became inseparable.

And now the boy was the king of the Underworld and the dog, who always loved his boy more than anything in the world, guarded his home.