The Demigoddess Of Puppy Love
Rating: G
Timeline: Season
Two
Summary: Aphrodite plays
mom & mentor...
Spoilers: If The Shoe
Fits...
Disclaimer: There's no way in Tarterus
that I own them Baby!
BOOM!
Xena, followed by Gabrielle and Joxer,
rushed to where the explosion had come from. The trio found themselves at
the entrance to one of Aphrodite's temples.
It was nearly falling to
pieces...
"Now look what you've done!" came
Aphrodite's furious voice from the inside.
The trio ran into the temple, where the
Goddess of Love was venting her anger...
"You little monster! I told
you not to play with the bottle marked 'Passion', it's totally
explosive stuff!"
Xena was confused. "Aphrodite, what's
going on?"
The goddess turned at the intrusion,
"Xena? What are you doing here?" It wasn't that she
didn't like her brother's little warrior babe, she had a
killer outfit, but she was interrupting Aphrodite's
lesson.
"Xena!" came the tiny
voice.
A little blonde girl dressed in a pink
outfit, just like Aphrodite's, came running out from behind the Goddess of
Love. It was obvious that the child was the one that Aphrodite's wrath was
aimed at.
She rushed to Xena's side. Xena bent
down to the little girl's height. "Alicia?"
She looked up at Xena with bright, blue
eyes. "Please, you have to save me from my evil Fairy-Godsmother,"
she pleaded.
Xena wasn't sure she'd heard
correctly, " Who's that?"
Alicia frowned, then turned and point to
Aphrodite accusingly, "Her!" She yelled at the top of her tiny, musical
voice.
Aphrodite was shocked, "Moi?"
she asked, as she put her hand to her chest.
Xena stood up menacingly and glared at the
barely clothed goddess...
"Let's hear it, Aphrodite. What's all
this about?"
"The little rugrat wandered in here
yesterday and said something about her dad and her wicked stepmom. So, you
know me, I was just trying to help...but then she became
like...totally bizarro and now she's calling
me..."
Alicia cut her off, "My evil
Fairy-Godsmother!"
"Arrggghhhhh! As IF! Dear child,
do these features look evil???" Aphrodite held her hand out to
her side, as if to say...look at me, I'm innocent!
Gabrielle touch Alicia's shoulder to get her
attention, "Do you mean the Fairy-Godsmother from the fairy
tale?"
They all turned to her. Alicia looked
up at her, "Mmhmm..." And nodded her head.
Xena spoke to Aphrodite, "This child's
name is Alicia...Princess Alicia of Cyra. Her father and I
have been friends for years." Xena bent down to the child's height
once more.
"Alicia, how did you get here? Did you
run away from home?" she asked the little princess.
She nodded, "Uh huh. Daddy got
married. I don't like my stepmother. So I came here to find my
Fairy-Godsmother..."
Xena felt something pull at her heart,
"Well I think your father would be very worried. Maybe we
can take you home and work this out..."
The little eprincess looked ecstatic,
"Then you'll be my Fairy-Godsmother?"
Xena smiled, "Just for a little
while..."
Aphrodite was indignant. "Great!
Get rid of her. She obviously doesn't know a good thing when she
sees it...!"
Xena repressed a grin, then she turned to
the exit, holding the child's hand. "Come on, Alicia, I think we'd better
take you home..."
Gabrielle and Joxer followed them out of the
temple, leaving Aphrodite in her partially destroyed
temple...
*~*~*
Aphrodite wandered aimlessly around the temple,
kicking the debris out of her way. She spotted a tiny, pink slipper, just
the like the ones that she was wearing...
"Oooooh...my little pooky's slipper." She
picked it up. It looked so tiny in her hands.
Suddenly, she was standing in front of one of
her full bodylength mirrors. Her mirror image began to speak to
her.
"Admit it." the image sympathized. "You
miss the little monster."
Aphrodite argued with herself, "As if!
What's to miss??? The noise? The crying? The Fairy-Godsmother
rap? Well, she did have potential..."
Her image knew better, "Fess up, girlfriend, you're
suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome. Your little boy Cupid is all grown up
and now you're lonely."
Aphrodite smiled. "She was kinda
cute, wasn't she?"
Her mirror self was playing amateur
psychologist... "No duh! Your problem was that you didn't get to
play the 'mommy' gig long enough, you know?"
Aphrodite was skeptical, "You mean like and
stories and cuddles and stuff?" She was getting used to the idea. "I
could do that...you think I could do that?"
Her image scoffed, "Totally! She could
be your own personal mascot." The image folded her arms, "The
Demigoddess of Puppy Love..."
Aphrodite grinned, "I'm such a
visionary..."
*~*~*
It was time to start their lessons...
If little miss princess is going to be my little
Demigoddess, she'll need to learn a few things...
Princess Alicia sat in her new little throne, in the
middle of Aphrodite's newly renovated temple. She was happy. She and
her new stepmother had sorted things out and her father let her spend most
afternoons with her former Fairy-Godsmother.
The Demigoddess-in-training sat there, listening
intently, as Aphrodite gave her instructions.
"...but never forget to smile. Never
frown. It'll give you wrinkles." Aphrodite frowned. Alicia was
about to point that out, but Aphrodite continued.
"Now, when you go out in public, always
wear clothes like mine." She gestured to her bikini-style outfit and
veils. She frowned again, "Okay, maybe just a tad
more. After all, you're still only a kid and you don't want too
many guys chasing after you..." she conceded.
Alicia scrunched up her face. Boys!
Yick! She looked as if she'd sucked on a lemon...
For the rest of the afternoon, the Goddess of Love
had her protege measured and fitted for several little goddess-type
outfits.
Alicia loved all the attention,
and the clothes! When her father came to pick her up later
that night, she was grinning.
Learning how to be the 'Demigoddess of Puppy
Love' was fun...!
The
End