Zacus In Homer's Odyssey

Once upon a time a 22 year old man named Zacus was walking on the dirt path toward his day job as a blacksmith's apprentice. Where he got paid only enough to support himself. However if he happened to come across a small child, Zacus would be nice enough to give him at least half a meal. He arrived at the blacksmith shop, grabbed an apron, read what his boss had left for him to do while he was out hunting squirrel. The thorough list told him to forge a sword that would be placed in a stone and put in the center of the village. He continued each hour with the same process until his work hours were over.

As he was walking home, he saw a book that had words in bold print on the cover “Hades”. He then picked it up, so he could throw it away

when he got home. Zacus was a very strong person religiously and very well grounded, so Hades didn’t sit well with him. Once he got home he took one step toward the trash can but he then caught a glimpse of his neighbor’s fire pit which had three foot high flames. His neighbor was fanning the flames. Almost tripping he walked over to his neighbor's house.

“Hey buddy, got any more room in there?” Zacus shouted over the flames

“Yeah sure, what do you got this time.” Said Tryus, Zacus’s neighbor

“Oh just a book about Hades that I found on the way home from the shop.” Said Zacus

“Be careful, word is that if you dishonor Hades he will punish you.” Tryus warned

“I'm not worried about him, if he wants to punish me then he can, he’s not even real.” Zacus said as the book disappeared in the flames.

The next day Zacus walked to the shop on the same dirt road as the day before. On his way there he would tell people about how much he hated Hades.
Little did he know that Hades was real and he was listening closely to everything that Zacus was saying. Zacus decided to go for a swim in the ocean because it was a nice day and the water was as calm as it could ever be. But what Zacus didn’t know was that there was a strong disturbance in the water.

Meanwhile Hades was down in his lair going crazy because of Zacus’s actions. He was a very greedy man because he wanted everyone to love him. When he was jumping up and down in his lair he intentionally hit the ceiling which sent a shockwave through the Earth up to the bottom of the ocean, directly under Zacus. The shockwave sent a ripple through the water and then created a ginormous wave. Zacus tried to swim away but he wasn’t fast enough. Zacus ended up being forcefully pulled toward the shore then he was slammed into his own house. As he was dieing from a stick of wood that was

crammed into his stomach, he whispered his last words,” I should have listened to Tryus.”

The people of Miami, Florida spent months cleaning up all of the debris. As Tyrus was looking at all of the destruction he caught a glimpse of Zacus’s body, his eye widened and jaw dropped. He got down on his knees and started to cry. Eventually he dried his tears, picked up the body and carried it to Zacus’s backyard, dug a hole and laid Zacus’s body in the ground. He dried his tears one last time and filled in the hole. Tyrus didn’t get much sleep that night, he lied awake most of the night thinking about what Zacus was doing.