[Hades/Pain/Panic] The next in line

Pain and Panic marched casually into Hades' chamber, paying no mind to the dark witch next to them. In Panic's fingers was a clipboard and paper, over his eyes, some reading glasses. "Now, Hades, most things in the Underworld are running fine. But it seems to be dwindling down in population count." The blue imp mentioned, reading the statistics on the paper. Pain grabbed the clipboard away from Panic, also knocking his glasses off. "Plus, the gift shop is running EXTRA low on - Oh NO! MALEFICENT!" Pain immediatley broke out yelling and jumped away from the witch, with Panic next to him. "Uuuuh. Hello sir - MA'AM! Ma'am I mean ma'am!" Panic gave a salute to Maleficent. Pain saluted with the hand carrying the clipboard, accidently smacking himself in the face.

Hades sighed as the two imps entered the room blabbering about something or another, like he cared about what the gift store was running out of. More or less them being here could actually help, since they couldn't convince Marluxia to make it to the Underworld (which Marluxia tried to make a counter-deal but that didn't seem likely it was going to happen soon).

"Oh they still have their uses every now and then. Besides, who will I find to replace them. Coming across loyal subjects is a chore in itself am I right or am I right? But you'll come around to me eventually...' Hades gave his signature chuckle as he took his place on his stone throne. The flames on his head flared slightly at the mention of the Hellfire Council. Was she really getting them back together to fight the Heartless and Nobodies? Hades needed a distraction these days so this might just be the thing he needs.

"The Council huh. Sure this is the right time to get those bunch of useless baboons together. Only ones who actually did anything were you, Jafar, and myself. But with you saying all former members haven't been found means you've found some other replacements. How interesting." Hades got up from his throne and the clipboard Pain was holding appeared in his hands he started looking through it. Yeah, population was down, yeah the shop is out of whatever but Hades was looking for a name. Kian was crossed off because he left sometime ago, Auron...lets not go there. Here! The list of competitors for the Hades cup. He made the piece of paper with the names of the Hades Cup participates appear in Maleficent's hand and spoke up about it as he walked to her.

"Those are the names of the people in my next Hades Cup. I take you up on your offer, being second could be fun. But look at the names. Marluxia, Elaeus, Relena, Braig and several known Keybearers on that list. Some how I knew you were going to be here because of these people."

Maleficent looked at Hades as he continued to talk to her. He still charmed her, as he always did, stating the fact that good help was hard to find. Though Maleficent wondered if maybe they would be of, though little, help to her. She continued to ponder that for a moment before listening to the rest of what Hades had to say. He was correct in his assumption that new people had been found. Davy Jones and Jadis so far had been spoken to, though Jadis had not quite confirmed her membership into the council. She still needed to find more, but she felt that Hades would be of help to finding people.

And with his next words, he was just as helpful as she expected. She took the list from Hades and looked through it, seeing everyone that was on it. Several Dark XII members as well as Organization XIII members were on that list, confusing her as to why they were there. Other random people, including keybladers like Hades said, were also on the list. So... What was Hades' plan for this tournament? Random combat or recruitment? Maleficent was unsure, but she would continue to look at the list, making sure to make note of every name that was on there. She quickly glanced to Pain and Panic who were playing with action figures of herself and Sora. She snapped her fingers, engulfing the Sora action figure in Green flames.

"So... Tell me. What exactly is the point of this tournament of yours? Recruitment or is this merely for your own personal entertainment?" She said, still holding the clipboard. She would wait until it was requested back before handing it over, or until it was time for her to leave. She did have a parting gift to give to Hades, but this conversation was not quite finished. So she would wait until it was before giving this gift to him.