"Ugh" Wonder Woman exclaimed after Ares made the blow to her face. She was flung back several yards with the force of his mighty hit. She got up, using part of the broken wall she hit, she spat out the blood forming in her mouth then wiped the excess blood off her lip with the side of her hand.
"You think you're all high and mighty god of war?"
"Why yes child, I am. And I will destroy all those who are beneath me who will not convert to my ways." Ares replied.
"I will not let you lay waste to land of the mortals!" She yelled with fury in her eyes.
Wonder Woman ran at him with great speed and with great force uppercutting the blood thirsty tyrant. The impact made his feet leave the ground. She then roundhouse kicked him in the ribs which flung him back. In mid-air he swirled around to land on his feet, the balls of Ares's feet landed on an upturned wall. He used this to his advantage and used it to launch himself directly at Dianna. But she used his momentum has her advantage and side stepped to grab his foot to spin him around and hurled him into a wall. Ares went straight through and crashed into the abandoned building next to the one they were just in. With integrity, Wonder Woman staggers into the building to face Ares, but he is not where he landed. In realization she quickly put up her fists but it wasn't enough for what came next. Ares picks a metal beam and like a bat, he swings and hits Wonder Woman, sending her flying back, destroying two cement walls in the process. Dianna didn't get up right away like the god of war did.
"You really think you can defeat me?" the titan asked.
He strolled over, with pride, and grabbed Dianna by the hair.
"You think you can disrupt my plans?" he asked as he threw her at a column which cracked when she hit it. Her cries of pain echoed through the great halls.
"Never have I been so amused at such an idea." he laughs with an evil grin.
Wonder Woman coughs up blood, her vision is going black around the edges and her breathing is getting shallow.
"Why don't you just give up now? There is no-" Ares was interrupted.
"Ne-never" Wonder Woman said weakly.
"What?" Ares said appalled by the idea she would speak to him.
"Never!" she said with great strength. "Never shall I give up! Not to you! Not to anyone!" She staggered to get up at first then she held up her head high, her pose bold and firm.
"I will never give up on the ones who can't fight for themselves, the ones who need me the most! I will always fight, never stopping, till my last breath!" As she yelled, she could feel the blood trickle down her cheek, she must have been cut when Ares flung her. Before she knew what happened, Ares had her by the throat.
"Well then, I'll make sure to squeeze the last breath out of you and determine your demise." Ares spat out through clenched teeth.
He was crushing Wonder Woman's throat and she wanted to give in, oh how badly she wanted to just surrender to the black abyss circuming her vision. And as she closed her eyes she saw what would become of the world if she let Ares rule over it. "No!" she thought. "Not today!" Her eyes opened wide and she plunged into his colossal fist with the metal rod she picked up when she was on the floor. The mammoth of a god whaled in agony, she then pushed off his chest and freed herself. Wonder Woman slid back on all fours then lunged towards Ares. Just as she reached him, she jumped twisting in the air and grabbed his chin pulling him down on the flat of his back, the ground cracked underneath. She looked down at him, Ares the god of war, nothing more than a wriggling worm blinded by power. The last thing Ares heard was "Not ever!".
Ares woke up to the sound of laughter, but it wasn't heartfelt laughter, it was his uncle's raspy and manic cackle. Hades was laughing at his nephew's foolishness which lead him at his front step, in the underworld.
