Ares


This is what happened to Ares to make him cold towards Demigods. What heart breaking event happened to him to make it so he was distant from the other gods and the mortals?


I walk into the village; I was going to see Aofie and her mother. I was going to take them to Olympus and make them immortal, my beautiful wife and daughter. My immortal family. Andromeda has long black hair and deep rich brown eyes; Aofie (our daughter) has her mother's hair and eyes, the spitting image of her mother. They live in a small village near Pompeii it's a beautiful day with blue skies and not a cloud in the sky.

I walk down the streets past venders to their home, I knock on the door and a girl in a sleeveless white dress with blue omegas along the bottom and a rope tie about her waist answers the door. Her black curly hair comes down to her waist and she smiles, I pick up Aofie and swing her around. A woman with a matching dress, hair, and eyes comes from the room behind the girl and smiles at me, Andromeda has a beautiful smile she hugs me causing Aofie to be squished between us. She laughs and we both give her a kiss on the check.

I stay at the small house for the afternoon and when it becomes dark outside we put Aofie to bed. Andromeda and I speak for many hours and finally I build up enough courage to ask her, "Andromeda would you come with me to Olympus?" She smiles at me and tilts her head, "Ares, I love you. But I can not do that. I am truly sorry, but I can not do that. Aofie and I are humans, we would not belong."

"I can make you immortal!" I persist.

"Oh, sweet Ares, you do not understand this is our home, here in Pompeii. I am sorry, but our answer is no." She slowly stands and walks to her room. I sigh and stay in the seat. Slowly I get up and walk up to Aofie's room. She sleeps peacefully and doesn't move when I place a kiss on her check. I close the door behind myself and walk out of the house onto the streets of Pompeii.

When I return the next afternoon the city of Pompeii is gone. It is under dust and volcano ash, the mountain had blown and my Andromeda and Aofie were beneath it.

I don't look to long I merely leave and go back to Olympus, the god of Volcanoes is standing their speaking to the other minor gods and I turn him around he smiles for a split second then sees my face. His face becomes ashen and I slug him in the stomach. He crouches over and I kick him in the throat I give him a black eye but because he is immortal he becomes fine in moments. He stands up and is about to yell but I lean into his ear and say, "That is for Andromeda and Aofie, this is for the others." I start to beat him up but the minor gods grab me and pull me off him. They get Zeus and he has to slap me to get me to calm down. The minor gods let me go but I don't say a word. I leave and vow to never become close to the mortals again, it only causes heartbreak.


When Pompeii was recovered in the twentieth century I returned and walked down the same cobble stone paths, to the same building past the same merchants only they weren't yelling for you to buy their supplies they were frozen in place, hiding under their carts and running down the streets. The door to Andromeda and Aofie's house is open the house is the same tile that had trimmed the ceiling is uncovered and cowering in the corner is my family.