Aphrodite is currently fed-up with everything that happened to her. First, her Ares had the audacity to reject her. Then, the other pantheons hated her guts. Finally... that blind idiot girl managed to steals Ares from her! Her! The most beautiful Goddess in Olympus! No one would do such thing to the Goddess of Beauty like that! No one! Ares is hers and hers only! It's true that she doesn't necessarily loved him back, in fact she never loves him at all in the first place, but he belongs to her! He is like the most rarest figurine in her collection of her lovers and in fact, he is perhaps the only god that she liked because of his more violent aura than the other god's aura, surpassed even Poseidon. She always had a thing with violent men, because they usually much more vigorous in bed...
When she returns back to Greek Pantheon, Zeus and Hades eyed at her, warily. They seems to think that Aphrodite had become more and more dangerous if she isn't restrained right away. Poseidon doesn't suspect anything from her, but when she tried to talk to him, he quickly distanced himself from her. She noticed that Apollo and Athena aren't with them and Artemis had been glared at her constantly.
Suddenly, someone poked her from her shoulder. Aphrodite quickly glared to someone behind her. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"
It was Mercury, looked all fancy and that. He looked quite nervous and flinched when Aphrodite yelled at him. "Hi... um.. Do you want to go out with me?"
Aphrodite relaxed a bit. She eyed at the rose that Mercury gave to her, suspiciously. But then, she broke a what she thought as her pretty grins -but Mercury found her grins to be sinister- "So... a Roman Messenger God wants to go out with me? The Greek Goddess of Beauty?"
"Well, when my pantheon first met yours, you never paid attention to me. Only toward Hercules and Vulcan..." Mercury stuttered, but he indeed tells the truth. Aphrodite only flirted with Hercules and Vulcan because they looked buff, while she ignored Mercury because he looked too scrawny for her taste, even scrawnier than his Greek counterpart, Hermes.
Aphrodite batted her eyelashes. "It's a date then?" She slowly circled her arms around his. "Where will you take me, oh Mr. Mailman?"
Mercury gulped, but he kept smiling at her.
Nox wondered where her daughter is lately during the night. Thanatos seems to know something, but refuses to tell her. Nox worried that something terrible happened to her daughter. But those thought immediately vanished and when her daughter, Nemesis came to her with Ares besides her, Nox couldn't help but realized about what truly happened with her daughter.
"Mother." Nemesis called her. "I.. eh, there's something we need to tell you..." She looked quite nervous, Nox could detect that. But when Ares is also as nervous as Nemesis is, Nox couldn't help but smiles.
"I know."
Both Ares and Nemesis looked shocked. "Wha..? How?"
Nox laughed. "I am the Goddess of the Night, my dear daughter. I know everything that happened during nighttime, including your... dealings with him." She motioned to Ares, who now blushing really, really red right now.
"Lady Nox, I'm sorry..." Ares apologized, but quickly cut off by the Primordial Goddess of the Night.
"What for? I am truly delighted that my own daughter, Nemesis, finally found the man of her life! Do you have any idea of how long I kept pestering her to get married already?"
Nemesis mouth gaped with her face is now as red as Ares' cape is. The look on both of their face is enough to make Nox laughs.
"Alright, I shall give you two my blessings." Nox said. "With one condition," She turned to Ares. "If you harm my daughter or even dare to cheating on her, I shall send all of her siblings to get you, God of War..." She murmured, darkly.
Ares gulped at this, but quickly looked solemn. "I swear upon the Styx that I will never ever try to her your daughter or even cheating on her."
Nox then looked satisfied at his statement. "Good. Now, when is the wedding?"
Vulcan stopped hammering the sword he was currently making. "You want me to what?"
Apollo repeated his request, only much slower than the last time. "We need you to create the strongest golden net, one that can only trap goddess, not god."
The Smith of the Gods looked thoughtful at this. "Is this for Aphrodite?"
"Yes. Wait, how do you know?"
Vulcan grinned. "Lucky guess. And... I also hated her guts, because she ruined my wife's image as the Goddess of Beauty. Venus is beautiful, but not cruel as your Goddess of Beauty."
Apollo looked happy at this. Athena was right, all gods supported them. "I'm not going to doubt your skill. Because you reminded me with my half brother, Hephaestus. And I believe you also as skilled as he is"
Vulcan gave him a genuine smile. "I will finish the net before your sister starts pulling her Moon Chariot."
AUTHOR NOTE: Uhh... I guess Nemesis will never have her own tag in this site then...