Eleven
The air turned colder once the sun went down and Aphrodite walked around the crowd aimlessly but there was nothing. She couldn't seem to find the person who had the other Ruby arrow and as the people started to wander it was more becoming even more difficult to see. It was dark dispute the floodlights around the stage and the bands took their own time with the lighting moving in all directions based on their music.
It wasn't something Aphrodite enjoyed.
She would have preferred a harp with some plump grapes and a bit of ambrosia rather than the drivel she was being subjected to at the moment. The singer would sing the same four lyrics over and over again, not that anyone seemed to notice.
She looked to the nearby woods and could see flickering lights within and a sanctuary of quiet. It sparked her interest, of course, and she couldn't help but move into the tree line and into the darkness.
"Hello?" She called, but there was no answer.
Aphrodite took several more steps, looking around trees, but the lights evaded her.
Frowning, she took one last look at those at the concert before she moved forward.
"Aphrodite?"
There was a hushing sound as birds squawked with the disruption.
"Who's there?"
But no one answered.
She took several steps forwards, eyes dancing around the forest floor for any kind of movement. The sounds of the concert were drowned out as well were the lights.
She came up to the water's edge and looked around, not seeing anything that would warrant her whispered name and she was starting to get frustrated.
The warmth of the arrow instantly cooled sending ice straight into her heart. She buckled over gasping; trying to pull the ruby arrow out, but it wasn't budging.
"Aura," Aphrodite jeered, knowing instantly the feeling. "I know you're there."
The wind whispered around her hair, pulling at it playfully as it moved curiously around her arrow.
"No, I am not lost!"
The leaves of trees fluttered playfully as if was laughing, but Aphrodite wasn't amused.
"I was looking for the twin of this arrow. Have you seen it?"
Freezing cold wind fluttered by, dancing over Aphrodite's long skirts, billowing them up as she spinned around. She landed in the opposite direction before she felt the gentle push of wind at her back. It was icy, like a ghostly hand straight from the underworld, but Aphrodite pretended no to notice. She had an idea who was the keeper of the other arrow and the Aura confirmed her suspicions.
The concert blared on, the mini parties of the participants were loud and festive, as they drank in merriment.
"I should have known," Aphrodite sneered.
One last push of the Aura and Aphrodite could feel the white hot arrow pulsating in the new direction as she stepped carefully back out of the forest and into the awaiting crowds.
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AN: Thank you to those who read and also took the time to share your thoughts.
There may have been a bit of confusion, but in a previous chapter Eros collected the Sapphire arrows, and in the previous chapter when she had the tingle in her foot and over E's chest, it was the arrows being removed from their respective hosts... so to speak.
Sapphire Arrows (Bella foot/ Edward heart)
Ruby with her Aphrodisiac potion (love spell) (Aphrodite and ? Any guesses who her match is from the clues?)
Gold Arrows (Rose and Emmett/Ares as many of you guessed)
Aquamarine Arrows (Still missing)