I cannot go home yet, I need time to myself to sort things threw, for if I don't I fear I will die. It doesn't make me selfish, does it? No it doesn't, for a few different reasons. One being that without me the world as we know it would be gone. Another is that if I don't sort through my emotions I will eventually go crazy. So I am going to do this for me and let no one stop me. First, I have to make arrangements for the council to find the others, because, seriously everyone knows their all useless… besides Zeus.

Before I can do that I have to find a place to go because I can't stay in Volteria. I would just be giving myself up. Hades gave me enough energy for me to get out of Voteria to go to one place without draining all my energy and stay there and rebuild my energy and sort through my problems.

Where to go is the question? I should go somewhere they would never think to find me; I don't want to be found. I want to do this on my own and in my own time. If I was normal I would go to therapy, which I am not, so therapy is out of the question.

"Please just choose a place. You're killing me with your brooding thoughts. Aren't I supposed to be the one with the brooding thoughts?"- Hades

"Get out of my mind Hades. It isn't nice to intrude on someone's personal thoughts."

"Fine then I won't tell you where I think you should go. I'll just let the Volturi get you."-Hades

"Fine, but then I want you out of my head."

"Why don't you go to Mount Olympus? Nobody has been there is decades. Nobody would think to look there or you could go to the underworld. That would be nice, I need a report on how much damage has been done and how long it's going to take me to get that place back in order, I just don't have the time to do it myself," Hades mused.

"Hades, I do not wish to go to that dowry place you call home in my state of mind. I can just imagine the disaster it is after you or I having not been there for years. Mount Olympus? My, I haven't been there since I was replaced back in the 1700s. I couldn't go there, to many memories. But it would be nice to see my old room and all my belongings," I trail off longingly.

"All of us miss our home Athena. I miss both Mount Olympus and the Underworld. Athena go there, you need to figure things out. I must go, I am being called. Aro is not pleased with me, I'll contact you when I can."

I feel Hades leave my mind and I know I am on my own again. It does not comfort me like it used to, how could it when my mind is battling itself? I guess I am going to Mount Olympus.

I close my eyes and center myself. I push all the bad feeling out of my mind and concentrate on the love for my family, for my Ares. I let that feeling of love grow bigger and bigger until it shines from my very being. "Mount Olympus," I think. Thelight becomes brighter and then flashes.

When I open my eyes I am no longer in Volteria but on Mount Olympus. Statues of all twelve Olympians line the sides of the Mountain serving as columns. It is so beautiful. Every statue is sculptured neatly and preciously, so much so that the statue looks exactly like the real thing.

Zeus stands with his lighting bolt in hand with no mercy in his cruel eyes. Zeus was not always as he is today, calm and collected. He used to rule with a cruel and unmerciful hand.

Hera stands across from him with love and adoration in her eyes and posture, she takes the posture of a loving mother ready to comfort and love even the ugliest being. But I know that is not true for she was blinded and ruled by the power she beheld, banishing Heptues to the fiery forges in the underworld.

Poseidon stands behind Zeus with his titrant pointed downward. The expression on Poseidon's face is one that you can't read. He never was one to show emotion. He and I never did get along; we were always at each other's throats. At one point we bickered because it brought us joy and comfort knowing we had some of the old ways left.

Maybe this isn't the best place to be. I can't look at the others statues, not yet. I can't stand to see and remember how we used to be. First I need to sort through my emotions, and then I can sort through other things.

I briskly walk past the statues, keeping my eyes glued to the floor. My room, I'll start at my room. I keep my eyes cast on the floor, my feet leading the way to my room without me really having to think about it.

A sob brakes free from my trembling form when I spot my room. My room here is so different from Castle Lux, Nyx's castle. It's covered in gold, white and silver hues. What really gets me is not the room but my throne thrown into the corner covered in dust. I fall to the ground in the doorway as pain; mental and physical, racks threw my body. This is the beginning of my journey to rediscover myself. I just hope the rest of the council can take care of things till I can pull myself together.

********Ares's P.O.V********

"Aphrodite you moronic, spoiled bitch! I have half the mind to kill you!" I seethed seeing red as my anger over takes my being.

It's all her fault that Athena is gone. My love is one of the most unselfish people I know.

Rosalie recoiled in shock as if I had slapped her. "I don't want to hear it. We all know it's true, she is selfish. I didn't want this life! I didn't want to be a vampire either! I just want to settle down, have a family, and see my grandchildren and then when the time comes die! Why does no one understand that? But she gave it to me! She gave me a normal life and then took it all away! " Aphrodite spoke in a deadly calm voice, all her muscles tense and ready to fight if the need arises.

"Fighting is not going to solve anything, it won't bring Athena back." Persephone spoke for the first time since Athena disappeared into thin air.

We can't seem to pull ourselves from the clearing (Aphrodite, Apollo, Persephone and me. Zeus is back at the Castel with the guard and none gods.), maybe because we hope Athena will just appear like how she disappeared. But I know that will never happen. I let out a sigh.

"She ain't coming back today, if she comes back at all that is."

"It's my entire fault. I should have known she had negative thoughts that she was struggling." Persephone hiccupped. "I failed."

I look over and see Persephone sitting on a boulder with her head in her hands.

"It's not your fault. We all should have noticed and if it's anyone's fault its Aphrodite's. She knew Athena has always struggled with guilt over Hercules's death," I spoke up with hate in my voice.

"Aphrodite may have been the final straw but she didn't cause it. Everything has been piling up and up until she blew. Nyx's spirit took over feeling a threatening force against Athena," Apollo explained while pacing in front of the space Athena disappeared.

"Wait, Nyx's spirit took over?" I asked.

"That is not for me to tell but for Athena. So let's just hope she gets back soon, safe and sound," Apollo replied.

"Something is not right! I can't sense Athena," Persephone exclaimed.

She can't sense my love! Our guard can always sense us. "She's dead?" I speak in a broken whisper not willing to say what I know to be true.

"N-not necessarily, she could just be weak," Persephone scrambles to find the right words. At the end a little sob brakes free from Persephone. Persephone may not have been Athena's biggest fan but that does not mean she wanted her to die.

A sob brakes free from my chest and I fall to the ground in a bundle of limbs. "Why my love?" I whisper brokenly.

"You heard what Persephone said, that doesn't necessarily mean she is dead. She could still be alive but just weak," Aphrodite chocked out.

My misery turned to anger. Suddenly I am standing mere inches away from Rosalie, with anger pouring out of every inch of my body.

"This is all you fault! None of us choose to be on this council! Nyx choose us, and now because of you Athena is dead!" I seethed.

Aphrodite recoiled in shock at the tone of my voice, and the feelings that where slipping out threw my empathic ability. "You lost Hercules, I get it, you're angry, but now you have Emmett. I will never have someone like Athena, the person who accepts me for me, scars, past and all. You know what the difference is though? Hercules died in battle and Athena died because of you!"

I went to pounce but Apollo stepped in between us. "Fighting is not an option. We have already lost Athena; we do not need to lose another. I propose we finish what Athena started, get the rest of us together, and then take out the Volturi before they destroy us and then the world."

I backed off, and then turned to the forest. "My love, why?" I thought again. We shall finish what you started if it is the last thing I ever do.

Persephone looked up with red ringed eyes. "I'm in." I don't know if she said it out of regret about not being able to save Athena or because it's the right thing to do, but at this point I don't care.

Aphrodite just nodded grimly.

"Then that's, that. Where all in, all we need is Zeus, then it's the wh- all of us," I stumbled.

~~~~~~~~10 minutes later~~~~~~~~

"Are you absolutely sure she is dead?" Zeus asked after we explained everything.

We could not bring ourselves to go to the meeting room so we are in Zeus's study which has not been redecorated yet. It looks like something out of an old horror movie, the room is covered in dust and there is furniture covers all over the chairs and couches.

I speak before Persephone can, "Persephone cannot get a read on her."

"That does not make her dead, only unreadable. It could mean she is weak," Zeus says.

I don't let what Zeus says register in my brain. I don't want false hope.

"Are you going to help or not?" I question.

"Yes, Athena is a dear friend."

"Excuse me, but how are we going to restore the guard memories if we do not have Athena? Athena was the only one of us that could do that," Persephone speaks up hessently as if afraid of what I would do.

I stay quiet not knowing the answer to that.

"You have the ability to do that, Persephone, maybe not as easily as Athena but you do. You may never be able to do it as effortlessly as Athena, but you will get better at it. You can do it because of your ability to track others spirits," Zeus explained.

Persephone nodded not knowing what to say.

"Apollo you will stay here and make sure everything runs smoothly, at the first sign of a threat you call me." Apollo nodded. "Zeus, Aphrodite, you too will stay here," they nodded. "Persephone you are leaving with me." She nodded.

"You have your orders and you are to follow them, understood?"

"Yes sir," they say in unison, sensing the shift in my demeanor.

"Good. We leave in exactly 4 hours so be ready to leave, pack lightly."

If someone dares mess with me or my family they will die. I am not going to lose anyone else after Athena. Athena may have left because of Aphrodite but Aphrodite did not kill her. The old Ares is back and ready to rumble. The new friendly Ares is gone and in its place is the old not so friendly, cold hearted, numb, killing machine Ares. Spread the word, for you cross my family you are crossing me and you will suffer a painful, merciless death by my hands, Ares the god of War. Don't believe me then I dare you to mess with me.