Chapter 8

Now, where was she?! She just wait until he got his hands on her, she had no idea what the Fates had in store for her and by the time he was done, she was going to be begging him to kill her. After another angry glance around the room, the War God finally spotted her and the state in which he had found her in only fueled that fire growing in his belly. He was going to skin her alive and he was going to revel in watching her squirm in excruciating pain as he did it too. It was not going to be quick either, oh no, she was not going to get off that easy. He was going to drag each agonizing second out until her insufferable screams echoed eternally throughout the halls on Mt. Olympus.

As cool as ever though, the War God slowly made his way over to her and stopped just a few feet away from the lurid scene that was playing out in front of him. He was fuming, anyone paying attention could see that Ares was one taut string away from blowing his top and certainly not someone you wanted to mess with at that moment. There she was… his completely horny sister moaning out lustfully on a bed of pink daisies while some inexperienced deity rhythmically worked his fingers slowly in and out of her needy cunt.

What made the display even more perplexing was that there were little baby reindeer grazing, seemingly oblivious, on the flowers as if they did not have a care in the world of what was going on around them. No doubt that they were there for the Love Goddess' benefit, Aphrodite was always a sucker for things like that.

From the sounds that she was making though, he was hitting all the right spots and when he started to gently suck against her desperate for attention clit, a racy moan had made its way out of Aphrodite's mouth as she arched into the sensation of her skilled lover. She was more than ready to explode, and she wanted it so badly as she started to move her hips a little to encourage him more, but he just held her still with his free hand, causing Dite to groan out in frustration as he flicked his tongue against her enflamed nub playfully.

He was teasing her and she absolutely loved it. While giving herself over to his pleasing ministrations, she was rewarded as the young God fervently devoured her, making all sorts of cute little mewing's form in her throat that only urged him on.

"Palaemon…" she breathlessly whispered out, her hands gripping savagely against the small flowers around her when he began to increase the depths and recurrences of his thrusts as his tongue swirled around her clit more eagerly.

Palaemon?! Who the fuck was Palaemon?! This was the last thing he needed today, and the anger grew more in the War God's eyes as this pathetic God fucked his sister. Before Ares had the chance to interrupt them though, Aphrodite had come undone, trembling uncontrollably from his touch as she cried out in sheer passion.

He hastily climbed his way on top of her, positioning his engorged member at her opening, keen on really making the succulent Love Goddess scream out her pleasurable bliss while he filled her repeatedly until she was a quivering mess with each thrust. Just as he slid himself deep inside of her warm depths, Aphrodite had gasped out as he plunged his way within her and her blue eyes flashed open in pure ecstasy only to meet a pair of livid auburn eyes staring back at her.

"Ares!" she exclaimed in shock, only to cause her completely unaware lover to look at her confused for a moment before he started to move within her.

She couldn't help the wanton moan that made its way out of her mouth with each deep thrust that he delivered and it was only Ares' menacing stare that was keeping her from enjoying it completely. Before either one of them could react however, the War God had swiftly grabbed the sex driven God around the neck and cruelly pulled him off of the Love Goddess. Palaemon was taken by complete surprise at the intrusion and he wasn't entirely sure what was going on but when he caught sight of the one who had a hold of him his face instantly paled.

Trying to keep things from getting out of hand, Aphrodite quickly got to her feet and latched on to Ares' arm before he could do anything rash. She was only trying to have some fun and it was so not fair that he was ruining her good time.

"Ares don't!" she cried, only to end up getting his frightening stare to turn her way and she wasn't exactly sure she had done the right thing.

He was extremely upset and Aphrodite knew that him catching her with Palaemon was not what had made him like this. There was only one person in the world who could bring this type of fury out of him and since her completely, hopelessly in love brother really could not bring himself to cause irreversible harm to the object of his rage, he had to lash out at another.

Not paying any attention to her though, Ares shrugged his sister off and brought his hand up as a fireball began to form in his palm, bringing it mere inches away from the God's face. Now this he could deal with, Xena on the other hand was entirely another story and she was the only one that made him feel as though he had no control over anything and everything in his world turned into complete chaos the moment she stepped into his impeccably flawless life. What made it even more screwed up was that his darling Princess was the only one that made everything perfectly clear for him and it scared him more times than he cared to remember with how she made him feel when he was near her or when he had to leave her.

But this, this he knew all too well…. rage, pure unbiased rage and this lucky God, whoever the heck he was, was going to be his little antidote as a way to work off some of that growing anger. The fear in his eyes only made that devilish smirk spread wide on the War God's face, he was so going to enjoy this.

"Ares, please…" he faintly heard Dite whisper, his grip on the pathetic God only tightening, "… don't do this. I know you're upset about Xena but…" she stopped abruptly when her brother turned his heated eyes her way again.

That had done the trick, she had captured his attention full force by bringing up the Warrior Babe. The only down side to that was that now she wasn't entirely sure what she should do. Something happened, she was sure of it and she silently scolded herself for allowing herself to be distracted when she was supposed to be helping to fix things between them. How could she have let herself get so distracted?

Within an instant, Ares had dropped the Sea God to the floor and he just tried to blend in with the daisies as much as he could, knowing better than to make any type of sound or movement when it came to this specific Olympian.

"Xena…? Xena…. I'm upset about Xena?" he harshly questioned, stepping towards her as she backed away from him a little, "You must mean how you were supposed to tell me when you brought her here but yet, I find you wanton and willing with this worthless scum who was fucking you!"

His eyes returned briefly to the culprit who had his sister in such a lascivious state that she completely abandoned his need to have his Princess back. As far as the War God was concerned, he was just as responsible for what had just happened between him and his darling Xena as much as Aphrodite was. At the thought, Ares just groaned inwardly, it was going to take weeks to get her to talk to him again and the idea only made him long for her presence at that moment, to feel her skin against his, the taste of her lips, the indescribable sensation that filled him as her gentle breaths hit against his chest while she slept securely in his arms.

He wasn't looking forward with starting back at square one. That was going to be pure torture because during the first go around he didn't know what it could actually be like and now that he did know it was going to drive him insane with not being able to be that close to her for so long. He knew she wouldn't let him get anywhere near her to even entertain the thought that things could lead to any type of contact and if she did then it would only be to spite him in the end.

It had somehow become his daily ritual, except on the occasion when they had a slight dispute, he would awake to the gentle tickling of her unshakable scent filling his senses maddeningly and then end his days returning to her alluring embrace and make love to her well into the night before she snuggled up next to him and drifted off to sleep with her head resting comfortably on his chest.

While it seemed that the War God was deep in thought about something that appeared to be troubling him greatly, Aphrodite took the opportunity to move closer to Palaemon. She did not want her lover to be scared off and the longer he stayed in Ares' presence would most likely ensure it.

"Let me handle this and then we can pick up where we left off later." she seductively whispered against his ear, making him shiver a small amount as her words caressed his skin.

For her, he would do as he was asked, and he was looking forward to finishing what they had started. With a lingering stroke against her cheek, he soon disappeared and Dite turned her focus back to her despairing brother.

"Do you want to talk about it?" she offered, knowing that it wasn't going to be that simple with him.

Just like she suspected, he didn't even answer her. She sighed out softly to herself, not entirely liking the mood he was now in. This wasn't the Ares she knew and it still amazed her with how much of an affect Xena really did have on him.

"I can't help you if I don't know the whole story?" she tried again, hoping that he would react.

"There wouldn't be a story if you had only done what you said you were going to do." he cruelly snapped at her, casting her a vengeful stare before just dismissing her.

"Tell me." she whispered out compassionately, hesitantly placing her hand against his arm.

Seeing that he did not completely take offense to her touch, the Love Goddess made the daisies disappear and, in their place, a fluffy red couch appeared, and she led the War God to it.

After a few more moments of silence, Ares huffed out a frustrated breath and then proceeded to tell her what happened. Maybe there was a way that he could still get what he desperately wanted.

"As I was waiting for you to bring Xena here…" he glared at her for a moment for her failure to do what she said she would, "...I got a little distracted… with um, this red head…"

"Ares, you didn't?!" she scolded, shaking her head disappointedly at him.

"Now you sound like her!" he angrily yelled back, "I didn't do anything, she came on to me. She was in desperate need of a fucking… I was only entertaining her carnal desires for a moment….", he trailed off, replaying the scenario in his head and still not believing he did not sense his Princess sooner.

Ah… jealousy… now that was right up the Love Goddess' alley and was totally something that she could deal with. She was extremely relieved that it wasn't anything major and she had a few idea's whirling around in her head on how to go about setting things straight.

"Well… did you discourage the girls advances?"

"Not exactly." he grumbled, thinking back to how he was too caught up in his own little fantasy about Xena to think that maybe he shouldn't have let the red head rub herself against his crotch.

"As she was…" he cleared his throat for a moment, realizing how bad the situation must have really looked, "… on top of me, Xena showed up and then we had an argument and she left. What?!" he asked defensively, not liking the way Dite was looking at him.

"Ares… just how much did Xena see? Actually, what exactly did she see?"

At her brother's less than responsive answer and his completely guilty look, Aphrodite knew all she needed to know. Things had definitely gotten way out of hand with this red head and Xena had shown up just in time to see all the gory details.

"You broke her trust, Ares, and when trust is forsaken, sometimes whole worlds fall apart, it's not that easy to get it back." she regretfully told him, knowing full well that the Warrior Babe meant absolutely everything to him.

She found it odd though when he bitterly laughed at her comment but it wasn't long before he graced her with the reason for his amusement.

"Like how I trusted you to help me get my Xena back?" he coldly replied. It was not a question, it was a statement, one meant to completely hurt his sister and he shrugged her hand from his shoulder once more.

The Love Goddess on the other hand felt like someone had just ripped her heart out of her chest with her brothers crushing words. If he would have slapped her then it would have hurt less than the cruelty of those words. He didn't trust her anymore? Her?! His favorite sister? Never in a millennia had something had this much of an impact on their relationship that it would cause him to no longer trust her. She really did not know how to process the hate the War God had for her now. She could feel it coming from him in waves. She desperately wanted to fix it though, but she did not know how, she felt as if her whole world was falling apart.

"Ares…?"

Without another word, or giving Dite the chance to defend herself, Ares simply walked away from her and the icy cold shoulder he was giving her as if she were nothing more to him than some insignificant flea was more painful than anything else he could have ever done to her.

"Ares, wait!" she called after him, not wanting to leave things that way as she quickly followed behind him, only to end up colliding into him when he stopped suddenly, and the impact knocked the Goddess back and she fell to the ground.

"Who the Tartarus is that?!" he angrily voiced, his eyes glaring daggers in a certain direction.

After the Goddess had collected herself from the collision, she let her gaze follow to where the War God was looking, and her eyes widened in surprise with what she was witnessing. Oh no, this was so not good, not good at all and she could feel the anger that was forming within Ares rising fast. Things were going to get out of hand and they were going to get out of hand quickly.