Authors note: wow, that was a pretty long disclaimer wasn't it?? I hope I got everything in though, I don't want anybody to take this story the wrong way! If the idea of Xena and Ares in love, of them having any part relationship, or if Gabrielle and Xena being 'just friends' is not the type of story you want to read, please go someplace else. This story is for everyone at the shippers club for their support and for liking my stories, especially Kat, even when I didn't! This story takes place 20 years after the first interview I did.
Rating: PG
Now for the story!!!!! *everyone claps*
Interview 2 By Delenn
Melissa walked into the temple, she had no idea what to expect, she said "Hello?" "Hello? I'm here for an Interview with the God of War" A silver light started to fill the throne then a Bronze light came too, with in seconds the God of war was sitting on the throne, sitting on top of him was the Goddess of Victory, the Goddess whined "Oh come on Ares, pleeeeeeeaaaaaase let me have this chair" Ares said "No, make your own chair" the Goddess continued "Ppplllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaassssseee" Ares said "It's not a comfortable chair for you" the Goddess said "I'm not getting off, so you might as well leave" Ares shook his head the Goddess leaned down and kissed Ares, somewhere in the middle of the kiss Ares was on the floor and the Goddess was sitting happily on the throne, Ares said "That is not fair" the Goddess laughed and said "I'm a bad loser" Ares said "Fine I'll make another throne, this time" out of thin air a throne that looked exactly like the one the battle had been in appeared, Ares sat down in it when he had crossed his legs at the ankles and was sitting lazily he looked over to see that the Goddess of Victory had slid down in the chair so that only the top part of her back was against the back of the chair, her legs were spread out bracing the sides of the throne so she didn't fall out in one hand she was absently tossing a dagger, The Goddess was looking at Melissa after awhile she said "Who are you, and who sent you here? You can't be more then 14 why would you want to come to the God of War and the Goddess of D....Victory's temple?" Melissa said "I'm Melissa, I was sent to do an interview by my mom Nattily, I'm sorry if I interrupted anything" Ares said "you're scaring the girl my dear, don't forget you were only 15 when you came here" Melissa said "Who are you two?" the Goddess looked a bit riled as she said "do you want to lose a fight? Because you don't win against the Goddess of Victory" She jumped off of the throne, to Melissa she looked impossible tall and quite mean she finished speaking "Nattily eh? humm.....I remember her she was a real.......well....oh never mind you say your Melissa that's a pretty name, I'm Xena and he is Ares" The girl thought outloud "Xena......my mother mentioned a Xena in her interview but she never said anything about you being a Goddess, she told me that she was almost hit by a lighting bolt if Xena hadn't saved her" recognition came to Ares's face "Why that.....your mother didn't have the common sense to notice that she was treading on dangerous ground" Xena said "Oh what's wrong has the little girl touched a nerve in the big bad God of War?" Ares said "NO!!!!!!!!! Not the girl, her mother she was asking me all about you!!!" Xena pouted "Am I a sore subject?" Ares said "Xena my dear, that was 20 years ago you weren't a goddess then, oh stop towering over the poor girl you're scaring her to death!" Xena looked hurt and said "I don't like you telling me what to do! I'm sorry kid didn't mean to scare ya. Ares it's been 5 years since we've fought, right, will I think you've forgot that I can hold my own!" Ares said "That's because every time we did fight you would become the Goddess of Victory!" Xena said "fine then I'll be the Goddess of D.........I'll be the other thing I'm a Goddess of! come off that Throne and fight, you remind me of Zeus!" Ares roared off the throne and came charging towards Xena, who ducked out of the way just in time, Melissa said "EXCUSE ME, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW SOME THINGS, FIRST WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP, SECOND......WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP FIGHTING SO I DON'T HAVE TO SCREAM.......that's better, second What else are you the goddess of Xena?" Xena said "Well I'm the Goddess of Desire and Victory" Melissa looked amazed, she said "Wow the Goddess of Desire, what a cool thing to be a Goddess of!" Xena smiled, and Ares said "Yes, and she's my Goddess!" Xena blushed from her head to her toes and said "You wish Ares" Melissa laughed, so Ares said "and what do you think is so funny little girl?" Ares sank back into the first throne and the conversation immediately ended as Xena jumped back onto Ares's lap and told him, "This is my chair now!!!" Ares said "Sorry baby, but it was originally mine" Xena retorted "Finders keepers, losers weepers" Ares said "Yes, and I found you, so I think you just lost that" Xena said "not true, you lost me" Ares said "yes and you lost the chair, so what's more important my dear, the chair or you?" Xena smiled and said "I know you, me, I trust you with me, besides you know I'll fight, now hand over the chair" Ares said "As you wish my dear" and disappeared into a flash of sliver light, the silver light reappeared in the other chair. Xena sat down then waved her hand and another throne appeared next to the one Xena was sitting on, Xena said "Sit down Melissa, what else do you want to know? Ares, don't blame the girl for her mother" Ares smiled devilishly and said "Yes Xena, whatever you say" Xena said "Ares, you are really asking for it!" Ares replied "Yes, I suppose I am, now Melissa you wanted to have an interview go ahead" Melissa said "if I do, I don't want to hear one argument between you two that I can't possibly understand, as it is I have already had to memorize what has happened since I first saw each of you" Xena turned white, sank back into her chair and dropped the dagger, Ares turned red, jumped up and roared "WHAT!!!!!??!!!!!" Xena recovered quicker and said "ARES, out of the way!!" with that Xena's Chakram appeared in her hand and she let it flying, Ares ducked and Melissa hid, Xena said "This is a private party, I'm not in the mood to deal with your temper Ares so you are going to Calm down, Melissa you are going to tear up the part until your first Question, and I will catch my Chakram" Ares and Melissa nodded and in one fluid motion Xena caught her Chakram, she said "So Melissa let's finish the interview" then after a moment of thought waved her hand, Xena's Chakram disappeared and was replaced by a glass of ambrosia, Ares got up dusted himself off and sat back down in his throne motioning for Melissa to do the same. Melissa said "Now, I'm not afraid of gods, so I want you to tell me all that stuff that you two talked about that I didn't get" Ares razed an eyebrow, and Xena said "That's a dangerous attitude little girl. I was never afraid of Ares, through my life because of that little personality trait he has bugged me, tried to kill my friends more times then I can count and never left me alone!" Ares said "Xena you don't think I spent all that time chasing after you just because you were never afraid of me do you? You're the only person that I know to have a blood lust that matches mine, you have an insanely strong will, are a great fighter, need I go on?" Xena rolled her eyes and said "Can you believe him?" Melissa laughed and said "I never knew that gods are so entertaining! Xena, it's your own fault, you should never get involved with gods, mother says that she always regretted that choice" Ares smiled devilishly, and Xena said "don't I know that kid, now tell me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that make you a demigoddess?" Ares sighed and said "tell me not Zeus" Melissa said "hey!! This is about you Xena not my mother" Xena razed an eyebrow and said "alright, I'll make you a deal, Ares leave us alone for a little bit I'll call you when we are done." When Ares had left Xena continued "Now Melissa tell me who your father is, and I'll let you in on a couple of secrets" Melissa smiled, her mother was right gods always were interested in half gods, she said "My father is, well, Apollo" Xena smiled and said "I will have to let Ares tell Athena that! well we made a deal so, I have had a very interesting time as gods go, after Ares wouldn't leave me alone I decided against having anything to do with gods unless I had to. You know about your mothers interview, right? Well after that Gabrielle was killed and all the favors I pulled didn't work, so I was forced to go back to a promise I had made. When I was still a warlord, I plugged myself to Ares, after I left him we made a deal, I could pick one person and live out my life with them then Ares would make me immortal and I'd have to be stuck dealing with him for all eternity! Nice, well after that I let my opposite side show, and now I'm here!" Melissa asked "What else, you said a couple of secrets" Xena smiled her half smile and said "you know, even though I have always had the attitude that nobody needs gods, you think that and are curious about them, that is an even more dangerous attitude! So Apollo is your dad? you poor thing, do you know that makes you related to some of the most dangerous gods of them all? here I'll list them for you, Athena, Ares, Zeus, Artemis, and me" Melissa said "I'll remember that, but you are avoiding the question" Xena's smile disappeared and she said "You remember Hercules? Have you heard that a bunch of gods forced Zeus to let them kill Hercules? Well it's true, me, Ares, Athena, Aphrodite, Hades, and Artemis made up that group, you should know some of the things Hercules has done to all of us!" Melissa said "That's still not nice. Okay next" Xena said "fine, you tell anyone this and you won't live long enough to regret it, Ares and I have a kid, the goddess of Mercy, she was born a little bit after the interview your mother did, actually the shock was what killed Gabrielle, she just couldn't believe it and as she was walking away backwards she fell off a cliff!" Melissa said "you don't have any happy things to tell me about, do you?" Xena thought for a second then said "once when Gabrielle was still alive, I got up in the middle of the night and snuck off to one of Ares's temples, he was having a birthday party and wanted me to come, that was so fun, by the end of the party everybody was half crashed and half drunk, and we did all kinds of funny things like...oh Zeus fell asleep, so me and Aphrodite whispered into his ear that he was a dog and convinced him, it was so funny seeing Zeus down on all fours barking and begging for scraps! Do you know what it takes to get a god drunk? Ares for example had 5 bowls of punch and wasn't even fazed, Zeus had 12 bowls and wasn't fazed, so then he had another 12 and that did him in!" Melissa smiled and said "that must have been a blast, did you ever get found out? How many parties did you go to?" Xena said "I went to them all the time, Gabrielle found out about only one time, you see she had got up in the middle of the night and when she didn't see me she automatically assumed that something had happened and she loved to blame Ares so that's what she did. She got Joxer and the two of them walked to the nearest temple, the party was almost over so I was really drunk at the time and was able to say that I was drugged, unfortunately Hercules was there and wasn't drunk so he got a full tounglashing from Gabrielle and she was so worked up that Gabrielle forgot about me and I got to finish the party" Melissa asked "If you were always drunk at the parties how did you get home?" Xena said "Oh whoever had thrown the party took everybody else home and made sure they looked like the had been asleep all night and things like that" Melissa asked "Is that all you have to tell me?" Xena said "No, but it's all I'm going to tell you, Ares you can come back now" Ares appeared and said "Xena you just missed the grandest celebration ever" Xena asked "And what happened that warranted such a party?" Ares leaned over and whispered in Xena's ear, when he finished talking Xena's face lit up and she said "ooh that is to precious! By the way, I think that Melissa here still wants to know about everything we've talked about" Melissa nodded her head in agreement, so Ares said "oh you mean like the time we chased down your mother?" Melissa said "You never mentioned that!" Xena said "We did now" Melissa frowned and said "I give up, can we please just get this interview over with?" Xena smiled and said "you don't like me? I mean not liking Ares is understandable, but me?" Ares smirked and said "I am going to take that as a compliment" Xena said under her breath "you would" Melissa said "okay lets forget about telling me all that stuff, I'll just ask the questions and you answer" Xena razed an eyebrow then said "fine we can deal with that. Ask away" "Okay" said Melissa "here goes. What is your relationship, nether of you answered that" Ares smiled, Xena took one look at him and said "don't even think about saying anything, I'll handle this. Melissa you are talking about 30 years of changes in that story from each of us" Melissa "how long would that take? I was told that that was the one story I was to get no matter what" Xena thought a second then said "I think 9...." Melissa interrupted "9 hours?" Xena shook her head and said "9...." Melissa asked "9 days?" Xena shook her head, this time Ares tried, he said "9 months" Melissa looked stunned and said "9 months......." Xena added "from each of us, so really 18 months" Melissa stated "This is impossible!" Xena leaned back in her throne and said "you could say that, give up?" Melissa sighed then said "yes" Ares smiled "bye, bye" Melissa was about to protest when Xena motioned for one of the temple remodelers and said "show the reporter the door, NOW!" the man grabbed Melissa's arm and scurried out of the room, the interview was over.
The End
Epilogue:
A few months later Melissa came back to talk to Xena, the question she asked was "were you the only mortal at the parties?" to which Xena responded "no way, everybody's chosen was invited, that's why Hercules was there, everyone that is except Gabrielle, she was Artemis' chosen, but everyone knew she'd just ruin the party so we never invited her, and Joxer never came, he is Apollo' chosen, every time Hermes would come and ask for Apollo' chosen Joxer would look around then say he had no idea who Hermes was talking about! It was really funny watching Hermes, he used to get so upset about never being able to get Joxer to come. Of course Hercules wouldn't have come either, except he was not going to leave me by myself with all the gods, then he'd put on this big guy air and guard me until Ares would steal me right under Herc's nose, of course the only reason I let Ares take me anywhere was that Herc wouldn't let me have any fun. Let's see who else was there? Hera never did tell anyone which person was her chosen, and I think she was only there to watch Zeus. Oh yeah, Dite and Cupid always showed up, but there chosen's were never worth talking to, Cupid' were shy little things that fallowed him around every where, and would look at me like I was the devil. Dite' chosen was one of those big guys wit two much mussel and not enough brain. Oh Hades was always there, his chosen was a paretically depressing guy that amazingly enough had a worse disposition then Hades! Actually most all the gods were there, course I don't remember much, Ares always made a point of getting me away from Herc and into the party as soon as he could, sometimes he even got Dite to help him, we had fun me and Dite, only because she liked to play tricks on people though, we had an agreement, I helped Dite with her tricks, and she didn't play tricks on anyone unless I said so"
