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Chapter 7

Aphrodite smiled freely, her melodic laughing bubbling from her mouth. So, at times she may have been called a bint, but she was actually really smart. You just couldn't live through decades without being affected by them. After seeing too much people die, and her empathic ability giving her the misery of humankind, she had allowed herself to fall into the vapour of insanity. It had been necessary, in order for her to survive.

So, there she was, laughing at her brother, as he burned his tong in the coffee he had been drinking. Okay, so maybe it wasn't really funny, but she didn't let herself to be bothered by the fact. Laughing at people you actually KNEW, was so much more fun that looking at ordinary mortals to make fun of them selves. That was why Aphrodite was bored most of the time. She enjoyed gods making fun of them selves, but every god in the world had learned to block her sight out, after she had laughed at them aloud. That was, everyone except Ares.

Ares wasn't really social god, and he was known for it, but he understood Aphrodite in ways no one else could, and so he leaved her sight free to wonder to where he was. Ares had earned the name war god, sure. He had killed people, and he enjoyed being the cause to wars. He was THE reason to most wars, but even he respected the course of nature, and starting wars just became more dangerous every time.

Not many knew about the fact, but Gods actually enjoyed Humans. Understandable, really, as otherwise they would have been bored to death.

Humans, however were stupid, and smart in their own ways. Where humans had discovered great things, and made great inventions, they had their fouls too. One of the greatest mistakes of the mankind was creating the atomic bomb, as in their own foolishness, they discovered the thing that may have become their end.

That was the reason why wars were dangerous, now days. As humankind had developed, they had moved from swords and axes to guns and mass destruction weapons, such as the atomic bomb. That made Ares job really hard, as he had to be more careful than earlier. Before, where he could have made a war between two tribes, and thousands of people could have died, the humans were now capable in bringing down their own race.

In their war between each other, the human would use mass weapons, and as fire is fought with fire, the world would be split in the middle, and the halves would destroy each other. That, of course was not the only reason. Ares had changed in his years too. Every god answered to Zeus, the god of gods. The gods would take orders from Zeus, and were forced to now and then to leave their duties to act as humans, down on earth, in order to keep the humans together.

There were fights between the gods too, of course, and that was why CGI was created. The CGI (Clone God Impersonator) was a system that allowed the gods in work to be at same time in two places. The god would create a perfect copy of him/herself, creating a ghost of him/her selves, and the "ghost" was left to deal with the god's job. As the god would finish their job in the mortal realm, their "ghost" selves would fusion with their current body, leaving the god with memories of two timelines.

The ghost was capable to everything the god itself, and was corporeal in the mortal round as well. (Hence the possibility that Xander had seen his godfather before)

The system was created so that the gods could not be killed by their rival gods, while defenseless and on mission.

Aphrodite looked at the mirror again, and reached her hand to take the drink her servant had given her. Even thought the fact that she was constantly bored, being a god had its advantages. She smiled to the class of long island ice tea, and shrugged. Okay, so human had invented something good, she thought while sipping her alcoholic beverage.

Ares stayed at Sunnydale for three weeks, spending quality time with his godson. The Scooby gang and Ares discovered that Ares was apparently related to Xander, as the trouble seemed to find him always. The demons and vampires of Sunnydale seemed to sense in some weird way that Ares was powerful, and were so drawn to him.

Ares cursed every time "Luck", but the Scooby's never found out if he was kidding, or serious. And for some strange reason Ares started giggling every time when he heard the word serious. They didn't ask why, because they really didn't want to know what was happening inside the gods head.

So there they were, at the magic box, finally, saying goodbye to Ares, who said he would stop at Japan next. Just as he was about to teleport, Xander stopped him, and gave him a package that looked remarkably as a sword. At his enquiring eyebrow Xander explained that it was just in case. They were yet to find out if he attracted demons in other places too. And so, Ares the god of war teleported to Japan.

Snape had been traveling around the world, doing the tracking spell in each seven continents. Understated to say: he was pissed. He had lastly arrived in North America, and found that the spell pointed Potter to be in California. He was soaked wet, and the false trails leading to nowhere had pointed him to the edge. He was, however able to feel small joy as he finally found the tracking spell pointing to somewhere.

After a day full of exhausting apparition, he had finally arrived in Sunnydale, California. There huge power of energy had hurled him of course, and he had ended on the head of an n older lady. In the middle of the street.

In some weird way, however the town was aware of the weird things happening there, because they just simply pretended he did not just appear out of thin air with a loud 'pop!'

After he had finally arrived before an obliviously muggle shop called the 'magic box', he did the tracing spell again, only to have it point him to a back-alley, and there, he could see Potter.

For a whole second, before he disappeared without a trace. The tracking spell was useless again, so he decided that getting back to the headquarters was in order.

Just before he Apparated, a thought entered in his mind. 'Where the hell IS Potter! And how the hell did he learn to Apparate?"

To Be Continued

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