"I don't get it…" Artemis looked at het friend.
"That is the tenth time you say that." Hestia commented. "What's so wrong with wishing to spend time with ones friends?"
"Nothing. I just don't get why."
"What why. Really Artemis, sometimes you make less sense then a worm." Athena rolled onto her back and let the sun warm her belly. "Wait, forget that one; make it 'less then a drunk Ares'." She snickered.
"Athena!" Artemis threw cold water at her friend. "Be glad you're a goddess, for otherwise you would be a worm right now."
"Beware!" Hestia laughed. "Or you end up being chopped into neat layers. Ares would have your head should you try to do such a thing."
"Before of after he finds himself to be a needle-cushion? Mmmmh?" Artemis retorted and pointed at her bow. "Who do you think is faster? The God of Massacre or the Goddess of Hunt?"
"God of Massacre." Athena immediately countered. "Who else?"
"Well…" Hestia led her fingers run through the water. "Maybe in run the Hunter, but in reactions? Sorry, dear Artemis, but I truly think it's the War-god."
Artemis pouted. "You simply don't like me!"
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"You hopefully know you endanger your live?" Zeus walked up to Ares and sat down, back against one of the trees.
"My live?" Ares pulled his gaze from his wife to look at his father.
Zeus snorted. "In a matter of speaking, you dumb head. They are virgin goddesses, the only ones nobody should ever watch while bathing. Not even another god. Forgot what happened to Aktaion or Tiresias?"
"No, how could one?" Ares looked down again. "But there is hardly a problem. I have a right to watch my wife. Be she bathing or not."
"I didn't know you were married to three women."
"Just leave me be, alright?" Ares smiled when Athena started to frolic with Artemis. So beautiful, so very very beautiful.
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"Someone is watching us." Hestia stated. "When do mortals learn they never should?"
"It's not a mortal." Athena looked up the hill. "It's a god."
"A god?" Artemis' gaze shot up the hill as well. "Who would do such a thing?"
"Who do you think?" Athena snickered and waved to some one on top of the hill. "He is watching me and sometimes ofcourse his gaze strays to you. Don't worry; he's not going to rape you or something."
"Ares?" Hestia slightly turned from the hill.
"Don't you think any other god would have been castrated or something like that?" Artemis pulled Athena's hand down. "Come, let's not let him disrupt our girl's day."
"Girl's day?" Laughter rang through the forest. "When did you get up with that?"