Page 98 of Hades

Enyo once again attacks. I deflect with a yawn.

“All you got?” I ask.

Her face reddens as she pulls out another sword from her back.

“Nah, I was going easy on you.”

I parry the next blow but this time, I disarm her of both her weapons. There is shock and awe written on her face as I take the sword from War and use it to cut off her head. I was a little surprised that it came off so easily. The metal melted through the skin and neck bones like butter.

Before I retrieve her head, I wipe her blood off my sword on her clothes until I’m satisfied it’s clean, I grab it.

I raise the bloody, dripping thing towards Ares as I approach him and War. Ares nearly drops his sword when he realizes it’s his twin sister’s head I clutch.

“Is this what you wanted? Death to your family that cares for you? Your own sons are dead? Now your sister. When will it be enough?” I ask.

“When you and your men are lying next to them! They knew the risks of taking you on, their deaths aren’t on my hands,” he states dismissively.

He is trying to push my buttons but it isn’t going to work. I have to end this now. I toss the head at his feet and when he takes his eyes off me, I use my magic to bind him with chains.

“This is cheating!” he wails as he wiggles trying to get free.

“You want to live here so badly, fine. I willkeep you in the fields. The souls of the men you killed will be your only friends and when you beg for me to free you, I won’t. You will suffer down here until I say so.”

Aphrodite takes advantage of the tied-up Ares and approaches him.

I don’t see the glint of silver until it’s too late, a blood-curdling scream later and she calls Cerberus over.

“Here’s you a little snack,” she coos, tossing Ares’s dick to my pup.

Each of the heads give it a little sniff before backing away from it.

This gets a laugh from Aphrodite, “Yeah, probably best not to put that in your mouths. No telling when it was last washed.”

I turn my eyes from the tiny thing in the sand when I get a flash of wings near Harper’s head. There is no time to scream for her as Hermès grabs her and they are gone.

“What is this contraption you hooked on my wrist?” I ask as I inspect the colorful bracelet-type thing Drevi had put on me.

“It’s called a MagicBand.” He laughs. “The amusement park we are going to uses them for all kinds of things. You can even pay with them.”

“Oh to go back to the days of Drachmas, when you could judge the status of a man based on his sack,” I sigh.

Laughter erupts from all four men, and I glance up with a questioning look.

“Yeah, don’t say that in public. You may get more of a show than you are bargaining for.” War pipes up, his face still flush from his laughter.

“Men are pigs,” I state as my lips curl up in disgust.

“It’s the world we live in. Good thing you have the four of us to help you while you’re topside,” Pyro comments as he walks toward me from where he was standing in the suite's living room. He wraps me up tight and nuzzles his face in thenape of my neck.

I pull him in closer, “What would a Goddess do without her men? Now that you have laughed at me, are we ready to go? I know that Drevi is excited, he keeps bouncing his feet up and down.”

Pyro pulls back from me and takes my hand as the others stand.

“Yes, the park will be packed. It’s a popular place for the humans,” Frank comments.

“We came to Florida and you’re taking me to a place that’s full of people and it’s not the beach? I feel as if I got cheated here,” I complain.

“We will have enough time for that later. I knew you’d want to see the ocean and I planned that part of the trip. The next couple days are all what Drevi plotted out. He has been trying for centuries to get us to visit. We only agreed so we can share the experience with you,” War states.

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