Ch. 43: Battle With The God Of War
Maybe I was seeing things, maybe I wasn’t– with the cursed eye I could hardly be sure of what I saw. I raced out of the room and aimed to find and save Eris before Ares would kill her, despite his usually cheerful mood Ares was really a cold blooded killer worthy of the title “God Of War.” If I was going to fight him, the first thing would be to hide my face which would not be hard since he had a number of battle helmets hanging around on his walls.
The only problem I would have was finding a mask that would hide my hair since my blue hair colour was something quite significant to me only. I needed the perfect disguise but would I find it in time before Eris would die.
There was a loud explosion from somewhere downstairs and the ground shook violently, I could hear more I knew I had to hurry now more than ever. I reached out to one of the battle helmets I found hanging on the wall and three it on for size, it was tight and uncomfortable. The real battle was putting it on and packing in my hair at the same time, perhaps I would get an haircut sometime later. For now I had to stop Ares.
I reached the staircase to be greeted by an explosion of wind that sent rubble flying, there was the smell of smoke but no fire– made me wonder just where he found his explosive. I followed the sound of Eris’ shriek that rang in my hears, jus a few more steps.
“Oh Eris baby is that you?” Ares’ voice prompted me to come to a halt there on the stairs. She had been found out, I had to observe the situation from the sidelines now that I had not been discovered. “I thought we were tight, besties and all. Didn’t we use to have a good time back then. Just why did you have to be a bitch and sneak into my house? You could have just asked and I would have let ya in, did you really miss me that bad?”
Ares looked unhinged with his eyes blazing with an auburn aura, smoke sizzled from his hand as a small silver knife appeared from it. Now that was new territory for me, Ares has magic fingers– check. And I have wings. But if I wanted to hide my identity I was unable to use my powers, talk about a real pickle of a situation.
“You know how wild I get when I see blood and most especially yours, your sweet blood.” Ares started to ran his tongue down the edges of his blade and eyeing the the blood dripping from Eris’ knee. “Been a while.”
Eris backed into the wall and started to cry, “Please stop, don’t do it again. I want out, I’m drained as it is.” What did she mean by that? Did Ares drink her blood to get stronger? I was right, Ares was a problem.
I watched Ares approach her slowly causing her to shriek, I could tell she was deeply afraid. I had to do something but I had to take advantage of my first attack, I looked around me to sight a huge cabinet filled with golden trophies in five levels. All of the trophies were dedicated to him, how egoistic. I ran to it and reached to it, heavy as it was I lifted with ease with both hands. My training must have paid off.
I ran back as fast as I could without making any noise and looked over the edge of the stairs Ares was almost by Eris, “F**k it.” I gnashed my teeth as I tossed the cabinet into the air.
“Huh?” I heard Ares remark just before the cabinet came down on him with a big crash. I swear that felt relieving, I always wondered what it felt like to throw something from the stairs. It turned out it felt really good.
Eris raised her head and locked eyes with me, “You should have le– Ares– run–” she could not maintain her composure and instead started to cry after every word. She had been through a lot already from the hands of that monster.
CRUMBLE!— “Hey, hey which bastard just destroyed my hall of glory?” I heard Ares as staryed to push the rubble from his head, I guess he wasn’t called the god of war for nothing.
“Well here’s your motivation!” This time I tossed his fridge at him to seal the deal. I leapt of the stairs and landed before Eris without a scratch on me, I barely felt the shockwave. “I’m not leaving here without you.”
Eris burst into tears and cried even more. The only word she could utter was, “T– Thank—”
ZING!— What was that feeling just now, it was like my head had been set on fire– what a scary way to describe that feeling. My body jerked back instinctively while clutching tight to Eris, a second later a huge spinning blade cut through what should have been my head and impaled the wall. Did I just die? This guy really does have a one track mind.
“I missed?” I watched as Ares climbed out of the rubble with no noticeable scratch. “It’s been a while since I even used a quarter of my power and to a nameless god like you. I feel wasted. Stop groping my babe like she’s your private property, say something or I’ll cut ya open into mince meat.”
Man, was he pissed. I guess I could have owned him with the power from the bident but I had to keep my identity hidden, man this would be really terrible. My first death battle and aginst none other than the god of death himself. Talk about nostalgic.
“Eris, I want you to run far away from here.” I regreted my choice of words just after I had said it, sounded like something some guy would say in a romance movie. Eris clutched tight to my hand as she trembled in my arms. She wasn’t going to leave me. “Fine, I’ll wrap this up as soon as I can. Just stay put of the crossfire.” She nodded and backed off slightly.
Kudos to me for being so self confident when I did not have a plan. I seriously needed on now and a weapon, it had occured to me earlier that I was only able to beat Zeus before because the bident somehow knew what to do but without it I could only rely on the my own fighting spirit.
Calm down I told myself as I steadied my breathing, I had been in tons of fights before and a majority of them I was on the losing side but I had just about enough experience from it.
BOOM! “F**K!” I swerved to the right just as Ares thrust a spear to me, he was fast.
“Pick it up, I won’t fight an unarmed opponent.” Ares said in a cocky tone, was he sure he could beat me? But he was wrong, there was no way I was going to use a weapon that came out of his body. I was going to used my fists, time to see the fruits of my labour.
FWIP— I darted through the air at full speed, it was a bit hard to control but I closed the space between us in just seconds and was soon before Ares I was too fast for him to react. I threw a sharp upper cut at his jaw hoping to knock him out, BHAM! It connected cleanly but Ares was still standing even after recieving the full force of my efforts in training. I sighted a silverish glimmer from Ares palm where he had materialized a gauntlet and blocked my attack before it reached his face.
He was fast enough to reach to my attack, this was a problem. I had put everything I had into that attack and still it was not enough. I watched Ares bring down his first for my head, it was too fast for me to fall back. WHAM— I blocked it with my arm just barely and felt my legs give out, it felt like someone had dropped a boulder on me. I buckled my legs as I crouched down and lunged forward with another blow to the side of his face but he reacted to it perfectly. Clearly he had more practice than I did at this also staying in close combat would be a risk to me, but it’s not like I had a long ranged ability. I hate being at a disasvantege here… Damn!
“You’re a strong opponent whoever you are but I am way stronger.” Ares gloated, I was sure he was full of himself. And that was the perfect time to bring out my full force.
During my training I discovered that there was a way to unlock more of my power for very short bursts at a time, if I was to quantify it perhaps I would say I was using just 5% of my strength at normal but removing that restriction would allow me to use about 20%. It was a risky move since it would need me to code in on my opponent and attack when he let his guard down. But against Ares who was relishing in his own power it would, why?
Simply because he had been too cocky not to notice I was aiming for the same spot the whole time, that was how I knew if I came in with full force he would not pull back.
I buckled myself one last time and felt the power surge through me upon awakening, my fist cut through the air and went straight for his face— Ares almost blocked it in time but it was too late. KABAM— It had already connected, cleanly! “Uwaaaaaah!” Ares screamed as his body launched into the air and exploding through the roof, I huffed out in exhaustion. I did not wait to see if his body was coming back down before taking Eris up in my arms and bolting for the door. I only had a few minutes myself before I would pass out too, I had to hurry.
As for Talos, I would find her later and get back that book before she deciphered it— if it was her, I feared it would be possible. The most important thing at the moment would be to get away from the scene before someone else showes up. I had got enough information for now, I had saved Eris’ life and more importantly I had a clear comprehension of what I was up against. I was not the cause of Hermes’ death, I would unravel this mystery and clear up my name no matter what— as if it would be that easy.
“Achoo!” Did I catch a cold or something?
Thank You For Reading This Far, There Will Be Many More To Come
If I revive a magic castle I will mass release 10 chapters
