Carystus

Ares

  All the gods and goddesses, Aphrodite included, were in the temple. I couldn't help but feel a bit sick when I noticed the mortal men hanging onto her arms, eyes glazed over with lust, and jumped when one of them leaped at me and rammed me into the wall.

    "She's mine, mine you hear!" He snarled. His voice was strangely gruff and rusty, and his breath smelled like rum, "She's mine and will always be mine, ya know?" Suddenly a pair of hands grabbed his neck, I heard a quick snap, and he slumped to the ground, leaving me face to face with Ares. He rolled his fiery eyes and kicked the man away.

  "Mortals. Dead in the blink of an eye, eh, punk? Heard you're immortal, hm? How did ya do it?" He smiled at me, showing surprisingly white teeth, "Yer what some girls would call 'hot' arentcha? Oh, you do look cute when you're mad." Suddenly his face grew serious and his eyes narrowed at me, then he raised his voice a pitch or so to mimic mine, waving his arms around just to annoy me even more,  "Ares, please, you don't understand. Let her go Ares. Please! Ares, no!" His voice dropped back to normal and he mimicked the breaking of a ribcage with a pop of his gum and a squeeze of his hand, "Remember that, punk? Where's that girl now? The last time we met it was because you left her unattended and she ran off with someone else and never looked back for a millennia or so... And yet you still stay with her? You're a weird creature. Come to that, what are you? Oh, and keep your eyes off my lady there. She's mine."

   I could feel myself trembling with rage. This god and I had history, " I already have Thais," I hissed, my face inches away from his.

  "So yer sayin' that I can have the little Chick of a goddess to myself? Bah! As if you could resist her." He stated with equal ferocity, but I noticed him take a step back. For a second there was a sharp pain in my temples. My eyes must've darkened quite a bit really quickly for the colour shift to be noticeable enough to creep out a god. 

   "Try me," I snarled. Within seconds Aphrodite was involved, and she even attacked me with love perfumes so many times that I got a migraine, but I still didn't really find her remarkably tempting or anything- I guess my brain knew it wasn't real. 

  A tanned hand grabbed Ares' shoulder and pulled him back, then yanked me away with enough force to yank my arm out of its socket. I found myself being pulled away from the couple and face to face with two angry, reddish-brown eyes. Oh, lord.

    "What," Thais snapped, eyes narrowing dangerously, "Were you doing with dove girl?"

      I opened my mouth to object but she shook her head at me, furious, "I do not even want to know why you were anywhere near that stupid god, much less-" She stopped suddenly, eyes turning a sort of angry-yet-innocent- blue, noticing that she was getting us a lot of attention from everyone else in the temple. She cringed and I knew she was biting her lip to stop herself from screaming in pain. I led her outside and sat her down, putting her head between her knees.

 "Thais," I said softly, rubbing her back, "You can't just let that happen. You know the more colour changes the more pain you'll go through." I stopped talking when she raised her hand, motioning that I should be quiet. When she opened her eyes they were back to their usual royal blue. I noticed she was shivering and motioned towards the temple. She shook her head-a clear no. 

 "So... Who else is here that I should know about?" I asked. This led off to her blabbing-Percy was here, rumor has it that Annabeth and him had a smooch, dad is thankfully not here, the Stoll's were here, blahdeeblah. You never get old for gossip I guess.

  Suddenly twelve bursts of light came from the temple, and everything fell silent. I arched my eyebrows and turned my head slowly.

 And found myself face to face with the biggest raven I had ever seen.