The Great, Mighty, and Ugly [ONE SHOT]

The Great, Mighty and Ugly

           In  one state country they called ‘Armenia’ where beautiful flowers blooms when the sunrises , they were blessed with beautiful nature yet little did they know a monster was living in the castle; surrounded by the thorns and thick grass, by this, people of Armenia feared the monster the most and avoid to go in the forest.

          A woman soaked her milky body in the pool of white liquids, 3 persons around her helped her to get bathe and clothed her like a child, for the people in Armenia knew that she was the offer for the great warrior, God of War, Hephaestus, In his last 376th battle he gone to his homeland for a rest, but a tragic event happen during the celebration 

        “scheissen!” exclaimed by the god with great shock plastered on his face, people in the hall was jargogled on what’s happening
The witch point her staff on his head, he also noticed on how she clench her teeth like he done something unforgiving, she began to smile creepily
         “Oh! My! Lovely Hephaestus, what a great sight I am seeing right now, look at your face, so afraid, where’s my great warrior?” Her voice echoed through the Halls, the music, the laughter, the dance, were all stopped, when the witch came and ruined the celebration

      “get your filthy staff out of my beautiful face, darling” Hephaestus lazily said and  composed himself in his chair, and moved the Witch’s wand in his face, he cockily faced the table on his side and continue drinking his red wine, but Witch’s heels begun to echoed in the hall, dragging her dark green cape laying on the floor.
 
“Do you remember, Hephaestus? When you burned my village? Remember on how you stab my sisters, my mothers, fathers, and brothers? With one sway? Do you remember it? My Village was once like this but you ended it all, I saw my Mother begging at her knees to stop you from burning my village” She sat at the King’s throne chair or rather Hephaestus’ Chair in the north-bottom-aisle on the Hall, She crossed her leg, authority and revenge was screaming around her
“But what did you do? ---“he stop her and continued her laments
“Oh? That’s your Mother? The one I slashed with my ‘Peleus’?” He poured another bottle of wine on his cup and drink straight to his mouth
“What did you say?” The witch suddenly appear in front of him, that made him startled and unhand his cup of wine, the sound of rolling cup lingers through the room
“That woman is your mother? Who offer her child to stop the fire?” He again get the bottle, he drank is off straight to his mouth, he look at her with cold stare, she grips her staff tightly with anger

“How dare you?!” she get her staff with both hands and pointed on Hephaestus but Hephaestus only look at her with annoyance
“Can you stop? Do you still believe that you can win against me?” bluntly said by the great warrior

        “No, I don’t, but I believe I can make you suffer forever” answered by the Witch
The witch started to chant something “King of sun, this man should be damned and ugly, for he will be cursed and only true love will make him beauty” she repeated this words 3 times and stop that makes Hephaestus laugh hysterically which echoes in the whole hall with the people
But after while he felt his face were burning, he screams in pain, he held his left face, until he lies on the ground in agony, people around them was in terror and begun to move out from the castle hastily, the witch bend her knees and said to Hephaestus
       “Remember this well, only true love will set you free” and the witch gone in a mist of green
He screams and screams with all his might but he begun to gone tired and fall asleep, the servants was distress with what just happened, they all go encircled around the body of Hephaestus and they began murmuring on how Hephaestus looks horrible with his burnt skin.

        Years passed, Armenia became the most scariest country in the whole world, since then Hephaestus woke up from his faint, they search for all the young men who have handsome faces and cruelly skinned each of their left faces and sew it on his face until he gets the perfect match to his right face, young men in Armenia was nowhere to be found but in Hephaestus’ underground, and they capture a woman and they face it to Hephaestus to test the woman on how she reacts towards Hephaestus’ new left face, but the woman just said
“Is that even a face?! That’s a face of a monster!” she howl into Hephaestus’ front, Hephaestus stare at her with his cold eyes that in any minute you’ll be frozen.