Part Five
The numerous gods gathered in a circle of sorts, in the main hall
on Mt Olympus. Zeus, Hera, Ares, Aphrodite and Cupid stood in the center
of the ring of gods, making a circle of their own.
They all focused on one being...Xena. The gods leant their
strength and abilities to the inner circle of gods and held their place as an
image formed within the inner circle...
The Goddess Of Love was chained up in a tiny cave. Her skimpy
clothes were torn and dirty, and two male guards stood watch as they tormented
Xena with their swords, thrusting them into her beautiful body, leaving yet more
tears in her clothing.
Ares stood by the portal and watched, his eyes filling with
absolute hatred for these men that dared toy with his love. What made it
even worse, was that they were his men, his to command...and now, his
to destroy...
"I swear to you, Xena..." Ares murmured to the open portal.
"When I get through with them, they'll wish they had never heard of the God Of
War..."
Rage also simmered inside every god present. Before, gods
would often toy with one another, when they each interfered with their business,
but they all agreed that Discord had gone too far. If she hadn't already
been banished, and with out her godhood and immortality, they probably would
have torn her apart to live out her eternity in pieces, scattered across
Greece.
Cupid and Aphrodite stared at their mother's image. They
couldn't believe the way she looked. Xena always took pride in her
appearance, always flirting with everyone and making teasing comments, always
accompanied with a couple of tips on how to improve one's looks and
demeanor.
But this wasn't her...
The twin gods hardly recognized her. There was no love in her
eyes, only a divine vengeance. Her eyes were the only part of her that
seemed alive, though. Her hair fell limply down her back, her lips were
slightly parted, her legs were just dangling below her. They didn't know
whether to be thankful that she was still alive, or fearful of what she might
do, what she might be like, when they released her...
*~*~*
It was Ares that Zeus decided to send, to get Xena. Not only
did he know her captors, but since they were his own men that had his wife, then
he would decided their fate.
When Ares appeared in the cave, Xena barely spared him a glance,
her hateful gaze still centered on the group of men, who could hardly be classed
as legitimate warriors, that were boasting about their so-called
accomplishments.
"A-hem!" Ares interrupted. The group turned to him, then
immediately stood up.
"Lord Ares! What are you...I mean..." the obvious leader
started. He turned to Goddess Of Love. "We have Xena here, just like
Discord ordered. I doubt that she'll last too much longer..." he chuckled,
his chest puffing out with self-importance.
The man's ego deflated like a balloon when the God Of War grabbed
him by his hair and pulled his face within barely an inch of his own. "You
don't take order from Discord. She's not even a goddess any longer.
That bitch has been sentenced to mortality, for the remainder of her very short,
human life."
He thrust the man away from him as the rest of the group took a
step back, trying to escape their god's attention.
Ares hardly noticed them as he kept his focus on their
leader. "This has me beyond furious," he stated in a deceptively calm and
quiet voice as he moved to unchain his wife. "The Goddess Of Love happens
to be a close friend of mine, despite our obvious differences..."
Xena collapsed into his arms. She closed her eyes, the feel
of his strong arms around her, was absolute ambrosia to her weak state.
Ares placed a hand over her head, as he let his healing touch take care of
her.
"Ares..." she murmured, her strength returning.
"Shh..." he placed a finger against her lips, then went back to
empowering her. He transferred some of the power he received from
Discord's demise, into Xena. Within seconds, the tattered strips of
cloth that used to be her trademark outfit, was once again whole, flimsy,
skimpy, and thoroughly transparent.
Xena smiled up at him as she stood, shakily.
In that moment, Ares knew that the rage they had all witnessed in
her eyes had not been maniacal in the least. It had been a strange
anticipation, for when she would be released...
The God Of War realized that it wasn't up to him to punish her
captors. It was up to her. "I was issued a 'Punish at your
discretion order," he murmured in her ear. "But I leave it up to you,
Princess. What do you wish to do with them?"
A flicker of interest entered her eyes, followed by a sly grin as
she stepped closer to the group of fearful warriors. Ares watched his wife
point, and shoot.
A shower of bright petals fell over the group as content, and
down-right dopey looks came over their faces. Each man approached
the first thing that their gazes locked onto. One man bent over and picked
up a small rock. He began murmuring sweet nothings to said rock.
Another, well, he approached the man with the rock obsession and tried to engage
him in loveplay.
The third was attempting to kiss the helmet he held in his
hands. Fortunately for the helmet, it kept slipping out of his
fingers. It was the leader who had Ares worried, though. He had had
his eyes locked on the God Of War the entire time, so guess who his new
obsession was...
"Ahhh! Xena!" the god panicked and called for his wife's
aid.
Xena bit her lip and giggled, but pointed her finger once again,
and directed the hopeless leader to the chains that had held her, obviously of
Hephaestus' forge...
Ares wrapped his arms around his beloved and took her home to Mt
Olympus...
*~*~*
The second that Ares laid his wife down on their bed, the majority
of the Olympian Gods appeared in the large bedroom.
Several of her closest friends and family rushed forward. The
crowd was so thick, that Ares was forced onto the bed. The god
toppled over onto his wife. "Sorry..." he murmured as rolled off her,
conscious of Zeus' warning glare. It seemed that even though the King Of
The Gods acknowledges their rather lengthy marriage, he still was pleased with
his daughter's choice of husband.
Xena held back a giggle at the look her father was giving Ares, not
that the look on Ares' face was any less humorous. "Umm..." Ares
said.
Xena leant over and kissed his cheek. Ares immediately tore
his gaze from his father-in-law and turned to his wife. "Hey...how are you
felling?"
"I'm fine..." she whispered, as she smiled at him.
He gave one sharp nod of his head, then turned to their captive
audience of eavesdropping gods. "Now, the rest of you can just get the
fuck out of our bedroom!" he commanded, noisily and with an unapologetic
grin.
The gods all left with murmurs of protest and get well
wishes. Only Zeus, Hera and the children stayed. "Ares, I've put up
with enough from you, and no one tells me when to-"
Xena cut her father off. "Dad...come on...I'm tired and I
haven't had sex in twenty-four hours! Give a girl a
little-"
Hera bit her lip to keep from laughing as Zeus' face began to go
red. "Come on, let's leave these two alone..."
They could hear Zeus complaining as they left. "I blame that
son of yours, Hera..." he grumbled.
After they left, all four of the remaining gods could no longer
contain their laughter. Aphrodite and Cupid fell onto their parents beds
in hysteria.
Ares shoved his son from where he'd fallen on his father's
legs. "Get off me, wing-boy!"
Cupid moved over and leant up against the bed-post, then punched
his father in the leg, lightly. "Leave me alone, old
man!"
"I'm not old!" Ares pouted.
Xena laughed. "Tell that to a mortal and see what they
say..." she chuckled.
Aphrodite scoffed. "Yeah! Like you can talk,
Mom!"
"Hey!" Xena protested as she lightly tapped her daughter on the
arm.
The group slowly lapsed into comfortable silence.
"Are we all okay, then?" Ares questioned in a concerned
tone.
Xena turned to her husband, then to her two children. She
nodded with a small smile. "Yeah, I think we are..."
Her family grinned. Aphrodite crawled over to where her
mother was laying. She gave her a warn hug. "I love you, Mom..." she
whispered.
"Oooooh! I love you, too, sweet pea..." she hugged her
daughter back.
Aphrodite moved back to her place, only to be replaced by her
winged son, Cupid. "Me too, Mom..." he murmured as he gave her a hug and
kissed her on the cheek.
Xena giggled as she hugged him back. "You're such a sweetie
pie, Cupie!"
Cupid blushed all the way to his snow-white wings.
"Mo-om! You know I hate being called 'Cupie'..."
Xena stuck her tongue out at him.
They all laughed. Xena turned to Ares. "What about
you?" she taunted playfully.
Ares raised a dark eyebrow. "What about me?" At Xena's
look, he relented. "I love you, too, Princess..." he told her as he rolled
his eyes in a comical gesture.
Xena pouted. "It doesn't mean anything if it has to be pulled
out of you..."
Ares chuckled as he moved over to his wife and began kissing
her. Xena thrust her fingers into his hair as he moved on top of
her.
"Ow!" Aphrodite whispered in a harsh tone as she rubbed her
leg. Her father had 'accidentally' kicked her as he moved.
Cupid rose an eyebrow in a way that was so like his father's, that
had Xena seen it, she would have sighed and held her hand to her heart.
"Our cue?" he asked his sister.
Aphrodite nodded, still rubbing her leg as the two of them
disappeared, Cupid in a shower of lilac blossoms, and Aphrodite, in bright
yellow sunbeams.
*~*~*
Ares and Xena were too engrossed in other things to notice their
children's presence...or sudden absence...
In seconds, the couple's clothing had been disposed of, and they
lay naked on their bed, legs and arms entwined, their bodies expressing to the
other, just how much they were missed.
The Goddess Of Love eagerly wrapped her long legs around her
husband's trim waist, silently begging for him to enter her. She moaned in
pleasure when he complied, easily sliding his erection into her warm, aroused
body.
Ares groaned in absolute rapture at the feel of Xena's body clamped
tightly around his hard cock once again. Not once in their five hundred
years of wedded bliss, had either of them gone without the pleasure of one
another for more than half a day, and the time Xena had spent trapped in the
cave, was longer than either of them wanted to go without the
other...ever.
The god repeatedly thrust into the beautiful being that was his
Love, as she begged and pleaded for him to never leave her...to thrust
harder...faster...longer...
Each request was met with enthusiasm. Ares groaned long and
hard as Xena clenched her inner muscles around him, a sure sign that she was on
the edge, just waiting for that single movement that would tip her
over...
Xena dug her nails into his back, straining for her release.
Ares smiled to himself as he thrust his tongue into her mouth, his fingers
wandering down her body until he reached that part of her where their bodies
connected.
The god applied just the right amount of pressure in the place
where she was the most sensitive, still thrusting into her as he watched the
play of emotions that came across her perfect features at the peak of her
orgasm.
Xena closed her eyes, her body strung tight, just as her release
washed over her. She shuddered repeatedly as her body shattered into
a thousand pieces. The goddess could feel her body clamp tightly around
her husband's hard arousal enough to force him into his own
release.
She listened with pure contentment as he came with a satisfied
shout, soon collapsing onto her replete body. Xena wrapped her arms around
his hard chest as he pressed a soft kiss to her temple. "I love you,
Xena..." he whispered huskily in her ear.
Xena smiled softly into his neck. She nipped lightly at the
tender skin, then giggled. "That's better..."
Ares chuckled as he bent down for another
kiss...