A Fury from Within

part 2

Iola and Althea laughed “ We’re going to our Donarium. Our sanctuary. To protect the prospective Furies and their protectors. Mother Alecto enlisted Ares’ to create a shield around the sanctuary which shielded it not only from human eyes but also gods. To them it’s a wide span of green forest. To us it’s a home. Ares is a mean asshole but at least he did this for us

Tara raised an eyebrow and snorted ‘ Bullshit. Nothing is free in this world. “

Iola said with a slight grimace as Althea turned right into the forest “ The whole quid pro quo thing applies here. Ares helps them out by this and in training and later on the best trained Fury will battle in an one on two tournament “.

Tara gasped “ That’s unfair. Anyway.. who will she be fighting?”.

Iola and Althea cringed “Phobos and Deimos. His sons”.

Tara‘s eyes widened as the recognition bells started to ring in her head “The gods of terror and fear right?”.

Iola and Althea said nothing but their eyes said it all. After a few minutes of silence the car suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere.

“Ok, why have we stopped in the middle of nowhere?’ Tara asked uncertainly as they came out of the car.

Iola shook her head at her “Did you just listen to what we said? The Donarium is invisible to anyone who hasn’t entered it before.”

Tara rolled her eyes “Whatever. How will I get in then?”

Althea looked at her drolly “It’s a simple process. Raise your foot and take one step and imitate that action a couple of times.’

Tara rolled her eyes at her tone. “ Your tone ain’t helping now. Since I haven’t been here how the heck will I enter?”.

“ Cause you’re with us”. Althea said deadpanning. She reached out in the air and typed in an invisible keypad , almost immediately a voice replied “ Come later I’m sleeping.”

Althea answered scoffing “ With whom I wonder Miles.”

There was a thud and a curse. It seems like the unknown entity named Miles had fallen “ Atty? Where the hell had you been? Ari is royally pissed off you missed your practice. Had to risk my ass for you. “

‘ Ari?”. Tara whispered to Iola.

“ Ares. The nickname is going to get him spontaneously combusting one day. But he lives to piss us off. Suicidal jerk.” Iola whispered back as suddenly a door appeared in front of them. Tara eyes widened even more. This is super cool and at the same time weird as shit.

‘ My lady.’ Althea said in a fake British accent as she stood at the side ‘Hurry up, I have to close the door”.

Tara walked in and stopped abruptly at the sight of a castle so big that it would put Windsor to shame. As beautiful as a fairy tale castle, it was mostly white except the black turrets and towers. Suddenly from the west of the entrance a bell started to ring. A deafening church type bell. Covering her ears she shouted out to Althea “ What the hell is that for?”.

Althea answered looking at the two people emerging from the door “You. The grounds are enchanted to let a telepathic alarm to Ares and Athena about a newcomer.”

Tara gulped as they came nearer. They were scary looking at the very least.

Ares glared at Althea and growled “ You should not have gone. You have much practice to do. I would have sent someone else”.

Althea glared back “ Do you think I care about your damn orders? I wanted to go, so I went. So suck it”.

Every feature of Ares was screaming out restraint. His face had the wrath of hell stamped on it “ Mind your tone little girl. It is by my goodness that you’re not hanging by your toes on the ground for your insolence”.

Althea flipped him off and said mockingly “ Please try.”

Athena snapped “ Shut up the two of you. Kill each other later. “. She looked at Tara and asked Iola “A prostáti̱s?”.

Iola shook her head “ Fury”.

That ended Ares and Althea’s glaring match. Ares looked at Tara with a raised eyebrow “ She ain’t looking like much to me. Tall but gangly”.

Tara glared at him and said “ Say that again and you’ll be singing in soprano for the rest of your immortality.”

Athena raised an eyebrow at her and said “ You do know he can kill you with a snap of his fingers?”.

One end of Tara’s mouth went up “ I think you have me confused with someone who gives a shit”.

Athena laughed “Suicidal, feisty and snarky. I like her already. Come on Tara let me give you our form of an orientation”.  She looked at Iola and Althea and barked “ Move it and go for archery practice .”

While Athena barked out orders , Ares started at Tara. The gangly comment was just to rile her up. She far from it. Even in a T shirt and jeans she was beautiful in so many ways. He could feel the aura of a warrior around her pulsing. She felt like a true Fury . But he wasn’t the type to judge quickly. Orientation was going to test her and he was going to have great fun seeing her struggle her way through.

Well i wanted to keep cliffhangers so i divided the chappie in two.When i started the story i wanted a sort of love triangle which on onse side wud be a god. So my inspiration came from Xena the warrior Princess which i used to watch when i was a kid where Ares, the war god always chased after her. If you like this plz

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