Palace of Pleasure (Arrows Part: 1)

At the top of Mount Olympus lived the ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses. Many temples and palaces were built all over the top of the mountain for the gods to dwell.  Near the base of the mountain stood a large white palace built with Greek columns and large golden doors.  Inside the hall, large marble statues of naked females decorated the hall.  Swans and white doves can be seen all over the place.  On the other side of the room stood a golden thrown decorated with birds, glowing bright in the sunlight.  In the center of this room was a large pool and swimming in it was a beautiful women.  Completely naked, her curly golden hair flowed down her back; her eyes ocean blue and a kind expression could be seen on her face.  The woman’s body seems to glow a dim light as she started walking out of the pool.  Suddenly a young maiden burst into the room and bowed down before the naked lady.
“My…my lady” the maiden cried “There…there…”
“What is it, Penelope.” The young lady said dully as she dried her flowing hair.
“We…we have an intruder!” Penelope cried, with a look of horror on her face.
“What!” the young lady said, looking surprised.  Almost immediately the golden doors flew open and a large wind blew throughout the halls, swans and doves started flying away.  Standing in the doorway was a mysterious man dressed in a black cape, his eyes glowing ice blue and a strange smile was across his face.
“Well, well if it isn’t the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite.” The mysterious stranger said as he walked across the hall. “Allow me to introduce myself, my name is King.”
“King?” Aphrodite said as she snapped her fingers, a white and gold cloth snaked around her body, dressing her like a queen.  Rings, bracelets and a tiara magically appeared around her head, arms and fingers.  “Its stranger to see a member of YOUR CLAN, here.”
“Ah, so you know about my clan.” King said smiling walking toward the beautiful goddess. “Lets cut to the chase, you probably know why I’m here.”
“Oh?” Aphrodite said appearing unafraid “Why should I, a goddess, should help a lowly creature such as you.”
“Because” King said, raising his hand (mere inches away) in front of Aphrodite. “I usually get what I want.”
Suddenly a powerful wind pushed the beautiful goddess across the room and she slammed into her golden thrown.
Struggling to get up out of her chair, the goddess of love was surprised to feel a strong force pinning her down.  Glancing up, Aphrodite was shocked find King grabbing her throat.
“So, my dear” King said looking menacing, “Will you please tell me…”
BAM! Suddenly a loud crashing sound came behind them. The golden doors that stood firmly in the doorway fell down to the floor.
Glancing around King noticed two giant men standing in the doorway.  One of the men looked young and muscular with curly blond hair, a golden Greek helmet was placed perfectly on his head.  Almost completely naked he had a gold plate wrapped around his waste, a large shield in one hand and a spear in the other.
“Well, this must be Ares (God of War)…” King said smiling “and you must be…”
The second giant man looked slightly older, his body was covered with scars.  A large curly beard hid his face and a dirty cloth was wrapped around his waist.  In his hand was a large hammer that he carried around like a staff.
“… Hephaestus (God of Metal).” King said.
“Are you alright, my wife?” Hephaestus asked gently as Ares walked menacingly toward.
“How dare you try and hurt the Goddess of Love!” Ares bellowed angrily waving his spear around “Lets show you the might of the Gods!”
“Alright,” King said looking interested rather than scared “Lets have some fun!”
“Stand back, brother.” Ares shouted to Hephaestus “I will handle this low-life, myself.”
King waved his black cape around and dark smoke oozed out underneath it.  The smoke transformed into sharp spears flying dangerously toward Ares.
The God of War quickly lifted up his golden shield to block the smoke-like spears.  Loud thunder sounds echoed throughout the halls and the spears bounced off the shield.  King smiled mysteriously as he snapped his fingers, the smoke-like spears merged together until a dark cloud hovered above them.
“Come out my pets.” King said powerfully.  Suddenly two giant wolves (the size of an elephant) appeared out of the dark smoke.  Both wolves were dark grey with ice blue eyes.  One wolf had a large blue gem on his forehead and another had a ruby gem.
“Alright!” King shouted, “You know what to do.”
Despite the wolves’ size, both moved toward Ares at lightening speed.  Before the God of War realized it, one wolf had ripped the spear out of his hand and the other wolf had slammed its weight on Ares’ shield.  The wolf’s weight must have been incredibly heavy because the might warrior was now on his knees.
“Nnnn…damn…you.” Ares said as he struggled to push the wolf off his shield.  Suddenly a loud snarling sound could be heard behind him.  Glancing around he noticed the second wolf had thrown the spear aside and charged toward Ares.  Within minutes the God was pushed onto the floor as the wolf sunk his teeth into Ares arm.
“Agh!” Ares said struggling to get up as both wolves were on top of him.
“I’m coming brother!” Hephaestus said as he brandished his large hammer.
“Don’t interfere!” King said as he waved his hand, a long metal chained magically appeared.  Almost instantly the chain wrapped around Hephaestus neck.  King yanked the chain hard, causing Hephaestus to fall to his knees.
“How…dare…you try…and chain…a God!” Hephaestus said as he managed to raise his hammer.  With all his might, the God of Metal slammed his hammer down causing a massive earthquake as the metal chains shatter as if they were made of glass.
King quickly grabbed Ares’ spear and whispered something to it.  Hephaestus jumped to his feet and charged toward King, swinging his god-like hammer toward him.  King quickly dodged Hephaestus attack and gently pricked the God of Metals arm with Ares’ golden spear.  Almost instantly something started spreading inside Hephaestus body.
“Ah! What…what is this!?” Hephaestus said as he feel to his knees; his arms and legs felt extremely heavy.
“Oh, I put some magic poison on the spear.” King said standing over both Hephaestus and Ares “It won’t kill you but unfortunately you won’t be able to move for a while.”
“How…how can…your kind…defeat us?” Ares shouted his face twisted with rage.
King laughed loudly and his eyes glowed ice blue as he glanced down at the two naked male gods.
“Your time has gone.  At the height of the Roman Empire you were the most powerful beings in the universe but people no longer believe in you.” King said, “Today you both are mere shadows of what you once were.”
King then went under his cape and pulled out a small bottle.  Opening the glass bottle up blue smoke came out of it.
“Now you both will belong to me.” King said as the smoke started to cover Ares and Hephaestus.
“By the Gods!” Aphrodite gasped as she got off her golden thrown and ran across the room.
King raised his hand and a large gust of wind pushed the Goddess of Love was forced to the ground.  Aphrodite quickly turned around, just in time to see King pointing Ares’ spear inches away from her face.
“Now, my dear.” King said quietly, “Lets finished were we left off.  Tell me where is your son…Cupid.”
(TO BE CONTINUED…)