I Scored Myself A Mate

Darkness, that was simply all. Freezing cold, as if he was naked. That was exactly like he felt. He wished to open his eyes, he wished to move but he couldn't, frozen and still he simply waited, stuck in his own body for someone to come and help him, someone to free him from this torture. 

"Why hasn't he woken up!" A familiar voice screamed and the deep tone reached easily Ares' ears. He knew very well who was frantically spitting insults and swears. "He is obviously alive so why wasn't he woken up?" Vines asked again and if Ares could smile he would. Even like this, stuck somewhere between his physical body and nothingness he felt happy, satisfied that things didn't go his way. 

"How am I supposed to know what happened?" An old and wrinkly voice followed. "You asked me to perform such a difficult spell and then take it back. I did it." The woman stated. Her voice was familiar too, he was sure he had heard it somewhere but at the same time he wasn't very sure about it. He focused, wanting to hear better what they were talking about. Ares had believed that his life would end, back there in that room in the horrible tower but as he waited for his soul to move on, go somewhere he didn't really know how or where it would happen he realized that nothing changed. His body had completely shut down but his should was still trapped in his flesh. Basically that meant he wasn't dead. Someone had cast a spell on him to prevent him from dying and now he knew it was Vines. 

He wanted to move, get up and kill him with his own hands. Not so much because he tried to kill him but because he had the audacity to take Ea's form and trick him. He had said all he wanted to the wrong person and had been taken away with Ea not knowing anything. Was he looking for him, was he worried? He couldn't help but think about those things as his smile flashed before his closed eyes. He needed to find a way and get out of here but how, how could he do it when he was only a voice in his own dead mind. 

"Look, a tear." The woman said and Ares' heard footsteps. Was he crying? He hadn't even felt it. He couldn't feel anything. Vines was probably close by now, touching his still body with his filthy hands and if he could he would frown. If being captured meant that he had to be with him he preferred to stay like this forever until Vines got bored of him and threw him away. Somewhere far away, maybe in the sea if he was lucky. He always loved the sea, the golden color of the sand and the saltiness in the air. Maybe Vines would get rid of him in a pretty scenery like that. In such a pretty place he wanted to take Ea, sit with him on the sore and feel the tingling waves touch their feet. He wanted to see him laugh, framed by the bright summer sun and grab him sweetly in his arms while they swam on the beach. He wanted…he wanted to do so many things but was there any point in him thinking about it? Did his family even know he was taken? The rest would probably really busy with Allias' trial and what would follow. Ea wanted to divorce him and he was sure that they would probably think he had just run away again after his secret was exposed. 

"So you are alive indeed" Vines said. His voice sounded really loud, as if he was standing right in front of his face and Ares swore. He swore to himself that if he managed to get out of this messed up situation one day he would be the one to kill him, make him beg as he cried but for now he was simply stuck, hearing his nightmare like voice echo through the walls of his mind. "Kalis, I did not save you from the wrath of the elf king to mess up. Speak up, do something and fix him." Vines told her angrily. Ares couldn't see it nor feel it but the demon had just kicked his leg, looking at him filled with disgust as he waked away from his doll like body. 

"I do not know how to fix him!" She screamed. That was good, Ares thought. Don't fix me. I don't want to be normal if that means being around someone like you people. Yes, he would prepare to die than actually keep being close to Vines. 

Death sounded too tempting. He didn't really have anything to lose after all. Ea, he had rejected him and now he would believe that he was dead. There was no turning back, no convincing him of his love in this state if anyone cared about him in the first place. Mark had Asmodeus, his brother had Allias and he used to have Ea. The small elf had rejected him though, brutally so even requesting to break off their soul link. Really, there was nothing to be done. He thought and another tear escaped from his closed eyes. 

"Do something and do it fast. I won't be living with a mummy. Wake him up and erase his memories! Everything about this little slut of an elf he is married to." Vines told her. 

No, no. Ares shouted, anything but that he begged but no one would be able to hear him. No matter what his memories of Ea had to stay intact, there was no way he would be able to be his self if the memories of the one who fixed him were gone. He couldn't, he wouldn't allow it. Ares had to find a way and get out of there, break the spell, call for someone do something before it was too late!

"I think there is something…" Kalis mumbled.