THE TEACHERS RETURN

Flosi awoke on a glacier. She wondered why she was here, then the previous night came rushing back to her. They must be worried about me! She thought, so she ran at top speed to the gods and goddesses. To her dismay Enyo and Ares were there. She hoped that they wouldn't recognize her.

"Ah, Crysanthe, what are you doing with these people? They aren't quite as powerful as us!" Ares laughed.

"It's Flosi now, and we're not friends, leave me alone!" She replied.

"But we were the ones who taught you, we're your teachers." Ares answered, still incredibly calm.

"I didn't ask for you to kidnap me in a dream, and train me, leave me alone!" She screamed, then realized that all the gods and goddesses had stopped fighting Ares and Enyo's minions.

She tried to ignore their stares, and leaped at Ares. She made a sword out of plants, and started to slash at him. She was as good a swordsmen as Enyo, and better than Ares, she felt that she could hold them off. She flew over Ares's head, slashing at his neck mid-air. But Enyo blocked her, so instead she used the sword to propel her in the air again, and took another slash at Ares, but he countered and Enyo tried to slash her neck, so she had to push off the sword, hop on Enyo's head, then she dislodged the sword from her hand. Enyo grabbed her feet, flipping her over her head, So she made a root as quickly as possible to prevent falling to the cold earth. She swiped and slashed at them, hardly scraping Enyo, but she managed to get a decent hit on Ares. Enyo got distracted by one of her minions, and had to go help them, so now it was just her and Ares. Ares injected something into his body, and he instantly doubled in size. His already large muscles grew larger to a tremendous size. When she landed hits, his skin simply deflected it, as if it was armor. But armor always has a weakness, so his skin armor must have one. She slashed again and again, dirt covered her face, and blood dripped into her eye from a deep scratch on her forehead. She imagined that the skin armor had a breaking point, so she just kept hitting and hitting.

"You really think you can beat me, you realize that my skin is like armor." Ares laughed as he stared down at her like she was stupid. She didn't listen. Then she realized the weakness. Because of the muscle he wouldn't be able to bring his arm back to slash at his head. Flosi hopped onto his arm and ran up onto his head as fast as possible. Ares struggled to slash at her, but he couldn't even get close, this was her time! She stabbed at his eye, he tried to do something, but Ares's muscles blocked him. So she stabbed his eye, but she showed mercy, not stabbing the other one, not yet. She ran back into the house, her body covered in dirt and blood. She searched Arcus's room. She knew that she kept a poison in it. Aha! She had found it. It was in a clear bottle. This poison would painlessly kill you, that's why she enjoyed it. So she ran back to Ares, the poison coated on the tip of her root sword. So she ran back up him as quick as she could and stabbed his other eye. He screamed out in pain, the cry rang in her ears as she watched him collapse the poison ran through his body, his skin paled as he realized what she had done. She hadn't simply blinded him, she had killed him. A cold smile grew on her face as she watched the enemy crumple to the ground. Then her smile disappeared. That had been her teacher. He had taught her all the stuff she knew. He was the reason she was a true goddess. He was the reason she was Flosi. A tear slipped down her face as she saw him take his last breath then go limp. Ares had tried to kill her, but he didn't deserve this. She wiped her tear the turned around to find Arcus trying to fight Enyo. She was being beaten. Her fighting instincts kicked in again, so she ignored Ares's body and ran to help Arcus. It hadn't been Enyo's idea to train her, she had actually been against it, so she wouldn't mind killing her. Flosi fought Enyo with a new spirit. She slashed and slashed, deflecting blow after blow. She formed multiple root swords which she controlled with roots to stab Enyo again and again, but Enyo simply deflected them all. A bead of sweat ran down her face, creating a path in the dirt and blood. Her nightgown was now in shreds, which seemed to float around her body that she had incased in roots to serve as an armor. They fought and fought, dodge after dodge, parry after parry.