Chapter 39

"... Sister leave, i can handle this." Dusa said while still struggling to properly restrain Zadre with het chains. "...I am not leaving you alone with this demon." Aphrodite said to her, and conjure up two blades in her hands. "...You... You upper god!" Zadre yelled and try to attack Aphrodite, but Dusa chains stopped him from getting close to her. "..You see? You see what i am tell you." Aphrodite said to Dusa. "...Just leave! Just leave me alone." Dusa yelled at Aphrodite, and this made her mad. 

"...Fine! You want to die again with this demon. I will let you be." Aphrodite yelled at Dusa and was about to walk away, but stopped when Eros and Soul suddenly showed up. "... What are you doing here?" Aphrodite ask them both. "...Zadre is our friend, so we came to help him." Soul said to Aphrodite, and she wasn't happy that Soul spoke instead of her son. "...And who ask you to speak mortal?" Aphrodite ask soul and then stare at her like a predator who was about to kill it's prey. "...I am...i am sorry i thought you..." Soul stammered. 

"...Mother!" Eros pitch in. "... Yes?" Aphrodite answered him. "...You ask both of us a question and soul answered you, so what's the big deal?" Eros ask her. "...The big deal is that this mortal shouldn't talk when gods are talking. Just because you too love each other doesn't mean she can associate herself in matters that involves only gods." Aphrodite clear explain to Eros. "... Seriously? I can count thousands of mortal who have involve themselves with us, but you don't fight with them. Why do you hate soul so much?" Eros ask her, but didn't answer. 

"...I don't hate her. Who is she that a goddess like me will hate? She is just a ordinary mortal who will die few years from now, so she is beneath me." Aphrodite said, and walk away from them. 

"...I know my place here goddess...." Soul said and Aphrodite stop walking in order to listen to what she was going to say. 

"...I am a mortal, and i will probably die few years from now. Yes! I know that. But i want to make something clear to you goddess Aphrodite." Soul boldly said to Aphrodite, and she immediately turn back to look her. 

"... What are you waiting for? Come on! Say something that will annoy me. Then i will kill you." Aphrodite said in her mind as she waits for what Soul was about to say. 

"...soul what are you doing? You shouldn't have say that to my mother." Eros whisper to soul. "...I just want to make something clear to her. I will not disrespect her." Soul whisper back to him, and turn to Aphrodite. 

"...so what do you want to clear, mortal?" Aphrodite ask Soul, and a sword slowly conjure up in her hand. 

"... You said i shouldn't involve myself with this that concerns gods, but some of the gods are my friends, so..." Aphrodite Interrupted soul with a loud laughter before she could complete what she was about to say. "... Friends?" She ask her, and laugh even more. 

"...Mother!" Eros angrily shouted, and Aphrodite dropped laughing. "...No..no this mortal is so... what's the word?..Yeah! Oblivious." Aphrodite said and laugh a little. 

"...I am not!" Soul firmly said to Aphrodite. 

"...Okay! You think just because they we showed you love, you are all are friends. A god or goddess doesn't make friends with mortal, and especially ones like you." Aphrodite insulted her. "...Mother! Stop!" Eros angrily shouted to Aphrodite again after hearing what she just said to Soul. 

"Hahaha!" Soul suddenly started laughing. "...What are you doing soul, why are you laughing?" Eros whispered to soul but got no answer. 

"...Why is that mortal laughing? Is she laughing at him?" Aphrodite ask herself, and then slowly began to conjure another blade in her other hand. 

"...Why are you laughing mortal? What's so funny?" Aphrodite ask soul, and she then stopped laughing. "...You said i am oblivious, and no god will make friends with someone like me....right?" Soul asks. "...I don't like repeating myself to mortals." Aphrodite replied her. 

"...Well, don't you know that you are the most oblivious goddess around HERE!" Soul boldly said Aphrodite, and this made her extremely angry. 

"...Soul, you shouldn't have said that.?" Eros fearfully said in his mind, and look at his mother who was now filled up in rage.

"...You mortal! You dare say that to me?" Aphrodite ask soul in a devilish tone. 

"...Sorry, but i had to tell you." Soul confidently said to her, and this Increased Aphrodite's anger, but she suppress it with a fake smile. 

"...Okay! Mortal. So tell me why you think i am the most oblivious goddess.." Aphrodite said to soul while still holding a smile on her face.

"..Well...." Soul wanted to explain but Aphrodite immediately Interrupted her. 

"...Mortal! I just want to let you know that if you don't give me any good reason why you believe i am a oblivious goddess." Aphrodite said and stare at soul. "Then i will kill you." She firmly said. 

"...Mother, you know i would not allow you to do that." Eros pitch in. "...We both know you can't stop me." Aphrodite turn to him and said. "...I will try." Eros boldly said to Aphrodite, and they both stare at each other. 

"...Stop! Just let me explain to her." Soul softly said to Eros, and he stopped staring at his mother. "... Didn't you just heard what she said?" Eros ask her. "...she is going to kill you if you don't give a good reason why you think she is oblivious. And you kno..." Eros words was cut short as soul hold his hands. "...Stop! I can protect myself." Soul firmly said to him, and turn back to Aphrodite. 

"...And besides i have good reasons." Soul added, and walk closer to Aphrodite a little.

"...Yes, come closer to me you mortal!" Aphrodite said in her mind as soul walk towards her. 

"...You are oblivious because you think that mortals, and gods can't be friends. Firstly, me and Eros find love among each other, and we are now more than just friends. Secondly, goddess Dusa and i, fought side by side against those demons during the mother of fate test." Soul revealed and this shocked Eros. 

"...And lastly, Zadre. The person you always label as a demon, sacrificed his life for mine, and he died protecting me and Dusa from you." Soul added, and Eros looked at his mother. 

"...Mother do you really tried to kill soul and your sister?" Eros ask her, but didn't get any reply from her. "...so that's why Zadre is acting this way, it's because of you. You killed me because he was protecting soul, and Dusa from you." Eros said, with pain in his heart. He couldn't believe that he's mother tried to kill his love, and her sister. 

"...She didn't do it because she wanted to.." Soul said to Eros, while Aphrodite just kept quiet and stare at her. "... According to the mother of fate. Goddess Aphrodite body and mind was controlled by an Evil thing or demon. So that's why she did those ev.... those things." Soul explained to Eros so that he wouldn't hate his mother.  

"...Are you sure about this?" Eros ask soul. "..Yeah! She even said it herself." Soul replied Eros. 

"...Well!" Aphrodite finally spoke out. "..You really are quiet... what's that word again. Courageous." Aphrodite said, and began to walk towards Soul.

"... mother stop!" Eros shouted, to her, but she still kept walking towards soul. 

"...You said i was a oblivious goddess, and gave sure stupid reason why you believe i am oblivious. Well, you remembered what i told you before you started filling my ears with your stupid reasons?" Aphrodite ask soul, and brought out her two blades. 

"... Mother stop!" Eros shouted, and rush towards soul. "...I said i will kill you if you don't give me a good REASON!" Aphrodite shouted, and rush towards soul land a good hit on her. 

"... Enough!" Soul yelled, and quickly picks a  arrow from her quiver and place it on her bow. She aimed the arrows straight at Aphrodite face, and this made her to pause her attack in mid air. 

"...Wow! The mortal is now good with the bow." Aphrodite said after seeing how soul quickly fix her bow with arrows and pointed it at face. "...What do you think will happen to me if you shoot those at me?" Aphrodite ask her and then drop her hands. "...I don't know goddess... what?" Soul ask her. 

"... Nothing!" Aphrodite said with a creepy smile. "...But do you know what will happen to you, when i hit you with these?" Aphrodite shows her the two blades in her hands. 

"...Wait! Let me guess. It will kill me?" Soul ask. "..Yes! It will." Aphrodite said, and charge towards soul. "... ENOUGH! Mother." Eros shouted, as he appears in between them, and hold her blades with his bare hands. "...Why are you so eager to kill soul...huh?" Eros ask her while still holding her blades. 

"Let go!" Aphrodite shouted to Eros, and try to pull her blade from his grip, but he kept holding on to it. "...When will you stop? Just stop already!" Eros shouted to his mother while still holding her blades. 

"..any mortal that disrespect me gets killed." Aphrodite said to him, and remove her hands from her blades. "..Move!" Aphrodite yelled, and blast Eros away from soul. 

".. AHHHHH!" Eros shouted as he flies away and crash far away from soul. "...Eros!" Soul shouted, as she watch him get blast away. ".. Don't worry, my son wouldn't die....but you will." Aphrodite said as she grabs soul in her neck. 

"...You mortal, you dare disrespect me?" Aphrodite said in soul's ear as she grab neck and raise her up. "...You talk about disrespect, but you are disrespecting the mother of fate by creating conflicts in her presence." Soul said to Aphrodite, and this anger her even more. 

"..What?!" Aphrodite shouted, and tightly her grip on soul's neck. "...You are the reason why i am doing all this. If you weren't born, then non of this would have happen." Aphrodite said to soul while looking straight in her eyes. "... That's...not...my" soul struggles to talk, and was about to pass out. 

"...Let my her GO!" Eros yelled, and then two arrows flies from his bow straight to Aphrodite's hand. "... AHHH!" Aphrodite shouted in pain, and let soul go. "... Breath... breath!" Soul repeat to herself, as she struggles to breath after Aphrodite released her. 

"...Eros! You shoot me? You shot your own mother because of this mortal?" Aphrodite ask him, as she look at his arrows in her hand. 

"...I am sorry for that... Mother! But i have told you before, and i will tell you again. Stop trying to hurt soul, or else....." Eros said, and aim his bow with arrows in it at Aphrodite. 

"Fine! So that's how you want to do this huh?" Aphrodite ask him, and pull out his arrows from her hands. "...Yes mother, that's how it is going to be." Eros boldly said to his mother while still aiming his bow at her.

".... Hahahaha!" Aphrodite burst out in laughter. "... What's so funny mother?" Eros ask her. "...No! No! It's just funny." Aphrodite replied him while still laughing. 

"... What's so funny?" Eros ask his mother. "...Okay! You say you love this mortal, but the only real reason why you fell Inlove with her was because you accidentally shot yourself with a love arrow." Aphrodite Said. "...So what? My love arrows was design to make humans and gods fell in love, as long they are shot at them. My love arrow create genuine love for the people who i shot it at, so my love with soul is also genuine." Eros explain his beliefs on his love arrows to his mother. 

"..Eros...what is are you talking about?" Soul who heard them talking about the love arrows pitch in. "...Wait! You accidentally shot yourself with your own love arrows and that's why you fell inlove with me?" Soul ask Eros, but he kept quiet and didn't give her any answer. 

"...Wait! How did you accidentally shot yourself with your own love arrows?" Soul asks Eros, but he still did not answer her. "...Wait! if you accidentally shot yourself with your own love arrows. That mean....." Soul was about to connect the dots, but Aphrodite loud laughter stopped her from thinking further. "...Now you know huh?" Aphrodite said to soul. "...Know what?" Soul ask her.