Chapter 40

"...You don't know? You were about to connect the dots." Aphrodite stopped laughing and said to her. "... Eros what is she talking about?" Soul ask Eros, but he just continue aiming his bow at his mother without saying anything. "...My son never loved you." Aphrodite suddenly said. ".... What are you saying...Eros loves me, and i love him too." Soul confidently said to Aphrodite. "...He may love you, but he's love isn't genuine." Aphrodite said to Soul with a smile on her face. 

"...The love me and Eros share is very genuine, so whatever you say wouldn't change that goddess." Soul said to Aphrodite. "...Your love for him may be genuine, but he's love for you isn't..." Aphrodite said, and laugh even more. "...Damnit! Just tell me why you think Eros love for me isn't genuine, and stop laughing." Soul lash out to Aphrodite, and she immediately stopped laughing. "Fine! You want to know why i said that my son's love for you isn't genuine?" Aphrodite ask her in a silly tone. "Yes!" Soul replied. 

"...Fine! Well i...." Aphrodite was about to explain then Eros Interrupted her, by suddenly talking to soul. "...Soul you don't have to listen to what my mother is about to say to you. We both love each other and that's what really matters. You know that we have both gone through lots of situation together, and because of one of these situations we were separated from each other for a long time. Our love brought us together after those many situations, so don't listen to whatever my mother is going to say to you. I love you, and it's doesn't matter if my love for you is genuine or not. Just know i am truly Inlove with you." Eros said to soul, and he's words was so beautiful that she almost cried. 

"...Oh! Eros, i am also....." Soul was about to say something to Eros, but her words was cut short when Aphrodite suddenly grab her arms tightly and carry her up to the sky. "...Eroooosss!" Soul screamed as Aphrodite carry her to the sky. 

"...Sooouul" Eros shouted and then immediately fly behind his mother. "....What have i done? I knew i shouldn't have let my guard down. Now soul have been kidnapped my mother." Eros said in his mind as he fly behinds his mother. "...No i can't let her hurt soul.....I just CAN'T!" Eros shouted, and aim his bow at Aphrodite, who have now stop flying. 

"...You can't hold me up here for long, see Eros is coming at you." Soul said to Aphrodite, and she smiled and look down to see her son aiming his bow at her. "...Oh! He is about to shoot me with his arrows just because of you." Aphrodite said while still looking at him.

"..Let me go!" Soul shouted as she tries struggles to free herself from Aphrodite's grip. "...Wait! Wait! Now." Aphrodite said, and at that moment Eros shot his arrows at her. "...Sorry son, but I want to have a little conversation with you bride in Private." Aphrodite said in her mind, and without saying any spell, a huge round forcefield cover up her and Soul. 

"...No! No!" Eros shouted and began shooting countless arrows at the forcefield but all his arrows bounced back immediately they touch the forcefield. 

"...Mother!" Eros shouted furiously.

"He is trying so hard to break the forcefield, but he can't." Aphrodite said, and turn to soul. "...What type of magic is this?" Soul ask her. "... It's just something i thought i couldn't do, but i did." Aphrodite gave her a answer. "..If you want to kill me, just do it. I am not afraid of you." Soul confidently said to Aphrodite. "Hahaha!" She burst out in laughter. 

"...Kill you? No! No! No!" Aphrodite said to her and remove her hands from soul's arm. "....I can't kill you because, we are in the resting place of my mother, and also my son will hate me if i do that." Aphrodite said to soul as she Levitates around her. "...so what do you want from me? Why did you bring me up here?" Soul ask her. 

"... I want to tell you what you want to hear princess." Aphrodite said to soul. "...If it's about Eros' love for me then forget it. I don't care if it's love is genuine or not. As long as he loves me, then i am okay with that." Soul said, and Aphrodite immediately stop levitating around her. 

"...You don't care if he's love is genuine or not huh?" Aphrodite ask her. "...Yes! I don't care." Soul replied her. "...You fell inlove with my son right?" Aphrodite asks her. "...Yes! I fell inlove with him after he saved and sheltered me because you tried to kill me for no good reason." Soul boldly said to her. 

"...You just said you fell inlove with my son, but did he even fall inlove with you?" Aphrodite ask her. "...What...what are you trying to say? Eros love me, so stop trying to...." Soul wanted to say something but Aphrodite Interrupted her. 

"...Shut up mortal. I ask you a question. Did my son fell inlove with you, before he loved you?" Aphrodite ask soul again. "...I..I" soul couldn't answer the question. 

"...He didn't... because..." Aphrodite words when cut short, when Eros, Zadre, and Dusa began blasting her forcefield. 

"...What in the world!" Aphrodite shouted, as she look at them try as hard as they can to blast her forcefield open. "...Yes! Zadre is back to normal." Soul excitedly said as she see he. 

"...Soul! Hold i am going to break this forcefield open!" Eros shouted to soul, but she didn't hear a single word he just said. 

"Hahahaha! They are all wasting their time, they wouldn't be able to destroy my forcefield with their weak magic blasts." Aphrodite confidently said as she stare at them relentlessly try to destroy the forcefield with their magic. 

"...I have to free myself." Soul said to herself and then slowly picks out a arrows from her quiver. "...What are you going to do with that huh?" Aphrodite ask her as she holds the arrow. "...Well i can use it to do this!" Soul shouted, and throw the arrow at Aphrodite with all her strength, but she easily hits it away before it could touch her. 

"...You are really silly, mortal!" Aphrodite said as she rushes towards her and grab her in the neck. "...No! Stop!" Eros who can see what's he's mother was doing to soul shouted, and Punch the forcefield repeatedly. "... Can't you see that the forcefield can't be destroy?" Dusa said to Eros. "...I have to try, i have to save soul from her." Eros replied Dusa and continue punching the forcefield. 

"...What type of forcefield is that anyway? And why can't our magic destroy it?" Zadre ask Dusa. "...I don't know, i have not seen any forcefield like this before. And i have not seen my sister create anything like this with her magic." Dusa replied him. "...Sister, what type of magic is this?" Dusa asks in her mind. "...Then what should we do? We need to save soul from that upper goddess." Zadre said, and points his spear at the forcefield. 

"...What do you want to do?" Dusa ask Zadre. "... This!" Zadre shouted as he throws his spear at the forcefield hoping it will pass through it and hit Aphrodite. "... Damnit!" Zadre shouted after he's spear bounce away the moment it touch the forcefield. "...That wouldn't work! This damn forcefield just bounce back every attack it receive!" Eros said while he punch the forcefield furiously.

"...Let me go..!" Soul shouted at Aphrodite as she holds her right in neck. "...Shut up and listen to what i am about to say." Aphrodite shouted to soul, and she immediately kept quiet. ".... Yes! Just like a loyal dog." Aphrodite said, and immediately remove her hand from soul's neck. "...so where was i?" Aphrodite ask her, but soul didn't say anything. 

"...Yes! Now i remember. I was about to explain to you why my son's love for you isn't genuine." Aphrodite said, and soul gave her a hateful look. "...Okay! You said you fell inlove with my son right?" Aphrodite ask her, and soul kept quiet. "...I just ask you a question, mortal!" Aphrodite shouted at her. "...Yes! I fell inlove with you son, please don't hurt me!" Soul begged her. 

"...Okay! You fell inlove with my son, but my son didn't fall inlove with you before he loved you." Aphrodite said to soul, and this confuse her. "...What?! Eros fell inlove with me. If he didn't then he wouldn't have saved me from that demon that tried to kill me back in my kingdom." Soul confidently said, and Aphrodite burst into laughter again. 

"...Oh! Mortals...They are really something." Aphrodite stopped laughing and said. "...Why are you laughing, it's the true." Soul said to her. "... It's the true? It's the true?" Aphrodite asks her. "...poor mortal! The true is my son never fell inlove with you. The only reason he loves you is because he mistakenly shot himself with his loves arrow. The thesame love arrow he was suppose to shoot you with, so that you can fall inlove with a demon." Aphrodite revealed to soul, and she was stunned by what she just said to her.

"... Stop! You are lying. Eros fell inlove with me, and before he got shot by his love arrows!" Soul shouted to Aphrodite. "...Oh you poor mortal." Aphrodite said, and Levitates closer to her. "...Let me tell you what he wouldn't tell you." Aphrodite said in a serious tone. "...I sent to son to shoot you with one of his love arrows so that you can fall inlove with a demon as a punishment for taking my worshippers. When he got to your room that night to shoot you with the arrow, he saw you as just a mortal, and nothing else. He never loved you, until he accidentally shot himself with the love arrow, and he magically fall inlove with you." Aphrodite revealed, and her words stunned soul.

"...Eros...eros never fell inlove me?" Soul ask herself. "...He only love me because you was shot by his own magical love arrows?" Soul talk to herself. "...Yes! Yes! Bring in the doubts." Aphrodite quietly said as she watches soul. 

"...No! No!" Soul shouted as she falls to the ground, and began crying. 

Aphrodite's magic prevented her from fall down to the ground so she levitate while still on her knees. 

"...Why? Eros! The only person i thought truly loves me, only fell inlove with me because he was shot by his magical love arrow." Soul softly said to herself while still crying.

"...Noooo soul!" Eros who saw soul fell on her knees shouted, and began punching the forcefield even harder, thinking that his mother have hurt soul. "...It wouldn't work!" Dusa shouted to Eros, but he ignore what she was saying and till continue punching the forcefield. 

"...We have to find a way to destroy that forcefield." Zadre said to Dusa. "... But how are we going to destroy a forcefield that bounce every attack we send at it?" Dusa ask him. "...Wait! If the forcefield bounce every attack that hits it from the outside, will it bounce back an attack from the inside?" Zadre asks Dusa. "...It may not because all forcefield are created for the sole purpose to protect a person from an outside attack, not an inside attack. So the Forcefield can be easily destroy from the inside, and not the outside." Dusa said, and they both smile. 

"...And that's how we are going to save soul. We are going to destroy that forcefield from inside and get her out of it." Zadre said, and Dusa gaze at him. "...Why are you looking at me like that?" Zadre ask her. "...I am just so happy that you are back!" Dusa said, and Levitate towards Eros who was still furiously punching the Forcefield.

"Stop! Stop! Punching the forcefield." Dusa shouted at him, and hold his hand. "...I have to save her, i have to save her from my mother." Eros said. "...I have a way to destroy the forcefield." Dusa softly said ot him. "....So stop. You are just weakening yourself if you continue punching the forcefield." Dusa spoke to him like a true aunty.

"...Okay! How are we going to destroy the Forcefield?" Eros ask Dusa.