Father And Son

It was nightfall when Dionysus came to, he found his father washed up with him on the shore of a little cove's beach. He slowly and full of determination pulled himself up, he stumbled and hobbled over to his father where instead of beating or killing him right there, he dropped down and helped him up. He had enough morals to know that it would be a dishonor to kill the man right then and there. He told him how much he resented him, and his father acknowledged it. Eros had told Dionysus that he's proud of what he's become and how well he did, he told him that he had never experienced a battle like that. Dionysus helped his father make a fire and set up a camp, he wanted answers for why he did what he did.

The next morning Dionysus awoke to Eros gathering the gear from both he and his son. When Eros noticed Dionysus being up he asked how long he had been a part of the Athenian military, Dionysus gave him an honest answer, he told him that he had only been in the military for a few months. Eros was in shock, he struggled to fathom the fact that his son had progressed from a very low soldier to someone with some command in the military in such a short time, after finally grasping enough words to speak he congratulated his son. After some more small talk Dionysus began his flurry of questions for his father, he began with why his father had disowned him so fast after finding out that his son didn't want to be a soldier, Eros in a swift exhale and in slight disapproval of himself told him he had gone to the Oracle in Delphi and she had told him that his son would become the greatest soldier in history, and when he found out his son didn't want that life he was filled with rage and annoyance that he wouldn't have the military prodigy he was promised by the Oracle that he didn't want to see his failure.

Dionysus was in dismay with his father for seeing it that way, but he wanted more answers, so as they made their way through the cliffside and eventual forests he asked more questions, he wanted to know how his father felt about the situation he caused, his father was not proud and very much hated what he did. Eros, after some time walking in silence, his voice cut through the tension in the air when he told his boy that if he wanted to come back to Corinth he would be welcome once again, Dionysus stopped in his tracks and looked at his father with absolute hate. Dionysus would never return with his father. He wasn't even happy that his father was still alive at that moment. They continued through the forest before Dionysus spoke. He decided he was going to go through with killing his father, so he challenged him to a man on man battle and the winner is the last one standing. Eros, appalled by the thought, knew if he was going to die it had to be at the hands of the man he betrayed, he agreed to it.

They found a clearing, grabbed their shields and xiphos, got set and went at it, they bashed and clashed, they slashed and stabbed at each other, Dionysus bashed his shield against his fathers wrist when he swung his extremely sharp xiphos and disarmed him, after demanding his father's his last words, he put him on his knees, wound up and sliced, decapitating his father. Dionysus grabbed the extremely decorated and sharp xiphos, as well as black horse hair and boar crested bronze helmet, and began his walk to the nearest Athenian camp he knew of.