Chapter 359 - 359

A few hours earlier. 

"I am simply glad that everything is over" Allias said with a smile and Ea nodded eagerly. The small elf couldn't believe what had just happened. Allias seemed devestated at first, scared of the hateful eyes but slowly his expression had changed, showing unbelievable confidence. That's why Ea admired him. He was strong, trully strong. Even though his mentality sometimes brought him down he always found a way to pull through. Allias couldn't see it but all of the elves couldn't think of a better person to be king. 

"Yes. Now if you'll excuse me I will be taking a walk." Ares said and Ea looked at him with a frown.

"Yes, go meet your best friend." He stated and everyone looked at them with a questioning look.

"What has been going on here? Don't think I forgot what you said about separating. You have a soul link, what could be so bad for you to break it?" Theseus asked them, his eyes focusing on his brother. He seemed uncomfortable by the way everyone looked at them and for the first time in quite a while he had chosen to remain silent. 

"I want to break the link. I don't want to be married to a liar. I think that it would be better for us to go our separate ways." Ea stated and Ares looked at him, letting out an annoyed scoffed before he began walking.

"Fuck it." He mumbled as he walked away, not wanting to be there any longer. 

"Ea, what happened?" Allias asked him, looking concerned about the young couple. The elf stared at them, thinking if he should confess what he had found out. Everyone seemed to be waiting eagerly to hear the reason and the king's eyes were glued on him. He couldn't bear to watch him like that. He looked like a concerned mother that was trying to find out why her child was in trouble. Ea sighed loudly, not really thinking about the fact that this was Ares' story and that he should be the one to tell everyone. 

"I found out something about Ares and it's simply horrible." He commented before he started his story telling. Ea confessed everything, all of the details and the attrocities the elf had done in his time of despair. As he explained everything he felt shivers, the hairs all over his body raising. The images from Ares' memories were popping in his mind and he frowned as he remembered. 

"I see" Theseus said crossing his hands over his arms. "What he did, well it's horrible." He agreed. 

"Yes but, is it really enough for you to seoerate with him?" Allias asked him and Ea looked at him in shock. Hadn't he be sharing the story all this time? Did the king not listen to what the Disse prince had done. "Oh, don't look at me like that" Allias said with a gentle smile.

"I'm sorry but...did you hear what he did? It was horrible, the mess, his mind, I still thing about it and get disgusted." Ea commented and Allias sighed. 

"Look between all of us, you're the one who has never done a bad thing, someone who never hurt anyone. Ea you're very kind and noble. That I think we all know..."

"Wait, I've never done anything bad either." Mark commented, interrupting Allias' speech. The tall elf looked at him, raising his eyebrows.

"You sentenced your lover to three hundred years of solitude in hell, what do you mean?" Allias asked him.

"Oh, yes. Please continue then" Mark said embarrassed. 

"As I was saying, Ea you are trully a good elf. One of the best that I've met in my life. You're honorable and disciplined and you have a very kind heart. And because you are like that and so honest it's easy for everyone to see how much you love Ares. I know you must be disappointed in him, believe me I am shocked too but I don't think he is that person anymore. I don't think he ever was actually. Demons can be tricky, no offense Asmodeus...."

"It's true" the demon agreed shrugging his shoulders.

"...and I am sure Ares deeply regrets his actions and that's why he has changed so much. Ea, he was lost. He lost his parents, his home, he went through something a lot of you will never understand being kidnapped and tortured, unable to help and when the war was over he was left with nothing. He believed he had no one. When he came back you helped him stay. I think that's amazing. He loves you so much that he didn't run away again."

"He stayed because you had returned." Ea said and Allias chuckled.

"I really doubt that. Maybe you haven't noticed the way he is looking at you. His eyes are filled with so much adoration some times it's to much to handle. Ares trully loves you, that's why he always tries to make you smile. What he did was trully horrible but I have done horrible things too, Theseus too. Do you hate us or think that we are bad?" He asked him and Ea's eyes widened.

"What? Of course not!" The younger elf exclaimed and Allias patted his head.

"Then why is it so different for the man you love? All of us sometimes have found ourselves doing wrong things and yes, maybe salvation for us is long gone but don't you think we at least deserve one person by our side? I don't want Ares to be all alone again because of his past mistakes, especially when he has tried so much. The final decision will be yours but maybe, just maybe you can show him a lot more, help him a lot more by being by his side rather than leaving him. That's my opinion at least."

"I...I just felt like I was being deceived. Like he had been lying all this time." Ea said, his face facing the floor. 

"I don't think that's it" Theseus stepped in. "You know I am quick to scold my brother when he does something stupid. Ares though is very prideful. I just think he was ashamed. Maybe scared too, that you will hate him" the general said. "Believe me, there is nothing worse than looking the person you love most in the world and seeing hate and disgust in their eyes." 

"I don't know." Ea said after hearing everything they had told him. "I am still confused."

"Why don't you have a talk with him?" Allias asked. "Right now." He said and grabbed Ea's hand. The young elf was surprised at first but followed the king quietly. He probably needed that small push, he knew himself and sometimes he was too cowardly to take the first step. He was thankful that Allias was willing to help him. They went up the wide staircase and the younger elf diligently led them to the corridor where his room was. He could clearly see the half opened door but his eyes focused on something different, something that didn't much the scene well. It seemed out of place.

He stopped walking, focusing to see clearer when he heard Allias gasp next to him. As he slowly realized what he was looking at his heartbeat began to race, going wild. 

There was a half opened door, showing an emtpy room but through the small slit between the ground and the floor blood was oozing out, creating a crimson pool. 

Ea was frozen, the only thing functioning in his body was his heart because his mind seemed to have completely shut down. He took a dazed step, feeling Allias' grip around his wrist in an attempt to stop him but the small elf for the first time disobeyed him. He shook his hand off and slowly he reached to his room. He pushed the door open completely with his finger tips and his eyes scanned the floor. 

There he was. Lying on the cold floor on his stomach. His eyes wide open, red matching the blood that had escaped his lips. His back was ripped open, like he had been attacked by some kind of wild beast and a knife had been dropped to the floor right next to him. The scent of spider Lily was prominent in the air. Ea heard footsteps behind him. He expected to hear a scream but silence followed. A silence so heavy that Ea felt like he couldn't breathe. 

He couldn't take his eyes away. He couldn't move either he just stood there like a blank piece of paper staring like a fool. 

"Ea..." He heard Allias' shaking voice. He wanted to reply. Say something to the king but his body didn't seem to want to obey. He just looked and looked until his eyes watered. He burned that image into his mind. The ripped skin, the pool of blood, his wide with shock eyes. Even now that his vision was blurry he could still see it. He could still see him dead on the floor. "Ea..." Allias repeated and finally the elf managed to turn around. It was as if his limps had turned rusty, as of he was a robot controlled by someone else and with tears in his expressionless face he spoke.

"He is dead." He stated, seeing how Allias too was crying. "He is dead." He repeated. "Dead. Dead. How? How can he be dead? What? No..." He Mumbled confused and turned again around. He fell to his knees, drenching himself with his lover's blood. "He can't be dead!" Ea screamed, shouting at the top of his lungs. "Wake up." He screamed and shook Ares' lifeless body again and again. "Wake up! Wake up!" He said again and again but obviously he received no answer. Ea heard footsteps again but he didn't bother turning around. He was only focused on him. "You can't die!" He screamed "not like this...I...was planning to forgive you...I..." He mumbled, his throat hurting from the screaming.

"Allias, take Ea away." He heard Theseus' familiar voice and his eyes widened. 

"No, no." He said when he felt Allias touch his shoulder. "He will wake up." He said looking at Allias with a twisted smile, tears staining his face. "He is immortal, we are immortal. He can't die, this is a joke, a sick joke."

"Ea, come on. Just for a little bit, get up. We need to ....clean up....We have to ....call someone." Allias said trying not to collapse too. 

"No." Ea mumbled again. "Wake up!" He screamed and pushed Ares again. He wouldn't move, his body was cold and his eyes had lost their usual fire, he was empty, completely gone. "he is dead" Ea said before he felt his head ringing. "A corpse." He whispered and suddenly he fell unconscious to the floor.