A sneaky look came upon Pan's face. "Your right Sophia. But instead of telling me all that stuff, you should have told me what was REALLY on your heart. In fact, I think you should do just that," he said as he pointed a finger at the half-mortal.

Sophia held out her hands in front of herself. "Now, wait a minute, Cousin Pan, don't do anything stupid. I was on my way to visit Ares, and you don't want to get him mad."

"I'll take my chances." A blue light beam left his hand and struck the Guardian. "See you around." Just as quickly as he appeared, he vanished.

Sophia felt around her leather-clad body, searching for injuries or changes.

Finding none, she chuckled. "Goodbye goat-boy." As soon as the words left, Sophia covered her mouth, her eyes wide with surprise. "Where did that come from?"

*****

Ares sat lackadaisically in his dark fur covered throne as he mused to himself. *What to do, what to do.* He looked around at his dark and dank throne room. *Started a war two days ago. Squabbled with Athena yesterday.* Ares, the God of War, was bored, and that only meant one thing…trouble. *Maybe I'll visit

Hercules tomorrow.* But the god was brought out of his musings by a visitor. A sly smile graced Ares' face as he saw who it was. "Well, look who has come home for a visit. My own

prodigal daughter."

Sophia came up to the throne. "Hi Ares." It was then that the god saw the black eye, swollen lips, and the bruises on his daughter. Ares rose from his throne, his anger barely seething through his cool facade. "What happened to you?"

"What hasn't happened to me? First I tick off Pan because I set up some woman he was hot for with her true soulmate. So goat-boy zaps me. Then I go into this tavern, and this very big, very smelly woman hits on me. So I told her to go jump into the lake and while she's there, bathe herself. Well, she didn't take to kindly to the remark, so she gave me this," she stated as she pointed to her eye. "Well, the fight became an all out brawl. And during the brawl, I couldn't get my mouth shut, and so by the end of it, everyone was after me."