It was weird to see Nicholas out of Mount Othrys, he was always in there, like Quasimodo in Notre Dame's tower. He had recluded himself into that place not only because he knew that the gods would be after him after what he did in camp, but also to keep people away from that other side of him. when he was a child, his mother took him to the movie theater and they saw a movie about a green huge monster. a scientific got into an accident in the lab and after that whenever he got upset the green monster took over and destroyed everything around him. Well, Nick felt like that about his other half, the one that killed those Mars and Bellona children, was that green monster that no one could stop.
"I guess the store must be a couple of blocks down this street..." He said as he kept walking down the street, he seemed like a common teenager, he was tall, slim and athletic, handsome too, Mars and Venus genetics working on him in a very pleasent harmony. Other teens looked at him and smiled at him, some of them even talked to him...
"Hello... hey, youmust be new around here, so, why don't I invite you to my place and you can get to know me?..." Nick looked at her and then rolled his eyes and left, well that had been the best one, the other one had been really similar and who replied was the monster, so he smirked and walked with that teen to her place, did all what they had wanted and then he had left.
He started to check along the windows of the stores, he wanted to get some new clothes, it was ok to be a pariah, but he hated to be all dirty or out of fashion, so he would get new clothes, he wasn't super rich as Warlow was, still he had some money of his. Not only common money, but also denarii too. He stopped at a clothes' store checking the style of the clothes there. "I'll buy a new sword and set of daggers later..."
Tag: Mars
Words: 355
Notes: Let's see grandfather and grandson. XD
Lyrics from Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace Code done by step
There were things that Mars could forgive from his kin. Anger, vengence, aggression, those he could forgive. Cowardice and killing someone on a mere whim without evidence to support paranoia, that was unforgiveable. IT was a war crime to a degree, but when Nick had killed his own children and Bellona's children for what they had done to his love, well to put it bluntly, Nick had every right. MArs knew what the kids had done and how it had hurt poor Nick, so now it was time that the god of war made things right with his grandson. Jupiter had said it first, that the gods should spend more time amongst their children. All of their descendants, that included grandkids too. Nick and Josh both had a special place in MArs's heart and though he would never admit to it out loud, he cared for the mental and physical well being of his own family.
Nick was someone he was proud of, again it was something that MArs would never publically admit to , but he was proud of his own legacy. His prowess and strength was something to be admired. His passions tended to get the better of him at times but that was to be expected at times. MArs was amongst the people today, dressed in camo pants and a tight tee shirt with wrap around shades to hide his eyes. Mars had been tailing the boy since he had left Mr. Orthys. Trying to find the right time and place to accost the boy and talk to him, it was hard to do. HE had never been good at this whole being a parental role model thing, even with Charlie and Remus it was hard. He turned to walk behind nick as he stopped beside him, looking at the clothes. "Hardly a fitting store for Roman clothing." HE said. MArs was waiting for an attack, hell he probably deserved it. But he was waiting for the attack that he wouldn't stop. He glanced upwards at his own bike that was parked along the street. He did owe Nick a chance to ride it by himself. He was of age and he was strong, he deserved it.
"Anything you want to buy, it's on me." He said as he pulled a wallet out and handed it over to Nick. The wallet was full of denarii and paper cash. It was over a couple thousand dollars. Mercury was a bit of a prick but he knew how to get cash in good ways. He ran a hand over his face, retracing the scars on his face.
While Nick was looking at the clothes behing the window, he could also see his own reflexion on the same window, He focused on it for a moment and realized how bad he looked, it wasn't just the clothes, but also his appearance. He had never been a model of the perfect soldier if we talked about his looks, he had always hated the short hair, so he had always worn it long and messy, but besides that, he was always an icon of good looking and fashion. How on Earth had he fallen into the state which he was into in that moment?
His hair was messy, but also dirty, he had trained early that morning and forgot to take a shower, well maybe he didn't forgot, maybe he didn't care... he couldn't remember anymore. His skin was not only burnt due the sun of the past days, he had been training out in the sun without applying sun lotion blocker. His skin was also marked by the lack of his usual facials and masks, Amelia used to take him to a lot of spa evenings, and hadn't done a single of them. He had dark marks under his eyes, that was lack of sleep, it seemed that if Rhiannon didn't knock him out with one of her sleeping spells, he wasn't able to sleep at all. His eyes... those lack of bright, as if he was dead alive. and he was thinner than when he had been in the Camp.
Suddenly a huge figure appeared behind him and it spoke with a really deep voice, a voice like the noise that a cannon made when someone pulled the trigger, for a second he was surprised and grabbed the long dagger he had hidden on his side, he turned and faced him still with his hand on the dagger's handle, his eyes show hate for a moment, a glimpse of the red eyes of hate that he had when his other half reached the surface, but then he looked the face of the god and realized that if he was there to kill him, then he had all the rights, he had killed in a horrible way to his sons.
"if you may recall... I've never been the right roman soldier model..." he said and then left his dagger into his side's pocket and lowered his hand. He heard how the god offered to buy some clothes, all of what he wanted. He frowned at the wallet in front of him and then looked up at the god's face again and tilted his head just some degrees. "Why?... you want me to die in style?" He smiled in a sarcastic way. "I knew you would come after me... after all I killed some of your children, so... " He sighed and smiled sourly. "you want to do it here... or in a dark alley? Just do it and end with this, but you won't get an apology from me about their death." he asked and then stood there, no fear in his heart, and it wasn't bravery. He simply knew that as long as he continued alive, there was the chance he hurt someone else and he would continue staining Mars and Venus names.
Tag: Mars
Words: 544
Notes: I loved Mars!! <3
Lyrics from Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace Code done by step
Mars deserved the biting words. The venomous sarcasm made Mars feel better about being immortal. If looks could kill he would have been dead. He didn't have any intentions of harming the boy. Though if need be, he'd let the golden ichor flow from his body. There was something he needed to accomplish today and he was not leaving until his motives had been fulfilled. If it meant letting Nick capture him, then by his mother's shorts, he'd do it. The poor boy looked disheveled, frayed and as if he had threw himself into a state of dissaray. He was looking scrawny, not like the ferocious boy at camp that once threatened him for lounging about his own alter for fear that he was some miscreant trying to deface the mighty Alter of Mars. The boy had spunk, fire, but the look in his eyes, it was a look of defeat. Mars was still proud of the boy and the god hadn't given up hope where it seemed that Nick had.
Nick had a weapon on his person. Mars could sense it. But he did little to stop the boy from drawing said weapon. If Nick felt the need to stab his grandfather in the stomach, neck, shoulder, where ever, Mars would let him. The hate and venom in his eyes, Mars wouldn't be surprised if he walked away from this encounter looking like that Titan Prom. He had scars, but the amount that the titan had was uncountable to what that brute Jupiter did. Nick was a dangerous man. There was a seed of pride in the legacy, something that Mars did not admit to easily in his legacies. Legacies really had to prove they had something otherwise he didn't want to give them expectations that they couldn't live up to. It was horrible to put expectations on the shoulders of Demi-gods that they couldn't hope to reach.
"You've always been a good soldier. You've got resolve that rivals the steel shields." Mars said, not taking his eyes off of the reflection in the window. "it takes all sorts of people for an army. Everyone from the healers and medics to those who requisition supplies, couriers and those who gather information. All is needed to make an army work." It was a simple truth. Charlie and Remus both knew that and Mars made sure his children and legacies knew it. He furrowed his brow as Nick stated that it only seemed that Mars wanted to die in style. "If I wanted to kill you, I would have done so already. I don't expect you to apologize for killing those soldiers. They deserved what they got for committing war crimes against the state of New Rome." Mars stated in a matter of fact voice. "THey were petty and cruel, they truly deserved what you did. You had my blessing for it. You harnessed your rage and vengeance, you were true to your Mars bloodline. It was the proudest I had ever been of a legacy in thousands of years." MArs couldn't disagree that what his children had done was petty. To kill on a whim without evidence, that was a stain on the name of Mars. "I had a reason to come here, but if you'd rather hack and slash it out in the alley way, we can do that too."
Nicholas was facing the all mighty god of war, what was the god waiting to smash his head between his hands or maybe under the weight of his sword, or dug his hand into his chest , grab and squeeze his heart while it was still beating, feel how his life was fastly leaving his body with each scared and weak fast beat? He knew very well what was it to feel those, he had done it with those who killed Kaylee... or wasn't him? He rememeber now the feeling of doing it, but he hadn't done it, it had been that beast that was hidden in his heart, he knew it had been him!
Did Mars know about his other side, that animal he had become? That horrible being from Tartarus that had done those things, that who had killed in his new place of dwelling! could he possibly know about the hundreds of hours that he had spent trying to access to that rage without succeeding? but whenever someone mentioned Kaylee and her moment of death, he simple switch and it take some blood from his so called enemy to make him see what he had done.? He had injured Rhiannon, also Edmund... and killed several creatures, it was out of control!
then the voice of the god brought his mind back to what they were dicusing. He looked at his grandfather and tried to find something that told him that he was his father's father. He saw it in his wide shoulders, his hard chin, but Nick didn't have those! Well in appearance he was more a venus guy. Then again was brought back to the voice of the god. He frowned at his words, so... he was proud of his actions?! he... He didn't mind him killing them because of how they acted. Was it some kind of trap from the god? But then he remembered, Mars didn't lie, he didn't need to do that.
"So... you are... proud?" he then remembered how his father used to be, if he wasn't the best in training, the best soldier, then he was nohing. "I..." he closed his eyes, that feeling again, he wanted to believe and tell the god how he felt, how lost he was, but the stupid beast didn't want him to leave Saturn's side. "we don't need... to buy clothes, to talk." He said because he wanted to talk to him, no matter what the beast wanted to do.
Tag: Mars
Words: 408
Notes: Nick is so lost!
Lyrics from Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace Code done by step
Nick was every bit of his father's son. The bearing, the stature, Mars could see his own son standing there looking back at him. The Venus side made him look like a picturesque Roman soldier. Not too massive, but enough muscle and good looks to turn the head of the girls. But right now, the anger, the aggression, all of it all pent up inside the mortal body, Mars was well versed in those emotions. He was the master of Negative empathy, the emotions that embodied war. Fear, anger, pride, anticipation, aggression, they were all his own and he has mastered them. His children and kin had taken them and made them their own. All his children could manipulate the negative emotions to a degree. He wouldn't be surprised if Nick had an ability to see both sides of the emotions with his heritage. He wasn't sure how the mortals and semi-divine were able to deal with such a range of emotions. It must be like feeling as if you were a diet bottle of coke with a mento sitting in the bottom, just waiting for the wrong person accidentally knock it over so it could explode. But Nick did explode. He had seen the state of his own children and while they did deserve it, it was a massacre. He knew about the demon. That inner demon that most kin of mars had. Charlie had an insatiable bloodlust that she kept locked away and saved for battle, Remus was cold and calculating, there was a reason why this boy was a praetor. Nick's demon, well Mars wasn't sure how toe quite describe it.
"My pride in my kin knows little bounds. Though the actions of my children against your Kaylee, again it was disgraceful. To say such a witch hunt was in the name and for the good of Rome was grounds for a thrashing within an inch of their lives." Though Mars wasn't allowed to directly interfere with the lives of demi-gods, Jupiter and Juno both saw to that, he wanted to that day. There was that day he wanted to kill that Lopez girl, for killing Valerie. But he didn't. There was a special place in the depths of Tartrus for people like that. He had confidence in the judges that would judge people as they entered the underworld. "Then how about lunch if you don't want clothes?" Mars offered. HE reckoned that he looked slightly underfed. He should at least have one good meal in him before battle. To fight on an empty stomach, well it was inhumane. "I wish I could have done something about it..." Mars mused out loud as he thought about when he watched the killing happen. "But unfortunatly, Jupiter has his set rules that we must follow." MArs leaned in close to Nick. "THe last time I interfered, it was my children and legacies that suffered. I keep my distance so that I keep you safe." MArs admitted. Though Jupiter had gone ahead and given an alright to being amongst the mortals now, this had happened before he was given the green light to be able to be with his children and legacies.
"I am here now because Jupiter only just decided that we were in need of our children." Mars stated as he turned, leaning up against the glass window. He tilted his head back, looking at his grandson from behind his sunglasses. "I still can't do much and I still have to abide by the rules of that idiotic blowhard, but, if there's something you want from me now, well I will do what I can to make sure that it gets done." MArs would do everything he could to abide by the request of his grandson. He hated having to deal with that ozone idiots rules and regulations, not that he really listened to much of him anyways. He did what he could while bending the rules, but not enough to put his children in danger. "I do what I can for my family." Mars stated.
So it was real?!... he was really proud of what he had had done to those guys... That was something more than what Nicholas could understand. Maybe it was his Venus side which damaged that side of Mars that would perfectly understand the hate and the masacre that he did months ago. He looked at the god and then unfocused his sight, he was trying to control it, His monster was now trying to reach the surface again and being in presence of the god of war and stressful and agraviating feelings, was something really easy for it. The beast could feel such feelings and was trying to get out, to face the god, to demand so many answers!! Answers that nick didn't want to know! or he didn? sometimes his mind was such a mess, even before Kaylee's death, he had always had a conflict with himself about which side of his heart would be the best in each moment of his life.
Remus, Charlie, Robin and Amelia helped him a lot with that. Remus and Charlie were his family from Mars side, with them he was capable to express all the anger, all the strength he had, how good warrior he was. Robin and Amelia helped him to focus on his Venus side, that softer side of his, that vainer side. the showed him how to balance both sides and that was very good when he was chosen to become a Centurion. he was a good centurion... wasn't he? Tessa also helped him notice that he also was a Venus child, whenever they talked, he tended to be more Venus with her. Then Kaylee... she showed him how to be proud of himself, not only to show off about who he was and how strong he was, but to be proud of it. That also helped him as a centurion and as a human being... But then those animals had to kill her!!
Nick's body moved as if he had awful cramps in the stomach. He put a hand on his head and then looked at Mars again, he focused once more on the face of the god and then smirked in a way that he only did when the beast was about to emerge. His eyes went from the crystal blue that he had to the deep red of hate and fire and back to blue. He was trying to control it, Rhiannon told him how and also Edmund suggested one or two things, but... with so much anger, it was impossible! "Yeah... Jupiter had always been like that..." he breathed deeply and felt more cramps running through his body. "why if non of you were allowed to be with your children... You all still had kids?! Kids should be with their parents... Or be able to ask their grandparents about their past... about their r-roots..." the cramps were painful too. "and you wonder why so many believed Saturn..." he stopped and walked couple of steps away ftom him. "how can you be proud of someone that you didn't even know?!" his eyes started changing into red. "you didn't claim him!... you claimed me! I was the one who you claimed! I am your legacy not that weak legacy of venus!" finally his eyes were red and his body stopped cramping. Nick was lost again and the beast took control of his body.
when Nick was a kid and his mother was murdered by that monster, he was so angry to be so weak, that he created that other side of him for the first time. that little kid with Red eyes was the one who defended the corpse of his mother, and the moment the sign of Mars appeared on his head, he was still the kid with Red eyes.
Tag: Mars
Words: 634
Notes: Well, Mars now know other Nick.
Lyrics from Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace Code done by step
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