u/ThereWillAlwaysBeWar

The sky outside the Hellfire Club rumbled and lit up with a flash before quickly returning to normal. Outside the door, stood a towering man in a crisp suit with a gold plated helm on his head.

Ares. The God of War.

He pushed past the doorman without a word, slamming the doors to the club open with force enough to crack the glass before entering.

He regarded the place with interest. The old Hellfire Club had been the starting place of man wars. Created by backroom deals among men playing both sides.

Perhaps this one would afford just as many chances for him to witness conflict.

He approached a nearby staff member grabbing their shoulder firmly.

Take me to see one of the owners.

I am Ares. God of War.

When men pray for peace, I bring the war that grants them it.

Because war is the only way to peace.

But things have changed...I have watched as you mortals now scrounge and turn on each other in your backstabbing ways. Without honor or compassion. You no longer war over things that matter. You war in the names of politicians and greed. You turn on your own allies as soon as it's convenient.

No more.

I have walked every battlefield since the first stone struck bone.

I have drunk deep from the rivers of blood spilled in Troy, in Sparta, in the trenches of your so called modern world.

They call me savage. They call me monster.

They are right.

But when empires crumble and heroes bleed…

When the weak cry out for salvation and the strong reach for their swords…

They do not call for Zeus.

They do not call for Athena.

They call for ME.