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❥· His My Treasure, Hephaestus × F! S/O

Character(s): Hephaestus (⚒️), Ares (⚔️) A/N: This was a piece I've wanted to write for such a long time. I had to make an outline of the story so I could fill in the bits and pieces to fit in with it. I hope you guys like this little love-piece for my favorite Greek deity; Hephaestus! (P.S.: This is by-far the longest part, consisting of 2,618 words and 14912 characters.). ╰┈⊳ " Being Ares' Ex and current spouse of Hephaestus. "

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⚒️⚔️ Relationships on Mt. Olympus are rocky to say the least. And there is no relationship more rocky than the one between parent and child; Hera, Zeus, and Hephaestus.

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus, the second-born to both Hera and Zeus, was said to be disfigured shortly after birth. Zeus' violence, erupting at the audacity his son proposed by defending Hera from him, overtook him. He had gripped his son's leg; one hand on his ankle and another on his calf, and threw him off of the mountain and towards the mortal-land below.

⚒️⚔️ On the way down, the future God of the Forge would end up damaging his body. The first to break was his leg, bending backwards in a way that it shouldn't have been possible. Next was his wrist, then shoulder, and finally his hip. Due to the fractures in his body, he gained issues when functioning; his leg was to be replaced by a prosthetic made by his own hands later on, his wrist would pop anytime moved, his shoulder the same, while his hip was wrapped in a brace, gifted by his younger brother, Apollo.

⚒️⚔️ While Hephaestus landed on the island of Lemnos and was raised by his foster moms, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis, the issue of marriage arose on Olympus. Aphrodite, the Goddess of Lust, was wanted by many Gods; both old and young.

⚒️⚔️ Because of the tension rising, Zeus was annoyed once again. He sat on his throne as he heard screaming. Standing up, he burst into the nearby room. There, soaring above all, was a golden throne. Inside of it was the Queen of the Gods, Hera herself. She yelled and damned her second son for his insolence while others laughed at the predicament.

⚒️⚔️ "You damned child! Let me out of this at once!" She screamed.

⚒️⚔️ "...Nah."

⚒️⚔️ Zeus sighed and rolled his eyes, walking up to the side of his son; the same side he had damaged from tossing him from Mt. Olympus years prior. "Son, what can I do to... assist in her release?" He asked.

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus shrugged, asking what he had to give. Zeus offered many things, ranging from his own set of mountains to rule over and have to himself to even the replacement of his damaged limbs. "No," Hephaestus replied. "I'm used to using this now. Don't wanna mix up my senses."

⚒️⚔️ Zeus groaned, his long hair swaying as he looked around rapidly. It took him a mere few minutes before he caught the sight of three of his other sons arguing; Ares holding both Apollo and Dionysus in headlocks as they yelled. He knew what it was all about; Aphrodite.

⚒️⚔️ "I've got it!" He said, snapping his fingers as he looked into his son's stoic eyes. "How about I gift you something you'd never be able to get on your own; a wife! Specifically Aphrodite!"

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus looked behind his father, catching sight of the Goddess of Beauty, and shrugged his shoulders. "Sure." He agreed. At the single-worded answer, the throne that glued Hera inside fell to the floor, sending the Goddess to the floor as well, but this time free from the chair's seating area.

⚒️⚔️ "Excellent. The wedding shall be held in four days time." Zeus cheered, patting Hephaestus' back as he groaned and looked away. "Good luck, son."

⚒️⚔️ It's been hundreds of years since the union on the two opposite deities. A mere fraction of that time belonged to the union of the God of War, Ares, and the Goddess of Womanhood, Music, and Healing, Y/N.

⚒️⚔️ Known for her kindness and gentle voice, she were beloved by many, especially the Queen of the Gods. She was the one who introduced her to her eldest son, and was also the one who had arranged for their marriage to the black-haired deity.

⚒️⚔️ And it was Hera who accidentally set the course for the day the polite, shy Goddess, would snap.

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus was busy working away in his forge on Olympus, ignoring all around him. His mind was all focused on the weapons he was making for his half-sister, Athena. He needed to get the carvings in just right before putting the blade together with the handle.

⚒️⚔️ Because of the isolation that Hephaestus had neglected to see anything wrong going on his wife, not noticing how much more relaxed she seemed when he'd get home from the workshop to rest. Mainly because he was forced to by his dear youngest sister, Hebe.

⚒️⚔️ "You must get some rest." She'd say, a calming smile on her face as she would lightly pull his hand from his tools to bring him out of the sweltering room. Alongside her in these events was her husband, Heracles, who silently assisted his wife to bring the God of the Forge to his home for rest.

⚒️⚔️ When he was brought home the week prior, Hebe and Heracles were sent to handle some other political affairs with Hades, whom needed assistance with Pirithous and Theseus down in the Underworld. "They were being to noisy with their beliefs in wives again," he wrote. In the meanwhile, Hephaestus focused on his work, ignoring all attempts to push him out of the shop.

⚒️⚔️ Light covered the shop heavier than normal, alerting Hephaestus. He looked upwards and saw that a Titan God, specifically Helios, was standing behind him with a sly smile on his face.

⚒️⚔️ The second-born of Hera cocked an eyebrow and brushed his eye-guard away from his face and asked the deity what he needed. "Oh, I just found out something that is quite... interesting to say the least."

⚒️⚔️ "Spit it out. I don't have all day to listen to meaningless rumors." Hephaestus replied, laying his hammer and tongs to the side.

⚒️⚔️ "You are married to Aphrodite, correct?"

⚒️⚔️ "Yes."

⚒️⚔️ "Well, as the brother to Ares and husband to Aphrodite, you may take this terribly. Oh well! 'Honesty is the key', as Selene would say."

⚒️⚔️ "Again, spit it out."

⚒️⚔️ Helios laughed, floating in the air as he continued his words. "I witnessed a particular Goddess of Procreation and God of War accompanying one another in the bedroom, doing what only the married folks should."

⚒️⚔️ "...What?"

⚒️⚔️ "They were having intercourse. Quite vocally, might I add."

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus' emotions froze, his blue eyes that came from his father were widened. After a moments time nothing moved, Helios cocked an eyebrows and waved his light-skin hands in front of his face.

⚒️⚔️ "You good-"

⚒️⚔️ "Get out."

⚒️⚔️ Fists were balled, and Helios caught sight of them. Instead of trying to calm the God down, he smiled and swiftly left, light following behind him like a cloak as he returned to his sky-high kingdom. Meanwhile, Hephaestus' mind began to wander. He grabbed a piece of paper and began to write down everything that came to his head; and a single plan hung high above the rest of the quick, anger-filled writings.

⚒️⚔️ Pushing his forge to the brink of breaking, he created a long, thin chain. It was invisible to the naked eyes unless someone were looking for it, and he smirked as he made sure it was unbreakable. From striking it with blades, hammers, and throwing it inside of the flames to melt.

⚒️⚔️ Step One: Make a trap. Check.

⚒️⚔️ Step Two: Catch the lovers in the act.

⚒️⚔️ Laying the chain's end down in the curtain, Hephaestus chuckled. He had finally gotten it all done. Each step to get to his goal done; successful. Now, all he had to do was step out and wait for his net of unbreakable chains to catch the affair-actors in the act.

⚒️⚔️ "Aphrodite!" He called, catching the attention of the self-interesting Goddess. "I'm going to Lemnos for a business trip; delivering creations and all. I'll be back in around a week."

⚒️⚔️ She nodded and said goodbye, still staring at herself in her mirror, adjusting her fluffy burnt umber hair. And Hephaestus left, going around the corner instead of heading to his chariot led by donkeys. He kept his ears open as he heard bushes rustle and a masculine voice mix with a feminine's.

⚒️⚔️ Before he even realized it, he heard the screams of both Ares and Aphrodite.

⚒️⚔️ Walking back inside his home, his wrist popped as he closed the door. His eyes looked up at the two deities wrapped up in the chains, anger on their expressions as they yelled at Hephaestus to let them go; much like how Hera did all those years ago.

⚒️⚔️ "What a predicament you both are in." He said, a smirk teasing his face as he called for Hermes to come to his home. Hermes did listen and cackled as he called the rest of the Olympian deities to see the lovers caught in the unbreakable chains made by Hephaestus himself.

⚒️⚔️ It was as some deities left that Poseidon finally spoke about what it would take to free his nephew and niece-in-law. Hephaestus scoffed, arms crossed as he rolled his eyes and spoke with anger tinting his voice. "I signed up for a loyal wife; one that would not have an affair, nonetheless with my own brother!"

⚒️⚔️ "I understand that part of you, nephew. I truly do. But, you must have some price to get the two out of the net."

⚒️⚔️ "I do; a refund."

⚒️⚔️ "A... refund?"

⚒️⚔️ "I want the marriage over, without any fault being put on my side. I want this to be something behind me. Father owes this to me."

⚒️⚔️ "This wasn't exactly your father's fault, more so your brother's. How about Ares pays while your father just eradicates the marriage?"

⚒️⚔️ Hephaestus scoffed once again, staring into his uncle's eyes as he bitterly disagreed. After all, what if Ares didn't end up paying him his dues?

⚒️⚔️ "If Ares doesn't pay, I will; straight from my pockets."

⚒️⚔️ "Fine."

⚒️⚔️ On the opposite side of Olympus, a woman cried in the arms of a brunette Goddess named Hestia. Two more females were beside her, one being the Goddess of the Hunt, Artemis, and the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena. Their eyes were filled with sympathy as the woman sobbed, face buried in the chest of the eldest Goddess.

⚒️⚔️ She hushed the younger female, patting her head a she asked what had happened to prompt such a sadness.

⚒️⚔️ "It was Ares..." She spoke. "He and Aphrodite... they're having an affair. I caught them in my own bed!"

⚒️⚔️ "What?!" Artemis yelled, eyes glowing a blinding white as her shoulder was grasped by her eldest sibling. Athena growled under her breath, scolding her brother before she sighed and relaxed her expression.

⚒️⚔️ "Do you know where he is now?" She asked. She nodded and pulled away from the motherly hold of her aunt-in-law, wiping her tears and she stood and spoke, telling the three Goddesses her husband was last seen by her heading towards Hephaestus and Aphrodite's residence.

⚒️⚔️ "Understood." Athena replied, looking at her aunt and telling her and her in-law to stay there for now, for her and her half-sister shall handle their half-brother. Hestia nodded, but the Goddess of Healing disagreed, saying she would help handle it. After all, he was her husband.

⚒️⚔️ "Fine." Artemis replied, "Just, stay next to us."

⚒️⚔️ "Ares." Athena said, hand gripping her spear tightly as she glared at her brother from behind. He stood, unwrapping the loosened chains from his arm and glared at his younger brothers with anger before turning around. Then he saw her standing there.

⚒️⚔️ His wife, the woman he called his, whom he took pride in being with, so much so that he had a child with; his son. Named after the pride he felt in his family, Aristotle, meaning "best purpose", was the perfect blend of the partners. Now, he saw his wife there, heartbroken, and anger flashing in her usually soft eyes.

⚒️⚔️ "How could you?" Athena continued.

⚒️⚔️ "W-what are you talking about?" He tried to avoid, feigning obliviousness, much to the upset of the remaining deities.

⚒️⚔️ "You know what she's talking about, wussy!" Artemis yelled.

⚒️⚔️ Y/N raised her hand, silencing all around her. Stepping up to her husband, her eyebrows furrowed and her teeth gritted. She then lifted her arm, opened her palm, and...

SMACK!

⚒️⚔️ Ares' head slammed to the opposite side as where his wife's hand came from. His eyes were wide as she began to tear up again, "I want a divorce."

⚒️⚔️ "W-what...?"

⚒️⚔️ "This. Is. Over. Goodbye, Ares."

⚒️⚔️ "But what about Aristotle?!" He yelled his question, glaring at his wife angrily.

⚒️⚔️ "He stays with me. I don't want a douche like you influencing my boy."

⚒️⚔️ Poseidon's eyes were wide, he had never expected one of his favorite deities to be so brutal with her words. While he knew she was strong, he had never seen it with his own eyes before this.

⚒️⚔️ "Good day, Ares."

⚒️⚔️ Sitting beside Hera, her eyes were filled with pity, much like her two step-daughters and sister. She couldn't help but feel guilty. She had pushed his in-law and Ares into the marriage, and she was the Goddess of the unions! How could she have not noticed the obvious issues between not only her and Ares, but Aphrodite and Hephaestus.

⚒️⚔️ "Again, I apologize for the forced event, Y/N." She said.

⚒️⚔️ "It's alright, Lady Hera. It wasn't your fault, it was more Ares and Aphrodite than anything."

⚒️⚔️ Hera breathed out a laugh and smiled, she then reached to her right, grabbing her paper with a letter from her second-born son. On the papers, it stated how close you two have grown; talking about the shared journeys away from your ex-lovers inspired the Queen to take one more risk.

⚒️⚔️ "Do you believe you can marry another?"

⚒️⚔️ "I'm not sure."

⚒️⚔️ "Well, if you were to marry another; who would it be?" She asked, lifting her glass to her small kylix filled with nectar to her lips.

⚒️⚔️ The Goddess of Womanhood flushed as she thought. "While I do enjoy the company of Hermes and Apollo, I wouldn't marry them. And when examining the other Gods, there is only one that I can even comprehend marrying..."

⚒️⚔️ "Hephaestus?"

⚒️⚔️ "...yes."

⚒️⚔️ Hera smiled, chuckling at the flustered face of her now-ex-daughter-in-law and planned future-daughter-in-law. She grasped the letter and her idea could finally come back into motion; marrying the two deities who unknowingly allied their emotions to one another's.

⚒️⚔️ Children's laughs echoed in the halls of Mt. Olympus; each coming from four children playing with one another. Two boys and two girls happily messed with the gifts their father had made for them just the day prior.

⚒️⚔️ "I see they like their gifts." A female voice said, her arms wrapping around her husband's arm.

⚒️⚔️ "Yes, I'm very happy they do. I worried they would dislike them. Sibling's influence and all."

⚒️⚔️ The woman giggled, lightly pulling her husband's head down to hers, allowing a kiss to occur. Their lips moved against one another's gently, love spiraling through their minds as the man wrapped his arms around her midsection while the woman's hands wrapped around her lover's head.

⚒️⚔️ "Ew!" Children's voices squealed, eyes staring at their parents while the eldest; the only half-sibling, smiled and chuckled alongside his own wife at their actions.

⚒️⚔️ The couple pulled away, laughing as they heard their children's reactions.

⚒️⚔️ "I love you, Hephaestus."

⚒️⚔️ "I love you too, my treasure."

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