Chapter Five: Mercury Rising.

Chapter Five: Mercury Rising. 

"So how are you enjoying your time on the island so far?" Donna asked Amanda who grinned mischievously at the question.

"Well...we've been here before you know?" the redhead Potter girl teased Donna and there was a few seconds where the teenaged Amazon stared at her.

"Yes...I know that but I figured…."

"I get what you're saying," Amanda said. There was no real question about it, the grin on her face told the story of how much she was really enjoying winding the woman up and how that was where she got a great deal of her entertainment from. Donna could tell that much and Emily placed her fist in her mouth, trying to stifle her giggles.

"You two are horrible sometimes, you know that," Donna groaned. Yet, despite that, she was smiling and she placed her hands on the back of her head.

"Thanks! We aim to please," Emily said with a cute little bow. She was looking forward to really testing her powers. Despite having them for some time, she felt she barely scratched the surface.

"You aim to annoy me! I swear! Your as bad as Lyta sometimes," Donna finished saying this just as your younger sister turned up behind her, a smile across her face as she heard what her older sister was saying.

"It's not anything personal. You're just so easy to wind up, that it's not even funny," Lyta commented to Donna and the elder Amazon shook her head. Words failed her but her predicament caused the twins and her younger sister to really break into laughter about everything.

"So are you girls ready for training?"

The wizard who said this seemed to materialize right before their very eyes, causing the girls to look at him in surprise. One second he wasn't there, the next he appeared so quickly that they could have sworn that he popped up from out of nowhere.

"We almost….where did you come from?" Donna asked him as he wrapped his arms around her from behind. Donna smiled as she felt her husband's arms go around her waist. From there he pulled her into him from behind so that she was pressed up tightly against him. His strength, his arms wrapped around her, it was amazing and she couldn't help but melt as she basked in his embrace.

"Now, a true wizard doesn't reveal his secrets," Harry told Donna in a teasing voice as he flipped the woman's hair out of her face.

"Which means you're not going to tell me," Donna replied with a pout and Amanda and Emily exchanged identical grins upon seeing it.

"Careful about pouting too much, Harry might leave another mark there to match the one he gave you a few years back," Amanda said with mischief dancing in her voice. She was pleased to see Donna's eyes flash with embarrassment and Harry smiled at her.

"What are we talking about?" Lyta asked in curiosity and Amanda opened her mouth to explain but Donna side stepped her, cutting it off.

"Nothing that you need to know about, it's really nothing that you need to know," Donna said hastily. There was a frantic quality to her tone and Harry couldn't help but watch this interaction with amusement. He wasn't going to embarrass her any further by talking about what happened, having her flustered was its own award.

'I would have blurted it out, but that's just me,' Astoria interjected through the bond link.

'I'm not you,' Harry suggested to the blonde who offered a smile.

Daphne, being Daphne, could not resist chiming in with a few sentences of her own. 'Well there are a few subtle differences between Harry and Astoria that would make the two of them nothing alike.'

'That much is true,' Harry offered, he was unable to keep a straight face but after clearing his head, decided to get to the matter at hand. Thus, he would get to one of the reasons that they had come to the island in the first place. Granted, the main reason was the fact that they could use some downtime, however, there were other reasons why they headed off to the island, other then the obvious reason of getting a little bit of rest and relaxation.

The twins were stepping things up in regards to their powers. So they were going to need to get a bit more hands on training in order to fine tune everything. They pretty much had the magical aspects down pat, thanks to the extensive tutoring that Lily and Rose gave them, along with Harry or Harrison offering a little bit of input when they could do so.

Out of the two twins, Amanda was the one with the warrior spirit. Therefore, she was going to be under training under Artemis. His younger sister was pretty excited about the training and Lyta would be training alongside her. While Donna would be supervising a little bit, she still had a fair bit to learn herself so Hippolyta had taken over her training recently.

Emily on the other hand, was not really fit out to be the warrior that her sister was. Granted, she would learn a little bit about fighting but she was more of a passive person. Still there were other skills that she would need to learn and one of those skills was healing. Lyla would be the person most able to teach her those aspects of the Amazon arts.

"So in all seriousness, are you girls ready for your lessons?" Harry asked and all three of the younger girls looked at him with eager expressions, which caused Donna to smile. They would mostly be in the company of someone else. So given that Diana, Kara, and Karen were elsewhere on the island, this might allow her to score some one on one time with Harry. That was among the moments that she cherished the most and she had to smile just a tiny bit at the thought of scoring some alone time with him.

The girls moved off to take their lessons and Donna looked over her shoulder towards Harry, with a smile on her face.

"Peace and quiet at last," Donna muttered as she slid herself on Harry's lap. She would be joining them in a few minutes, but not right yet.

Harry smiled as he pulled the princess onto his lap and looked at his wife. "You know, it's really bad when you have to look into a mirror."

"Oh, Harry! Please not you too!" Donna whined as she shook her head and closed her eyes.

"What, not me too?" Harry asked as he feigned innocence and Donna offered a slight sigh.

"It's bad enough that mother and Diana still go on about something that I did years ago! It might as well have been decades ago, given how slowly time passes on this island. I mean! We've just got to let it go, we all make mistakes right! You know that better than anyone else don't you?"

"Donna, you know I'm flawless," Harry said without missing a beat, as he wrapped his arms around her waist tightly and brushed against the underside of her breasts which caused arousal to pool around the area between her legs.

"Of course not. I forgot that your perfect," Donna sighed, but she couldn't keep the smile off of her face, then again, given that Harry put it there, it was just as well.

The Amazon Princess enjoyed listening to the waves smashing up against the rocks, the serene sound of beauty, as she basked in the presence of her husband. The entire situation was amazing to her.

It had been a week since they had been here but Harry was hoping to stay a lot longer. It was not like he would be missed for long in the real world. There was some times where he caught bond traffic coming in and out but the stars had to align properly for such a thing to transpire, at least that's how he figured it worked. Besides, Harrison was in France and perfectly capable of picking up the slack if anything required immediate attention

The twins were extremely nervous, it wasn't every day that they had a sparring session with their brother.

"This is just a spar, so naturally it won't be anything too taxing," Diana explained to the Twins in a reassuring voice. From where she sat on a bench to the side, Donna's smile got a bit wider. Lyta, who was standing watched all this eagerly, her hands placed on her hips. She was intrigued by this and after he beat them, she wanted to go a few rounds with her father. In more ways than one. He was the only man on Earth that could be able to handle her but he kept saying she had to wait until she was fourteen. It was so unfair!

"I'm going to be holding back a little bit but I don't want you to," Harry told Amanda, who was up first. Harry figured that was for the best, given that she was the one that was getting the physical brunt of the training.

"Right," Amanda agreed, she tried to look fierce and determined as she stared her older brother down and the two of them locked eyes on each other. She was not going to get psyched out, no far from it; she was going to win today's battle!

"Ready when you are," Harry offered, trying not to put too much pressure on his sister, in fact, he was trying to ensure that she was the one who controlled the pace they went at, at least for the most part.

"Right, right, I'm ready!" Amanda confirmed but there was a fluttering in her heart that she couldn't shake off. Her emerald orbs glowed as she kept them locked onto Harry's matching pair of eyes.

"Are you sure you're ready?" Harry asked the young girl with a smile, which she returned in kind.

"I'm sure," Amanda agreed, as she mustered up the confidence that she needed to go up against her brother, which in her mind, was literally like going up against her own personal god.

'Soooo...how long do you think she'll last?' Kara asked.

'I don't know, she might surprise you,' Faora commented, with a smile. Amanda shared DNA with her brother, so she was pretty sure that she'd be able to put up a pretty good fight.

'I guess, we can't do much of anything other then to wait and see,'Karen added and they could tell how much Harry was in the Zone. 'Har at ten percent of his abilities is scarierthan many at full ability.'

'He's come a very long way,' Faora critiqued and there was a gushing amount of pride in her voice at the achievements that her brother made.

It was time for the spar to start and Amanda's nerves reached a high fever tempo. She was always the bolder, the more brazen of the two twins but….she was not going to lie. She was a bit intimidated going up against her brother, who was always larger than life to her. Even with her increased strength, durability, stamina and a few added skills, she always looked up to Harry in a way and it was not because he was taller than her either.

'Okay! Mandy! You can do this!' She coached herself. The redhead knew that at any moment, a gong would be rung and the battle would commence. She had to ignore the fact that her knees felt like cement and just step in there and do this.

The timer ticked down but each second felt like an eternity.

"Three, two, one, GONG!"

An instant later Amanda saw Harry's fist nearly connect with her face. And she could tell that he was only swinging it at a fraction of his strength and speed. Instinctively, the redhead brought up both of her hands to block it, only to then find her legs taken out from underneath her.

"You better be careful," Harry told Amanda gently and she got up to her feet, watching him warily.

'Okay, relax, focus, and do,' Amanda thought, this was not the first time that Harry handed her ass on a platter. The last time it was a magical duel, this one it was a physical duel. Never the less, it caused her a bit….well it caused her to be frustrated.

"And again," Harry told Amanda, who nodded as she fell back into a ready stance.

She tried a different attack, utilizing a quicker approach. Sometimes speed triumphed over brute force but Harry caught her around the waist and hurled her up into the air. It was not enough to hurt her but rather it caused her some frustration. She did not even suffer one broken bone, no bumps, no bruises, no anything.

"Again!" Harry called to her and Amanda closed her eyes to focus.

She did a somersault roll but Harry caught her mid roll. He gripped her in a waistlock and stared in her eyes.

"Only show off if you can make it up," Harry commented as he picked her up in a gut wrench but then set her down.

Amanda jumped up and she tried to punch Harry in the face but he blocked her fist. The wizard's hand grabbed her wrist and Harry went behind her. He grabbed her around the arms and hoisted her up. He deposited her down on her knees.

"Okay, both twins at once," Harry told Emily who stepped in and nodded, although she swallowed carefully before doing so.

Amanda exchanged a tense look with her sister. They had no idea whether or not the two of them together would be better than the one of them alone. The two of them locked their eyes upon each other before pushing themselves forward.

Amanda tried to get Harry from below and Emily tried to get him from above. Harry took a step back so he could see what his sisters were doing.

That was not the best thing to try, in hindsight, as their heads clonked together. Both of the girls felt a bruising alright, although it was of their egos.

"Oookay, care to try that one more time?" Harry asked them.

'So...do you have a plan?' Amanda questioned Emily.

'I was hoping that you'd have a plan,' Emily commented but there was a second where she paused, before continuing the mental conference with her sister. 'Brute force isn't going work, we'd get spanked in no time flat by him. We've got to step things up a few notches.'

'You do realize that any plan we communicate mentally, he's likely to be listening in on it?' Amanda thought and Emily inclined her head, biting down on her lip in frustration. That was a good point, which made everything that they could attempt to be pretty much null and void. 'Maybe if you try and attack him first, you know as a distraction….'

'Right, while I'm getting my ass kicked, you take him out,' Emily commented but she tightened her grip as she clasped her hands together. 'Right! That's easier said then done.'

'If it's easier said than done, we'll just do it,' Amanda thought, but her confidence was not at height that she felt it should be.

Whether or not she would be able to do what she intended to do, the twins never knew. There was a huge explosion that resounded all through the island.

'AGAIN!?'Donna thought, her mind flashing back to the first time Harry, Kara, Karen, and Faora were on the island.

Hippolyta got up to her feet from where she sat on her throne, there was something stirring on the island. She could sense it, given how in tune she was with the magic surrounding the island.

"Go check it out!" Hippolyta commanded Artemis with an urgent tone to her voice and the flame haired Amazon nodded, heading in the direction the explosion had rang out from. The Amazon general kept her eyes focused forward as she moved forwards at a good clip.

Artemis heard the rumbling before she saw anything. The woman's eyes narrowed as the ground shook beneath them.

'Oh! This sounds like trouble,' Kara breathed and Diana slipped off to escort the younger girls to safety in the background but she was not unable to say a parting comment, as several Amazons moved forward to engage whatever might be attacking them.

'That's because it is trouble,' Diana informed her and there was no time to elaborate because their enemies were making their way across the island.

Harry stood there for a moment and then hovered a few inches above the ground in order to get a better look. He recognized the one leading the attack immediately. Ares stood there before him dressed in dark blue armor of a make similar to a Roman Centurion that had several spikes on it. He had on a helmet that mostly hid his face, yet showed off his glowing red eyes and lead a group dressed in armor similar to what he was wearing. Harry did not know who or what they were, as his X-Ray vision could not penetrate their armor.

Diana had already led off the girls on her way to get armored up, which allowed Harry to focus on Ares, knowing that his wife would join him shortly.

Kara dropped down in front of him, cracking her knuckles while Karen and Faora went off to scout the other side of the island.

'We're going to see if we can sneak up on the other end on them,' Faora thought, her strategic mind working into overdrive.

'Right, we'll figure this out,' Kara thought as she stood side by side with Harry and they braced themselves for a fight.

Ares made his way forwards onto the island. He was being that thrived off of the bloodshed and conflict of others. Being the God of War, he could do no less. The deity led his Legion forwards and took note of the Amazons mobilizing.

'At last! A challenge,' he thought to himself. Word of Circe's failure and subsequent humbling had reached his ears and he'd been intrigued by the tales of the one responsible. Ares would not suffer such a defeat, no far from it. He would gain victory on this day. 'They will fail but one must admire their spirit. Even though they are weaker than everything else, weaker than the world of men. They have allowed themselves to succumb to him, but I will show my superiority to them all!'

Ares cracked his knuckles and offered a hungry gaze as he led his puppets forward.

"Onward!" he told them and there was a thunderous crash on the ground as they marched towards their destination. "Keep moving forwards! Stop for nothing! Drive them to the ground and crush them beneath your heels!"

There were grunts of agreement from them and Ares strode forwards, determination blazing through his eyes.

On the other end of the island, Harry couldn't help but think that the army was a diversion. The young wizard's eyes focused on the situation at hand.

'Artemis, you know what to do,'Harry informed the woman through the bond link and the general of the army offered a predatory smile as she understood perfectly.

'As you well know!' Artemis responded to him as she led her sisters forward. They were armed, armored and most importantly. They were a ready. There was a thunderous echo as marching soldiers moved towards them.

Harry wondered about the vibrations on the other side of the island. Diana showed up next to him, dressed in full armor. A helmet covered the top of her head and the sleek armor fitted around her body like a glove. It was able to lend both protection and mobility, something that was an important combination.

"Well you're ready," Harry offered with a grin as he saw Diana's really large sword that she once used to take out Voldemort's snake with.

"Of course," Diana muttered as she dodged an attack, then hoisted up her shield to block a spear. Then with a swipe of her sword, she split the spear in half.

Harry moved forwards at blinding speed and caught one of his enemies in the chest with a huge palm strike. The chest plate buckled under the impact then his foe went flying from the force. The wizard pulled his hand back then move to strike the enemies around him with a rapid fire fury. His eyes flashed with joy as he basked in the battle at hand.

Kara used her super speed to confuse her enemies and caused them to attack each other. Their weapons drove in deeply, causing them some pretty severe injuries.

"FIRE!" Artemis yelled, as she had her Amazons step forward to shoot a barrage of arrows at their foes, driving any they impacted against to the ground.

The Legion stepped forward but Harry turned his attention away from the army before him. Ares had slipped off to the side and someone like that? It was not a good idea to let him stray too far. The wizard's eyes flashed as he took another step forward but then he paused. He thought that he heard something akin to a pop, but hearing nothing further he shook it off and headed after Ares.

A bolt of energy struck the ground where Harry had just been standing and it caused him to stand up straighter. Reminding him that he had to focus.

Amanda's arms folded over her chest as she stood in the library, Lyta, Donna, and Emily were standing next to her.

'I wish I knew what was going on out there,' Amanda thought to her sister, who nodded in agreement, but she knew that they would be in way over their heads. Despite the warrior spirit that all of them exhibited to different degrees, they were dealing with the fucking god of war, and he was on as entirely different level.

'I know, I know,' Emily thought to her sister.

Lyta, being less patient than the twins were, was about to step outside.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"I'm going to see what's happening!" Lyta said firmly as she shrugged off Donna's question. Her sister opened her mouth to say something but she cut her off. "I know what you're going to tell me! But we should…."

What they were going to do, what they should do, it was never said because the girls heard something outside. It was a soft pop but there was a sinister ring to it. Which caused the hair on the back of Donna's neck to stand up. Perhaps, it was a side effect of being bonded to Harry or perhaps it was more fine-tuned instincts on her part, but she could have sworn something was out there.

And if there was something out there, then she needed to take the lead.

"I don't know what's out there, but I don't like it," Donna hissed as she bit down on her lip firmly and the dark haired woman looked over her shoulder.

Someone should not have been able to break through these wards, but yet, here was what she was guessing to be an extremely powerful magic user. And that was something that caused her nerves to stand on end. The blue eyes of Donna Troy Potter locked onto where she thought the source of the noise was coming from.

"It's coming from the Throne Room?" Donna inquired to herself and she looked over her shoulder. She pulled her dagger out of it sheath and stepped forward. She turned to face the Twins and her younger sister before she told them in a firm voice. "Stay here."

Somehow she knew that statement was going to fall upon deaf ears.

Harry landed on the ground with Diana beside him up, the two of them focused on finding Ares. There was a sick cloud of smoke that wafted around them and the young wizard's head rang for a moment before he was able focus himself.

"I think we found Ares," Harry whispered as Karen, Faora, and Kara stepped in to join them. "Keep the underlings off of us; we're going to take down the big guy."

"Right," Karen stated then she frantically had to dodge a series of falling fireballs, barely able to pay attention to the sounds of battle around her. That was more or less because she nearly had her face taking off by a huge metal mallet. Instinctively she dodged it in one movement, squinted her eyes with the second, and in a third sent a burst of heat vision to burn the hands of the foe attacking her.

Kara closed her eyes and then managed to use her super breath to freeze the legs of the enemies. It was only a temporary stop gap at best.

"So, you're the one who managed to tame the Amazons," Ares stated and Harry aimed a punch towards him but the God of War blocked it and pushed back with a thunderous force. Harry proceeded to shove him back and there for few seconds, they stood, face to face.

Diana dove down from above to nail Ares hard in the face with a huge flying dropkick. The blow staggered him back and left him open for the next attack. The Princess of the Amazons aimed a few huge punches at him but Ares blocked them, before pushing her back and grabbing her around the waist hurled her over to the side like a piece of garbage.

Diana flew head over heels to land on her hand and knees in a low crouch. She pumped her legs before she went for a kick, but the God of War blocked it and grabbed her around the throat.

Harry swooped in and hit Ares with a huge uppercut punch sending him flying back a few inches. The punch was extremely powerful, but the follow up was even more so as Diana and Harry joined forces in a huge double punch attack that rocked Ares hard.

Ares dodged between a pillar. He was going to use guerrilla tactics to take them down.

To that effect, he popped back up to throw a flaming spear, which was aimed at the spot right between Harry's eyes. But the green eyed wizard blocked it with a spell, sending it crashing down to the ground where it shattered into glass. The glass flew in every direction and with another spell, Harry quickly sent them hurtling back at location where Ares once stood.

He went to one side, Diana went to the other, but Ares was no longer there. The young wizard looked up when he heard a humming, to see several flaming daggers being thrown at him.

Harry flipped away from the daggers as they slammed into the ground where he once stood. Completing his flip, he eyed Diana and she got his unsaid message. The two of them locked hands and rushed forward in a double team attack.

The twin punches of the husband and wife duo slammed into the face of Ares. His helmet cracked under the impact and he about dropped to his knees, only to catch himself in time. Yet, he couldn't help but offer a grimace. Growling out in rage, the God of War grabbed them by the neck and smacked their heads together.

Falling back for a moment. Diana drew her sword and slashed it savagely at Ares's head, but he manifested a shield to block it. Despite the fact it more or less absorbed the blow, the sword still rent a furrow in the metal of the shield

Harry took advantage of that fact and used his heat vision destroy the shield the rest of the way. Pulling out a pair of daggers, he super charged them with magic, before plowing them into Ares's chest. The God of War howled out in agony as a pain akin to the cruciatus wracked his frame.

It wasn't over yet, as Harry loaded up the magically amplified brass knuckles, it was just getting started. He slammed his knuckle dusters together and electricity arced outwards from him with a bang. He was about to lay the smackdown on Ares.

Donna's hair was really standing up on the back of her neck, as she heard someone or something creeping where it shouldn't in the throne room. The dark haired girl bit down on her lip as she took a half of a step forward. Another step caused her to bravely venture into uncertainty. She could tell her mother and her sister were both distracted by what was happening on the outside, because this battle? This battle was a horrifying one.

The dark haired girl edged into the throne room to see a man dressed in blue robes. He had a cap on, as well as a sneer was on his aged and malevolent face.

"Well, you've been sneaking around where you shouldn't have been, haven't you, my little Amazon princess?" The man taunted with a leer and Donna's eyes narrowed in disgust at his words.

"Who are you?" she demanded and the man obliged her with a response.

"The name is Felix Faust! Learn it well! For I will be the person who takes you down!" Faust cried as he took a step forward in an attempt to intimidate the young princess.

Donna wondered if all old wizards were always this melodramatic or if it was just this one. She reared her arm back ninety degrees before attacking him, but her punch hit an energy shield. The shield repelled the attack back her at nearly twice the pressure, rattling her and nearly dropping her down onto her back. Her breathing went in and out frantically, as she could not do anything.

"Now! Where is it, it must be around here somewhere?" Faust asked, turning around and discounting Donna like she was nothing. To him, the young princess essentially was nothing, other then potentially a momentary amusement.

Donna frowned, she was not used to being treated as an afterthought. She want to attack him once more, but with a casual gesture while not even bothering to look back at her, Faust used a magical spell to freeze her firmly in place.

"You're out of your depth, child," Faust tutted as he picked up a dust bound book. Glee exploded through the sorcerer's eyes as he found what he was looking for. "Ah yes! Here's the one."

Amanda zoomed into the room at super speed to snatch the book that he picked up out of his hand. Faust was taken off guard and Emily swooped in as well, to pull Donna out of the way before Faust could finish her off.

Donna looked exasperated, as Lyta turned up and she tried to jam Faust in the ribs with a huge staff. He was too quick for her, transfiguring into a gruesome snake that snapped at her hissing all the while.

"I could have sworn that I told you to stay out of this," Donna told Amanda, who shrugged her shoulders.

"Expecting me to listen to you was your first mistake. You're not Harry," Amanda told her bluntly without missing a beat and Donna offered the longest sigh that she could give. That was the truth, if nothing else.

She had bigger problems right now then the fact that the twins wouldn't listen to her, namely this creepy old sorcerer trying to kill her. She was able to dodge his attacks, as she was just a bit quicker than him.

"So, I've got the book," Amanda muttered frantically as she held the item in her hand and she felt like it could very well spit fire at her if she was not careful. "What do I do…."

"I'd tell you if I knew!" Donna snapped in a tone that indicated that she was trying to keep her head together but it was something that was harder than it looked.

"You will hand the book over to me!" Faust yelled as he transfigured a few of statues around him, which he then animated, causing them to come to life.

Amanda tried to run to the door but a field appeared in front of her. It was like fire and ice at the same time. It should not be possible but with magic, anything was possible.

"Nice try! But I'm the one who controls this game!" Faust cried, practically spitting at the girls and it was obvious that all of them were in a high pressure situation.

"Well, this is…."

"I know what this is!" Amanda snapped with thinly veiled despair going through her body and she prepared herself for what might be a last ditch effort.

"We aren't going to let this guy beat us! Are we?" Lyta offered, showing off the fierce determination that let everyone know whose daughter she was.

Donna, Amanda, and Emily stared at the imposing sorcerer, someone who had far more experience than they had, someone who was willing to crush them into oblivion at the next possible moment.

They all knew that this was not going to be easy, but that was always the case when one went into battle. The girls were all ready for everything, for better or for worse, and were trying to figure out what was going to happen.

'The girls are in trouble, which we can't….not until we take down Ares,' Harry thought to the bond mates currently with, but he saw Faora make her way off rapidly in the younger girls' direction.

He was happy to see that Faora was in the right position to be able to help take care of this problem. Now, Harry could focus on going face to face with the God of War, who stood before him. He was imposing and Harry saw that his minimal powers weren't enough to stand toe to toe to him.

Ares was a god and while Harry was worshiped as one by many, as much as it pained him to admit it, he wasn't one yet.

'He's not giving in that easily,' Diana warned Harry, as the two of them prepared to go in for another attack and once again, their combined assault managed to back Ares off. Their powerful punches rocked the god of war over and over again. The key word was back him off, it did not take him down. It only merely backed him off and Harry was reminded of this fact, rather painfully.

He felt his knuckles crack; even with the extended usage of the brass knuckles and he threw his head back with a long sigh. It was now or nothing, do or die.

He eyed his wrist where the watch rested. The watch that was blocking the majority of his powers. The watch that was causing him to function at a fraction of his full power. He cracked his knuckles together as he stared at it, there was no question about it. He knew precisely what he had to do.

'Diana, darling, hold him at bay,' Harry told her as Kara and Karen moved over.

'What are you planning on doing?' Karen wondered and Harry smiled as he sent out a blast of magical shockwave which allowed the Amazons to overtake the army of Ares. They were only out for one thing, bloodshed and carnage and thanks to the energy wave he'd released they crashed down to the ground like they were nothing.

'Something to even the odds,' Harry thought to his wives and then he turned around as his heart sped up. He knew of the risks but against Ares, this was a desperate gambit of a move.

He shot off into the sky, ripping his wrist inhibitor all the way off, and continued to go as high as he could, becoming a blur as he shot up, up, and away.

Karen could not even begin to think what Harry might be doing, given that Ares rushed towards her and tried to nail her as hard as he could. The huge punch rocked her but she blocked it. The blonde closed her eyes, pushing back against him. She could feel his knuckles cracking against her face.

Kara went down underneath Ares, grabbed his legs, and managed to trip him up. Diana flew back down and nailed her enemy in the face, but Ares caught her around the neck then slammed her into the ground. He looked skyward to where Harry had gone.

"He's run like a coward!" Ares taunted as he grabbed Diana by the hair and tried to haul her up in a rear naked choke but the Amazon Princess fought out with everything she was worth.

"You don't know anything about strategy, merely, violence," Diana said as she escaped the hold with a violent jawjacker, causing Ares to stagger back.

His jaw was already injured from their punch earlier and he saw a blur descend from the air at the speed of light which slammed into him with a horrifying amount of force. The God of War was then grabbed around the head and thrown forwards, which caused him to skip across the ground several times. Before he could complete his flight, the blur flew forward and nailed him into the ground with a spear tackle at supersonic speed.

'Never saw it coming,' Harry thought to his bond, he was back to full strength and he used it to take Ares down. The yellow solar radiation was empowering him, given that he flew so close to the sun. The wizard's eyes flashed with power and Ares got up to his feet.

Ares went to say something, only to find out his jaw had been dislocated and it felt like his ribs were broken. He reached up to pop his jaw into place, which nearly caused him to pass out from the pain. Once the wave of nausea passed he couldn't help but state "No, it's not over."

"You and I have drastically different definitions of what over is," Harry concluded as he looked at Ares and the two of them locked eyes with each other.

Harry manifested an energy spear in his hand and he rushed forward. He could see Ares manifest a shield but it was not at the great power that he had before. This allowed the young wizard to push through the shield and slam the spear through it as hard as he could.

The shield cracked under the strain as Harry's power flowed through it. The spear in the wizard's hand glowed bright as it passed through the shield to be driven into Ares's stomach. There was no question about it, he had his enemy down on his knees before him as the spear had pierced him nearly all the way through.

Ares had his head bowed for a second but then looked upwards to glare at Harry with narrowed eyes. He was not going out quietly. Which suited Harry just fine, since he was going to boot his ass off the island whether Ares liked it or not.

Ares started to laugh loudly at something as his eyes began to glow and then with all of the force, all of the power he could muster, Ares exploded in a concussive blast of bright light that echoed outwards from him as he disappeared off of the island with a massive and thunderous pop. Harry watched him leave, not sorry to see him go.

There was no time to think about this really, because there were a few more problems that Harry had to deal with as he continued to hear the sounds of combat around him.

Even Ares had been taken down his army remained, the work of the hero was never done.

Faora showed up shortly after she left the scene of the fight between Har-Zod and Ares. She heard the sounds of combat coming from the direction of the throne room which lead her forward. She knew that the twins, Donna, and Lyta didn't get themselves into trouble willingly, at least not this time. The dark haired woman pushed herself through the barrier and blocked the concussive blast of magic that was sent at her.

"You will give me the book!" Faust yelled as he lunged towards Amanda but she managed to block it. Only for the demented sorcerer to grab her around the throat and this caused Faora to see red. She blasted forward and nailed Faust with a full force punch to the jaw.

"NO MAN BUT HAR-ZOD TOUCHES THEM!" she screamed out in rage as she grabbed him by the throat and hurled him with a surprising amount of might into one of the nearby pillars.

Faust was caught off guard and rattled, but he conjured a spiked shield which blocked Faora's next assault. Had she connected with his head, she would have knocked it clean off. Then again, it was her intention to do just that. The dark haired woman's hands connected with the shield and she pushed on through it.

"Give me the book and I won't destroy you."

The book had gone flying when Faust grabbed Amanda and it fell into the hands of Emily Evans-Potter. The redhead flipped through the book frantically as she felt her nerves were at a huge fever pitch. There was no way she could do this, her stomach did a twist and a turn but she stood as tall and proud as she could manage.

No, there was….No! She could most certainly do this! She had to do this! There were people counting on her, there was no question about it, she nervously thumbed through the book.

Donna and Faora bought her enough time, with Lyta contributing what she could. The three of them worked on Faust, but his stone statues caused them massive fits. Faora was inclined to smash his skull in for all he did and Emily thought that after Faust put his hands on Amanda, anything Faora might do to Faust would more than warranted.

'Got to focus,' Emily thought as nerves racked her body. There was a sense that there was some kind of knot tightening in her stomach, which twisted through her being and tormented the redhead. She thought….no self-doubt was not something that she needed right now.

She spoke the incantation she read in the book with a strangled and strained tongue. Somehow she understood it. Her mind went so fast that it was hard to comprehend what was really happening, but the redhead was doing it. She conjured a bolt of light and it shot from her hand, drilling Faust as hard as possible.

Emily collapsed drained, only to be caught in Harry's arms as he and the others arrived just in time to see Faust vanish into parts known.

"I think we won," Amanda said in a somber voice, her face was covered with cuts and scratches but otherwise, she was in good health and good spirits.

"Both attacks were a carefully planned distraction," Hippolyta told the group after she completed her sweep of the island and everyone turned to the Queen of the Amazons. "Ares, his army, this Faust, all of them proved to be a gambit to lift one thing from the island. All while we were distracted with what we thought, rightfully so, were the biggest threats possible."

Harry looked over his shoulder, he figured something like this was the case when Ares started laughing like that before he vanished. Lyla bowed her head as she decided to give her Queen the grave news.

"It was the pillar, your majesty," Lyla remarked to the Queen and Hippolyta's expression became even more grim and grave.

"The pillar that he's trapped in?" Harry asked and Lyla nodded.

"Hercules….I had thought…..well they've taken it, but they haven't freed him as of yet," Hippolyta said in a distracted voice, as she tried to look on the bright side of the situation. Although, perhaps she was trying to convince herself there was a bright side to this.

"Artemis is doing a quick sweep of the island, to see if they left any clues behind," Lyla said in a tense voice, ashamed that she let her majesty down. The pillar was something that was heavily guarded ever since it was placed on the island. The only thing more guarded than it was the doorway to Tartarus.

It was not the first time that Hercules had behaved out of turn. He had tried something with Hippolyta in the past. Their first meeting…..well their meeting was less friendly then their second and there was really no more to say about that.

"Do you have any clues of who did it?" Harry asked to Hippolyta and Diana wanted to know the answer to that question as well.

The Queen of the Amazons inclined her head once and shook it.

"I'm afraid not, although the possibilities are grave," Hippolyta admitted in a frustrated voice and Harry smiled as he placed his hand on hers.

"They couldn't….we couldn't have known," Harry whispered to her as he placed his arms around his wife and the Queen of the Amazons offered him a smile as she pressed into him for comfort. There was one statement that most certainly passed through her lips as she looked her bonded straight in the eyes.

"I know, that's what makes this frustrating," Hippolyta commented, really wishing that the security of the island worked out a bit better, although she felt that there really was no way for them to have seen this coming. They had no way of knowing Ares or Faust wasn't the really threat.

Harry had another thing he had to discuss things with Donna and the twins.

"So, I believe that I need to have a word with you three," Harry told them and the three girls looked at him with a slight bit of awe. He was radiating power like they'd never seen before in their young lives and maybe the likes of which they would never see again. So naturally, they were a bit nervous. "This way, please."

It was hard to read Harry's expression, so Emily and Amanda exchanged a swift glance that indicated the tension the two of them were feeling.

'We're not going to be….we can't be….' Amanda thought to her sister and she chewed on the side of her mouth as both girls nervously watched Harry.

'I don't know, but we better wait and see,' Emily told her twin as the two girls locked arms and went to face their brother.

Donna decided she'd be the one to go first. She figured that it was fortunate that nothing happened to Lyta, because she would be getting it from her mother, Diana, and Harry, likely also Artemis, Karen, Kara, Faora, and maybe a few others that she forgot about. Oh yeah and the Goddesses.

"So," Harry stated in a swift voice as he stared down the young Amazon who offered a slight swallow, bringing the lump down in her throat.

"Yeah, I think that I owe you an apology," Donna said as she felt herself wilt underneath Harry's intense gaze.

"You did well out there."

Donna opened her mouth to automatically protest and then she closed it after a few seconds. Perhaps it was her hearing failing her but she wasn't sure what Harry just told her. She only had one word to say, she could not help but say it to her husband.

"Seriously?"

"Yes, Donna, seriously," Harry told the Amazon, offering a light chuckle at her eyes widening and closing, she resembled a deer that was caught in the headlights.

Harry laughed, in spite himself, at the look on his wife's face, well it was something that he wanted to burn into his cortex so he could recall it for the rest of his life.

'She thought that she was going to be in trouble, oh that's so amusing,' Faora remarked in amusement through the mental link.

'It kind of is,' Diana commented, who figured that she would keep Lyta occupied. If nothing else, she thought that the young Amazon Kryptonian would appreciate someone going over her performance today, at least she hoped that she would. If nothing else, it would allow Harry to do what he needed to do on his end.

"So, some might think that you got lucky," Harry told the girls. "But there is a fine line between luck and skill. Bravery and valor had to be exhibited as well for you to win that battle in there today. There are times where you think that you can win the day but…."

"We really did it, didn't we?" Amanda asked and Harry wrapped his arm around her, pulling her into a one armed hug.

"Yes, you did," Harry confirmed to her as he pulled her in closely. "And such bravery and valor, well it's a very commendable trait. It's more then worthy of a reward."

"A reward?" Amanda asked as she raised an eyebrow half of an inch and Harry offered a wide grin towards the bolder of the two twins.

"Yes, Mandy, a reward," Harry commented to her as he held her again his waist. Amanda closed her eyes and basked in the feeling. The moment was extremely powerful and after the battle, it was obvious that she would need to work off some tension, at least that was the thought that went through her head. "I think you've more than earned something like that."

Shivers went down her spine as a kiss pressed against her lips, causing her mind to numb with pleasure. His fingers trailed down her spine, as he roamed his hands all the way down every last inch of her body.

Amanda relaxed as Harry wrapped his arms around her body once more and she closed her eyes, there was a heat that was rising in her body as Harry held her tightly. The young witch closed the gap between both of them even further and she felt another pleasurable rise of heat.

"Don't forget I was the one who banished him," Emily stated with a wide smile.

"A lucky shot," Amanda countered, although there was a teasing quality to her voice.

Emily placed her hands on her hips and glared at her sister. Two sets of identical green eyes locked onto each other before she calmly stated. "Sometimes a lucky shot is the only shot that you need."

Harry smiled as he took Donna into his arms while his younger sisters bitched at each other and the two of them exchanged an amazing kiss. The top half of Donna's armor was pulled off as the wizard's hands ran over the upper part of her breasts.

"Oh Harry," Donna moaned as she allowed her husband to work his magic.

She was tilted back as her outfit was pulled off and the fun began.

Smut/Lemon Begins.

Donna found herself pushed back on the bed, the soft sheets pressing against her naked back. Her blue eyes flashed with amazement and her nipples stiffened as she wanted him to ravish her hard.

Harry got a look at the visual buffet that was this young Amazon Princess's body. He looked down her body and saw her angel face with silky dark locks. Her blue eyes blazed with fiery passion, and her D-Cup breasts were displayed for him in all of their glory and said glory was very glorious. Her nipples poked out towards him, showing the tender young buds that Harry felt that he could put his mouth around and suck.

He moved his hands down, skimming the edge of her flat, toned stomach and then he made his way towards her young and toned legs, reaching his hands between her dripping hot snatch, pushing one of his knuckles into it.

"Oh, Harry," Donna breathed and she felt her husband's fingers skillfully manipulate her wet and willing folds, causing her nipples to stiffen with desire and lust. Her eyes closed as he forced more of her fingers into her.

Amanda's nipples hardened and Emily slipped her shirt off. She threw her arms around the waist of her twin, pulling her into a long kiss and the two of them went at it with each other.

The fingers of the redhead went deep into the dripping hot snatch of the other redhead and Emily's eyes fogged over with lust as she manipulated her sisters quim.

"Hera, oh fucking Hera!" Donna yelled as Harry's tongue buried itself into her dripping hot snatch and there was a few seconds where he kept working his tongue as far into her as he could. He twisted his tongue in a corkscrew motion all the way around her, causing her to grab onto his head.

Harry felt her legs wrap around his head and he delved his tongue as deep into her moist folds as he could be allowed. His licking got more intense as he brought more of her delicious juices onto his tongue and deep into his mouth, lapping them up.

"Oh yes, oh yes," Donna moaned as she felt the pleasure erupt in her very being and Harry smiled at her but said nothing, slurping the juices that drained from her love box.

Amanda's legs were parted and her twin drove her tongue between her sopping hot folds. The woman's breathing became more intense as Emily kept munching on her smoldering twat, working her tongue as far between her legs as she could be allowed.

"Oh so good, so very fucking….oh so good," Amanda moaned as Emily worked into her.

Donna's lips were moistened, in more ways than one. She crawled over to Harry and pressed her tits up around his cock.

"Oh, this is going to be so good," Harry groaned as Donna wrapped her breasts around his cock and she rubbed the fleshy mountains up and down his shaft.

Harry groaned as Donna smiled, she was going to give Harry an intense working over with her breasts, until he came and hard. She stroked his balls as she continued to work over his delicious shaft, smashing her titanic tits around the area of his shaft. She kissed his head and kept stroking him up and down.

Donna felt his huge phallus wedged between her tits and he was fucking them hard. She moaned as his balls slapped across her chest and his cock slid so far out that she was allowed to capture it with a hungry kiss, her eyes widened and her lust mounting.

Amanda was having the time of her life, as Emily had a magical sex toy. She primed it and slammed it deep into Amanda's perfect pussy, causing the woman to moan loudly.

"TAKE ME, OH TAKE ME, MAKE ME YOUR BITCH!" Amanda yelled loudly as she pinched her nipples and her twin slammed the sex toy into her.

Emily's pussy was bared and dripping for a Harry duplicate to slip behind her. He cupped her luscious tits from behind and the redhead offered a soft whimper as her body began to heat up. The woman's eyes closed as there was a sensation of Harry's hands traveling all the way down her body from head to toe.

"Oh, Harry, please," Emily whimpered as she felt excited and knew that the insertion was going to be just as amazing. She felt his cock head brush against her dripping quim and Harry was priming her for his insertion.

"Ready?" Harry whispered hotly in her ear and she nodded her head.

"Yes, born ready," Emily panted as she removed the dildo and then sunk her tongue into Amanda's smoldering hot folds, which caused her twin to moan loudly and her hands to roam.

Her brother primed his cock and smashed it into her, filling up her pussy with the only dick that would be allowed to touch her. The woman's walls wrapped around him and Harry grabbed her breasts, pummeling her from behind. He was working his hands around her lithe frame.

Donna was giving Harry an amazing tit fuck, her eyes were glazed over like a madwoman as she kept breathing and her breasts wrapped around him, working his cock up and down for everything that she was worth.

"Oh, Harry, I'm so wet, cum on my tits, cum on them!" she chanted as she bit down on her lip with thinly restrained lust and desire and continued to work him up on them.

She wanted her breasts coated in his delicious, amazing spunk. Her pussy burned up with the thought of what it could do to her.

She was going to get what she wanted, one way or another and she kept rubbing him up and down, her mouth pressed against his head as she cooed and worked him over. Her breasts smashed against him as she proceeded to rub him up and down. His balls were about to tighten.

"Cum on them, oh please, cum on them," Donna panted and Harry did as she asked, spurting his cum all over her breasts. The Amazon moaned in pleasure as his cum rocketed up into the air and landed on her lovely breasts. She closed her eyes.

It covered her breasts and Donna moaned as he coated her with his thick seed. Said seed rolled down her breasts and she closed her eyes, offering a lustful and breathing moan.

"Oh, that feels so fucking good," Donna breathed as she closed her eyes. She wanted to play with her dripping wet twat even more but Harry held her hands down.

There was only one expression burning through her eyes and Harry punctuated with his next few words.

"You're mine."

Without another thought or word, Harry slammed his cock into her tight center. The Amazon princess moaned as he grabbed onto her hips and used the leverage to work himself as far into her as he could go. She flushed with the pleasure as he rocked back into her body.

"Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh yes!"

Amanda was now being plowed into by Harry as Emily was taking a rest. Of course, Amanda was not allowing her sister's timeout to be very restful, using her fingers to stroke her center.

"Damn, Mandy, oh fuck, oh yes!"

"How do you like that?" Harry asked as he grabbed her breasts and Amanda moaned as she wrapped her arms around him and another push of his cock caused her eyes to flood with passion. His balls slapped a steady amount across her thighs and Harry pulled out before going as far into her as he could be allowed. He was really giving her a nice going over, his throbbing phallus working over the tight quim of the girl.

"Please Harry, keep pounding me, take your sister's slutty cunt!" Amanda shrieked as Harry plunged into her and she kept plunging her fingers into Emily's pussy as much as she could.

Donna was now flipped over on her hands and knees. Harry rode into her doggy style and she loved every moment of it. She bit down really hard on her lip and Harry pulled out nearly all of the way before plunging into her. Her tight quim got even tighter around his invading penis.

"Oh, ah, yes, oh, mmm, ah, YES!" Donna screamed at the top of her lungs as Harry plowed her with everything that he had. She hung onto the side of the bed and she was panting, she was trying to get off on the pleasure but her cunt, her cunt was being filled.

His cock was just as big as ever and she was just as time as ever. His lips pressed on the back of her neck, hitting her sensitive spots, that might have been pure fire for her cunt.

"Deeper!" Donna cried as Harry plowed into her as deep as he could. The woman's eyes closed as Harry worked himself into her as far as he could go.

His cock was rammed hard into her, in fact it was as far into her as it could go. She grabbed onto the side of the bed and bit down on her lip, getting pleasure.

"Oh, Harry, Harry, Harry, WRECK ME!" Amanda shrieked as she pumped her hips up to meet his invading thrusts and she clenched around him, feeling her body shake with the pleasure. Her nipples got really hard and Harry captured one of them in his mouth, giving them a tender suck.

Explosions of pleasure spread through her body and Amanda was about to lose herself as her brother's huge cock speared into her body. She lifted her hips up and she wrapped her walls around him, his throbbing cock went into her.

Donna moaned as she suffered a powerful orgasm, actually a rapid fire flurry of them as her nipples stiffened and she closed her eyes feeling the pleasure as Harry kept working into her as hard as he could go.

Eventually the explosion of cum filled her body and Donna's body shook and shivered with Harry spilling his huge load into her tight quim. A few more thrusts brought her to the edge and she wrapped around him as Harry emptied his seed into her willing Amazon pussy.

The entire group saw stars as the games did not end but quickly picked up.

Smut/Lemon Ends.