"The Son of Fear" [Part 2] Ares Evolution - An Infinity Kingdom Story

🔷 Introduction

Welcome to part one of my new series starring the newest immortal, Ares! He is commonly known as “the god of war,” but how did he get this title, and what path was he on? These are all the things I will dream up in this new Olympic series filled with all of our favorite gods.

🔷 Recap of part 1: "The First Blade"

Before he was the God of War, Ares was an overlooked son of Olympus who found meaning in chaos and suffering. He earned his title not through glory, but by facing and defeating a primordial force alone, proving that true war is about endurance, not bloodlust.

🔷 Part 2:  "The Son of Fear"

Ares never planned to have a son.

It wasn’t love that made Phobos. It wasn’t even lust. It was the aftermath, something left behind after a night soaked in blood and silence. The story most know says Phobos was born to Ares and Aphrodite, but the truth is simpler and less poetic: Ares didn’t even realize what he’d created until years later.

Phobos wasn’t a child. Not in the way mortals imagine. He arrived fully formed, quiet and watching, with eyes that mirrored Ares’s own except colder. Where Ares was forged in pain, Phobos was born of it. He didn’t learn from the suffering of war. He was suffering.

Ares kept his distance. He wasn’t made to nurture. And Phobos never asked for anything. He lingered on battlefields, unseen by most, feeding on the panic before a charge, the screams after the fall, and the heartbeat of the dying. Mortals felt him and trembled, but they never saw him. Only Ares truly did. And what he saw… unsettled him.

Fear was a tool Ares understood. He’d used it to break enemies, command armies, and control chaos. But Phobos wasn’t a tool. He was becoming something else. Something untamed.

The tipping point came when Phobos whispered fear into the heart of a young Spartan king during a siege. Ares had been watching that war from afar. He admired the boy’s resolve, his clarity, the kind that only came from knowing death was certain. But Phobos cracked him. One whisper, and the king turned on his own men, abandoning the walls and his city in a flood of paranoia. Thousands died. Children burned. And Phobos stood in the ash, smiling faintly.

Ares descended that night, not as a god among mortals, but as a father. Or as close as he could pretend to be.

He found Phobos alone on the cliffside, watching the flames below.

“You didn’t need to do that,” Ares said, voice low but heavy.

Phobos didn’t turn. “I wanted to see what would happen.”

Ares stepped beside him. “They were holding. You broke something for no reason.”

Phobos finally looked at him, and in that gaze was nothing childish. “Isn’t that what war is?”

Ares clenched his fists. “No. War is what happens when reason fails. You don’t start with fear. You earn it.”

Silence.

Then Phobos said, “You made me. But you don’t want to claim me. Because I’m not like you. I don’t need a reason.”

That was when Ares knew.

Phobos wasn’t just a son. He was a threat, one only Ares could see coming. Not to Olympus, not even to mortals. But the very balance Ares had fought to understand. Fear without purpose was worse than death. It rotted men from the inside out. It made war meaningless.

Ares turned to him and said, “If you keep down this path, I’ll stop you.”

Phobos smiled again, cold, quiet, and certain.

“Then I guess we’ll see who breaks first.”

And in that moment, Ares understood the war ahead wasn’t one of swords or armies. It would be something slower. Deeper.

A war between what war is and what it’s becoming.

And this time, it was personal.

📄 Recap Questions

Why does Ares see Phobos as more than just a son but a threat to everything he stands for?

How does Phobos challenge Ares’s understanding of war and fear?

🔷 Conclusion

In facing Phobos, Ares isn’t just confronting a rebellious son; he’s battling the darker legacy of his own existence. War shaped him, but fear threatens to unravel everything he built from it. This isn’t a fight for glory or power. It’s a battle for meaning. And for the first time, Ares isn’t sure if strength alone will be enough.

See you next week!

🔷 Hades, Press Officer.

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