I really do NOT get any money out of it!!!
The story was only written purely for fun, in memory of one of the best TV-series ever and for the entertainment of shipper's all over the world!!!
Some additional new characters are the author's creation as the fictive story itself and remain in its property.
Rated: NC-17
Sex: Yes, but nothing graphic!
Violence: This is a fictive story about Xena, Ares, etc. The story is as violent as the TV-episodes. If those were violating any laws in your country or are not allowed due to its content, please leave this page NOW!
Subtext: I beg you pardon? The world is complicated enough, why should I make it more complicated. You will find those stories on other webpages!
Acknowledgements:
A big hug and a thank you to "Stevie" Stefan in Kansas for taping X:WP in the U.S. to reduce my waiting time to zero. Keep on dancing cowboy! Hope you will pass all your exams this summer!
A big hug and an extra special thank you to Delenn – my beta-reader- goddess – for her help and support to not giving up writing after this tragic loss of "our" main hereo! It's good to know there is somebody as crazy as I am and that I can talk to her whenever I want! Thanks for correcting my "English" and using your spell checker!!! Glad I met you via the net!
And last, but never ever least an extra big hug and an extra special thank you to Nico(la): For your endless efforts to help me to survive the university, to get my term papers fixed on time, to overcome bad boy and bad taste attacks as well as your support to overcome the *uck*ng end of X:WP! It's good to have somebody that I can in the middle of the night and that person listens to me no matter what sort of problem I have! I am very glad, blessed and thankful to call you my best friend and toughest critic!
To the "shippers" all over the world:
"Go confidentially in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined!"
Henry David Thoreau (American Thinker 1817-62)
Dedication: This story is dedicated to Kevin Tod Smith, who played "Ares" the one and only, and unfortunately died on February 16, 2002 in China due to a tragic accident. Besides your family, friends and colleagues, of course, a lot of people all over the world miss you and are very sorry that you had to leave so soon!
Thank you for the joy you brought us with your portrait of the "leather clad war god". You created the miracle that a lot of "shippers" talk to each other via the world wide web. They are of all cultures, continents, races and religions. We moved closer together, because of you: That's more than most politians were able to!
Summary: This is the second book out of three. It is a sequel part of a 'what-if-story' which starts the morning after "An Almost Perfect Deal" ended.
It will take you on board of a wooden luxury barque somewhere in the South Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Greek island Samos, home of Hera the missing Queen of the Gods.
New Roads Trilogy – Book No. 2 - United by Fate
By Claudia-Janet
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