Author's Note: Stupid Archie. I would send him straight to jail if I owned Class of the Titans. Which I don't…
Disclaimer: I do not own Class of the Titans! See the above, silly!
Under Her Spell
Atlanta's eyes fluttered open. "Owwww!" she exclaimed. Her head was pounding! For a minute she didn't know why, but then she remembered. Archie was no longer on their side. Something had happened to him, something that made him knock her out and bring her and her friends here. But where was 'here' exactly? They were all in some sort of dark place, with only a little light glowing from a small body of water in the center of it. That's when Atlanta noticed that she was chained onto a wall, her friends lined up beside her. "Oh my God," she whispered, a little bit of blood dribbling out of her mouth. Her teammates were in pretty rough shape. Jay's clothes were frayed from the electricity going through them, and his lip was puffed up. Theresa had a huge bump on her head. Herry, Odie, and Neil all had various cuts and bruises. They were all unconscious, but were moving occasionally. "Herry," Atlanta whispered to the person nearest to her, "Wake up. Come on, Herry, Please wake up." "Huh?" Herry murmured, slowly opening his eyes. "Are you okay?" she asked. "I don't think so," he told her, "I'm pretty weak." The others' eyes flickered open, and they looked as in much pain as Herry was. Atlanta heard footsteps. She looked down and saw Archie. "Archie!" she called down to him, "Why are you doing this to us? What's wrong with you?" "Nothing," Archie chuckled, "Idais just made me see the light." "Idais?" Theresa asked. "You may also know her as Isobel," Archie said. Atlanta let out a scream of fury. "I KNEW IT!" she shouted, "I KNEW THAT SHE WAS EVIL!" "Where is Idais?" Jay asked Archie, knowing the full story of Idais and Achilles. "Oh, she's coming," Archie said. And sure enough, more footsteps were heard. But this time they belonged to a hideous monster. "Idais!" Atlanta shouted down to her, "Change Archie back to normal! This isn't what he wants!" "Oh, but it isssss," Idais hissed, "Issssssn't it, Archie?" "Of course," Archie answered. "Archie! Listen to me!" Atlanta shouted to her hypnotized friend, "I know Idais is controlling you, but fight it, okay? Remember when Arachne was hypnotizing me, and you snapped me out of it? I can help you, I'm your friend!" "Huh?" Archie said, staggering, "Atlanta…..what?" "Hmmm…" Idais clicked, "She'sssss going to be more of a problem than I thought." She turned to Archie and looked into his eyes, pulling him back into her control. "Here'sssss an idea, Archie," she said, "Cronussss wassss going to come by and dessssstroy these ex-friendsssss of yoursssss, but I don't think he'll mind if you take down one yoursssself, will he?" Idais snapped her fingers and the chains bolting Atlanta to the cave wall vanished, causing the red-head to fall to the ground. "Atlanta!" her friends all screamed together. "Usssssse thissssss," Idais instructed Archie, zapping his Hephaestus whip out of thin air. Archie grabbed it and grinned evilly at Atlanta. "Have fun," Idais giggled, "I'm going to go get Cronussssss." She walked out of the cave. "Archie," Atlanta murmured, her thoughts still dizzy from when she was hit. "SHUT UP!" Archie shouted, thrashing his whip at her. A big chunk of skin flew from her cheek. Herry and Jay gasped, Odie closed his eyes, Neil screamed from the sight of Atlanta's blood splattering the ground, and Theresa began to sob quietly. "Can't we help her?" Jay yelled to the others, "Herry, break your cuffs and let us out!" "I can't," Herry spat at him, his eyes wide in anger at Archie's treatment of their friend, "That ball thing knocked the strength right out of me! I just don't have it in my power!" Archie raised his whip and threw it at Atlanta again. This time it made a deep cut in her arm. Theresa was hysterical now. Jay wanted to comfort her, but he couldn't. He knew if he opened his mouth, he would start crying to. "Archie! Stop it!" Odie shouted to his friend. "Fight it, man!" Neil screamed. "SHUT YOUR MOUTH OR YOU'LL BE NEXT!" Archie told them. "Odie, Neil, please…don't" Atlanta muttered. "And I thought I told you to BE QUIET!" Archie roared, thrashing his whip one more time. This time it made an 'X' shape in Atlanta's chest. Blood spurted everywhere. The heroine lay down and clutched her front in pain.
Archie looked down at Atlanta with a smile on his face. 'When these pathetic people are finally destroyed, it will be just me and Idais,' he thought happily to himself, 'Well, of course Cronus will be here too, but Idais said that he promised her that he would not touch me after he's done with the others.' "But how do you know that's that not what Cronus just wants you to believe?" A voice asked him. Archie turned around. "Who's there?" he asked.
"What's he doing?" Odie asked Jay. "Quiet," Jay told him, "With Archie distracted, maybe Atlanta will have a chance to escape." "Yeah!" Neil cheered happily, "And she'll find a way to help US escape!" "I don't think so, guys," Theresa said, "Atlanta doesn't look so good." Theresa's tears were falling down her face as she gazed at their fallen friend. Atlanta was lying in a heap on the ground, her blood spilling out of out of her small frame. She was breathing, but only occasionally. Things didn't look so good for her…..
"Who said that?" Archie asked, anger rising in his voice, "SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARD!" "It was me," the voice said again. And suddenly, a bright light shown in the air. A man wearing golden-colored armor stepped through it. He took off his helmet, revealing a full head of rust-colored curls. His bright eyes were even visible in the almost total darkness. Achilles….
Oooooooo, left you hanging there, didn't I? How is Achilles able to materialize into Idais's cave? Will he help snap Archie back to normal? And what's going to happen to Atlanta?