Hey, so here you go. Hope you guys like this one. It longer than the last one, thank goodness:D Anyways enjoy.
The damp cave air reeked of mold and rotting fruit, the stench so overpowering and sickening that the heroes held their breath for fear of the smell. The evil laughter echoed off the cold cave walls and rang in their ears. Careful of their footsteps, the heroes crouched outside the entrance to the inner chamber where Cronus and his minions lurked.
" You guys ready?" Jay mouthed for fear of being heard. The others nodded their head in agreement.
" Autolycus, you're up" Jay mouthed again as he watched the prince of thieves slip on the helmet and disappear into the cave.
" Agnon, did you feel that?" Cronus questioned as he scanned his surroundings mysteriously. The giant just shrugged and scratched his head.
" Ugh. You idiot! I could've sworn that I just felt someone rush past me…" he trailed off as he looked around once more and a mischievous, evil grin, spread across his face.
" In fact…" Cronus said as one of his scythes appeared and he slashed violently at the air in front of him, laughing as blood started dripping from mid air and pooled at his feet. Quickly, the villain reached out and smiled even wider as his fingers wrapped around an arm.
" Autolycus" he said knowingly.
" Cronus" the young man replied as he lifted the helmet off of his head and revealed himself. He started to fight back. But quickly two giants appeared and held him down.
" Thought you would try and steal from me, now did you?" Cronus asked.
" So I did," Autolycus replied.
" Who put you up to it? Those brats! Are they with you?"
" What's it to you"
" Well, if I just let them go, that wouldn't be much fun now would it?"
" I didn't know you were capable of enjoyment, Cronus" Autolycus spat.
" Oh yes. I enjoy making people scream. Destroying the gods and long sunset walks on ravished, burned beaches."
" Oh, how romantic?" Autolycus teased.
" Ha!" Cronus laughed as he tightened his grip on Autolycus and slashed his arm, smirking as Autolycus winced in pain.
" Agnon" Cronus ordered as he snapped his fingers. " Bring those brats to me…" he began to order. But after rethinking for a moment, he changed his mind. " Wait!" he ordered. " I've got a better plan…"
" What my device is missing! How could this have happened?" Cronus fake cried, loud enough so that the nearby heroes could hear, but holding his hand over Autolycus's mouth, so that he could not speak.
" You think we should go in now?" Archie questioned as he turned towards Jay. The leader nodded as the other heroes followed him into the cave. Theresa lingered in the back, biting her lip nervously.
" Oh, don't you know it's rude to come over unannounced, and without a gift too? Tisk Tisk Jay. You really should know better. Have you no manners?" Cronus teased as he stood over the seven heroes that had just rushed in. Two giants looming behind him, who held Autolycus hostage.
"Oh Theresa, why the frown. You look so…scared" Cronus teased once more.
" She'd never be scared of you!" Jay replied back.
" Again with the manners Jay. Let the lady answer for herself"
Theresa moaned as she rolled her eyes.
" I'm not scared, just determined" she lied.
" Well then, hopefully I can fix that", Cronus said as his scythes appeared along with three more minions. Jay charged towards Cronus, sword in hand as Theresa followed him. But Cronus blocked blow after blow, kick after kick. He was abnormally strong.
" What the…" Jay trailed off.
" My strength? Yes, you see I know you know that I get weak after time traveling. But when you're a god, you can…fix such things" Cronus replied as he smirked knowingly and continued to fight both Jay and Theresa. Meanwhile, Archie and Atlanta were battling one of the giants.
" So…about you're secret?" Archie questioned in between breaths and punches.
" What about it?" Atlanta questioned back as she shot her laser at the giant.
" Come on! Aren't you gonna tell me? I am your boyfriend and best friend. You know you can't keep secrets from me" he said as he sent his whip flying through the air.
" Umm hold on' Atlanta said as she hit the giant once more and it fell to the ground. Atlanta moved close to Archie and leaned towards his ear as the warrior turned red, "Nope" she whispered. Next to them, Odie was typing furiously at his computer, trying to figure out how Cronus had gained such strength. Occasionally he looked up to watch Neil pace back and forth as the giant chasing him toppled over from exhaustion and fell next to the giant that Herry had knocked out.
" Looks like you're the only one left" Archie said to Cronus as the others gathered around.
" Awww. It's over? I was having so much fun" Cronus replied.
" You're cornered Cronus! Hand over the asteria devise and Autolycus!" Jay demanded.
" Umm, let me think about that. NO!" Cronus shouted as he opened a portal and disappeared, taking Autolyucus and the device with him.
" So what do we do now?" Atlanta questioned.
" We figure out a new plan" Jay said as he gritted his teeth in frustration at Cronus's escape.
" Oh yah, and let's just ignore the fact that Hermes's son just got kidnapped!" Archie sarcastically added.
" Somebody will have to tell him," Jay said as a portal appeared.
" I'll tell him", Odie volunteered, " He is my mentor".
" Fine. Odie you tell Hermes what happened, Herry you go with him just in case. Archie, Atlanta you guys go see Hera, see if she can give us any more information about the asteria device. Theresa, you come with me to see if we can figure out where Cronus is. Neil, you come with us, we're going to need all the luck we can get"
Sooo what did you guys think? I'm actually pretty proud of this chapter. Please comment/review/rate ( I didn't get any for the last chapter!, it made me pretty sad. And a sad author=a sad story)Anyways, thanks for reading.