Chapter 5 Selene and Helios
clink, clink, clink.
I bend over and check all of my knifes and daggars, because over the last couple of days, some have come lose. But they were all secure. I stood up straight and listened.
Clink, clink, clink.
If i'm not making that noise, who is?
I changed direction, and walked up from the bank towards the noise. I found the source of the noise. It was those creatures again. But this time they were already fighting someone, or two someones. They looked like brother and sister, sought of. The brother had hair that looked as if the sun had bleached it. The sister had black hair, that cascaded down her back. They both had heart shaped faces and blue eyes. Except the brothers eyes were sky blue, while the sister had very pale blue eyes. She turned, dodging a creatures long knife. As the sun hit her eye, they looked almost silver. But I didn't spend any more time analisisng. I drew Ever Lasting Sleep (should've called it something shorter), and attacked the creatures. It was really easy. They had formed a circle around the siblings. So I just came up behid them. They never saw me coming. They were all so focused on the siblings in the middle, that all I did was walk up behind them.
I continued this, walked around, continued to kill the creatures that circled the siblings. I cut the head off one, looked around, and saw the boy looking at me.
"thank you" he mouthed, then he was back to fightimg for his life. A few minutes later, it was all over.
"thanks." the boy says.
"No problem." I tell him. "What are those creatures?"
"Moltles" says the girl. "They're the servents of the Titans."
"I kinda guessed that. I'm Hera, by the way." I hold out my hand.
"I'm Helios" said the boy, and he shook my hand. "and this is my sister, Selene."
"I can introduce myself." Selene said. "i'm Selene." she smiled and shook my hand. Then her smile faded. And pulled my hand so that I was behind her, and a dagar hit her shoulder. She crumpeled to the ground, as Helios went off searched for the Moltle that throw it.
"Are you okay?" I ask her. Selene nods.
"Poison." she whispers. Oh no.
"What do I do?" I ask. What can I do? I take my pack off and rumage through it.
"Only a speacial type of Nectar can heal it" Selene tells me. Nectar? What's that? I tip out the contents of the bag, I have to help her, she saved me. She saved my life.
"Can I use this?" I jump. But it was only Helios. I nod.
"Sure, why?" I ask him as he unscrews a small bottle. I didn't even notice it before. He leans over Selene and tips a drop of the liquid in to her mouth. Selene swolled the yellow stuff, and the wound began to heal.
"How... how is...how did it...what is that stuff?"
"You don't know?" Helios asks as he helps Selene up. I shake my head.
"It's a speacial type of Nectar. Made by Metis. She makes it for many people. Mainly for katsika mitera. But for skotosei to kako, and mov chorto and many others. And agonistes tis eleftherias, aswell." Helios explanes. "Not that theres any agonistes tis eleftherias left, anyway." he mutters.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing" he says, a little to quickly. "How are you?" he asks Selene.
"Fine, just give me a minute."she whispers. Helios nods.
"So who are you with?" Helios asks.
"What?"
"Who are with? Katsika mitera? Mov chorto? Who?"
"I don't know who they are." I tell him.
"Everyone knows about Katsika mitera. And Agonistes tis eleftherias was really big as well, once. Thats where we're from. Agonistes tie eleftherias." Helios told me. "But it's over now." he mutters.
"I'm sorry."
"it's okay." he shrugs. "we've been dying for a long time." but his eyes were starting to leak. "no biggie. We're on our way to ask for refuge at Katsika mitera, see if they'll take us in."
"so what is Katsika mitera? What dose it do?"
"it fights the titans. Like all of us. Fights for freedom. Eleftherias . Wouldn't that be nice" he turns and smiles at me. "some nice elefthrias, some nice freedom. No more battles and death. Wounds, and all the pain. No more of that. Gone, all of it. Gone..."
"don't tempt me." Selene mutters.
"It would be nice." I agree.
"So where are you going?" Selene asks as she sits up. She looks a lot better. Her face was no longer a sick pale, just pale. And there was no more pain in her deep eyes.
"I don't know. Just following the river." I point in the direction I had been going. "trying to find a lake." I get the picture out. "this lake." I give it to Helios, who looks at it, then passes it to Selene.
"Looks pretty. Do you recon it's lake Omorfi" she turned and asked Helios.
"it might be. It's been so long, I can't be sure." he replys
"Who are these people?" she asks.
"i don't know. It was given to me by a guy I hardly know. He rescued me and my brothers and sisters, but the...what did you say they were? Moltes?"
"Moltles" Selene corrected.
"Right, well they chased us. But I fell, and scratched my knee..."
"Was there blood?" Selene asks. I nod.
"Oh, my" she gasps. "What happened?"
"We split. They didn't want to, but I convinced them. I have no idea where I am. Where to go, or where they are. They might be dead for all in know."
"What number Moltles?" Helios asked.
"What? I don't know what your talking about" although I was starting to get used to not knowing what Helios ans Selene were talking about.
"The Titans have been creating Moltles for ages, and with each new number, they get better and better. Those ones were fours. Quite good at hand-to-hand combat. Not bad with swords, but really stupid. Most of them are really stupid though." Selene ezplained.
"The Moltles I fought were definatly stupid. But they weren't hard to defeat."
"Probally low then." Helios said
"Is that why we split? Because evidentally we would've survived if we had fought." I asked.
"Yes, you would've, but until you start fighting, you can't tell. So you have to act as if they're eights. Incase they are."
"So I might still be with my brothers and sisters." I said, more to myself then them.
"Why don't you call them?" Helios asks.
"I can't call them from here. My voice wont carry that far." what was he thinking. I couldn't just shout there names. They could be any where.
"i meant with your mind." Helios said.
"With my mind?" I ask. "How would I do that?"
"You don't know how? How can you not know how? Everyone knows how"Selene says, making me feel like an idiot.
"We'll teach you," Helios says "if you want to come with us."
"Really?" I ask, not sure if they're joking or not.
"Sure. You can come with us to Katsika mitera." Selene tells me as she gives me back the piture. "We should be getting close, anyway. Maybe even be there in a few days." I pack my pack up again, while Selene waits, and Helios grabs a few things from the Moltles.
Helios comes over, "Ready?" he asks us.
"Ready." Selene replys.
"Ready" I echo.
"Then lets go." we start walking.
Katsika mitera, here I come.
AN: please review. Even if it's negative, please let me know what you think. Thanks for reading.