Chapter 16
My mouth dropped open. I couldn't believe anything. Why was I so stupid? After Apollo had lifted the barrier my friends filed out but I just stood there Zakk patted me on the back. Apollo walked in and touched my shoulder. I looked up.
"I-I-I swear." I stuttered and he knelt down next to me. I could hear Kyra gasping and giggling. I breathed out, trying not to hyperventilate.
"Shhh." He said and I pulled myself closer to him. "You're ok. Everything's going to be all right." He said and I suddenly felt wet droplets pooling in my eyes.
"I'm so sorry." I murmured.
"Don't be." He said. "It's not all your fault." I cried harder and I could feel all eyes on us but I didn't care. I knelt down and gripped at his shoulder.
"It is! It is! Everything is! You and Texas and Aaron..." I said and he put a finger to my lips. "Don't talk." He said and I didn't. I just cried more. Without warning from behind I felt a sharp pain and then it started to dull. My vision blurred and I collapsed forward, just in enough time to see Cassie holding her sword. After that everything was a blur. I saw people whizzing by my eyes and I didn't quite know what was happening. I wanted to close my eyes and give up but I couldn't I knew that I needed to stay awake. I thought of the fastest songs I cold think of. Kate whirred by me dodging a blade and Nico was fighting a monster. That about covered up what I knew. I tried to drink in the sunlight like an energy drink that might give me a chance to stand one last time but I couldn't. Then I thought of something. It all clicked Cassie, the prophecy, Apollo, and the island. I got a plan. It was a lam plan and it was only postponing our inevitable deaths but from my sprawled position on the ground I screamed as loud as my mouth could muster.
"STOP..." Surprisingly everyone did. I gasped and tried to stand but I could only make it into a sitting position. "Cassie if you let them go I'll take your curse."
"Cassandra" Apollo warned but I ignored him and weakly stood up. I could see that I had Cassie's attention.
"I know what happened to you... I know about Apollo..." I said.
"He'll do the same to you! You're a stupid, stupid girl!"
"I know that the curse of prophecy can only be taken by one of Apollo's lovers. I know that he gave you the curse when you left him." Cassie looked at me, shocked.
"You would do that for him?" She asked and I nodded.
"No one would believe your prophecies."
"Give it to me." I said and she started to mumble in ancient Greek. I felt a shaft of cold air blow at me and knock me down. I felt winter air biting at my skin. Apollo ran up to me. I wanted to die.
"Cassandra! Look at me!" He yelled but I couldn't. The whole quest flashed before my eyes and I saw everyone that I loved. I saw the stars and the moon. I even saw Artemis. Tears clouded my hazy and unfocused eyesight and then it all went black.