Christina:
After hearing Lynch's ideas and Alethia fighting him, I was completely outraged. I couldn't believe I had gone all this way only to find out that we were hopeless and that I had been wrong about saving Lynch.
Inside the black clouds, I heard Kyra and Acacia scream and then Alec yell. Once it was gone, my friends were no longer behind me. I looked around me. One Laistrygonian Giant had its massive hand around Alec's neck. Two more had Kyra and Acacia. Two dracaenae each had Logan and Lillian with their javelins. I looked back at Lynch.
"Lynch. What are you…what did you do?" I spat.
"Oh, nothing really except use some magic from Hecate."
"Hecate! That wretched goddess. Lynch! Why are you doing this? Why would you do such a thing? You keep this up and the gods will curse you."
"Pfft. The gods can't do anything to me. Hades will protect me. Unlike you, Hades will curse you. Join us or die like the others."
"You know what, this matter just got personal, so say goodbye because I'm about to kill you," I growled, swelling with anger
"You can't kill me much less beat me in a fight. Hades is here," he answered.
"We talked about this like two minutes ago. We made our deal. We know who is going to win. So shut up and fight me, traitor because I'm going to win this."
"Want to try me?" he sneered. That's when I let my anger loose.
I took out my daggers as fast as lighting and threw all four of them at him with deadly accuracy. Hades held up his hand and a wall of black deflected three of the blades but the last one passed through surprisingly. Lynch raised his shield just in time as it was heading for his chest. He looked at me with a bit of fear. I looked back at Kyra and Acacia and everyone else. They were all scared looking. I vowed to myself that I would get them out of here safely even if I had to die for them.
"Join our side Christina and all your friends will be spared. Don't join and make one false move, all your friends and you will be killed automatically with my command," Lynch said again. I snorted.
"I'd like to see you try. All the monsters would be dead before you knew it."
"Fine then, you're asking to be killed."
"Yeah, well, I'm willing to die for my friends if it means getting them out safely," I retorted, speaking my vow.
"Really? Are you now? Your brother and sister and your friends would die before you could save them," Lynch replied. I got Trident ready. Lynch shook his head and readied his sword which was a foot longer than mine.
Out of my peripheral view, I saw Lillian drawing her bronze dagger without anyone else noticing. I looked at her and we locked eyes. An understanding passed between us. I turned my eyes back on Lynch and automatically attacked, surprising him. He struck back, sticking his sword under my arm. The monsters had taken Logan's backpack off. The backpack was unzipped and lying out in front of it was Logan's shield. I slashed at Lynch but he deflected it. He tried to slam his shield into me, probably trying to knock me down, but I dove out of the way. I reached for Logan's shield, grabbing just as Lynch came at me. I raised my shield and it spiraled to full form. Lynch sliced down and I deflected it with my shield. I tripped him and he fell. I jumped up, doing the bridge like you see on *TV. Lynch got up. He slashed and I deflected.
"Lillian, go!" I yelled. Lynch got confused and watched as Lillian stabbed both dracaenaes as fast as thought before they could realize what was going on. She stabbed both of Logan's dracaenae. The Laistrygonian Giants were about to strangle Alec, Acacia and Kyra but I knocked Lynch down hard again and brought out my gold bow with the arrows that had gold tips. I shot them at each one and the giants disintegrated. Lillian then ran over and cut Alethia's bonds. Everyone went to work fighting dracaenae, hellhounds and other monsters. I fought Lynch and enemy half-bloods.
"Get her!" Lynch screamed. I kicked one in the chest, hit another in the face and when I tried to kick another again, he caught my foot. At the same time, another one attacked me. I slammed him in the face with my shield and twisted so that I came up in the air quick with the half-blood still holding my foot and used my other and kicked him in the face. He screamed in agony. He let go and I landed on my feet. Lynch attacked with a head swipe and I ducked, cutting his leg. He used his shield and knocked me down hard. Two enemy half-bloods tried to stab me and I kicked both away. Another, I disarmed but he wasn't done with me. His arms came around and locked his arms around mine so I couldn't move them.
"Oh no. This is not going to happen to me," I growled. However, before I could do anything, he made his big mistake which was leaning back. Just as two came at me to kill me, I leaned back with him and kicked them in the face and then elbowed the enemy half-blood who had me in the lock still. Lynch held back and watched in amusement for some reason. I fought with one of the half-bloods who seemed pretty good. I kept trying to hit his stomach with the flat of my blade but he kept deflecting. Finally, I got so mad, that when he tried to stab me, I sidestepped and hit him over the head with my shield but not too hard. Two more came and I was ready.
"You all really are idiots," I said. "I would've figured after seeing me fight, you would all know better."
"Yeah. But we're not weak. We will keep coming at you," said the one on the right. The two attacked me. The first one tried to distract me while the other tried to injure me. I stabbed Idiot 1 in the arm slashed Idiot 2 without looking. I spun around and lunged at Lynch, feeling angry. My mind went blank with anger and the next thing I knew, I had disarmed Lynch completely and had the point of Trident under his chin. Everybody stopped fighting and turned to watch in astonishment.
"Well?" he asked. I trembled with fury. "Do it then. If you're so powerful and strong, do it."
"You…I can't believe you're saying this," I said.
"You can't do it, can you?" he sneered. "You know you can't because you know that something will happen. You can't because you give in to things like this when it comes to close friendships in a situation of life or death. You always try to do what's best but end up messing up." I got so mad, I dug the tip of my blade a bit deeper under his chin, growling. Alethia was looking at me with sad eyes. I realized that she was remembering an old memory. I was about to lower my sword but I bore in mind that Lynch was betraying us. I looked back and dug my sword deeper under his chin.
"You know I'll do it Lynch! You know I will!" Terror and disbelief filled his eyes. He turned to look at Hades.
"Try to kill him. I will protect him," Hades said. I whirled on Hades and was about to attack him but he flicked his hand and I went flying, slamming into the ground next to Alec. Alethia screamed.
"No!" Logan yelled. He ran to Hades but Hades hurled black fire at him. Logan deflected it off his sword. I felt a bit dazed but I leaped to my feet.
"Lillian!" I screamed. I locked eyes with her and she nodded. I ran forward and she got in my way. She bent down and I put my hands on her shoulder and as she stood up I pushed off, flipping behind Lillian and landing on my feet next to Logan. I attacked Hades which was probably stupid considering he could send me flying by just flicking his hand. I slashed and stabbed while I dodged and rolled away from his black balls of fire that launched at us. Lynch tried to get behind Logan, but I swiveled around and defended Logan.
"Oh no you don't! Not my brother!" I growled. I deflected his blade as he tried to hit me. I led him away from Logan. A few minutes later, I heard a yell.
"AHHHH!" I dared to turn my eyes away from Lynch to see who had yelled. It was Logan. Hades had sent a big black ball of fire at him that had hit his shield and sent him flying back.
"LOGAN! I screamed. I was about to run to him but Lillian ran to his aid and started battling Hades.
"Go Christina! I'll hold him!" Lillian answered. I turned my gaze back on Lynch but he lunged at me and we both went tumbling. I landed with one knee on Lynch's chest and my hand on his throat. He pushed me away and I fell off of him. We both jumped up and attacked one another.
"Yaaaah!" I yelled. But the son of Apollo yelled and hellhounds leaped from the bushes, surrounding me in seconds. Seven hellhounds. I looked around me for ideas. None.
"Attack!" Lynch yelled. Just as a few hellhounds leaped, I turned into white tiger. The first hellhound I ducked. The second started battling me. I managed to skid around it and get a hold of its tail. Biting down real hard, the hellhound yowled. Note to self: it's a good thing hellhounds are just like regular cats and dogs. I know their weak spots. Anyways I battle two more and killed them quickly. I turned into a human from time to time, killing hellhounds with arrows and daggers. But after I killed four of the hellhounds, Lynch summoned more and more. I fought so many, I couldn't keep count. I jumped on the back of one and clawed its back with my hind claws. It disintegrated and I grabbed another as it leaped at me. I brought it slamming to the ground. I bounded over the hellhound and knocked one with a hard blow to the face before killing another. Alec tried to come over and help just as I changed back into a human.
"No! Don't! This is my fight! You need to focus on helping Logan and Lillian!" I shrieked.
"But I can't let you die fighting all these hellhounds!" he yelled with a worried look on his face.
"It's ok! I've got it under control!" I answered him just as a hellhound leaped. I ducked to one side, stabbing it. Some of the hellhounds turned on Alec and seemed to think he was a bigger threat than I was. Go figure. Then some of those hellhounds leaped.
"Alec!" I shrieked. I had to save him. I couldn't let him die. He reminded me of old times and all the trouble I had gone through trying to fight off monsters with Alethia, Lillian and Lynch. More hellhounds pounced and I became so angry that my whole mind went blank. I turned into the white tiger and attacked. I slashed, clawed and bit hellhounds.
"Alec!" Kyra screamed noticing him being attacked. She was about to run into battle by Acacia stopped her.
"Don't go," she told her. "Let Christina." I hurled myself at the first hellhound letting loose an earsplitting screech. I grabbed the first hellhound and clawed it. I crashed into the side of another and when the third leaped at me. I struck it across the face, letting my claws slide out. The monster disintegrated and I killed several more in my path. Soon I was nothing but a pure force of destruction.
But all of a sudden I was surrounded. I looked around for ideas. I thought I was out of ideas until something caught my eye. There! In front of me was a tree that had low branches that I could probably use. The only problem was getting to the branch…
"Attack!" Lynch shouted. The hellhounds lunged I ducked and let several sail over my head and into one another. A few more attacked and I fought, bit and scratched my way slowly to the tree. As soon as I was in jumping distance, a hellhound attacked me. Its paw shot out to scratch me but I jumped over it and grabbed hold of the branch with my forepaws. I scrambled up onto the branch just as a hellhound snapped at my tail. It missed by like a centimeter but I turned into a human and shot it down. I turned back in an animal and bounded from branch to branch until I was close to Alec.
I jumped out of the tree and onto a hellhound, startling the one next to it. I got rid of them quickly. I killed hellhound after hellhound when I heard a terrified scream from Alec. I knocked others out of the way and when one jumped at me I yowled and barreled into it. The hellhound got to its paws and turned on me, growling. It leaped and I slid to the left and raked my claws down the side of its flank. It disintegrated and I reached the last hellhound that was on top of Alec. I slammed into it and when it finally jumped I slid under it, using my claws to slice its stomach. I know it sounds painful but I had to save Alec. Another note to self: monsters are blind to seeing attacks like that.
"Christina! Its al-Alec!" Acacia cried. I turned into a human and when I saw the state of Alec, I wanted lose my will to speak. He was injured badly from the hellhounds. He had scratches across his chest and deep cuts across his arms and legs. I hauled him to his feet and Acacia rushed over.
"Stay here and help him. Don't follow me into battle. I don't need any of you getting hurt. Please," I pleaded. They shook their heads.
"We need to fight," Alec spoke.
I was about to object but Acacia and Kyra looked at me. We needed some help but I couldn't afford to have them killed. Finally I decided that they were strong enough to do so. I nodded and I turned around to see Lynch fighting Lillian. Alethia and Logan had taken on Hades again but still, we were losing the fight. I jumped into battle with Hades. Hades was still hurling fire at Logan and Alethia. I slashed at Hades and he roared in fury. He threw fire I dodged. After a few minutes of fighting, Hades threw several balls of black fire. I dodged to one side and brought out my silver bow and arrows. I shot at him with great accuracy at the same time I was diving out of the way. As the sun began to set, I began wear out and feel completely helpless and out of hope.
A/N: Review please!