Chapter 18: I've got the power!
Sadie's POV
We were finally here. The fates house. The fates home. The fates lab. There were so many words I could use to describe my worst nightmare.
I was ready though. I had spent days dreading this confrontation. Let's just get this over with. We found a set of stairs that lead down into the basement and then after that down, down and more stupid down.
When we finally reached the last step, we found ourselves in a cave. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen. Bones were scattered on the floor. I nearly screamed when I notice a human skull that had a bite mark. Nope. I have changed my mind. I was not ready. Could we please not get this over with? Could we please please please just leave?
Silence was the beat that we marched too. All of us had our weapons drawn.
We stumbled from the damp cave into a room. Our final destination. This room wasn't empty.
Three girls stood smirking at us as we piled into the room that stopped dead.
"Welcome. We hoped you'd be here soon." One said. She was tall with permed blonde hair and a very revealing red dress. I decided I'd call her Marilyn.
"Yes. We are very hungry." The second girl I nicknamed scarecrow. I'll you figure that one out.
The third fate was horrible. She didn't deserve a name. She was a monster. He face wasn't even a face. All she had was the shape of her face. No eyes. No nose and definetly no mouth. Her head looked like it was draped in black linen. It seemed to pulse horrifically.
"I trust you are ready to die?" The scary fate laughed coldly.
I couldn't keep my mouth shut. "Excuse me? Come to die? How stupid do you think we are? Do you really think we would have come all this way to just lie down and die?"
I really shouldn't have said anything.
None of the girls looked real impressed. I drew my bow back. There was no point in talking to them. They needed to die to be reborn good again. I needed to just kill them as quick as possible.
My arrow flew and striked Marilyn in the arm. She didn't wince or make any reaction.
"Guys..." I yelp. "Help?"
Carter runs forward with his sword and engages Marilyn in battle. Walt and Annabeth gang up on Scarecrow.
Great guys. You call this helping? You left me biggest and the oldest. Thanks. Just what I've always wanted.
I draw my dagger. I attack first as Annabeth had taught me. Get in low with your blade quick. The monster grows nails longer than my arm and knocks my dagger back. I try again and again. Monster stretches out her hands. She grabs my throat and drags me up to her mouth. I'm going to die. I'm going to die! She's going to bite me. "
"ARRGHA!" Carter stabs the monster repeatedly in the leg. She screeches . I bring my dagger up. I finally got my target.
I stagger backwards. How were we going to do this? We couldn'ttake all three down at once. Then I, being Sadie Kane, had the greatest idea.
"Everyone! Bees and wasps."
They all look at me like I have three heads.
I shake my head then set to work conjuring. First I fill the room with smoke. What? No smoke isn't dangerous but it's effective. Bees are next, then wasps and finally hundreds of birds. With all the flying annoyances flying around it was chaos. Of course the creatures weren't real but they still got in the vision of the three fates.
As an afterthought I added some ants. And when I say some. I mean millions.
It was hard to keep all these small creatures up. I leaned against a wall praying that if that monster tries to get me someone, anyone would stop it. I could hear the battle raging. Swords clanging. Shouts, screeches and worst of all the I couldn't see it but I could smell it. Blood.
I heard a triumphant yell. I grimaced. Please, oh please. "I got one! Straight through the heart guys. Sadie, good job. Keep that up." Percy 's voice was breathless but all the same he could have been doing a happy dance.
A minute later I hear another yell. Good two down one to go. Its weird sitting in battle with my eyes closed. I keep wait for the dagger like nails of the monsters to scream through my flesh. For my heart to stop beating for my... "You're panicking Sadie, aren't you?" Carter yells.
"Maybe." I say meekly but try breathing in to calm myself down.
Nah. My concentration is gone. I open my eyes and blink in the light. There aren't as many bees or wasps as I remembered. Even as I watched some disappeared. Then I noticed the only fate left was them monster. Annabeth was stuck battling it while Carter, Walt and Percy tried to jump in to help.
I raised my bow and am just about to fire as the others all striked for the heart. Carter missed. Percy missed and Walt. Annabeth's knife however plunged straight into the fates chest.
The monster wailed dramatically.
"Yeah yeah. Shut up." I say.
I really need to be able to lock my mouth. The fate just straightens up a little. Her scary head beats in then out, in and out as fast as a heart would. I squint my eyes lining up my aim. My last arrow hits its mark. The monster fates don't utter a sound. She just falls silently to the ground, an arrow hanging from its head, or should I say heart?
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