Chapter 13: Nick
Nick woke up with metal handcuffs digging into his wrists in the back of what seemed like a cave. His back was killing him and his arm tingled with the sleeping drug that was shot into his bloodstream.
A Scissor stood in the mouth of the cave and snarled in his low, throaty voice, "You're awake, mutant half-blood."
"Why am I here? I am no use to you," Nick whispered.
"You are bait!" The Scissor said.
"AHHH!" He screeched in a horrible high pitched voice.
The Scissor fell down dead.
"Woah!" Nick gasped, as he saw a knife sticking out of the Scissors back. A small pool of green Scissor blood was growing bigger on the cave floor." What happened?"
"We musssssst kkkill hhhim, hhhhhe ssssssppoke tooooooo mmmuccccchhh alllllrrrreadddyyy!" A low raspy voice rang in his ears. Nick shuddered from the horrible sound. Terrified, he lifted his eyes to the dead Scissor and looked.
Perched on top of the lifeless, bloody body was...a fluffy green inchworm.
Nick screamed on the top of his lungs. He had inchworm phobia since he first saw one as a baby crawling on his crib. He could face a dozen full grown deadly Scissors but inchworms were downright scary.
"I ammm yyyyyour greatessst fearrrrr!"
Suddenly an owl swooped down and before Nick could blink, it swallowed the inchworm in one gulp.
"Thanks," Nick gasped.
The owl turned its gray eyes on him and flickered to a human form. "I am the goddess Athena."
"A-A-Athena!" He stammered,
Athena smiled, "They are coming." Then Athena disappeared in a puff of smoke.