Between Artemis and Annabeth stood Luke and Atlas. Atlas and Luke don't stand a chance…Unless Atlas plays dirty and has a bunch of troops waiting outside for his signal…This is a titan who lost already, of course he's going to pull something like that. I tried to call out to Artemis, but I couldn't do it, since the sky was really heavy, by now the sky was touching my head.
Holding the sky with one hand was a bad idea. But it only caused a little bit of my strength to drain, I still have a lot of power left. Power that I have to save.
I kneeled down, carrying this, is not something I want to do on a daily basis. I looked at Artemis and Atlas. They were having a stare down, within a second, Artemis changed her form and pounced on Atlas, he was strong, no doubt about that, but Artemis has speed.
If he wants to win, he has to distract her with something. Luke slowly advanced on Annabeth. Annabeth was weak from holding up the sky, so I can't see any way of her winning. And that was it…As long as Annabeth was there Artemis couldn't concentrate.
Artemis slashed at Atlas and he easily dodged it. Artemis was moving swiftly and carefully, she was thinking about her next attack. Atlas simply jabbed and waited patiently for Artemis to make her mistake. I was watching, anger slowly started to show on my face. My body started to shake.
What can I do? At this point I can't do anything, but I want to drop this and help…But we all know what will happen if I do that. Atlas was laughing insanely has he advanced on Artemis.
Artemis went back to her normal form and pulled out two wicked hunting knives, each as long as her arm, and she slashed wildly at the Titan, dodging and leaping with unbelievable grace. I stared at her in awe, beautiful.
She finally got a hit in, right across the Atlas's chest, he stumbled backwards. He looked back up and smiled evilly. "No…" I said, I knew it. He lifted up his hand and shouted, "Now!"
Artemis looked stunned, "You coward!"
Atlas smiled, "I'm a general. I know what it means to get something done." He laughed. A dozen dracaenae showed up at the entrance to the cave. And then Annabeth screamed out in pain. "Luke! Leave her alone!" I shouted at him.
He held Annabeth on his shoulder, she was passed out. "Wyatt, you can't do anything to me, so keep quiet." He said smugly to me. More anger boiled up in me. "When I get out of this! I'll come for you Luke!" I vowed. Despite having a titan and a dozen dracaenae at his side, he looked scared. "I'm the god of mortals! You can't hide from me!" I shouted angrily at them. Luke did something I thought he would never do, he pointed the tip of his sword to Annabeth's throat. I bit my tongue, he won't get away with this…
Atlas laughed, "This little hero thinks he's a god?"
I see no one has told Atlas about me…I was sure he knew about me, but I guess any name that isn't a threat to him, he couldn't care less who or what they are.
Atlas smiled smugly, "Let's put him to the test." He advanced to me. Artemis got in his way. "You're not done with me. Just because you have those things to help you, doesn't mean you've won."
"No, Artemis. Get out of here! Warn the gods!" I told her. She hesitated, Artemis?
Atlas hit Artemis with the side of his huge javelin. Sending her right in front of me, she get back up but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Annabeth. She was still passed out, and Luke still had his sword at Annabeth's throat. And here I was holding the sky. Artemis she has no way out. She'll do anything for a maiden's wellbeing.
Artemis was staring intently at Atlas, "You titans will never win. You're all cowards!"
Atlas burst out laughing, "This is just the beginning of the fall of Olympus." Artemis eyes flashed with anger but she didn't say anything else.
Atlas told her, "From now on, you two will take my burden, you will live with it forever!"
I'm having fun writing this :D And there might be one more chapter up today, or two.
Thanks for reading! And I hope you all have an awesome day!
Rilurz~
