Dark Reflections-Chapter 13

 Dark Reflections-Chapter 13 

Close your eyes, cover your ears and nose. That's how darkness hears, looks and smells like. Nothing. But the way it feels.... it makes every hair at the back of your neck stand up, it's just cold.....

 The last thing i saw was Lucian, taunting me by waving goodbye, after he disappeared by entering a portal. I felt weightless, sort of at peace, nothing around me except darkness and a lot of it. Then, a bright light appeared from my hand, it was the Arms of Helios, it glowed brighter and brighter until i was surrounded by a warming light....

 When i came to, the first thing I realised..or smelled.. Eucalyptus. I heard cussing, loud cussing. I looked around and saw what looked like a destroyed fortress. I immediately knew where I was. Mount Othyrs.

 I panicked. How did i get here? Where we the others? Then i heard footsteps. I hid behind the biggest rock. The person making the footsteps was the person I least expected to see. Hyperion. A thousand questions filled my head. Wasn't Hyperion turned into a tree? How many titans were in on Mount Othyrs right now?

 I tried controlling my breathing, I was scared. These weren't some monsters, they were titans. One was trouble enough, four or five of them and i was dead. I looked over the rock. I saw that Hyperion was now sitting on a rock, he was sad. No, depressed, like he has done evil things and now he regretted it. Then he looked up, I hid behind the rock again.

 "I know your there little Hero." His voice was clear but not loud. "Come out."

 I froze. All i could think was "I'm dead." Reluctantly, I came from behind the rock. Good news, Hyperion didn't kill me. Bad news, it didn't mean he didn't want to.

 "Come forward." I did as he told. "Hold out your right hand." I felt like a dog doing this, but you don't really say no to a very powerful being. I held out my hand, the coin was in it. I didn't realise I was still holding it. "The Arms of Helios." He spoke. "Where did you get it?"

 "Apollo gave it to me. He said it would help me fight monsters." It was weird giving information to the enemy. "But all it does it glow now. Don't see how it helps."

 Hyperion laughed. It was weird because it was a whole-hearted laugh, not like  I'm-a mused-by-you- that's-why-I'm-keeping-you-alive kind  of laugh. "Your right, it isn't much now. I guess it's not fair to keep that weapon in it's weak form is it?" He held out his hand. "Give it Here."

 I can't say i wasn't reluctant. If the coin was a weapon, I didn't want to hand it to a hands of a titan. But there was something about the way he spoke like he didn't mean any harm. In the end I handed it over.

 He closed his fist around the coin; it released a blast of bright light that i had to look away. When the light subsided, Hyperion passed me back the coin. I looked at it, now along with the side of the coin with the Chariot; the previous blank side now had a picture of a shield and spear on it.

 "Go ahead, flip it." Hyperion encouraged. I did. When i caught it, it exploded in a flash of light like before, but now in my hands was a spear and shield with a Greek Lambda (^) symbol on it strapped to my left arm. The Traditional arms of the Spartan warriors.

 “Now those are the real arms of Helios!” He exclaimed

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