The Crown of Kronos: Chapter 37

Alexandra’s P.O.V

“Paulo?” Victoria said, her voice turning coarse of her trembling. The boy sneered and held out his hand. Out of thin air he pulled out an enormous sword, made out of darkness, woven to be strong as metal. On it were inscripted Greek curses in silver.

“His eyes…” Zarana bit her lip.

“He was blessed by his mistress, I think.” Charlie frowned.

Vic’s eyes widened. “But… I killed-“

“You did not kill me!” Nico roared. The ground shook violently, sending us tumbling backwards. Darkness slowly rose from the ground, swirling around Nico, surrounding him. He smirked victoriously, his attention drawn to Vic.

“You will pay.” He pointed his sword at Vic. Darkness blasted out of its tip, towards the girl.

“Watch out!” I screamed. Quickly, I pushed her aside, and an enormous blast of what felt like 100 bullet ants’ stings hit my stomach, sending me flying backwards.

But that wasn’t the end of it. Slowly, freezing coldness started crawling from the edges of my toes, sending me trembling violently. Things around me started to shift and change shape, and the air somehow became thinner and thinner. I started gasping for air. The girls rushed towards me as an evil laugh echoed throughout the area. Slowly, I got up with their support, still heavily in pain. I gave a cold glare at the boy. A black portal appeared behind him, and he smiled satisfactorily.

“Goodbye, girls. I will see you soon.” He smiled. “Or probably not, if you don’t survive.” He chuckled and snapped his fingers. Slowly, he walked towards the portal.

“Get him!” Zarana yelled. We rushed towards the portal, but the boy escaped and the portal vanished into nothingness. I yelled in exasperation.

Suddenly, we could hear footsteps behind us. We turned around to see four figures who looked exactly like us, except they were completely made out of darkness.

“Our shadows.” I gasped, looking at the ground to see mine gone, still holding onto Vic.

“Oh no…” Zarana sighed.

Slowly, they walked towards us- or floated, whatever - holding weapons that looked like ours. I yelled and shot a jet of lava at my shadow. It left a hole in her stomach, but her expression stayed cold. Soon, darkness from her body crept up to the hole, slowly weaving it whole.

“Now what? I’m dying here!” I shivered.

“I have a plan. Zarana, we need the sky to be as bright as possible. Do you have a mirror?” Charlie asked.

“Err, nope.” Zarana bit her lip.

“I do!” Vic said. She opened her duffel and handed Charlie a tiny mirror.

“I need you to hold this out at the shadows. Zarana, concentrate and clear out the sky. Alex and I will slow them down.” Charlie said.

“Wait, what?” My eyes widened.

“The lava thingy slowed them down a bit.” Charlie shrugged. I rolled my eyes.

“Fine.” I sighed.