The Crown of Kronos: Chapter 17

Victoria’s P.O.V

“Fine! Go on and leave us! We don’t need you!” Alex yelled at her. Zarana shot a look at us and stormed off. The sky crackled of thunder and rain poured from the dark grey clouds.

“That girl…” Charlie muttered.

I sighed. “Guys, don’t you think we should-“

“No. We’ll go and save Charlie’s dad on our own.” Alex said firmly. “Come on.”

We walked down the filthy stairs, towards the cells. There were the sounds of metal clanging, like the bars of a cell being hit by a stick. We slowly moved towards the source of the sound, walking through paths between cells. The sounds got even louder, telling us that we have gotten closer.

My ears suddenly caught an evil chuckle that sent chills down my spine. I stopped.

“Can’t you hear that?” I whispered, looking around.

“Hear what?” Charlie raised an eyebrow.

“Maybe it’s nothing.” Alex replied.

“Yeah, I think so.” I shrugged.

We kept walking through the paths, turning around at times to the source. Then we saw it.

Outside of a prison cell, a snake woman was hitting the bars with a metal rod, grinning at us evilly.

And Charlie’s Dad was lying down unconscious inside.

“It’s a trap.” Charlie whispered, tears starting to appear in her eyes.

Soon, an army of dracanaes stormed towards us. I started counting. There were around one hundred of them.

“We can do this.” Alex convinced us. “Vic, you’d better do your job well.”

I nodded and ran away, my sword in my hand. I didn’t want to risk being poisoned. I sat down, exhausted, and closed my eyes. I started reciting a prayer to my mother. After what seemed like forever of metals clanging, I heard a familiar shriek.

Alex.

I opened my eyes in panic. Alex screamed in agony, holding her bleeding arm. It had been slit open, blood pouring non-stop. She yelled and blasted a row of army with her lava before she fell unconscious.

“Alex!” I screamed. I rushed towards her and started fighting the monsters. I slashed one of them in the throat, leaving an awful wail and a spray of golden dust. But they kept coming, marching towards us. Charlie blasted a wall of force towards the monsters, and I immediately knew that she was exhausted. I started slashing and swinging my sword at every monster before me, but I got extremely tired. I helplessly looked around, slashing every monster approaching me as my vision got blurred. I saw a figure appearing out of nowhere to our right, and lightning flashing outside. Then there was a loud explosion, blasting everyone. I was sent flying back, and I passed out.