Ransom

Chapter 17: Silena Valdez

As Silena walked around Camp Half-Blood, alone underneath the starry sky, she thought about her predicament.

She was partially possessed. Or was it just a one-time thing? Silena hoped that she would never be controlled again. That was a scary feeling. She couldn't make herself move, someone else did it for her.

Nyx captured Piper, Hazel, and Sammy. Who would be next?

It seemed to be a pattern. First Piper, then Sammy, then Hazel. Next would be a kid, and while she was possessed, Silena feared that it was going to be her.

Thankfully, it wasn't. Silena shivered from the cold as she walked towards Bunker 9.

Why was Silena even going to Bunker 9, you ask? She wanted her blankie.

As she saw the entrance to Bunker 9, she lit her hands up so that she could open the doors. Once they opened, she entered her father's workplace.

Silena walked to her bed and grabbed her beloved blankie.

The door slammed shut and the lights shut off. Silena let out a scream and hugged her blankie close. "Hello, darling." A woman mused

"Who-who are you?" Silena asked. She quaked with fear.

The woman's presence seemed to come closer to her. The spirit crept forward until Silena could feel strands of her hair move from the breath of the mysterious speaking. "I am whom your family fears. I am the embodiment of the night." She whispered.

"Please, just-just leave me alone." Silena begged. "I'm scared." She whimpered.

"I can sense that, child." Nyx mused as she strode to face the small child. "That is why I will use your fear to my advantage." She said again.

"What do you mean?" Silena asked as she shivered at the coldness in the room. "You will come with me, child." Nyx whispered once again.

Silena seemed to feel two hands grip onto her shoulders. She let out a scream as she felt tiny daggers embed themselves into her shoulder blades.

Just as Silena thought her world was about to change drastically, something strange happened. A lightning bolt shot its way through Nyx. She shook violently and fell to the ground. Two people ran forward, a boy and a girl.

It was Luke and Allie! Luke grabbed Silena by the waist and ran to a corner.

"You have done enough!" Allie shouted at the primordial. "Y-you foolish ch-child!" Nyx shouted as she was electrocuted. Allie sent another strong bolt down onto the primordial.

Next, something even weirder happened. Allie sent multiple, tiny bolts of electricity towards the primordial while Nyx sent a beam of darkness directly into Allie's beam of electricity.

It seemed as if a bomb went off. The room seemed to grow darker and lighter at the same time. Tiny sparks of electricity floated over towards Luke and Silena as well as bits of darkness.

The lights turned back on at that moment. Luke held Silena in his arms as Silena still hung on tightly to her blankie.

Luke and Silena stood up. "Allie?!" Luke called.

Silena scanned the room and saw a shoe sticking out of a corner by the door. "There!" She called as her and Luke ran towards Allie.

"ALLIE!" Luke called as he slid towards her. He knelt by her side and held her hand. He checked for a pulse and sighed with relief.

Allie was burned from the lightning that she sent at Nyx. The explosion seemed to have shot her across the room with its force. Allie hit her head on the edge of Leo's work table and it was bleeding profusely. There was a small cut by her right eye, in the shape of a crescent.