A Friendship as Strong as Steel

Eildions are Communist

POV Lucia

I.HATE. HEADACHES

I woke up in a tent groaning. Where was I? WHAT WAS I DOING?

I got up to see a worried Olivia staring into my soul.

"Ack, personal space please," I said almost bumping into Olivia.

"Sorry, I had to see that you were okay!" Olivia responded, backing up.

"It's okay, I, where's Val?" I asked swiftly looking around.

"Oh, she asked me to get you to safety," Olivia said, looking grim as if it just dawned on her that she had left her friend in a cave, alone, with a giant.

"We have to go rescue her!" I said, bolting out of the sleeping bag.

***

"Why is the entrance blocked?" I said, hyperventilating, I never liked small spaces.

"I think the cave collapsed when Alcyoneus and Val fought.

"What do we do now?" I looked around desperately for another entrance, but to no avail.

"Can you use the mist to make a path?" Olivia said, trying to push the rocks out.

"I... I can try, for Val," I concentrated on the rocks falling out of the doorway sliding out and I heard a tumbling of rocks. I continued to focus, beads of sweat on my forehead. I heard Olivia gasp and I opened my eyes the cave entrance was open, but we were far from safe.

(That would be such a good cliff hanger)

POV Lucia

Val was losing, she was on the floor trying to stand up, but she looked like she had a broken ankle. She had a long sword, Roman style, but when Alcyoneus came at her, it changed into a shield, blocking Alcyoneus from her.

"Join me, and together we can-," Alcyoneus never got to finish his sentence because Val's shield turned into a spear and she threw it at Alcyoneus's neck.

"You are lucky that you are valuable because I would have given you a painful death. Now Eildion come back and possess this body," as Alcyoneus said that Val's eyes widened, but her green eyes soon turned golden.

Her spear turned into nectar, and as she drank it her ankle seemed to heal quickly, maybe because of her extra luck.

She stood up and the Eildions golden eyes locked onto mine. I tried to run back into the entrance of the cave, but Val, no, the Eildion charged at me at full speed.

"Val, snap out," I tried to tell her, but her face wrinkled into a sneer so deep with hatred, that I would be surprised if there were no lasting effects.

After that thought, I lost focus as I was pinned to the ground by the Eildion.

"I never thought of you as a friend," the Eildion slowly picked up the bottle of nectar on the floor as it turned into a wicked sickle that gleamed bright red.

"Eildions were communist, since when?" I said looking at the sickle that was slowly going to my throat.

"You were just some annoying sidekick, never could be taken seriously, nobody will remember you, nobody will ever love you," the Eildion put the sickle to my throat.

I gulped, this was not fair, the Eildion was sadistic, communist, and snide. I thought for a moment before I spoke.

"I'd rather kill myself than be killed by a communist Eildion," I summoned Tim and Tom, thanking them for serving me, and as I was about to stab myself, my Tim and Tom were swatted away.

"If you ever try to kill yourself again, I will make you wish you went to Tartarus," said Val, scowling.

"You're back!" I said, hugging Val, as she stiffened, she does not know how to show affection.

"Hugging time over, we have a giant to kill," Just as Val said that, I heard a scream as Olivia fell, dead.