Going through Time-Chapter Seventeen: My Death...Now or Later?

       I slowly stood up, feeling as if my knees would buckle under me at any moment. I wanted to go back in time so that I could hear Chaos's warning again. He would kill me soon? That wasn't good. Chaos was the beginning of the whole entire universe. He had created Gaea and Ouranos. So what would stop him from destroying me? Maybe I was a puny weakling...

        "Snap out of it!" Sadie yelled, lightly punching me in the shoulder. That got me back into my senses. Chaos was chaos. He wanted to create disagreement in the mind. That was what he aimed for, for me to become so helpless he could destroy me and be on his way. I wouldn't let him do that.

        "Okay. So, we keep going in the car until we reach a place to crash for the night. Then we wake up in the morning and decide what to do next." I took command, leading my group over to our car. I latched on to my seatbelt and looked out the window, trying to overcome the battling emotions inside of me. Apprehension, determination, perplexity, courage...it was like they were all wild horses that I needed to tame. I absent-mindedly took Sadie's hand and squeezed. Sadie, my friend, would help me get through this. I felt her squeeze back and promised myself that if...no, when I got back to Camp Half-Blood, I would get her anything she wanted. It wasn't too easy sticking with somebody like me.

        We finally reached a hotel, where Kronos snapped his fingers and produced some money. I took it gratefully and checked us into room 409, then crashed on the bed. One look from an amused Will made me remember to brush my teeth and everything, so I did as well as I could and slipped off my shoes. Crawling into the covers, the last thing I remembered was Kronos standing over me with a strange expression on his face...care? Love? I couldn't make it out.

         "Wake up!" Will's shrill voice called out. I bolted out of bed and quickly dressed, wondering what the Hades was going on. Only when I reached the lobby did I notice the problem. Will, Sadie, and Kronos were battling the lady behind the desk, who had turned into an empousai, the servants of Hecate. I cursed as much as I could and grabbed a kitchen knife.

        I jumped into the battle and dodged the lady's claws, swiping my knife at her back. I managed to nick her before she scraped me with her pinky. Pain erupted near my bicep, but I gritted my teeth and stabbed the empousai near the shoulder. She looked at me with fury and leaped toward my throat, succeeding at grabbing it and holding me up in the air. Will and Sadie stopped abruptly, and I could literally feel the anger evaporating off of Kronos. He lunged forward to attack the empousai, but it held her claw up to my neck and he stepped back.

        "Don't fight. Or I will kill the girl," it snarled, clopping cautiously back while keeping an eye on my group (I forgot to mention that empousai have one bronze leg and one furry leg, with a hoof at the end. It would really hurt to have a backside kick from them). Finally Will couldn't take it anymore. He leaped forward, thinking that he could kill the empousai, but I felt a burning sensation near my throat and drifted away into oblivion.