Alkyoneus and the Warrior Queen by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2020-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX Girls to the Rescue

The girls moved like a well-organized pack, quickly surrounding the giant. Each girl wore her long hair in a braid down her back, and each one held a long, metal-tipped spear. Instead of togas or robes, they wore short dresses made of leather, and leather boots.

Zeus quickly counted them in his head. There must be thirty of them! he thought.

“Not you annoying Amazons again!” Alkyoneus growled. “I can’t catch you. I can’t snack on you. What good are you?”

Two of the girls hurled their spears at the hand holding Hercules.

“Ow!” the giant yelled.

He opened his hand, and Hercules tumbled to the ground. One of the Amazons helped him up—and then tossed him outside the circle of warriors.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The rest of the Amazons threw their spears at Alkyoneus. Zeus winced, expecting them to pierce the giant. Instead the spears caught on the edges of his toga, and pulled him toward the ground.

“Wha-wha-whoaaaaaaa!” the giant yelled as he fell backward onto the ground.

Boom! The earth shook when he hit. Then the Amazons sprang into action, pushing the spears into the dirt and pinning him down.

“You won’t hold me for too long, you wimpy warriors,” he said.

“Who are you calling wimpy?” one of the girls asked, and she jabbed the giant in the thigh with her spear.

“Ha! That didn’t even hurt!” Alkyoneus said. “You gawky girls will be in big trouble when my daughters come home. They will be here when the sun rises. Sally, Solly, Sully, Smelly, Silly, Steely, and Snarly will make short work of you all!”

Zeus tried to imagine what his seven giant daughters might look like, and shivered.

“Why don’t they just finish him already?” Ares wondered out loud. “And when are they going to rescue us? They rescued Hercules.”

“And now I’m going to rescue you!” Hercules had shimmied up the tree and was reaching for the door of the cage.

“Just climb out on the branch,” Zeus urged.

“It might break,” Hercules protested.

“Will you just do it?” Ares asked, his red eyes flashing. “My ear really itches, and I can’t scratch it! I can’t stand it anymore!”

“Okay,” Hercules said reluctantly, and he moved toward the branch. Then he stopped. “Who is that?”

Another Amazon walked out of the woods. She looked older than the others, like a teenager. Even in the darkness, her hair shone with the color of a raven’s feathers. Around her waist she wore a leather belt with a gold disc in the center. The golden circle was glowing brightly.

The Amazon girls bowed their heads. “Hippolyta.”

“Step back,” she told them. She walked up to the giant’s head.

“I warned you, Alkyoneus,” she said. “You and your daughters keep hunting the deer on our land. And just last week you tried to snack on two of my warriors.”

“They ran too fast,” Alkyoneus said sadly.

“I told you to move on, and you wouldn’t listen,” Hippolyta said. “And now I have no choice.”

The gold disc began to glow even brighter. A beam of gold light hit the giant.

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