Crius and the Fright of Night by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER SIX

Unexpected Help

Shhhh!” Zeus warned the others. “Who knows how close by those big-eared Pandi are?”

The four Olympians stayed quiet for a moment, staring at Artemis. When there were no sounds of the Pandi returning, the friends began to talk again.

Apollo crawled across the bed and shook his sister. “Artemis! Artemis! Wake up!”

The girl shifted a little bit, but she did not wake up. She looked a lot like Apollo, thought Zeus. Their golden hair and their faces were almost identical!

Hera pulled out the tiny seed the nymphs had given her. “I wish this thing could make berries faster. We need a cure now.”

“There must be some other way to wake your sister up,” Hestia said to Apollo.

Apollo looked thoughtful. Then his face lit up with an idea. “My sister is sweet but has ticklish feet!” he said. “Hera, give your feather a shake. Maybe we can tickle her awake!”

Hera looked at Zeus. “Do you think it’s safe to call my feather here? What if the Pandi notice?”

“It’s so dark everywhere in this tower,” Zeus reasoned. “So maybe they won’t. It’s worth a try. If the Pandi come, we can hide the feather and pretend to be asleep again.”

“Sounds good,” Hera said. She thought for a minute. Her feather would do anything she told it to, but she had to speak in rhyme for it to work.

“Feather, please fly away from those Pandi, and fly right into my own right . . . um . . . hand-y!” she said.

“Hand-y?” Apollo teased her. “You couldn’t think of a better rhyme, maybe—”

But before he could go on, Hera’s peacock feather scooted in under the door and came floating right up to the bed.

“Obviously, my rhyme was just fine,” Hera said haughtily. She handed the feather to Apollo. “You’d better do this, I think.”

Apollo nodded and started to tickle the bottoms of Artemis’s bare feet with the feather.

She started to twitch right away. Then her right foot kicked Apollo in the arm.

“Ow!” he cried.

“Shh!” everyone shushed him.

Suddenly, Artemis propped herself up on her elbows. She opened her eyes, but just a little bit.

“Artemis?” Apollo whispered in a hopeful voice.

“Whaaaaat?” Her voice sounded groggy.

“Come on. Get her on her feet!” Zeus urged.

It took all four of them to drag Artemis out of bed. Apollo and Hera had to hold her up. She couldn’t walk on her own, and she kept closing her eyes.

“What do we do now?” Hestia asked.

“Maybe I can help,” said a new voice.

They all gasped as Hades appeared in front of them! His magical invisibility helmet was tucked under his arm.

“Hades! You’re okay!” Zeus exclaimed, trying not to shout in his excitement. “What happened to the hut? And what about the others? Is everyone else all right?”

Hades nodded. “It was pretty scary when that wind picked up our hut. But we landed on top of a nice big haystack next to a farm. Nobody got hurt except for some bumps and bruises. That hut is history, though. Broken to boards.”

“How did you find us here?” Hera asked.

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