Zeus and the Dreadful Dragon by Tracey West & Suzanne Williams & Tracey West

Author:Tracey West & Suzanne Williams & Tracey West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER SIX

The Battle Begins

The fourteen Olympians marched off on the road to Mount Olympus. Apollo, Dionysus, Hera, and Hestia walked at the front of the group, with Zeus and Demeter right behind them. Apollo and Dionysus were talking and singing.

“The Cronies all disappeared,” Apollo sang. “Then they . . . What rhymes with ‘disappeared’?”

“Um . . . ‘weird’?” Dionysus replied. “ ‘Feared’?”

Apollo nodded. “ ‘Feared.’ That might work.”

Hera stared at them. “What are you two doing?” she asked.

“We’re getting a song ready for when we meet the Cronies,” Apollo replied. “We want to be prepared.”

Zeus was surprised to hear that. Usually Apollo made up songs on the spur of the moment. If he was thinking up his lyrics before the battle, he was really taking this seriously.

Hera nodded. “Good,” she said. “Carry on.”

Zeus smiled. Hera was taking her job as second-in-command seriously too.

They’d been walking for about an hour when the tall peak of Mount Olympus appeared in the distance. Above the peak Cronus’s glittering gold-and-marble temple on the palace grounds sat on top of thick, fluffy white clouds.

Zeus stopped. “There it is,” he said. “The future home of the Olympians.”

The others stopped and stared.

“Wow, that’s really high,” Ares remarked. “I don’t think I could live all the way up there.”

“It won’t be my home,” Hades said. “I’ll be in the Underworld.”

“And I’ll be in the sea, I guess,” Poseidon said.

Everyone was quiet for a minute. Finally Hera spoke up.

“Listen, Pythia says our destiny is to defeat Cronus,” she reminded them. “So that’s what we’ve gotta do. We can work out living arrangements later.”

Everyone nodded and kept walking. They crested the top of a small hill.

“I think it’s showtime,” Apollo said, pointing down.

A large group of Cronies was gathered at the bottom of the hill. The thickly muscled half-giants all wore loincloths and were carrying spears.

“Apollo, Dionysus, Hestia, charge up!” Zeus commanded.

Apollo held up his lyre. Dionysus held up his crown of ivy. Hestia held up her torch. The three Olympians touched their magical objects together.

Zap! Clink! Zing!

A bright light exploded as the objects touched. For a few minutes the objects would be supercharged.

And just in time. When the objects charged up, the Cronies spotted the bright light.

“Oh good. Snack time!” one of them yelled.

With a loud cry the wall of Cronies charged up the hill.

“First wave, attack!” Zeus yelled.

Demeter shot a rock from her slingshot at the Cronies.

Whack! It hit one of the Cronies smack in the middle of the forehead. He fell forward.

Hestia aimed her torch at the Cronies. Fireballs rained down on them and landed at their feet.

“Hit it, Dionysus!” Apollo called out.

Dionysus began to sing. “Cronies, hear my song! Everybody stop and listen to Apollo. Oh yeah!”

Amped up with extra power, Dionysus’s voice carried over the attacking Cronies. They all stopped moving.

Then Apollo sang, “What happened at the battle was just like magic! The Cronies disappeared, but it wasn’t tragic. One by one they popped far away. Where they went, nobody can say!”

Poof ! The nearest Crony vanished into thin air.

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