Ares and the Spear of Fear by Joan Holub

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

CHAPTER SIX

Scaredy-Spear

Three cheers for the spear!” Zeus yelled. “Now we don’t have to walk all the way to the Scythian Mountains. We can go rescue Pythia and the rest of the Olympians!”

“Hooray!” cheered Hera, Ares, and Apollo.

“Let’s get moving!” Ares said, jabbing his spear into the air. “I can’t wait to show that rotten snake what the god of war is really made of!”

They quickly got back to the road.

“I can’t believe how easy this was,” Zeus said, feeling more cheerful with each step. “Remember what we went through the get Demeter’s seeds? We had to climb a beanstalk, battle a giant, and run from giant bees. But this time we got the magical object handed right to us!”

“Thanks to my peacock feather,” Hera said proudly, giving it a pat. “I know it’s bringing us good luck.”

Zeus sighed. She kept bringing up that peacock feather every time something good happened. He was getting a little sick of hearing about it. But he knew it would probably just make her mad again if he said anything.

She might be my sister, but most of the time I just don’t get her, he thought.

Ares kept waving the spear around.

“Take that! And that!” he yelled at invisible enemies.

Apollo strummed his lyre, whispering new song lyrics to himself as they walked.

Suddenly Chip, the oval stone that hung on a cord around Hera’s neck, cried out, “Anger-dip! Ronies-Cip ear-nip!”

Chip spoke his own language: Chip Latin. By now all of the Olympians understood it.

“Cronies are near!” Zeus cried. “We need to hide.”

Luckily, they were passing a hay field, and they all found a hiding spot in the tall grass. Zeus dared to peek through it, and saw Otus and Ephialtes plodding up the road toward them.

“We’ve been looking and looking, but no Olympians,” complained Otus.

“I know. My feet hurt!” moaned Ephialtes.

Ares pushed past Zeus. “Now’s my chance to see what this spear can do!” he hissed.

“Ares, wait!” Zeus cried, but the hotheaded Olympian was already running out to the road.

“Behold the Spear of Fear!” he yelled, holding the spear above his head.

Otus and Ephialtes quickly turned toward Ares.

“It’s one of them Olympians!” Otus cried.

The two half-giants stomped in Ares’s direction. As they got closer, Ares took aim and threw the Spear of Fear at them.

“Show them what you can do, spear!” he yelled.

The Spear of Fear wobbled through the air for a few feet, heading toward the Cronies. But to everyone’s surprise, then it boomeranged right back toward Ares and stopped to hover in the air behind his back. All of the Olympians—and even the Cronies—looked on in shock.

“The spear looks like it’s hiding,” Hera whispered to Zeus.

Ares spun around. “Spear! What gives?” He grabbed it and hurled it once again at the Cronies.

The spear just looped around again and hid behind Ares once more, shaking now.

Ephialtes and Otus started to laugh.

“Haw! Haw! Haw!” Ephialtes bellowed. “The little Olympian has got a scaredy-spear.”

Terrified and embarrassed, Ares grabbed the spear, turned, and ran back to join the other Olympians.

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