The War Is Won Before it’s Begun
Chapter 1
Prologue
I turned to Luna, “Kokkovátes.” Her eyes widened. I then realized that she can’t fight them. Only Alexa, Asher, and I can. And Alexa and Asher are tending to the kids with ear bleeds. I told Luna, “You can’t fight them. So what I need you to do is watch Terra and Michael, make sure they don’t get into trouble. They are in the Moon Mansion.” A Kokkováte tried to get into the barrier, shrieked, and turned into dust. I finished, “Bring them to the Phoebe cabin so that you can watch the Phoebe kids too. They need their counselor.” She nodded, and headed to the Moon Mansion. I held up my hand and pointed it at a Kokkováte and thought, Well here goes nothing. A white light shot out of my hand, and hit the monster. It shrieked and turned to dust. I then had a idea. I pulled at my Shen amulet, and it turned into my scythe from my mom and Iapetus. I then made my hand glow with the white light I had used to kill the Kokkováte, and placed it on the blade of my scythe. The blade that had been silver started glowing white. I was about to attack when I thought better of it, I made earplugs out of moonlight and put them in my ears. I thought, There we go. And ran up to the monsters, and attacked. All the while my eyes where a blueish color, the color of Alexa and Asher’s eyes. I hit them with the white light, and hit them with my scythe. Each time one of my attacks hit a Kokkováte they exploded. I was lucky I had thought of making earplugs, otherwise I would be in the infirmary with an ear bleed like some of the other campers.
Once they were all gone, I went to the Moon Mansion to change, my clothes were ripped pretty badly, and it had some ichor on it. I put some moonlight in the cuts to keep them from bleeding, and the cuts were silver, so it looked like I had silver skin here and there. The moonlight should speed up my already speedy recovery time, so I should be able to let go of the moonlight sooner than later. And because of my using the moonlight, my silver eyes glowed brighter than usual. I went from cabin to cabin telling everyone they were gone. Once I finished doing that, I went to the infirmary to see Asher and Alexa running from camper to camper to help them. But, surprisingly, I saw the Kronos twins running from camper to camper too. They manipulated a green light- which I knew was time- and basically made their ears heal. Like when Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to play with the apple in the beginning and he made only the Apple seem the go forward and backward in time, rotting, but not the table it was on. It was similar, they healed the ears, while leaving the rest of the body alone, like he left the table alone. I didn’t know why I hadn’t thought of getting them to do that before. They were pretty creative, I had to admit. I called, “Kylie.” She walked over, her long black hair getting in her face when she turned from Peter Johnson to look at me. I saw that her golden eyes were glowing more than normal because of her using her powers. I asked, “How did you think of doing this?” She shrugged, “I don’t know, I watched Doctor Strange yesterday and thought of it.” I chuckled, I may or may not have gotten most of the campers in Camp into Marvel. Mostly the ones that came from Tartarus, to get them to know more about the mortal world. Kyle and Kylie were some of those kids. I only didn’t know them in Tartarus because they had ran away before I was old enough to make memories, and it took them about a year to find their way out, and they were placed from foster home to foster home, so they only knew the worse parts of humanity. I had helped them know the better part. I said, “Well, you should probably go back to helping Kyle.” She nodded, “Yeah. I probably should.” She turned, and went back to helping Peter.