Earth Everything had happened so fast and yet so slow at the same time. I could barely wrap my mind around what I had just witnessed. It had been a second that Aileen turned to face me when the cyclops plunged its sword through her abdomen. My ears began to ring as I heard Alex scream in the distance just as the cyclops and Aileen fell to the ground in a heavy thud. My legs were frozen to the ground. I couldn't get up, so I dragged my body towards Aileen. Her eyes were wide, her face was pale with an expression of pain and shock at the same time. When her eyes turned to me, I saw fear, something I had never expected to see on someone as strong as her. "Is there anything I can do? Do you have an antidote or something similar? Something god-like, maybe powers," I began to stutter out. It

