What's it Like in Villain's Shoes?

Author’s note: I am writing a point of view creative piece which is about the book Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. In the piece the parts that I have italicized are the parts when the person I am telling the story through thinks about something. I want you to look at the voice I used as the eidolon.

The Mark of Athena is about these seven demi-gods, half-god and half- mortal, who have to stop Gaea, the villain, from destroying everything they know and cherish by joining the Greeks and Romans together so they are no longer enemies. The book actually has the point of view of all of the demi-gods since it switches between point of view from one person to another every chapter. I am writing in the point of view of an eidolon, which is a creature who serves Gaea and can also possess people. The three characters in the short story I wrote have their own special powers. Jason has the ability over air and lighting. Percy has the ability over water and can talk to animals. Piper can persuade people easily with her voice. 

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There they are, those pesky little heroes that my master wants. I shall capture them for her. I shall take control of Percy Jackson while my friend takes control of Jason Grace. Sons of the big gods heh. Let’s see how do they do against each other when we take over. “Jason," Piper cried out. “What’s wrong?” My friend has taken over while I have taken over Percy. This body might be disgusting but it will have to do. All has come into place. “Percy, help,” Piper said. I won’t help. Ill ride over there and point the tip of my sword at Jason. 

I said “One will die,” Then Jason said “I will choose.”

“No!” Piper yelled. I charged at Jason while he charged at me. Piper almost died if it hadn’t been for Percy’s and Jason’s pets or whatever they were. Jason and I had our swords meet and clash. “Stop it! Piper yelled. Her charmspeak is really annoying since it made Jason stop. Because of that I had to weaken my blow but it still knocked him out of his mount. “Percy!” Piper yelled. “Jason’s your friend. Drop you weapon!” Her charmspeak almost got to me that time. Jason got to his feet before she could finish the job. Jason hit me with a bolt of lightning and it had blasted me off my horse. “No!” Piper screamed. “Jason stop!”

Jason was saying “I cannot stop. One must die.”

“Who are you?” Piper demanded.

Jason said “We are the eidolons. We will live again.”

“Eidolons…?” Piper muttered. She probably doesn't even know who we are even though we should be known to everyone because we are so powerful. Piper then said “You’re – you’re some sort of ghost?”

Jason turned back to me and said “He must die.” I got back up from the lightning that hit me and I knocked Jason right off his feet. “Stop it!” Piper shouted. She has finally lost hope. There isn’t even charmspeak in her voice. Now I raised my sword, riptide, over Jason’s chest. Right when I was about to attack. I heard a strong charmspeak. Piper had demanded “Eidolon, stop.” It had made me freeze right in place.  “Face me,” Piper ordered at me.

“You have not chosen,” I said. “So this one will die.”

“You’re a spirit from the Underworld,” Piper guessed “You’re possessing Percy Jackson. Is that it?”

I sneered. “I will live again in this body. The Earth Mother has promised. I will go where I please, control whom I wish.”

“Leo… that’s what happened to Leo. He was being controlled by an eidolon.”

“Too late you realize. You can trust no one.” I heard a sound and a black wing. It must be blackjack. I started running towards it. “Ignore it!”Piper yelped at me. “Look at me.” Her charmspeak had made me obey but I had to say something. “You cannot stop me. I will kill Jason Grace.”

“You won’t kill him,” Piper ordered at me. “You will knock him out?”

“I … will knock him out?” I said wondering why she made me do that with her charmspeak.

“Oh, sorry.” Piper smiled. “I wasn’t talking to you.” Wait then who was she talking to, but that was when I saw black.

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That was when he had gotten knocked out by Blackjack the Pegasus and was not controlling Percy anymore. Piper is evil for defeating that eidolon or is that just what you think? The reader's thoughts are bias to what the narrator is saying. Since the eidolon was the narrator you would vote for him but in truth you would probably want Piper to win if you found out that she was trying to save the world from destruction. Whoever is narrating will always think his way is best and true but there is no best way. The best way is the one that you see. If someone is trying to destroy all the cities to make the world have a fresh start, it is a good idea in his eyes. But other people will see it as bad idea to destroy everything so in their eyes that's the better idea. That is how much the point of view in a story can change a reader's opinion.

The Mark of the Haven

Author’s note: I am comparing and contrasting the series of Fablehaven and Mark of Athena. I want you to look at the descriptive language I used to compare these books.

The world is being torn apart as evil as the upper hand. In both Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull, and Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan, evil is on the verge of defeating the heroes and taking control of the world. In Fablehaven the demons are about to open the Zzyzx, which is a demon prison, and let all the demons in it, loose to tear up the world. In Mark of Athena the heroes are going right into a horde of monsters which is almost suicidal and seems like a hopeless attempt to overcome Gaea, the villain. The similarities in these novels are hard to see since they have such different plots but the small things are what make them alike.

Evil is about to prevail in both of these novels. Heroes are about to fall, but neither of the books’ heroes lose hope. That is what makes up these books: the hope that they are filled with. The heroes know their missions are suicidal, but they do it anyways like in the Mark of Athena they had said “But unless you had a team fighting simultaneously on the Tartarus side, a team powerful enough to defeat a legion of monsters in their home territory”(539). What that had said was that the seven demi-gods had to face a whole legion of monsters in their home territory. In both, demons are taking over and the heroes stop them by going on missions. In Fablehaven they go on missions to get certain items to stop evil. In the Mark of Athena they all go on missions to get information which is also to stop evil. The heroes in both books are determined to prevail in the end.

Evil is not only about to win, but the entities cause hardships for the good. In Fablehaven many people die for their cause, but it does not go in vain. In the Mark of Athena the heroes lie to each other and sometimes don’t trust each other, because the villain is turning them against each other. Many people get hurt in both books but in both  their sorrow doesn’t go to waste. They get hurt, but they finish the job they came to do. That is what makes them heroes.

While these novels are similar, they also contrast in many ways. The Mark of Athena has the root of Greek mythology because it is about those stories only modernized. Fablehaven is more made up and not taken from ancient stories. Gods are a plentiful in the Mark of Athena  as it was the culture of those time periods, but in Fablehaven their culture isn’t important since gods don’t rule over their life in the story. Fablehaven has relics in it which have special powers while in the Mark of Athena the demi-gods ,which are half human, half god people, are the ones with the special powers.  The stories are very different in that sense.

These two novels might have the theme of fighting evil which makes them seem the same but the subtle differences are what make the stories contrast. The books also have the same heart in it because the heroes in both care about the world while evil does not. Determination is aplenty inside the forces of good, that is what makes these books the same.