Artemis

by OnyxXPrincess

Artemis: Goddess of the hunt, the moon, and childbirth is known as the creator of the Dark-Hunters, an army of men and women put together to fight against her twin brother's, Apollo, damned race known as the daimons. She already hurt the one man who loved her more than his life, leader of the Dark-Hunters, Acheron. What happens when she falls in love with the newest member: Nick?

1. Artemis: Prologue

Prologue

Artemis. You know her as the ancient Greek virgin goddess. The goddess of the moon, childbirth, and the hunt. The Dark-Hunters know her as their owner, the bitch goddess who gives them money for a lifetime.

Created by Artemis during the ancient days of Greece, the Dark-Hunters are immortal men and women who wanted an act of vengeance because they were betrayed in life. At their deaths, Artemis came to them after hearing their souls cry out. In exchange for one act of vengeance, the Dark-Hunters sign an everlasting contract with Artemis as her slaves to save mankind from daimons.

Created by Artemis' twin brother, Apollo, the Greek god of music and the sun, daimons were once Apollo's beloved Apollite race who were more beautiful than any living creature. Upon learning of his twenty-seven year old wife's death by the hands of an Apollite, Apollo damned all of the Apollites to die a horrible death at the age of twenty-seven. Desperately wanting to live, the Apollites found a loophole: consuming human souls.

Leader of the Dark-Hunters, Acheron, knows Artemis as the goddess he once loved. The woman he died for. Trying to protect Artemis' innocence, Acheron died at the hands of Apollo when he found out that Acheron was sleeping with Artemis. In order to save face and her reputation, Artemis refused to claim Acheron as her own. But what is a woman to do when her family's name is at stake? When her lover is not someone that they would accept?

Now Artemis lives a lonely life. One filled with grief and hatred for everything and everyone, including Acheron. As leader of the Dark-Hunters Acheron was forced to a life of feeding from Artemis whenever he was thirsty, and left to compromise with her to save the souls of his Hunters who found true love. Artemis' bargain: sex. Once Acheron found his true love, Artemis was once again alone. That was, at least, until the Dark-Hunter's newest member came to her.

Nicholas Ambrose Gautier was a twenty-three year old human with nothing to lose except for his beloved mother, but when his mother died a horrible death, Nick killed himself and begged Artemis for one act of vengeance against her murderers. Despite her better judgment and hatred of the smart-ass kid that stood in front of her, and after a slap that rang throughout the universe, Artemis granted Nick his act of vengeance but in return Nick is now her source of food and sex and Artemis is falling in love all over again with a guy who couldn't care less about her.