Orion's WHAT!
Chapter 1: Him
I was in the woods, lurking for any edible prey or actually, anything to hunt. My bow and quiver I was carrying was strapped on my back. The forest was agitating with noise since it was around noon. My senses were going off and on spontaneously with the racket the animals and insects were making. So, you're asking who I am. I can't tell you, sorry. My father told me to never tell anyone, to keep it a secret. If anyone else told me a secret, I would have yelled it at the top of my lungs.
Anyway, I was hunting around when I found a deer staring at me twenty feet away. I slowly paced around it, trying not to scare it. I took out my bow and arrow from my quiver, then placed the arrow on the string and pulled back, silently waiting to make sure the food- I mean deer, wasn't going to move. I looked at the animal straight in the eyes. I let go.
Phioum!
Direct bull's-eye, my prey has fallen and now, to not make his death for my mere amusement, because I'm not that cold-hearted. Did I mention I had a knife with me? Silly me… I peeled of the skin of my deer, and bringed its wet and smelly (really smelly) flesh off from my camp site. Which I had previously forgot to mention, of course.
As soon as I got there, I laid the flesh in a plastic bag, taking just a strip on the pan right above the fire I made. The fire was in a circle with rocks protecting it from burning my tent and setting the forest on fire while making me lose a chase. I can tell you it only happened once. And I was a novice at that time, so it doesn't really count, poor bunnies…
They would have tasted so good!
I was shuffling the pan when I heard footsteps behind me. I took out my bow and arrow and held it up, ready for whom it was. The steps came closer and it was… a lot of girls. Great. Anything but girls, grizzlies even. They were wearing silver tiaras and robes with bows. Hunters.
"Who are you people?"
"We might as well ask you the same question, boy."
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
"We are the hunters of Lady Artemis, and we do not appreciate your kind."
"Who-"
"Enough! Leave our territory at once or we will hunt you down and send you down to the graves of the Underworld."
Harsh.
"Your territory? Excuse me, the forest land does not belong to anyone missy, and I was here first."
They all took their bows and aimed at me, and I was guessing that the one I was arguing with was the commander.
"You have ten seconds before thy land be truly yours."
I really dislike these hunters; they think they're so tough with their uniforms and girly alliances. On the other hand, they gave me ten seconds, and that's less time than I need.
I ran across the tree and took out my bow, seven seconds. My hand fetched an arrow as I was calculating the angles for a well aimed shot, four seconds. I targeted my enemies and found a pin-point way to disarm all of them, two seconds. Last second, I release.
My arrow hits the edge of a tree, bounced off and disarmed a huntress. By the time it happened, I already pulled out three arrows and six bows flew in the air, meaning one arrow hits two bows, I uh, think. They were too stunned to react quickly enough, and when they did, my arrow was already pointing to the second-in-command's throat.
"You got lucky, filthy scoundrel, slay me and hunt here."
"Listen lady, I don't kill other human beings just because I dislike them, so can you please leave?"
They looked at me with the toughest eyes I have ever seen. Have to give them credit for that.
"Next time we meet, you're going down."
"We'll see."
Just like that, something bright in the air came straight to us, glowing silver and funny-looking moose. Soon, it landed near us and out came probably this so called Armewis or something like that. With her came the actual commander, making the sore loser third-in-command.
"What are you doing with the vermin?" She asked ever so politely. What is with these chicks?
"Lady Artemis, we found the scoundrel in this area of the woods, what do we do with him?"
"Yeah, right after I beat them with a handicap of six."
"You beat my sisters? That's impossible!" Elite number two said.
"Lori. Is this true?"
Lori sighed
"Yes, but he got extremely lucky an-."
"Luck had nothing to do with it." I said before I could stop myself.
They all stared at me, again.
"Look, I defeated your hunters big whoop, just take it and leave it."
"Don't you dare talk to Lady Artemis like that!"
"Actually, I was talking to all of you but whatever, same thing."
I heard a steaming noise behind me. I turn and saw my beautiful dish cooked to perfection and would blow any second. And then I started to feel hungry, very hungry.
I ran to the pan and took a bottle of water out of my knapsack, which I have, took out the pan and meat from the fire and put out the fire with the water bottle. I took a plate, knife and fork from my knap sack. I put the meat on the plate and stared at it in delight. It was as if every problem in the world was solved, like no hunger strikes for anyone and the world was at peace. Little miracles like that. As I should have guessed, those accursed hunters just had to ruin the freaking moment.
"What the hell are u doing?"
"Thalia, we do not address things like that."
I don't like Thalia, and I don't like being called a thing.
"Will you people shut up and let me have my amazing than ordinary deer meet!"
I took a bite and began humming a tune of satisfaction.
"Is that good?" Asked one of the hunters.
"Pfft, better than good, glorious."
"Can I have some?" Said the same hunter.
I raised my right eyebrow.
"Sure, but just a piece."
I gave it to the girl while everyone watched. I think I saw someone mutter, "lucky".
Right at the exact time she put it in her mouth, she had a case of the D.B.R (delicious beyond reckoning).
She grabbed my hands, which made the huntresses gasp, and she said, "thank you so very much." She let go and danced around a little bit. I guess I found their grouchy problem….
Everyone kept their eyes on me then, taking a really close look. Uh-oh.
"Lady Artemis?"
"Yes?"
"I think we have found a suitable chef."
"Indeed."
And from that point on, I would always hate deer, for the rest of my life…