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Tina just won't shut up, will she?

"Alex! So what is his name? Is he mean? I bet he's mean! All boys are mean-"

"Tina!" I yell at her.

"What?" She innocently looks at me.

"Shut up." Hey, I'm doing everyone a favor.

"Ladies!" Artemis holds up her hands. "We have another monster to hunt. And I think that Alex should have the honor of killing it. Agreed?"

Everyone nods. Except me. I don't want to kill a monster, that Justin's job! He's the monster hunter! And what if it kills me first?

"Oh Alex, you're so lucky!" Tina shakes my arm. Ew.

"What monster am I killing exactly? A mummy? Cuz those are easy to turn to dust!"

"No, Iris told me that it is a terrible beast. But she didn't say what it was…" Artemis turns toward the woods scratching her head.

"Iris?" I wonder aloud.

"The goddess of the rainbow!" Tina (duh) shrieks.

"Riiiiiiiiiiiight…" I roll my eyes.

"No really," she pouts.

I sigh and follow the other Hunters out of the castle. This is it! I get to start a whole new life!

Artemis walks out of the woods again. "Ales," she calls to me. "Here." She hands me a white ski jacket. "To keep you warm now that you're one of us." I happily slip it on.

Everyone makes their way through the thick forest.

"Where are we going?" I whisper.

"To hunt the monster, duh!" Tina tugs on my sleeve again.

"Uh-huh." I nod and keep following the group.


I groan and roll over in my sleeping bag. The wind howls outside of the tent.

OK, so maybe this isn't as much fun as I thought it would be. I need to talk to Harper. I whip out my wand and flash into the basement.

"Harper!" I loudly whisper.

"Who's there? Jeremy from Science?" my best friend bolts upright.

"No. It's Alex." I pause. "He's a goblin, remember?"

"So?" Harper climbs out of bed and stares at me.

"Never mind. So anyways, I'm not going to really be around anymore."

"WHAT?"

"Harper be quiet! Nobody else knows I'm here!"

"What do you mean you're not going to be around much anymore?"

"Look, my break-up with…him…has been really hard on me. So I went back to the castle in Transylvania and met these…girls… Well…"

"Well what? I mean, it's not like they can be a group of vampires or Hunters or something." She sees the look on my face. "Right?"

"They're Hunters of Artemis. Yeah, weird, I know. But they understand what I'm going through. And… I joined them." Oh great, Harper's going to kill me.

She just nods.

"So? What are you thinking?" Maybe I killed her. Oh no.

"Well," she paces around the room, "I can't blame you. I just hope that you're doing the right thing. Will you come back?"

"Of course I'll come back! I'm a wizard, it's kinda easy to randomly pop into places."

"Right." Harper smiles and hugs me.

I am doing the right thing, right?