Part 1. Chapter 3.
You know, they'd probably act the same way if I just died
Artemis didn't seem too happy about the plans I had made behind her back. I told her I wanted to take a month vacation, to take a cruise to Greece and then come back in about two months. She sent me outside to think more about what I had said. I looked up and smiled as I spotted Zoë in the sky in like, under two seconds.
I then heard a whimpering behind me as a silvery wolf made her way beside me, resting her head in my lap as I sat on the edge of the cliff. I placed my hand upon my pet's head. "I'm sorry, Phoena, but if I'm going to live happily beside Artemis, I might as well learn more about myself," I smiled at her and kissed her head.
"Thalia! Thalia!" I turned to the sound of my name, seeing Katie running at full speed towards me. The two of us were best friends, I guess the saying 'opposites attract' really was true. Katie was a hyper-active girl and seemed to never run out of energy. She wanted to be a director when she grew up, but her parents started to treat her badly, and she was sent to a foster home, and thousands of parents tried to treat her right, but it was never her. She started to fail in school, and dumped school and ran away. I met her later that night in the forest, crying, so I brought her to Artemis where she became an immortal huntress. Katie had dark brown hair which was up in a ponytail and green eyes that shined often whenever she was happy.
Katie's eyes didn't glitter with happiness, she sat down beside me and Phoena, "I heard that you're leaving," she said unhappily. Looking at me, as though hoping I would tell her it was just a rumor.
"I'm not leaving, I'm taking a vacation," I laughed. Katie was very gullible, if you told her that the little plastic men in the board game Risk were real men that were being punished for eating asparagus or something stupid like that, she would completely believe you. I placed my hand on her closer shoulder and smiled at the younger 13-year-old girl. "I wouldn't leave you behind if I was quitting. But I do have to leave you behind, just for now,"
She sighed, "But…who will I talk to?" then, Phoena barked, and Katie hugged the silver wolf. Phoena and Katie were pretty well best friends. Then her frown turned to a smile as Phoena started to lick her face.
"Phoena was really upset I was leaving too, you can watch her while I'm gone, if you'd like,"
"Of course I will, Thalia. I promise I'll take care of her,"
I stood up and made my way towards Artemis's tent stood tall and proudly in the middle of camp. I opened the door and walked in. Artemis sat on her bench and looked up at me, "I've made my decision. But instead of two months, you will take a cruise there, which will take approximately a week. Stay in Greece for only two weeks, and come back on another cruise. Alright?"
I smiled and nodded, "That's fair enough. Thank you, Lady Artemis,"
"My brother will be coming by soon, he will take you to a bus stop, and you can go to the port from there," she smiled at me and gave me a hug goodbye before I packed up the few things I had. Artemis gave me some regular clothes, which I changed into quickly.
The sunrise made it's way quickly. We all turned as Apollo parked his new convertible and got out of the car. I picked up my stuff and hugged Katie and Artemis, kissing Phoena on the top of the head, "I expect you to treat Katie well, make sure she stays out of trouble for me," I whispered to her. She howled in promise as I sat in the passenger seat of Apollo's sun car, in which we set off west.
It was a silent ride. No one spoke, the radio didn't go on, but Apollo landed, said good luck to me and left me alone at the bus station.
I opened up my bag and found a note, While you are gone, Katie shall be my temporary lieutenant, I gave you a couple things for entertainment. I stored you one of those IPod thingies and stored all of your favorite songs of it, Katie informed me of what you liked. I shall sent you random notes to keep you updated on where and what we are doing. Have fun, Artemis. I placed the note back in my bag and pulled out a black IPod and listened to a single song before a bus pulled up.
Now, I'll be saying it in the next chapter too. I had a little incident with my chapter numbering. Before, I wrote this story on a little pad of paper and had the chapters in order, then I wrote it on the computer and messed it up. :)
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-Dj
