Chapter 4


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Definitions

Ichor – Blood of the gods, in this story, when you become a huntress/hunter, your blood becomes half ichor and half human, and Gods (obviously) have full ichor blood.

Poseidon – God of the sea, said to reign an army of monsters under the sea (in this story, I made them Cyclopes)

Scalia (pronounced: Scale-Lia) – Elder sister of the sea monster Scylla, who was notorious in Greek mythology as one of the most dangerous sea monsters (this one is a child of my imagination) Physical appearance: kind of like Godzilla

Centaur blood – Blood from a mythical creature (half horse, half man) that is highly poisonous, in the myths, this is what killed Hercules (strongest man on earth, demigod, son of Zeus)


**3 weeks later**

Elsa Arendale raced on her Pegasus across the sky with her hair in a fishtail swimming behind her as she soared through the air. This was the only time she felt truly happy and free. She swerved around on her horse and pulled out her bow and arrow. For a little bit of target practice, she did a dive and sent the arrow flowing into an apple tree she saw.

She pulled up from the dive and ran up to the apple tree to see her shot.

"Perfect…" she murmured to herself. The arrow pierced through a single apple at dead centre, so perfectly that she sees one of the apple seeds on the ground, knocked cleanly out of the core by her arrow.

She took her arrow away from the apple and took a bite. The huntress then got up on one of the branches and sat there, in her own separate peace. Elsa sighed. She loved the gardens of her castle, there were nymphs that tended to her needs, there were waters clearer than the cleanest cut diamond, and mountains that reached further than her hawk-eyes did.

It was a good place to think. Her mind wandered to three weeks ago, during the winter solstice, when she was kidnapped by the Hunter Hans, after insulting his ugly face. She was picked up and dragged in the middle of the night, from her own camp. She looked into the security afterwards, but many of their best huntresses had said that Megara lead them on a nature hike, and the other huntresses were asleep at that hour.

She would have been doomed if not for the other hunter, the Head of hunt for the Hunters, to be exact. Jack Frost, the legendary Hunter, and stepped up and stood up for her, and even healed her afterwards, and not once making a snarky remark about her.

It was strange to her, but she had found peace in the presence of the boy. In her world of girls, there was a lot of competition and drama (heck if you put 200 girls together to live forever, you'll get some interesting results). With Jack, it seemed to click, and it just seemed so peaceful and quiet with him, as if the world suddenly stopped. Elsa silently scolded herself for ending the conversation so abruptly. Maybe she could've gotten some information out of the boy… so many maybes. Suddenly, she felt someone appariate behind her, and soon a shrill voice broke her quiet comfort

"Well, well, look at what the useless one is doing now. Sitting on a tree as her commandeers are outside ready for her" Elsa sighed and looked behind to see Megara's usual self.

"Well Megara, if you told me, then you would have no need to come here, I was practicing you know" Elsa replied, as gently as she could.

Megara only rolled her eyes as she filled in her Head. "So, Lightning Head contacted Artemis about some monster on some mountain, Artemis wants me to get you, blah, blah, blah" Megara said, waving around her arm.

Elsa tisk-tisked under her breath, no one disrespected the King of the Gods, she half expected lightning to strike Megara then and there, but there wasn't (To Elsa's great disappointment). Elsa quickly dismissed the thought and walked into one of the rooms of her grand castle (a perk for being the Head of Hunt)

She walked into the Court of her Castle, and there, in silver robes and a bow and arrow was her teacher and friend, the Lady Artemis herself. Artemis wasted no time and shooed Megara away as she turned to Elsa.

"Elsa, there has been a rather large disturbance in the Pacific Ocean. One of the great monsters of the ocean, Scalia has risen again from the waters. Poseidon is out there fighting himself, but this is the elder sister of the already terrible sea monster Scylla, they're going to need all the help they can get"

Elsa nodded quickly, a quick hunting mission isn't so hard, even the elder siblings of one of the most feared sea monsters was no match for a band of 200 eternal maidens.

Artemis seemed to disagree. "Elsa, since the monster is so powerful, Zeus has ordered backup as well, and my brother Apollo jumped in to help. Elsa, the Hunters of Apollo are going to be there for this mission as well.

Great.

That was the single thought in Elsa's mind as she remembered what has happened to her during the Winter solstice, when she last saw them

Just great.

Artemis noticed no difference in how Elsa was acting, and she continued to list off the list of rules the Huntresses followed whenever they were forced to work with boys.

"Remember, no standing within a metre of them, do not share arrows, do not go into their campground, and try not to talk to them, I've lost enough decent huntresses to those pests" Artemis said, most likely reminiscing about Zoella, before she turned her back to the Huntresses.

Elsa nodded and bowed to Artemis, before grabbing her royal purple cape and her armour and left.

-OOO-

When the Huntresses arrived where Scalia was, they were the last ones to join the party. Poseidon and his Cyclops army already were hard at work battling near the gigantic monster's feet, and the Hunters of Apollo were hear its head, trying to attract its eye. Both parties did little damage to the beast, and Scalia looked more annoyed than hurt.

Elsa saw their losing battle. "Alright girls, thirty of you go help the Cyclopes, Phoebe, please lead them" a short girl with brown hair gave Elsa a small salute and took the girls, with arrows raised, towards the beast.

Elsa looked around, trying to strategically place her girls "Clarisse, take your girls to the back of the beast, and attack from behind, aim for the underarms"

Clarisse, a tall blonde took a group of girls and ran over to the monster, with swords and arrows raised.

"Megara, take a few girls with you and attack the back of its head, specifically the ears and its neck, and the rest of you follow me, we're going to target his face and eyes"

All of the girls nodded, including Megara, who had a smug expression as he and her girls went to their positions. Elsa gave a silent prayer to Artemis and took out her arrows and ran into the battle with the rest of her girls.

-OOO-

The fighting was brutal, the monster was like a building of titanium, with spears, bullets, and arrows barely piercing his skin. Elsa looked around at the damage. Dozens of fallen Cyclopes were being tended by water nymphs, and Apollo's Hunters were by a rock, chanting healing poems and to heal themselves instantaneously. The Huntresses, to Elsa's delight, didn't have a healing camp since none of them were injured yet.

Elsa turned her attention back to the battle at hand and saw the monster swat at a Pegasus in annoyance. An idea popped into her brain.

"Elisa, come here!" she gestured at one of the huntresses riding a Pegasus.

"Elisa, do you mind flying over there and getting the monster to swat you?"

Elisa nodded with a happy nod, proud that the Head was asking her to do a favour. Elisa quickly flew over to Scalia, and Scalia, recognizing the Pegasus, roared in annoyance as she used her hands/paws to swat at the girl and her horse, as if she was a fly.

Elsa reared her bow. She notched an arrow and aimed it at Scalia's eye, which was undefended since both arms were trying to reach Elisa, who was making circles around the monster's head. She followed her target for a while, and let the arrow go. It penetrated Scalia's sea – green eye perfectly, and made her cry in pain.

Scalia moved her head, and at that fateful moment, a spear aimed to the back of Scalia's head misdirected and shot directly at Elsa. Elsa's eyes widened in a second of realization before the spear entered her stomach. Elsa's last look was Scalia falling before she blacked out.

-OOO-

Elsa opened her eyes to be greeted by a crowd of nervous on-looking huntresses. Their best healer, Aphorise, daughter of Apollo, was gingerly looking at Elsa's wound. Elsa looked up onto the ceiling, blandly, and tried to ignore the stabbing pains on her side

"Aphorise, is there anything you can do?" Someone on the left of her asks. Elsa turns her head to see Elisa, the girl that distracted the monster so she could shoot her game-changing arrow.

Aphorise's eyes shot venom at the crowd of Huntresses. "Whoever threw that spear, it was laced with centaur's blood –" the crowd of girls gasped. Their Head of Hunt may not be getting any better anytime soon.

"Someone call out Artemis, She is in serious danger" was Aphorise's final words

-OOO-

It took five minutes flat for Artemis to arrive to the Huntress's makeshift camp in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Artemis demanded no questions from the girls but shot over to Elsa's side. Elsa's forehead was sweating and clammy and her body shook with tremors.

"Who did this?" she cried out, voice booming throughout the medical tent. She took the spear that has been extracted out of Elsa's body and held it

"This spear belonged to a Huntress; I want to know who attempted to kill our Head of Hunt"

Artemis raised the spear into the sky, and everyone looked at it. There was a split second of silence until a voice came from the crowd.

"Oh that's my spear, I don't know what that wretched Elsa was doing with my spear, if she tried to steal it, I will kill her" Said Megara, plucking the spear from Artemis's arm and disdainfully looked at it, as if searching for scratches.

Artemis's eyes flashed with anger, but kept her composure. She narrowed her eyes at Megara and spat out "If you were not protected my your mother's dying oath, you would have been kicked out long ago"

Megara's eyes had a victorious glint on it, and she took the spear and spun on her heel, giving her back to Artemis. Artemis didn't notice that however, she ran to Elsa's dying side, and placed her hand on her forehead, brow furrowing.

Elisa gingerly followed behind "Lady, can you cure her from this?"

Artemis sighed "I may not, neither can you girls. You see, to cure another, blood has to match. What is running in my veins is pure ichor, and if I give it to her, her body will not accept it. You girls have half ichor, and half human blood, but Elsa, she has 3 quarters ichor and a quarter human blood. None of us can cure her"

Elisa's eyes were brimming with tears "Is she gone?" she whispered, trying to accept the fact that their immortal Head of Hunt, after taking down an ancient sea creature, was to be taken down herself by a pathetic poisoned spear.

Artemis's hand gently touched Elsa's cheek, causing Elsa to gently stir. Artemis's eyes suddenly widened and she sprang up so fast that she almost knocked over the cot that Elsa was sleeping on. "The Hunters, they have a man who shares blood type with Elsa Arendale, his name is Jack Frost"

Elisa rushed to her feet after the Goddess. "I'll get him myself"

Artemis looked at her with pleading eyes "Please hurry, I can't bear to lose two of my best huntresses in less than a century"


HEY! Hope you liked it! DAMN IT MEGARA, THROWING THAT STUPID SPEAR! If I made any mistakes in my Greek references, please point it out. I hope you like where the story is going, Jack is finally coming again (this time in better circumstances) to help Elsa. Another note, I usually hate skipping time periods, because you miss a lot of the story, but I thought it was necessary here… hope you agree with me.

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