Chapter 4, huntresses
I felt The girl with silver eyes pick me up. she was about twelve or thirteen now that I got a better look at her." Get moving boy she", She said as harsh as her other huntress.
"You know you girls have to start being a little nicer". I said right to the silver eyed ones face. I immediately regretted it because I felt a knee bash into my stomach and knock the wind out of me.
"Anymore witty comments?", the silver eyed huntress asked.
"I might have a few later", I retorted.
"Lady Artemis we have searched the campsite but have found nothing". They began to walk me to their campsite.
"Walk faster boy we don't have all night", The huntress know as Zoe said.
"Oh my god can you cut it with the boy crap its getting on my nerves". Artemis grabbed me by my shirt collar and forced me to look eye to eye with her.
"Five of my huntresses were sent on a scouting mission to track down some hell hounds near the borders of Seattle. None of them came back", Artemis said with obvious grief. I was too dumbfounded for words. " I'm…. Sorry", I said weakly.
"You should be! You killed five of are huntress not only that you have the moxie to make snark", the huntress known as Phoebe said. I didn't respond no snark no witty retorts' nothing. I was instead thinking of a way to get out of these cuffs. IHad tried to surging but the cuffs were somehow able to block electricity from leaving my body. Artemis noticed my struggling to get some electricity out of my body.
"The chains are designed to drain your powers if you try to use them so you'll only be hurting yourself when you try to use your powers boy". She was right I suddenly felt tired and my vision began to blur.
"Come on perc pull it together", I thought. We arrived at their camp soon after. It was fairly simple a few tents some fires illuminating the smell of cooked meat. "So Artemis, where are you taking me.
" You are going to have a trial at Olympus to decided whether you will be kept alive or killed. I assume you are aware of the most probable situation". I sat under a tree.
"Think Percy think if you don't find a way to get out death is bound to come. That can't happen I still have a promise to keep. I tossed my head up to the sky and looked at the stars after all it's probably going to be my last time seeing them. Wait Artemis said it blocks me from using my electricity inside my body but what about outside. I concentrated and sure enough black clouds formed. I was able to stop the streaks of red from appearing in the clouds because it would likely attract attention and Artemis or the huntresses might be aware of what I was planning." Hey Artemis come here".
"What do you want boy", Artemis spoke. Her cold silver eyes not hiding a sliver of hatred.
"I just wanted to ask you to let me go", I said with a very charismatic tone. I felt a boot kick right into my gut and almost make me puke up my fish which would be funny if it landed on her.
"Know your place boy and know it well".
"This is your last chance to let me go or else".
"Or else what", she scoffed. In that moment a bolt of black lightning came down and struck me causing Artemis to be knocked back. The force of the bolt broke the cuffs off and the second my hands were free I shot out all the power I gained from the bolt at Artemis. The bolt sent her flying only to crash into a nearby tree. She wasn't moving but I knew better. Artemis was still alive after all she was immortal. I will admit watching that sexist goddess crash into the tree was amusing and almost yelled who's the boy know. The huntresses just stood there frozen like statues to the point where you would think they saw Medusa. I then threw an electric ball at the fire causing the entire campsite to go dark. When I could no longer see the huntresses I bolted. Hearing me run the huntresses launched volleys of arrows at me. Thought most of the missed because they were still dazed by the electric grenades' explosion and the fact that they could only see me not hear me, but a few did whiz by my arm causing a decent sized cut. But nothing my resignation couldn't handle.
As the arrows flew by I had the urge to jump. I didn't know why because a lot of the arrows were above my head and would likely mean a death sentence. But I still had the urge to jump. Giving into my stupidity I jumped and the second both my feet left the ground I ascended. But I didn't stop ascending I just kept going higher and higher until I was two hundred feet above ground. I was in no mood to celebrate though. The huntresses were still after me and I had to bolt. I took one last look at the forest and flew to gods know where. It took me about two hours of flying until I got out of the forest and found a highway. It was at that point I decided that I had lost the huntresses. I looked down to see the few cars on the lonely highway. I was so high up the cars appeared as ants. I was afraid of heights since I was a kid but I strangely also wanted to fly too. Normally I would have either ascended for joy or cried but I didn't have the energy right now. I descended until I was able to read a highway sign. Spokane three miles away the sign read. Spokane is the second largest city in Washington with a population of 200,000. Since it was the closest place it would probably be a good idea to head there. When I began to fly I realized that Iwasn't really flying. It was more like I was controlling the winds. I also realized how fast I was going; I was going at least sixty miles. It took me about three minutes to get to Spokane and I was greeted by an incredible figure of lights. The buildings were shining with a bright light illuminating what seemed to be the entire world.
