The hunters had been together for decades and were as close as sisters as possible. They always had each others backs and have never disappointed each other yet. Together they were almost unbeatable, a couple of centuries of training does help, and if anyone dared to challenge them, they would end up with their butt kicked. Now on with the story.
Claire's POV
The call was unexpected and almost unreal. Lady Artemis would only tell us so much though, making it almost unreal. From what I heard Chiron had Iris messaged Lady Artemis asking for help. She agreed and off they went. But now sitting on Apollo's sun bus, as far away from him as possible, I knew there was more to the story, much, much more.
But before I get into that, let me introduce myself. I'm Claire Eiffel. I'm a hunter in Lady Artemis's hunt if you haven't already guessed that. The other hunters and I were thinking of reasons why Chiron had Iris messaged Lady Artemis.
"Maybe they think they can finally beat us in capture the flag." Jaycee sayed with a grin. She was a daughter of Athena and always up for a good fight.
"As if that would ever happen!" Sophia said. She was one of the first people to join Lady Artemis's hunt and had been around for every victory in Capture the flag, and there had been a lot of them.
Our conversation ended as the bus jerked to a stop, we had made it to camp half-blood. Lady Artemis stood up and told us that she was going to see Chiron and we were to go to the Artemis cabin and get settled in. We gathered are possessions from the bottom of the bus refusing all of Apollo's offers to help us. We walked to the cabin and I just put my hunting bag on the bed closest to the door when the horn for dinner sounded.
"Dinner, already? It's only 5:00." Lily said checking her watch.
"That is a bit strange, maybe its a meeting" I replied.
We walked out of the cabin and to the mess hall where the rest of the campers had already gathered. We took are seats at the long table reserved for the hunt. Chiron was standing up front clapping his hands to quiet everyone down. There were a lot of grumbles coming from the campers about Chiron's ways to get them to be quiet.
"I have an announcement to make! As most of you have noticed the hunters have joined us and as most of you know Uranus is rising." My jaw dropped. This couldn't be true it was probably just a prank to throw us off for capture the flag, but then again Artemis took us here and she wouldn't have tried to trick us.
"If you haven't heard that 'he' was rising, it might come as a surprise to you but nonetheless, it is true." Chiron continued, "also please do not say 'his' name but say 'he or 'him' instead. That is all I have to say so enjoy you meal and report to your cabins immediately for there will be no capture the flag this evening" Moans and grumbles went through the crowd as Chiron sat down.
"No capture the flag!' Sarah said. Sarah was blind but was one of are best fighters.
"Sarah, for some reason I don't think that's are biggest problem." Keira teased.
"So now we know why were here so now why are we here early? When...Kronos rose," Sophia said, said Krono's name hesitantly, "we were only called to help the campers during the actually fight and we came on will. So why is it so different now?"
After we had ate dinner Artemis had shuffled us in our cabin and started the fire. She told us we could go out to the campfire if we wanted to but we should unpack first. After that she went to join Mr. D and Chiron in the big house. The hunters and I started to unpack my putting our blankets and pillows on our bunk beds and throwing our bags under the bottom bunks.
After that we went to the campfire until Artemis called us to our cabin. She said she had to tell us something. I jumped up from my seat and speed walked towards the Artemis cabin, anxious to hear what Artemis had to tell us. I went into the bathroom and throw on an old T-shirt and yoga pants. When everyone else was ready we sat on our beds and waited for Artemis to start.
"Okay girls all I have to tell you is that Uranus is rising incase you didn't belive it when Chiron said he was. Also tomorrow we will me leaving to hunt down a monster that Chiron has informed me of. That is all." Artemis finished and turned off the lights. I didn't think it was even night yet until I look at my watch, it said 10:08. Well I do supposed we stayed at the campfire for awhile. I then rolled over and fell asleep.
I woke up to the scramble of Keria. She was up with the sunrise and was putting her frizzy red hair in a high pony tail. It looked more like a squirrel tail to be honest though. I took my arm out of my sleeping bag and unzipped my sleeping bag. The cool air rushed towards me and made me shiver. I grabbed a pair of dark jeans a silver T-shirt and my combat boots. I took them to the bathroom with me to take a shower.
After I was showered and changed I braided my brown hair, expertly controlling the strands of hair. When I was done I flipped it over my shoulder and packed my bag. I had just finished when I heard a knock coming from under my bed.
Update sucsessful! Happy Sunday everyone!
