Chapter 10: The Spear of Bendis

[JAMIE]

She was beautiful.

She sat on a boulder combing her long black hair as Jamie approached. it covered her entire body all the way down to her feet.

"Mom?" he asked.

The girl giggled. "No Jamie, I'm not your mother."

Jamie started to get really worried. He had forgotten to bring any weapons from camp, and was defenseless. "But in my dream you.." Then he remembered, when he asked her if she was his mom, all she did was giggle.

"Well, if you're not my mom, what are you?"

Ripples shook through the girl's long black hair as she raised her arms, laughing maniacally.

" My name is Parthenope" Her hair flew back revealing her body. It was covered in dark feathers. Her feet were talons. The only thing human about her was her face.

It was a siren.

Every nerve in his body told Jamie to run. He ran. He ran pouring every amount of strength into getting as far as possible from the Siren.

The siren leapt up from the rock and dove toward him.

Jamie dived into the moon dust. The Siren's talons missing his back by mere inches. It screamed in fury.

Jamie spotted a glint of sunlight only a few feet away. He hoped it was something useful, scrambling to reach it as the Siren made a second approach.

He grabbed it and turned over on his back, his eyes closed, pointing it the siren. Nothing happened. Jamie opened his eyes, and cursed in ancient greek.

It was a flashlight.

The Siren hung there above him, unsure at what he thought he was doing. What kind of weapon was a flashlight? Jamie clicked the button turning the light on.

A spear of silver light issued forth, piercing the Siren, who dissolved into a fine golden dust.

It was over. Jamie clicked the flashlight off and looked at the brand name: Bendis. Then he remembered, Bendis was another aspect of Artemis. She carried two lances of light. One being the golden light reflected from the sun, and the other being silver moonlight.

"Jamie!" a voice yelled from behind him.

It was Tess, but she was dressed differently. She was wearing a wolf fur cloak and was dressing in entirely different clothes.

"Tess?" Then Jamie noticed another girl ran behind her. This girl needed no introduction.

"Hi mom."

"What happened?" Tess asked.

"It was a siren. What about you?"

"I'm a hunter now. Your mom wants me to remain at the camp so you can have some company and some protection." Tess answered.

Artemis caught up to the group. It was strange for Jamie, seeing his mom look younger than he did.

"Is that what I think it is?" Artemis asked, pointing to the flashlight/spear. Jamie handed it to her. "I haven't seen the Spear of Moonlight since decades ago, during the Apollo XIV mission."

"Wow" Jamie thought. "It's been up here all that time. I wonder if I'd be able to find those golf balls too."

Artemis handed the spear back to Jamie. "Here, you've earned this."

EPILOGUE

Jamie lay in his bunk in Cabin Eight. Tess was asleep on the other side of the cabin, snoring.

He looked at the symbol of his first quest on his camper necklace. It showing a crescent moon behind a spear, making it look like a bow and arrow.

He looked out the window and saw the moon rising from the forest, and gently eased into sleep as the first rays of moonlight touched the cabin floor.

Meanwhile... Apollo's Palace

"I can't believe my sister actually picked HIM!"

"He's dead. I'm going to kill him. Nobody, and I mean nobody, messes with my little sister."

TO BE CONTINUED...

IN THE NEXT PART OF THE STORY: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

A/N:

Well, that's been fun... Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I had writing it.

So what did you guys think about how I connected it to the Apollo missions. On Apollo 14 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon, but the other guy also made a makeshift Javelin/Spear. That spear is what I based on becoming the Spear of Bendis.

The saga is far from over. Tess has been made into a hunter & Jamie now has a super-cool weapon. But now that Apollo's found out that Jamie is linked to Orion, it cannot be good.

For the Next part I promise to show a little bit of a relationship between Jamie and Artemis blossoming.

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