The 12 chapter is here.

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Chapter 12. Into the West

Diana woke up the next day still feeling sore. Rubbing her eyes, she slowly got out of her bed and stretched. She then walked towards her mirror and saw that she was still in her clothes from yesterday. Sighing she walked towards her bathroom to get ready for the day.

After a long shower, she came out with a towel covering her modesty and started to dress up in her normal clothes consisting of black jeans and violet, short-sleeved shirt. She checked herself one more time in a mirror and with a nod, she went out from her room.

Entering kitchen, she saw Alya already sitting by the table eating breakfast, nodding to her, she prepared herself something to eat and sat down on the opposite side of the table.

Alya finishes her piece of the food looked up at Diana and asked, "Sooo, any plans for today?"

Diana thought for a second and just when she wanted to answer a brown owl came through the window and landed next to Diana. Lifting an eyebrow Diana quickly took the letter attached to the owl's leg and opened it.

Miss Black

I have considered your request and would like to meet with you today to discuss this matter. When you came to the bank just tell the teller that you have an appointment with me.

Ragnok, the president of Gringotts bank

Alya looked at her curiously and questioned again, "Something interesting?"

Diana came out of her thoughts and replied, "Yeah... I need to go to Gringotts today and talk with Ragnok. If everything goes well then we will have a way to investigate our demon problem."

Alya raised her eyebrow, "And how are they supposed to help us?"

Diana smirked at her, "Now, now I will tell you when I am sure this will work, for now let's not get our hopes up."

Alya pouted a little but then quickly smiled, "Alright, but don't keep me in the dark for too long or you will regret it."

Diana waved her hands, "Don't worry, when I come back, I will tell you everything. Now let me finish my food so I can go and get ready for the meeting."

Alya nodded and both girls went back to their food. After finishing, they went to their rooms where Diana took one of her robes to wear over her normal clothes and then went to her father's study to inform him that she is going out.

10 minutes later, Diagon Alley

Getting through the big doors of Gringotts, Diana walked towards one of the tellers who was free at the moment and asked, "Good day Master Goblin, I have an appointment with Ragnok."

The goblin looked up from whatever he was reading and answered, "Name?"

Diana kept her expressionless face and replied, "Diana Rose Black."

The teller looked through some papers before finally choosing one and reading it, "Yes from what can I see our President is waiting for you, please follow me."

He got out from his counter and lead her through the doors behind him. They walked in silence for about 5 minutes and then they finally came to their destination. Going through the golden doors covered with vast numbers of runes that Diana for her life could not recognize, she went through this time alone and walked into a room with marble walls on which you could see big numbers of all kinds of weapons hanging. She lifted an eyebrow at that, but didn't say anything.

In the center of the room stood a single work table and by it sat Ragnok who Diana already meet a few years ago. She quickly sat down on one of the chairs on the opposite side from the president and exchanged greetings with the goblin.

"Your letter was quite short and didn't tell me much so if you could tell me now what did you decide?" Diana quickly went straight to the point of the meeting as there is no reason to waste any more time.

"Yes, I read through your first letter and was quite surprised at your request. Now I am not telling you that I can't do anything but doing this legally would take a lot of time and from your letter I concluded that you want it done fast." replied Ragnok while searching through some papers.

"You are right, it would be best if I could do this during this summer so if there is a way I am willing to pay for it," Diana answered with stoic expressions but on the inside she was quite nervous, if this won't work they will need to utilize her power in large scale and that is a big no no if they want to stay under the radar.

"If you could explain to me why you need it so much then I will be able to make my decision easier, remember I already told you during our first meeting that goblin nation is friendly towards hunters and we respect you greatly."

Diana sighed and began explaining, "You see, me and Alya noticed that for more than a year the number of low ranked demons decreased without any reason while attacks from c-ranks almost stopped but they are still there. That's why we decided that we need to check other parts of the world to see if it is happening there too."

Ragnok thought this through and frowned, "Yes, this is quite disconcerting, while we don't really keep track on the demons as they mostly stay away from magical community it is still something that shouldn't be left alone. But first let me ask you, did you try finding another hunter? I am pretty sure that there is not even a hundred of you anymore and most of them do not fight anymore, but still it might be a work of some older hunter or even a newer one."

Diana shook her head, "We tried sensing for different kinds of energy, but there is nothing so the hunter is either really good or we are back to square one. So what it will be can you help us?"

Ragnok nodded, "Yes, I can organize transport via Portkey for one person and I repeat only one person as taking more than one would show it on American sensing radars so only you or your friend can go. Apart from that there is one more thing that I would like to inform you of."

Diana while not pleased that only one person can go still decided that it is better than nothing. Hearing Ragnok last sentence she looked at him questioningly.

"You see, while the wizarding world doesn't know about this there is the second community in the magical world. We just call it the Underworld as that's what it really is. Most of the magical countries don't like most of the creatures and they take all their rights making their lives harder. That is why a really long time ago most of the races came together and created a new community for all of the magical creatures. Every race has their own leaders that then sit in the Underworld council. The Underworld managed to create their own magical districts where they all can be free without the predustice. I am telling you about it because Hunters helped to create it and even now from what I know some old hunters still live there so if you want some information about demons this would be a good place to look. Just remember that the whole community is a secret and if you give it away the whole Underworld will be hunting you."

To say that Diana was surprised would be an understatement, quickly getting a hold of herself, she asked, "I really shouldn't be surprised, most of the magical races are managed too good for them to be independent, they always look more organized than the whole wizarding world. Anyway, if you could send me more information about it later I would be most grateful."

Ragnok nodded, "It won't be a problem Huntress, just be careful with it and be sure that no one other than you see them."

Diana could agree with that, "Of course, I would not dare to destroy something that my ancestors helped to build... Now when can I expect the protkey to be ready, I need to talk with my family first and check a few things before going."

Ragnok quickly waved his hand and another goblin quickly came through the door. He and the president talked for a minute in their mother tongue and when they finished the new goblin walked out and Ragnok turned back to Diana, "We can have it ready in about 4 hours."

Diana nodded and then stood up, "Thank you again Ragnok for helping with this. It will make things a lot faster and me and Alya will probably check the Underworld later in the 3rd year as this is something that we can do during the school year."

Ragnok also stood up and then lead Diana back to the main hall, "No problem Huntress, as I told you earlier, we will help you as much as we can."

Diana nodded, "Then I will be back in a few hours.. Oh, and before I forget, during the last few years I managed to gather some money and I would like to open a vault later."

Ragnok grinned when he heard about money, "Of course we will take care of it after you come back from the States."

With that Diana went out from Gringotts and after finding an empty alley, she used shadow travel to get back to Black Manor."

One hour later, Black Manor, living room

The whole Black family, minus Regulus, who was sleeping, was sitting in the living room waiting for Diana to tell them why she called them all here. When she saw that all of her family is comfortable she began, "Like Alya already knows we are investigating why the number of demons is decreasing. Because of that, we tried a few methods to try and find the reason for it but we never got anything. That's why I contacted Ragnok for help," she paused for a moment to see if her parents expressions changed, but was glad that they didn't interrupt her, "We know that staying in England won't help us in the long run and that is why I asked the President to see if he can organize some method to travel to some country that is far from here. Now I know that I could just ask you and we would be able to go somewhere on vacation, but if I did that then they would know that we are in their country and that is something that I don't want."

Alya decided to speak up before their parents start an argument about that, "So can he do this or not?"

Diana remained stoic and replied, "Yes, he can organize Portkey to America in a few hours, but there is a catch."

Sirius while not liking the idea of letting her daughters go to foreign country know that there is no use in trying to talk them out of it so he decided to just calmly ask, "And what would it be?"

Diana frowned, "Taking under consideration that I am already quite powerful and have a lot of energy, I will need to go alone because if I take anybody else with me we will be risking detection by American Ministry."

Alya hearing that quickly tried to think about anything that could help them in this situation, "Alright, so the Portkey can only take one person, but what if you after getting there shadow traveled back here and took me with you, it should work."

Now everybody turned back to Diana as she thought about it, "While it is possible that it would work, there is also a chance that I might not be able to travel such long distance as I don't have any practice with it."

"What about any other form of transportation?" asked Emily.

Diana shook her head, "Nope, I already thought about it. Every Muggle and magical transport would be discovered by American Ministry and I don't need them on my ass the whole time that I am there. And while we could try to flash step through the whole ocean it would be too time consuming, plus we are risking running out of energy in the middle of the ocean. At least now we know to check how far does the shadow travel reach," she finished with a weak chuckle.

Alya sighed, while she did not want Diana to go alone, she knows that it is their only chance for now, "Alright, so when are you going?"

Glad that at least there won't be any problems with her friend she answered, "3 or 4 hours, I still need to get ready."

The elder Blacks looked at each other and nodded, "Ok, we won't stop you as we know that it would be futile but still remember to be careful. Now we just want to know when you will be back."

Diana remained silent for a moment, "I don't really know, I hope that it won't take me more than 2 weeks, but you could say that I will stay there maximum for three."

Sirius nodded and said, "Alright, we will wait for you then. Now better go get ready so you won't forget anything."

With that Alya and Diana stood up before going to Diana's room so she can prepare for her trip.

4 Hours later, Gringotts Bank

"Alright Huntress you asked me to bring you as close to New York as I could. I hope that you studied the map a little so you won't get lost," said Ragnok while looking at Diana. She was wearing her normal clothes with her leather jacket on but she also took with her a black cloak with a hood. But she will only put it on when she gets away from New York.

"Don't worry, I prepared myself for that and navigating through America should not be a problem," answered surely Diana, she has the map of America in the back of her mind and with Occulumency and photographic memory it won't be a problem to recall it.

"That's good... Ok, here is the Portkey," with that he handed her a normal looking golden coin, "It has a lot of enchantments so you won't be discovered when you arrive. It will activate in 5 minutes and bring you to the northern part of Harriman State Park so you will need to travel some distance to get to the heart of New York, I hope that it won't be a problem."

"Now I am even thankful that you won't drop me in the middle of the city, it will be easier to get familiar with it if I will be able to do it by myself. Now if you could tell me where is the nearest magical and Underground district so I won't run into them," she needs to know where it is safe to go and where it is not.

"The nearest magical district is in Washington so no fear about traveling through New York and the Underground one is in Detroit and it would be better if you would stay away from it at least till the time that you go to the one in England," Ragnok informed.

Diana nodded and noted in her head to avoid Detroit for now, no reason to cause trouble. Now she only needs to wait another 2 minutes and then the search will begin. "Thank you again for allowing this."

Ragnok chuckled lightly, "No problem Huntress, it is a pleasure to be able to help you. Now just remember that the Portkey will be able to bring you back only for a month. If you will need to stay longer, you will need to find your way back alone."

She nodded and then shook her hand with Ragnok, now only minute remained. She grabbed the coin tightly and waited, soon she felt the pull and with closed eyes, she felt her whole body moving with magic. After a few seconds she opened her eyes to the sight of a forest. Breathing in the scent of the forest, she quickly put her Portkey in the inventory so she won't lose it. Then she cast the most powerful masking and notice-me-not charms on herself and began to flash step in southern direction.

Black Manor, Alya's room

After Diana went to Gringotts, Alya decided to go back to her research on the transfiguration. Diana already told her that all Hunters have soul creature that can manifest itself after merging with it after 16th birthday, so Alya wants to be ready when they start training their transformations. While it is different from animagus transformation, Alya still decided to study it to get at least the image of how it can look. Other things that Alya wants to focus during the time that Diana is away are her meditation and speed.

Alya mostly prefers the long range but after the last fight she recognizes that if she doesn't create any strong shield techniques and improve her speed, then she will get stomped in a fight against a bigger number of enemies.

Just when she wanted to go back to reading the door to her room opened and in stepped Emily wearing a soft smile on her face. She walked towards Alya's bed and sat down. Alya looked at her questioningly, "Can I help you mum?"

Emily smile got a little wider, "I wanted to talk with you about something dear, so if you could please stop whatever you were doing and come sit here."

Alya gets even more curious, closed her book and went to sit next to her mother, "So what is it that you want to talk about."

"Well, I will get straight to the point. I want to talk about you and Diana," She won't beat around the bush so she continued, "me and your father noticed that you both sometimes get frustrated around each other."

A little pink came to Alya's cheeks and she quickly turned away from her mother, "I don't know what you are talking about."

Emily chuckled lightly, "Oh, I think that you know exactly what I mean. We were always wondering why you two act so close, but even after those few years you still don't see each other as sisters," a little more pink appeared on Alya's face, but Emily just ignored it and continued, " After some time we finally gave it a rest and didn't think about it too much but since last summer things started to change and I think that me and Sirius had enough amusement for now."

This last part caused Alya to go wide eyed at her mother and ask incredulously, "amusement?"

Giggling a little at her daughter's face, she replied, "Yes amusement, dear, it was really fun to watch you two walk around each other like headless chickens but we decided to help you out a little."

Alya tried to get a hold of herself and asked, "I still don't know what are you talking about."

Sighing Emily went straight to the point, "Dear it is clear as day that you two like each other more than friends or sisters, even if Diana probably don't know this. It is really sad that because of her upbringing, she will have a problem with things like that."

Alya this time blushed red and groaned, "Are we that obvious?"

Chuckling again Emily nodded, "Quite dear, now I know why Diana is not doing anything about it but what is your reason?"

Alias blushes slowly faded and then she frowned, "There are a few reasons mum. The most obvious one would be that we are both girls and wouldn't it be bad for us to be together. Another important reason is Diana herself, what if she won't want to be with me? Plus like you said earlier, Diana don't know much about those things," even though she is wondering if Diana had some Hunter dreams about taking mates.

Emily looked at her daughter for a moment before answering, "While the wizarding world doesn't have too much respect for the same sex couples, I don't think that both of you would care about it Hmmm? Plus, you don't need to worry about the House of Black as we still have Regulus."

Alya only nodded weakly, it is true even if the wizarding world won't accept them, they would not care as they won't stay in it too long in the future.

Emily sees that her daughter now know that her first reason is stupid and continued, "Now Diana is completely another case. I will talk with her too after she comes back, but even then you can help her with getting more familiar with her feelings and don't interrupt me. As I said earlier, it is clear as day that she is also attracted to you, now she only needs a little push to accept them and with your help she will be able to do it."

Sighing deeply Alya knew that her mother is right, if she wants something to happen between them, she will need to be the one initiating anything, "You are right mum, but still I don't know if I will be able to do this."

Emly brought her daughter into a hug and said softly, "Don't worry about it too much, you both are still young and you can take your time with it. Remember baby steps and with time everything will work out."

Alya hugged her mother back and murmured, "Thanks mum."

USA, Southern border of Harriman State Park

After finally getting out of the forest she came to the sight of the beginning of the city, for now it was the only residential area. She brought her phone up that showed her where she was exactly. Seeing that she was on the southwestern part of the Park, she decided to make her way quickly towards Hudson river and get on the other side of it.

Nodding to herself, she checked all her masking charms, released her gravity rune and brought her power output to the lowest so she won't get sensed by demons or any other things.

Seeing as the buildings here were not too high, Diana mostly kept to the ground and after a few minutes of careful flash stepping she was by the riverside. She then made her way towards Piermont where the distance between both river sides would be the shortest and then she utilized flash step to travel above the water before she fall into the river.

She then arrived in Irvington, from there she just needed to go straight south towards Manhattan. It took her about 10 minutes as she didn't really want to hurry too much. It is better to be careful for now so no one would be able to spot her, who knows what may reside in the city. She arrived in the Central Park next to the Delacorte Theater. There she hid herself from any sight and dropped every masking and notice me not charms, then she replied her gravity rune and corrected her clothes that got a little messy after traveling at such speeds.

She still kept her energy levels hidden as it would not do her any good to just release them like that. She will need to train keeping her energy concealed when she comes back as even now she can feel some energy leaking out. Fortunately for her only someone with good sensing abilities would be able to spot her.

Diana then went out from her hideout and started walking on the path in the direction of Bethesda Fountain. The walk took her about 15 minutes, there she took a seat on one of the benches. With that, she relaxed her posture and closed her eyes. Focusing on her energy sensing she started expanding her range slowly so no one would notice it. There were some weird signatures, but nothing special for Diana to go investigate it for now. Finally, her sensing area got to the Empire State Building, now this gave her a pause.

While the energy coming from it is not too big, the energy that is coming from above it is colossal. Now the amount of energy is not the only surprise, no, the type of energy is very similar to Diana's energy. While she is pretty sure that it doesn't have anything to do with Hunters, it is still disconcerting that something like that exist.

Sighing, she got up and made her way towards the nearest street, there she took a taxi that drove her to the building. Now that she is driving, Diana has a little time to think about the city as a whole. While she hasn't been here for too long, she can obviously say that it is impressive, the number of skyscrapers in one place is bigger than in London and the weather is better. Still, Diana would prefer to live somewhere away from such a big amount of people. She will really need to go to one of the Underground districts and try to find some information about Hunter's settlements. There must be something that her race left behind.

Shrugging, she paid the driver and got out. First so took a look around her and she can easily say that the Empire State Building is a nice sight. Getting back on the track she walked into the building and after a few minutes she was standing on the 102th floor's viewpoint. While she could feel some energy in the building itself, the result was much higher above the skyscraper. Diana really wanted to make herself invisible and start flashing herself higher in the air but quickly decided against the idea as she doesn't have enough information about the energy plus someone would be able to spot her.

Sighing again, she made her way down and took another cab and told the driver to take her to some good place with food. The driver nodded and drove away.

Two hours later Diana was sitting on the edge of one of the skyscrapers with the view of the East River along with Roosevelt Island. Again, extending her senses this time she did not even touch the Empire State Building but let them pass it. Finally, after a 20 minutes of sitting still she felt a big amount of energy that is very similar to the one from the building but this time it was coming from the ground. Another thing that she felt was a very strong barrier around the center of energy.

Rising an eyebrow, she sighed before pushing herself off the edge. Before she could even gain some speed while falling down, she disappeared in the direction of the Long Island. After a few minutes she appeared again in Port Jefferson.

There she again extended her senses and this time she noticed that instead of one big amount of energy behind the barrier, there were multiple numbers of signatures, some were strong, some weak. Apart from that while most of the signatures felt human there were also a big number of signatures that felt anything but human. Now if they had some energy similar to demons, Diana would go there and investigate, but as they were completely different, she sighed again and started to make her way back to Manhattan.

After getting back to Central Park, Diana again put every masking and notice me not charms on her, released gravity rune and started to flash herself back towards Harriman State Park. This time she was using not only a flash step, but also her pure speed to get there. Diana figured out that she can use the trip to train her ability to switch between the two movement styles so she would be more fluid in fights.

After getting to the same place that she appeared in, Diana brought out a wizarding tent from her inventory, then activated an empty ID before placing down the tent. After a shower and some food she went to bed so she can get started early tomorrow.

Next Day

Diana woke up after a good night of sleep and quickly got ready for the day. This time she put on the cloak over her clothes. She packed her tent into her inventory and destroyed the ID therefore stepping into the real dimension.

After doing that she sat cross legged and extended her senses as far as she could while keeping herself hidden. She sat there for about an hour before she opened her eyes again and sighed. She felt more of those weird energy signatures plus she also felt the kind of energy that is similar to it but also have some bad feeling to it.

Apart from that she also found some demons, the number of them left Diana surprised. While she is sure that there is a lot more C ranks around here, the number of D-classes are also high and they mostly gather in groups, but she couldn't find any E-classes. That is interesting as demons in England, mostly kept to themselves so there must be something that is making them gather. It is not the first time that Diana curses the fact that none of the demons below c rank can talk, her work would be a lot easier if she could just catch some of them and make them talk.

Putting her hood on she disabled her gravity rune, replied the charms and started to make her way towards Niagara Falls.

What? She wants to see it for herself, plus on the way there are some of the weird energy signatures and demons groups.

It took her five days to get to the city all by herself, she could be there much faster, but she didn't go too fast as she was scanning the area around constantly. On the way there she beat 4 groups of demons, They always counted around 5-7 demons per group so the fights were not too hard. Even then Diana was always fighting with her gravity runes activated and didn't use flash step so she would not get dependent on it.

She encountered demons looking like demonic versions of Raptors. Those fuckers were very fast and could send waves of spikes with their tails. In another group she saw something akin to dragons, but they had 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. Diana wondered why the fuck they are not ranked higher as it took her 2 hours to kill 6 of them and it was not easy. They could create fire on a whim without breathing it out from their mouths. It looks like even D-ranks can use some more advanced magic. Apart from their fire, they were pretty fast in the air and had more HP than the strongest tank types demons.

If she knew that it would be such a drag to fight them she would just leave them alone. And let's not even talk about the collateral damage done to environment. Diana was never more glad that she placed wards around the battlefield, but even then she spent another 2 hours repairing the damage with the magic that the hunter dreams were teaching her. Let it be know that repairing that big area with an element that she is not affiliated with was not fun.

After that battle Diana decided to leave dragon demons alone for now, at least till the time that she gets her wings.

Apart from the demon groups Diana traveled to some of the other energy signatures and let's just say that she was surprised to see a lot bigger Hellhounds that she saw when she was little. They were stronger than the E-rank demon, but not too much, they could take a hit and were a little annoying by jumping out of every shadow but a quick light spell helped with that. She encountered another group of HH and those were a little stronger, making Diana thinks that those can also grow in power.

She also saw some weird birds that after using 'observe' told her that were named Stymphalian Birds a species of monstrous pigeon-like birds. Yeah, seeing another monster from Greek myths was really getting on Diana's nerves. Now all would be good if this one time the 'observe' would tell her a little more than level and HP but no, all that it told her was that they have beaks made of celestial bronze that can tear through flesh…

Now what the fuck is celestial bronze?

To calm herself down, she slaughtered the group of 20 birds by spamming 'dance of blades'. Well, at least that was her plan as after finishing the first 5 of them the rest of the birds went into the air and started to shoot their feathers like arrows. Now Diana was getting pretty angry and she threw all the caution in the air and used a firestorm on the birds, burning them all in one attack.

Of course after that show of fireworks she needed to cast wide-area oblivate to get rid of the memory from any normal people. After she has done that, she went to check if the birds left anything behind apart from the golden dust that all the Greek monsters seem to turn into after defeating them. Luckily for Diana, two birds left behind their beaks. Now she will be able to study the metal when she comes back to England.

After that she mostly avoided the Greek monsters as the were not aggressive towards her so there is no reason for her to fight them all. Apart from hellhounds and Stymphalian Birds Diana also saw Laistrygonian Giants that were pretty strong, but Diana thinks that they would not be too big of a problem as they are slow. Another monster that she meet were Empousai. She only observed them from afar when she was in one of the cities to buy some food, but it appears that they are Greek version of vampires.

Now, though Diana is on the Goat Island in Niagara Falls. During her travel here she felt another big energy signature coming from Lake Erie so she naturally decided to check it out, but for now she came to see the sights and then she will try to expand her senses further. Just when she wanted to get some food she felt some weak energy pass near her. Narrowing her eyes, she started scanning all the people around her. After two minutes she finally found her target.

Joseph Roberts lvl.30

Joseph is a son of ? and a 5th grade student. He live a peaceful life with his mother who spoils him rotten. In the future he wants to become a doctor but for now he is happy that his mother brought him to see Niagara Falls.

Diana groaned, "Well, that's fucking helpful..." The boy seemed to be about 11 years old and had blond hair. He was wearing normal clothes and Diana really couldn't see anything special about him. And why the hell there is a question mark there. All this shit is starting to give her a headache, "why shit can't be simple at least once."

Sighing again Diana went about buying food and then tried to pinpoint the place of the energy signature and after a few minutes she walked into an empty alley and disappeared from the sight.

Two hours later Diana was standing on a beach on the Canadian side of the Lake Erie, where the distance to the energy was the shortest. Taking a deep breath Diana prepared herself for the longest travel above the water and without stopping even for a second.

Releasing her breath, she disappeared. During this travel Diana needed to be fast so she could execute flash step instantly after reappearing, in the long run it gets pretty hard as you don't have anything to put your foot on. Luckily for her after about two minutes a rocky island came in sight and Diana quickly appeared on its shore.

Now Diana knows that a lot of places are hidden in the magical community and this island for sure is not on the map and the energy coming from it is not normal energy coming from the wizard world hidden places. So here is a question why is it hidden?

Diana didn't need to wait for the answer too long as when she got a little deeper into the island she saw a dragon resting on a big rock. Now Diana studied every type of magical dragons and this is most certainly not one of them. It had the build of standard western dragon with a dark shade of blue color scales. It had long barbed tail and spikes going all the way from it's back to its head. Its claws were of the same color and probably material as the stymphalian birds and had two pairs of powerful wings.

Diana after her fight with the demon dragons was a little wary of the dragon so she decided to 'observe' it.

Sybaris lvl. 195

HP: ?

MP: ?

Sybaris was a dragon that terrorized the Greek city of Delphi. To save the city it was hurled from an overhanging rock and killed by the hero Eurybatus. Nowadays after it's reformation the dragon decided to claim a island for itself after warding it against mortals.

Diana stared wide eyed at the description and after a full minute she finally regained her senses, "Well shit, I'm out," without wasting anymore time she started to flash herself towards the American shore of the lake, there is no way in hell that she is fighting this dragon.

At least it gave her the knowledge that Greek monsters somehow reform after some time, not much but always something.

After that encounter she traveled to Cleveland and stayed there for two days while trying to find something interesting with her sensing. Just before she wanted to settle down for the night, Diana finally felt something interesting.

She doesn't really know how far from her she sensed it, but the important part is that she found it. The energy itself represents a group of about 25 signatures that are almost the same as the ones on Long Island plus they are moving.

Not even thinking about going to sleep, she put her cloak and hood on and released her gravity runes before dashing in the direction of the signatures. She traveled for almost 4 days and finally caught up to them near Kansas City.

Diana brought her energy output the lowest that she could and sneaked closer to the place that the group was camping at. They were currently in the south from the city in the woods so there is no one apart from Diana and the group here.

After finally getting close enough with every masking spell that she could think of Diana came to the site of a camp made by girls wearing white shirts, silver jackets, silvery Camo pants and black combat boots. Their ages, mostly varied from early to late teens. Diana's eye started to twitch when she saw them, "Did I just made my way through 4 states to see a group of girls scouts?"

Face palming Diana decided to at least take a closer look on them before dismissing them. When she started observing them, she breathed sigh of relief, it looks like she didn't waste her time completely. But the Hunters of Artemis thing is still questionable.

Finally, she came onto a 16 year old woman with dark brown eyes, a slightly upturned nose, copper-colored skin, and a silver circlet braided into the top of her long, dark hair. Using observe she read.

Zoë Nightshade lvl. 121 Lieutenant of Artemis

HP: 25000

MP: 30000

STR: 186

VIT: 396

DEX: 293

INT: 341

WIS: 402

Zoë Nightshade is a daughter of ?, as well as a former Hesparide who was exiled and later joined the Hunters of Artemis, becoming the loyal lieutenant of Artemis.

Diana raised her eyebrows at the stats, damn she is strong. She wanted to hear what they are talking about, but decided against it, you never know how good they are at sensing. With that Diana backed a little and decided to settle down on one of the tree branches.

Getting comfortable Diana again thought about what she read one the multiple Bio's of Hunters of Artemis. First she wonders if there is some connection between her race and those hunters. Second are the Greek gods real? While she already established that Greek mythology is partly alive, now it may be possible for all of it to be real. She still has some time before she need to go back so might as well follow them for now and try to gather more information.

That is how the next two days went by, Diana was a little surprised at the speed that the hunters were able to move as in those two days they managed to get to the west of Wilson Lake.

Just when Diana wanted to go to the nearest city to get some supplies, she heard a sound that by now she knew signalled some attack done by Hunters. Sighing, she flashed back near their camp and the sight surprised her a bit.

The Hunters were battling a big number of monsters, there were at least 15 hellhounds, maybe ten stymphalian birds and a few of laistrygonian giants. Diana knew that this battle will probably cause some casualties on the Hunters side so she decided that she might as well reveal herself. Just when she wanted to rush into the battle, she felt something that should not be here.

In the back of the battlefield she spotted two more monsters, but those were definitely not normal. Both of them had humanoid build, but the first one was covered in Hellhound's fur and even had the same tail as them while the second had claws instead of nails made of celestial bronze and the same wings like stymphalian birds coming from the back.

Not wasting anymore time she observed them.

Fused Hellhound lvl. 91 (High c-rank)

HP: 200k

MP: 20k

A High D-rank demon that fused with hellhound from greek myths. It posses all abilities of both races and is more intelligent than normal D-ranks.

Fused Stymphalian Bird lvl. 79 (low c-rank)

HP: 90k

MP: 5k

A Low D-rank demon that fused with stymphalian bird from greek myths. It posses all abilities of both races and is more intelligent than normal D-ranks.

Diana was stunned for a moment, "fused? what does it mean fused? Can every demon fuse with another creature and become stronger? is that the reason that I can't sense them?" So many questions and zero answers. Getting angry Diana released her gravity rune and before the bird could even take the skies Diana used 'Quick Attack' with wind channeled through her daggers.

Quick Attack (Active) lv.11/50 (55%)

User dash forward at blinding speed while attacking the target ONCE and reappearing behind it. This attack is easy to dodge but it's speed can be brought up with training.

100% crit chance.

Crit multiplier: 3x-6x (perks and skills don't affect it)

Cost: 1670 MP DMG: 15500 (attack can be made stronger by adding elemental power to it)

HP: 90000 - 92454 = 0

Not even giving the second demon time she dismissed her daggers and flashed next to the Helldemon. Using Bala she sends the monster flying in the rock that was behind it. Just when she wanted to punch him one more time the demon disappeared in the shadows only to appear behind Diana with a right hook aimed at her head.

She quickly dodged the attack to the right and answered with her own punch, the demon blocked it with both of his hands, but still took some damage as the Bala was still activated. It's spun around and aimed a kick at her side.

Diana answered with her own kick, but was not prepared for the wave of shadows that followed the kick. She only had enough time to use her instant shield to block some damage. She knew that she can't use too many of her abilities as she doesn't want the hunters to see what she is capable of.

With that thought she summoned her daggers again and after getting pushed back a little by the shadow wave, she rushed the demon again. She kept her speed a little above the demon as she could feel that from time to time someone looked at her. The demon then created two swords made of shadows, but after a quick exchange between it and Diana, she knew that it was not experienced in a sword fight.

Using this Diana quickly scored a big amount of hits on the monster. It tried to hit her with more shadow attacks, but Diana could use the element of Darkness so it became pretty useless against her defence.

After another dodge of the demon's wild swing she kicked one of its legs and the demon lost its footing. Diana used this to cut his hand off and then stab it in the chest area while channeling the fire into her daggers to burn it.

It released a loud howl before leaving only black dust behind, "Huh, that's new," in the same moment she also heard a ping but she dismissed it and turned back to the fighting hunters.

Because it took Diana only about two minutes to dispatch the two demons the hunters are still all alive. Not wasting anymore time she joined the battle and after about 15 minutes all of the monsters were dead.

Diana finished her last Hellhound and turned towards the hunters and said with a light wave of her hand,"Hi," their answer was 25 bows and arrows pointed at her.

Diana sweatdropped and just when she wanted to say something, a bright flash of light appeared between the hunters and Diana.

The hunters quickly averted their eyes, but Diana for a second saw the most beautiful woman in her life. She looked like she was in her early twenties and had long silver hair with matching eyes and the figure of a goddess.

"Beautiful."

Unluckily for Diana, she only saw it for a second because after the flash disappeared is the place of the silver haired goddess stood a girl of around 13 years, but still her face had ungodly beauty to it, she possesses cold, silver eyes and auburn hair gathered back in a ponytail.

The auburn haired girl looked at her with narrowed eyes and demanded, "Who are you?"

"Uh, oh"

End

I hope that you like the new chapter as I worked some time on it. I am sorry for the cliffhanger but I already have 8k words so I am ending it here.

The next chapter will contain the rest of the meeting and the start of 3rd year.

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