Welcome to the new chapter, I know that you waited for a long time but I have exams so there is that.
Now to adress a few things from reviews.
Riveg - Don't worry it will not transform into a Angst/Teen drama, I don't know if I would have enough patience to write things like that. Now to adress the things that you pointed out.
Common Sense? - After reading so many fanfictions in PJO world this part might just came to natural for me to write. Still I think that their reaction is pretty normal taking under consideration that Diana has a hood on and no one knows who she is. And please let's not talk about Greek common sense cuz they don't have any.
2. Cliche nr.1 - Yeahhh... Now that I am looking at it, it came out pretty shitty. It sounded a lot better in my mind plus I agree that I went a little OCC with Diana here.
or Cliché? - I would say that it is just Diana's reaction after she saw Artemis true form. I could just continue the chapter there but I needed to end it so here came the cliche part. Sorry.
Hoodedgenius98 - Mannn, Now I want to write an omake with your idea.
Aku no Kotei - Hope that you will like what I planned for them.
Gon Freaks - I think that it I have good enough reason.
CodyJaaxs - Here you go, while it is probably not something that you wanted I don't want to expose Diana to Greek too much world just yet. But don't worry there will be more interactions from now on. About the Skill Exp, don't worry I remember about it and I will use it soon.
About Mary Sue, Like I said earlier it is my first fanfiction so I made quite a few mistakes in my earlier chapters. Not much that I can do now as I would need to rewrite the whole fanfic to fix it. So to anyone who managed to get through the first chapters, Thank you.
With that enjoy the chapter.
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Chapter 13. Greek World
"Sometimes I wonder if my luck stat is even working, because what the hell is this?" Diana complained in her mind while trying to keep a stoic expression outside.
Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt and Moon, (and a few others) lvl.?
HP:?
MP:?
Normally Diana would try her best to distract the goddess and make her escape, but now there is one single problem with that plan. Well, maybe not one but about 25 problems that are aiming arrows at her.
Diana calmed herself, disabled the voice change function of her hood and bowed a little. Who knows how you talk to a goddess, Rigna never told her anything about things like that so might as well try to speak to them like she is talking to lords from Wizengamot. Maybe the lessons from Sirius will finally pay off.
"Excuse me my Lady, I mean you and your companions no harm," she still kept her stoic expression and voice, it would not too well for her to show any weakness there.
Artemis and a few of the Hunters raised an eyebrow at her feminine voice and Diana could see that their posture relaxed a little. If hearing her voice is enough for them to relax Diana noted to never change it around them. Finally, she saw Artemis opening her mouth to speak again.
"Be that as it may, now lower your hood and state your name," Diana noted that this time Artemis's voice isn't as harsh as earlier so this is a good sign.
Sighing, she raised her hands and lowered the hood releasing her black hair and beautiful face to the world.
Still keeping any emotions from her face Diana introduced herself, "My name is Diana Black and I was just trying to hunt those two monsters that were different from the normal ones," she pointed towards the black dust that the merged demons left.
Artemis and the Hunters now visibly relaxed and then they turned towards the dust and again, most of them looked curiously at it. "Ok, so this is not a normal occurrence, good to know. But still maybe if they stop pointing their bows at me, I will be able to get some information from them."
The Goddess turned back to Diana and nodded, "If what you say is the truth, I would like to speak with you in private," then she turned around and with a quick wave of her hand the camp was restored. With that done Artemis signaled Diana to follow her and both of them walked towards one of the tents.
The inside of the tent was nothing special apart from the working table and some animal furs. Artemis took the chair by the table and then summoned another for Diana to sit in.
"You said that you were hunting the creatures that left black dust and not the normal golden one yes?" a nod," But I am wondering how a normal human can hunt monsters that some of the demigods have a problem with and I will not even mention your age."
Diana sighed and ran a hand through her hair, "You see, my Lady, since a few weeks ago I didn't even know of the existence of the Greek gods, so I still do not know too much how things work around here."
Artemis looked intrigued at Diana's words, "So how a young girl like you knew how to hunt Greek monsters, are you from any other pantheon?"
Diana's mind flashed back to her dream of Rigna when she was destroyed, they mentioned some pantheon so it may be possible that there are other gods apart from the Greek ones. Shaking her head Diana quickly focused on the topic at hand, "From what I know I do not belong to any other pantheon," it should be the truth as Regina didn't belong to any, "and I didn't know of any other still existing."
This time it was Artemis, who sighed deeply, she didn't get any helpful information from the girl yet. Nonetheless, she decided that the girl might be a good new recruit so she started explaining how the Greek world survived and is moving with the world and nowadays is stationed in America. She told the girl how the monsters still walk the earth, that they are immortal and will reform after some time. She also mentioned that the gods have children from time to time that are called demigods, but she didn't tell her about the Camp where they go. While Artemis has nothing about telling the girls about the Greek world, it is better to hide some things from her.
Meanwhile Diana's mind was trying to process everything that the goddess told her. The gods that are still walking the earth is one thing, that they are now stationed in America is another, but monsters that can reform is something that is a bit too fucked up. And let's not even talk about the Underworld and Mt. Olympus. Even if Diana doesn't know where there are in America, it is still a lot to take in. She thought that the monsters are some remains of the old world, nothing more.
Still, one thing that surprised Diana even more was how Artemis was forthcoming with the information. Just when she wanted to ask the goddess why would she tell her all of that, Artemis decided to give the answer without even asking.
"There is another thing that I would like to talk with you about," Diana frowned a little at the very serious tone but nonetheless nodded, "Like you saw I have my own followers or you could call them my family. My Hunt is a place for any girl that did not have a good life or just want to escape and even though I know that all of this is till new to you, I would like to offer you a place here."
"So this is what all of it is about, well can't blame her... It seems that now it is my turn to tell some of my story," Gathering her thoughts, she started, "While it is nice for you to offer me a place in your Hunt, I am afraid that I need to refuse. There are some things in my life that would not let me join you."
Luckily Artemis did not get angry, but only a little curious, "And what are those things that you are talking about."
"First, can you tell me if the Greek world would care about anything that is not going through their world?"
Artemis shook her head, "No, as long as it does not come into our territory, Zeus would not give any order. So you could say that we do not know a lot about any other pantheons."
Diana nodded, "Well, it at least explains some things for me... Anyway, while I am not a part of any pantheon, I am not a human."
Here Artemis raised an eyebrow, "Oh? and what would you be when I can clearly sense that you are a human, maybe not a normal one but still a human."
Diana smirked and released the hold of her power. This time Artemis looked very surprised. Diana's smirk got even wider at her reaction, "What would you say now?"
Artemis focused and started to read her energy, "You have power levels that are close to those of the strongest demigods, but your control of it is a lot better than any demigod could dream of. So tell me, what are you?" she finished with a small glare towards Diana.
"From what I know - and don't ask me about the timeline - my race was created by a goddess that never belonged to any pantheon. We were created in hopes of stopping an invasion of what we call demons. Each of us carries a small portion of the goddess power so it could grow with us as we get more powerful," for now it is better to keep the Divine part of her race hidden, " Like I said earlier, I don't know how many years ago, it happened, but my race succeeded, the demons were defeated and the portals to their world got sealed away. Unfortunately, most of Hunters died during the fights so my race is almost extinct nowadays... That is why after I discovered what I am, I decided to hunt those demons that managed to get through the rifts that sometimes appear in the world."
Artemis looked thoughtful after hearing that, after a minute of silence, she looked back to Diana, "It would make sense why you have so much power, but I don't know how an invasion of foreign race could escape my pantheon... The only reason that I can think of it that it happened some time before the Olympians were born and any records of it were destroyed, I will need to talk about it with my sister later," she stopped for a moment while thinking of something, "Now I have a few questions. Do you know the name of the goddess and is she still alive? Do you know of any others Hunters? Why were you hunting Greek monsters? And finally, what will you do now?"
Diana quickly sorted all of the questions and answered, "Yes, I know the name but I would like to keep it secret, no she faded. The only other Huntress that I know of is my best friend. I was trying to find the reason why the demons disappear in my homeland. I will probably stay here a few more days and try to find more of the demons like those two and then head back home."
Artemis frowned a little, "Alright, I will respect you will to keep it secret but I hope that someday you will tell me. Now, If you want, you can stay in the hunt till you need to go back. Lastly, you just said that those two monsters that left back dust behind were demons, care to explain?"
Diana almost facepalmed that she forgot about something like that, "If it is not a problem I will stay with you for a few days. Now those demons are something that surprised even me as even though it is my job to hunt them, I don't have all the information that was available to the Hunters of old, so I need to discover a lot of things by myself," she paused to take a breath and continued, "From what I managed to discover there are some types of demons that can merge with other living creatures and take their skills, powers and mind. They look like humanoid versions of the creatures that they merge with and the demon has full control of its actions. I do not know if the Greek monsters will reform with demons merged or without them, it is something that we will probably never discover."
"So a demon that can merge with others, I wonder it they can do this with humans or demigods... Anyway, I know that you can fight, but I didn't see you fight so what would you say for a spar."
Diana grinned, even if she won't beat her, it will be a nice experience, "Why not, but do we fight here or somewhere else?"
Artemis stood up and walked towards Diana, "I think that my girls had enough fun for today, so let me take us somewhere else."
With that said Diana let Artemis put her hand on Diana's shoulder and both quickly disappeared in a light flash.
They reappeared in a big clearing in some forest, Diana quickly noticed that it is colder than in America. Looking back at Artemis, she raised an eyebrow.
Artemis smiled at her and answered, "currently we are in Canada, it is a place that we discovered during one of the hunts. Now prepare your weapon."
Diana took off her cloak, made it disappear and channeled some magic to her bracelets causing her daggers to appear. Again she ignored the ping that she heard when releasing her weapons, something must have happened to them, but she will check it out after the spar.
The goddess looked interested at her weapons and summoned her own hunting knives, "Ready?" she asked.
Diana nodded and both of them rushed towards the other. Diana still had her gravity rune activated as she wanted something to surprise the goddess. Artemis herself wanted to know how far the girl can go so for now she will fight at the same level that her opponent can.
With time Diana got to her maximum speed that she can use without releasing the rune and because of that she only managed to block the hits from Artemis knives but not the kick that came to her side. Still, Diana quickly righted herself and released the gravity rune.
With a new burst of speed she managed to push the goddess back to the defence. Artemis while surprised, she quickly ducked under one of the swipes and blocked the jab that was coming towards her. Then she used one of her hands to gain momentum and kick Diana away before she could recover.
Diana cursed under her breath, it was obvious that Artemis had a lot more experience with her knives plus she was still holding back. Sighing Diana used her full speed and came at Artemis with full force. The clangs of blades filled the forest and anybody who would witness the battle could easily say that they didn't see anything apart from black and silver blurs on the battlefield.
During the next few minutes of the fight, Diana managed to land a few cuts on Artemis, but unfortunately Diana herself received a lot more hits and was slowly feeling the strain that full speed battle was causing her body.
Artemis was glad that she decided to take Diana seriously from the start as when the girl came at her with full speed, Artemis almost lost her footing and lost the fight. Now she could see that Diana was getting tired and the wounds on her were not helping. Deciding that it is high time to end it, Artemis used a burst of speed to get through Diana's defence and hit her wrist with a blunt edge of her knife. This caused Diana to release one of her daggers and from there Artemis quickly managed to get rid of the second daggers and knock the girl to the ground.
Diana coughed a little and then quickly activated her armor back so it would take care of the bleeding damage. Releasing a tired chuckle she said, "It looks like I still have some way to go before I can challenge a goddess."
Artemis looked amused at the girl and then sat down next to her, "I am quite sure that you would be able to beat some other gods in a melee fight, so don't cut yourself short. Your skill with those daggers is exceptional."
Diana nodded and sat herself up. She waved her both hands and the daggers came back to her before changing back to their bracelet form, "Thank you it is nice to hear it from someone that has a lot more experience than me."
Artemis looked a little intrigued at her use of magic and decided to ask, "That is another thing that I would like to ask you, where did you learn how to fight like this and from what I could see you can use magic?"
Diana fell back on the ground and looked at the sky, "While my melee skills are self taught along with most of my magic, there is also the part of my magic that belongs to something else," she stopped for a moment to think how to say it, "like you explained there are other pantheons with gods and demigods, but it is not all that exist in our world."
The goddess looked interested, but then gained a look of recognition," I think that I know what do you mean but please continue."
Diana nodded, "I also belong to a wizarding community that exist everywhere in the world and while their magic is not as strong as mine, it is more refined for simpler tasks so I find it useful from time to time... Originally I was born a witch, but something happened in my life that caused the change and now I am what I am. Not that I would ever change it."
"That makes some sense as even though we do not interact with wizards, we know about them. Originally we thought that they were some descendants of the demigods of Hecate, but after some research done by my sister we discovered that about 3 Millennials ago the earth started releasing some sort of energy. It was then discovered that the energy created a completely new type of humans that could use magic, apart from that some creatures all around the world started to change and it is how your magical creatures got created. At first they lived along with normal humans. But like you probably know the witch hunts happened and the magicals decided to hide. We don't know what exactly happened, but somehow after a wave of magic that went through the whole earth all of the normal humans forgot about the existence of anything magical. It was something similar to our mist, but we didn't really care anymore, so we left them alone. That is all I know about your world."
Diana lay here a little shocked, so this is how the magic came to be... huh at least now she knows that her hunter dreams happened somewhere in that timeline as the already spoke of wizards, "That is... good to know. The magical don't really know how they came to be so it clears some things out."
Artemis stood up and offered her hand to Diana, "I think that it is time to go back, I still need to introduce you to the hunt and tell them that you will be staying with us for a few days."
Diana nodded and took the hand. A second later they were back at the camp and Artemis began to introduce Diana to her Hunt. The girls were mostly friendly towards her after they heard that she is a hunter like them but can't join the hunt. After they all got something to eat and talked a bit, it was already time to go to sleep so they could move tomorrow.
Diana already told Artemis that she doesn't need the tent, but the goddess insisted and this is how she is now sitting on the chair in her own tent.
She sighed and thought about all that happened today. She is glad that getting the information about Greek world won't be a problem as it would be a pain in the ass discovering everything by herself. Still, there are some things that Artemis hasn't told her about but Diana can respect that as she is still mostly an unknown here. Next, she finally knows why the demons are disappearing from her sensing radar. She will need to scan the energy of another of those abominations and then she will be able to find it like she did earlier, at least she hopes so.
The spar with Artemis was also an eye opening experience. While Diana did a pretty good job in the fight, she could do a lot better. Artemis was a lot more graceful than her and her attacks had a lot more finesse. You would think that after almost ten years of wielding those daggers, Diana would know what she is doing wrong. Well, at least now she knows that she still has a lot to learn if she wants to continue Rigna's legacy. The fight at least showed her that she is not perfect and there will always be something to learn.
Shaking her head, she summoned her daggers and finally checked what the gamer system wants from her.
Daggers of Night and Darkness
Primary created by Chaos for Nyx the Goddess of Night. She lost them in a duel with Rigna who took them for herself and upgraded them. Those daggers have ability to consume your enemies to build their strength ( reset after changing owner).
Damage: 100 + 10*200 Stacks: 200 , Warning not all enemies give the same number of stacks.
Congratulations!
After accumulating 200 stacks your weapon is capable of evolving. Do you want to proceed?
YES/NO
Quickly selecting yes she read.
Your weapon has evolved!
Check the description for more info.
Closing the box she quickly observer her daggers.
Daggers of Night and Darkness
Primary created by Chaos for Nyx the Goddess of Night. She lost them in a duel with Rigna who took them for herself and upgraded them. Those daggers have ability to consume your enemies to build their strength ( reset after changing owner).
Damage: 2000 Stacks: 0 , Warning not all enemies give the same number of stacks.
Other forms:
Sword of Shadows
Sword created by Rigna after combining the power of both daggers and the souls absorbed by it. Can easily change between forms. Immune to shadow attacks.
Damage: 3000 Stacks: 0 , Warning not all enemies give the same number of stacks.
Diana then watched as the two daggers combined in one and created a pure black sword. It was a little shorter than if those two daggers combined. The sword is somewhat similar in appearance to scimitars, it has a curved handle and a blade that sweeps backwards, though the similarity stops there. It is pure black color with some lines of red that go through the guard and lower part of the blade, contains sharper edges around the hilt, a serrated blade, and decorative etchings (AN: Dedaric sword if you can't imagine it).
Diana took the blade in her hand, stood up and made a few test swings to see how it feels.
After a few minutes of testing, Diana was glad that the blade felt as good as the daggers. There is one problem with the sword, now Diana will need to learn how to fight with a sword from a scratch if she wants to use it. Well, another thing to do during the year.
Transforming the sword back to their daggers form and then to bracelets, Diana changed to something more comfortable and laid down in the bed.
She still has a few days before she needs to go back so she might get another chance to find one of the abominations.
6 Days later, Arizona, Grand Canyon
Diana quickly rolled away from another swipe of the dragon's tail and quickly flashed away from it.
Reappearing some distance away from it, she quickly created cero in one of her hands and gripped her sword in the other. Without wasting anymore time she used pure speed and ran towards the dragon that wanted to release another wave of black flames towards her.
When she was in the arm's length of the dragon she pushed the overpowered cero. It quickly went straight through the demons scales and disintegrated almost half of it before it died completely and disappeared leaving a few scales as a loot.
Sighing, she used flash step to get back the camp where the Hunters and Artemis were watching the fight.
Reappearing just before Artemis, she sighed, "Ok, that's it, I don't think that there will be any more surprises."
Zoe walked towards her and asked, "What was that? No normal dragon would follow the Hunt of Artemis."
Diana chuckled lightly, "You see I had a run in with a group of those dragons a few weeks ago and it looks like I missed one. Still, it is surprising that it decided to follow me and get revenge. Not the smartest move," she murmured the last part under her nose.
Artemis shook her head at the girl's antics, it was really nice to have her with them as she was a skilled fighter and a nice person to be around. Still, sometimes Diana is a little awkward around people and Artemis deduced that she does not have a lot of social experience. Well, no one can be perfect.
"Anyway, before the dragon decided to interrupt us, you were saying that you need to go back," started Artemis.
Diana quickly became serious, "Yes, even though it was nice, I need to go back to my family," she can easily say that it was nice to be with people that do the same thing as her. But still she is already missing her family and Alya so it would be better if she goes back now. Two days ago they managed to find another of those abominations and Diana now has their energy signature, so it will be easier to track them.
After exchanging goodbyes, Artemis took Diana to her tent. Here she brought out a bag with some golden coins, seeing Diana's questioning look she explained, "Those are drachmas, about 20 of them. If you ever need to contact us just do this," here Artemis showed her how to use rainbows to contact with others through Iris messaging, "you got it?"
Diana nodded and took the bag before hiding it in her inventory. Artemis didn't even question her about it as she already saw her make things appear and disappear without any explanation.
"It was nice to meet your Hunters and you Artemis. I hope that the next time we meet I will be able to introduce you to Alya."
Artemis nodded, Diana already explained who Alya is and the goddess really wanted to meet the other Huntress, "Don't worry, I might just travel with my hunt to Britain to see what is going on there."
The younger girl smiled at that, "Then I will be waiting," with that she brought out the Portkey and with a last goodbye she disappeared.
Gringotts Bank, Britain
Diana reappeared in the same room that she travelled from and flared her magic a little to signal the goblins that she is back. Then she sat down on one of the chairs and waited.
After a few minutes Ragnok came in with two others goblins and they all quickly exchanged greeting. After Ragnok sat down in the other chair, he asked, "So Huntress, did you find anything?"
Diana smiled at the goblin, "Yes, from what I discovered some demons can merge with other creatures and the energy signature change completely. This is the reason why I couldn't sense them. Now I should be able to at least spot some of them, still I need more information about them so I will need to find another Hunter that might have something on them."
Ragnok nodded, "That's understandable, I already send the files so you should be able to go through them when you go back," with that, he stood up," I am glad that the Goblin Nation could help, unfortunately I have some other things to take care of so if you excuse me."
Diana also stood up and after a quick handshake with the president, she was escorted out of Gringotts. Quickly finding an empty alley, she went into her shadows.
"Finally home."
END
Ok so I didn't expect to write this chapter today... Really I just sat dawn and started writing. Not that I am complaining.
Now there wasn't much that I could do in the greek world as I do not want to announce Diana's existance to the whole world so for now I hope that it will be enough for you. Don't worry Artemis will appear form tiem to time.
Chapters will be shorter. About 5k words.
Now I have exams till 12 September so I don't know if there will be any more chapters. Sorry.
Leave a review and tell me what you think.
Chaos out.