Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me except Rathena. Everything else belongs to Tamora Pierce. And I like to point out that if everything did belong to me I wouldn't be writing fan fiction now would I.

This story is dedicated to Sami. Always ware your seatbelt.

Is that." Rathena began but was cut of by a sound of pain coming from what could none other then be a unicorn. She could see an arrow coming out of its side. Numair felt his heart stop when the unicorn was hit. He let out a cry of anguish when what he saw confirmed his fears. The unicorn was Daine and she was hurt.

Numair didn't know what to do he couldn't even tell if he was dreaming or not. Rathena looked over at Numair and saw that he was a deathly shade of white. All of a sudden there was a bright light that looked like it was coming from Daine. Then Numair heard a groan.

Daine's POV.

Daine could feel her side aching and her energy draining. Then all of a sudden there was a bright light that looked like it was coming from her wound. Daine was very tired for a moment and then she wasn't. It was hard to explain it was like she regenerated all her used energy but it happened so quickly she felt dizzy. A groan escaped her lips. She could hear voices coming closer. Then she remembered. The hunters. Daine looked and saw Numair and a quite pretty young woman. "Numair?" She asked as she was getting up, her strength was up to normal now. "Daine? Is it you? How can it be? I thought you were dead. This has to be a dream." "DAINE!" The woman yelled. "I THOUGHT DAINE WAS DEAD!" Daine just laughed. "Actually quite the opposite." Numair was about to ask another question when the hunters burst through the clearing. "Where is it? We saw a unicorn and we shot it. It fell here. Where is it?" The "head" hunter asked. "Actually you shot me." Daine clarified. "That can't be." He yelled. "The only people that can shape shift are the gods and goddesses themselves. Not only that but the only one that ever does that is the Protectress of the Hunt, and unless you're ready to prove you're the Protectress and you're ready to pay homage for disgracing her name don't even try to convince me of it!" The hunter had yelled witch was very impressive because by now his face was an interesting shade of blue. "What do you want me to do?" Daine snapped angrily. (She didn't take being doubted for who she was very easily.) Numair and Rathena just stood there with there mouths open. ~A goddess! ~ He just gave her a disbelieving look. "Well, you can't be the Protectress. She always wears a mask your not wearing one." Daine put her hand up to her face. Then she remembered. She only had to wear the mask until the gods had said so. They didn't want any mortal recognizing her to soon, but after the meeting she didn't have to wear it anymore. "That doesn't mean anything." She replied.

"Don't they sound like two children arguing?" The Goddess remarked in an amused. (The gods had gathered in the Divine realms to see how this would all turn out. They were all quite interested.)

Daine was still in the clearing talking (or arguing) with the hunter when she could hear a call in the back of her mind. It was a call from an archer asking for her help. Daine had a weird almost dreamy look on her face and then she disappeared.



"Aww!" The graveyard hag yelled. "It was just getting good."



Daine could feel herself being called and decided to go to the source. She went to find the caller. It was a young girl in the Queens Riders. They were in an attack. (A/N If you're confused Daine is Patron of Archers.) Daine could find the girl right away. She was trying to shoot the enemy while trying to keep from being shot. She noticed that she wore a necklace with a figure attached. It was in the shape of a hawk, it was Daine's symbol. They were fighting Raiders and it was the girl's first fight. She had prayed to the Protectress of the Hunt for help and courage. Daine walked over to her. The girl looked at her and said "Who are you!" Daine just looked at her and said "You know who I am. I have come to help you." The girl gasped. " Can it really be? Are you the Protectress of the Hunt?" Daine nodded and said. "I know how you feel. You are scared and frightened, I was once mortal too. I give this to you it will help you in times of need as long as you are acting true. If you ever need me just call. You will now be one of my chosen for I can see you are pure of heart. I must go, just remember you are now one of my chosen." Daine handed the girl a necklace that was on a leather cord, it had something that looked like a badger claw on it. Then Daine walked away and left just as mysteriously as she had came. The girl was awestruck but only for a moment she then fought with renewed strength. She did not notice that across the field someone was looking at her with disbelieving eyes and was deathly pale.



I wonder who it could be! Dun Dun Dun! I think this is one of my worst chapters yet, none of the characters are right! The Gods are acting too stupid, Daine is acting all mystical and a lot of other mistakes. I'm really sorry I hope you'll forgive me. ( I made up another character yay! If any one has a good name tell me maybe that will be he name. If not I'll just make one up like always. I want to thank all my reviewers that gave their condolences but since I have not been doing this the entire story I am just going to list people that reviewed for chapter five.

Dragon Fire, Karina, clarylissa, Seishi, Daine, Lady Alehanra A.K.A Medusagrrl, Daemon, Keita, truely understanding, and Keziah.

I will from now on be listing all the reviewers because I really do appreciate it.

To answer the question about how did Daine get hurt since she is a goddess. I guess for my fic I just wrote it like that. That she didn't get hurt but she didn't heal right away, I wrote it so it would cause some suspense. If you think I did it wrong I'm very sorry. ( I hope you liked it and I hope you review! Liz