As I stared at the little girl, she stared back at me with those flame filled eyes, the flames calmly danced around as she stared at the teardrop rolling down my cheek. I wiped it off my cheek, "Strange- we said in unison, I closed my mouth and she smiled, "Strange indeed, we've never met before, yet you look at me like you've known me your entire life."

It's true that I've never seen her before, but I don't know why I feel like I know her, maybe she reminds me of someone, but when I was traveling I never met anyone who I was comfortable with. "No, we've never met, this is the first time I'm seeing someone like you." I said.

She nodded and sat on the ground next to the campfire and patted next to her, I walked over and sat next to her. Who is she? It's strange, I feel this power from her, it's not sinister or anything, in fact it's amazing, it makes me feel so safe and calm. We stared into this he fire and she said, "You wish to know why you're here, and you want to know how the hunters of Artemis came to hate men?"

"I have a general idea why they hate men…Of course I'm not completely sure, but I'd still like to know."

The little girl nodded, "Well I suppose the best way to explain this is that every hunter of Artemis is loyal to her because each of them has had a bad experience with men, their reasons for hating them is justified, some have been abused while few were enslaved and many of them have been left behind; all of these young girls have been mistreated by men, both by strangers and family alike. We are not talking about getting mistreated by one man, so of course after the first man, few of the hunters would give mankind another chance, but one after another, they deceived those girls with sweet words and gentle actions, they used them and then threw them away when they were no longer needed. Because of many men, the hunters of Artemis see all man the same, no matter how nice they act, they will see that man or boy nothing more than an animal." She Explained, the fire grew warmer and my body felt like I was home.

"I see…Well that's what I've been thinking, just wasn't sure I was right. As to why I am here well…I think I know. But at the same time I don't." I said. "What you wanted was more of confirmation than anything else, you didn't necessarily need me to tell you anything, am I wrong?" She asked with a small smile, she isn't wrong, actually she's right on the money for what I actually wanted to hear. I nodded, "Yes, you're right, that's all I wanted, but of course hearing why I'm here would be helpful. Although I realize that the gods don't interfere with their children because that'll just cause more trouble for them, and I also see that knowing what this world has in store for you is meant to be unknown, if I tried to learn why I'm here or what lies ahead of me, I know for a fact I'll just try to change it." I sighed heavily, "Does that sound right to…You…?"

The little girl...Or I guess I should say, the goddess was gone and so was the campfire, "I guess gods can't say anything that might change the future…I'm not sure you meant for this to happen…But I hate the gods even more, they know our future, they know what will happen, but because there's rules about not meddling with the future, they won't lift a single finger to do anything about it." I muttered, "We mortals break rules to better our lives, but at the same time we worry about the consequences that we will have to face, but in the end, we did what we thought was right because we thought it would make us better. We change things so we won't be stuck in the past…" I chuckled lightly, "What I am doing? It's not like anyone is listening…"

I sighed heavily and went back to my tent and laid down until I fell asleep. I didn't get much sleep that night, I was too busy thinking about that goddess and how she seemed so familiar, plus all that bullshit about the gods not helping even when they know what's going to happen to their children. Everything was put away and Artemis gathered everyone together and told us that we were going to be traveling south for a few days, everyone but me knew what that meant. The mood changed as soon as she announce where we were heading, "I have something important to attend too, so we will go to camp half-blood for a few days." She said and nodded to Zoe, which made me blurt out, "Is this because of me?" I asked.

Artemis looked me dead in the eyes, "No."

As I looked into her eyes, I could tell that she was lying, so I just nodded, but I could tell that she noticed that I noticed she was lying. So she smiled at me, like she was impressed with me or something. But there was something about the way she smiled, I don't know how to put it…It was like she expected me to noticed she was lying, or maybe I'm looking into it too much, it wouldn't be the first time I've done that. This camp she mentioned…I faintly remember a monster telling me about it.

For the first few hours it was quiet, which was weird since they never shut up. I stayed in the back as usual, but I wasn't the only one who was watching our backs, Zoe Nightshade was also here. Thirty minutes after we departed I finally asked, "Is this camp really that bad?"

I waited five minutes for her to answer my question but she never did, she just kept walking without saying anything, I shrugged and slowed down so she would be in front and alone, because I don't really care if I'm alone or not, I mean I've been basically alone my entire life. As I slowed down, so did Zoe which I found odd, when we were about fifty feet away from the others she closed her hands tightly, almost like she hated the idea that she was even walking next to me.

I cleared my throat and looked at her for a second, I'm not expecting her to answer me, but I have this feeling that she wants to answer me. So instead of letting her answer me I said, "You know, besides Artemis you're the only one these girls trust, so I don't think it's wise to talk to the only person they hate. Otherwise, they might see that maybe you're having doubts about mankind, or they could lose a little trust in you, but I don't think those girls are like that. But for once in my life, I hope I'm wrong, because I am tried of getting things right. I mean the things I say, not the things I do."

Zoe glared at me and walked past me, but as she passed me she muttered, "Don't get things twisted, you're not one of us. So don't speak to me about what they might think, because you have no idea what they've been through."

Well that was something, the last time she said something to me her voice was calm and collated, plus the way she spoke just now was nothing like that of a girl. Her old way of speaking wasn't there at all, I'm guessing it's because of what I said...I guess what I said was wrong. Zoe was back with the others but after they talked for a little bit a few of them gave me death stares which made me smirk, I'd like to see them try.

A couple of hours later Artemis decided to stop to rest, altough it looked like no one wanted to rest, they seemed to want to get this over with. The way they're acting has me intrigued about this camp, if they hate it, then maybe I'll like it. I usually stay about fifty feet away from them, but today I decided to shorten that distance to thirty feet. Since we were just resting everyone started talking to each other, well expect me I mean. The way they speak is weird for me, instead of 'you' they say 'thee or thou' and 'your' they say 'thine' in all honesty, I don't like the way they speak, too outdated.

As I was sitting down on a rock I started thinking about the gods again, that goddess that I saw last night didn't see me for the hell of it, she was curious about me. Because of what Artemis says about the gods, then the other goddess that I saw had a plan for seeing me, or maybe I'm just looking too much into it. But...She seems to be trustworthy, granted we only spoke for a few minutes, but I feel like I can trust her. Artemis and that other goddess are the only ones that seem to think about others before themselves, while the other gods think only for themselves before anyone else, at least that's the way I see it, Artemis explained about the gods to me, but that's the way I interpreted it. She might have said it in a way that makes me see the gods as actual nice gods, but all I got was that they don't care about anything besides their home and themselves.

The children of the gods grew up with a mortal parent but nothing else, oh wait there is something that the gods left for us 'Demi-gods' or 'half-bloods' I don't care what we are, but the thing they left us is monsters that want to kill us because one of our parents is a god. If that doesn't tell you that the gods aren't what they say they are, then I guess there is something wrong with the way you look at things.

When everyone was rested up I kept my distance, my hatred for the gods is growing, and frankly I don't want to be apart of this group because they hate me and because I want to see if I turn sixteen, will I really be able to destroy the gods? The hunters of Artemis kept marching on as I was thinking what to do, so I slowed down and soon came to a stop. As I stopped they kept walking and soon they slowed down as well, it was like they could sense that one of them was missing. They looked back and I was about a hundred feet away from them, Artemis and the hunters stared at me, Artemis still didn't have an expression, she wasn't confused or annoyed that I stopped, she just had this stoic expression. The hunters on the other hand had angry expressions in their faces, I had my sword in my hand. "Tell me Artemis, exactly what do you think about the other gods? And what do you think I can do to bring them down? One more thing, who is Kronos?"

This will be all for awhile, for any of my stories unfortunately.

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Rilurz~