C2: Never Ending Madness:
xxx Mount Olympus, Temple of Athena xxx
In a flash of golden light Artemis appeared outside of her half-sister's temple since appearing in another's home uninvented was rude. Artemis liked Athena. Their pesonalities were very similar in taking matters seriously and avoiding being seduced by men for sexual purposes. Though Athena was capable of producing 'brain' children with smart men that struck her fancy. After a quick stash of the rewrapped tooth into her pocket the auburn haired woman walked up the olive tree doors of Athen's temple and knocked.
After a few moments of waiting the doors creaked open revealing the grand library the Goddess of Wisdom housed. Every time humanity learned something either a new chapter to an existing book or a new book all together was written. So while the temple looked normal on the outside. On the inside it was vast. So vast that no one but Athena herself was allowed to roam the halls, lest they get lost.
As she continued forward Artemis soon spotted the large libarian style desk Athena used to receive people. Sitting at the desk was a woman with long raven color hair. Her ghostly gray eyes scrolling over the page she was reading. Noticing the Hunter Supreme approaching her desk, Athena bookmarked the page and gently closed the book with great care. Nothing would ever be ruined in her library/ home.
"Artemis, I wasn't expecting you today. Last I heard you and your girls were hunting something in the New England area of the country." Her stoic voice silently echoed off the bookselfs.
Artemis nodded as she took one of the chairs across some the most knowledgeable person in the world, "That is the case, but we have hit a small snag. One of the girls found a tooth but I can't identify it." Reaching into her pocket, Artemis removed the bloody cloth wrapped tooth before setting it in front of a stunned Athena. "And I was hoping you could help in figuring out what it is I am hunting."
Athena sat in silence for a moment as her mind seemed to overload at the sound of what she just heard. Artemis had hunted every animal and beast that nature, Echinda and The Underworld had ever produced. But yet, in this wrapping was something that she couldn't identify? Athena was practically drooling at this unknown as she reached for the object. Slowly unwrapping the cloth she found the massive tooth and her eyes instantly widened. Yes, she knew what kind of tooth this looked like. And it somewhat scared her. "The Hunters, found this? In New York?" Seeing Artemis slowly nod as she caught the worry in the ravenette's voice Athena let out a long sigh. "This is so not good. Defiantly not good."
"So you know what I am hunting? What can you tell me?" Was what Artemis asked.
Athena nodded as she held out her hand. Summoning a thick book with the name 'InGen' on the front. Opening the book she began to explain the tooth. Images appearing from her book as she read, "In the early 1980s a genectics doctor named John Hammond came up with a crazy but brilliant idea. Recreating and cloning extinct animals from the DNA found in certain fossils and ambers. With the help of Dr. Sorkin and Dr. Wu they set out to accomplish this feat. By 1985 Hammond had enough investors to start a large corperation. International Genetic Technologies Inc. or InGen for short. Their goal was straight forward. Clone animals that no longer exist. And in 1986 on the island of Isla Sorna, they succeeded with their first dinosaur, a Triceratops."
Artemis was seething as she heard this. These... men and a woman had dared and even worse, accomplished to create life from death. This was such a rape of the natural order she had half a mind to turn The Hunt around and hunt these 3 humans for this blatent crime against nature. But first, she had to figure out where all this was going. She took a few deep breaths to calm down and keep listening. Summoning a glass of water for her and Athena as Athena read more.
Athena could feel Artemis ' rising anger but continued her explaination behind the tooth. "In 1988 Hammond used the vast wealth from his investors to lease a second island from the Costa Rica goverment, Isla Nublar. The goal was to show these revived animals and plants to the people of the world. Everything was going to plan until 1993. BioSyn, a rival company, had manage to bribe a greedy son of Hermes named Dennis Nedry. His goal was to steal the embyros and deliver them to a contact on the main land."
"His plan was to cause a security reset so he could get access the items in question. But in doing so it also caused several electrified fences to go down as well. The timing couldn't have been worse as a test tour was inspecting the park for safety of the public. With the fences down the dinosaurs started to break out. A few humans and even Nedry himself falling victim to one of the predators that he had unknowingly released. The park was abandoned and destroyed by a hurricane that cropped up the last time Barnucle Beard and Father got into an arguement. Dr. Sorkin also perished on that island in the same year."
Athena paused from her explaination as she flipped through some unneeded information about the company's history. Mean while Artemis was staring at the tooth once more. Her mind was spilt in have. The first thought was this could be a T-Rex tooth. She knew some dinosaur knowledge from a few of her hunters were interested in the animals and would often talk about them amongst themselves. The idea that she could be hunting the strongest set of jaws to walk on two legs almost made her as giddy as a school girl.
On the other hand, she was still rightly furious that humans had cloned the dead. The amount of disrespect to Hades' realm was so great. That while she usually defended women, she hoped that when Hades judged her. That she was sent to the punishment fields for doing something so disrepectful. And she still had half a mind to hunt the two men like pigs.
After a few more moments of page flipping Athena stopped and began speaking, "In 1997 the board and Hammond's own nephew, Peter Ludlow, removed Hammond as CEO as InGen. It seems after the park failure Hammond realised that Isla Sorna needed to be left alone. So for four years he denied his company at any attempt to poach the two islands and bring them to an amphitheater in San Deigo. Once his uncle was removed Ludlow proceeded to do just that. The project ended in disaster with the death of Ludlow himself and a few dozen others. Afterwards Hammond's health quickly fell out of favor and he himself also passed away. The company was purchased by Masrani Global Corporation. Once more the goal was to turn Isla Nublar into a park. And in 2005 Jurrasic World opened its doors and has been open ever since."
Artemis slammed her hands into the desk, "Why have we allowed this place to exist? It's a complete afront to the laws of nature! That island should be sunk bellow the waves and the remaining lead offender sent to tarturus!" She had made her decision. The still living Dr. Wu would not be living much longer. This pig of a man was going to die. Prehaps she would turn him into a deer and let this mystery dino eat it while she watched.
Athena shook her head at her sister's outburst and distracted her, "Unfortunatly, something like that would fall into the area of Pan's jugdement. Who while was already missing by then. Even if he was around he would be to busy chasing women to due anything like punish humans. Despite the wisdom he carries." Athena flipped to the last few pages. Her eyes instantly widened before her temple began to shake as her own fury now reached a boiling point. She quickly grabbed the tooth that had been resting on the cloth. Finding some of the blood on the tooth root was still wet she used her powers to suddenly start breaking down the DNA. When it looked like Artemis was going to ask a question Athena answered, "Last year in 2012, the company green lighted the making of a new dinosaur. One of their own creation. Dr. Wu was approached a short time later in secret by a military contractor to weaponize this new animal. He agreed to it..."
Before Artemis' rage could peak any higher the DNA trace from the tooth had start to come up. It was what Athena feared. this wasn't a normal animal. This was mankind's new frankenstein. And it was on the mainland. Dozens of animals seemed to have been broken down to create this one new beast. Not all of them were dinosaurs either. A fair amount od modern species had also been mixed in. As the list broke 20 different animals and kept climbing both godly women where now fuming. While they not angry at the beast, for it had no control over itself. They were pissed at its creators. Just before anymore words could be spoken a rainbow appeared between them. It was a message for one of them as Iris used the rainbows as a sort of visual phone call.
It didn't take long for the image of Zoe Nightshade to appear before the two goddess. Her head slightly bowed in respect to them, "I apologize Lady Artemis and Lady Athena, but we have found a hot trail. The animal suddenly changed course towards that camp. We also caught the scent of The Bull on the wind. We believe that The Bull is hunting someone while unknowingly being hunted itself by our target. How do you want us to proceed?"
Both Athena and Artemis looked at each other as silent questions were asked between the two. Athena nodded as she stood up and summoned her trusted spear and sheild to prepare for battle. Artemis turned back to Zoe, "As much as you and the girls loathe that place I need you to get The Hunt to Camp Half-Blood and warn Chiron. We are the only ones with any idea of what is headed their way. Your mission Zoe is the defence of those at the Camp and to keep an eye out for whatever The Bull is tracking. A lot of things have come to light about we were hunting. Athena and I have decided it's best if we face it rather then risk all of your lives as we now need this animal captured alive."
Normally Zoe and The Hunt would have protested this. But, seeing the serious look on her leader's face and Athena readying for battle, she knew that this was much bigger then all their pride. Something potentially earth shaking was going to happen if Artemis declared this hunt over and a battle was on the way. With a quick nod of acceptence the call ended leaving the two goddesses alone once more. In a flash of gold they were both gone from the temple.
They had a battlefield to prepare. And prehaps an innocent to save.