A/N: So here's chapter 5! I'm actually pretty proud of getting this up as fast as I did. I'm working on so many other projects and it's hard to manage them all.
So enjoy chapter 5 and chapter 6 is being written! Hopefully, it'll come out soon.
This was un-beta'd so there may be a few mistakes, sorry!
I own nothing except the character Brooke Tyne.
Chapter 5
As soon as Chiron said that we were going to meet Artemis and the hunters I knew it was a bad idea. When the meeting was over and everyone was dismissed I silently slinked away to my cabin. I needed some time to myself.
I felt a cool breeze as I placed my hand on the cabin door handle; the door creaked open and I looked inside. On the ceiling there were stars, set up in constellations, and they were moving. If you touched the ceiling you would be able to feel the hear emitting from the hot clumps of compressed gases. There were several beds, bunk beds, probably for the hunters. I heard they came here... rarely. On the wall hung a silver bow, arrows were surrounding it.
"It's so lonely in here." I whispered. The room had on empty feeling to it and it was worrying me. This was exactly the way I felt every day of my life. Was this how my mother felt; every day? I hoped not, because then we would be too much alike. I wanted to deny as much as I could that Artemis, the virgin goddess, was my mother!
I laid down on the bed, the sheets were cool to my touch. I ran my hands through my hair, something I would always do when I was nervous. I turned to my side, my back was to the door and I was facing the wall. Questions swarmed in my mind: how could this happen to me? What's going to happen now? When will the gods find out? What have I done to deserve this? How can I fix it? Who would actually understand me? Where will I go? I can't stay here forever.
A sigh escaped from my mouth, it was shaky and shallow. I curled up into a ball and it was unknown to me that tears had were falling down my cheek. Some might say I'm overreacting, but how would you feel if, just for being born, you could die? You would feel horrible. I felt so empty, I didn't really know the truth about myself; I didn't know anything. It terrified me. Obviously people would die because of me. I wasn't supposed to be alive. It was just like in the old stories; someone is born, they do something that effects everyone else, people die because of the one person; that person dies as well and everything that they did was a waste. I would probably be sacrificed or something like that, isn't that what Greeks did to the people they didn't want to be alive? I don't know, I'm technically not Greek. I didn't want them risk their lives so I could go on and live my pathetic life.
I wasn't worth it.
I turned on my back to look up at the glowing stars, they calmed me down a bit. I realized that I was crying and I wiped them off of my cheek.
How was this going to work?
We were going to meet the hunters tomorrow. I sighed again and rested my head on my hands. Things didn't look like they were going to be on the bright side. It was just so complicated, nothing would ever be the same.
I wanted to go back to the life where I was practically invisible; where my father didn't care where I was, where I would miss the bus every morning and have to run to school; where I could be normal.
Moonlight leaked in from the window and rested on me. I basked it up as much as I could. Maybe it was my mom trying to calm me. No, I doubt it. It wasn't like she actually cared about me. I was a mistake, I shouldn't exist. She doesn't care.
…. Right?
A/N: Wow! This was so much longer in my composition book. It was... 4 pages of my small writing... *-*
The next chapter is when they're setting off to Artemis' base camp. I plan that they are going to run into a monster, but I really don't know which one. I'll have to look it up.
I hope you guys liked this. It took about a whole day to write it, because I had school boring. They even took my notebook away!
Anyway, enjoy and I'll get the next chapter posted ASAP!
Reviews would be cool. But, hey, who's forcing you? ^~^
