Sonya didn't exactly take the news well. Her reaction involved her fist colliding with the nearest object, which, unfortunately, was the brick wall. She cradled her head in both hands, and the blood from her left hand dripped down her tanned skin, splattering the cool grey pavement below. "Why? Why do the gods hate me so much? It's not like they do anything for us after all!" Her blue eyes flashed dangerously. True, a Griffin might not have warranted this much of a reaction, but combined with the day's events it most certainly did.

Silena shrugged her shoulders vaguely as she shifted from foot to foot. She could hear Sonya muttering, "Damn gods, making us their slaves. It's not like they do anything for us!"

Four girls ran into the alleyway, all of them dressed identical in jeans and a light silvery jacket of some sorts. They emitted a faint silver glow as well. A brunette stepped forward, her eyes raised questioningly in the direction of the five. "Sonya Rita Yew?"

Sonya crossed her arms and answered cautiously. "Yeah. Who are you guys?"

"I am Willa, a Huntress of Artemis." Willa responded. Her hazel eyes regarded Sonya disdainfully. She gestured to her comrades, "These are Mara, Carmen, and Erin." Mara had brown hair as well, paired with light blue eyes. Carmen was Hispanic, with long black hair and onyx eyes. Lastly, Erin had strawberry blonde hair and bright green eyes, with a splash of freckles across her nose. The foursome looked around 12, young and innocent, but their eyes betrayed the years that have passed.

Erin narrowed her eyes at the sky, searching for the Griffin that Sonya was yelling about. She calmly notched three arrows, and let them fly. They soared through the air gracefully, and punctured its eye. During Sonya's little tantrum, the Griffin had come closer than they had realized. With a piercing screech, it fell as the other three Hunters let fly a torrent of arrows at the beast. It disintegrated into golden dust that covered the triplets, much to their surprise. Sonya released a pent up sigh as she ran a hand through her tousled blonde hair agitatedly. "Okay. So, are you guys going to help us to camp?"

Erin nodded as she scoped the street. "Yes, we are here to escort you to that silly camp. Come now, we must leave. But first, who is who?"

Lydia smiled slightly as she began the introductions, pointing to each person as they were named. "Allie, Josie, Silena, Sonya, and I'm Lydia, pleasure to meet you."

Carmen nodded impatiently as she strolled out onto the street, headed in the opposite direction of the airport. Willa followed her closely, and the group of five did as well, taking this as their cue. Erin and Mara led up the rear, hands constantly twitching towards their bows.

Silena cocked her head in confusion. "Aren't we supposed to be going on an airplane?"

Mara laughed a bitter laugh in response. "Of course, if you want us to get blasted out of the air by harpies, griffins, Stymphalian birds, the works. Our scent must be so irresistible at the moment," She paused and released an arrow with a soft twang, impaling a nearby harpy. "We prefer land routes. Much less messy, and more to hunt down here. Easy escape routes, nature, and away from the atrocities of men." She spat out the last words in disgust, each of them dripping with poison. Her tone was loathsome, as if by saying that she would be killed by the words' sheer venomous quality.

Carmen shook her head in the front of the group, calling back, "Mara, let's not scare them in public. It's much better to do that when you're alone, and they can't run." Her voice took on an evil quality as Josie turned to Silena, doubt in her eyes.

"Lena, why are we going with a bunch of strangers into the wild again? Um, abduction much?"

Silena stifled a small laugh at her friend's question, merely shaking her head in response lightly as she moved over to Sonya, while Josie drifted towards Mara and Erin, striking up a discussion involving something about flying burnt sienna pandas doing the polka into oncoming traffic. Confused? Yeah, so was everyone else.

Sonya was shooting glances at the four Hunters, each gander filled with an unknown pain. Silena hesitated to go over, debating in her mind if she should ask Sonya what was wrong or not. In the end, she settled on leaving it for a different time. Silena instead drifted over to where the triplets were. Allie was glaring at Josie murderously, while Lydia was rolling her eyes at the two. "Hey guys, what's up?"

Josie cast a furious glance at Allie. "SHE thinks that we should just come back home since we have no freaking idea where we're going!"

Offended, Allie scrawled something on her notepad and shoved it at Lydia, who read aloud, "That was you, numbskull. I thought we should have stuck with where Silena was going."

Silena sighed, running a hand through her hair. This was going to be a long trip.

Umm. . . I'm not really sad about not updating sooner, sorry. I don't feel like a lot of people are reading this, and I have no idea where I'm going with it so I'm just going to stop now most likely. Please review and tell me whether I should discontinue this or not, it would be nice to know.

-psylocke13