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~Chapter 2: Chaos 2: Artemis!
It was a full moon night. The moon was shining, the owls were flying and the crickets were chirping. Everything seemed perfectly normal with nothing out of place. But it was definitely not true with a certain goddess and her all girl group of immortal hunters.
Artemis, as the goddess of the moon, is at her strongest during the full moon. The moon symbolizes her power and namesake, as well as her being her brothers opposite. Her brother is the sun, happy and bright, while she is the moon, using the sun's light to shine. It symbolizes the two perfectly, as one brightens the other up while the other one keeps the other in line. Both used for balancing the other. But that is not what tonight is about; it is about something totally different.
Artemis was seething in rage as she yelled all the curses known in the world in her mind at the culprit. Her hunters were in no better condition than her after they found out what the culprit did to their goddess and at the fact that they could not seem to find the culprit yet after so long. It's a blow to their pride as hunters, damn it! She and her hunters have been tracking the culprit for days! And they were no closer than before on finding said culprit. She feels as if the culprit was mocking her tracking skills, leading them in circles so they can't find them.
As they continue to track the energy trail in no success, Artemis was about to tear her hair out in frustration until her eye caught sight of another trail that was fainter than the one they were following, overshadowed by the fake trail. She grinned. Finally they found a hint. And this trail better be the right one or damn them that someone is going to find themself painfully dead.
Artemis straightened up and called out to her girls. "We found another trail! This one should probably be the real one! Let's head out and move!" A chorus of 'Yes!' was heard as they began packing their tents and removing the traces from the campsite as if they were never there. Artemis shouldered her bow and arrows and looked toward the full moon. 'Soon, we'll find them soon.' she thought, unaware of the eyes watching her in a nearby tree.
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Naruto is currently sleeping, curled up in a tree in the forest he arrived in. That is, until the bunshin that he placed to watch the moon goddess dispelled. He groggily opens his eyes and yawned as he jumped out of his tree and stretched a bit.
'Seems like she finally found the real trail. Since I'm already awake, why not do a few laps and stretches for warm-up before going back to the tree and wait? Maybe he can even catch a few more Zs as he waited for the goddess.' He nodded at the thought of getting more sleep. All of the time in the world certainly made him lazy. He stretched a few more kinks out of his back before starting at a jog, speeding up every few second till he was running at top speed in the size of a small dog. He doesn't want anybody to come here searching for what was making all of the racket if he were running in a bigger form, after all.
Half an hour of running, and a 2 hour nap later…
He tapped his tails impatiently, waiting for the goddess and her hunters.
Five minutes later, he was pacing in a circle, a straight line, and whatever other shapes he came up with to ease his boredom.
After another ten minutes of pacing, he finally had enough, and decides to do something productive to the goddess and hunters for making him wait.
He grinned foxily to himself as he thought about his latest prank and all the little preys he can catch in them. He was going to let them have it easy by not pranking them at first, BUT! They have tested his patience to the limits and he is NOT a patient being at all. Even if he is… how old is he? Ah, either way, it doesn't matter how long it's been, nor how old he is now, he is still not a patience person/fox damn them! But he is damn far more patient them before at least!
Either way, he's getting off topic. Back to the subject at hand of his brilliant prank, operation: Teach the Hunters and their Goddess a Lesson for Making the Most Bad Ass Being Ever, wait for Fuckin Hours! Hm, that name is a bit long. Let's shorten it to THGL! Which means Teach Hunters Goddess Lesson! All right. His eyes gained a light that makes even Hades shiver in fright and try to hide. Time to plan!
"First, these hunters don't seems like the girly type at all~! SO! Pink would be awesome for them! No wait! I think that those awesome color changing paint I made are still in my pocket dimension! How I love these seals! Either way, let's go with the blinding colors! Pink, orange, and gold! I'll make them so shiny they'll blind themselves! Let's not forget it can only be washed off with alcohol!" he laughed devilishly at that. They will never wash it off! Even if they did, they will smell like drunks for days! "Mwahahahahahahaha!" he laughed with his crazed grin.
"Next! Let's dig holes for pitfalls! And bury them to their heads, while some of them will be dangling from their legs upside down while I rig some bugs to fall! Oh, and lets ask some skunks for the ones in the ground. Ah, I'm so glad I learned how to talk animals. You can never know when it'll be useful~!" The reason why Naruto learned how to talk to animals in the first place was because he was extremely bored. You can never know what boredom can drive people to do, and apparently it actually drove him to learn how to talk to animals! HIM of all people to learn something like that!
Then again, he was called the most unpredictable ninja of all times during his era. He nodded to himself, chest swelling in pride at his title. It is an awesome title, DAMN YOU ALL HATERS! "Either way, it's time to make some traps and call in some skunks for a few favors." He whistled to himself as he trotted through the forest at an even pace, anticipating when the hunters would come and give them his welcoming present.
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Artemis and her hunters are currently entering another forest, following the trail.
Artemis and her hunters has been strangely getting chills for the past few minutes, each one worse than the other as the minutes crept by. She shivered again. Something seriously bad is going to happen. Both she and her hunters know that distinctly. They just hope that it isn't that bad, but they are probably just wishing for something that is out of wishes control. They at the very least hope it isn't something humiliating like the Olympians, but… all of the chills seems to tell them to prepare. 'PREPARE FOR WHAT IS TO COME! AND SURVIVE IT NO MATTER HOW AWFUL IT IS! AND IT IS EXTREMELY AWFUL! WORSER THAN ANY IMAGINATIONS THAT YOU MAY COME UP WITH!' Is what their sixth sense seems to be telling them. They unconsciously grouped together more as the trail led them deeper into the forest, praying for their safety and sanity.
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Eyes gleamed in anticipation among the treetops as the owner of said eyes watched the hunters walk through the forest. Naruto licked his lips, as they walked closer, and closer, until… there!
"Kyahhhhhhh!"
"What the-?!"
"My lady!"
Naruto mentally high five himself and patted his back for a trap well done. Now, for the bugs and skunks, he gave a mental command for the skunks to come to duty and for the bugs to start raining. He cackled in his mind as he rubbed his paws together, preparing multiple cameras in each of his ten tails to take pictures for blackmail material. How he love blackmails and cameras along with paints of humiliation! It always work wonders on those that don't want to listen to you. He also put silencing seals on the cameras so they won't make a sound.
"Eww! Bugs!" several that were dangling in the air by their ankles cried out.
"Nooooooo! Skunks! Disgusting!" The ones in the ground screamed. Artemis herself was one of those. Snicker.
'Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclic k!' and the cameras went off in quick succession as he gathered his prize. After he got his materials, he quietly put them away before putting on his best acting face of total, utterly cuteness. He first checked his face. 'Ok! Perfect angel face! Expression? Check! Body size? Check! Big blue eyes? Check! Wings? Hidden! All ready! Time to get moving!' And he slowly popped his head out of the trees in which he was hiding in.
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'My senses are going off at lightning speed.' Artemis thought. 'What's going to happen?' She carefully checked her surroundings. Everything seems fine and ordinary. But her heart was beating wildly as she checked her surroundings until-"Kyah!" a scream tore out of her throat as she was dragged into the ground up to her head, as her hunters too, were either dragged into the ground or hanged upside down.
'What in Hades name is going on?' They all thought, and paled when they saw skunks slinking toward them along with bugs raining down from the trees. Not to mention that before all of that happened, they were hit by some kind of bullets which happens to be paint bombs and were now changing colors as they were all in their various state of humiliating doom.
'This is the worst thing ever that has happen to her! Why did this have to happen in the first place?!' Artemis thought gloomily and angrily.
"When thy catch thou. Thou shall be doomed even worse than hell!" Zoe yelled out as she was hanged upside down, her face turning red from the blood rushing to her head.
'Rustle!'
They all look toward the sound, waiting for whatever it is to come. 'Is it another trap? Please no Chaos!' wwas the general thought rushing through their minds, until they saw a little head poke out from a nearby bush.
Some of them melted at the sight. It was a tiny fox! It looked to be about the size of a baby one! It was golden in color along with those blue, blue eyes. It looked just liked a little angel. Many wanted to cuddle and pet it but they could not in their situations.
Artemis meanwhile narrowed her eyes suspiciously. It was a fox. And foxes are tricksters. Her suspicion was confirmed when it fully walked out of it hiding place. It had multiple tails like the foxes in Japanese legends. It is most likely the one that put them in this situation in the first place. And it is probably also the culprit since the trails ends here. But first, she has to get her and her hunters out of their current problem.
A few minutes later…
They were all on their knees in tiredness, and depression on their appearance and humiliation. They can't show their faces to anyone right now in their condition with the paint colors changing every few minutes.
Artemis sighed tiredly. Foxes are starting to be on her hit list. She climbed up to her feet and glared at the fox. "That was your doing wasn't it?" she asked. The fox merely looked at her innocently with his head cocked to the side. She was so not buying it.
"First you have multiple tails while normal ones only have one, next, you were hiding here all along, and the most important thing that Japanese folk tales often portrays about foxes is that they are tricksters." She told him with her hand on her head, rubbing it. She is now getting a huge headache. She looked toward the sky. How she hates her job and life right now and hope that no one sees her condition right now-
"Yo Artemis/Little sis!" Two voices called out happily from behind her. She froze. Darn! She cursed herself by thinking about! She robotically turned her head around, sweating bullets hoping she was wrong. They really were here! She sank to her knees in depression, humiliation and resignation. 'Why?! Why gods why?!' she asked herself.
"What the heck happened to you guys?" Hermes asked her, and Apollo nodded in agreement. Artemis merely pointed at the fox, no longer having the energy to talk. She wanted to die! 'How bad is her day going to be?!' She cried mentally.
Apollo walked over to the fox with Hermes behind him and picked up the fox. "This little guy? Are you sure Arty? I mean, besides the tails which are unusual, he looks totally innocent!" Apollo exclaimed.
The fox suddenly gained a glint in his eyes that Hermes recognized immediately as he himself had that glint quite often, but he was not fast enough to dodge what the fox planned for them, thus, both were dripping with paint that was rainbow colored a few seconds later.
"…" "…"
"See what I told you two." Artemis scolded in an accusing tone. She was right damn them!
Apollo and Hermes were speechless. Where did the fox get the paint bombs from anyways, and why them too? What did they ever do to him and his species? Even though he looks really cute and innocent, he sure is the devil himself.
Apollo popped a vein. 'How dare this little guy do this to me? He's going down!' he thought before he tried to strangle him, but was stopped by Artemis. "Why did you stop me?' he whined to his sister.
Artemis finally gained the strength to get up and folded her arms together and told him her reason of stopping him, "Because, this fox is probably the culprit that did a makeover on Mt. Olympus and made us go in circles before springing that trap on us. We should be bringing him to father now so that he can decide what to do to this fox. And I think this fox has something to do with the Japanese as they often have folk lords of foxes, and don't they have a fox god, Inari I think?" Artemis asked them.
"So you're saying this might be a pet of the Fox god," at this, Naruto popped a vein. He was no one's pet damn him and proceeded to scratch out Apollo's face before getting away and hid himself somewhere where they can't find him, but he could spy on them. Either way, Naruto got some interesting information. He hummed quietly to himself in the shadows.