Luna entered the cabin and put her bow and quiver on one of the hooks by the door. "Find someplace to sit. I have to go speak with Artemis privately. Feel free to look around, but don't touch anything. We've set up traps in case intruders, mainly boys, enter the cabin. Once you have your silver aura, if you get it, you can touch the things without setting off the traps." Luna walked into another room and closed the door, the lock clicking a few moments after.

"My lady." She bowed before Artemis. "We have a new recruit: Mira Levine, daughter of Hecate. She slayed a small dragon." Luna described the dragon, and Artemis seemed a bit surprised.

"Yes, I've the girl before." the thirteen-year-old goddess replied. "You may send her in."

Mira knew about the traps - she had figured there was some sort of defense mechanism - but she hadn't known for sure. Now Mira was glad that she hadn't touched anything on her previous visits. Mira didn't need to look around - she had memorized the cabin - so she sat down on a chair and politely waited for the Huntress to return.

After a while and low murmuring heard behind the door, Luna poked her head out. "Mira, please come in. We're ready for you." She hoped that this went well. A lot of the Huntresses had recently broken their vows not to fall for boys, maybe it was because there were a LOT of boys around the camp and in the outside world, or maybe it was because they had angered Aphrodite after having to capture Cupid for Artemis' own purposes. The previous leader of the Huntresses had broken her vow and Luna, being the next oldest Huntress that hadn't fallen for a boy, became the leader. It had been hard and she wasn't that good at leader stuff, especially since she was so shy and because her Irish accent was still thick, but right now, she couldn't focus on that, she needed to put all her focus into building their numbers. Right now, there were just about 6 of them, all aged 12-14. She lead Mira to the middle of the room and closed the door behind them. The wall had wolves in a forest howling at a full moon in a sky full of stars that actually glimmered like true stars. Mira blinked as she entered the room. As she entered the room, a chill of fear shook through her as she remembered a quest of the Huntresses... a quest to capture Cupid. Artemis disappeared before Mira could see her.

"Mira Levine." a soft, but serious voice echoed around the room. "The leader of my Huntresses tells me that you are interested in joining. You do know that to earn certain abilities, you have to give up certain rights, yes?"

Luna whispered, "It's Artemis, be respectful and you'll be fine. Don't mention boys unless she does first."

"I do know that and I recognize it. I have no desire to these... Rights." Mira acknowledged Luna's whisperings, but Mira was too overcome by the presence of her heroine... who also happened to be an all-powerful goddess.

"Very well." A silver beam of light surrounded Mira. When it faded, she was surrounded by a silvery aura. "Welcome to the Huntresses of Artemis, Mira Levine. May the gods protect you, always." "Thank you, my lady!" Mira gasped as the aura arose from her. "I won't disappoint you, lady." Laughing happily, she embraced her friend. "Glad to be here!"

Luna smiled and hugged Mira. "Welcome to the cool club. Mano immature boys, staying young forever, and traveling all the time."

Laughing happily, Mira embraced her friend. "Glad to be here!"

Luna smiled. "C'mon, the other Huntresses arrived while you were getting your aura. I'll introduce you to the 5 other girls. Now that we have you, it makes 7 of us, which is almost half of the number we had before the quest with Cupid and Aphrodite. We'll fill you in on those details later." She said as they walked out of the ceremony room into the main room, where 5 other girls were strewn throughout the room, chatting amongst themselves.

Mira shivered. "Yeah... Yeah, okay." She followed Luna.

Luna smiled, trying to comfort the new huntress. She walked her around and introduced her to the other Huntresses before both of them sat down on a couch. "We're leaving after Capture The Flag tonight. You ready to go out into the real world? Travel? Fight monsters?"

"Again?" Mira pondered that thought. "Well, as long as that weird man doesn't follow me, then I'm all set for it! I can't remember where I put my bow and arrows, though...I think they're my minty gum. I have to get all of my gummies, gums, and fruit snacks together. So what are we doing when we leave? Anything in particular?"

"Well, first things first, we gotta start your training so you can come with us on missions and hunts. Artemis already has another mission for us, so we'll have to do your training whenever we rest or make long stops. I have complete faith that you will be able to complete the training, maybe even earlier than normal." She stood up from the couch and fell back into a hammock to relax more after a long day of training the younger girls.

"Okay." Mira shrugged. "What's the mission she wants you to do? And what training do I need to go through?" Mira, who had a wild imagination, was faced with an insane image of herself walking a tightrope over an endless abyss. She shuddered.

Luna smiled, "It's nothing you can't handle. We'll work on fine tuning each of your new abilities, talking to animals, practicing archery since you aren't an Apollo kid or did archery as a hobby. Then, you need to learn how to work in complete unison with us, like a ninja, silent and deadly, but effective. Then we'll work on your teamwork skills with trust exercises and games." she looked down when Mira asked about the mission. "I know we're not supposed to have any emotions or feeling towards our missions...but...Artemis wants us to take some babies from their mothers, former huntresses, because they left the huntresses and broke their vow by marrying and having kids. We're taking the baby girls and we're going to raise them to be huntresses...most of us don't want to...but we have to obey Artemis' wishes."

Mira let put a great sigh of relief. "So nothing, like... Deadly or anything." She erased the abyss from her mind. "I am fairly good at archery... I could be better, of course, but I learned a lot from the man who stalked me." Mira recalled the memory - the man with one blue eye and one gray (or was it green?) and the thorny tail.

Luna's expression became a confused one. "A stalker? Human or Monster?" If Mira's "stalker" was still around, it could be dangerous for her and the huntresses, especially if it was a monster.

"Well... he exploded into dust when I killed him, so I'll assume it was a monster. He also had a thorny tail and one blue eye and one gray (or green) eye. He talked really funny - a weird accent that I couldn't place - but he's NOT immune to fire and a good dagger in his gut." Mira ended the description with a grin.

Luna breathed a silent sigh of relief at the mention that the monster was dead. "That's awesome, Mira. I'm impressed that you killed a monster on your own. Not many young demigods can do that."

"It was an accident." Mira explained. "A good accident, of course. It had me trapped in an alley and I accidentally set it on fire. But I stabbed it on purpose." Mira felt that she had to own up on the experience... after all, she didn't mean to kill the monster. She didn't know it was a monster... didn't know that she was really a demigod... had been scared out of her mind (not to mention half-dead) when she made it to Camp Half-blood. She wasn't a hero, she was just trying to survive.

"All the same, good work. You should go to your cabin and pack. remember, we're always going to be on the road, so pack only the essentials, and pack lightly. No technology, and be sure to pack both summer and winter clothes. We go to many different places, and not all of them are sunny. We leave first thing in the morning, right after breakfast, so you'll only get a chance to repack stuff like toothbrushes and toothpaste and other morning stuff. I'll see you back here after you've finished."

"I won't have to pack much." Mira informed the Huntress. "Most of my stuff is gum." Even her clothes would not be a problem... she only had three outfits for summer, spring, and winter (much to the disgust of the Aphrodite cabin). They headed out to train.