I know.
A woman smiled as the young, pretty girl came up to her desk. "What can I do for you, miss?"
Mira set her knife on the desk, her now gold eyes sparking. "I want to know everything about the letter Casey McClooney sent, and I want to know it now. Huntress business."
The woman's expression changed and she nodded. "Cupid...threatened some of the employees and Casey, who was delivering the letter. He also told Casey that he would hurt her the same way he hurt Mira. I don't know who that was. I'm assuming it's you. Anyway, Casey looked terrified and gave him the letter immediately. I'm warning you. Don't go after Cupid, he's not the kind of person you wanna mess with."
"I'm sorry." Mira was so mad that she was literally glowing with the power of the Mist. "Going after Cupid... those things you can't control. I'm going to get Casey, and if Cupid dares try to stop me..." Mira let the woman imagine what would happen. She disappeared, still holding her dagger, and materialized next to a sleeping Luna. "WAKE UP!" Mira screamed so loud that the Mist rippled.
Luna screamed and sat up. She grabbed her bow with squinted eyes and drew it aiming it at Mira. "Oh, Gods, Mira, you scared the living life out of me. What's the emergency?" Quinn entered the tent to see why Luna had screamed, but Luna explained what had happened and Quinn left the tent immediately to assure the other huntresses. Luna sighed and sat down, setting her bow down beside her.
Mira told her what the woman had said. "I will not let him hurt Casey." Mira growled. "If it costs me my own..." Mira shut her mouth to keep her from finishing the sentence. "If he even looks at Casey I'll teach a few lessons about love." Mira knew she may have said to much, but she was too mad to care.
Luna sat her down on the sleeping bag and sat herself down beside Mira. "Mira, calm down. Is Casey a mortal? IF she is, wemight be able to take her under our protection. If she's a satyr or demigod, that's even better."
"She's a mortal, as far as I know." Mira promised. "Besides, it says in the letter that she's mortal. Please, please bring her under our protection. Please." Mira didn't care that she was begging, or that she was near tears. She just wanted to see Casey again, to see that she was safe.
Luna nodded. "I don't know how she'll react to us taking her. So it's your responsibility to find her and bring her in. Please explain what our mission is first and what we do here before you bring her in. Make sure she packs stuff for traveling all the time and proper shoes. Go, now. Find her, and Godspeed, Mira."
"Thanks, Luna." Mira said, relieved. The Mist rippled, and she disappeared.
She re-appeared some time after with a girl around her age, with a bag full of gum packs. They were talking intensely, switching between Ancient Greek and Latin, but soon after they appeared the girl turned to Luna, and her eyes clouded over with shock. She had ginger hair and green eyes, a bit red from lack of sleep, and she looked vaguely familiar. She held her hand out to Luna.
"Hi, I'm Casey. You must be Luna. I remember you very well. I remember when you joined the Hunters... you were very small, but I had faith in you. I always did."
Luna looked surprised. "How did you know about...when did you see me...I've never met you..." she turned to Mira, waiting for an explanation.
Mira gave no explanation, she simply gestured for Casey to go on, and she obliged. "You see, Luna... I was a Huntress in my previous life. When I died at the hand of Orion, I was given the choice to go to Elysium or Isles of the Blest. Well... obviously, I chose Isles of the Blest, and I was reborn into a new life... a mortal, of course, but I was at least alive. I didn't realize what I was - or who I was - until I was around 12. Then I started using my knowledge and was going to go find the Huntresses... but I found Mira instead. So I took care of her, I kept her... and then she left. I started getting visits from Cupid, and... he hurt me." Casey heaved a great sigh. "It was the worst when I sent you your letter, Mira. I know you got it... you told me twice already."
"Was your name the same when you were a Huntress? I don't remember any Caseys. But then again, I was pretty young when the Huntresses battled Orion. That was what...9..10 years ago?"
"Around that time." Casey agreed. "No, my name was not the same. What was it, Mira?" Mira shrugged helplessly, a reminder that she was not in the Huntresses at that time. "Well, then. I was Phoebe, I believe. I came out in the mortal world at the age of... five, was it?" Mira nodded. "I found when I regained all of my memories of my past life that I was quite... different, per say." Here a faint blush could be found in Casey's cheeks. "All the more reason for Cupid to come after me."
"Wait...Phoebe Warren? No wonder I didn't recognize you!" She hugged Casey then sat back down on the cot. "Well, a lot has changed since you died. We were all devastated. But we went after Cupid about 2 months ago. Aphrodite then made all the huntresses over the age of 15 fall in love. Even...Hadley and Anna left and they were only a couple months older than I was. As the oldest, I became leader and everyone here is younger than me. They have a lot of heart though and I've drilled all the army and unison stuff in them, just like Dani taught us...she died a couple weeks after you did...battling a hydra." She looked down, remembering all the previous huntresses and the girl who had been leader when they had battled Orion, and when Phoebe had been, well, Phoebe, and not Casey.
"Yep." Casey grinned and returned the hug. "Wait... Hadley and Anna both left?" Casey's eyes brimmed over with tears. Mira immediately went to comfort her, and Casey blushed a bit. "If you don't mind... can I rejoin the Huntresses? It sounds like you'll need me more than ever now." It was sort of ridiculous, this centuries-year-old girl asking permission to return to her long-time home of a girl not even a twelfth of her age, but Casey didn't seem to view it as such.
"Fine by me. It's good to have you back, Pheebs, or Case, but I'm still gonna call you Pheebs, reminds me of the good, ole times when everyone was still here." Luna grinned.
Casey smiled. "Okay. I'm going to get myself re-acquainted with everyone." She left, and Mira stared at the doorway. "She's... amazing.."
"You should've seen her when she was a huntress. She killed a hydra with 7 arrows in one shot, killing it instantly while 7 huntresses on the ground burned the necks so it couldn't grow new heads. Pheebs was like my big sister. She taught me the ropes and looked out for me."
"Yeah." Mira sounded bitter again. "She's a new person now, though. She's not the Phoebe of old... she's Casey, too." Mira sounded like she was trying to convince herself. She got up and left the tent.
So, there you go! Don't worry, Arrow and Wyatt haven't been forgotten. Please, please review!
