Chapter 25: The Huntresses
Lady Artemis ordered us to help the campers with the battle. The scissors were now our prey. They may be strong, but they're not very intelligent, nor are they fast. Their strength comes in numbers. Their weakness is separation. Like Artemis had taught us, we exploited that weakness. We destroyed them by separating them.
Finally, when the last traces of scissor were gone, the battle was over. Neesik came to us and thanked us for our help. "You did well."
We counted our losses. Two injured, none dead. All was well.
Sarah
"Wait- where's Thalia?" I asked the rest of the huntresses.
They shrugged. "Dunno." said one.
I asked around. The rest of the campers didn't know, either.
A horrible realization hit me. It seemed impossible but it was true. Thalia was missing.
Pranu
"YES!" I shouted and high-fived Alex. "WE WON!"
Bhavana got all huffy and said, "Ok, just stand there and ignore me."
I ignored her. Sarah ran up to me and asked, "Have you seen Thalia?"
"Umm..." I tried to remember whether or not I'd seen her. "No, at least I don't think so."
Sarah looked really disappointed. "That means... Thalia's missing."
"WHAT?" How could she be missing? "Is there any way I could help?" I asked.
"No, unless you can summon Thalia from thin air." Sarah looked really disappointed.
Summon from thin air.
"Last time I checked, my powers are limited to Poseidon stuff. But I think I know someone who can."
"You wish for me to 'summon Thalia from thin air'?" Raven clearly wasn't happy with the idea.
"Yeah. You can do that with stuff, so why can't you do it with a person?" I asked.
"Simply because it is not necessary." she replied. "Thalia has her own quest, as so will you."
"What?" Seriously, why was Raven talking about quests? "We don't even have a quest yet!"
Before I could ask any more, Raven vanished into the light.
At the campfire, Neesik made this big speech thanking the Huntresses. As far as I could tell, nobody was missing except for Thalia. There were dozens of injured ones; mainly Hermes kids who'd forgotten about how explosive their explosives could be and hadn't gotten far away enough.
We had a feast. Caiyi and the other more serious people were having their own discussion instead. Everyone was eating and laughing and celebrating their victory. Then, Caiyi shouted something out. Suddenly, Jessica jolted upright and her eyes glowed green. The entire camp fell silent. She was about to issue a prophecy!
Excerpt: Shirley
I made camp for the day. I began to crawl into the sleeping bag but stopped short when something hard and sharp poked my foot. I reached inside the sleeping bag and to my surprise found Aurore Boréale, my missing bow (thanks to Raven). I examined it for any damage and found none. The quiver full of arrows lay beside it. There was a note stuck to the quiver. It read: You're welcome.