Just a Regular Hunting Trip? (Open/Hunters of Artemis)

Sandra Deak - The Huntress with an Attitude

    Sandra walked into the hunter’s camp with a very stern posture and strict face. She was still rather angry about her argument with one of her close friends and fellow huntress. Lucy had been completely out of line and she did not know why. She would talk with her later, and try to be as civil as she could. She and a small group had travelled from Camp Half Blood and to the new location of their campgrounds. Sandra had dismissed the group and went straight for Lady Artemis’s tent.

Taking a small breath and then straightening herself up, she opened the flap to the tent that held the goddess. She walked in and gave a bow. Raising she went over to where Artemis stood. She looked at the map that the goddess was examining. Having herself not even know why they were summoned back for this hunt, she decided to bring it up.

“M’lady, why have you requested our presence here? I understand that its a hunt, but do you have any other information for me?” Sandra asked as she examined pins that were stuck in certain areas on the map. Something must be on the move. She put her full attention as the goddess spoke.

“Sandra, I will give you some information now, but the rest must wait for when the others come. 3 of our hunters have gone missing. Kidnapped by a monster. Their names are Stephanie Rodriguez, Elizabeth Tombs and Diana Tesla. They all went missing at the same time.” Artemis finished as she pointed to the first dot on her map. “If I’m correct, the monster is heading east and all 3 of the girls are in a state of deep sleep. Once the other two arrive, I’ll explain the rest.” Artemis finished.

Sandra looked once more at the map. She doesn’t understand how the hunters could’ve been captured. Shaking her head, she went and stood next to Artemis. She looked up when one of the girls she travelled with walked in. Alka. She gave a nod at the girl and watched as she greeted Artemis. Taking the girls posture and remembering the girls mother was Hecate, she concluded the girl to be a good one to have on the hunt. The tent flap opened once more a few minutes later. Lucy walked in. Hiding a scowl she nodded to the girl, yet wanted to give her a stern talking to for her disrespectfulness. Even so, Lucy was a good person to have on the team. But she would actually have to listen to her or it would end very badly.  

"Ladies, I have called upon your help. 3 of our fellow hunters have gone missing. They have been captured by a beast that you may or may not have heard of. The chimera. I do not want the information I give you to leave this tent. I am sending just the 3 of you because how long you have been at the demigod camp. This hunt will require cooperation, skill and strategy. You will leave tonight and head to where I believe the monsters next stop will be. Colombia, Ohio. You have 3 days to get there and find the beast. Do not fail me." The auburn hair goddess finished as she looked over the girls.
              

Lucy of course listened intently to Lady Artemis and their predicament. Though Lucy was still a bit skeptical 'why us?' I mean Lucy could understand Sandra and herself but Alka. In Lucy's eyes she was still fairly new to the hunt not yet breaking the century barrier, but Lucy had reminded herself not to underestimate anyone that was one of her fatal flaws.
When Artemis finished giving them the details and gave them little bags of food and some emergency supplies, Lucy immediately and quite aggressively shoved the contents and her other bag before tossing the empty bag on the ground.
The three girls stood outside waiting to group up and make a plan. They had three days and that ment no time to waste, so when Alka suggested dinner Lucy laughed.
"She just handed it to you" Lucy said gesturing to Alka's bag. "And don't worry if we run out of food we can just go to a Monster Donut or something." Lucy said continuing to payfully tease Alka.
"No but seriously, three days? We should leave now." Lucy said getting rigid all of a sudden. "What do you think Lady Sandra?" Lucy asked through clenched teeth.
Lucy saw in Sandra's eyes she wanted to talk to her, and Lucy wanted to talk to her about it too but not now they had to focus. Lucy saw Sandra was going to say something she's decided that she better split just incase Sandra was planning to chew her ass out.
"However I have to change and um... you two should head to the library tent and see if you can find anything useful. We will meet and plan there, okay? Okay" Lucy said cutting off whatever Sandra was going to say before Lucy backed out and headed back to her tent to get changed.

Alka had pressed her lips together in a thin line upon Lucy's reaction to her suggestion, dropping her brown eyed gaze to the floor momentarily, wanting to argue that Lady Artemis had said the food was given to them for emergencies, not their dinner for the night. Alka had been planning on saving as much as she could for the sisters they were setting out to rescue, because they probably hadn't eaten anything if they were fast asleep. Before Alka could argue, Lucy had asked Sandra here opinion, but soon after had left Alka and Sandra standing in place without words.
Alka watched Lucy walk away towards her tent. The daughter of Hecate glanced up at the young Lieutenant of Artemis after hearing her speak. Sandra's intellectual eyes reflected a raging storm, so Alka listened quietly and nodded along to her words in agreement.
"Good plan," Alka assured her. She couldn't help but feel better that Sandra had looked at her for input. Although she was many years younger than Alka, she had earned the respect of Lady Artemis very quickly. The Goddess had seemed to see promise in the young daughter of Athena. She had an intensity about her that intimidated Alka slightly. Lucy was much older than Alka, and a very experienced huntress. Between the two of them, Alka felt slightly more out of place than usual among the maidens. "We should start heading to the library if we plan to read up the Chimera," Alka continued. "But first I'll need to drop into my tent to get my bag."
Alka silently praised herself for having been to sleepy to unpack her things she had brought to the hunters camp from Camp Half-Blood. She didn't want to have to re-pack her old satchel bag in preparations for this quest.

Alka began to head into the direction of her tent. Sebastienne padded close to her side, reminding her with a surprise that he was still there. The fox usually kept his thoughts to himself around the Hunters. On more than one occasion he had angered a maiden with his sarcastic tone and dry remarks. He so often forgot that when they were in camp, Alka wasn't the only one who could hear him. Instead, he only communicated to her with body language and his amber eyes, unless he was spoken to by a Huntress.
Once they had reached the tent, Alka quickly made her way towards her packed bag sitting limply at the bottom of her messily made sleeping bag.
Alka quickly rolled the sleeping bag up tightly, a skill she had perfected after years of having to do it, and stuffed it into the over the shoulder, silver bag that she carried around with her on hunts. Alka threw her bag over her shoulder and invited Sebastienne to perch there as well, tapping her shoulder lightly with her fingers.
The fox wasted no time and lightly leaped onto her shoulder, gripping the fur lined vest she wore with his front claws to hold himself up. He let his bushy tail fall along with the curve of her back.

as Alka exited the tent she was greeted by the sight of Sandra. She gave her Lieutenant a nod and they began making there way towards the tent that held valuable ancient Greek books.
Alka was a very studious girl. She'd even gotten a little bit excited when Sandra had mentioned they read up on the Chimera. She was going to try her luck at finding some spell books that might come in handy as well. Artemis' library was stalked full with books written about Greek monsters. It's collection possibly consisted of every reliable book ever written on the subject, but to Alka's dismay, the eternal huntress hadn't stalked the library up on many magic books.
When Alka had been taken to Artemis' camp, she had basically had to go into magic completely blind. She had tried finding books on spells, but there had been so little, and none of them covered much of the fundamentals she needed to learn first. It would be a few years later until Alka would meet her mother for the first time, and be given a few books that she now kept safely in the library to study from. If Alka were unfair, she might even steal some of the Hecate cabin's magic books from Camp Half Blood and store them in Artemis' library. Nowadays, in her age of 88 years old, Alka was a very skilled witch, having soaked up all the information she could possibly get from the resources she had.

The library tent was large, stalked with books of all genre's and sizes. If Alka hadn't been a child born of magic, she would never have believed that there was a possible way to have this tent set up and moved so often. Alka knew, however, that Artemis had her ways that made her camp a lot easier to keep.
Alka's doe eyes scanned the tent before they fell on Sandra.
"Well, I guess we should get cracking," she said as she hiked up the elbow-high finger-less arm warmer gloves she wore to conceal her forearms.

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