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Lyndis was tired of the classes, she had tried to sit and be patient and quite but it was not something she did. It had been really tough at first, and she was working really hard to learn everything but her mind always wandered. She could not pay attention unless it interested her, and even then it seemed like the people purposely made it boring. How could an obstacle course be boring? Lyndis didn't know, but they made it so. The day had been a long tough one, she was threatened with not being allowed to go to the forge if she didn't straighten up. That was about the only punishment she could not stand. Sitting down and studying, writing, being scolded and the like were annoying but Lyndis would find sitting through the training worse. The physical punishments where nice; run around camp, exercise, perhaps faint from lack of energy after ward, it was good! Lyndis liked getting all her energy out so she wouldn't be bouncing off the walls when talking to Edmund, but not being allowed in the forge? That was cruel.

Today had been especially boring, all training to fight in a line. All people with their shields and swords, lined up shoulder to shoulder. Not that close they were touching, but shield walls and what not were defiantly happening. It was the same repetitive motions over and over again, Lyndis hated it. It was such a bore, and with minimal movement she thought she might go crazy. They always had to hurry and wait, hurry and wait. What was the point of standing around in heavy metal armor, walking around in straight lines only looking forward? It seemed crazy to Lyndis.

Lyndis grabbed a short bow and quiver full to the brim with arrows before running to the archery range. She did not want to stay still, she wanted to do something. She was tired of the heavy swords, they always felt heavy in her hands. It was the distribution of weight, Lyndis always had weapons that balanced much closer to the hilt than these roman weapons did. She had always used slashing, but these people used stabbing and thrusting more. Lyndis had habits when fighting, and they kept trying to break her of them. It was annoying. Throwing the quiver over her shoulder, Lyndis drew her bow as she ran up on the targets. She used a short bow, the arrows may not have the same weight and power as a longbow could, but Lyndis liked her fast little short bow. Before she even got to the line she wished to be at, three arrows stuck out of the red dot on her target.

Lyndis had found the moving targets, and that was where she practiced. She could not keep still while shooting, the target could not keep still, because Lyndis would get bored and often miss. Even with this, it was a little boring, there was no sense of danger. No sense of the hunt. After a little while of loosing arrows into a few targets leaving nothing but porcupines that continued to move back and forth Lyndis reached to find no more arrows. She sighed, and her bow arm dropped to her side. This places was boring sometimes, sure learning new things and seeing new things was interesting and fun, but the place as a whole lacked something. It lacked the dynamic her family, her tribe had. She missed them, all of them.

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It had been a good three months since Diana had last laid foot in the camp. Perhaps now was the best oppurtunity. She had heard that a lot of the Immortals had been spotted hanging around. Neptune, Mors, Mars, Mercury, and many more. It was a bit interesting. Usually the other immortals preferred alone time more than anything. Diana was the common one hanging out with humans, hence why she could always blend in well with them. She liked hanging out with humans, they were interesting creatures. Well, the women were. The male counterparts were just stupid in her opinion. Now, there was maybe one or two she could respect and to those she referred to them as men, not boys which was how others were usually greeted.

Diana tugged at the Camp Jupiter shirt she had borrowed. She was trying to pass for a camper. Her dark brown hair was tied into a ponytail. However, it was always hard to get rid of the godly aura that seemed to surround her. Plus, she looked way too good looking for someone who is suppose to be passing for fourteen. However, Diana really didn't like the puberty parts of being a kid so she just had herself skip through all that. Thanks to her Olympian status she looked good, yet by her own decision, she would always look like a fourteen year old. She walked into the field of Mars and inspected the campers. A lot of sweaty boys that it made Diana want to vomit. Who would willingly train with those animals?

The familiar sounds of an arrow reaching its target caught Dianas attention. She followed the sound and smiled upon finding the person who had shot the bow was a girl, a young girl too. She must have just recently joined the legion, or perhaps she had been here a couple of years already. It was always hard for an immortal to try to distinguish the age of a mortal.

Diana watched the mortal girl drop her bow arm. She seemed bored. Diana couldn't blame her. Practicing archery against dummies was nothing compared to hunting with her hunters. Everyday with the hunters was a new adventure. Something new to track and try to see who has the best aim when it came to killing the animal. Of course, lately her hunters have been missing their lady. They were in good hands though. Her commander of the hunters was someone Diana trusted thoroughly. Diana walked closer to the child, making herself known. "You have some nice aim. It could probably even make Apollo jealous." Diana said with purposely shooting her twin down. Heck, that was a siblings job.

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[aiden]

Aiden missed her parents. She missed her mom and her step-dad, she missed hanging out with her step-dad’s band and most of all, she missed getting her hugs. Aiden wrote a letter to her parents, added a few pictures she had taken of some of her cohort members and people that she had been hanging out with. She told them about her crush on a boy and she wrote about how good she had become with the bow. Aiden poured her whole heart and soul into the five page letter. It’s not that she didn’t like her new life at Camp Jupiter; she missed the happy life she had back when she was still with her parents. Aiden constantly beat herself up for wandering off. She shoved the letter in her pocket before shouldering her bow and her quiver. She would be dropping it off in the postal office when she got to new rome later on.

The field of mars was pretty crowded. Mostly they consisted of a bunch of Mars boys that looked (and smelled) like it had been a good long time since they had showered. But as she made her way to the targets, boring targets but she would try to feel contented with the targets as they were. She craved a challenge. Aiden really wanted to get ahold of a horse and shoot something while running full speed. She would save her super shot moments for later, but right now it was two girls that had appeared to be speaking at the archery range. Aiden didn’t want to intrude and she didn’t want to be a pain so she walked up to a spare target, this one didn’t look like the proverbial porcupine, and put a hand on it. For a brief moment, she studied it. Aiden’s eyes ran over every detail that was in this particular target. After a good look over she backed up a good bit before she decided that it was a good enough distance to shoot her bow.

Aiden drew an arrow quickly and took aim. In about the span of a few close seconds, she felt the feather of the arrow tickle her cheek. Almost as briefly as she noticed it, Aiden slowed her breath and let it out slowly, the arrow leapt from the bow. Her breath slipped away from her as almost as instantly as the arrow. Her eyes watched as the arrow sped away from the ebony bow in her hands. She heard a thunk and walked over to the target. There was a smirk as she walked closer and closer to inspect the target. A bulls eye, it was genius.

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For someone like Lilith McKinnon, the best places to be were the Forum, the infirmary or the field of mars. She loved all about those places, in the forum and in the infirmary she could practice and train her voice which had been a gift from Apollo, and recently alone in the woods, she also practiced a song that Mors had given to her. it was a beautiful song from both side of her godly heritage. But she wasn't just an artist, which she hoped made Apollo proud. She was also a warrior, like any other roman in the camp and in the city.

She was a very good archer, in Apollo's words maybe she had accomplished ot be the best in the camp, also has a scythe which she train with, everyday to master it too. but when she felt really stressed out, she needed to practice with her Bow and arrows. so that day she came back from the so called training with her centurions, they thought that training was a joke, they thought that being in the fifth cohort allowed them to be lazy, well she wasn't going to be lazy, she wanted to be a good roman and would make her parents and godly grandparents so proud of her!

She put away her armor and put on only the archer's cover from arms, and chest. Then grabbed her bow, the same old long bow that her mother used to use, she smiled looking at the sign of Apollo on it, then she look up on top her bed and saw her quivler, there she had her arrows, the old quivler also had Apollo's sign, well that had been her mother's too. She grabbed it and hung it on her shoulder, then walked away from the cohorts, she also needed to see if her aiming hadn't changed or her determination in shooting.

Before, when Apollo visited her, she was the best but maybe because she was upset, she was pressured by all the things she had in her mind in that moment, but now... well her life seemed easier, happier... She loved her grandparents, both of them not just one and she was glad everything was better by that moment. Yet, she needed to prove herself that the perfection can also come in a calm and peaceful mind, not only in a wrathful one. So she ran back to the fields of mars. There she went to the side of the moving targets.

She got the correct stance and aimed at them, she tightened the cord of her bow, felt how the muscles of her back tenssed too, her arms were a part of her bow, she felt how it was in the perfect moment to let the arrow go, and she did. The arrow missed the first moving targets as she had wanted, and ended up in the heart of the furthest dummy. She smiled and then pulled another arrow, she heard a compliment and looked at her side. there was lyn, she had seen her around and other camper that she couldn't recognize. She looked atthem and smiled, she wanted to see how good Lyn was. She smiled and nodded at her and the other camper.

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Lyndis was not yet very good at finding the soft steps of someone on grass to be something one paid attention to. Sure somewhere in her ADHD ridden mind she heard them, but she was not fully legion trained yet. The voice of someone made her turn around, and there was a nice new face Lyndis had not seen before. A smile stretched from cheek to cheek as she turned to face the ned person completely. Whomever this person was she had complimented Lyndis on her archery, and had seemed to go out of her way to do so. "Thank you! My name is Lyndis, but you can call me Lyn." she said brightly. Even Lyndis could tell the woman was beautiful, and despite her normal absent mindedness she could feel something was different about the person who stood in front of her. Lyndis didn't care, she was another person who she could talk to and get to know.

Her bow was sling over her shoulder, and she placed the tips of her fingers together bringing them up to her face. She was very happy, and it showed. "I don't think I'm anywhere near that good yet, but I think I do an okay job. I didn't hit the red dot every time, but some how I don't seem as concentrated when it's not interesting. Hunting with my dad and the others was so exciting! You go pew with an arrow and if you don't get it you don't eat, or it attacks you. It's very exciting!" she said gesturing quite a lot as she usually did. Lyndis did not like to keep still, and there was very few things that could make her. She realized upon entering the legion that it was something she got from her godly half, but they could always put it off with something their parent seemed to do. Fortuna did not exactly have things Lyndis could sit down and concentrate on, in fact sometimes she felt her hyperness was worse than others. It could have also have to deal with the junk food they enjoyed eating. Lyndis always felt sluggish after eating those things, and they were gross. Who liked eating them?

It was not long before more people seemed to appear for the archery range, Lyndis looked around wondering if everyone got off about the same times. She also wondered why Edmund seemed to be in the forge as often as he was, wasn't he meant to go to practices too? She watched the people who came up, and they shot in a much more elegant fashion than Lyndis had. She could recognize it as the correct form, but it was so hard to control your breath, and your stance, and your posture, and the million and one other things her dad had told her. She would do it when in danger, she would force herself because it was dangerous. Slow and steady to get it right the first time made for less people getting hurt. Watching the arrows pierce far away dummies, much farther than what Lyndis had achieved, she couldn't help but clap.

"Wow, good job!" she said while clapping for both of them. "Can I see? I want to look too!" she exclaimed as she ran toward the dummies that had been shot, looking up close at where the arrows hit. She doubted she would be able to pull off such nice hits on a training dummy. When being attacked she always got one hit kills, but she often attributed that to her mother.

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Diana knew from the way the next few arrows flew exactly whose linage they came from. Both of them were her nieces, well one was her grand-niece but that was besides the point. Both of their shots mimicked the way Apollo shot his bow. Diana was always able to do better. However, if she shot with her silver bow she might give herself away as the goddess which she is. Or, best case scenario, they mistake her for one of her hunters. Perhaps she would show them how to really shoot later.

She smiled at Lyn as she explained hunting with her father. This was just the type of girl Diana needed in her hunters. "Sounds exciting! Though, I don't see how you can ever find that sort of excitement at camp. Didn't anyone tell you about the hunters. From what I have heard, it sounds like you would like it there." said Diana, trying to not sounds super informative on the subject. Didn't camper at least know somewhat of her hunters? They did visit from time to time, didn't they talk to one another and create bonds. Diana hoped so, at least with the females she hoped.

Diana kept smiling as Lyn walked towards the targets. Yes, they were good shots, as expected as someone related to Apollo. Still, Diana fully believed that her and her hunters had much better shots. Diana looked at the other two girls. "Nice shots. Are you two related to Apollo by chance?" Diana questioned, even though she knew the answer. Heck, even one of the girls bow and quiver held the marks of her twin brother. What was it with Apollo and always having to be known somehow. It seemed like everyone of his kids were very egotistical like Apollo and they absolutely adored their immortal father.

Diana smirked as a sudden idea came into her head. "Since it seems we all share a common interest why not make things interesting. Hope about an archery competition? Though, I might be at a disadvantage seeing as how you three have great shots. I just like shooting for fun." Diana said with an innocent smile.

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[aiden]

Aiden recognized Lyn strait out the gate as she crept a bit closer to try and figure out what was going on, also to re-examine the shot with a careful eye. Lilith was easily recognizable, a granddaughter of Apollo. She examined the target. “I’m off by three centimeters….” Aiden groaned as she pulled the arrow from the target. Lyn was easily amused by the shot. “I can’t be good if I can’t make perfect shots…” Aiden couldn’t help but mentally berate herself for being so stupid in being off in her shot. She grinned at Lyn sideways for a moment before putting the arrow back into her quiver. “Lyn one day we should get horses and try mounted archery. I’ve always wanted to do that.” Aiden said with a grin. She ran a finger over her bowstring, the sound making a wonderful twang as she plucked at it with a rough and calloused finger. The other girl however had something different about her. It was something off but Aiden put the feeling aside. She looked at Lilith with a smile. “What’s up?” She asked with a rock on salute.

“Apollo?” Aiden blinked for a moment before turning her head to the side. Then she mentally wanted to smack herself. “Oh…right… well he’s my dad or whatever. Not a very good dad at that.” Aiden said with a roll of her eye. “I grew up thinking I had one set of parents and then suddenly I’m here in the Legion being told I’m a demi-god who’s been claimed by Apollo. I’m not much in the way of his healing talents and I’m a fair shot.” Aiden shrugged her shoulders. Aiden ran a finger over the ebony and silver inlaid bow that had become her favorite thing to use. Not that she cared much for using melee weapons, Aiden knew that if it came to it, she would be able to kill something or someone before they got too close. If that was the case that they got too close, she could pull out a point blank shot and pin them to the ground without a problem and finish them off without a problem. Aiden never liked the taste of battle and it left a bad feeling in her gut. Aiden licked her lips as she wiped off her bow with a rag that she stowed in her back pocket to keep in safe arms reach.

“An archery competition?” Aiden tilted her head to the side. “I wouldn’t mind having some fun, but I’m not a very competitive person.” Aiden stated. “But if you want, that would be fine.” Aiden never really and truly turned down an archery competition. But if it was one thing, she knew better then to bet anything on a competition unless she was over a hundred percent sure that she could win. Right now she was boarder lining on about maybe ninety five percent. “But I think it would be fun. I’m game.” She said with a shrug of her shoulders.

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After smiling at Lyn and her new friend, she walked down the way to get her arrow. She was very careful to not get hit by the moving targets, she didn't want to stop them in fact that ditching would help her too to train, because sometimes an archer forgot about about the meele fight and it was something very important in a war. So she moved graceful ducking and spining to get to the end and get her arrow. When she got there she frowned and sighed. She looked at the place where she should have hit with the arrow. "almost an inch..." she said in a low voice and grabbed the arrow, then pulled it back and when she got it she put it back in her quibler.

If the dummy had been a living one, it would be dead on the ground, she wouldn't hadn't missed or spared its life, the arrow hit a vital point, but not the one she wanted to hit. She had been pushing herself a lot to become a perfect archer. Well Apollo had already told her that no one was perfect not even him. Well she wanted to be as perfect as a demigod could be and missing the real bullseye from time to time wasn't in her vocabulary if she wanted to be that good. She walked back to where she had been standing when she shot her arrow, she trained again ducking and snipping.

When she got to the place to shoot another arrow, she looked at Aiden and smiled back at her. She was kind of her aunt, but well she had been told not to think too much on the relatives relations she had in camp, she would get a killer migraine. Still Aiden was a good camper and a very good archer too. She held the bow on her left hand and was about to grab another arrow when the girl with Lyn asked if they were related to Apollo. Lilith lowered her bow and nodded at the teen. "yes, I'm proud to call him grandfather." she smiled and walked closer to where they were.

She smiled at the teen and shrugged. "But to make him feel proud of me, I still need a lot of practice." then she looked at Aiden she told them how Apollo wasn't going to get the prize to the best father. Lilith couldn't argue about it, he never saw her before the day he visited her in the same place where she was in that moment. She nodded at Aiden but smiled. "still he is great when you have the chance to speak to him, he helped me a lot with my vision about archery." Then she looked at the teen and thought about the idea of a competition.

She usually didn't do anything like that, she trained not to compete, but to get ready for war, but with Aiden there and Lyn, well it would be a friendly competition and it would be fun! She smiled and nodded. "I would love to be part of that competition, If Lyn also wants. By the way, my name is Lilith McKinnon" smiled at the new teen, because she didn't know her name.

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"Lady Diana's hunters?" Lyndis asked tilting her head to the side slightly. She had vaguely remembered hearing something about them but it was not a topic they seemed to elaborate on. A lot of the gods seemed to be more touch and go, and the few that was elaborated on were long drawn out stories about this or that and Lyndis could not for the life of her pay attention to it. "Maybe, I don't know. I might like it here. Ed is here!" she said with a smile. "Maybe when Ed leaves I might not like it here much." Lyndis thought for a moment before looking up into the face of the young woman smiling again. "I don't think I caught your name, may I have it?"

It wasn't easy to tell exactly how far the arrow where off target, especially since the red dots were so large. It would have been better if they made it smaller, maybe an inch like what she was used to practicing with at home. If it was withing that inch you pretty much got the kill, but Lyndis had seen the types of armor and shield practicing people did here. Obviously she had seen it first hand from practicing too, and she knew that the small spaces could be less than an inch. An arrow could barely fit if done correctly. She could not tell where the exact center of the target was, but she could tell when an arrow was off. While Lilith's had been pretty far off, she wasn't expecting it to be nearly an inch. No maybe that seemed about right, and Aiden's was barely noticeable. She wondered if she tried hard enough would she be able to tell how far off center she was? Would she actually be able to tell where center was exactly? Maybe.

Lyndis was always fairly bouncy when she walked, it could be described better as a trot than walking. In her normal bubbly voice she replied to Aiden. "Of course because if you don't get the perfect shot someone could die, but you defiantly need to do horse back riding! It's super fun, and I bet it would help you shoot better. I shoot better on horse back, maybe. I've never been shooting from a horse unless we were hunting. Maybe it was just the hunting. I don't know, it will be fun to try it!" The prospect of shooting her bow from horse back again was exciting, especially since her dad had only recently let her ride by herself. She never really got the hang of shooting and moving on a horse at the same time. The name Apollo rang a bell or two inside of Lyndis' head, and she nodded. "It doesn't matter who your biological mommy and daddy are anyway! Well maybe a little, but the people who raise you are your real mommy and daddy!" she said nodding. Her family was the group she grew up with, even if her biological mother was Fortuna she was never in her life, so Lyndis would probably greet her as a stranger. It was normal, since she would be a stranger.

"Archery contest? I can try!" Lyndis said with a big smile "But I won't underestimate people! You are all the biggest competition!" she nodded, as if that was the final say. This might make things a little more fun, a competition. Lyndis wondered how it would go and how well she would actually be able to shoot. She had her short bow with her after all. "Should I go get my long bow? I was just shooting for fun so I have my short one. Oh and I need to get more arrows too, I'll be back! Don't practice without me!" she said as she hurried off as fast as she could, promptly tripping and falling in the process. She was only down a moment before she got up again, obviously not learning her lesson she sprinted off again. It wasn't long before she came back with her long bow and a fresh set of arrows in the new correct size. She was breathing hard, but smiling from ear to ear.

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Diana couldn't help but laugh as her niece complained about Apollo. "Well I suppose he wouldn't be a good father would he. From what I hear he is very egotistical and a flirt and has no consideration for his own kin." Diana said with a smile, which probably made her sound weird, but it was her brother they were talking about. Couldn't she just enjoy making fun at him for a bit, it's not like he could hear them anyways. Even is he did what was he going to do? Threaten to seduce one of her hunters? Please, the odds of something like that happening was very slim. Her hunters simply didn't associate with Gods like Apollo.

Then the next mortal spoke. The one that was a grand-neice or something along those lines. Ah, she was right as the girl stated how Apollo was her grandfather. Diana smirked as she tried to imagine her twin brother being called Grandpa, he probably wouldn't like that at all. "I suppose he would like it for his kin to be good at the art of archery." Then she frowned. "I wouldn't call it great to talk to him. I would find it annoying and a waste of precious time that could have been used elsewhere." Diana said coldly. Granted, she was a bit biased, it was her twin brother and siblings have been known to not get along with one another. Though there were a good handful of times that Diana and Apollo got along fairly well. After all, if it wasn't for her twin Diana might have eloped with that Orion. Worst mistake of her life, that was the only man she had ever developed feelings for and she was about ready to go against everything she believed in, that was until Apollo tricked her into shooting him in the head with an arrow. Than everything went normal and Diana realized just how stupid she had been.

Then the adorable younger one, Lyn was it, asked about the Hunters. Diana nodded. "They are a great group. I would recommend them." She said with a smile to the child. Ah, but it seemed she was connected to an individual here. Ed was it? Hadn't Diana turned him into an animal a few times? Either way it was probably just the kid looking for someone to look up to. Diana doubted that anyone could love that boy in any sense so it was probably just a phase for the young one.

Diana smiled. "Since it seems we all agree on an archery competition we shall began. Though I'm not sure if I should join or proctor it. If you really want the Lady Diana to take part in the competition I would gladly do so." Diana said with a smile as she had her bow appear beside her with a quiver full of arrows. Since Lyn had asked, and Diana had a weakness when sweet innocent girls asked her stuff, she had decided to reveal herself. Though, she was looking forward to the contest, but she didn't want to make an unfair advantage for everyone either. She wasn't that mean.

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[aiden]

Aiden made a face as she heard Lilith talk about her dad (or in the case of Lilith, her grandfather). Her brow furrowed as she plucked the arrow from the target, a little bit of straw protruding from the hole the tip of the arrow made. “Why do people think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread?” Aiden grumbled as Lilith talked about how great it was to talk to him. The other kid, who had made friends with Lyn, spoke coldly about Apollo. Aiden could tell that she would get along with this girl a bit easier then she would with Lilith. Aiden just couldn’t understand why Lilith thought the sun shown from Apollo’s every orifice; the guy really was a bag of hot air. “Not to be rude, Lilith, but not all of us benefit from Apollo coming around and pointing out the obvious and spouting off random bits of poetry when we’re trying to train.” She remarked coolly. Aiden pulled another arrow before backing up to her previous place on the field before she took in a deep breath. She knocked the feather of the Arrow to her cheek, feeling the brief tickle before the arrow sped from the bow like a dog after a bit of prey. Aiden quickly shot another arrow right behind the first that leapt from her bow. There was the sound of a dull thud as the first arrow embedded itself in the target and then another thud and the sound of cracking wood as the second arrow split the first one down the middle. The thud from the first arrow was magnified as it was pushed through the fibers of the target and stuck itself deep in the wood bracing the target on the ground.

Aiden approached the target again, slinging her bow over her shoulder as she went to examine the target. “Ugh still a few centimeters off.” Aiden gave the arrow a tug, but it was stuck pretty fast. There was another good yank and the arrows were out of the target, leaving another hole in the rough spun fabric that covered the straw target. Aiden blinked at Lyn and gave her a small smile. “Maybe sometime next week we can go and do some practice on horseback. It shouldn’t be too hard to get the horses out of the stables. Or we can go down to the track in New Rome for practice, whichever you would prefer.” Aiden offered for Lyn. Aiden tended to leave out the people who worshiped her father like he was god’s gift to earth when in reality he was god’s gift to the bell curve. Okay so maybe he could be seen as the gods gift to the earth considering the sun was really needed to keep the land from becoming some cold, frozen wasteland of a planet. “You went hunting on horseback? Sounds like you have some awesome stories to tell.” She gave Lyn a grin before she tossed the splintered arrow aside, after pulling the arrowhead from the last bit of wood left. She wouldn’t be so stupid as to discard an arrow head; they were needed to make more new arrows. It’s not like people could just keep getting ore to make them with. Okay maybe some people could, but others couldn’t so it was best to recycle them.

“I’m Aiden Jaxson.” She introduced herself after Lilith did. Not that she was trying to be rude, but after all, Aiden had come here to practice and train, not to hang around and socialize. But when the other girl revealed herself, Aiden wanted to beat herself up for not realizing it. She was fairly good about recognizing gods, even if there were many campers that she didn’t care to know. “It’s a pleasure to meet you Lady Diana.” Aiden said with a bow. Though to be honest, Aiden was more apt to offer up prayers for a perfect shot to her then to her dad. “I’m still good with a competition, but whether or not you want to partake in it, M’lady, that’s all up to you.” She gave a smile as Lyn dashed off and then returned with a proper sized bow and quiver. The poor girl was heaving her chest up and down like she was out of breath. “You alright Lyn? Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth, deep breaths.” Aiden tried to encourage her.

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Lilith looked at them and remained in silence, she wanted to listen, she wanted to know why Aiden hated Apollo so much. also that new girl seemed to not like apollo that much either, but why? Then she knew why or had a slight idea of the reason. Apollo as the other gods, weren't the best parents that the world could have ever seen, so Aiden didn't like him because he had never be her father, he hadn't even visited her, not once! Well that was a real shame, he was a nice guy.

Then she looked at Lyn, she told them that parents were the ones that brought you up, not really the blood related ones. Then Lilith could remember her mother and father, aiden and Lyn were right. She felt so close to Apollo because of her mother who told her that he was an amazing father and grandfather, but the one that now she really loved and cared about was Mors, the one that had really cared about her, the one who in a way was bringing her up. "I'm sorry Aiden, I shouldn't have generalized it, and you are right Lyn, parents are who bring you up and family is the one that takes care of you." she smiled at the girl and then looked at Aiden, hoping she could forgive her quick words.

Then she opened widely her eyes, it was Lady Diana all the time! The new girl was the goddess, lilith felt as if she should bent and worship her, but then she thought that maybe the best way to do it would be in the competition, as her brother Diana liked the good archers, so why not? She would ofer her marks to her. "it would be a honor if you participate in it with us, but I know who would win." she smiled at her. "I would like to ofer my marks to you" Then she smiled again and looked at Lyn and Aiden. "I've never tried to shoot on a horse... but it must be exciting and fun!"

She said feeling the excitement in the tips of her fingers, she wanted to start that competitions, she had seen Lyn and Aiden, both of them were amazing archers and she would enjoy it very much!! "Aiden, Lyn, a competition with you will be amazing, you both are very good." she looked then at Diana when she told Lyn that she highly recomended the hunters to join to. Lilith looked at Lyn and then at diana again. She knew it was something crazy, she loved guys and even would dream to fall for one... but... She didn't know if that was really her destiny, maybe she wasn't destined for that, maybe she could help more to the legion and New Rome if she was immortal and helped Diana and the hunters.

Before she could think what she was about to pronounce, she just did it. "Lady Diana... what is needed to be a hunter?" she did it but didn't feel bad for it, she looked at Diana and smiled at her in an earnest way.

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"Yup! I have lots and lots of stories! I lives on the plains with my family group and we hunted and gathered all our food. We didn't stay in one place very long ans didn't have these weird solid structures. It was super lots of fun! Then at night around the fire we'd all tell stories about our days, so I have lots and lots of stories from my daddy and the rest of our group!" She said brightly, with little pausing for breath. It was something she was excited about and really truly loved talking about. Her family, her dad, all of them terribly missed. To little Lyndis they were the best people she could every met and the best family she could ever wish for. Though from her short time in the legion, Lyndis could tell that not everyone had very happy times with their families, which made her more and more thankful for her own. They were waiting for her to return, after she grew into an adult she'd get to see her dad again, and hunt with him as an equal. It would be great, if only it wasn't so far away.

The girl name rung a bell, and rung it rather quickly leading little Lyndis' mind down the track. Lady Diana, sister of Apollo and leader of the hunters. That she could remember, especially since they had just been talking about both. She had been picking on her brother then, and Lyndis couldn't help but smile widely. She could remember that at home, siblings were always hardest on each other but family was always family. "Yes please join us! It'll still be fun, and just makes us more aware of competition! I will do my best to beat you!" she said with polite enthusiasm. Lyndis was not going to back away from this, especially since she had been so fun to be with so far. Besides a little friendly game wasn't going to hurt anyone, and trying to beat someone was not going to have any terrible reciprocation. It's not like the gods did bad things because a mortal beat them anyway.

After Lyndis got back it seemed like Aiden was worried about her, but that was okay. She knew what she was supposed to do, just she wasn't doing it. Like nearly everything. She breathed in deeply through her nose, then slowly out her mouth. It seemed like a worse idea than what she was doing before, but everyone told her to do the same things. She supposed the older campers, and her dad, were probably right. She looked at Lilith as she talked to Lady Diana, still doing breathing exercises. After a little bit she got her breath back. She was a bit curious as to why Lady Diana had asked her to join the hunters also, it probably meant she already had the prerequisites after all. She tried to pick out of her brain something more about the Hunters, something that had been said about them in class. She could not remember anything at the moment, it seemed like everything they were going over was very generalized, she could only remember it was for young females only. Though she was not sure how young was young either. She seemed to perk up and listen a bit more at the question about the hunters, looking curiously at Lady Diana.

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Diana nodded courtly as Aiden did a bow in recognition of her. She was used to the bowing and all but as Diana was one of the few gods who associated the most with humans, she still found it a tad awkward. However, she kept up with the formalities. What really made her smile was the fact that the campers still wanted her to participate. They sure had some guts, throwing a goddess into a competition, and an archery competition too. Still, it excited Diana. Her hunters and her usually held archery competitions together, thought most times Diana reffed them, which was still fun, but not the same as actually joining in. By far, her favorite archery competition was with her twin, those were always the funnest because of the competition it brought and just the fact to spend some good quality time with her brother. They weren't always picking on each other or getting on one another nerves, that was only in public.

Then Diana heard the question from, Lilith, that was the females name right? Either way it was a question that Diana was always eager to answer with a sense of pride. She loved her hunters, they were her family. Even though people often joked on them or teased for being girls stuck in puberty shooting arrows around. That was actually a lie. Most of the girls in her group were quite younger. Usually between five and fifteen was the age range, but not a lot of girls were in their teens. Besides, even if they were going through puberty it stops and they get the glow of being a hunter, kinda confusing to describe but it happens.

"What is needed to be a hunter? Well, first of you must be a girl, obviously. You must never have fallen in love, ever. Boys are gross, remember that and love is gross. In order to become a hunter you must take an oath to serve me and to never fall in love with a guy. Read the story of Atalanta and you will find out what happens to girls who break that oath. As a hunter you will basically travel the world, hunting mythical creatures and serving me in the sisterhood that is the hunters." Diana said proudly. Unfortunately the asker would not be able to join in on the hunters. This Lilith girl had fallen in love before and she was a bit older than most. Obviously a no. Yet there was the younger girl here, Lyndis, she would be eligible to join the hunters, and what a great asset she would make too. Then the third female, Aiden, she wouldn't be eligible either. Shame, they all seemed to be great and interested in archery, something Diana also shared. Oh well, some things just weren't for everyone apparently.

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