Chapter Four LUNA SILVER Have you ever experienced a time when you feel like you’re blotted out of the world and when you come back, it’s totally different? That’s what I felt like as I walked through the streets of the so-called ‘modern world’. Except for me. I had never experienced the modern world. Artemis raised me in the Hunt, in the old Ancient Greek world. I don’t blame her for that, but I feel very annoyed every time I see some new ‘modern technology’ and think it’s magic. How do phones communicate from New York to Taiwan? How do doorbells ring when you press them? How did machines replace so many formerly hand-made things? As I scouted ahead, I couldn’t help feeling that I wouldn’t be much help here in a fight if I didn’t know what was safe to approach and what wasn’t, and how to turn off a killing machine, and how to summon the Mist(apparently, it was some magical cover that made mortals only see what their weak mortal minds could make sense of). Also, I couldn’t get that weird feeling out of my mind. It was gone now, but it felt more like the calm before a lightning storm than a retreat for the enemy. Ow! What was that? I whisked around to see a skeletal warrior holding a strange-looking object aimed directly at me. Great. I knew it wasn’t a good idea to send a non-modern warrior out on a scouting quest in the most modern city in the whole world, I thought as I panicked. Should I summon a moon? Would the skeletal warrior be immune to that? Should I use my hunting knives? Would the warrior pulverize me with his weapon? Should I shoot my arrows at the strange-looking weapon? Would it explode like a bomb? Over all my panic ideas, though, one idea rose above all the rest. Run. My heart pounded as I thought of a plan to run without this skeletal warrior blasting me with his weapon. At the last minute, I thought of something. I instantly summoned a mini moon to distract the skeletal warrior, then turned tail and ran. Unfortunately, before I could run far, I bumped into a squad of five skeletal warriors. I summoned another mini moon(which I had never tried before) and another and another to keep them busy while I dashed past them. I pushed past them and ran for a good five minutes. I thought I was safe, when something hit my back, pushing me over and also, unfortunately, piercing my skin like a knife. “Ow!” I exclaimed to no one in particular. My last thought was I hope my comrades find me as I immediately passed out.
