Angel City // OPEN

[Mailee Welsh]

The chilling rain pattered against the Artemis cabin's window in the early morning. The sound filled up Mailee's ears. She was wide awake after a haunting dream of an evil hydra stepping on her. The reassuring, slumbering breaths of the other Huntresses reassured her that everything was safe, but she still couldn't sleep. She decided to go shoot the crap out of some of the dummies, which she always did when she couldn't think straight. Shooting was like an escape.

Mailee had always been told that she acted more like a child of Apollo than a child of Aphrodite. She wrote poetry, sang a bit, shot arrows like a natural. No one ever believed she was a daughter of Aphrodite, especially since she was a Huntress. Her mother sometimes haunted her dreams as well, telling her that she was ignorant and stupid for joining the Huntresses. But Mailee had always had her reasons for doing what she did and joining the Huntresses when she was sixteen.

Quietly, she moved toward the bathroom. She turned the shower on, and climbed in. The hot water felt good, and it washed away everything. Whenever she was used to the heat, she made it hotter to feel the burn of each individual drop of water coming out of the showerhead. After a seven minute shower, she pulled on some comfortable leggings, a black long sleeve shirt and some chestnut Ugg boots. Mailee grabbed her white bow and bounded out into the early morning darkness, the rain poking at her red hair and fair skin.

Mailee aimed carefully, not rushing anything. In a battle against a monster, she would be ripping out arrows like there was no tomorrow, but for practice she preferred to start out slow and gain speed to shooting. She closed one eye and squinted with the other. Her fingers gripped the arrow so it didn't fall out of the bow. She pulled back slowly to her back shoulder, and centered it at the dummy's chest. She let go and watched the arrow fly. It hit the practice dummy right in the chest, ripping it. The inside of the dummy was like blood.

The Huntress easily became absorbed in her shooting. Arrow after arrow, she let them fly from her bow. Each would swirl through the air with identical grace and then hit either the dummy's chest or eye or face or leg or really anywhere that Mailee aimed for it to go. When her quiver was free of all arrows, she found herself very satisfied with her desecration of the dummies. She smiled to herself and jogged to the dummies and began retrieving her arrows.

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muse on the bad side of okay.
notes come join Mailee!
outfit click!

[Sarina Costanza]

It's Too Cold Outside
For Angels To Fly

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Sarina sat up in her bunk in the Aphrodite cabin with the door slightly open, something about distant sea air was good for your skin or something, she still was a bit fuzzy with the whole beautiful all the time stuff. She didn't think it was possible or even worth it to be gorgeous all the time but her siblings and mother thought otherwise. It was early morning and all the Aphrodite kids were sleeping except Sarina, their motto was never get up early, yo'll get bags under your eyes but once Sarina wakes up she can't fall back asleep.

As she sat staring at the door she noticed a dark figure pass by the opening. She tried to see who it was but it wasn't all that light out nor was the figure moving slowly pass the small opening. Sarina stood up and threw her camp half blood shirt on and grabbed a jacket and slipped out of the cabin silently.She looked to the left, no one. To the right the shadow of a person going into the arena with what looked like a bow. Must be one of the Apollo kids she thought to herself. None the less she followed.

When she reached the arena she stood in the doorway, leaning against the entrance watching as the girl shot arrow after arrow hitting every target each time with perfect aim, almost as if the day she missed a target, pigs would fly. Sarina smirked "You know" she said "If you keep both eyes open you'll shoot twice as well." she added jokingly giving the expert shooter advice. She stopped leaning against the entrance and walked in, looking at all the dummies that had arrows through them. She made a mental note never to get on this girls bad side.