Wisdom and Magic

Chapter 9- Hunters

CHAPTER-9

Caitlin's POV

"I am wanted in five states under 32  different names. You know nothing about me or my life" Alii was snarling at the poor boy. Honestly she is such a braggart sometimes!

"braggart" I snorted, Nico was staring at me, mouth open, eyes wide, " I've only had 27 false names. I am wanted in more states than her though." i explained. But It's true, I'm wanted in six.

" why don't we sit down and talk" Nico asked. Sure. Now he was interested.

Just as I opens my mouth the conch horn rang. Signaling breakfast. Nico sighed, "I guess we'll have to talk later."

I stared at him "'why?" I asked confused

"it's breakfast"

Alii stared at him, " I haven't had breakfast since I was three."

" Isn't that kind of unhealthy?" he asked

" the people who adopted us only wanted one kid," I explained

" when the adoption agency guilted them into adopting two, they wouldn't pay for extra food. We slipped breakfast, both ate Lunch And alternated every other day for dinner."

"wow, you really don't need to do that now though. We have enough food."

"I can't eat more than two meals a day now though. My body's used to eat." I said

" if we do our bodies.... Um..,, reject, the food" Alii said, "it's a survival technique that was trained into us. Any extra food we received could have been poisoned."

"well thats...  Disturbing" Nico muttered

"you can go to breakfast, but after breakfast we can't talk. We're going to hang out with Madeline."

"fine. I'll stay, but as your big brother, I still think your eating habits are unhealthy. And they WILL change."

"whatever. Do you want to hear our story or not. You have to promise not to tell anybody though..." I started 

"yah-yah."

"I wasn't finished. If you tell anybody, we'll have to brutally mutilate and kill you."

He gulped, then I laughed. "I was joking, but don't tell anyone. I'm not going to be very happy and I'm guessing neither will Alii, and she probably WILL kill you."

He gulped, "ok." he said " I swear upon the river Styx that I will not tell anyone without your permission."

Alii thought for a minute, "that sounds serious, I guess we can tell you now" then she smirked. "just remember I'm wanted for murder, under 27 of my fake names."

He shuddered, " you've murdered twenty seven people?!"

"NO!" said Alii, shocked, I just shook my head, smiling

Nico sighed in relief "good"

"I've murdered a lot more than 27 people. I think the total is 149 currently." she finished, "I've been caught 27 times"

"I've only been caught 22 times," I smirked "we usually rob banks together, and we've only been caught 5 times for that."

Nico stared at us, bug-eyed, "you two are... criminals?"

I smiled sadly, "are you really, surprised?"

He thought for a moment, "you two are scary, I guess, but I never thought you guys where criminals."

"as I said before, we were adopted when we were three. The people who adopted us didn't want kids..." I started

"they wanted slaves" Alii finished.

"for years we worked for them, if we didn't do our jobs we were beaten, whipped or burned" I continued.

" wait... What!?" Nico shouted, " they actually whipped you!? When you were three."

"yes," replied Alii "now, are you done, or do you want us to continue our story later?"

"sorry"

"anywho," Alii continued

"we did all their work for them, cooking, cleaning, house repairs... Stuff like that." she listed

"until they found out about our powers."

"then they decided we could be of... Other uses."

"they started selling us off to people so we could murder or torture people. Another big one was robbing banks."

"Wait... what?" asked Nico "if you had powers, why didn't you guys escape?"

" we couldn't hurt them without making eye contact, unless we lost control of our powers. Then we go all physco-witch. Until that happens we can only torture people or transform"

"can't you shadow-travel?" he asked "and what do you mean torture!?"

"well I assume by shadow travel you mean teleport, and neither of us can teleport more than a kilometer." Alii started

"and I suggest you not find out what we mean by torture." I finished,

"C'mon, how bad can it be."

Alii smirked, "Alison Matilda Russell's! Don't you dare-"

But it was to late, she looked into Nico's eyes and suddenly he was on the floor, writhing in pain and screaming bloody murder.

Imagine being skinned alive, burned in acid, and drowned all at the same time. You feel like your lungs are going to explode, you're being stabbed and burned, it seems like years and the pain gets more intense with every second. If you can imagine this, you have the general idea of the pain me and Alii can inflict on people, except it's more than a thousand times worse.

She turned away and he started panting, "f***. how the he'll did you do that?!"

Just then Percy and Annabeth ran in,

"what the hell did you do to him?!" screamed Percy

"what?" said Alii "he asked me to."

"What. Did. You. Do."

"honestly I'd show you, but Annabeth scares me, and if I did it to you, she'd probably kill me."

"what did you do?"

Nico got up shakily. "she just looked at me, and then I felt like I was being burned alive, tortured. It was HORRIBLE."

Alii turned to him and smiled, "well you asked me to."

"true..."

"why would you ask her to torture you?!"

"I was curious"

"fine." he said, turning to Alii and me "just try not to do it again. We have company."

"no!" groaned Nico

"yes," said Annabeth, "the hunters are here."

"who are the hunters?" I asked

"the hunters of Artemis. She is an eternal maiden, so she doesn't have kids,  so she takes on girls who vow to never love, they help her hunt down monsters in return for immortality and a boy free family." she answered "they're not all bad though, Thalia is a hunter and she's one of my best friends."

"We also have a new camper," said Percy "her name is MacKenzie"