Hunt for the Huntress

**Hunt for the Huntress** is a case featured in *Criminal Case*. It takes place in *The Hunt For Orion* chapter of Graecita.

## Plot

**You are now experiencing the story in third-person view**

Previously, after Ekho was done telling her speech, one of the huntresses approached the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* crew, asking them if they have seen Renée Diouf. When Ophelia realized Ginny wasn’t in the arena, she panicked and told the rest of her friends that Ginny must have gotten out of Xerda, to dun away with Orion, but what she didn’t realize is that Artemis was standing next to them with Johanna and Rubarae. When Artemis learned of Ginny’s secret relationship with Orion, she was furious and swore that once she sees Ginny again, she will be in big trouble for turning her back on her. She then turned to the rest of her huntresses and told them that they need to find Ginny before she meets with Orion, knowing that if she came face to face with him, things will not be pretty. The crew decided to participate in the search party and Natalie decided to involve herself as well. The crew were divided into groups where Mia ended up getting paired with Natalie before getting out of the city to look for Ginny.

In the present, it was nearly midnight and Mia is seen hiking through the forest with Natalie behind here, looking for any signs of Ginny’s whereabouts. She then senses something breathing heavily on her, and startled she looked behind her only for it turn out to Natalie. Natalie apologized for creeping her out, telling her that dryads’ respiratory systems are more like plants than humans and they have trouble breathing at night. Mia understood Natalie and the two girls decided to have a break and chat. Suddenly, Natalie and Mia heard a scream coming from the forest and wondering who it was coming from, they followed it which lead them to a hiker Mia had met this afternoon, Marigold Carson. Marigold was panicking and when Mia asked her what was going on, she explained that she was picking old branches to use for firewood and while she was collected wood, she found a dead girl in the forest who was impaled by spiky branches. Mia asked her where she found that girl and Marigold pointed a dark and scary part of the forest. Gulping, Natalie and Mia slowly walked through the path and from a distance they saw the corpse Marigold was talking about. The closer they got, the duo saw the girl’s face and Mia instantly recognized her as the same girl they have been looking for: Ginny.

**You are now playing as Mia Loukas**

Both Natalie and Mia was horrified at seeing the young huntress in this state. After they have interrogated Marigold, they immediately went to Artemis to inform her of the depressing news, who although was mad over Ginny’s “betrayal”, couldn’t help but feel pity for what happened to the poor girl. Natalie and Mia added both girls into their suspect list and they soon found reasons to suspect Mia’s friend, Ophelia Lincoln for the murder, who was devastated over hearing of Ginny’s death. While the duo were discussing a case, Natalie was distracted by a white hare. Natalie found the hare so adorable, that she couldn’t help but hold it and in doing so, she saved it from being hit by an arrow that was heading toward it.

Natalie and Mia startled by an arrow, wondering where it had come from but their question was answered when an angry Rolland Overton came to confront them for letting his food get away. Natalie apologized to Rolland, but when Mia pointed out that the bow he was holding was Renée, she scolded him, asking where he had gotten it from. Rolland crossed his arms and told the ladies that he didn’t steal a bow and that he asked some girl if he could borrow it to go hunt for food and she gave it to him. Natalie was shocked over what he said, revealing that they’re investigating Ginny’s murder and asked if he met her, where he revealed that he saw her walking alone in the dark and invited her over to his RV and fed her some stew. Hearing that, Natalie made the RV one of their crime scenes, adding Rolland to their suspect list and soon they suspected a painter Mia and Ginny had met back in *Lykaon*, Fabrizio Gallardo. They girls also learned that Ophelia had feelings for Ginny and back at the Ancient Times, Orion used to be a part of Artemis’ pack and she had feelings for him, but he betrayed her after trying to take advantage of her but was saved by her brother, Apollo and ever since then, Artemis became afraid of the male race and forbade her huntresses from being in contact with men, afraid that they’d face the same experience but they won’t be as lucky as her. While Natalie and Mia were gathering with their friends, Madelina approached them and she awkwardly told them that she has something to show them.

Madelina revealed that back when Ginny was still alive, she had asked Madelina if she could play on her phone out of boredom and Madelina gave it to her. Fas forward to now, Madelina decided to check her phone and she got notifications from Buzzer of African-American woman and queers calling her a “queer”. Of course, Madelina was flattered but had no idea why she was getting praised, but when she entered Buzzer, she saw that she was logged in on Ginny’s account and when she checked her recent posts, she discovered that Ginny had started a hate bandwagon toward Marigold Carson after accusing her of cultural appropriation for trademarking a hairstyle originating from African culture as her own. Assuming Marigold wasn’t flattered over what was happening to her Buzzer page, Natalie and Mia went to speak with her where she claimed that she had no idea the hairstyle was for black people, that she took inspiration from *Star Wars* and thanks to Ginny she was cancelled for “no reason”. Natalie and Mia then went back to the investigation, discovering a nude drawing that Fabrizio made of Ginny and letter that Orion sent to her, letting her to meet Rolland who will take her to him and they decided to confront both men. Soon, the quail that Orion and Ginny used to exchange letters to each other, dropped a bottle at Natalie and Mia which contained a threat, warning them to stop investigating or he will harm one of their female friends. However, this threat didn’t discourage the girls who were now more determined to find Ginny’s killer since now they know it’ll lead them to Orion as well, and with enough evidence they found out that Fabrizio Gallardo was Ginny’s killer.

**You are now experiencing the story in third-person view**

When confronted with the murder, Fabrizio tried to put out a drama show, claiming he would never harm such a pretty “thing” like Ginny but when Mia revealed that she and Natalie know that he is Orion, he grinned, his eyes turned silver and he grew as large as a giant, exposing himself as Orion. Orion then took this confrontation as an opportunity to properly greet Mia, telling her that its been months since he saw her and it was nice to see her again, but Mia didn’t share the same feelings and questioned Orion on why he took so much trouble to lure Ginny and kill her when he could have done it a long time ago. This made Orion frowned and he told Mia and Natalie that it was never his intention to kill Renée but she had left him no choice. Orion revealed that when he came to visit Weinstein, he wasn’t planning to kill him but had come simply to sleep with one of his “fresh meat”, but when he saw Ginny, he was “lovestruck” and wanted her all for himself. But when they were brought to a room together for her to perform her services, he couldn’t find himself hurting her and wanted to be more than just a client of hers, so he decided to free her by killing Weinstein and allowed her to join Artemis’ pack. Orion waited for 5 years and when he saw that she was finally happy, Orion revealed himself as the man who “saved” her and kept writing her letters but with no response. Orion didn’t receive a response from her until tonight and the two started flirting with each other, and to Orion’s surprise and excitement, Ginny finally asked to see him in person. Orion was happy that Ginny has finally “fell in love” with him, but when he saw her in the forest, she was holding an arrow which she used to stabbed and one second she was a pretty young lady and the next one, she transformed into a wolf, an ability she got after being bitten by Adelaide Lupo. This caught Orion by surprise, which Ginny took as an opportunity to attack him. Orion did not want to kill Ginny, but she left him no other option and he ended up pushing her into sharp tree branches, transforming back into a human and Orion watched her go through a slow and painful death. After revealing his motive, Orion was about to attack Natalie and Mia but then huntresses, nymphs and Xerdans gathered around him, all ready to kill him and he realized he was in a trap. Artemis asked Orion if he had any last words, but unfortunately for her Orion had a backup plan. Behind a bush, Orion pulled out a girl whose hands and legs were tied up and mouth was taped, the girl was none other than Ophelia. All the women were at shock and Mia threatened him not to hurt her where Orion grinned and promised he won’t as long as they all obeyed him. Orion ordered everyone to put down their weapons, which they did unwillingly and Orion took that as a chance to run away. On his way, Orion caught Marigold recording what was going on in her phone and he grabbed her, where she started screaming as he took her away.

The women all stood there as Orion took Ophelia and Marigold away, and once he was out of sight, they all started panicking. Johanna stepped in and told everyone to calm down, and that freaking out will not help them save Ophelia or the hiker and that they need to put their shit together looking for Orion before he does any harm to the girls. She then turned to Rubarae after someone asked how they would find them, and Rubarae revealed that she senses that Orion is not far away yet, however he is moving pretty fast and they need to catch up with him quickly and he’s currently reached the bridge. At hearing that, Natalie and Mia rushed quickly there with the rest of the girls behind them.

**You are now playing as Mia Loukas**

When Natalie, Mia and the girls reached the bridge, they saw no signs of Orion around. Artemis asked Rubarae of any updates, who sighed and told her that they’re too late and she senses that Orion had already reached a van and would have already driven away by the time they reach him. This made the women lose hope, but not Natalie and Mia who decided to inspect the bridge on any clues of where Orion is planning to go but instead they found Marigold Carson’s backpack. The duo decided to search her backpack for anything and inside they found a strange looking device. But while all the girls were confused over what it could be, Rozetta recognized it as an invention of her own, which is used for people to track down their lost phones. Natalie looked at the screen and pointed out how the dot on the screen is moving, meaning Marigold must still have her phone with her and if they followed the dot, it may lead them to her and Ophelia. This made all the girls cheer up as they can finally kill Orion but before they could go, Artemis said that she wants to go to Xerda as there is someone she wanted to talk to. The rest of the women obeyed Artemis’ wish and when they arrived to the city, Artemis asked to talk to Ekho. Ekho came to her shyly, giving a confused look that was asking her what she wanted from her. Artemis explained that her pack is a little short of huntresses and that she would like to expand, asking Ekho if she could join the pack, promising that she’ll be treated like family. Ekho didn’t answer and Artemis realized that there is something that had to be done first and she called for her step-mother, Hera. Hera was annoyed, asking her step-daughter what she wants from her, getting angry when Artemis demanded that she takes away Ekho’s curse. The step-mother and step-daughter started arguing until Hera finally gave in, removing the curse from Ekho before vanishing in the span of a second. Ekho was shocked and opened her mouth, finally being able to let out HER real words. Ekho thanked Artemis excitingly and when the goddess asked if she could join her pack, Ekho did hesitate to say yes and repeated the pledge after Artemis.

**You are now experiencing the story in third-person view**

After Artemis had recruited Ekho, the women were ready to hunt for Orion and getting really excited, Madelina decided to blast music using her *beats* speakers ,which Rozetta had fixed, as they are following Orion’s path. The women finally spotted the RV, which was driving by the edge of a cliff which was above a strong-flowing river. The women started slowing down and Mia decided to bring out her telescope to see what’s going on in the van. In the van, Orion is seen messing with Ophelia and Marigold while Rolland is on the wheel. Orion started removed the tape from Ophelia’s mouth and started telling her how beautiful she is and when he reached his hand to caress her face, she bit him. This pissed off Orion who decided to punish Ophelia for “misbehaving” by grabbing handcuffs he put on the table, untied her wrists and used the handcuffs to hand her to the ceiling of the van. He then gripped on Ophelia’s dress and ripped it off, exposing her undergarments and he pulled down his toga. When Ophelia realized what Orion was about to do, she started screaming and panicking as memories of *The Virgin Slayer* started coming to her and Marigold started screaming too, not wanting to witness what Orion was going to do to Ophelia and afraid she would be next. The scene horrified Mia, who quickly took her eyes away from the monocular and told the rest of the girls that Orion is going to rape Ophelia, who decided to take action quickly. Artemis sent Ekho a signal, who ran and used herself to block the RV’s way. Frustrated, Rolland turned to Orion and told him that there is an oread blocking their path and asked what he should do, in which Orion responded by telling him to run her over. Rolland was going to do what Orion told him, but to his surprise, the oread pulled out a bow and shot an arrow into one of the van’s wheels, forcing him to stop. Angry, Orion demanded Rolland to tell him why he stopped but before Rolland could answer the question, they were suddenly ambushed by nymphs, Xerdans and huntresses. Horrified, Rolland went to the seat next to the driver’s one, opened the door and used his ability as a goat to jump into the other side of the river and escape. While Rolland was escaping, the women managed to break into the car and while the women were fighting Orion, Mia untied the ropes on Marigold’s hands and legs before turning to her friend, Ophelia to unlock her handcuffs. Unfortunately, in order to open the handcuffs, she needed a key and so she started searching the van until she found broken pieces of metals and when putting them back together, it formed a key which she used to free Ophelia. After Ophelia was freed, she and Mia participated into the fight and Marigold started recording everything live on InstaPic. Madelina decided to make the fight easier for the girls by using her wand, Holly to make Orion’s “normal sized”, but instead she was only able to shrink one part of his body, his own “wand”. This made Orion furious and he fought even harder over what the girls did to his “lucky charm” and wanting to calm him down, Madelina decided to use an enlargement spell to reverse her previous hex, but this time it made Orion himself grow so now he had a huge body but a really tiny dingle. Madelina was going to use her wand again to reverse everything, but Mia forbade her this time, not wanting things to become worse than they already became. Orion body stuck out from the roof of the RV now and he was now even harder to fight, as the arrows could barely fit him now and whenever the Xerdans tried to melee on him, all what he had to do is push them away with his hand. The women were going to lose, but Artemis told Orion to stop, saying that she just wanted to talk. Artemis told Orion that he doesn’t have to do all this just to get back at her and that she never wanted him to die as she was in love with him and never forgave her brother for killing him as he was making love to her. She begged Orion to let the other girls go and quit with the murders and in return, she will give herself up to him and become his. Orion smiled and reached his hand for Artemis to stand on it, and then lifted her up but before Artemis could do anything, he squeezed his hand onto her body. He then grinned and told her that she’s stupid for thinking he would fall for this, that he was shocked when Ginny did it but he knew better not to underestimate her and tried to use his hand to crush Artemis to death. But then the RV started loosing balance thanks to his weight, forcing all the girls inside to get out. The RV then fell off the cliff, dragging Orion and Artemis with it and while were falling, Madelina used her wand to reverse Orion back to his original size, allowing Artemis to stab him in the heart. When they fell on the river, Artemis held on a rock but then something touched her legs and when she looked behind, Orion was still alive and was trying to kill her. The girls on the cliff panicked, not knowing how to save Artemis, but Natalie knew what to do, took a sword and jumped into the river, transforming into a naiad. While Orion wasn’t looking, she used the sword to stab him on the back, startling him into letting go of Artemis’ foot and being pulled away by the river. Natalie them carried Artemis on her back and swam outside of the river and the women watched as Orion’s body disintegrated. Orion was now dead.

After defeating Orion, Mia and her crew started walking back to the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* with Chet and Chase following them. Zachary knocked on the ship, which awakened Mary Read, who brought down the ladder for them. But before they could go up, they heard someone calling for them and it was Madelina Alonzo. The crew asked her if she came to say goodbye, where she laughed and told them that she decided to leave Artemis’ pack and is coming back to Graecita with them. Mia glared at her and asked why the sudden change for heart, where Madelina admitted that immortality isn’t really “her thing”, explaining that she is someone who likes to live every moment as if it’s her last and that life would be “boring” if she knew that she’d be living forever and that if there’s one thing being a huntress, even for one day, had taught her is that she shouldn’t run away from her problems and that she has to face them. The crew were surprised by how smart Madelina was acting, except for Chase who called her an idiot. This made Madelina smirk and she revealed that Artemis is finally considering to recruit men in her pack and since Chase is a virgin and seems to disagree with her decision, maybe he’d be interested in joining. But Chase refused, announcing that he would rather die a man or live life like a cuck, doing the Nazi hand signal and forcing Chet to do it with him. Madelina rolled her eyes and then noticed Ophelia, who was still in her undergarments, which made her grin and she offered to give her a makeover. Ophelia refused at first, but Madelina begged her and so she gave in and the two girls were the first to enter the ship. The others followed them, Zachary and Mia were the last to climb, but they stopped when they realized Madelina hadn’t come alone and had brought Natalie with her. Zachary asked her what she was doing far away from her tribe where Natalie blushed and thanked them for saving her people from Orion. Zachary and Mia that they’re welcome but when they continued climbing she told them to stop as she has something to ask them. Natalie admitted that she really enjoyed the adventures she had with them today, despite them being very dangerous and had never met people as awesome as they are. Natalie told them that she does love her people, but she doesn’t like staying on one place and had the most fun in her life while she was helping in defeating Orion and wondered if there’s any spot in the crew for her. Although Zachary adored Natalie, he hesitated in letting his half-sister join them out of fear for her, but Mia was more than happy to accept Natalie in. Natalie got excited, transformed into a naiad and jumped into the sea to follow the crew as they head back to Graecita.

The next week, when the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* ship arrived to Graecita, it was noon and the whole city had gathered to cheer for their return. When they landed, Madelina started waving to the crowd, feeding by their attention but suddenly, Zachary grabbed her by the hand and the two of them headed to the palace. Wondering what Zachary was doing, Mia followed them and asked him what he is up to where he told the two girls that they are going to bury Yvette’s body. When the three made it to the palace, Zachary had Madelina lead them to Kaleb’s study and she revealed that Marionette had told her about a secret passage behind the shelves and one of the books is a lever to the door. The three started looking through books that Kaleb either had already read or had bought but wasn’t interested in reading them and Zachary was able to pull the dictionary (the lever) but was interrupted by the queen and Marionette entering the room. Marionette was so happy to see Madelina and went to hug her, but then she saw Zachary and Mia, and wondered what they are doing here. The queen however didn’t question anything and simply told Zachary and Mia to meet her at the throne room as there are urgent matters she wishes to discuss. After the others were gone, Marionette looked at Madelina, completely pissed off and she asked her if she told Zachary about Kaleb. Madelina smirked and revealed that she in fact did and Marionette started yelling at her for acting so selfish but  Madelina stood her ground by calling Kaleb a creep and that everyone needs to know about this. Marionette however didn’t buy this and falsely accused Madelina of being jealous of her as she didn’t care about Kaleb’s necrophilia until Marionette started dating him, where Madelina ended up defending herself, telling Marionette that she didn’t believe her when she told her about what she is and that the reason why she has a problem with it now is because she KNOWS now that Kaleb is a necrophile and it isn’t just her making up lies to push her away from him. As the two girls started catfighting, Norah stepped in to calm them down and asked them what was going. Marionette shook her head at Madelina, warning her not to tell Norah, but Madelina simply stood her head high and told Norah the truth: Kaleb was keeping her sister’s corpse in a secret dungeon and is making love with her. Madelina then left the room in a sassy walking-style, as Norah stood silently over what she heard and the shock she felt then turned to anger.

Once the queen arrived to the throne room with Zachary and Mia behind, Zachary immediately confronted her over Yvette’s corpse and asked her how long had she known about Kaleb’s actions. Leonora sighed and revealed that she discovered his secret just a week ago, however, she didn’t ask to talk to him about that. Zachary frowned and asked what she wanted from him, becoming infuriated when Leonora revealed that Gisele Najm had escaped from the hands of their soldiers. Zachary demanded to know how they allowed this to happen, where Leonora explained that a maid from the castle received an Iris message from one of the soldiers, who revealed that they were attacked by the infamous pirate, Ann Bonny who took them as prisoners and is taking them to Clew Bay to be sold as slaves. However, Zachary wasn’t interested in knowing where the soldiers are and wanted to know if the soldier said where Gisele was heading, but Leonora told him that finding Gisele isn’t important at that moment and their priority is to sail to Clew Bay and save these pirates, seeing what Bonny wants them to do for her and attack her if it’s necessary. Zachary and Mia then left the throne room, Zachary was still angry over the news of Gisele’s escape and when Mia asked him if he was okay, he lashed out at her. He told her he is anything but okay and that not only has his girlfriend broken up with him, he also learned that his best friend’s a freak and worst of all, his daughter is dead and her killer has escaped alive. After venting out his feelings, Zachary took a deep breath and apologized to Mia for yelling at her, but she held his hand and told him he doesn’t have to put on a mask for her and even the strongest men can express their emotions. She then gave Zachary a hug, who then started crying on Mia’s shoulder.

## Suspects

Marigold CarsonArtemisOphelia LincolnRolland OvertonFabrizio Gallardo
## Quasi-suspects

Rozetta PierreEkhoHeraOrionMadelina AlonzoNatalieMarionette PatrickQueen Leonora I
## Killer’s Profile

* The killer eats beef stew.

* The killer wears a pom-pom.

* The killer has fear of the dark.

* The killer wears a scarf.

* The killer has an A- blood type.