Hello if you are reading this then you are alive and hopefully not trying to kill me. My name is Damon Retsh. (To tame, red sea is the translation). My left eye is sea green and right is white thanks to a gift from my grandfather. I have an average build and have multiple scares all over me from all of the fighting. I have long dark blond hair that hangs in front of my eyes. But I am just your average run of the mill demigod who was granted immortality by my father Poseidon. As a result of me slaying a Hydra at 15 for him he gave me immortality where I could only die in combat just like the hunters. Speaking of whom I have only met five times in the past 115 years I have been alive and I think that they are scary and respectable. We have met a few times in the past and the only one that made an attempt to speak to me instead of shooting me full of arrows was the lieutenant Zoe Nightshade. I will admit that I think that she is cute but I also respect her not wanting to have anything to do with me. She has kept to her oath for a very long time and I don't want her to stray from it for something that I would want. My mother used to be a hunter and that is why I have so much respect for them but then one day she met Poseidon and they feel in love and later had me. As a present my mother gave me a celestial bronze bracelet that has a black chain attached to a silver ring on my middle finger. I call it Bound fate because when it turns into a weapon it is a dagger with a black hilt and silver blade hunting knife from my mother. And a 4 foot long bronze katana with a crimson hilt. They are attached by a 5 foot long black chain.
I think that I am a relatively good fighter and have never gone to the camp half-blood but from the side lines I attack monsters helping kids get there. I have learned to control water to a very grate level where I can call water out of the air and slash with it lethally with a range of 50 feet is I slash with Bound fate. I also know how to control blood by manipulating the water in the body but I don't like using it because of the face that I see of someone being controlled not being able to do anything except what I want them to do. My mother was actually a demigod of Apollo so I have been claimed by both my grandfather and father. I can heal my injuries in the middle of combat and in a since I can't die even if I wanted to. But that is enough about me now it is time to start telling you my story.
"This is going to be a good day" I say as I stretch out in the tree that I was sleeping in the night before. I take my crimson colored trench coat off of me that I have been using as I blanket and put it on throwing the hood over my head. I look down and see that my dark blue jeans are ripped a little at the bottom and think I should go and get some more clothes soon. My shirt with green splatter over is reading "This is my monster killing shirt" in white lettering and I just grin at it.
"Well let's see what happens today" I say to myself as I put my bag on my back and grab a few apples off of the tree and start eating them. I walk over to the lake and fill up my water bottles and wash my face and control the water to remove any plack that I have in my mouth. I smile at my reflection and start walking along the water. "I don't sense any monsters around I guess they are not going to bother me that much today" I mumble. Being part of the big three's siblings makes monsters want a piece of you rather badly. While I am walking I hear a scream about half a mile away. "This can't be good" I say as I start running to where the scream was.
When I get there I see a familiar dark haired girl get bit protecting another girl from a hydra. "ZOE" the girl yells as she tries to get up but can't as she grabs her leg in pain. Phoebe leave here now" Zoe yells at her companion. "Yo snake head freeze" I say as I lift up my left hand and control the blood in the monster making it freeze inches from biting off Zoe's head. "Long time no see you two" I say happily as I walk closer being carful on controlling the blood in the Hydra. "Damon" Zoe says in shock but spits my name with venom in it as well.
"Still can't stand boys I see" I say to her as I stand next to her and slowly go down to grab her arm still looking at the Hydra with most of my attention. I feel her shoulder and a weak attempt to pull it off. "I do not need thy help release me" she says angrily. "Zoe you know that I can't, I love peoples life to much to watch anyone die in front of me again" I say to her as I start to drag her away and put her next to her friend. "Now this is for hurting someone I respect" I say while closing my hand and then the Hydra explodes as its blood gets condensed and ripped out in a second.
I turn around and see the two girls looking at me with anger and confusion in their eyes. "Are the both of you alright" I ask them and kneel down to be eye level with them looking over them seeing their wounds. "We are fine now leave us male" Phoebe says with spitting out the last word. "You know I can't do that now where are you injured if you were bitten I need to treat it right away or you will die" I say to them as I pull out my pack getting nectar and one of the bottles of water that I had. "I said we were fine" Phoebe says again with more anger this time.
"Listen to me now" I say to them angrily this time. The both of them jump at the sudden change in emotion. "Zoe you know that Artemis would rather you speak and get help from a boy then get killed" I said to her and then I looked at the other girl. "And I refuse to watch you die just so that you can keep your pride, you can have pride in being a girl but as a life I will not hear of it if you are about to die because of it" I say to Phoebe angrily. They look at me with shock in their faces and then they both nod slowly and roll up there sleeves and pants showing the injuries that they had.
"Alright but don't move anymore the poison will spread faster now both of you open up your mouths" I say to them as I uncap the nectar. They do as I ask and I pore a little in their mouths. "That should slow down the spread now for this" I say as I close my eyes and put my right hand over Zoe's shoulder and the other over her heart. "What do you think you are doing" she says to me angrily. I ignore her as I concentrate on her heart rate and then push the poison back to the wound. She was about to hit me when she sees the green ooze coming out of the bit mark on her arm.
When I get as much as I can out I let her go and start panting heavily. "Alright now you" I say as I stand up shakily and walk over to the other girl. She puts her hands over her chest looking at me angrily. "You are not touching me" she says angrily to me. "If I don't touch your heart and match your heart rate to mine then I can't get the poison out of you" I say to her. "Phoebe just let him if he tries anything then we just kill him" Zoe says to her. (I think she is trying to help me, I hope) I think as she reluctantly moves her hands down again. I smile lightly as I put my hand over her heart and to the bit mark on her leg.
I do the same thing and then lift the poison into the air and put it in a steel thermos and put it in my bag. "Alright now I just need to get Artemis" I say as I get up and throw water out of my water bottle then turning it into a mist. I take out a drakma and do the incantation for Iris and call for Artemis. "Who is this, Damon you better have a very good reason for calling me or I will instruct punishment on you again" she says to me in a strict tone. "Yes I do lady Artemis" I say as I step to the side so that she can see Zoe and Phoebe. "They were nearly killed by a Hydra and I was able to get them safe and most of the poison out but I do not have the cure for them at best they will last 3 days if I give them treatment during this time" I say to her.
"Fine come to the camp but if you try anything to any of my Hunters you will die I do not care what you father says about it" she says to me angrily. "I understand Lady Artemis I will not" I say to her. I get images in my mind showing me which way to go. "Alright that is a day's hike from here if I carry the both of them I will be there by nightfall Lady Artemis" I say to her. "Good I will tell my Hunters not to kill you on sight be here soon" she says to me, at the end it sounded more sad then angry, and then the message gets cut off. "Well let's get going" I say to them as I get my bag over my chest and go to pick them up. They both look at me like I am a mad man and a disease.
"Don't you dare touch me" Phoebe says to me angrily. "Look it is either we go this way and get there by nightfall or you two try to walk on your own and die out here in a few hours which do you choose" I ask them. They put serious thought into it and then nod at each other with obvious unwillingness. "Fine but if thee touch us in any strange matter we will kill thee if it is the last thing that we do" Zoe says to me. "As you wish" I say to her as I walk over to her and crouch down putting my back to her. "Alright hop on" I say to her. She gets on my back and then I walk over to Phoebe and pick her up bridal style. I make sure that I won't drop either of them and then start walking.
Time skip 1 o'clock that day
"Alright let's take a break" I say to them as my stomach growls for the fifth time now. They nod in agreement as their stomachs growl again. I put them down gently against a tree right next to each other and pull out some fruits that I picked earlier that day. I bring out my dagger and cut up the food for them and pull out two bottles of water. I lift the water out of the bottles and have the bubble of water hanging in front of their faces waiting for them to open up their mouths.
"I know you don't want me to be near you so I am doing the best that I can to keep my distance from you" I say to them as I point at the bubbles. They open their mouths and I have the water gently go into their mouths. They drink and I get another bubble of water for them as I continue to cut their apples and put them on a plate that I had. "Alright sorry about this but you moving more than absolutely necessary might be fatal so open up" I say to them as they finish swallowing the water and I hold a piece of apple in front of their faces.
I see a blush go across both of their faces and then I remember seeing some kids doing this and they were dating. "Sorry if this is uncomfortable for you but I have to do this so you can get some energy" I say to them apologetically. They shake it off and bit the food out of my hand and ate it. I took a peace myself and started eating. We ate in silence as I finished my food seeing if they were still hungry. They shook their heads no and I put all of my food away. When I get everything together I pick them up again and notice that this time they do not struggle too much when I pick them up, either the poison is getting worse or they were getting used to being in the company of a male.
I decide to increase my pace of getting out of here and to the camp. "I must ask why are you helping us the hunters make it very clear that we do not like men in the least so why do you help us" Phoebe. "Well let's see I don't know really, in reality I don't like most people but I don't want to see anyone die in front of me again" I say to her. "Who did you see die before" she asks. "My mother she was actually an old hunter but then my father convinced her otherwise" I said a little annoyed at what he did. "She has no right to call herself a hunter if she went against her vow" Phoebe said angrily. "She never went against her vow Artemis knew that she would leave eventually and accepted it when it happened" I said to her.
"What was her name" Zoe asked. "Her name was Luna Retsh and she is the one that I respect the most in my life" I said to her. "Before you said that you killed the Hydra for hurting a person you respected" she said to me. "Well yes out of all the hunters you have kept your vow the longest and my mother would always tell me about her friend Zoe" I said to her. "I remember her she was a good friend" she said to me sadly. "Well I also respect you for your loyalty to Artemis and she is also the only one of the gods that I actually respect" I said to her.
"Why is this" she asks confused, thinking he would respect his own father. "Well the fact is she is the only one that has kept her word except for Hera plus she helps demigods everywhere even though she doesn't do it to help them a lot of us would be dead if it wasn't for her" I said to her happily. "But I must ask why are thee immortal like the hunters" Zoe asked confused. "Well my father said if I was able to defeat a hundred headed Hydra with only my sword he would grant me immortality" I said to her. "That would explain it then" she said to me.
"But out of all of the gods I also feel sorry for Artemis" I said to them sadly. "Why would thow feel bad for lady Artemis" she asks. "Because she has never known love though it is why I respect her so highly it is also why I feel the most sorry for her" I say to them sadly. "She does not need the sympathy of a man" Phoebe says to me angrily. "Well even if she doesn't want it she shale have it though I remember when I gave her, father, and Apollo my offerings of food Artemis came and found me and beat me to a pulp, it took me a full weak to heal after that" I say to them laughing.
"And yet thee still offered to her after" Zoe said angrily remembering. "Well yes Apollo is her twin and she is the one that I actually respect so I didn't see a reason not to" I said to her happily. "After 8 years of getting offerings from you she just let you do it because you would not stop and with your healing ability you never died" Zoe said angrily. "Well I made a peace offering with her I would send her food that the hunters wanted and she would give it to them as a present and she would just not tell them who it was from" I said to her.
"Yes I remember one night she gave me a brownie that tasted rather good but at first I had to force myself to eat it knowing it was from you" she said to me angrily. "Well anyway thanks for the complement" I said to her happily.
5 hours later
"Well look at the sky it's a full moon we should be at the camp momentarily" I say to them happily. They look up and see that it is a full moon now. "You are right" Zoe says. "It is a beautiful moon out tonight I wonder if I should try that again" I mumble out loud. "What do you mean" Zoe asks me confused. "Well during a full moon Poseidon's children powers are at their peak and I think that I could completely purify the poison from your body's and save Artemis the use of her antidote" I say to her. I see both of them blush at the thought of me touching them again.
"Sorry I won't try it I just remembered the fact that it is hard to get Hydra antivenin so it was just a thought I will never do anything unless I am given permeation to do so" I say to them. "Hold it right there man" I hear a girl yell. I look up and see three girls with their bows drawn and aimed at me. "Hold your fire they are your comrades and that man has my permeation" I hear a voice of authority from behind me. "Hello again Lady Artemis sorry if I do not bow but I do not have the ability at the moment" I say to her apologetically. When I turn my head I see an 18 year old girl with long dark hair and silver colored eyes looking at me. She is wearing a leather jacket with silver tank top with a black skirt.
"You do not talk so casually to our mistress" a young girl yells as she lets loose an arrow at me. "This is going to hurt" I mumble as I bring up my leg and have the arrow enter just above my heel. "What do you think you are doing you could of hit your comrade" I yell at the girl. I look at her and see that she has another arrow trained on me with hate in her eyes. "Lady Artemis tell her to put down her bow I will forgive once for whatever men did to her but I won't stand for her nearly killing one of her friends" I say to her as a large amount of water starts to come out of thin gain and surrounding the girl.
"Ashley that is quite enough though I do not wish to agree but Damon is right you nearly hit an ally" Artemis tells the girl. "I'm sorry Lady Artemis" she says quickly as she puts down her bow. "Can someone get over here I can't balance anymore holding these two" I say with pain in my voice from standing on my now injured leg. "You two come here and help" Artemis says to the other two hunters. They rush over to me while holding hatred in their eyes. I look back at them sadly wondering what someone did to such innocent girls and it made me angry.
I hold out Phoebe to them one of the Hunters takes her away being careful to not touch me. The other gets behind me and takes Zoe off of my back. "Hope you two get better" I say to them as I drop down to one knee and rip out the arrow and encase the wound in water and heal the wound. "Don't even speak to them man" one of the girls says to me angrily. "Should have seen that coming" I said as I start walking away but then drop down again. I look and see that the muscle in my leg is still not healed.
Then Artemis comes over to me and looks at me with anger in her eyes and was that concern, no way why she would care for me I'm a discussing guy in their minds. "You will come with us as thanks for saving my lieutenant and hunter you may stay here for the night until your leg heals" she says to me. "I know that you don't like owing me depts. Lady Artemis but I don't think that is a good idea, your hunters would not feel comfortable being in the presence of a man anyway" I say to her sadly. "They will not do anything to you" she says to me bluntly and starts dragging me by the collar of my jacket.
"I guess I have no say in this" I say to her while getting dragged. "No you do not" she said to me bluntly. "Well at least I can sleep peacefully for once when was the last time I ever did that" I mumble out loud trying to think. I was so busy thinking that I didn't even realize that we were already in the camp. "Well let's get this healed" I said as I stood up and limped away to the fare edge of the camp trying to stay out of the way of the hunters as best I could.
I focus a little and get a bubble of water about the same size of my hand and wrap it around my leg and heal it. I stay like that for a few minutes and then my leg is healed. "Well I would normally just go now but I think that Artemis will turn me into an animal if I try that" I mumble to myself and then my stomach starts to growl again. "Well I might as well get some food" I say as I walk out of the camp looking around. I find a mountain lion walking toward me. "Well hello there would you know where I could get something to eat" I ask it. It looks at me for a second then point its head in a direction. "Thanks" I say to it and scratch its ear and walk away.
Little did I know I had a certain little hunter following me. "Did he just tame that lion in just a second" she mumbles as she continues to follow me. I find a bunch of rabbits scattered around me. "Well this will do and I guess I should give the hunters some food as an apology for imposing on them" I say as I release me weapon in my hand. "Sorry about this but I need food I hope you all find peace" I say to them as water encases my sword. In a blur of swings I cut off 19 of their heads. I walk over and pick up the corpse and put them in a bag. "Again I'm sorry about this" I said to them as I prayed for them to make a happy after life in Uncle Hades domain.
I put away my weapons and then look at where the person that has been following me this whole time. "Are you coming out or not" I ask the figure. At first there was nothing then an arrow gets shot at me. I catch it in my hand look at the little girl from before. "Hello again do you really hate me so much that you would kill me despite Artemis's wishes" I ask her. "You will die for just being who you are" she says angrily. "I am sorry for whatever you had to go through at the hands of men but please do not give up on us so quickly we are not all bad" I say to her sadly.
Now that I get a better look at her I see that she has blond hair down to the small of her back and blue eyes. She looked like she was about 12 but with hunters you could never guess what age someone was with them never aging.
She doesn't say anything just shoots another arrow at me. I drop the bag of rabbit corpses and dodge the arrow that whizzed past me ear. I lung at her faster than any human could and grab the arrows and bow out of her hand. I throw them away and take her hunting knife away and look at her darkly. "Now what are you going to do" I ask her darkly while making water appear around us slowly getting closer to her. I see tears start to roll down her cheeks as she collapses on the ground looking at me.
I kneel down to be eye level with her and reach out to her. She flinches and puts her hands up to defend herself. I gently stroke the tears off of her cheek looking at her sadly. "You were abused by someone, I am very sorry for this" I say to her. She looks at me in shock then she starts to break down crying burying her face into my chest. I wrap my trench coat around us and hold her comfortingly. "It is ok you have every right to be angry at men and at what me gender has done" I say to her. "But I let my anger cloud my judgment and nearly killed one of my fellow hunters today, if you didn't protect her I would have killed her trying to get you" she weeps.
"It is alright she will not hate you for it, hell knowing Phoebe she might congratulate you for that" I say to her jokingly. She laughs a little and I smile. "There that's better a proud hunter should not be crying" I say to her rubbing her head. She looks at me and nods while rubbing the tears out of her eyes. "Alright then well my name is Damon you don't have to be my friend but here is hoping" I say to her as I hold out my hand to help her up. "My name is Ashley" she says to me as she takes my hand.
"Well let's get back to the camp before anyone sees that we are gone I hope that they like rabbit stew, I don't like imposing on people so I'll make them some food at the very least" I say to her as I grab the bag again and hand her the weapons I took from her. She took them and we walk back to the camp. "Ashley if you ever want to talk about what happened I will not mind hearing and if it is too painful for you I could even suppress your memories if you want me to" I tell her.
"How could you do that" she asks me. "Well you noticed how my right eye is white right" I ask her. "Yes" she says to me confused. "We'll all of the gods agreed and my grandfather Apollo gave me a blessing and my eye can do almost anything but I have to exchange something of equal value to what I take away or give someone" I say to her. "What would you have to give to suppress my memories" she asks me thinking about it. "I would have to suppress some of my own memories" I say to her. "Wait so you could even bring back the dead" she says to me. "Well yes but I have to give something that is equal to a life" I say to her.
When we are almost at camp the mountain lion that I meet earlier was standing in front of our path. "Hello again thanks for the help here you go, for the trouble" I say to it as I throw one of the rabbits at it. It swipes it down to the ground with its paw and starts to eat it. "You did that before how can you tame wild animals so fast, I have only seen Lady Artemis does that" she says to me. "Well I have lived for over a hundred years and lived in the wild most of that time so I guess that they just like me enough to not attack me on sight" I say to her.
She just nods and we make our way back to camp and when we get there I see Artemis looking at us in her cold demeanor. "Hello again Artemis good to see you I have some food for everyone" I say to her happily as I hold up the bag with a grin on my face. "Why are you with one of my hunters alone" she demands. "Well I was hunting and she came to apologies for shooting at me on sight even though you told them not to" I say to her happily. "That was very responsible of you Ashley" she says to the girl with her expression softening at the hunter.
I smile at seeing that. "Why are you grinning" Artemis says to me angrily. "Well it's just that you treat people even the other gods so much different from you precious hunters, I find it to be nice" I say to her. "You have had companions with you so you know what it feels like to have people to protect" she say to me. "Well it is a feeling that I don't remember that well since I have traveled alone for almost 100 years" I say to her sadly. She looks at me with a little shock in her face but then it disappears.
"I need your assistance to heal my hunters they have the antidote but it is going through them to slowly" she says to me. "And I take it you will never ask your brother for help" I say to her. "I will never ask for that idiots help if I can help it" she says to me holding her head at memories of her brother Apollo. "Alright I will look at them now just let me put this near my things" I say to her as I walk over to my stuff that the hunters threw at the edge of the camp. I put down the bag and walk back over to Artemis and Ashley. "Would you mind making a fire for me I will be back momentarily" I ask Ashley.
"Fine" she says to me bluntly and walks away. "What did you do" Artemis asks me with anger in her voice. "I didn't do anything just proved that not all men the demons that she thinks that they are" I say to her sadly. "I know that you do not want to see people hurt again but you have to stay away from my hunters, if they fall for you they will not be allowed to stay as hunters" Artemis says to me. "Why is that, why do they have to give up on love for what you wish" I say to her. "Plus Artemis you know me I will not try to do anything to them" I say to her happily as I start walking over to her tent. She looks at me dumbfounded but knew that she couldn't do anything because if she tried anything she knew that I was just as strong as her and could probably beat her if I went all out.
I walk into her tent and see Zoe and Phoebe in beds breathing heavily. They were pale and flustered from the strain that their bodies were going through. "This is strange" I mumble as I walk over to them and grab their wrists feeling there pulse. "What do you mean" Artemis asks me. "Well they should be breathing evenly if you gave them the antidote and there blood pressure should be going faster than this but instead they are both acting like they never got the antidote" I say to her. "Give me the vile quickly I have a bad feeling" I say to her. She does as I ask and gives it to me.
I open it up and smell the venom coming from the vial almost intoxicating. "Who gave this to you" I ask her. "Hades I made a deal with him that I would give him something in exchange for the antidote" she says to me. "Well this is concentrated dose of Hydra venom he must have wanted Zoe from her being amongst the living for so long" I say to her as I look down at the two girls. "What" she yells angrily. "It is true and we can't do much about it except" I mumble thinking of a powerful healing spell. "Except what I will not have my hunters die if there is something that can heal them" she say to me.
"I can heal them but I will have to us my full power" I say to her. "Well then do it" she yells at me. "I will make you a deal I will heal them if you let me stay with you and the hunters" I say to her. "What absolutely not" she yells. "That is the only thing that I will accept as payment for what I have to do" I say to her. "What would you have to do" she yells. "I will have to destroy most of my memories of my mother and probably give up the use of my right eye for at least half a year to do it" I say to her sadly. She looks at me shocked.
"Now do you see why I said that would be what I would need in exchange, I will not be able to remember my most precious memories, that will pay for saving one of their life's" I say to her. "The other is restricting us of the blessings on my right eye for at least half a year to heal the other" I say to her. "I see that is why you will have such a large void in your life and you need something to help you continue to live on" she says to me. "That is it" I say to her sadly. "Fine but do not expect the hunters to accept you because they sure as Hades won't accept a man to be with them" she says to me.
"Alright that is fine for me" I say to her as my right eye starts to glow. I place my hands over both of their hearts. "I abide by the contract that I was given, I will suppress the power of my right eye for half of a year and all of the memories of my beloved mother to heal these two girls" I say. I hear a thunder boom telling me that it is accepted. "Then invoking contract" I say as I lean over Zoe and kiss her. I open up my mouth and us my tough to open hers and start sucking out the poison. "What are you doing to my hunter" Artemis yells at me. I ignore her because if I stop now then it would have been for not.
When I suck out all of the poison from her body I remove my lips from her and there is a green bubble of slime in front of my face. I spit it out into the bowl by her bed and then lean over Phoebe and do the same thing. When I am done I collapse to the ground. "I'm sorry my mother Luna" I mumble her name one more time before all of my memories of her are suppressed. I start crying at the lost memories start to fade from my mind. The first time she ever held me, showed me how to fight, kissed me goodnight, smiled, what she looked like, how she sounded, what she looked like all of it was gone.
Artemis didn't hear me as she walks up to me and grabs my collar shaking me. "Why the hell did you kiss them" she yells at me with pure anger in her voice. I didn't answer and then she felt tears fall onto her face. Her eyes that were blinded my rage looked at me in confusion. "The contract is fulfilled and now they are both safe" I say to her with tears still falling from my face. "Why are you crying" she demands. "Like I said my memories of my mother are all gone now, the most precious thing that I had next to my own life is now gone so I could save your hunters" I said to her trying to gain control of myself.
"What" she said to me confused as she dropped me. "I had to kiss them to absorbed the poison and get it out of there system" I said to her wiping the tears out of my face. Artemis looked at me in shock. "Well if it makes you feel any better Zoe took my first kiss" I said to her grinning a little at the sad fact. "You have been alive over 100 years and you are trying to tell me that you have never kissed anyone" she says to me. "No I have not and I did it was probably my mother but now I don't even remember if I did" I said to her sadly.
"HAHAHAHA" she starts laughing historically at it. "Hay I don't want to be laughed at by the eternal maiden about not kissing someone" I said to her. She stopped laughing after I said that and looked at me. "It is just that I have never met a man that didn't kiss anyone for such a long time and for what reason is this" she asks me with genuine curiosity. "Well I just never loved anyone before and the one person that I did I never told my feeling to" I said to her. "Why she died" Artemis asked curious. "No she just hated men" I said as I gestured to the unconscious Zoe. "There is no way in the underworld she will ever return your feelings after what her love did to her" she said to me a little sadly.
"It is alright if she never returns my feelings that will never change the fact that have been in love with her for over 70 years" I say to her happily. "Well that is impressive and what pray tell made you fall for my lieutenant" she asks me curious. "Well first she has something about her that makes me think that I could trust her no matter what" I start. "Second she won't admit it but she loves those she considers family and will do anything for them and I love that about her" I say to her. "What no she is really cute or something stupid like that" Artemis teases. "Well yes she is beautiful but that doesn't count as a reason for why I love her" I say to her.
"You might be the only choice that I would have agreed to that deal with" Artemis says as she starts pointing out the door. "Now go and do what you were going to do earlier" she says to me and I walk out the tent.
Artemis POV
"Well you heard him Zoe now how long are you planning on faking sleep" I say to my trusted huntress. Her eyes open and I see a deep blush on her face. "Even though I would hate to admit it he is probably the best man to help all of us learn that they aren't all that bad" I say to her. I will admit it I have thought of Damon on occasion when I was alone, he is a strong fighter and he never treated me like I was a weak girl that everyone else on Olympus did, he treated me like someone important and was a good man.
"I do not know what to do Lady Artemis he has been known to help the hunters and never ask for anything in return, I think this is the first request that he has ever had of us" she said to me. "That is true but now that I think about it he has every right to want this" I say to her. "Why is that" she asks me. "Well he has never know what it means to have a family for the past 100 years and now that he has lost all of the memories of his only true family he will need someone to fill the void" I say to her.
"What are you suggesting" Zoe asks me. "Well I don't think that I should keep the law that you cannot love a male even though we all hate them I believe that Damon will open up people to the idea of loving them again and it would be unfair if only a few of us could have boyfriends" I say to her with a wink. "What are thee suggesting about that Lady Artemis" she says to me flustered. "Well I know that you have feelings for him and I do not mind him so I suggest you tell your feeling for him he loves you dearly if he never kissed anyone and he has never loved anyone but you in the past 70 years" I say to her happily.
"I will think about it" she says to me. I smile and walk out of the tent and see a wonderful sight. All of the wolfs that we had have been surrounding Damon and were now howling to the full moon with him as he cooked food for the other hunters. "I might think about stealing him from you Zoe if you take too long" I say to myself as I walk over to him.
Damon POV
"That tastes great now just need bowls" I mumble as I stir the bowl more looking around. "Ashley is there any bowls for this it is dinner now right" I ask her. "Yes Damon here you go" she says to me as she walks over to me with about 30 bowls stacked high. I put down the ladle and take them from her before she falls. "Not to many at once or it will not end well" I said to her happily. She nodded and walked the rest of the way with me. I pore the rabbit soup into the bowls and get them all onto a big tray and I walk back to the center of the campsite where all the hunters were gathered around the campfire talking to each other. "Hello foods done eat if you want" I say to them as I put the tray on the table near the center on the table.
They all looked at me in anger and one of them threw her cup of hot chocolate at me. I control the liquid and put it back into the cup and walk back to the girl. "Wasting food is a bad thing" I say to her happily as I take her hand and put the cup in it and walk back to the center. I grab a bowl and spoon and walk away. "Damon stay where you are for a moment" I hear Artemis say. "As you wish" I say to her and I say where I was and turned around to face her. She stood in front of everyone and everyone stood at attention.
"Out of an agreement this man will be staying with us as per our arrangement for him saving Zoe and Phoebe" she says to them. They all start yelling in protest at this. "Why should we let a man here no matter what he did all he wants is to get what he wants" one yells. I hear agreements at the girls accusations. "What the hell could he have done to allow this, he saved them but what does that have to do with him living with us now" another girl yells. "That is because" Artemis starts to say but then I blur in front of her. "NO DO NOT TELL THEM" I yell at her. Everyone jump back at my display.
"They will be your family they deserve to know why" she says to me. "But" I started to say but then nodded knowing I would never win an argument with her. "He has given up his memories of his only family to save them" she says to everyone. "What those memories of that bitch that betrayed us" a girl yes in anger. I snap at what I heard as I turn to the girl that said that and I raise my hand and make her freeze in place and lift her off of the ground. "Don't you ever say that about her again" I yell at her with pure anger in my voice. Everyone is looking at me in fear at how I am making one of their fellow hunters float in the air and cringe in pain.
"DAMON CALM DOWN" Artemis yells at me and puts her hands on my shoulders. I calm down and put the girl on the ground feeling a painful memory come back to me as Artemis was talking to someone and that person yelled at me the same way when I snapped before. "Better, now as you all can see that is a very sensitive subject for him and he has powers that put him on par with my own so angering him on purpose is a very bad idea" she say to them. The girl that I attacked had tears in her eyes and everyone nodded.
"Dam it why did I do that" I mumble as I grab my food and walk away. When I got away from them I was at my little area again. "I just proved them right men are monsters, but I can't stand it when someone insults her" I mumble them I feel a pain in my head. "Wait who was it that I was angry about them insulting again" I mumble trying to remember but couldn't.
"Oh well I have a long road ahead of me if I want to prove them wrong, with what I just did I probably made it just that much harder" I mumble as I finish the stew. I walk over to my stuff and lye my head down looking at the moon. I don't know why but it has always calmed me down just staring up at the night sky I just hate how much light pollution there is, I can't even see the starts that much when the full moon is out. I pull my trench coat over myself like a blanket and close my eyes to sleep. The wolf come over to me and curl up around me. "Well at least you guys don't fear me, good night to all of you" I say to them happily. They all howl and fall asleep. I smile as I drift off to sleep.
