A/N I now the last one ended sort of short so this one will be much onger so don't worry.
Artemis Pov
It's been over fourteen years since I let my first male hunter join. I still have't llet another in, but I have let him have a child with one hunter, my leuitenant Thalia. I was declared the Godmother of the child. Her name is Etalia.
She is a descendant of Calypso, Hades and Zeus. Such a thing is unheard of. I descendent off more than one of the big three. The child already showed great power. She was thirteen years old now. She had her father and mother's eyes. They were dark pink, but sparked with blue electricity. She had pitch black hair which reached her middle back now. She was just as perfect as her father in soul and as beautiful as her mother in body.
Today was June 23. We had ended the Olympian council yesterday, and I was headed to Camp to see my goddaughter and let the hunters join camp for the new session. Ever since Thalia asked to stay there, we have gone every year for a session so my hunters could enjoy themselves for a while. Thalia and Eterna were still full members of the Hunters, but stayed at camp so they could raise their daughter until she was ready to go to camp herself. This would be that year.
"Hello Eterna, Thalia. Hello young Etalia." I saqid as I was tackled by my goddaughter.
"Hey Artie. Guess what? I get to start camp today!" She told me. She has called me Artie ever sicne she could talk so I had grown used to it.
"That's great. I will be staying for the session this year wiith the hunters. I will see you all summer." I told her as we walked her back to her parents.
"Yeah! Artie's staying for the summer again!" she cheered. I had stayed every summer since Thalia got pregnant. I didn't have the heart to tell her that after this summer her mother and father would be leaving her here unless she joined the hunt. They both knew that, and would love to have their daughter join them as hunters, as long as she wanted too.
Today would be thee first day of camp and her day to be introduced to the cabins. It had already been decided that she would stay in Cabin Eight. She was a descendant of many gods, so we decided she would stay in her parents cabin. My cabin.
I left them too go speak with Chiron. Since her birth I had become very involved with the camp. I had help Chiron teach archery classes and aided in teaching the campers special ways to fight certain monsters that Chiron didn't know of. Like f you cut off the Chimeras tail first, it can't stand up anymore until it reattaches its tails.
I had enjoyed reminding the Apollo cabiners to stay away from my hunters. Eterna and Thalia were a one time thing. I would not stand for anyone else trying to be with my hunters.
Etalia's best friend at camp was Anna, Percy and Annabeth Jackson's daughter. They were very close. Etalia was a little over a year younger, so Anna often showed her how to do things and led the way for her. Anna was a descendant of Posieden and Athena, but since she had my blessing and couldn't decide on a cabin, she would also be put in Cabin Eight this year. Since her parents lived at camp they would be able to watch her, but this way she would have some privacy. Both were going to be given the choice of joining the hunt at the end of the summer. If they chose to stay, they would be year round campers.
The only reason they waited so long to join camp fully was because they wanted to wait until they were both at the age of claiming like most campers. I can't believe just fourteen years ago I had hated men and never liked Camp Halfblood very much, and now the daughter of my first male hunter was preparing for camp where I had been named an official instructor. Like I saiid before, things have gotten really weird for me.
Etalia Pov
"So you ready for our first year of Camp?" I asked Anna.
"Of course. I know we'll kick all the other campers butts. We have the blessing of Artemis abnd are both descendants of the big three. We can do anything." Anna answered.
Of the two of us, she was the more talkative and tomboyish. I was really girly but still tough. We were both wearing Camp Halfblood T-shirt, but she wore loose black jeans, while I had a knee length white skirt on. We were best friends and complete opposites in personality.
Oddly enough I was always the better warrior and archer. She was the better runner and builder. We were very close. we did everything together. Everything. We had fought our first monster together, shared our first crush and even our first kiss. That had been an accident at the training field and we had sworn to never speak of it again. We had been practicing last month for this summer and were pushed by two hermes campers into eahc other. We made them swear to never say anything. So far they hadn't.
Today we were standing with a bunch of new claimed waiting at the dinning hall for the first diner of the new session. we would go to our tables after we were announced, and then we would go to our new table.
"Our next two new members are children of two couples well known by the camp. Etalia and Anna. We welcome you to camp as full campers. Your table shall be table eight." Chiron announced. We got up and headed towards the hunters table. We had both agreed to never even consider joining the hunters because we liked camp. We knew if we joined we would only be able to stay for the summer. We didn't like that idea.
We had other reasons, but they weren't really that important. As we ate you would wonder how we were friends. I had a small salad and a single goblet of diet coke. Anna had three whole plates of brisquet and several cups of pepsi. I wasn't a veggitarian, I just didn't eat much as it was. She devoured food like she was a bottomless pit. We both looked very similar, except for our faces and chests. She was becoming very well endowed while I was still pretty flat. I didn't even need a bra. My face was more feminie and beautiful. Hers was still beautiful, but more of a rugged beauty like. My hair reached the middle of my back and was pure black. Hers was cut pixie style and was brown. I could sing very well, while she sounded like a choking cat. She could swim, and I could drown. I could fire accuratley with a bow, and she could hit everything but her target. She could build anything, and I couldn't put legos together. I could draw better than anyone at camp, even the Apollo campers, and she could barely draw stick figures. I was a virgin and she wasn't. Don't ask.
We didn't seem like people who would be frineds, but we couldn't be closer. Well we could, but that be a bit weird for her. We were like sisters to each other. We helped each other out in every way. We were planning on learning everything we could at camp, and be the first to get the annual quest this year. We would return triumphant and everyone would cheer.
I was so lost in thought, Anna had to remind me about the first campfire of the session. We got up and headed towards the fire. I joined the Apollo campers in the sing along while Anna just sat there watching the fire which was glowing bright yellow. That meant the mood was happy. Anna was a little bit of a pyro so she enjoyed watching fire. She looked pretty cool in the fire light.
When everything was finished we headed back to cabin eight readdy to start tomorrow as the first day of camp activities. I had signed up for archery, pegasus riding, sword practice and art. She had signed up for canoing, strategy practice, sword practice, some time to use the forges, and architecture class with her mom.
I was so excited it took me forever to fall asleep. I just a little depressed that we only had one activity together, but I got over it quickly. I guess we needed to learn to do things alone. I wish we didn't. I knew we did.
Thalia Pov
Her first day of camp went very well. She hit every target in record time at Archery, set a new record on the pegasus riding course, and beat everyone even Anna at sword practice. Her art session went well, but I'm not much of an artist so it didn't really mean much to me. I spent most of the day instructing the twenty new hunters Artemis had found over the last year. The camp had around five hundred campers this session and Artemis had 46 hunters this year. Her numbers tended to grow and shrink constantly.
Eterna would always be the only male hunter. I often wondered if our daughter found it odd that we didn't look much older than her. She was thirteen and her father and I were fourteen and fifteen when we became hunters. Also I was really wondering if she wanted to join us. I hoped so, but I got the feeling she liked camp too much to only be here for the summers.
Eterna and I were enjoying ourselves by the lake now. We had been married for seven years now and our anniversy was ina week. We had gotten married here at camp. Chiron had been our justice of the peace, the hunters and Artemis as my bridesmaids, Percy, the Stoll brothers and Chris Rodriguez as the groomsmen, and everyone at camp as our guests. It was a very large wedding, and our honeymoon had been on Olympus. Hera had been glad to let us, thinking of us as a wonderful couple and, she loved all marriages being the goddess of marriage.
Tonight was just the time to relax. Since our little girl has started camp, we can have some time just for us at night. We may not have to care for her all night anymore, but now we had to deal with campers all day. We were counselors at camp at least until the end of this summer. Then we would join Artemis for the hunt again. We ere excited because neither of us had gone hunting since I got pregnant.
We sat there all night night just enjoying each others presence. I loved him more than anything. We had fought together. He had saved me more times than I can count. Our love continued even after all the love was drained from us. Nothing, not even Aphrodite, could stop our love. I wonder if I anted that for my daughter more than for her to join the hunt. I realized I would be happy with whatever choice she made. I had my love. Whether or not she found hers was up to her.
