Percy Jackson stood before the Olympian council. The Titan war had ended and Percy had rejected immortality. Only problem was Annebeth had broken up with him. She stated that after the events they had been through she saw him only as a brother. Now he was needed for a new quest. One requested by Zues himself.
"Percy Jackson you have been called here today to undertake a new task. You see Artemis' hunters had a hard time in the war cooperating with the army from camp half-blood because of their distrust of males. So today I am assigning you to become part of the hunt." Zues instructed. When he finished both Artemis and Percy's eyes were as wide as dinner plates.
"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS FATHER." Artemis screamed out of character. Percy on the other hand was just in fear for his life. What was Zues thinking. ' Is he trying to get me killed.'
"No Jackson I am not trying to kill you." Zues commented. Percy opened his mouth to say something before Zues cut him off. "I can read your thoughts. Now as I was saying. Percy jackson will join the hunt. But he will survive on his own merits. Artemis you are not to coddle him, nor are you to treat him unfairly from the others in your party. Understood." Zues instructed. Artemis nodded not trusting her voice. "Good then meeting adjurned." He stated banging his master bolt on the ground before disapearing.
Most of the gods disapeared except for Apollo Artemis Posiedan and Hestia. Artimes walked up to him and growled. "Meet me outside when your done here." Before stomping off.
Apollo walked up to Percy. "This is gonna be rough man. Especally from what I've heard of your archery skills." Percy had the decency to look emberassed. "But I'm gonna give you a hand." He waved his hand infront of Percy who was bathed in red light before it faded. "I've given you my blessing. Normally it would amplify a normal archers skills to that of a expert but for you." He grinned. "It puts you at slightly above average. It will give you the ability to learn. You'll also heal faster thanks to it. Trust me with my sis you'll need it." He smirked at Percy who paled. "Lastly is this." He said handing percy a small ring in the shape of a quiver. "That ring is similar to riptide in that it transforms into a bow and a quiver with unlimited arrows. It's also keyd to your D.N.A so the hunters can't steal it. Also like riptide it will always come back to your finger." He finished.
"Thank you Lord Apollo." He bowed before putting the ring on his finger.
"No problem kid. And know your always welcome at my place cuz." He grinned before dissapearing.
Hestia was next she repeated the process that Apollo did. "I don't know if they'll make you sleep outside until you make a kill to build your own tent so as part of my blessing you will be given the warmth of the hearth. It will always keep you comfortably warm nomatter the condition. I'm also giving you the ability to summon a home cooked meal when you want it, since I've seen Thailia's cooking and I bet their gonna try and make you eat it."
"Thank you lady Hestia." Percy smiled.
"Your welcome. And please Percy call me Hestia I was never one for formalities." She smiled to which percy nodded. She gave him a quick hug before leaving.
Finally was Posiedan. "Percy I'm going to give you better control over water. It will make it easier for you to do things like bathe should you need to. I'm also going to grant you the same form of immortality that Artimes gives her hunters. Minus the no dating rule. After all I want granchildren Percy." He winked to which Percy blushed. "Relax no rush." He laughed. "I've also given you the ability to travel through water similar to how your friend Nico travels through shadows."
Percy nodded. "Thanks dad." Posiedan smiled and hugged his son.
"Your welcome Percy. Now I must be going. But do make sure you visit when you can." He said before leaving.
Percy sighed before turning to leave as he turned he saw a package on the ground with a note atached. He lifted the note and read it. 'Dear Percy. Didn't have time to stop and chat. Deliveries to make messages to send. You know the drill. Anyway I left you a pair of winged shoes similar to the ones you used four years ago. Simply use the mia password and they'll deploy. Should come in handy when running from hunters. Signed Hermes. P.S. don't forget to Iris message your mother once in a while she's probably worried sick about you.' Percy smiled and changed out his shoes before pocketing the note.
He sighed. 'Time to face the music.' He thought to himself before walking to the door. He saw Artemis waiting there for him. "I'm ready when you are lady Artemis."
"Took you long enough." She said before opening a portal back to her camp.
'This is gonna be a long quest.'
A few minutes later Percy stood next to Artemis at the dining tent of the hunters camp. "My hunters today I bring you news. Zues has ordered that starting today Percy Jackson here will be joining our hunt." An uproar was heard throughout the tent at the anouncement. "SILENCE." Artemis yelled effectivly silencing the outbreak. "Now I don't like him being here either but orders are orders." She sighed. "Now for his orders just so everyone is clear on the rules conserning mister Jackson here." She grinned. "For one he will not be given a tent right away. He will have to kill monsters to gather material enough to build one." She turned to him. "I'll show you how to start it and add to it later." She returned to facing the hunters.
"Next rule. He will not be issued a bow he will have to make one." Percy raised his hand to interupt. "Yes Jackson."
"I actually already have a bow." He said
"Really would you mind showing it to us because I dont see one. Unless it's invisible." Laughed one of the hunters. Percy turned to Artemis who nodded. Percy tapped his ring as it transformed into a yellow/golden colored bow.
"Where did you get that." Artemis asked already having a pretty good guess.
"Lord Apollo gave it to me." Percy said.
"Give me that." Artemis growled snatching the bow out of his hand. When she did she felt her hand heat up to an extreme degree. She dropped the bow to the ground and grabbed her hand. "What the hell. How do you hold that bow? It's as hot as the sun itself."
"Lord Apollo said it was keyd to my D.N.A so that it couldn't be stolen. I didn't know it had that defense mechinism." Percy said picking up his bow and returning it to ring form.
"I see well. Now for your duties. First off is laundry. You'll find it by the river every day. Afterwards you'll clean the wolf pins and finally after dinner you'll sharpen the arrows. Make sure to finish the laundry early or you'll have to clean the pins with the wolves in them." She grinned along with the other hunters making Percy gulp. For a twelve year old she was evil. "Finally you will eat breakfast lunch and dinner one hour after the hunters do. You can help yourself to whatevers left. Now you have the rest of the day off be ready to work tomorrow. Dissmissed." She said as the hunters filled out.
Percy looked down at his watch. An hour till the hunters ate dinner so two hours till he got to eat. Percy decided to go try and track down a monster to get the material for his tent. When he exited the camp he noticed that he wasn't in New York. "Where am I."
"The African congo." Artimes said from behind him. He turned around to look at her. "We hunt all over the world so it shouldn't suprise you." Percy nodded. "So what are you doing?" She asked.
"I'm going looking for a monster. I need a tent and your not gonna give me one."
"Well good luck. But next time tell someone when your gonna go out of camp." She instructed before walking back. Percy nodded and started walking hoping that being away from the camp would draw a monster to him.
He was right to. About ten minutes after he spotted a Manticore prowling around. He looked at it and summoned his bow and aimed. He was aiming for the head but with the range and his limeted skills he hit it in the side. The beast roared and charged taword him. He fired three more arrows before drawing his sword. He dropped down and sliced the beast coroded killing it. He picked the corps up and trudged with it back to camp.
With the dead wait it took im a few more minutes to get back to camp. He soon found Artemis. "Lady Artemis would you mind showing me what to do with this?" He asked.
She looked at the arrows sticking out of the beast and was mildly impressed. "Well it will make decent meat for dinner tonight. Combined with what the hunters caught you might actually get a decent meal tonght. As for the hide it will make you a tent but not like my hunters. You'll have to crouch to get into it and you wont have much sleeping room. However the mane will make a decent bedroll. All in all not a bad start." She said
Over the next thirty minutes she showed him how to skin and dress a kill. She then took him to the outskirts of the camp. "Here." She said giving him a necklice with a unusual stone. "That stone is charmed so that if you have the material for it you can construct a tent however you want. Just look at the material and picture your tent." She said tossing a couple of sticks next to the hide.
Percy imagined the largest tent the necklace would allow along with a bedroll. Artemis was right Percy standing at five nine was taller than the ten and it looked pretty thin. "Well I'm going to go I'll take the meat with me twenty minutes should be long enough to cook it. Your dinners in an hour twenty so you still have time to find another kill." She waved walking off.
Percy sighed and decided to try out the tent. He had to crouch and his feet barely fit in when he layed down. "Yo." A voice said in his head.
"Apollo that you." Percy replied in his mind.
"Ya listen I don't really trust those hunters so I'm gonna give you a charm that will only allow people with your permission or a god to enter your tent." Percy nodded and followed Apollo's insructions and used the necklace to create a ruin on the wall of the tent. "Ok now good luck. Also tap that ruin and a door will open to my palace if you ever get tired of them and need a place to crash for the night."
"Thanks cousin." Percy replied before Apollo cut the link. Percy decided to simply lay down for the next hour or so.
When it came time for Percy to go to his dinner he got up and walked to the dinner pavilion. When he entered he saw that all that was left of his kill plus the hunter was a small amount of meet not large enough to even fill a desert plate. He sighed and sat down before eating the meager meal.
"I wish I had been a boy scout." He said trudging back to his tent after his more or less dinner. "Atleast then I'd know about berries that could be picked out here." It was getting late so Percy decided it'd be best to just go to sleep for now.
When he arrived in his tent he saw Hestia waiting for him. "Hello Hestia."
"Hello Percy. I just dropped by to see how you were doing. I noticed you didnt use my gift to make dinner. Why?"
Percy sighed. "I really wish I could have. But if I did that the hunters might have seen and accused me of cheating. I don't need them mad at me. They already want to throw me to the wolves. Literally"
Hestia chuckled. "Don't worry Percy. I'm sure you'll be fine." She said. "Well for now I have to go. Good luck Percy. I believe in you." She said before she kissed him on the cheek and disapeared.
Percy sat in his tent with a blush on his face. He lay on his small bed roll and fell asleep. That night he slept the best he ever had.
The next morning Percy woke up and headed to the river to do the luandry. What he found was a pile of clothes the size of Zues' fist. "How the hell did they use that many clothes?" he asked himself
He growled and got to work not wanting to run the risk of the wolves being in the pins when he got there.
However just before he was going to he saw a girl wash up on the river bed. Her long blonde hair tied in two pigtails. She wore a tattered and torn orange jacket with black trim and matching pant's. Her most striking feature though was the three wisker marks on each of her cheeks.
"Beautiful." Was the only word Percy could use to describe the girl. Abandoning his laundry duty Percy picked her up bridal style and started running back to camp.
Flashback ten minutes earlier elemental nations.
Naruko Uzumaki had just finished storing copies of evver jutsu scroll the allied shinobi forces had in sealing tatoos on her body. Everyone was dead except for Kakashi and A both of which were currently holding off a mortalized Madaara Uchiha. Who even in his weakend state was more than a match for the two. She knew that the shinobi world was a lost cause so she decided to end this with a jutsu that would take her somewhere else. She got to the battle field in time to see Maadara kill Kakashi.
The site caused her to awakin the Rienagan. She charged Maadara pouring fuuton chakra and yoki into her hand. "Fuuton: Demonic rasenshuriken."She yelled.
Maadar looked at her and summoned a partial Susanoo. He swung his sword and as the two jutsu collided a rift opened sending Naruko through to a new world
The present.
Percy went looking for someone but couldn't find anyone. "Damnit they must be huntin." Percy thought for a momment before taking her to his tent. He tapped the ruin and opened the door to Apollo's temple.
"Apollo." He yelled as he ran into the temple holding the girl.
Apollo ran out of his study. "What is it."
"I found this girl washed up by the lake. She needs help." Percy explained.
Apollo nodded and grabbed the girl from percy before taking her into a empty room before shutting the door. Percy waited outside the room for Apollo to finish.