Artemis knelt down. Placing her hand on the ground and concentrating, sending waves of power into the ground. Willing the earth to reveal to her what she wished to find. After a few seconds tracks appeared on the ground where there once were none, they were wolf tracks but these were not normal wolf tracks. These were five times the size of a normal wolf's, and were at least three to four inches deep into the ground, showing that this particular wolf was extremely heavy.

Artemis stood up, satisfied with her work and began to follow the tracks. She had been following this beast for the past couple of days and each time she had gotten close it had managed to elude her. But this time was different, this time she had left her hunter behind, close enough to arrive in time to help her but far away enough to not alert her prey.

Said prey was the last of it's kind. A wolf bred for war by Kronos and his army, fully grown they stood as tall as a man and weighed the same as ten. They were almost impossible to kill due to their thick coat of fur that could block almost any attack, couple that with teeth and claws that could split the thickest of armours with ease and you had an almost unstoppable killing machine.

But as with everything they had a weak spot. While most of their body was covered with fur their underside was not, allowing the potential for a well placed strike to penetrate the flesh.

Artemis arrived in a clearing that was covered with the bones of a countless number of humans, bears, deer and other creatures of the forest. A little further into the clearing was a cave with even more bones visible just inside the cave. This was clearly the beast's home and since Artemis could see no sign of it she decided to wait.

A little while later her hunters joined her and together they waited, some staying hidden in the bushed while other climbed into some nearby trees. Not long afterword they heard they sound of leaves rustling from the opposite side of the clearing, the wolf immersed with a carcass of a deer in it's mouth. It was by far the largest wolf anyone of them had seen which was scary in itself, but with the blood from the deer staining it's muzzle it looked downright terrifying.

Artemis tightened the grip on her bow. She had seen this wolf before and had barely managed to save her brother Apollo from being cut to pieces by its sharp claws. Thankfully she had shot an arrow that managed to penetrate the wolf's fur which had caused to run away into the woods, with Artemis firing arrows after it. She had hoped that the wound would weaken it enough so that it could be killed by some other creature but apparently she had been wrong.

Artemis noticed that while most of the shafts were broken, the arrow heads themselves were still stuck in the beast's hide. The wolf set down the deer and started to sniff the air and began to growl in the direction of Artemis and her hunters, who immediately nocked arrows and began to fire at the wolf.

The wolf ignored the arrows, most of them barely penetrating the tough hide, and plowed into the group of hunters in the bushes. The force sent several hunter flying off in different directions all but one appeared to be unconscious or dead. The hunters in the trees continued to pelt it with arrows, causing the wolf to rise up on it's hind legs in an attempt to reach a particularly annoying hunter who had managed to stick an arrow into one of it's legs.

Artemis tried to take advantage by charging the wolf with her hunting knives in an attempt to stab a knife into it's exposed underbelly. The wolf noticed her though and quickly went back down to all fours and lunged at the goddess who rolled out of the way of it's claws.

Landing back on her feet Artemis noticed that she was now out of the bushed and into the clearing, the wolf started to follow her but something was wrong. It seemed hesitant as it stalked towards her, it's movement were more sluggish than before and to her surprise it veered away from her and unsteadily walked towards the cave. The wolf collapsed in front of the cave, it's chest expanding slower and slower.

Blood began to pool on the ground beneath the wolf. The blood flowed from several arrow wounds that had found newly exposed weak spots from the amount of arrows that had hit the wolf.

Seizing the opportunity Artemis strode forward to finish it off. But when she flipped it over onto it side to expose it's underbelly, she noticed something that she hadn't before. The wolf was in fact female. The wolf's breathing had slowed even more, it was to the point that the rise and fall of it ribs was barely visible anymore. But to surprise of Artemis and her hunters the wolf began hum. It was a warm motherly hum that they didn't think such a terrible monster was capable of mustering. Then something even more surprising happened, as the she wolf finished humming a small bark came from deep inside the cave, a second later a small wolf pup rushed from the cave and to the wolf's side.

It was clearly the pup of the wolf by the way the pup started to lick the bigger wolf's blood stained muzzle, trying to get it's mother to play with it. But the mother wolf could only muster the strength to let out one last motherly humm before the light faded from it's blue eyes.

The pup didn't seem to understand what had happened as it tried to get a response from its dead mother, nipping her ears and nudging her paws with it's nose.

The Lieutenant of the hunt stepped out of the group of hunters that were captivated by the event transpiring in front of them, nocking an arrow drawing it back and aiming it at the wolf pup.

"Shall I kill the little monster my Lady?" she asked Artemis.

"No Zoe," she replied, sheathing her knives once more, "there has been enough killing today. We shall treat our wounded and let nature take it's course with this one."

And with that, the group headed back towards their camp. Carrying the wounded and mourning over the dead. Leaving the small wolf pup alone with it's mother's carcass.

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A/N: so what do you think? A little bit dark I know but I promise it won't always be like this. Obviously this is not the last we will see of the wolf, also this is not going to be a dark percy fanfic. In my opinion most of those kind of stories Percy is kind of a b**ch and turns against olympus for little to no good reason, again just my opinion. Now thet that little tangent is out of the way be sure to review and tell me what you think. Try not to be too mean as this is my first fanfiction post.