Chapter 1- Greetings from a goddess

It had been a good month since the manticore incident and Es had locked herself in her new room. No one went in and no one came out.

Chiron called together all the demigods and the creatures living on the site.

"Due to resent events, the gods have decided to forget about the wedding laws and you are now free to love who you want."

Looks of happiness spread across the faces of Percy, Hazel and especially Piper's. Everyone was so happy; apart from Will. Will really liked Es however; she was his cousin and shouldn't exist.

"Everything exists, you just don't realise it." Will turned around to see a twelve year old girl in hunter's clothes with auburn hair and silver eyes.

"Artemis..." Everyone stopped and turned to see Artemis. Chiron pulled himself out of his chair and into his centaur form. He trotted over and kneeled down in front of Artemis.

"Artemis, Goddess of the moon and hunt, what brings you here?" Chiron raised and looked at Artemis.

"I am here to discuss the current situation about my daughter." Everyone listened to Artemis' words.

"Es' full name is Esmeralda Lupus Rosa. She is at critical stage in her growing up." Everyone thought about Es' full name. Jason realised it was a mixture of Spanish and Latin. Clarisse was the first to speak.

"What do you mean by a critical stage?"

"She is changing." Will was really concern about Es. She was so new yet so different and strange. Will plucked up the courage and asked;

"How is she changing?"

"I am becoming one with my wolf." Everyone turned around to see Es standing behind them. She had changed clothes and was now wearing a grey top and tight leather jacket which matched her leather trousers. On her feet was a pair of grey sneakers. She wore a loose belt which had all her fighting knives. Her hair hanged down her back and had been cut to a smaller length. Her eyes were now blue, however, she had a silver glow around her and her scars were extremely obvious.

"Es?" asked a really concerned Will.

"Call me Esmeralda." No-one had ever called Es by her first name since the beginning. However, Hazel felt it was her duty as an impossible child to be friends with Esmeralda. Hazel stepped forward and a ruby appeared above her head. However, it was in the shape of a paw.

"Looks like I have a gem buddy." Esmeralda held out her hand and a paw-shaped emerald appeared. Hazel smiled at the gem and hers floated into her hands and vanished.

"Hello Esmeralda."

"Hello Artemis." Esmeralda walked towards Artemis and kneeled in front of her. Artemis motioned for her to stand and Esmeralda got up. The glow around Es began to fade and Artemis smiled at how well Es was handling her wolf. Artemis hugged her daughter and ran off into the woods. Es turned around to see everyone staring at her.

"I know I'm pretty, but there's no need to stare." Everybody started to laugh about Esmeralda's stupid comment, even Chiron laughed.

"How can you be so happy when you are changing so massively?" Hazel asked through her giggles.

Es replied, "It's easy to see light in a dark room." There was a moment of silent however Chiron broke by saying,

"How about all of you go back to your activities?" Everyone began heading off in different directions. Esmeralda thought about going to find Nicky when she noticed something shining up in the tree. A sun nymph.

She had long brown hair and dark brown eyes. She was wearing a long golden dress that draped over the branch. Es notice the nymph was staring at something. Es followed her gaze, her eyes laid upon the 6'1" son of Hermes. Luke. He had blonde hair and blue eyes like Will, however his angular face made him irresistible. No wonder that nymph liked him.

"Sadie."

Es turned around to see the tree nymph, Lauren, standing to her right.

"The nymph in the tree is called Sadie and she is in love with Luke. Although, they haven't put the label on it... yet."

Sadie must have been staring at Luke for hours because as soon as she closed her eyes then opened them he was gone. She felt a warm presence behind her.

"You look cute in that dress."

Sadie heard the sweet voice of Luke being whispered into her ear.

"If you think this is cute then you'll like this."

A ray of sun shone down on Sadie's dress and it slowly began to shorten until it was just above the knee.

"Now that's just being cheeky."

Sadie lent over the edge and shouted at Lauren.

"Cover please?" which was replied by Lauren shouting back;

"No way!" However, she gave up and used her powers to move the tree so that Sadie and Luke were completely out of sight. Soon came the sound of childish squeals and laughter. Lauren left Es standing there and went into the woods.