Chapter 1

Percy

Now, I've been to Tartarus before. I don't know about you, but I think it's freaky. It's almost the worst thing that could happen to a demigod. You normally die there, unless you get lucky (which has only happened to three of us demigods) and maybe 3000 demigods have gone down there.

Jason, Piper Annabeth, and I were just walking, kinda everywhere, inside the borders of Camp Half-Blood and enjoying the day - and running into Chiron.

"What are you doing at this time of day?" Chiron asked.

"Going to archery, even though I suck at it," I answered. It was true; I really did suck.

"Well, it's always good to practice the things you're not so good at. And what are you three doing?"

"Checking on Nico and Will. ...To see if Nico has his strength back," Annabeth answered.

"And Percy, you do not suck at archery," Piper said.

"You have killed one monster with archery," Jason said.

"Yeah, one with Hera's help," Percy said.

"Well, that's still pretty good, Percy Jackson. You can shoot; just not aim," said Chiron.

"Guess that's true. Well, I need to get going to super hard, old, weird, har-"

"Percy, it's not that hard, old, weird, and all that stuff," Annabeth said.

"Yes, it is that super hard," I said.

"You're taking Leo's place. He was the humorous one; now you are," Annabeth said. A sigh went around at the mention of Leo.

"Well, as I said before, I'm off to super hard, old, imperfect archery. Sorry Artemis and Apollo, not so fun, sorry again Artemis and Apollo, archery," I said.

"Where's Chiron?" Jason asked.

"Gone and bored of us," Piper said. A laugh went up all around.

"Well, we better get going," Jason said and then - Thalia came running.

"What's up Thalia?"Percy asked.

"No time for jokes," she said panting. "Hunters are being picked off by who knows what. We're trying to find this thing that's picking off our Hunters."

"Our Hunters?" Jason asked

"Yeah, ever heard of someone named Artemis?" Thalia asked.

Artemis, unnoticed till now, came to Thalia's side. "Percy Jackson, I heard your apology. You also got Apollo here," Artemis said.

"Okay, that was weird. So about this Hunters-being-picked-off thing; do you know where the thing is?" asked Percy.

"We can't figure that out either; maybe we should ask the Romans, see what they think. I can get in touch with Hylla, and she can get in touch with Reyna and Frank," Thalia said.

"Wait, what about Apollo; I thought he got punished? And yes get in touch with Hylla,"said Percy.

"I'm going to see how Nico is; maybe he can help us," Annabeth said.

"Okay, I hope to figure out the source and then, at the same time, contact Hylla," Thalia said. "And Apollo doesn't have to talk about his punishment,"

"I'm off," said Percy and Annabeth at the same time.

Percy went off to Archery, Annabeth went to find Nico, and every one else just stood and said goodbyes.

Please give me feedback and suggest names for some of the Hunters of Artemis.