Chapter 1 - The Birth of Change: Part 1

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Rated M for violence + intense content, language, and sex (in later chapters)

Thanks to Darth Marrs

A/N at bottom

12 years before Meeting

Glacier National Park

One foot, then the next. One foot, then the next. Left foot, right foot. Left foot, right foot. This is what Artemis, the Goddess of Moon, Hunt, and Maidens, kept telling herself. She had no idea where she was going; where she was running. She just knew she had to get far away.

How can this be happening to her? She just couldn't believe it. There was never any sign, any warning.

She looked up at the moon; it was a full and glowing orb in the blackness of space. It was true there was an actual moon out in the vastness of space, but that was the physical. There was also the moon that was the spiritual embodiment of the west. That is what she was the goddess of, and they both affected one another, the physical and the spiritual.

Right now though, the moon had a barely noticeable dull to it. Artemis continued running through the dark forest. She leapt over logs, ducking under low hanging branches, and gliding through the thick underbrush. Her frantic emotions however were getting the better of her. Her mind began to wander more and more. Her thoughts begin to betray her hunting instincts. As she runs her left foot gets caught in an upturned root. Before she has time to react the confused goddess tumbles face first into the moist ground of the forest.

She rolls twice before coming to a stop. She spits dirt and crumpled leaves from her mouth, and she brings her body up into a kneeling position. The first emotion to come to her face is shock. She never tripped. As in not once in her ENTIRE immortal life. She looks down and notices that her hunters outfit is covered in dirt and tears. I must look pathetic, she states in her mind. Then horror crosses her face as she realizes the gravity of what a fall could mean to her.

Her hands immediately move to her abdomen. Tears begin to roll down her face. She reaches out with her powers. She feels warmth and love.

She takes in a breath she didn't know she was holding. Everything was fine. She carefully picks herself back up. She curses herself internally. She should know better.

She sighs as she stands up, and she takes notice of her surroundings. She can feel the fauna of the forest moving in the dark cover of the night. They sensed the uneasiness of their mistress. A little bunny leaps out from the protection of a small fern. It leaps towards its mistress, its nose is twitching as it smells its surroundings, and its small ears flick back and forth as they listen for danger. It reaches Artemis and looks up at her with a look that seems to say, Are you ok?

Artemis smiles, and reaches down carefully to pick up the small plush mammal. "No need to worry small one." She says though it is almost forced. "I was simply distracted." She scratches the bunny behind the ear before gently setting him back on the forest floor.

Her ears picked up the trickle of water, and she began to walk towards the source. Soon she emerged into an untouched clearing in the forest. It was a large clearing easily 50 yards across. Tall dark pine trees ringed the clearing. To her right the terrain rose steadily until she saw the base of a cliff that rose 200 feet into the air. Pouring over the edge was a waterfall that glowed in the light of the moon. It cascaded down into a crystal clear pool that flowed into a swiftly flowing river which flowed down the middle of the clearing before entering the darkness of the forest. The sight was truly beautiful. Nature in the raw.

But Artemis had no time to admire this untouched beauty. The growing pain in her abdomen was growing stronger and for a moment it spread throughout her body. She stumbled towards the crystal pool of water, and collapsed in the moist bank. Another pain shot through her body and she flashed away her hunters' cloths leaving her in only silver colored undergarments. She looked down at her reflection. She no longer appeared in her usual 12 year old age as she usually did. Instead, as the pains began to grow more frequent Artemis soon found herself aging until now she was in the form of a beautiful 25 year old woman. Tears were pouring down her face as she looked at her bare stomach.

Before her eyes it began to expand until it appeared she had consumed a basketball whole.

Artemis the goddess of Virginity was pregnant, and she was going to give birth…soon.

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Day 1

Montauk Beach, Long Island

Sally Jackson gasped in pain as her contractions began to worsen. It would be happening any second now, the birth of her first child. She knew that the baby would be a boy. No one told her it was a boy, but she knew deep inside what this baby was.

So here she was now in a little, yet beautiful, cabin on the secluded beach.

A huge contraction shot through her body and she screamed in pain. She squeezed her hand and looked to the man at her side. Poseidon god of the Sea. Sweat tricked down her forehead, and she gritted her teeth. "You did this to me!" She yelled at her lover. Poseidon's eyes widened and he winced. For a mortal she had a hard grip. He gave his lover a weak smile and decided to just go with it. "Yes, I'm so sorry my love." He said hoping to lessen his lovers anger, particularly at him.

Even though Sally appeared to be killing him with her eyes he couldn't help but smile. It was her that they consummated their love for each other, and it was here that she was blessing him with a son.

"Aaaaggghhhhh!" Sally moaned. Her eyes appeared to dilate. "He's….he's coming." She cried as she gripped the silk sheets at her side, and though it didn't seem possible her grip on Poseidon's hand strengthened.

Even though Poseidon was a god his body began to become restless as an uneasy anxiety rushed throughout him, and without warning her became excited. He felt the power of the oceans sway with his excitement. He was going to be a dad. Sally's cries brought him back to reality. Right…childbirth. He shuttered at the thought.

He tore his poor hand from Sally's death grip, and moved to the end of the bed. He took a deep breath before hiking up the hospital dress he flashed Sally in, and look down.

Holly Shi...

" Uhh Sally! Something's peaking!" Poseidon states his eyes wide. He sure is happy gods don't have a gag reflex…oh wait, he does. His right hand immediately went to his mouth… Pwugh.

Sally moans in pain and he quickly swallows whatever was crawling back up his throat. He looks back down. OK, I got this, he thinks with determination.

He could actually make out the head of the baby, and fluids from the fetus were soaking the bed. He puts his hands at the entrance of his lover. "OK honey! I need you to push."

Sally clenches her eyes shut, and lets out a scream as she pushed. She lets out a silent gasp as she feels the baby move a little, but just as fast the pain returns. The head of the baby had yet to come out.

Poseidon gave an encouraging smile to his lover, "Let's do this."

Because this is going to be a long night.

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Artemis's back arched as another contraction shot pain through her body. She was the goddess of childbirth, but she had never realized just how painful this was. Five seconds later another washed contraction ran throughout her body.

"Mother Flipping…Aaaggghhh.!" The pain was beginning to become unbearable. Artemis groaned, THIS is another reason I will never fall in love. Uhhh, the contractions were now seconds apart. Artemis began to cry. She needed help, she was desperate, in pain, and above all scared. It was humiliating.

Suddenly a flash appeared beside the laboring goddess.

"Well, well." A feminine voice rang out, "What have we here. A virgin goddess about to give birth."

Artemis looked at her guest. Her face in pain and fear at what might happen next, but what she did next surprised even her. She reached out and took the woman's hand.

"Diana…" Artemis spoke in desperation, "Please-" Another contraction made her freeze in pain.

"Help Me."

Artemis's Roman counter-part had arrived, and she was not happy.

"Why should I help you?" Diana spat as she ripped her hand from Artemis's grip. "You, you abandoned me in that chariot. Thousands of years, since the fall of Rome, I have been stuck up their while you…" Diana gritted her teeth in anger, "you pranced around free to roam the world. You BITCH! You separated me from what I loved the most. You took the girls away from me, the hunt away from me. THIS!" She waves her arms around her, "Is the closest I've been to the wild since…I can't remember." Her tone became steel, and Artemis couldn't tell if this lecture was more painful than what she was feeling right now. They sure were close.

"I…" Artemis shuttered, "I know what I did to you was unforgivable," She began; she had never felt more vulnerable, and winced in pain. "But this right now is not about that. I am so sorry for what I did to you. I made the worst mistake of my life, and I will spend the rest of it trying to make it up to you."

Artemis gasped. It was time. The baby was coming. "I don't know how it happened, I just kept wishing for a child to call my own, and then I felt life within me." She managed to grab Diana's hand once again, but this time it was tender and with love, "The baby is just as much yours as she is mine. Do not blame her."

Diana felt like she was punched, and then given the warmest hug in the world. Her eyes softened, and in an instant she knew what she had to do. Besides, she couldn't be mad at "herself" forever.

She squeezed Artemis's hand. "It looks like we're going to be mamas." She said cheekily.

Ohh gods, that's lot of blood!

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A/N – This is a retelling Percy Jackson style of Darth Marrs's amazing Potter story/fic The Bonds of Blood, I was given permission by him to make my own special version. It will follow the same basic events of the PJ series added with Darth Marrs's plot twists "wink wink". There will be a great similarity with how Percy reacts to his friend, and how Harry interacted with Ginny in Darth story. But don't worry this is not a copy.

Once again thank you to Darth Marrs for this opportunity!

Ok as you can tell this will be rated M, and in the coming chapters there will be sexual interactions with underage character, but it is all part of the story and not some dark fantasy. Everything that happens to the characters is part of their journey, and vital to the story. There will also be language, but I don't tend to use it unless I think it for the right reasons (Diana sure had one, ha).

Still another chapter until we reach the events of Canon, give or take. I want to set up this alt-universe before we dive into main story so it won't be too confusing.

Welcome all and enjoy the ride!

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Until next time, this is SonOfCoul 037 signing off.