Percy Jackson and the Lone Hunter
Chapter One
Age 12
By: Khande
Disclaimer: I do not own the Percy Jackson series. Rick Riordan does.
A/N: Constructive Criticism Appreciated. If you have any suggestions leave a review.
Point of View: Percy Jackson
Being a demigod was a hard life. Especially if you were a child of one of the "Big Three". By "Big Three" I mean Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. The 3 most powerful gods in Greek Mythology. You see, every demigod has a scent that attracts monsters and other beings. What makes my life so difficult is that I was born to Poseidon, God of the seas. This makes my scent even stronger, attracting even more monsters. But pretty soon you learn how to kick ass unless you don't, then you might as well be as dead as a rat who got ran over by an 18 wheeler.
Yes, it really is that bad. Luckily for me, I found out early on about my stature. It happened when I got home from my 4th school in just 4 years as it was the end of the semester and like usual, I was not invited back to attend next year. As I entered, I saw my step-dad playing poker with his poker buddies. I tried sneaking to my room without him noticing but that plan went down the drain.
"Hey kid. Give me some money!" He call out from the kitchen. I called him Smelly Gabe because he smells worse than if Skunk and Bombardier Beetle produced an offspring in a porta pooper. I don't know why my mother stayed with him. He treats her like shit, but she is the best mother anyone could ask for. There some occasions where I wanted to punch Smelly Gabe right in his ugly nose, but I knew if I did my mother would be very disappointed in me. So I tried to coexist.
"I don't have any." I responded.
"You took a taxi from the bus station," he said. "Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?"
Eddie, the super of the apartment building, looked at me with a twinge of sympathy, "Come on, Gabe," he said. "The kid just got here."
"Am I right?" Gabe repeated.
Normally I would just give him whatever he wanted and just leave him alone, but there something in my gut that told to not give him anything. So I listened.
"I said, I don't have anything dickhead. Now get lost." I said, somewhat bravely
Smelly Gabes' dumb face adopted the look of shock before it flickered to rage with his face turning a sickly purple shade.
"Now you listen here, you little brat. I pay for this roof over your head, and those clothes on your back. If I say do something you do it." He bellowed standing up.
"Yeah whatever." I said making my way to my room. A brief moment later I felt a meaty hand roughly grab my shoulder before I fell into the wall.
"GABE!" Eddie shouted in shock.
"Get OUT!" He told his buddies as they went out the opened door not wanting to face the wrath of Smelly Gabe.
"I should've done this a long time ago." He raised his fist as he stumbled over to where I laid against the wall. Just as he was about to take a swing, a voice came from the front door where Gabe's friends recently left out of,
"Hey Gabe, why are your friends rush-" My mother said before coming to a standstill when she saw the pose Gabe was in.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?" Sally Jackson yelled coming to Percy's aid.
"Just teaching this punk how to respect his elders." He growled.
"Gabe stop, please." My mother pleaded.
"And why the hell should I do that?" He questioned as he was about to me. Just then my mother grabbed his hair arm stopping him from making contact with my face.
"What are you doing?" He yelled out.
"Please." She begged.
"I'll give you one more chance to get the hell out of my damn way woman." When she didn't respond or move he became even angrier.
SLAP
I watched as Smelly Gabes' meaty hand made contact with my mother's cheeks with enough force to make her fall to the floor next to me. Seeing the big fat red handprint on my mother's beautiful cheek filled me with anger. I saw nothing but red at that point. I stood to my feet and at that moment I felt the energy coursing throughout my body. I felt a tug in the pit of my gut and everything changed. Water erupted from what it seems like every room in the apartment. I didn't notice because the only thing I was paying attention to was Smelly Gabe.
"I'll kill you." I hissed out through my gritted teeth.
"Boy you don't have the balls to do that." He said although it sounded as if he was unsure about his response.
Growling even more I hovered in the air, although at the time I didn't notice. As my fist raised to punch the fat bastard in his face, the water that was swirling around the room wrapped around my arms stopping at my elbow. As I punched him, the water around my fist froze making the impact of my blows hurt even more. He tried blocking my quick but powerful jabs with his arms but that only resulted in more pain. Hearing the multiple crunches of Smelly Gabes' bones breaking, I poured even more power in the blows reminding myself of the countless suffering that he put both my mom and I in through the years.
"Perseus…" I heard my mother whisper from behind me. The sound of her delicate voice made me stop everything I was doing. The ice from my hands immediately melted from my hands and
"Yes." I said kneeling beside her.
"Please don't." She told me.
"But mom. Look at what he did to you. He put his filthy hands on you. He slapped you…" He started.
"I know, but killing him is not gonna solve anything." She explained as Percy helped his mother to her feet.
"Well what are we going to do about him?" Percy pointed at the bruised form of Gabe Ugliano.
"We should leave." She stated.
Scene Change
Percy and his mother were riding in Smellys' Gabe camaro. I then thought of his fight, more like beatdown, with Gabe.
"Mom, what happened back there?" I asked now thinking about the event that just took place.
"What do you mean honey?" She asked seeming like she was only pay attention to the road.
"What with the water and me and what not." I said.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She stared at the road, obviously lying.
"Mom you're about as bad at lying as I am with academics. Please tell me the truth." I looked at her.
"Honey, you know about Greek Mythology?" She asked looking him in the eyes as she came to a stop on the empty road.
"Yeah, like with the gods and goddesses," She nodded. "But how does that relate to me and the water?"
"t's not a myth Perseus, you're a demigod." She said simply, although Percy could tell she was not lying.
"But how? It they were real, then how come no one has ever seen them?" I asked in shock.
"They live in secrecy. Even if a some Greek beings were to be seen by a mere mortal, the mortal would them as something completely different. This helps to why people believe it's only a myth." She explained patiently.
"You say mortal as if you aren't one."
She laughed a beautiful laugh. "Don't get me wrong Perce. I'm 100% mortal, it's just that some mortals can see through the facade. Like me."
"So, I'm a demigod." I said still processing the new information. He was met with the response of a nod.
"Well if I'm a demigod, then who is my father?" I questioned.
"He was a handsome man, with beautiful sea green eyes just like yours, Perseus. He charmed me the first day we met and I fell in love. His name was Poseidon, God of the seas and the Earth-Shaker. But alas, he had to leave. He wanted me to go with him, to return to the sea. But I knew my world is here. He promised me that I would be his queen, but I insisted to stay. He left just a few months before you were born, but I remember it just like it was yesterday." She said as she continued on with the car trip.
"Why did he never show up during my childhood. Instead he left us with Smelly Gabe." I said somewhat bitterly.
"Don't blame him Percy. It was against Ancient Laws for him to visit us."
"But I wish I could seen him once." I stated looking out the car window.
"I know, Percy. I know…" She trailed off.
The ride continued in silence as Percy went to sleep for the rest of it's duration.
Scene Change
"Wake up, Percy. We're here." Sally shook my shoulder.
"5 more minutes, Mom." I said groggily turning in the seat.
Sally laughed, "Perseus, you can sleep in the cabin."
WOndering what she meant by this, I opened my eyes and saw a beautiful cabin standing in the middle of the sand. Out the window, I saw the ocean which seemed to sparkle in the fading sunset. This is the place where my mom said she had met my dad.
'No wonder the God of the seas would hang out in this part of Long Island. It was amazing.' I thought as I exited the car. My mother been taking me here ever since I was a baby and it seems like everytime I come here, I am amazed all over again.
"We'll be staying here for a while, Perce. Just you and me." She said walking towards the cabin.
'And no Smelly Gabe to ruin it. Just how I like it.' I thought following her.
Scene Change (2 Months Later)
We spent the last few months just talking about whatever. She would tell me stories about Greek heroes, and I would just listen. Enjoying the sound of her voice. We sat around a campfire cooking marshmallows on a stick.
"You know, we can't stay here forever." She took a bite out of her marshmallow which had a golden colour to it.
"Why not?" I pouted, then took a bite out my slightly burned marshmallow.
"Pretty soon, we're going to run out of food," She finished her marshmallow. " It's time to go to bed." She put out the fire with a little stomp of her shoe and walked to the cabin with me following behind her.
When my mother finally went to sleep, I crept out of the bed and sat in one of the window sills of the cabin. Looking out the double plated glass covered with rain, I thought of everything that happened to me over the past few months.
'I'm a demigod. My father is a god. Greek Mythology is real.' I still was very doubtful but I knew that my mom wouldn't lie to me. Then I saw a form in the distance.
The figure approached the cabin even faster and faster until it was only 50 ft away. I looked even closer and saw that the figure had the lower body of a man and the upper body of a bull. Percy remembered the bull from one of the stories his mother had told him. He then pieced two and two together and quickly realized it was a minotaur, like the one Theseus killed in the labyrinth, but his one was holding an axe.
"MOM!" I called out backing out from the window.
"What is it sweetheart." She said while sitting up on the head rest.
"THERE'S A MINOTAUR OUTSIDE!" I yelled.
"Huh?" She said rubbing her eyes.
"MOM, LOOK." I said yelling out the window. She quickly got out of bed and looked to where I was pointing to.
"Oh this isn't good," I heard her mumble. "PERCY FOLLOW ME." She yelled as she took my hand and led me out the backside of the cabin.
"MOM, WHAT'S HAPPENING!" I yelled over the the thunderstorm brewing outside.
"We just need to make it to the car, then we can leave." She led me to the side of the cabin where the minotaur then crashed into the cabin destroying the door and even more of the frontside of the cabin.
"LET'S GO," She yelled as we raced across the other side of the beach where the Camaro was parked. "WE HAVE TO REACH THE CAR WHILE IT'S STILL LOOKING FOR US IN THE CABIN."
We were about 200 feet away from the car when the part bull part man realized we weren't there. We could hear the the anger in the roar which made us run even faster. A few moments later, I heard something behind us. I stopped for a second, turned around and instantly regretted it.I saw the entire frontside to the cabin soaring at my mom who was about 200ft behind me.
"MOM WATCH OUT!" I yelled out but it was too late. The wooden structure made impact her square in her back crushing her as she fell under it. A gasp escaped her lips as the structure made impact. At that moment I saw the life flicker out of her eyes.
"Mom," A strangled cry escaped my lips as I crumpled to my knees. "NO!" I yelled.
The minotaur got closer and closer until he was 20ft away from me. This even worse than when Smelly Gabe had slapped my Mom. I felt the same tug in the pit of my gut as earlier, but this time I manifested it feeling it 100 times more clearer than I did before. Some of the water was the beach was lifted by an invisible force until it was a swirling hurricane that stretched for at least a mile with the minotaur and me being the eye of it.
I held out my hand where a 10ft trident made of ice formed in my hand. I launched the trident at the speed of sound at the minotaur which made its way toward the target. He yelled in pain as his horns were ripped roughly from his head and into a nearby tree.
I repeated this course of action multiple times with each time making the trident bigger than the last time. Pretty soon, his left arm was gone, then his right leg, then his other, and etc until all had was his head.
During all of this, I was getting closer to the crippled beast until I was 5 ft away. I kicked his face with all the might I could just out of anger. I stuck a trident right in his eyes before throwing the trident as far I could in the sea.
"Heads up." I muttered as I saw the mead turn to dust before the trident reached the sea. Everything went black as I fainted in exhaust.
Scene Change (1 Month Later)
I woke up to the gentle breeze of the beach softly hitting my face. I sat up and felt the sand against my person.
'Why was I sleeping outside?' I thought in confusion. So I tried to remember the last thing that happened. Then I remembered what happened to my mother. I looked for her body and quickly found it. I crawled towards her with tears leaking down my face.
'No, this couldn't have happened.' I lifted the heavy wooden debris off her body which was quite hard considering that the structure was broken into multiple fragments.
Deciding that her death will not go down like this, I turned her body over so she was facing the sky. I closed her eyes and rested her hands on her stomach.
I got up to my feet and went into the forest to pick some flowers. Once I was satisfied with the amount of flowers I had I went back beside my mother's dead body.
It took me 15 minutes but I made a tiara out of the flowers which was worth it. I then put the rest of the flowers into a bundle which I then tied with long string of grass I had found. Looking around surveying the scene, I saw the two minotaur horns stuck in the center of a tree.
I went over to the tree and climbed, deciding that the horns may come in handy. Climbing the tree, I almost fell when one of the horns didn't come out immediately. I pulled with more for force, and eventually it came out the tree. A few moments later so did the other horn.
I fell down into the soft sand and just sat down. I felt the rough indents in the horn, when I came to the conclusion that the base would be too wide to be used as convenient sword. So I went to the cabin and found the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer. Returning to the horns, I carved both horns into 3 ½ ft twin swords.
I even covered the handle part with some leather I had tore off the chairs in the cabin. I took a look at both my creations and smiled, but there was one thing missing. Designs. I thought of what designs I wanted to put on it but just decided to put Percy and a trident on the left one, and Jackson and a horse on the right one.
I sighed knowing I had leave Long Island soon before any more monsters show up like the minotaur. I got up and carried both swords into Smelly Gabes' '78 Camaro. I got into the driver's side when I realized I was too short to see past the steering wheel. I popped the trunk and got the spare steering wheel out the trunk.
Scene Change (4 Hours Later)
The car came to a stop in the middle of the road where there was nothing but forest on end. The car must have ran out of gas.
"FUCK!" I yelled out in frustration as I honked the horn for a good 10 seconds.
"Now what?" I ran a hand through my messy hair. The only good thing about my "Road Trip" was that it was daytime. So I decided to go to the forest on the left side of the road and build a makeshift tent out of branches from trees and leaves and basically whatever he could find.
Scene Change (Present Time)
So that was how I spent the last two years of my life. Everyday I would move to a different location traveling all across the forest. I would hunt animals, primarily deer, to make food and eventually a monster would find me. It seemed like almost every two or three days. Pretty soon, being attacked by monster so frequently would improve your senses. By now I was able to sense every monster in a 10 mile radius.
Not only did my senses improve, but so did my fighting skills. I trained everyday so I would be strong enough to not let what happened to my mom happen to anyone else I may care about in the future.
'There's something strange going on I thought.' As I lept on a cyclops shoulders before impaling his one eye with my one of my twin swords. I rolled to a knee as I fell to the ground because the cyclops turned into dust.
That was the eighth monster attack in just the last 24 hours. For the last month, there has been an average of 3 monster per day I've had to fight. By now it was just getting ridiculous. I made a makeshift tent and laid down in it. Pretty soon my eyelids got heavy and then they closed as I entered the realm of Morpheus.
Scene Change (5 Hours Later)
When I woke up, I could instantly tell there was something wrong. I sensed a beast far superior than the cyclops, dracaena, and even giants I've faced over the years. I scrambled to my feet and grabbed my swords. I exited the surprisingly sturdy tent and looked around. At first I didn't see anything but then I turned around and saw a massive lion standing 15 feet behind my tent. It wasn't just a regular lion, it was the Nemean Lion.
"Oh Shit!" I cursed. My outburst was met with a deep roar. I decided to let it make the first move between the both of us. After a few moments, it lept into action. I braced myself as it came closer. Then at the last moment possible, I rolled out the way while slashing my right sword at its side. This did nothing but make him angrier.
"Fuck." I cursed as I remembered that the Nemean Lion's pelt was impenetrable. But I didn't get the chance to come up with a plan as it attacked again. It roared as it front paws lifted off the ground. I rolled under the paws as it jumped over me. Both of its rear paw tore my shirt and left a 3 deep gashes in my chest. I felt the air leave my lungs.
The lion skidded to halt before it turned around faster than I could blink. I put up my swords in an X formation blocking the powerful jaws of the lion. He kept forcing me backwards until I tripped on a log behind me and fell to the ground.
Just as he was about to bite a huge chunk out of my person, I raised both the swords through the roof of his mouth. As I raised my arm, I felt multiple teeth pierce my arms as we both yelled out in pain. The lion dissipated into dust leaving behind his fur which covered me as I fell to the ground.
Looking for a water source, I saw a river just a few feet away. I crawled as I reached the stream. I touched the water with the tip of my middle finger and let the water do the rest. The water reached my wrist, then my elbow, then shoulder, and after a while it reached the rest of my body healing all the wounds. I cupped my hands together and got some water which I than drank. I immediately felt an adrenaline rush before it rushed through my body and I felt normal again.
I had found out about my water healing abilities a few months after my mother died, although I wish I had known about them, or today she would still be with me. It happened when a giant hit me with his club so had that I flew back almost 25ft into a nearby lake. The impact would have definitely resulted in several broken ribs if it weren't for the water which healed me.
I looked to the pelt and decided to make a tank top out of it. I packed the rest of fur in my satchel which I took out the cabin incase I ever need to carry something. I admired the tank top I was proudly wearing. It took me 2 hours to carve, but I had to say it looked sick!
Deciding it was best to relocate to a new area. So that was how he spent the next 3 hours. Walking until I found a great hideout. Playing it safe, I climbed a tree so that I won't be as vulnerable to monster attacks as I was while sleeping on the ground.
'This is a pretty nice tree.' I thought as I admired the tree. Plans to build a treehouse sprung into my mind as I never got to build one in my childhood as we lived in an apartment. The lake that was only approximately 100ft away only fueled my motivation. So I set off to find a nearby tree just 50 yards away.
Scene Change (8 Days Later)
After a week of long hours of non-stop hard work, I admired my handy work. Now I know what you're thinking, it does not take a week just make a little treehouse. But this was no ordinary tree house.
It was more like a tree palace. The structure reached up to length of a football field and was a long as 2 blocks. There were rooms in most of the trees in the area with long passages connecting them. In total, there were 14 rooms with the one in the middle being the largest with this one was connected to the other 13.
One room, held all the weapons I've made over the years. There wasn't very many, but pretty soon I wanted to fill with all kinds of cool junk. One room was where I kept the animals that I would soon cook to eat, which I guess you could call it a kitchen. The biggest one was where I slept and then the other 11 were a bit of a stretch as I got both bored and carried away.
I was pretty hungry so I went out to try and find some animals that I could hunt. Going to the balcony of the structure, I saw a rabbit hopping through the undergrowth of the forest.
'I really need to make a bow and arrow.' I thought of how easy it would be to tie a string to an arrow and shoot it at the rabbit. I wouldn't even have to leave the palace. Instead, I just threw one of my hunting knives at the creature and watch it go limp. I lept from the palace and walked over to the dead animal.
"Sorry you poor thing, but survival of the fittest." I said taking the body of the rabbit into my hands before climbing back up the tree. Making my way to the kitchen, I extracted the knife from the corpse.
Sitting down in the chair, one of the many pieces of furniture that Percy made, I made a fire at my roasting station. 5 minutes later the rabbit, without the fur of course, was dangling over a fire about the size of a soccer ball. I tore a leg of well roasted rabbit and took a huge chunk.
"Hmmmm. This taste great." I savored the taste of the juicy rabbit leg. After week and a day of not eating, the rabbit leg really satisfied my belly.
After I finished eating, I put out the fire and jumped down from the palace. I just went for a good stroll looking for good materials to make bow and arrow with. Realizing if I wanted the quality of the bows and arrows, I would have to cut a tree down.
"Let's get busy." I said drawing my twin swords from behind my back which was strapped on in an X formation.
Scene Change (2 Hours Later)
2 hours later left me with a sick looking bow and exactly 7 arrows. I started practicing by shooting an tree 50 ft away. On my first shot I managed to hit a very unfortunate bird who was flying a little bit too close to my target tree.
"Damn, I'm bad." I chuckled at how inept I was with the bow and arrow. Pretty soon I had shot all my arrows and as time went on my skill had increased dramatically.
"This time I can shoot birds, and other creatures, on purpose." I said sarcastically. Collecting my arrows and inserting them in my quiver. I had strapped the quiver onto one of my belt loops of my camo cargo pants as the swords were already taking the spots on my back.
I returned to the palace and took a well deserved nap which lasted for 4 hours. He then awoke when he sensed three powerful auras in the vicinity of the palace.
I got out of the bed, which had leaves and grass as cushions, and went to the weaponry room. I grabbed the quiver and quickly attached it to my belt loop. Bow in hand, I went out to the balcony to locate these powerful beings.
I let my senses guide towards their location, leaping from each tree as I did. Grabbing branch after branch, I did some pretty wicked hardcore parkour. I stopped after a couple of blocks when I felt the auras even clearer. I came to a stop in what seemed like my 25th tree. I was about to continue when I heard something,
"You know, I thought you would have learned your lesson when I killed more than half your precious hunters Artemis." I heard a sickly sweet evil voice from below.
"I'll send you to the depths of tartarus." Was the response, although this voice was much more pleasant than the last! I looked to it's source and saw a girl in a silver outfit with auburn brown hair and silver eyes, which reminded me of the moon. She looked to be about 12 years olds although I could, based on the amount of power that she was radiating.
One thing I could tell, based on the way that she was standing, was that she was badly injured. There were deep gashes deep gashes and burn marks covering her upper body. There were even spots on her person where it looked like pieces of skin was missing. Instead of blood flowing out her wounds, there was golden ichor.
'Artemis, as in the Virgin Goddess Hunt.' I thought.
"I'd like to see that happen. In the meanwhile, I'll let my son tear you to bits. Now since you're immortal, you can't die. But you'll make it hurt as much as you can son right." I noticed her teeth were fangs and her eyes were more closer to a reptilian than a human.
Just then I saw who she was talking about. It was a Chimera. It had the head of a lion with a blood caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind. Out of it's lion came a wave of fire which was directed towards the girl.
Deciding I had enough of watching the conversation, I pulled an arrow out the quiver and took aim. Aiming right at the Chimera's mouth, I let go of the string. I was satisfied when the arrow struck the Chimera in its mouth. The fire stopped abruptly as all three beings became very confused.
I fired 3 more arrows in rapid succession as I jumped down from my hiding spot. I kept on firing as I got closer and closer. Pretty soon the monster had caught on to the situation and was now bounding towards me at incredible speeds. When it reached me, I rolled out tof the way and drawed my twin swords, but not before its serpent tell bit me in the arm.
"Gahh. Son of bitch." I charged at the beast.
"What do we have here? By the smell of this demigod, I'd say he's a son of the seas." I heard the evil voice behind me. At this moment, I'd probably would have came up with a smart ass comment but I too busy fighting a freaking Chimera.
Stabbing and blocking, I tried thinking of one of the Chimera's weaknesses. I tried to remember how Bellephoron slayed the beast in the original myth.
'He killed it by placing lead on a spear before it melted and flowed down his throat. Well fuck.' I thought but was quickly woken to reality when the lion sunk its teeth in my arm.
"Ahh." I grunted as I sunk to my knees. It released my arm just as its serpent tail spat acid on my face. It burned my left cheek. The lion swiped its massive paw at my chest as it pinned me to the ground. Luckily I was wearing my Nemean tank top as I didn't take any damage besides the suffocation feeling I felt when the beast put all its strength into stepping on my chest.
I took a look at the goddesses behind me and saw the look of pain on her face. The same look as pain as when my mother died. I felt an adrenaline rush enter my body. I sat up forcing the strong creature off my chest before I went into my aggressive stupor. I let the anger, that I had pent up inside me over my mother death, control my body as I moved at speeds I never thought I would reach.
Slicing and dodging and stabbing and rolling, I cut the head of the lion clean off. I then did a barrell roll to avoid the serpent from biting me before following up with a slice upwards slicing the serpent head off similar to the lion. Jumping as high I could, I brought both swords down into the giant goat and watched as the swords came down through the body and even penetrating the ground.
The monster turned to dust as I looked up towards the other being who I guessed was the "Terrible Echidna", a.k.a. The Mother of Monsters.
"Nice pet. Although I liked slaying the Nemean lion better." I said pointing to my tank top made of said beast. I said this on purpose knowing that the Nemean lion was another one her sons.
"You'll pay for this foolish demigod." She said before slithering away the into the rest of forest and most importantly, out of eyesight.
I turned around and looked at the unconscious girl sprawled on the ground. I picked her up bridal style, making sure not to touch her inappropriately as I knew the man hating Goddess would not be pleased to find a 12 year old boy touching her while she was unconscious.
10 minutes later found Artemis, Goddess of Hunt, laying in the makeshift bed in Percy's sleeping chambers. Percy came back into the room after forcing the some of the water, from the lake, to levitate towards him.
Holding her arm, I let the water gently wrap around her hand. It then spread throughout her body, healing her wounds. When she was completely healed, I left the palace to lay in the lake. Just going 3ft in, I let the water heal me of my wounds. Feeling hungrier than ever, I went out to the battle scene looking for my bow and arrow which I ditched when fighting the Chimera.
I found the bow and pretty soon a deer found his untimely death with an arrow between its eyes. Sling the dead eer across my shoulder, I went back to the palace. I then went to the roasting station and cooked the deer, but not before skinning the creature first. When I got done, I heard a voice in from my bedroom.
"Where in Tartarus's name am I?" I knocked on the outside wall of the room before entering. I took a knee beside the bed and bowed my head,
"Lady Artemis, it is my greatest honors."
A/N: Well that's the end of the chapter. I know this was a very long and eventful chapter but bare with me. I also apologize for the frequent scene changes. I know it sounds like Percy doing all those things in this chapter sounds farfetched, but who really cares about realism. I hoped you guys liked it.