Artemis's PoV
I was tracking some monsters down on a beach and it was late at night with the hunt asleep. The beach was Montauk and the moon was in the night sky. Then a sickening scream of a mortal pierced the peaceful night and naturally I ran towards it and found a pack of hellhounds and a cyclopes. I dispatched the hellhounds before focusing on the cyclopes and as I turned the cyclopes hit the mortal woman with a sickening crunch. Then I heard water roaring and smash into the cyclopes disintegrating it into golden dust and saw a child no older than a couple of weeks (hey I am the goddess of childbirth so I can tell these things) with water swirling around him and then he passed out I ran and knelt by the side of the woman as she was close to dying but I sensed she would be in my uncles domain soon she must have been clear sighted as she would not have ran without seeing the beasts she asked "L-Lady Artemis w-would you look after m-my son Perseus please he is so young to have done a-anything to have earned your ire please?" I knew she had little time left and I replied to her "I shall raise your son as my own and when he is of age tell him what happened to his birth mother I swear this on the Styx." Thunder rumbled sealing the oath. Then with her last breath she replied in a whisper "Thank you." And she closed her eyes and passed to the underworld to my uncle. I then turned to the boy and saw him breathing evenly and softly picked him up from the sand and felt the child shiver slightly as he was in a fuzzy onesie that did very little on this cold night next … to … the … sea. Poseidon he must have broken his oath then sent the cyclopes to kill his child well then next time Poseidon sees his "child" Perseus will be a child of the hunt and moon. As being the goddess of childbirth but also virginity I wanted to have a child but could not and would not have a child with a man as they were all detestable and vile with very few that started different but then were corrupted by power or greed. Now I could have my child without a man but still be mine. Now it was time to get back to the hunt and tell them the news that a male would join us and be my son in every way possible and sever any ties he has with Poseidon and he will then when of age be granted immortality as he would be the child of the hunt and moon. Though his inherent with a weapon won't go away as he is a hero but being the only child of the goddess of archery he would excel at it. Now time to return to my hunters after I give this woman a proper burial and clear the blood from the sand and that was done with a snap of my fingers. I decided to walk back to my hunters as flashing would scare the child from his rest and I would hate to scare the child from his rest after such an experience and using his water powers that would be lost as soon as I adopted him by blood ritual that would leave a scar but I intend to make it into a crescent.
A/N I know that it is short but this is just the beginning of the story and will be slow then pick up and I write these chapters on PAPER before I type them so yeah I debated on adding the hunt meeting this chapter but thought that it should be next chapter and most likely be short as well as it be from the hunter point of view