I have never written a fanfic in my life but I have thought about some I could write here's one hope you enjoy, and yes I have read all of the Percy Jackson books from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief to The Blood of Olympus. And I do plan on adding chapters. (I don't own any of the characters in the Percy Jackson series all belong to Rick Riordan)
It was a beautiful summer night in upstate New York; there were no clouds in the sky a perfect night to sit and stare at the sky. Well, it would be for a normal human, but for the Hunters of Artemis, it was a good night for a hunt well, except they lost their prey soo not so good.
"OKAY, how is it possible to lose a giant 18-foot tall minotaur." Said a quite scary teen with black hair and blue eyes wearing green camo with a bow in her hand.
"I don't know it just disappeared." Said another girl dressed exactly the same but looking a little younger.
"We were right behind it, and then it just disappeared it can't do that it had two options run into the field in the south or confront us in the woods." As the two girls were debating on where it could have gone more girls dressed the same came out of the woods. One of those girls walked up to the two and grunted stopping their argument which showed that either she was scarier or of high rank maybe both.
"Thalia there's no reason to start arguing, but I have to agree, something that big couldn't just disappear, but even I can't sense it."
"Apologies lady Artemis but then where could it have gone?"
"Well then maybe we should set up camp here and….." Before she could finish the minotaur stumbled into the clearing they were standing at the edge of and stopped. All the girls in the group drew their bows and aimed their silver arrows at it.
"Why is it just standing there?" asked one of the girls who joined them
"I don't know." Said Thalia "Maybe it decide to stop running and confront us."
"doubt it."
"Something doesn't feel right." Right as Artemis says that the Minotaur collapses with ichor pouring out from arrows sticking out of its back. The hunters approach it hesitantly.
"Those aren't our arrows." One of the hunters says
"Yeah, then who's are they?" Thalia says
"Those would be mine." Says a teenage boy standing on a hill leading into the clearing.
All the hunters turn and point their arrows at him. The boy looks to be around sixteen wearing jeans sneakers and a blue shirt that has a minotaur head on it.
"Who are you."Thalia calls out
"Just someone who lives nearby" The boy replies "and that beast is my kill."
"Fair enough you took it down, but we've been hunting it for the past couple of weeks so.."
"Fine, fine you can have whatever you want I just want the horns is that fair."
"sure" Thalia replies
"Great now could you stop pointing your arrows at me." Thalia puts her arrow away and raises her hand signalling for the other hunters to do the same. As they do that the boy walks down the hill putting his bow on his back. Now that the hunters can see him better they see that he has jet black hair and what look like celestial bronze eyes. As he starts pulling his arrows out of the Minotaur Thalia sees that his arrows aren't normal.
"What are those arrows made out of?"
"These things, nothing really I make them myself though nice and sharp."
"They are made of celestial bronze, imperial gold and Stygian iron aren't they."Artemis says
"Wow, nice observation miss Artemis."
"Same to you for noticing my true identity."
"Well, you do give off this pressure wasn't hard to tell, hey how about for me stealing your kill I can pay you back by giving you a place to stay how does that sound."
"Heh sorry but we don't know you, and you're a boy." Thalia says
"Yeah, and what's the problem with that."
"We're Hunters of Artemis we swore to reject all males that mean's hospitality, company or love."
" I never said anything about love although you all are quite attractive it's just, I would prefer not to owe a goddess."
"That seems fair enough."
"But Lady Artemis."
"I will allow this once and only once as a form of paying us back nothing more."
"Great now could you help me strap this minotaur down to get it back to my house it's right over that hill."
The hunters gather around the minotaur and start strapping it down to a sledge to be dragged to the boy's house. When they finish strapping it down the boy whistles a few moments later two large bronze wolfs come running down the hill there each about the same size of a garbage truck just a little smaller. The boy takes loose ropes and ties them to the sledge then to the wolfs. They group starts walking towards the boy's house. All the hunters kept the distance from the boy except Artemis who walked next to him.
"you never gave us your name," Artemis says
"don't have one."
"Your parent's never named you?"
"Never met my parents."
Artemis looks at the boy more closely expecting his facial features, seeing him closer she see's he has roughly handsome features with unkempt hair and a scar running from above his right eye down to the bottom of his face.
"You have a faint aura of a God, but I can not tell who."
"That's probably because I'm not the child of a God but of two demigods."
"That explains why the mist didn't fool you, but I have more questions that I want to ask."
"After dinner ah were here." As he says that he stops at an open clearing at the top of the hill, it flattens out with trees surrounding it.
"Where there's nothing here." One of the hunters says
"Exactly" The boy replies and takes another step altogether disappearing. Shocking all the hunters, even Artemis was surprised but realised what had just happened.
"An illusion barrier."
"Yep," says the boy sticking his head out and gesturing them to follow. As they pass through the barrier, they are even more shocked at seeing a mansion twice the size of the big house at camp half blood but smaller than typical mansions. From the look of the building, it was built by hand.
"I must say I am impressed by the state of the building including the barrier," Artemis says
"I know right it was all built by my great great grandparents not the barrier though my great grandparents made that."
"I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you didn't kill the minotaur for sport." Says Thalia walking up next to Artemis
"Nope it wandered into the barrier, and I decided to deal with it, here come inside it's starting to get a little chilly out here."
As they enter the building, the wolves drag the minotaur around to the side of the building.
"There are a couple of rooms on the first floor each have bunk beds and a bathroom with showers there's more on the second floor the one all the way on the right with the black door is my room you can claim any other room for yourself. Please make yourself comfortable I will prepare dinner."
As the boy says that he hangs his bow and quiver on a weapon rack and walks into the kitchen the hunters all turn to look at Artemis and she nodes giving them the go to find rooms and wash up. (Hey just because the hunters are immortal maidens doesn't mean a bath or shower isn't required or nice every once and a while.) As the hunters spread out to find themselves some rooms Thalia and Artemis stay back in where they entered to look around. The layout of the living room they entered is nice and quite roomy in the middle is a seating area surrounding a fireplace that is burning a bright orange. They came in through the back door from a large porch straight across from the back door is the front door with big black double doors to their left is an entryway to the kitchen where they can hear the boy taking out different types of pots and pans to make dinner. They walk into the kitchen intending to get some more information from the boy with no name.
"We have some more questions for you,"Thalia says
"Not right now I am preparing dinner how about after what do you hunters drink sweet tea, root beer any other type of beverage or are you all old enough to drink beer?"
"We will not wait till after dinner we expect you the host to answer all our questions as your guests," Artemis says very sternly
"Huh is that so okay fine but it will have to be short the spirits can't cook the whole meal." At that, he snaps his fingers and air spirits come and form bodies and start preparing the dinner cleaning and cutting vegetables and getting some spices and more tools out for later. By looking at the body shapes, the spirits took, Artemis and Thalia can see that some are women and men and they are familiar with their bodies and what to do by how they moved and prepared.
"Interesting," says the boy looking at Artemis and Thalia
"what?" Thalia says
"Well, when did you change you no longer have the coats on."
"Small time magic we can have clothes appear out of nowhere at any time we want," Thalia says while giving an example of pulling her jacket out of thin air and then making it disappear.
"hmm interesting, so you had questions you wanted to ask?"
"Yes what is your name, how is there an illusion barrier that can conceal an 18-foot tall minotaur outside, why are their spirits, how are you not dead." Thalia spits out like she was holding in all those questions from the first time she met him.
"I would also like to know about the mechanical wolves and how you have arrows made of three magical metals and more about your parents?" Artemis asks politely
"Okay I guess you want the long version, well first off I don't have a name never given one and this place we are in including the illusion barrier is all made by my ancestors. This place is well a safe haven for demigods on the run at least that's what they call it they also gave me the name the keeper." The boy sighs and sits down gesturing them to sit down to.
"I never really agreed to that name but every demigod out here in the world calls me that, and that illusion barrier I got no idea really it just been here for as long as I have and my parents. These spirits here aren't the only ones there are multiple some that are nature some that are ghosts and many others they have also helped me train and become stronger while also taking care of the place. I'm not dead yet because of all the training that I have put myself through plus the help of the spirits the mechanical wolves and the illusion barrier. The mechanical wolves and the arrows including the bow I made myself my parents well never really met them the only thing I know is that they died but I do know what Gods they were children of. My dad is the son of Ares and my mum the daughter of Hephaestus that's why I can make stuff out of celestial bronze and imperial gold. As for the Stygian iron well that's kinda confusing well I come from a long line of demigods so like the demigods marry then have a child then that child grows up and either ends up with another demigod or an actual God though doesn't often happen kinda weird too if you think about it."
"To the point," Thalia says
"Right well basically I am a child of multiple different God's I guess you could say, so one of my ancestors was a son of Hades or maybe a daughter anyways since I am basically a "child" of Hades I can manipulate and use Stygian iron but not to its full ability." As the boy finishes, he breathes heavily like he didn't breath through the whole looks at them with a look of curiosity most likely wanting to see how they would respond.
"I…wait….how….could…..HUH?" Thalia says looking more confused than when she came out of the tree.
"This is possible but is very rare the last time this happened the blood chain didn't last," Artemis says
"Unless are these spirits your ancestors from as far back as the rise of Rome?"
"Uh yeah, I think so."
"Could one of them be named Sircis." At that, a spirit surrounded with a white aurora was next to them dressed in white linen and looking beautiful in the kinda eire ghostly way.
"That would be me you speak of Goddess of the hunt." Sircis says in a calm and gentle tone that makes you just want to relax and listen to her sing.
"Of course one person survived I should have known that, so you carried on the blood line."
"Yes I survived the slaughter of our house and went into hiding carrying on the bloodline, but I made one change to how we lived."
"You stayed hidden helping slightly and never taking credit for anything."
"If I may make such a bold request Goddess of the hunt can you keep this from the other God's."
"Of course even if I did tell them they would not believe me and Hades would probably have a heart attack knowing all of these spirits are here."
"Thank you." And with that, she was gone, and both Thalia and the boy were stock quite both having the same question running through their head, but the boy was the first to ask.
"How am I related to Greek God's if my ancestors lived during the Roman times and who was she?" The boy asks
"Well, somehow your ancestors were able to keep the blood of the Greek God's running through there blood in ways I don't even know as for who she is or was she was a daughter of the last father of the house of putere, or the house of strength. Everybody in that house thought that she wasn't granted any blessing from the God's, but they could have never guessed she had the beauty of Aphrodite and the intelligence of Athena so mostly to have a part in the house she sang and how beautifully she sang."
"Wow, but how was the house slaughtered and why." Thalia said just as intrigued as the boy
"Well, they were slaughtered because they held themselves over everyone else in Rome and well you can guess how the Romans felt and also how they dealt with it."
"Ah, so I guess that explains everything then." The boy says
"Yes it does and I think one of the spirits is trying to tell you something." Aphrodite points out one of the spirits frantically running around the kitchen but then stops seeing that they were all looking at him and gave them all an awkwardly wide smile. And that is when they smelled It the slight burning smell coming from a pot with a lid on.
"What the what did you but how." The boy says as he gets up and goes to inspect the black smoke coming out of the pot.
"I guess that our cue to leave him to take care of dinner," Artemis says as she gets up. As they walk out of the kitchen area multiple ghosts come running out of the kitchen some shaking their hands as if they burned them and one smelled herself and cringed which made all of the other ghosts take a step away from her. One ghost forms next to Artemis and Thalia and starts walking towards the kitchen cracking his knuckles while the boy is yelling and cursing in all different types of languages.
"I suggest we find a room and get cleaned up for dinner," Artemis suggest breaking Thalia's trance at the scene that unfolded before them.
"That is a great idea lady Artemis."
They turn their backs on the scene and walk down a corridor to find themselves a room. As they are walking past the rooms they see inside that a couple of hunters are actually enjoying the comfort of the beds as their roommates are washing up waiting for their turn. They come to a room and claim it as their own.
I hope you enjoyed this I am thinking of continuing and I may just write the second chapter just to make my mind settle but hey if you liked it and would love to see more chapters cool oh and if you have any opinions and thoughts go ahead and say them I take criticism either supporting or not so yeah I may also post other fanfics for other things games books tv shows movies and I may include OC's I have thought up anyway see you in the next chapter or fic.