Hi everyone, this is another new fanfic idea of mine, and well I just hope that everyone will like it well either way, please enjoy this first chapter, where our favorite demigods all come together and are adopted by an unlikely goddess XD hehe well enjoy :D
Chapter 1
Artemis Loses a Bet
I can't believe I lost a bet to Apollo, and such a stupid matter of all things, so what if I thought that Uncle Poseidon would break the oath first and not our father. I still don't understand why he wanted me to adopt 14 kids from the adoption center in New York. Still as I arrived to the center with my trusted Lieutenant Zoe Nightshade, she didn't like the fact that I also had to adopt boys along with girls. I didn't like it either, but a deal is a deal, especially if it's one that was made upon the River Styx.
That didn't matter now, what did matter was that I had to adopt a bunch of kids I didn't even know and had to take care of them until they were old enough to take care of themselves. Man I hated this, but as soon as I walked into the Adoption Center with Zoe, I felt my heart drop. There were so many kids here it was horrible, maidens along with young boys, no older than fifteen at the most. Fortunately, or not, my annoying brother told me that I was only allowed to choose kids with an age range from two years old to five years old.
I was about to look for some kids, when a receptionist came up to me and Zoe, with a hopeful look on her face. "Hello and welcome, we hope you are here to adopt. After all the place just got over crowded, fourteen new orphans came in, and well, I fell sad for them since all of their parents died in a fire two days ago while they were all outside."
That surprised me, and Zoe asked her a question, "How old are those kids?"
"Well they range from two years old to a single five year old." She answered, walking towards a room away from the front where the older kids were.
The door she opened to another room wasn't special, but inside were fourteen small children, all of them were sad, and most of them were sitting sadly and not really looking at anyone. There were only a few older kids, but they all still had the same looks on their faces. It pained Artemis to see such young maidens in such a state of sadness.
"We'll adopt them all," Zoe said for me, since I couldn't speak just yet.
The receptionist was surprised, until I walked up to one of the younger boys there, and picked him up. He looked at me with his wide sea-green eyes, strange he had eyes like Uncle Poseidon, yet as I looked at him, he soon smiled at me and gave me a hug. I smiled at him, and a few of the others soon came towards me as well, wanting something, but I didn't know what it was.
I looked back at the woman and simply said, "We'll take them today if that's okay, I want to head home soon, so that they can all see where they're going to live from now on."
She nodded before leaving to get the paper work, once she was gone; I pried off the small boy's hands that were wrapped around my neck. I looked at him, and I had a feeling that he saw more than the others during that fire. Still I soon adopted all fourteen of them and learned all of their names and ages.
The youngest one, the one whom I held, was Perseus Jackson, he's going to be two in several months, and was sadly with his mother before the fire started. He also hasn't talked since that night and won't speak to anyone, not even the other kids he's been with. It worried me, but the most was that his father is suspected to be dead.
Still next was a young maiden with blonde hair and the grey eyes of my sister Athena, her name is Annabeth Chase. She had the same proud look on her face when one of the other kids tried to consol her about losing her father. But what worried me was that the girl only had on her was a collage ring that her father gave to her before the fire. Percy, as the others called him, had received a pearl Pegasus from his mother.
After Annabeth were two boys who looked like twins and another who looked to be about a year older than the two, their names were Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, and Luke Castellan. Travis and Connor had brown hair and blue eyes, as did Luke, but he had blonde hair instead of brown. All three of them were asked to watch Percy until their parents came back for them. I looked at the boys once more, thinking they looked a lot like Hermes.
'This is getting strangeā¦' I thought before I continued onto the others.
There was a little girl clothed in earthly colors; she was next to a boy and girl who were brother and sister, from the looks of it. The little girl was Katelynn Gardener, she was with Travis when the fire became worse, and she has brown eyes and brown hair, and the same skin tone as most of the others. Next to her were actually a brother and sister, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, they scared me, mainly because they are the same two children of my uncle Hades whom he put into hiding nearly seventy years ago. Both had the black hair of their father, and his pale skin tone, but Nico has Hades' eyes, while Bianca has dark brown eyes.
'Now that I think about it, Kate looks a bit like Aunt Demeterā¦. Oh I really ate Apollo right now.' I thought before looking at the next group of kids.
There were four of them, two boys and two girls, the boys were broth dark skinned, but one was Hispanic while the other wasn't. The two boys were Charles Beckendorf, and Chris Rodriguez. Both had dark brown hair, but different eye colors, while Charles had nearly black eyes, Chris had a light shade of purple for his eye color. Then next to the two boys who reminded me of my half-brothers, I saw Clarisse La Rue and Silena Beauregard. Both girls were different, but they seemed nice, well Silena did at least, from what I've been reading. Clarisse's mom along with Silena's dad were dating, so the two might have become siblings soon enough, Clarisse has light brown hair, and dark brownish eyes, while Silena had black hair and blue eyes, both had the same skin tone. They were also with Charles and Chris before the fire.
'Now I see, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Ares and the royal pain Aphrodite in these four. Fates I think Apollo planned all of this!' I shouted in my head before looking again at the last two kids.
They were Crystal 'Scarlet' Yew and Thalia Grace. Just looking at the last two and I knew who their dad's were, I sighed, before reading what happened. Apparently, Crystal was alone when the fire started, as was Thalia but both left the building with each other. Thalia had black hair and my father's electric blue eyes. While Crystal had red hair, and warm crystal blue eyes, yet I hated to tell everyone that I just adopted their half-blood kids.
'I swear Apollo did this on purpose, but there must be a reason that he wants me to take care of all these kids, especially if one is his daughter and our half sister.' I sighed before taking a good long look at the children before me.
However once I looked at all of the kids, I noticed something. They all had something on them that was a last gift from their mortal parents. Percy had the solid pearl Pegasus, Annabeth had the gold collage ring, Travis, Luke and Connor all had bracelets on their wrists with a single charm, they were running sneakers with wings on them, but each was a different color, Luke's was bright blue, Connor's was jade green, and Travis' was silver. Kate had a red poppy charm on her necklace, Nico and Bianca both had the helm of darkness on their bracelets. Charles had a small metal anvil in his hands, while Chris had a grape vine charm on his necklace, while Clarisse had a spear charm on her bracelet, and Silena had a small crystal pink heart on her wrist. Lastly Crystal had a red bow and arrow charm around her neck, and Thalia had a silver bracelet.
I smiled at them for a moment before speaking. "Hello everyone, I'm Artemis, your adoptive mother." Zoe came up next to me and I knew that she couldn't help but smile at the kids before us.
"Hello, I'm your Aunt Zoe, and it's nice to meet all of you." As she said this, I knew that she meant it with all of her heart. After all it wasn't every day that she got to play the role of caretaker for young maidens who would actually grow up. I chuckled mentally before starting to walk away, and motioning for the kids to follow me, but one stayed behind, it was Percy.
I was confused and wanted to go and get him, but Zoe did it for me, she picked him up and carried him out. I smiled and soon left the room with all fourteen of my adoptive children.
Well that's it for this chapter, hope you all liked it, please review, and until the next chapter, later. Oh also, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays (for those of you who don't celebrate Christmas) everyone! :D
