Ok! Here it is!I managed to steal the computer away long enough for me to post this chapter! I hope you guys will like it! So just to clear a few things up, Perseus will be paired with someone, it will not be Annabeth and it will most likely be only one girl (unless you guys really want me to do two) so yeah, if you've got any questions ideas tips or pointers please feel free to send a reveiw! Enjoy!
Thalia POV
I panted as I dragged my friends and the two unknown demigods away from the monster and hopefully to safety. See we had Annabeth, Kyle and I had received a mission from camp to find and retrieve two unusually powerful demigods and bring them back to camp. It had seemed easy enough, but once they got there a manticore showed up and kidnapped the two. I had run after them with Annabeth and Kyle in tow, hey had a bit of a head start but the difference was that our group had actually been willing to run and move quickly as possible. After a few minutes we had cornered them near a cliff, the manticore had tried to knock us out and capture us but we managed to escape with the two demigods which brings us back to this. We were running desperately for our lives through the surrounding forest, we could hear the monster running right behind us, if we slowed down at all we would be captured. Maybe if we sacrifice Kyle… no, Annabeth would kill me, why she likes that gods damn boy I will never understand. We came across a wall of trees too dense for us to pass so we turned left, we continued sprinting for another few hundred yards before we stopped dead in our tracks. In front of us was the same cliff we had just left and to either sides of us were a few hundred monsters and of course right behind us was the blasted manticore.
"Finally, now we will be taking those two demigods now and an extra three! The general will be very pleased." The manticore said
"I don't understand! What's happening? What the heck are you?" the girl said
"Don't worry girl all will be explained soon." The manticore said ominously
"Gods will find us, they will stop you!" Annabeth shouted
"I doubt it." He snorted "Those idiots couldn't find their way out of a ball pit."
The sounds of a helicopter come into hearing range.
"Ah, looks like our ride is here!" the manticore said with glee as the helicopter closed in
a cold feeling of dread filled my stomach.
Please, any one, any god. Please help us, please come save us! I prayed desperately, any one would do, heck, even Artemis. But it became clear my plea would not be answered as the helicopter came in for landing. Suddenly it exploded. Just exploded, like for no reason at all. Boom. Clearly the monsters were just as surprised as we were because they just stood there stunned, when suddenly about a foot above the ground, the shadows started pulling together into the shape of a man. After a moment a good looking man appeared. All of the monsters took a step back, including the manticore.
"No… that- that isn't possible! You! You were banished!" the manticore cried in a panic
"Did you really expect to never see me again?" the man replied in a deep voice
"Zeus will have your head!" the manticore screamed
"Do you seriously expect me to be worried about that old man?" he replied with a laugh
What? If this was a god… than why wasn't he more afraid of Zeus? I thought
"Attack! All of you! Kill him! Destroy him!" the manticore screamed
After a moment the army broke out of its stupor and ran screaming at the god. The man just stood there patiently waiting for them, once they were close he disappeared. Or at least, that's what it looked like. He was really moving faster than the eye could see, the only reason I could see him was because I could feel the air currents. He was running and down the rows of monsters and slicing and hacking at them impossibly fast. What it looked like to the others was the man briefly disappearing and the monsters simultaneously exploded into golden dust. Our jaws hit the dirt as we were showered in golden monster dust.
"Why don't you just make this easy and let the demigods go?" the man asked calmly as if he had just walked up and not massacred an entire army.
"Never! The general would have my head!" it cried
The man was about to respond when a silver arrow sprouted from the manticore's shoulder. It screamed in pain as a group of teenage girls in silver parkas stepped out of the woods.
"Permission to kill milady?" a pretty girl with a silver circlet on her head requested to Lady Artemis
"Permission gra-" she stopped midsentence when she saw the man.
The manticore took the distraction and grabbed the girl with the silver circlet and jumped off the ledge of the cliff.
"NO! ZOE!" lady Artemis screamed
Before anyone could saw a single word the mysterious man jumped off the ledge of the cliff in a dive that would make Olympian athletes jealous. Everyone just stared in shock at the spot the man was just standing.
"Idiot, the only thing that did was-" a hunter started
She was quickly interrupted when the man rose up from the side of the cliff in a dark glow of shadows.
As soon as he touched the ground he let the girl go. Lady Artemis slowly walked up to the man.
"Perseus? Is that really you?" she asked in a quiet voice
"Artemis, and here I thought you had forgotten about me." he said in a low growl
"I-I would never forget you Perseus." She said in a timid voice
"Oh yeah? And what if you pathetic daddy told you to?"
"You don't understand! Please Perseus-" She cried desperately
"I came here to help these demigods. Not to converse with the like of you or your hunters." Perseus said coldly
A few of the hunters looked outraged at that, but for some reason a few of the others simply looked down in shame. Weird.
"Please Perseus forgive me!" Artemis cried
"Forgive you? Forgive you? You wouldn't be in a very forgiving mood either if you had just spent a millennia in Tartarus just because your supposed best friend didn't have the courage to go against her daddy!" he yelled
A few hunters lost their temper and aimed the bows at Perseus.
"Hunters put those bows down right this second!" Artemis screamed
The hunters looked at each other confused but slowly pt their bows down.
I look at Annabeth and she looked just as confused as me.
"Oh sure, now you try to help me." Perseus said darkly "Or is it just you want to make sure none of you little hunters get hurt?"
"Pers-" Artemis began
"Save it Artemis! I am taking these demigods back to their camp and then I'm gone, got it?"
"Please, at least let us give you some help getting there. We both know how hard it is to transport that many demigods somewhere." Artemis said sadly
"Fine, but don't expect for me to interact with you or the hunters." Perseus said coldly
This was going to be interesting.
Perseus POV
It filled me with cold hard fury seeing those hunters and Artemis again. She was the reason that I had been sent to Tartarus.
But I couldn't think about that now, I needed to take care of these poor demigods.
I looked over at them,
"Come, you will stay in my tent with me until we are prepared to go." I told them calmly
"Hold on!" a girl with spiky black hair said from the way she stood in front of the others protectively it was clear she was used to taking care of them
"We don't even know anything about you! Thanks for saving us and everything but we aren't going anywhere with some stranger. We'll stay with the hunters unless you want to explain who exactly you are." She said pointedly
"Very well sister, I will explain some of who I am to you." I said
"Sister?" she asked surprised
"Yes, you are a daughter of Zeus aren't you?" I asked already knowing the answer
"Yes." She said slowly
"I thought so, here we can talk some more in my tent away from these hunters." I said saying hunters like it was a cruel insult
The newer hunters looked murderous at that, they clenched their bows so hard they would have broken had they not been near indestructible
She nodded, so I summoned my tent of shadows and held the flap for them. Slowly they walked in.
"So who are you exactly?" The girl asked "I'm Thalia by the way and this is Annabeth." She said gesturing to herself and the younger girl. I took note of how she chose not to introduce the boy, something the boy clearly had not missed.
"And I'm Kyle, as I'm sure you were wondering." He said smugly
"No, not really." I said coolly no wonder she ignores him, he is a right pain in the butt.
"Now are you going to explain or not?" Thalia asked impatiently
I smiled a bit at our similar trait
"Sure, what do you want to know?" I asked
"Well how about who the heck are you? If you're a god how come I've never heard of you? Who are your parents?" she fired off
"Yep, no doubt about it you're my sister." I smiled "So anyway, I am Perseus god of night, hunting, courage and loyalty."
"Whoa, and my father still lets you live?" she asked in wonder
A moment later she flinched when my eyes turned colder than ice and harder than rock.
"If your father had his way I would be in the void right now." I said coldly
I sighed
"Let me start from the beginning. Not many beings know this but Zeus once had an affair with Nyx, it was what I suppose you mortals would call something of a one night stand. But slightly more than that. They first saw each other during the first night storm. Nyx fell in love with him despite being married to Erebus. Zeus never cared about her." I said bitterly "He only wanted more power. He played her and tried to trick her into giving him her primordial powers. She refused but even when he demanded power she failed to see the monster inside of him. He played her into having-"I stopped quickly and looked at the boy sitting next to the pretty black haired girl of Hades
I cleared my throat "Er, quality time with each other. I was the result. After Zeus realized Nyx would not give him her power he abandoned us. I was raised by my mother, trained by Erebus once we made peace. After a century I grew tired of being restrained in my mother's palace. I convinced her and my father to let me go, I wanted to see the world, meet others of my kind besides those in Tartarus. I foolishly wanted to meet the king of the gods; my mother had never told me what happened between them. I wish she had, perhaps things would be different. When Zeus found out about me he was overjoyed. Not because he had a son, but because I was as powerful as Nyx and Erebus combined. He foolishly thought he could trick me into giving him my powers and domains the way he had tried to with my mother. He tried to persuade me, he tried to bribe me he even tried to threaten me and my parents. But I never gave in. After that he hated me, he resented my very being. I had denied him what he wanted most… power. He tried to find every single one of my faults, he stalked me everywhere. Once he thought he had enough against me he put up a vote on the council of gods for me to be destroyed. I wasn't allowed to vote despite me being on the council. Luckily I was relatively liked among the gods, except for those who had done horrible things like Hercules. Zeus was out voted. So a few years later when I had nearly made Hercules fade for trying to force himself on a Maiden of Artemis, Zeus tried again, once again he was out voted. The next day he tried for putting me in Tartarus, I was sure he would fail once again… but he didn't. The vote 8 to 7. Zeus laughed at me and said this was what I deserved. He personally bound me in celestial bronze chains and threw me into Tartarus, but not before cursing me from being able to see my mother or father during my banishment." I looked up from the ground and saw a few teary eyes on the girls. The Kyle boy however ad fallen asleep.
"That's horrible!" the dark haired girl cried
"At least I escaped." I said as I smiled at her sadly
She blushed lightly and looked away.
"My father did all that to you?" Thalia asked horrified
"Yes, but it is in the past now. Who knows, perhaps he has changed!" I said brightly
"Yeah, for the worse." Thalia mumbled
"How did you escape Perseus? I read that it was impossible." Annabeth said suspiciously
I was about to answer when there was a light knock on the wooden beam by the entrance.
"What do you want Zoe?" I asked
Zoe came in as beautiful as she was all those years ago
"How did you know it was me? And not Lady Artemis?" she asked confused
"Don't be ridiculous Zoe. Artemis doesn't knock!" I laughed the demigods laughed with me
She blushed and looked down
"Lady Artemis wanted me to let you know Apollo will be here soon." She said and turned to leave but turned back for a moment
"I'm sorry Perseus." She said with slight tears in her eyes.
She started to walk off
"Zoe wait!" I grabbed her arm
"Zoe, I don't blame you for what happened." I said looking her straight in the eye.
"Y-you don't?" she asked shakily
"No, you couldn't have had any influence over what happened. I don't blame the other hunters either, please let them know that." I said and I meant every word of it
Zoe surprised me and the others by pulling me into a strong hug; I slowly wrapped my arms around her and hugged her back. I was so surprised I didn't notice the dark haired girl frown and look away.
After a moment Zoe pulled away and left. I sat back down and looked at the others.
"I-I take it you two know each other?" Annabeth asked
I smiled lightly
"Yes, the hunt and I go back a bit." I answered
"Nice job, bro! You know if you don't take a shot at her I just might. She is hot!" Kyle stupidly reaching out for a fist bump
Thalia looked like she was about to insult him but before she could I reached out my arm and shot a knife, made out of pure darkness, straight into his shoulder.
He fell back and screamed in pain.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Annabeth cried
"Annabeth! Did you not hear what he just said?" Thalia asked incredulously
"Ugh, he was just joking around!" she shouted angrily
"You had better learn to watch your tongue boy." I growled "You are lucky you said that to me and not Artemis. Or else you would already be some kind of prey and being hunted by the huntresses."
"You are going to regret this! My father is Poseidon! He will show you your place!" He shouted
"Ah, Poseidon… yes I know him well. He was one of the gods that voted for my freedom. A good man." I said lost in thought
"Well, whether you know him or not doesn't matter! I am the prophesy child!" he said smugly
"I've heard the prophecy boy. And I believe there are several people in this room more likely and more worthy to be the hero of prophecy." I said
He opened his mouth to retort but was cut off by a loud motor followed by a bright light. We walked outside and saw a very bright sports car losing its glow. A tan and powerfully built man stepped out and shut the door.
"Hey little sis! I heard you needed… me…" he said losing his train of thought
"Perseus… what- what are you doing here?"
Ok, I hope you guys enjoyed! I am trying to make it seem like it could go either way for Bianca and Zoe, again I am open to suggestions! If you have a favorite pairing and want to see it the let me know!And again please leave a reveiw! Long reviews are welcome! Short reviews, love letters, death threats, any things good! Lots of reveiw a make me happy! Happy me means better chapters! Better chapters means happy you! Happy you means more reviews! It's the cycle of reveiws! It benefits us all! Please reveiw! See you Thursday!
