Chapter 2
Hello, here's another chapter that you've been (hopefully) waiting for!
Artemis
Artemis had always considered battle cries a bit silly- especially when there was only one person doing the screaming.
They served no real purpose in the battle whatsoever, and the person who was doing a battle cry tended to be very angry and intimidated which resulted in the said action.
She was quite disapproving of getting worked up during a battle in general, because temper normally caused aim on the bow to be shaken up and eagerness ate away at the patience which was a key factor to achieving a successful hunt.
But when Perseus Jackson was in the equation, she had to admit: he looked pretty darn intimidating as he let his emotions take over him.
Gaea had just broken his sword, killed his girlfriend in cold blood.
After a heartbreaking conversation with Perseus and his dying girlfriend (Artemis would be lying if she said her tears didn't well up in her eyes at that) that was barely loud enough to be heard even with godly hearing she had, he stood up and suddenly obtained ability to manipulate ice out of nowhere.
Molecular control over the water particles? Seriously, she knew it was his father's nature to be unpredictable as possible but how much more unpredictable could he get?
And then, he managed to "one up" the question she posed for him immediately after, by screaming in blind fury and charging at Gaea.
The maiden goddess half expected the literal embodiment of Earth to swat him away and be done with it, but she was pleasantly surprised when Gaea engaged him in a duel.
They were pretty much even in combat, trading blows which were deflected or dodged before it had time to set in.
The Earth Mother must have used up a lot of power binding all of gods and demigods to not have enough energy to crush a small demigod into an instant pancake.
As this was going on, Artemis heard a quiet masked sobbing behind her and didn't have to be able to turn around to know it was coming her lieutenant, Thalia Grace.
Thalia had been close to Annabeth Chase before she had joined the hunt in the Winter Solstice. Her eyes had always been glittering with pride when she talked about the latest Architect of Olympus; Annabeth must have been like a sister to her.
(Uh, well more sister-er than Artemis was to Thalia anyway, who was literally her half sister.)
That statement was fairly obvious, seeing as her lieutenant had been desperately requesting for the goddess to commence an official search on the Son of Neptune/Poseidon for the sake of the distraught Architect.
The ground suddenly started rumbling. Which, wasn't entirely surprising when your enemy is practically the Earth itself, but Gaea herself seemed shocked out of her mind.
Confused, the maiden goddess turned to Perseus and got even more confused.
He was... glowing? No, air around him was buzzing with power.
'I AM THE SON OF THE EARTHSHAKER, FEAR ME'
With that, the Son of The Earthshaker stabbed the ground and everything was still.
Well, that is certainly a way to fail miserably, Artemis was thinking incredulously but her eyes widened comically when the ground beneath her suddenly started to rumble ominously, the shaking increasing by the second.
'No, this is my domain, I'll not have a puny demigod overpower me!', Gaea screamed managing to stay upright, but as soon as she said that she got flopped onto the ground, leaving her vulnerable to attacks.
Perseus pulled out the frozen sword from the ground and pounced on Mother Nature, growling like a monster.
'This is for Annabeth!'
He impaled her through the chest and ice melted slowly, leaving the blade sticking out of her. Earth Mother screamed in pain and trees binding the Olympians shriveled away.
Zeus and Poseidon (or was it Jupiter and Neptune?, Artemis wondered causing her to flicker and turn into Diana for a split second) immediately leaped towards the wounded primordial and pointed their symbol of power at her.
They didn't hesitate in using it, flashing lights of blue-ish green and gold (Btw apparently Zeus' choice of colour also includes purple which actually makes sense, seeing as he is the King of gods and purple is a colour of royalty) synergising together to hit her directly.
'GAHHHH'
Earth beneath them shook with such vigor that no one found it quite possible to remain on their feet.
Gaea froze.
Oh, that could have been phrased a bit better.
Mother Nature was laying down, literally hardened into a statue like Medusa had given her a beaming smile.
Statue slowly turned into dirt as the wind blew it away, leaving behind a broken blade.
'That was too damn close for comfort,' Zeus grumbled.
'Tell me about it, brother. If my son wasn't here to save all our butts, I'd hate to imagine what would have happened,' Poseidon said, smiling with pride evidently dripping onto his voice.
'I didn't even know my children could inherit so much of my power-,' he turned to his son but frowned when he saw Percy sitting on the ground, sobbing with hands on his face.
The Sea God seemed to be deep in his thoughts but a sense of clarity finally crossed upon him.
'My boy, if you are grieving for that Owl spawn, don't worry. Think of all the nymphs and river spirits who will want to be with you after the news spreads! All the ladies will desire you!' Poseidon tried to console his son and Artemis thought Percy would gleefully stand and cheer up like a typical male would do but then immediately reminded herself that this was the man who had earn the respect from Zoƫ, which undoubtfully meant at least an acknowledgement from Artemis herself too.
Poseidon sensed a sudden presence behind him and turned around raising his trident instinctively, just in time to block a stab from a spear aimed at his back.
'Who dares- ah you damned Owl Face!' Lord of the Sea thundered, slamming the base of his trident at the Wisdom goddess' stomach, knocking her back by a few metres.
'Your impotent son got my daughter killed, I knew I was being unwise by entrusting her to a worthless demigod!' Athena screamed in fury.
A random girly squeal sounded throughout the battlefield, making Artemis cringe instinctively. Can you guess who it is? No?
Wasn't it obvious enough that it was none other than the goddess of Love herself?
'Oh, such a tragic love story! On par with "Romeo and Juliet" by Willy Shamespear or whatever that unattractive nerd's name was!' Aphrodite summoned a bucket of popcorn and was about to pop one into her mouth, then her face paled. 'Wait, does that mean that lovely Percy over here is going to kill himself?'
'His name is William Shakespeare and he was my son! Besides, there isn't going to be any suicides happening in here because I'm going to kill him right now!' Athena lunged at the oblivious, broken demigod, only to be blocked again by an angry god and get trapped between the prongs of the trident as he shoved her into the ground.
'Only person dead will be you if you dare touch my son!'
Artemis could tell someone was going to have to intervene because she saw that Poseidon's threat towards Athena hadn't gone unnoticed by Zeus.
She was about to step up but her idiotic brother beat her to the punch.
'Um guys, nice to see you back at each other's throat now that the war is over but Percy might be in a critical situation, so can you two quarrel later,' Apollo said, holding his hands up in a surrendering gesture and slowly walked past Poseidon who barely seemed to register what Artemis' twin brother had just stated.
The Sea God seemed to take full 10 seconds to realise and looked at Percy and cried out in horror, which basically summed up the response of all the gods present.
If Artemis had mistaken his power buzzing for him glowing before, well the fact still remained that she was wrong then, but now he was definitely glowing.
Son of the Sea God was laying with his skin radiating in a pale reddish colour.
It looked suspiciously like how the Olympians had immortalised Heracles (despite Artemis' vote for letting the worthless typical male die from the poison instead) as the Son of Zeus's blood in his blood vessels slowly turned into ichor, the golden blood of gods.
Except his colour of blood underneath the skin didnt seem to be getting more golden and bruises were starting to appear around his body.
It suddenly clicked in her mind, along with all the other gods except the father of the boy himself as he started yelling at his rival.
'What did you do to Percy? Tell me!'
Athena only rolled her eyes in responce, mumbling under her breath about how Poseidon's brain was covered with moss.
Apollo knelt down next to the Son of Poseidon and put his hand on the forehead of the unconscious demigod, wincing as he drew his hand back.
'Ow, he's boiling!'
Before Artemis could decide if that was an intended pun on Perseus and water, the god of medicine took out a small knife and ripped the shirt off, resulting in a cooing sound froming Aphrodite and a slight blush from Artemis.
What? Hey, it's not everyday Artemis gets to look at a shirtless man, blame Apollo for doing that without a warning.
Percy's loss of his baggy shirt gave everyone a view of the wound he had obtained from Gaea earlier and everyone was shocked.
The deep gash across the stomach was still bleeding but that wasn't the problem. It was state of Percy's blood itself that was the problem.
It was red with glitters of gold sparkling.
The Sun God stood up with his facial expression grim.
'Percy's newly unlocked godly powers are trying to make him a god but his mortal body can't handle it,' he explained to the still ignorant god.
'No! My son is going to die?' Poseidon cried.
Athena, who was still pinned on ground due to the Sea God having forgotten to withdraw his trident, sighed while shaking her head.
'Or turn him into a god while using our powers to sustain him obviously.'
Poseidon just gawked at her, looking like a fish out of water.
Annddddd Percy died. lol JK
So I tried to put more humour into the chapter when using Artemis' perspective to show a contrast between the man-hating goddess and a demigod who just lost his girlfriend.
Tell me what you think about this chapter and favourite the story maybe? Bye!
