The next morning

I slept relatively well considering the fact that I didn't have to sleep with one eye open the whole night wondering if any monsters were going to attack me in my sleep. When I did wake up it was by something very loud, angry, and wet. I ended up coughing as ice cold water was thrown on my face. I look up and see one of the hunters looking at me with anger in her eyes. "She might have told us to accept you but that doesn't mean that we have to like it" she said to me as she walks away with a bowl in her hand.

"Well that could have gone worse" I mumble as I remove the water from my body and dissipate it into the air. "Let's see I think that there was a river a little over this way" I mumble as I put all of my stuff together and grab new clothes that look the same as the ones that I had. I walk over to where the river was and then when I am inside of the tree line just a few feet away from the river I pause. "HELLO IS THERE ANYONE AT THE RIVER" I yell and wait for an answer. When there is none I walk over to the river and look around a little and see no one.

"Alright so far so good" I mumble as I strip off my clothes and make an indent in the river and sit down letting the cold water wash over me. "This feels nice" I mumble as I sit back and enjoy the river water washing over me. Out of nowhere I hear an ear shattering screech. I turn around to the noise and see five of the hunters standing at the tree line with towels wrapped around them. "That was loud you know" I say to them as I rub my now in pain ears.

They start throwing things at me screaming about me being perverted. "I was here first if anything you are the perverts" I yell at them as I make a water wall in-between us. I see them blush and then run back to the camp. I wonder why they were thinking I was a pervert then I remembered I was completely naked. "That's right with me being able to just remove the water from my body I never saw the point to using a towel I should get one the next time I am near a town" I mumble as I get out.

I remove the water form my body and put on my boxers and look around for my change of clothes. "Don't tell me that they took my clothes" I mumble as I look around for them. "Damon is that you" I hear a familiar voice. I look behind me and see Artemis in the same clothes that she had yesterday. "Yes it is me and I think that an animal might have run off with my clothes" I say to her as I start to walk back to camp. "Alright let's see if I remember right my stuff should be over there" I mumble as I make a rope out of water and throw it to the camp. A few seconds later I pull my stiff back along with one of the girls that was here a second ago holding onto my stuff for dear life.

"Ok why are you holding my stuff" I ask the girl as I grab pants out of my bag. "That is none of your business man" she yells back to me angrily. "Well it is my stuff so I think that it is" I say to her mater o facially as I put on some gray pants. She was about to yell again when Artemis comes over to us and looks at the hunter angrily. "What were you doing with his things huntress" she asks her. "I was" she started but I put up my hand. "It is alright I understand she wanted revenge for what I did to her friend last night and I do deserve it" I say to her sadly as I remember the girl that I attacked.

"Yes but you were provoked and I warned all of my hunters to at least just not speak to you if they knew that they would say something" she said back to me. "It is alright none of my stuff is damages so no harm no fowl right" I to her happily as I put on a back t shirt had a wolf howling to the sky. "You like dogs don't you" she said to me while pointing to my shirt. "Well I was living near a pack of wolfs for a few years and I like how loyal they are to family so I like them, but I have to say my favorite animal is the fox" I said to her happily as I start to walk to the river and put my hand in it. The water starts to glow a little and after a second it is crystal clear.

"There we go the water is purified so there is no remains of me in there so you can tell the other hunters that they can take a bath now I will be in the camp" I said to the hunter happily as I walk away with me bag on my back. She looked a little dumbfounded at what I said but then went back to the camp. "Why do you always take all the blame yourself" Artemis asks me as we walk back to camp. "Well I would blame someone if it was they were the ones at fault but since I was the cause of the problem then it is my fault and mine alone, plus with what some of the girls here have had to deal with because of men I am happy to accept there burdens" I said to her as I continued to walk.

"That is still a little much but I guess that is one of the reasons that I can stand you" she says to me as she sighs. "Well as long as you don't try to turn me into an animal again I don't mind if you get angry at me as well because I know that something happened to you as well to make you hate men" I say to her sadly. "Nothing happened I was just angry at how all of the other gods were throwing themselves at mortals creating children left and right, one of us had to have at least a little bit of pride" she said to me. "And that is why you are the only god that I respect" I said to her happily.

We walk back to camp in silence until I see Phoebe looking outside of the tent. I run over to her as she looks like she is about to pass out. "You shouldn't be out of bed yet you might be strong but that poison wore out your body to quickly" I said to her as I held her up for support. For whatever reason she actually let be help her stand. "I was looking for you Lady Artemis Phoebe is shaking and I do not know why" she said with worry in her voice.

"That is natural her body is trying to heal all of the strain and nerves that were damaged when she was poisoned I will take a look at her" I said to her as I helped her walk back into the tent. Phoebe looked back at Artemis and she just nodded to her. "Though I hate him my brother is the god of health and he is the grandson of him so he is your best bet at healing her then even me" she says to her. She nods in acceptance and we walk back into the tent.

When we get back in I help her back into her bed and put the covers over her. "Just stay down for now the more you rest the faster you will get better" I say to her happily as I go over to Zoe. When I see her I see she is pale sweating and shivering as though she is cold. I touch her and feel that she is freezing. "This is not good she is going into shock" I say as I take off my coat and throw it over her zipping it up so that she is encased in it. "ARTEMIS GET ME SOME HUNTERS NOW" I yell at the entrance of the tent. I hear footsteps as she runs to go and get some of her hunters.

I grab a rag and create warm water into the bowl next to her and put it on her head. "This is not good Phoebe do you know what her blood type is" I ask. "I think it's B positive why" she asks. "Alright that's good then this will be a lot easier" I say as I bring out my dagger and slash my palm. "Why did you do that" she asks. "I need to make her heart pump faster and that will only work if I match her heart rate to mine so I need to mix our blood to do that" I say to her as I make a cut on the inside of her forearm.

I put my hand on the cut and make sure that no blood escapes as I start to pump my own blood into her and start pump her heart. Right then five hunters I didn't know and Ashley ran inside with worry written all over their faces. "Quick who here has a blood type of O" I ask them. They were shocked by my question but Ashley and another girl raised their hands. "Good now come over here and the rest of you I am going to need blankets and warm water" I say to the other four. They look at me angrily.

"DO YOU WANT HER TO DIE" I yell at them. They were shocked by my outburst but they all shook their heads no. My expression softened. "Well then just do what I asked please and she will be just fine" I say to them with a smile on my face. They nodded this time and ran out of the tent. "Alright you two come over here this is an emergency so I am going to give her a transfusion of your blood" I said to them as I pull a needle out of my bag. They nodded and put their arms in front of me.

I gently put the needle into the girls arm and I see her wince slightly from the pain and I pull about half a pint of blood out. "Alright that's good" I say as I remove my right hand from Zoe's arm and put the needle in and give her the blood. I immediately put my hand back over her arm and give the girl another syringe. "I am going to need for you to get one syringe full of Ashley's blood and then hand it to me alright" I say to her. She nods and starts to do what I ask.

(Just a little bit more and she will be ok) I think as I feel sweat start to form on my brow. (I think I gave her about a pint and a half of my blood just a little bit more and she will be fine) I think as my vision starts to blur. The girl hands me the syringe with Ashley's blood in it and I do the same thing again. I feel her warming up and her heart rate is back to normal levels. "Alright for right now she is stable all we need is those sheets and her being under surveillance for a few hours and just have her rest of a days and she will be just fine" I say happily.

The two girls faces brighten up at eh news and smile at each other. Then the four girls that I sent out a little while ago were back with what I asked. "Alright give me the bandages so I can wrap up her arm and just replace the towel on her head and then place the towels over her and let her rest, one of you will need to look after her for a few hours" I say to them. One of the hunters that looked like she was 15 volunteered for the job of watching over them.

I wrapped up her arm and then got up and started walking out the door shakily. "Just call me if anything happens and I will be over" I say to them as my vision begins to blacken. I walk out of the tent and get half way to where I had my things when I collapsed on the ground. "This is not good I think that I gave her too much of my blood I need to sleep and recover" I mumble as I crawl behind some of the tents and close my eyes drifting into unconsciousness.

Before I could fall asleep I feel someone grab me by the collar. "Hello Artemis can I help you" I mumble to her. "It looks like you are the one that needs help" she says as she stars dragging me. "Give me a break I'm too tired right now to deal with your anger" I mumble to her sleepily. "Well I do thank you for saving Zoe for a second time but when I got inside I heard all of the girls angrily accusing you of leaving a job half finished" she said to me as she continued to drag me. "Well I did everything that they couldn't, all that they needed to do is just what I told them and she will be just fine" I say to her.

I didn't notice that we were back at the cabin and she threw me onto the bed next to Zoe. Everyone was looking at me in shock when I was thrown into the tent. "Well now I hope that none of you are thinking that he left willingly, he didn't have the power to move anymore with what he had to do for Zoe" Artemis yells at the girls. All of the girls look at me in confusion and I start to feel cold and shiver. "I gave her two pints of my blood so that her heat rate would return to normal so now I am cold so can I get one of the blankets please" I ask them.

Ashley grabs one of the blankest and puts it over me and I see sadness in her eyes. "Don't worry I have been through worse than a little blood loss" I say to her. She looked worried at that and then nodded and walked away. I wrap the blankets around me in a cocoon trying to warm myself as best I could. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

Artemis POV

"So hunters what do you have to say now he is unconscious so he can't hear you" I say to all of them with anger in my voice. "Sorry" they all mumble. "I would never accept something like that but I know that Damon would be sad if I scolded you about this" I say to them. "You are all dismissed except for you" I point at Ashley. The other hunters left except for her. "I will trust you to look after all of them you are excused from your duties until they wake" I say to her. "As you wish Lady Artemis" she says to me and bows.

I leave with a small smile on my face. (He is already making an impact) I think as I walk away to see what my other hunters are doing.

Damon POV Time skip 3 hours

When I wake up I see that I am in a tent, but don't remember how I got there. Then when I look around I see Zoe and Phoebe and Ashley all in either bed or sitting in a chair. "That's right I passed out from blood loose" I mumble as I get up slowly. Ashley sees me and jogs over to me with worry all over her face. "You shouldn't get up yet" she says to me. "It is alright I heal faster than anyone thanks to my grandfather" I say to her as I pull the covers off of me and sit up looking at the two in bed. Zoe has a few blankest on her along with my jacket and Phoebe is sleeping peacefully. "I think Zoe should be better by tomorrow night and Phoebe will be back to normal by tonight if I get something for her" I say as I get up.

Ashley goes to me to push me back down into bed but I give her a smile. "It is alright I am fine now but I have to get this from my bag it is not a far trip" I say to her happily as I get out of bed. "Just look after them and tell me if anything happens I will be back in a moment" I say to her happily. She nods to me slowly as I walk out of the tent and head straight for my things. When I get there I see a hunter looking at my things like she was debating whether to do something with them or not.

I get behind her and put my hands on her shoulders making her jump. "Hello there is there something that you need" I ask her. She looks scared and then shakes her head no and walks away. "Well that was wearied normally they yell at me and insult me before they walk away" I mumble as I grab my things. I walk back through the came and notice that the hunters are still not doing anything to me just walking past me. "This is wearied are they ignoring me now" I mumble as I get back to the tent. When I get in there I see all of the hunters that were here the other day.

"Hello to all of you is there something that I can help you with" I ask them confused. They all look at me sadly and then bow their heads. "Sorry" they say together. "What" I ask confused. "Why are all of you saying sorry you have nothing to be sorry about" I say to them wanting them to raise their heads. "We were rude to you the whole time you have been here and you have done nothing but be kind to us so we are sorry for that" one of them said to me.

"It is alright you have every right to hate me for me being a man because of what has happened to you" I said to them sadly. "But that doesn't mean that we should treat you like we have" another said. "We are willing at accept any punishment you may give us" another said. I already knew that they were too proud to leave without me making them do something. I look at them coldly making them flinch.

"Alright then your punishment will be" I started then I gave them a warm smile. "To eat what I make tonight instead of trying to pelt me with it" I say to them happily. "Do not insult us we are willing to accept punishment for what we have done" one of them said angrily. "Well this is what I want you to do, it will help me at least prove that I am not trying to poison you" I say to them happily.

They looked in astonishment but agreed reluctantly. "Fine we will do this" they say. "Well then I will see you all tonight" I said happily as I walk over to Zoe and Phoebe. "Alright well I just need to heal them and then I guess I will go and do some training" I said happily as I stand in front of Zoe and Phoebe. "Now where is it" I mumble as I look around in my bag.

"What are you looking for" Ashley asks. "This" I say to her as I bring out a silver flask. "This is a gift from Dionysus the wine god it will give me an unlimited amount of a drink as long as I say it before I open it up" I said happily. "Nectar" I say and the flask glows for a second and when it stops I walk over to Zoe and open her mouth slightly and pore a drop into her mouth. She swallows the golden substance and I see her start to smile at the food. I then do the same to Phoebe and see her get better. "Alright that should to it" I say happily as I put the flask back into my bag.

"What are you going to do now" Ashley asks me. "I am going to be going to do some training and then hunt for some food for everyone, do you think they would like pork chops I think I saw some boar somewhere around here" I ask her. "You know that is Ares's animal right wouldn't he be mad" Ashley asks me jokingly. "Don't worry he is fine with it because of the yearly fight I do with him for his entertainment" I say to her.

She looks at me dumbstruck. "You fought a god and lived" she asked. "Yes every year for the past 82 years he wants to fight me after the summer solstice to get some built up anger out" I say to her. "He agrees not to kill me if I do this and I don't really mind because the only one that can go on par with me now is a god" I say to her happily. She looks at me like I was crazy though I guess in some cases I was.

"When Artemis said that I was on par with her she wasn't kidding, if I went all out on a god I could actually kill them" I said to her. "You can't kill a god" she says to me. "Yes you can you just have to do something a little different then slashing at them" I said to her with an evil smile. "But I would never kill any of them because I don't want chaos to rule the world" I said to her happily as I put my things on the bed I was sleeping in before. "Alright well I'm off to train see you later" I said to her happily as I walk away.

I get to what looks like a training area and see that it is a 40 foot circle. "This should be enough room" I say to myself as I bring out Bound Fate. I get into a fighting stance and start to control the water in the atmosphere. "Here I go" I say as I jump 10 feet in the air and start swinging at the air making slashes all around me attacking fake enemy's. "And down" I yell as I lung down with my katana slamming into the ground making a large shockwave almost 40 feet around.

I swing at fake enemy's parrying and slashing at different targets. After about an hour I stop swinging and feel myself dripping with sweat "alright just one more thing and I will go and get washed up for dinner" I say as I focus water to surround my katana. "Full moon" I yell as I swing in a complete circle making a moon shape cutter around me slashing the air. "Lunar fang" I yell as I bring down an arch of high pressured water at the tree line 70 feet away slashing the trees into pieces. "That was good" I mumble as I put my weapon back into its ring and bracelet.

I look behind me and see all of the hunters looking at me in shock. "Wow this is embarrassing" I mumble as I look at them. "Uhh hi" I say as I wave to them. They continue to look at me in shock at what I did. "This is not going to end anytime soon" I mumble as I walk over to the bow and arrow rack. "I'm going to borrow this for a second" I say to them. None of them said anything and I just walk into the forest.

I look and find a group of boars after about 10 minutes and shoot and kill three of them and let the others run off. "Find peace and sorry Ares I'll give you an offering later" I said as I take out the arrows pick up the boars and start to walk back to camp. When I get there the hunters are back to what they were doing before. "Well I should get started on the food" I say as I get over to the campfire I made last night and start preparing the boars to eat.

5 hours later

It turned dark an hour ago and we are going to be eating soon. The pork is done and I put it in bowls along with some salad from plants that I found around here. I put all of it on the big tray that I used yesterday and walk over to the camp fire again. When I get there I see the hunters where they were again and I see Phoebe out and sitting next to Artemis and Ashley. "Hello again and just like yesterday here is food if you want it you can have it if not just tell me" I say to them as I grab one of the plates and walk over to the fire and lean down. "Ares, Apollo, and Poseidon accept this offering" I mumble as I put some of the food into the fire and it turns green for a second and then back to normal when the food disappears.

I start to walk away when I hear Artemis. "Damon you are part of the hunters now you should eat with us" she says to me. I look at her in shock. "I don't think that is a good idea, I don't mind eating with the wolfs they are good company" I say to her trying to sway her. "Nonsense sit down and eat" she says to me.

(For gods sakes Artemis I know that when you accept a deal you follow through with it but this is ridiculous) I think as I smile and sit at the edge of one of the logs near the end. I notice that no one goes up to take the food and I just eat in silence. Then I see Artemis starting to get angry as she starts to drum her fingers on the table.

"This is not going to end well" I mumble as I finish my food quickly and get ready to run for it.

"Hunters are you really this disrespectful I understand he is a man and we all hate them but he is part of our family whether we like it or not, he has held out his hand to us willing to meet you all half way but not one of you other than Ashley, Phoebe, and Zoe has even attempted to talk to him" she yells at them.

The hunters look down in sadness. "It is alright I do not wish for them to like me or even acknowledge me because I know that they had to deal with something horrible at the hands of men so I am fine with it Artemis really" I say to her as I go over and get another bowl and start walking away. When I am about to walk away I hear someone get up expecting it to be Ashley but I see Phoebe get up and get a bowl of food and walks behind me. "I am disappointed in all of you, I thought that you were all proud but I have told you that if you only are here because of hatred then you do not deserve to be here" she said as she walked behind me to the tent again.

When we get inside I see Zoe sitting up looking off into space. "Good evening Zoe how are you feeling now" I ask her as I sit next to her bed. "Well and I suppose that I have thee to thank for that" she says to me. "I guess but I'm just happy that you are able to sit up by tomorrow night you should be all better" I said happily. "Why are you so kind to us" Zoe asks me bluntly.

"I'm sorry" I ask confused. "Why does though beith kind to us hunters we have made it rather clear that we do not want anything to do with thee and yet thee continue to help us throughout the years" she says to me. "We'll let me see why do I help you" I say as I start to think. "Well it's not all that difficult actually" I say to her. "When I see you in trouble I help that is all there is to it" I say happily.

"But you have never asked for anything before this why is that" she asks and I see Phoebe eating but listening intently. "Well because it was just the right thing to do it is why I asked to be immortal" I said to her. "I wanted to be able to protect people who couldn't do it themselves, and help those that were never helped, I wanted people to see that not all is bad with this world" I said to her happily.

"And why did you ask for something this time" she asked. "Because of what I had to give up" I said to her. "What do you mean" she asks confused. "Well my right eye has a blessing from the big three, if I give up something of equal value I can do whatever I want" I say to her. "What did you give up" she asked me. "For Phoebe I gave up my ability to us my right eye for half a year" I said to her, then I turned to Zoe. "And for you I gave up every memory of my mother" I said to her.

She started choking on her food as she remembered the few times that they talked how he always loved to talk about his mother and learning new things from her about his mother. "But you told me that those memories were almost as important to you as your life" she said to me. "Well I guess that is why I asked to live with the hunters so that I could fill the void that was left" I said to her. "And I guess that you meant more to me than those memories if I was willing to part with them to save you" I said happily. She started coughing for violently when I said that and I walked over to her rubbing her back comfortingly helping her regain her breath.

When she finally calmed down she looked at me with a blush on her face. "Don't try to woo me Damon" she says to me angrily. "But I am not trying to I'm just telling you the truth" I said to her happily. I see her face the other way and continue to eat her food. "Well nice job Damon I think that you just made the longest living maiden start to like you" Phoebe say and start to laugh. "Well thanks I think, but anyway eat something so that you can get your strength back" I say to her.

I see her grin and then try to lift her arms but cant. "I can't lift up my arms can you feed me, I'm too tired to do it myself" she asks me. (Didn't she walk around the camp like she was fine) I think confused. "Alright say ahh" I say to her as I cut a piece of the pork and put it toward her mouth. I start to feed her and I see Zoe looking at us with shock written all over her face. "What's the matter Zoe do you want me to feed you to" I ask her confused. "No I am fine I will be turning in early" she says as she turns the other way and tries to go to sleep.

I feed Phoebe until she eats all of the food and then I grab everyone's plates. "Well get some sleep both of you and sweet dreams" I say happily as I pull Zoe's blanket over her and the same with Phoebe. When they are both sleeping peacefully I walk back to the camp sight. When I get there I see Artemis standing in front of all the hunters and they are all looking down sadly.

"I mean really you are allowed to have pride but you should also respect others pride as well he made all of this food for all of you and what'd you do not even eat it, I know that you ate what he made yesterday and enjoyed it but would only move to get it when he wasn't even near here" she yells to them. "And do you want to know what every time that I came back here with little treats for all of you it was because he gave them to me as offerings for the past 80 years and what did you do you ate it happily thinking it was from me but when you see him making something for you, you spit it right back in his face" she says to them angrily.

All the hunters looked at her in shock as they heard that I was the one giving them those treats all these years. "I will admit it to all of you because you are all too proud to understand it, I respect that man he is the only one that I do and when I see all of you doing this to him every time he tries to be nice to you and you spit in his face it is like you are spitting in my face" she yells at them. "We would never" one of the hunters started but Artemis was not done yet.

"Well if you would never do it they why have you been doing just that for the past 2 days now he is right over at his sleeping spot in the camp and I want all of you to go over and apologize to him and beg for forgiveness because he is the only reason that I am not punishing all of you" she says angrily. I run back to my spot and sit down at the spot. The wolfs see me running to them and run over and tackle me to the ground happy to see me again.

I start laughing and wrestle with them like I was part of their pack. After a few minutes I see the hunters looking at me with sadness in their eyes. I sit up in front of them with the wolfs lying down around me looking at their masters. "Can I help you" I ask them happily. "We would like to apologize to you" one of the girls said. "Why is that you have done nothing wrong" I say to them happily. "We have been mean to you and neglecting your existence while you are with us and we would like to apologize for that" they said. "Well apology not accepted" I said to them. They looked at me in shock and I see some of them getting angry. "Why is that" one of them asks angrily.

"Well like I said you don't have anything to apologize for you were miss treated by men and I accept being the thing that you vent your anger out on so no I won't accept an apology that is not needed" I say to them happily. They looked at me in shock and then I see Artemis walk up from behind them. "Damon I know that you are kind hearted but they have mistreated you for no reason I don't believe that you should accept it like this" she said to me. "Alright then they will be punished" I said happily. All the hunters looked at me scared but nodded their heads. "Alright then all of you have to eat the food that I made tonight and no arguing this time" I said to them happily.

They all looked at me like I was crazy. "Damon that is not a punishment" Artemis said to me slapping me in the back of the head. "Well I would think that it is considering how they never want to eat it" I said to her happily. "Alright now go along and eat dinner so that we can get ready to do everything tomorrow" I say to them happily. They nod to me and walk back to the campfire in a daze. "You are fare to kind hearted" Artemis says to me. "You might be right but I am alright with that" I say to her happily as I lye down with the wolves surrounding me again. "Good night Artemis have sweet dreams" I say to her happily as I drift off to sleep.