Howdy yall. Welcome back. This is chapter two of The Son Of The Huntress. Please review and let me know how you like this chapter vs the first chapter. I'm just gonna jump right into this because there isn't really much that I can say. So here is chapter two ya'll.

Chapter 2: The broken oath

Raven:

My head hurt when I finally came to. I opened my eyes slowly, trying to remember where I was. Everything started to come back slowly, the deal, everything went wrong, I left Flat Junction, then I bumped into some french dude, then he attacked me and I ran. I remembered running into the woods and then I came into this clearing with all these kids with weapons and armor, and then here I am. I pushed myself into a sitting position and looked over to my side. My hat, flag, and gun were sitting on the nightstand next to me. I grabbed them and then stood out of the bed, grimacing as I did so.

"Ahh my head." I groaned, grabbing my skull

I started forward but I stumbled into a table, knocking it into a bed. I looked around and realized I was in an infirmary, surrounded by a bunch of wounded kids. The one nearest to me was a blonde haired kid with an orange t -shirt with a pegasus on it and the words Camp Half -Blood written above it. There weren't any doctors or anything around which confused me, but my burning curiosity about where I was overtook my want to look around at the scenery of where I was. I kept walking, using the wall as a support until I finally made it to the door, where there was three people waiting for me. Two guys, one in a wheelchair with thinning, brown hair and a tweed jacket, and another guy with black hair. And then there was a girl, with grey eyes and blonde hair, all of them were wearing those orange shirts.

"Ah, the new demigod," The wheelchair guy said "I must say I didn't think you'd be up and moving this soon."

"Chiron," The guy with black hair and green eyes said "Shouldn't he be in bed? He took it pretty bad last night."

"I'm fine," I said, my voice sounding raspy "I'm not in much pain. Where am I?"

"You're at a place called Camp Half -Blood," The girl said "It's the only safe place for people like us."

"People like us?" I asked

"Yeah," The guy said "You see, we're demigods."

"What he means to say," Chiron said "Is that you are the child of a human and a god, a Greek god to be exact."

"A what now?" I asked in complete disbelief

"I bet you have ADHD and dyslexia," The guy said "Am I right?"

"Yeah, ADHD and dyslexia," I said "But what does that have to do with anything."

Nobody answered, so I resorted to what I knew best. I pulled my shirt up to reveal my gun tucked into my waistband and narrowed my eyes, making my message clear before I even opened my mouth to say something.

"If somebody don't give me a straight answer," I growled "I promise I'll catch a body, I'm serious."

"I told you we shouldn't have left that alone." The guy muttered

"Percy," The girl said in a warning tone "Look, one of your parents was a Greek god, this camp is the safest place, besides Camp Jupiter and Olympus itself of course, for people like us."

"You guys are all crazy," I said "All three of you."

"Why don't you tell us your name," Chiron said "I'm Chiron, this is Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson."

I'm not sure why, but I got the feeling he wasn't really asking me. He was telling me he wanted to know my name, and he wouldn't be taking no for an answer. Normally I don't do to well with authority but I got the weird sense I could trust this guy, even if I'd only known him for a few minutes. He'd told me his name, the least I could to was give him mine.

"Raven Alistair." I said finally

"A very unique name if I do say so myself," Chiron said "Might I ask how you got the name?"

I turned around and pulled my shirt off, revealing a raven shaped brand mark on my left shoulder. I didn't know where it had come from, and even my dad had never been able to tell me. Not that it mattered, he was a sick fucked up bastard. He probably wouldn't have given me a real answer anyways, he would've lied like he did about everything else.

"Well, that is an odd mark isn't it?" Chiron asked "How did you get it?"

"I don't know." Was all I said

"Can you tell me which one of your parents was mortal?" He asked

"Both of them," I said "They're both dead."

"What do you mean both dead?" Percy asked "They can't be, you're clearly a demigod, you got through the barrier."

"I never knew my mom," I told them "When I was five, my dad was arrested and charged with the murder of my mother. He was convicted and went to jail, then he hung himself when I was eight."

"Your father couldn't have killed your mother," Chiron said "If you knew your father, that means the god in your family is on the maternal side, and gods can't die."

"Oh yeah?" I asked, my temper rising "What makes you so sure of that? You ever meet my mom? Ever met my dad?"

"Calm yourself," Chiron said "I meant no offense to you Raven, I am simply attempting to solve the riddle. Why don't you tell us the rest of your story. Where are you from?"

"How about you tell me more about yourselves first." I countered

Chiron sighed and backed his wheelchair up a little bit. Sensing he was doing something, Annabeth and Percy backed up a little bit. Chiron pushed himself up as though he was going to get out of his wheelchair, but that would be impossible. But of course, this was only the beginning of impossibilities that turned out to be not so impossible. Chiron rose from the wheelchair, and got very tall very fast. At first I thought he was wearing white pants, but then I realized that those were his legs, then I realized there was more. When he finally rose, I was standing in front of a centaur.

"Well," He said with a small smile "If you know anything about Greek mythology, then you might've guessed who I am."

"Chiron," I said, remembering what little I had actually caught in school "You trained heroes. But shouldn't you be dead?"

"As long as I'm still needed, I won't die," He shrugged "Now I do believe you were going to tell me about yourself?"

"I'm from Brooklyn," I said, resigning "My dad got arrested when I was five, and I became a ward of the state. The manager to our building adopted me as a favor to my dad I guess, he let me live in dad's old apartment until I was ten, and he introduced me to the Flat Junction Crips, then I started selling drugs, doing hits, and all that helped me pay the rent."

"So you're a gang member?" Percy asked me

"Yeah," I said "A little while ago, a drug deal went wrong, two of my friends got killed and I left Flat Junction. I bumped into this shady looking french guy and he turned into whatever the fuck that thing that attacked me last night was. I ran until I got into the woods, then I just kept going, found myself here."

"Wait a second," Percy said "You left a gang? You can do that?"

"I've got so much damn credit in Brooklyn the boss was willing to let me leave. I'm not built for that shit anymore," I said "I just didn't want to be the next guy going out in a box."

"Well, regardless of why you left or who let you leave," Chiron said "You're here now and we should get you settled in."

"Hang on," I said "Who said I was staying?"

"Where else do you have to go?" Annabeth asked me "You can't just run around, now that you know, monsters will hunt you even more."

"Damn," I muttered "I hate logic."

"Then it's settled," Chiron said, clapping his hands "Percy, I would like you to show Mr. Alistair to the Hermes cabin. Annabeth and I need to talk."

"Yeah, I got it," Percy grumbled "Come on Raven, I'll show you to your new home."

Percy:

"First things first," I said as we walked down the path into the cabin area "Let's get you into a new shirt, that one is a bit torn up."

"Stupid monster owes me a new shirt," Raven grumped "This is my favorite shirt."

I laughed and entered the Poseidon cabin, with Raven close behind me. He stood in the doorway while I dug through my drawers. I finally found a plain white shirt and tossed it to him. He took off his torn shirt and threw it in the trash can, and then pulled on the shirt I gave him. I noticed another mark on his arm, a scar, FJC cut right into his left bicep.

"So where'd you get those scars?" I ventured

He touched the one on his eye gingerly as though it still pained him. He looked a bit angry and I almost regretted asking, but his face went back to the poker face he'd had since he woke up and he cleared his throat.

"I got into a scrap with some Bloods about a year or so ago," He said "One of them had a blade, caught me in the eye. And the one on my arm was just to mark me for the FJC."

"Can you see?" I asked him

"Yeah, they only cut deep enough to leave a scar," He shrugged "Didn't damage my eyesight or anything."

"You ever get any comments on your eyes?" I asked him "What with them being silver and all?"

"Yeah, nobody was ever able to figure it out," He said "Dad just told me I was unique."

I shrugged and left the cabin, with him behind me. We walked up the path and I watched him take everything in, analyzing every single face and detail of the camp. He looked amazed at nearly everything he saw, especially the Aphrodite girls.

"Stay clear of most of them," I warned him "A few are alright, but most can be pretty vengeful."

"Vengeful how?" He asked

"Trust me," I told him "You don't want to know."

We kept walking and passed the forges where I saw Leo and a few other kids hard at work on some sort of giant metal thing. I knew, with Leo at least, it was just better not to ask about those types of things, because nine times out of ten, you really didn't want to know that answer either.

"So did you ummm, feel anything in my cabin?" I asked him

"What do you mean?" He asked me

"The first time I even walked into the Poseidon cabin I got this strange feeling," I explained "Like the sea calling to me or something."

"No," He said "Didn't feel anything like that."

"Well tell me the things you're good at," I told him "We might be able to figure out who your parent is."

"Well, I'm a crack shot," He said, shrugging "I can grow weed pretty well, I'm a fast runner and an alright swimmer, I'm pretty damn good at parkour."

"Anything else?" I asked, not sure what to make of that

"I've always liked being in the woods," He said "Before Dad got arrested, we used to take trips to this little cabin a friend of his owned. We'd go fishing and hunting and all that."

"Well, maybe you're a child of Hermes, jack of all trades and such." I said, remembering what Luke had said to me

A thought had started to form in my head, but I dismissed it. It wasn't possible, never would be and never could be. But what if it was? I wondered why Raven hadn't been claimed years ago and why he was just now coming to camp, but obviously something was getting ready to go down, there was no way his coming wasn't a sign, no matter who his real mother was.

"I'm still not sure that I believe all of this." Raven said

"Well then watch this." I said, grinning

I reached my hand out towards the fountain and concentrated, feeling the familiar tugging sensation in my gut. The water rose from it in a giant arc and spun into the air, then splashed back down into the fountain. Raven's face hadn't changed but I could see in his eyes that I had at least peaked his interest.

"Son of Poseidon," I said "Power over water."

"Really?" He asked "I'll admit, that's actually pretty cool. Mind if I ask you something that might sound a little bit demented?"

"Shoot." I said, wondering what he was thinking

"You ever try controlling a person?" He asked me "Humans have blood in them, that's water right?"

"I haven't actually ever tried that," I said "Now that you say it, I really don't want to though."

"Told you it was fucked up." He said, shrugging

We kept walking and I found myself even more curious about who this kid was. Who was his mother?

Raven:

I had been at Camp Half Blood for almost a week, not once hint from my mother, whoever she was. I wanted to find out who she was so bad, because somebody had been responsible for everything that had happened to me, I wanted to know who. A group of girls everybody had called the hunters of Artemis had shown up that morning with no explanation, just unexplained orders from Artemis, at least that's what I had heard. But rumors were circulating that they had been sent here to wait for somebody, somebody very important to their mistress. They kept mostly to themselves, shooting in the archery range or shooting hateful glances at any guy who got close to them. I had almost gotten mugged by ten of them when I asked a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes if she had seen Chiron, I wasn't eager to be the one to say I got beat up by a bunch of girls.

"Are you alright?" Annabeth asked me

"Yeah, just some shit on my mind." I said

Annabeth had come to get me from the Hermes cabin to talk. I knew she was put up to it by Chiron, seeing as I didn't talk to many people. I had spoken to Percy a few times, and a guy named Jason and a kid named Leo, but other than that I didn't talk to people. We were walking through the cabin area while Annabeth tried to make friends with me, but I knew she was getting frustrated with me.

"Raven listen to me," Annabeth said, stopping in front of one of the cabins "You need to understand that even though you don't feel like you belong here, everyone here just wants to help you."

"Give me some time to adjust," I told her "I just need to think."

"Raven the only person you even talked to besides Percy and Jason was Leo," She said "And that was only to get some celestial bronze bullets."

"Well I can't kill a monster with a regular bullet." I said, shrugging

Before she could say anything, I felt something. It felt like a voice calling me, from the cabin next to me. I turned around and looked at it. It was an old cabin, with a crescent moon painted on the doorframe. I walked inside without a second though, and the feeling got even stronger.

"Raven, what are you doing?" Annabeth hissed from behind me "Get out of there."

"Why?" I asked, almost in a daze

"Because if the hunters catch you in there, you're a dead man." She said

"I felt something," I said "But it's gone."

"Raven, you're not a child of Artemis," Annabeth said "Get that out of your head."

"Why couldn't I be?" I asked her

"Because she's a maiden goddess," Annabeth said "She's under an oath to never have kids, she swore off men, she's an eternal virgin. What did you feel anyways?"

"Just, a presence," I explained "Calling to me."

"It's just your imagination," She said "You're searching so hard for a sign that you'll latch onto anything you feel."

I turned away and left the cabin, figuring she was right. Maybe I was just looking so hard I mistook anything for a sign. But I knew this meant something, and I intended to figure out what. I heard a horn echo throughout the camp and I knew what that meant, time for the campfire. Annabeth and I began walking and neither of us said a word all the way there. When we finally got to the amphitheater, nearly the entire camp was there.

"I'll see you later," Annabeth said "I'm gonna go sit with Percy."

I nodded and she walked away, I sat down in a spot that was relatively empty of demigods. I just didn't feel like talking to anybody. It didn't last long though, because almost instantly, a group of girls sat down all around me, smiling and giggling.

"Are you the new kid?" One of them asked "The undetermined one?"

"I guess so." I said, not looking at her

"Well my name is Drew Tanaka," She said "Daughter of Aphrodite."

"Raven Alistair." I said, still not looking

She moved to sit down beside me, forcing me to look. She was pretty, but like major thot pretty. Like she tried really hard to be pretty, and it worked to a point. Her eyes had a little bit of a hypnotic quality to them, and it made me look away to avoid looking her directly in the eye.

"Your eyes are so captivating." Drew breathed seductively

I turned to look at her and made the mistake of eye contact. I couldn't look away, it was almost like a trainwreck. I wanted to turn away so bad, but at the same time I never wanted to stop looking at her. I found myself wondering if I looked alright, which was total bullshit because I don't give a fuck. Suddenly, somebody grabbed me from behind and pulled me to my feet, tearing my focus from Drew's gaze and bringing me back to reality.

"There you are," A girl's voice said "I thought you said you were gonna sit with us."

The girl dragged me away and sat me down about twenty or so feet away from Drew. I looked around and realized the girl was a hunter, and I was surrounded by hunters. They all turned to look at me, some with curious faces, some with hate.

"You okay?" The girl asked me "I know charmspeak when I see it, I'm a daughter of Aphrodite too."

"Yeah I'm fine," I said "That was just weird. Ummm, thanks."

"No problem," She said, smiling "The name is Amber Adela by the way."

"Raven Alistair." I said "Son of...well, I don't know yet."

The girl was beautiful. I've never been a guy to say that very often but this girl made me stop and stare. She had long, brown hair and brown eyes, and she was slightly shorter than me. Another girl with spiky hair and electric blue eyes sat down beside us.

"Why did you bring him over here?" The girl asked

"That girl." Amber said, nodding at Drew

"Ahh, say no more," The girl said "I'm Thalia by the way, Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus."

"Can I have your attention please!" Chiron called, making us all turn

He was standing, in horse form, in the center of the amphitheater. Everyone had turned up, demigods, nature spirits, and hunters, to celebrate whatever the hell it is they celebrated out here. I hadn't really taken part in the camp's activities since I had shown up. I barely even showed up to whatever classes I had been assigned to.

"We'd like to welcome the hunters to our camp," He said "And congratulate Mr. Alistair on being the first male in history to sit near them and not be turned into a jackalope."

This was met with a collective chuckle from a lot of the campers, and a few from the hunters. I didn't know what he was talking about but apparently everybody else did because they all found it funny. Chiron waited for everybody to calm down before he continued with his speech.

"We also have news regarding the gods," He said "Our very own Dionysus went missing earlier this afternoon."

"I'm sure Mr. D misses us ever so dearly." Percy called out

This was met with laughter from all the campers. I didn't know a whole lot about being a demigod yet, but I did know that something kidnapping gods was no laughing matter. But everyone tried to keep a sense of humor about everything, to keep the depression of reality from setting in. Chiron started talking again but I had lost interest and was now playing with a leaf. I started tearing it into bits and playing with the shards and it was a few moments before I noticed everybody was staring at me.

"What?" I asked, looking up

Nobody answered me.

"What?" I asked again

"Raven." Amber said gently, pointing above my head

I looked up at almost had a damn heart attack. Above my head was a glowing crescent moon, almost like a hologram. I stared at it, completely mesmerized, for a moment.

"The fuck is that?" I asked, swatting at it "What the hell?"

I stood up to try and hit it but it only moved with me. I looked around and noticed Chiron had kneeled, and everybody else was following his example. The demigods, nature spirits, even the hunters, although some looked a bit reluctant to be doing so. Soon, I was surrounded by thousands of kneeling figures. Everybody looked absolutely shell shocked at what they were seeing, even the hunters that knelt still stared, open mouthed at where the symbol had been above my head.

"It appears, your Olympian parent has been revealed, the goddess of the hunt, the lady of the moonlight," Chiron stammered in pure disbelief, his eyes still wide at the impossibility of it "Ha-ha-hail Raven Alistair, son of Artemis."

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