Zoe's magical child

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing.)

"I see. That explains why you have been acting so different for the last two years. Now where do we find thi-your child?" Artemis asked pinching the bridge of her nose after Zoe had finished explaining about her five adopted children and how she had been told that they were all dead.

"In the tree house I built for them. It is in the meadow of moon laces and spider lilies." Zoe said smiling slightly as she turned to where she knew the meadow was and began to walk off. A loud explosion though caused everyone to stop and stare in the direction Zoe was heading. Most of the Hunters and Artemis herself were slightly startled by the large burst of fire and lightning they could see over the tree tops.

"Oh no. Pleione!" Zoe said wide eyed at the sight of the burst of magic before she took off running towards where the large amount of fire and lightning came from.

"Hunters move out! Follow Zoe!" Artemis shouted to the others as she ran off after Zoe, who was going far faster than most people thought she could. After about twenty minutes of flat out running the group of Hunters and their goddess, who had in fact forgotten she could merely flash them there, burst into a clearing that was half full of moon laces and spider lilies. The other half of the clearing was scorched and damaged, thankfully though the four graves in the clearing were on the untouched side as was a small quaint looking wooden building with a strange symbol over the top of the door.

"Pleione!" Zoe shouted running straight for the figure in the middle of the damaged area of the clearing. The figure turned towards them and seemed to stiffen before it blinked and jaw dropped at the sight of Zoe.

"Mama?" A small voice asked tugging at most of the Hunters heart strings, just because they weren't allowed to have children of their own didn't mean they didn't have maternal instincts. They were very confused though, they were told the child is a female but the one in front of them had the appearance of a male. What was that all about?

"Ohh sweetheart thee has no idea how much I've missed thee. I thought thee were dead! Is thee uninjured?" Zoe asked rapidly as she swooped the child up in a hug before setting her back down and looking the small child over for injury.

"I missed you too mama. I'm fine." The child said grinning happily up at Zoe who was fretting over her maternally as the rest of the Hunters and Artemis began to approach the two. The child caught sight of them and tilted her head at them slightly while her eyes narrowed.

"Are you here to hurt me or mama?" The child, Pleione if Zoe's earlier words were right, asked baring her longer than normal fangs at them as if trying to be dangerous. She didn't realize just how cute that made her look though, more than a few of the younger girls squealed at how cute the child was while the older ones had to refrain themselves from doing the same.

"It's okay Pleione. They are mama's friends and sisters. They won't hurt thee and if they try it mama will kill them so brutally it would give Ares nightmares." Zoe said all of this with a smile on her face and a glint in her eyes as she looked at her sisters, who all paled and tried to hide behind Lady Artemis at the threat.

"Sisters? So they're my aunties? That means I'll finally get to meet Grandma!" Pleione said beaming and jumping up and down excitedly at the prospect of meeting her 'grandma', whoever that is since the child didn't know about Hecate. Whoever the child was talking about caused Zoe to laugh slightly while holding putting the small choker around Pleione's neck as she brushed back the short messy hair on the child's head.

"Yes thy will get to meet her as well as thy birth grandmother, Hecate, she is the one who told me that thou was alive a little while ago." Zoe said chuckling and wondering how her daughters 'grandma' was likely to react once the child made it clear who she was talking about.

"Yay two grandmas!" Pleione cheered happily as she seemed to search the Hunters faces for her supposed 'Grandma' while Zoe watched in amusement at what was likely to happen. Artemis watched curiously as the child scanned the Hunters faces before her sea green eyes met Artemis's own silver-yellow orbs and the child's face brightened almost impossibly so.

The next thing the Hunters or Artemis knew Artemis was flat on the ground with an excited child hugging her around the middle, causing the child to appear to be sitting on top of the small goddess who was still in her twelve year old form as was usual.

"Hi! You must be Lady Artemis! You're just as pretty as mama said you were and you look like she described you. It's nice to meet you I'm Pleione Jackson-Nightshade! Mama said you were like a mama to her so guess what? That makes you my grandma cause mama blood adopted me making me her daughter! Glad to finally meet you grandma!" Pleione rattled off as she continued to sit atop the small goddess who was blinking and trying to process everything the child had said so quickly.