Hi everyone! Here's the next chapter where Percy and Luke do the dare!
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Luke and Percy fell onto the floor of a huge room. A huge silver room, with the heads of different animals hung around everywhere.
"Artemis' room," Luke breathed.
"Uh-huh," Percy replied. He could just imagine his head as a part of the goddess' collection. It wasn't a pretty thought.
The door of the room suddenly opened. The boys scrambled to their feet and Artemis walked inside.
"What are you boys doing here?" she asked severely.
Percy and Luke gulped. Behind Artemis, they saw Hermes and Apollo waving, installing a video camera. They stayed on the side to watch the fun.
Percy was the first one to recover.
"Ahh… Lady Artemis," Percy began nervously.
"I wanted to know if you'd teach me how to shoot an arrow properly", Luke said, smiling charmingly.
"Me too!" Percy exclaimed. "I love the way your arrows fly by, never missing their targets. I can't even shoot an arrow without injuring someone around me"
The last part couldn't have been truer.
Luke scowled at his competitor. Percy smirked.
"Can't you ask my brother?" Artemis replied, her expression softer, a little flattered by Percy's words. Just a bit though.
"Ah, Lord Apollo," Luke began loudly. "He can't match your skill, o wonderful goddess! Which boy could do something just as well as you? His skills pale in front of you. He is immaterial when you are there to give someone the grace of your presence, my Lady,"
Artemis smiled a little. This was pretty charming. Behind his sister, Apollo's nostrils flared angrily.
It was Percy's turn to scowl now.
"Well, maybe I could help you," said Artemis, considering the idea slowly.
Percy fell at Artemis' feet. Hastily, he grabbed her hand and began his speech. "Oh please do, my Lady! Impart a fraction of your grace and beauty to me, a foolish boy! It is calamitous that I am a boy, for if I would've been a girl I could've been a part of your Huntresses and served you with every fiber of my being! You, my Lady, are the only one who can teach me to fire arrows with pinpoint accuracy – if that is possible for a lower being, a boy like me".
So flattered by Percy's words, she didn't snatch her hand back all through his speech.
I need to thank Annabeth later for all the fancy talk and words - Percy thought to himself. If I make it out alive – he later added. But the fact that Artemis let him hold her hand ought to count for something.
"All right," said Artemis, freeing her hand from Percy's grasp. "I'll teach you"
"Thank you! Oh thank you, my lady!" Luke exclaimed loudly and he too fell at Artemis' feet. He took her hand, looked her in the eyes with an expression of gratitude and awe and kissed her hand.
Shocked, she quickly withdrew it, but did not turn Luke into anything. Yet.
"I'll tell my brother to send you to my archery arena," she muttered, and Percy and Luke looked away as she turned into her true godly form and disappeared.
"I am so winning this, Perce," Luke grinned.
"We'll see," Percy muttered, and Apollo and Hermes came out of hiding.
Hermes tapped his video camera. "We've got it all here!"
"And I'm wayy cooler than my sis!" Apollo exclaimed indignantly.
Percy and Luke looked wary. It was impossible to please all the gods at the same time. But Apollo couldn't remain angry for long.
"Come on, I'll take you to her arena," Apollo grinned.
With a snap of his fingers, the foursome dissapered.
Percy and Luke reached Artemis' archery arena. Apollo was there with them and Hermes was hidden.
"I can't believe you're helping boys, sis!" Apollo chuckled.
"Don't call me sis!" Artemis grumbled.
Apollo grinned and winked at the boys. "I'll see you later"
And with that he disappeared and hid with Hermes, invisible behind the thick curtain of bushes.
"All right," said Artemis, turning to the boys. She made two bows and arrows appear.
"Here," she said, and handed them to Percy and Luke. Both boys tried to hold on to her hand as much as they could.
"Now, let me see your aim," she commanded. "Percy, you first. Hit the bulls-eye"
"Of course, my Lady," Percy said fervently.
Percy tried his best to shoot the bulls – eye, but alas, the arrow whizzed past and indignant dryad's face.
Artemis sighed. "I'm sorry," Percy muttered sheepishly.
"Luke, your turn," said the goddess.
Luke's shot hit the outermost ring of the bulls – eye.
"Thank the gods," Artemis breathed, glad that Luke wasn't as bad an archer as Percy.
"Watch how its done," she commanded, and then took her own bow and arrow in her hands.
The boys watched, genuinely in awe as her arrow flew straight to the centre of the target.
"Wow," Percy breathed. Artemis smirked.
"Got it?" she asked. "Now try again, Percy"
Percy tried aiming again, and the arrow he shot smashed into a rock far from the target.
"No!" Artemis exclaimed, appalled. "Your technique is all wrong!"
Reluctantly, she went to Percy.
"Hold the bow like this," she commanded as she put his fingers into the correct position.
Luke gazed at him angrily and Percy decided to make the most of this and get the most points.
"This way?" Percy asked, purposefully holding it lower.
"No," Artemis sighed, and then wrapped her fingers over his, her arms going around his waist.
She gently pulled his hand and the cord back and Percy shot an arrow that hit the target.
"Thank you," Percy whispered, as 'seductively' as he could. He was trying to act the way he did with Annabeth.
Apparently, Artemis was a bit staggered. "Y-yeah. Practice," she said.
"Lady Artemis," Luke said loudly, commanding her attention. She turned and Percy smirked at his opponent behind her back.
"How do you hold a bow?" he asked sheepishly.
Artemis sighed in exasperation. "Boys," she muttered. "Really, Luke. You were the better shot amongst you two. Don't you know how to hold an arrow?" she asked irritably.
"Oh, I do, my Lady," said Luke. "But I wanted to get the techniques right," he grinned.
Artemis sighed again and walked over to Luke and quickly taught him the way she'd taught Percy. However, Luke had other ideas.
"Wait!" he exclaimed. "Why don't I position your arms on the bow? That'll show you how much I know and teach me thoroughly", he said brightly. Artemis sighed.
"Fine," she said reluctantly.
Luke eagerly slid his arms around Artemis' slim waist and curled his fingers around hers. He pulled her arms upright and whispered in her ear, his breath hot, tickling her skin. "Is this right?"
"A little lower," Artemis whispered back, slightly uncomfortable and suspicious, but at the same time, wondering why she was having weird feelings in her stomach.
He moved her arms deliberately too low and whispered, his lips skimming her ear, "Now?"
"Too low," she said, definitely suspicious, more uncomfortable and that weird feeling persisting in her stomach. She refused to accept it as butterflies.
He raised her arms into the right position. "This?" he whispered, getting the courage to kiss her jaw slightly.
That's where she had it.
"LUKE CASTELLAN!" she screeched, enraged.
Percy decided to make use of this opportunity. Boy, he should've thought it through.
He rushed to her and pulled the goddess in his arms. "Stay away from her," he growled. "She doesn't like you"
His lips were touching her neck possessively, and Artemis pushed Percy to the ground.
"I WILL KILL YOU BOTH!" she screamed, her form glowing.
"Oops," Percy murmured, frightened. That's an understatement – Luke thought, just as scared.
Loud laughter was heard from the bushes. Hermes and Apollo tumbled out, roaring like maniacs.
"Its all right, sis," Apollo managed to say. "They're only seducing you!"
Hermes and Apollo guffawed even louder.
"SHUT UP!" the enraged goddess screamed.
"I'm sorry!" Percy yelped.
"Please forgive me!" Luke begged, panicked.
"THAT ISNT POSSIBLE! I'M GOING TO HUNT TWO JACKALOPES DOWN TODAY! AND THOSE TWO JACKALOPES WILL BE YOU BOTH!" Artemis hollered, looking into the fearful eyes of the two young demigods.
How was it? :D
I loove Artemis! Seriously, she's so scary. I might let her have her own way with Percy and Luke :D (wink wink)
Anyway, for the next chapter, I need you to tell me, who do you want winning – Luke, or Percy?
Please give me an unbiased response. Read the story and decide – who was the bravest? I didn't have anyone in mind as a winner, so I tried to make them both look equally brave. But who do you think was braver?
Leave a review or send me a PM and when I have around 10 voters or more in total, I'll continue!
This story will always be interactive. You all will always have a say in how the next chapter will be, so its sort of like a reader's choice story/ choose your own story kind of a thing.
So always remember, reviews = leaving me the reader's choice for the winner/ answer to whatever question I ask = faster updates.
And the cycle continues that way.
I need loads of dares and truth questions too!
So bring on the reviews! :D
~ ITOR
