Chapter 3 - A Gift
I found Thalia talking with her Hunters outside the Throne Room."Thalia!" I gestured her to come over. "Hey Arc, whats up, you have changed a lot over those few months. You need a shave though." She laughed. My heart does its usual back flip when ever im near or see her. "So I have been told. We need to talk. Follow." We walked away and wandered through the little village outside the doors to Olympus. "Now, I know you don't want to hear this and im not trying to make you feel guilty, just hear me out." She knew the topic. She sighed and nodded her head. "Basically, when you joined The Hunters it hurt. But im passed that now. When I took Annabeth, Grover and Percy back to camp last winter, Aphrodite came to me."
Thalia was giving me a confused look, "What did she want?" I let out a big sigh, "She wanted to talk about us. Artemis and Aphrodite knew that you have feelings for me and she said that they came to an agreement. When you are about to die on the battlefield, this is the confusing part. She told me that they will heal you and make you immortal and put you on Olympus for me. In return, this was only up until then but im probably still going to carry on doing so, I am to love you constantly, care for you and not look for a relationship with anyone else."
When I said that, her face lit up, "Aww, thanks Arc. But hang on how does me being put on Olympus, help you?" "That's what I said, she just skipped over it. Anyway, change of topic, im doing you and The Hunters a favour. Give me your bow and quiver." I held out my hand and she hesitantly gave them to me. "What are you going to do with them?" I smiled at her, "I'm giving them an upgrade. Tell your Hunters to give me their quivers when we get back please."
We got back to where The Hunters were hanging around. "Hunters, give Arc your quivers." They all looked shocked and appalled she just suggested that. "Hey, I'm in a very good and generous mood, I'm doing you all favours your going to love." They then registered that I had Thalia's Bow and Quiver. They all gave me a murderous look and threw them at me, "Thank you, you will get them back in an about hour." I walked back to Hephaestus's workshop.
"Hephaestus, I need your help with something. I need you to give me the knowledge to do this so I can do the same later on back at camp. I need you to enchant these quivers, so that the arrows never run out and so that by command the arrow will change to arrows with different traits. I will make the different type of arrows and modify this Bow. If you do this I will do something for you, a quest or-" He waved his hand and said, "Do not worry, you have done enough for me already. No one has ever approached me or any god before asking for help in different skills." He flicked his wrist and the quivers glowed with magical power. He then touched my forehead, and gave me some knowlege on enchantments.
With in 10 minutes I had modified Thalia's Bow and Quiver along with the arrows and the other quivers. I was about to walk out when Annabeth came running in and crashed her arms around me crying. "Hey, whats the matter?" I kissed the top of her head. "Per-Percy he-" She broke down crying again. She told me and Hephaestus what had happened and in return Annabeth was told somethings about Daedalus's workshop. "So, you think he's...?" I asked Annabeth but didnt say the rest of it. "I dont know, the mountain did erupt." Hephaestus stepped in, "You should go back to your camp and wait there, rest for a while." I picked up all of the gear and said, "Come on Annabeth. I have to drop this off, back with The Hunters. You can see Thalia and talk with her while I go over the modifications with them. Then I will get you to camp." She nodded and walked off with me by my side.
They were still around the Throne Room, when Thalia saw us. She ran over to Annabeth and she broke down crying again. She told Thalia the whole thing, as I stood their waiting. When Annabeth was done with her story she sat down on the base of a pillar and waited for me. "So, Thalia your bow now has a targeting system on it, im not saying you're a bad shot or anything as I have never seen you shoot, but it never misses now. The quivers." I gave them all out back to everyone, "These have a pretty cool feature now.
"Thalia put it on and say, 'Greek Fire'." She hesitated. "Greek fire" The quiver turned the colour red and the arrows turned red too. "Woah." "Mhmm, enchanted arrows. Pull one out the whole quiver becomes that type of arrow and they are endless supply of them. Now all of your quivers are like this and if you want those back to normal just say 'Silver Arrow'. And here is a list of other arrows you can produce from it." Thalia smiled at me, I was shocked, The Hunters smiled too and were saying, "Wow that's so cool, thanks Arc." I said my goodbyes and went over to Annabeth. "Come on I will take you back. Hold still." We Mist Traveled back to camp.