Chapter 3 – Son Of Odin

The Olympian council all left each other to their own devices which in turn only left Artemis and Percy. "Come on Asgardian. The girls will be dying to meet you, and I must admit I am curious to find out more about an Asgardian demi-god. This will definitely prove to be an interesting time period." Artemis grinned evilly. Percy let out a breath that he'd been holding for quite some time. He realized exactly what he'd been pushed into.

"Well then, let us be off, I'd hate to keep my new patrons waiting." Percy smiled back, though most of the smile was forced. It seemed that Artemis registered this with amusement before she clicked her fingers and they were elsewhere once again.

This time they materialized in a forest, in the distance there was a running creek, that was sure to annoy him soon. Artemis led the way and soon enough they were back at an encampment surrounded by way more girls clad in silver than he'd initially seen. As soon as they noticed him they drew their bows at him, despite their Goddess being right besides him.

"Girls, enough. A lot has transpired on Olympus and as it turns out, you'd be extremely foolish to take on this demi-god." Artemis told them. A few slacked their bows and let it go, the others were a little more hesitant. It was only when the girl with the spear came up to the pair of them that the others seemed to register it.

"Milady, do we know who his parent is? Is he one of us?" She asked frantically, a measure of excitement in her voice. She looked at Percy curiously.

"No, it's far more complicated than that Thalia, I'd rather we told you all together. Gather everyone at the camp fire." The girl nodded and began to round up the others. Percy looked extremely confused and Artemis noticed this.

"A few ground rules. These girls have all come from horrible backgrounds, they've all suffered terribly at the hands of males and simply do not trust them, and they will not trust you. If you are to succeed in your task, you're going to have to earn the trust of every single hunter in my camp." Artemis folded her arms and had a smug look on her face. Percy only saw this as a chance to rise to the challenge and take it head on, by the horns.

"OK, now I only have one rule, and I know that it's your camp, and hopefully we're about to explain who I am but if anyone does attack me and try to kill me, I will defend myself Lady Artemis." He told her confidently. Artemis had to admit, this male was already seemingly above the rest of them, he'd come her way and was still confident in his task, even though the odds were against him. Artemis had three thousand years of hating males, so what chance did this one have? True he was one of a kind in terms of heritage, but that changed nothing.

"Agreed, I will specifically tell them that you are not to be attacked. In the camp your job should be obvious. You're incredibly powerful and I think that if we train you to be a hunter then as the hunt we can start tracking down some very strong monsters. Your job just to clarify is to strengthen my hunt and keep the girls safe. If you do that well enough then we'll see where we are with your task. If you're wondering why I am acting calmly around you so to speak, I do not like you by any means, nor do I like this preposterous task set by my father, but I do respect the strength that you have, and hope that you have a matching strength of character to boot. I do not believe that you will succeed on your task but I'm not going to pass up the opportunity to have someone such as yourself essentially guarding the hunt. Now let's go and tell the girls." Artemis strutted off towards the fire that had been put up in the time that they had been talking. Percy sighed and followed, hoping that he didn't get an arrow in the ass anytime soon.

An hour and a half later and everything had been covered, to Percy's surprise the girls were more in awe of anything else. They were aware of his task. "With respect Lady Artemis. The boy has been set a nigh unachievable task. All of us joined the hunt for reasons regarding males, what will we achieve by treating him as a part of the hunt?" Phoebe asked. Percy had come to know a few of their names, Phoebe was one of the older looking girls and definitely one of the older girls of the hunt. They were immortal, or half immortal as Artemis had told him, they would never age but they could be killed in battle. Artemis, a Goddess, was fully immortal meaning that she simply could not die, but there were ancient laws that could cause much worse damage.

"So how many different powers do you have? And do you have a weapon?" Thalia asked, she took to him a lot better than the others did, what with sharing a similar control over lightning. Percy considered this for a moment before he felt a slight tinge grow around him. Artemis was the only one who could also see this.

"See, it's funny you should mention that Thalia, I think I'm about to. Artemis, the girls need to stay clear." Percy said seriously before he backed up. The aura only seeming to grow around him furiously. The girls could now clearly see it alongside Artemis.

'To he who should be worthy to wear the hide of Leviathan, slain for him by his father, should also be worthy to wield the power of Yggdrasil, the ever changing weapon gifted from the tree of life itself.' A voice from the heavens boomed above them before a lightning bolt struck Percy dead on, engulfing him completely from head to toe before he no longer had to resist it, it naturally became a part of him. After the dust and smoke had cleared he saw the piercing gaze of thirty something immortal prepubescent girls and a Goddess.

"Percy you uh…" Was all Thalia managed before a stream of armor began to actively burn away his clothes before weaving itself around his body. Soon enough his regular clothes had been replaced by a nigh indestructible suit of armor crafted from the hide of the Leviathan itself. The next thing that happened was an arrow of light struck the ground besides where Percy had been standing but before the object in question struck the earth, Percy caught it and slammed it into the ground with added force.

"Awesome." He grinned before making his way back over to the group. The spear in his hands couldn't seem to decide on what it wanted to be. That's when Odin's words seemed to make sense in his mind. The ever changing weapon, a gift from Yggdrasil itself. The tree of life had granted the wearer of the Leviathan's amour a weapon in the choice of whatever the wielder wished.

"Percy, what just happened?" Artemis asked with uncertainty.

"Christmas came early." Percy told them, looking straight into the silver eyes of the Goddess with an animalistic toothy grin that had an effect of the silver eyed Goddess, a feeling that she'd not felt in MANY centuries.

A/N: Hey guys, I'm remastering this so if you're new to this story and don't see an author's note like this, then you've gone past the point where I've remastered the chapters. Enjoy.

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