Abduction
Chapter Three
It took a couple of days for Joshua to recover completely from his ordeal, this surprised Artemis greatly but figuring that Josh's father is the god of medicine.
Artemis decided to redeem herself
"Joshua I believe that I owe you an apology" the moon goddess began.
"An apology…for what"
Artemis took a deep breath
"I want to apologize for distrusting and insulting your intelligence" she stated sincerely
"Oh don't even worry about it Auntie, all families have fights every now and then as long as the guilty party apologizes in the end"
Joshua said pleasantly with a warm, light hearted smile.
The Goddess of the Hunt looked at the teen quizzically
"What happened to all that rage?"
Joshua blushed slightly at the question
"Well…to put it simply…I have anger management problems"
the Son of Apollo answered scratching the back of his head in a nervous manner.
"I see" said Artemis,
she turned and started to pace, completely lost in thought.
"Auntie Artemis?"
Joshua asked gently and looked at her with his deep blue eyes.
The goddess of the moon locked gazes with her nephew
"Your eyes are just like Apollo's" she said smiling warmly.
"Well he is my father" the boy taunted playfully nudging his aunt.
Artemis smirked at the young boy's exuberant energy; she'd forgotten how much energy they seemed to have key word being seemed.
Joshua was getting bored so he dug in his pocket and pulled out an iPod a very familiar iPod.
The moon goddess noticed it
"Joshua is that Apollo's iPod?" she asked indicating the device in the teen's hand.
"Oh no, this is mine Dad's is a standard iPod; this is an iPod Nano" he answered
as he started scrolling through his various tracks until he found it with an excited "Ah ha".
Artemis spied it a little more intensely and noticed the difference.
Joshua pressed the play button and a melody with a very nice beat started playing.
The goddess tilted her head curiously in response she was about to turn away when Joshua started singing.
"Can you see me, cause I'm right here, can you listen; cause
I've been trying to make you notice what it would mean to me
to feel like Somebody; we've been on our way nowhere trying
so hard to get there and I say OHH! We're gonna let it show,
we're gonna just let go of everything holdin' back our dream
and try to make it come alive; come on let it show so they can
see we were meant to be Somebody, Somebody; somehow,
some day, some way." Joshua's voice was as astounding as
before, every hunter had come out their tent to listen to the
wonderful singing, and even Artemis herself had paused in
the middle of her thought process just listening to her
nephew's voice.
"I'm so tired of being invisible, but I feel it yeah; like a fire
below the surface trying to set me free, burning inside of me
cause we're standing on the edge now it's long way down but I
say OHH! Were gonna let it show we're gonna just let go of
everything holdin' back our dream and try to make it come
alive; come on let it show so they can see we were meant to
be Somebody, Somebody; somehow, some day, some way.
Somebody, we will walk out of this darkness feel the spotlight
glowing like a yellow sun"
Artemis and her hunters were so entranced by his gentle tones that a few of them were actually swaying back and
forth to the music. "Ohh Ooh Ohh! And when we fall; we fall
together till we get back up and we will rise as well Ohh!
OHH! Were gonna let it show we're gonna just let go of
everything holdin' back our dream and try to make it come
alive; come on let it show so they can see we were meant to
be Somebody, Somebody; somehow, some day, some way.
Somebody"
Joshua finished the song and looked around the hunters were all applauding even Artemis was clapping with an impressed expression on her face.
"You are definitely a Son of Apollo" Joshua smiled and blushing slightly.
"Was that a song you wrote?" Artemis inquired pleasantly.
"No, I wish I did but it belongs to band called Lemonade Mouth"
Josh replied honestly mirroring his father's god of truth stature.
"I'm working on one…AHH!"
the brown haired teen's eyes shot open and glazed over with a vibrant golden glow.
"Lady Artemis what's happening!" Thalia asked with concern in her voice.
"It is as I thought…this half-blood bears the rarest and most profound power that a Child of Apollo can receive; Apollo's gift of Prophecy"
the moon goddess explained and Thalia's eyes grew wide as saucers in surprise and rushes to try to stop it
but Artemis intercepts her
"No Thalia! Once a vision has begun it must be finished or else the resulting backlash of energy could destroy the recipient's mind and if that happens Apollo will go berserk"
Thalia nodded her head in agreement and stopped her course.
While Artemis was restraining her lieutenant Joshua was unaware of any of this his eyes were showing him
images of his father crying out in pain, pleading for help; from what he could tell that it wouldn't be long before those reptilian jackasses broke Apollo's will,
he wanted to know more but just like his other visions this ended in the same abrupt fashion.
"Father's in danger!"
Artemis looked at the half-blood
"What do you mean"
Joshua struggled to find the right words
"I saw him, crying out…ichor stained everything…he won't last much longer" he finished visibly shaken by the vision.
Artemis peers off into the distance, deep in thought.
There is a sudden sound and crack of air pressure and all in the forest clearing saw a huge ship that took up the entire sky.
Streaks of lightning thrash it but don't seem to do anything
"It looks like Father's bolts aren't having that much of an effect"
Artemis observed a particularly fearsome bolt that would have incinerated a redwood; strike the side of the ship but fail to do any significant damage.
Joshua realizes a truth
"That ship is protected by some kind of energy shield"
Artemis examined each crash of lightning slammed into the side of the vessel and ricocheted off with a ripple like effect.
"What's that!" one of the hunters shouted as a three of the reptilian creatures materialized out of thin air.
"I thought only gods could do that" Phoebe stated with a pang of fear in her voice.
"On this world maybe; but on others I don't know"
Artemis answered
"Creatures leave here; you are not welcome"
the moon goddess then summoned her bow and quiver; she then takes aim.
"Silence human scum!"
every hunter in the clearing gasped in horror, no one ever insulted Artemis like that and lived to tell the tail.
"I am no mere human creature! I am Artemis, Olympian Goddess of the Hunt"
Artemis roars ferociously and looses an arrow which pierces the hide of on the raptors and it falls to the ground.
About ten more materialize in front of the angry goddess; the closest one takes a swing with a red blade of energy that Artemis narrowly dodged and struck back with three arrows but they met the creature's armored torso and bounced off.
Artemis realized quickly that her arrows were having no affect and backed off several feet.
One of the raptors advanced on her with startling speed even for a goddess and came down with a powerful swing of its energy blade.
Just as it's about to hit and Artemis braces herself for it, the blow never lands she looked to see Joshua standing in front of her.
He intercepted the attack he was holding off the monstrous reptile with quite the odd weapons for a son of Apollo; two swords,
one was white with angel wings surrounding the hilt; two strong rods extend to create an elegant blade.
The second sword was black with bat wings arching back around the hilt; the blade was strong and intimidating.
They both were odd as they looked like a mixture of a large key and a sword.
"Keyblades"
breathed Artemis
"Not just any Keyblades either…the white one is Oathkeeper and the black one is Oblivion, the two oldest in existence"
Joshua pushed the creature back and started to fight with fervor, this boy was good as he took down four of them quickly
the others were stunned that a man could be so strong.
The reptiles begin to fear Joshua and his Keyblades and disappeared and the large ship began to depart
"Oh no you don't"the demigod growled
and pointed Oathkeeper at the ship and it glowed with a bright.
He lowers his blade
"What did you do?" Thalia asked hesitantly.
"I used Oathkeeper's magic to locate their home world" he answered.
"Lady Artemis, I am going to rescue my father, I thank you for your hospitality"
"You really think I' going to stay here" said Artemis threateningly.
"If you wish"
Joshua raises his Oathkeeper to the skies, after a
moment blue energy begins to swirl around the tip of the
blade and fired a beam of light into the sky once it
reached a certain height a large globular portal opened
up
"Are you coming"
Joshua asked humorously wagging his eyebrows at his aunt.
"Do you really have to ask" Artemis replied comically.
The Son of Apollo smiled and threw Oblivion into the sky, with a flash a hover board-like glider appeared Joshua jumps and performs a few acrobatic flips and lands on the glider perfectly.
Artemis nods her approval and summons her moon chariot
"Shall we go" said the moon goddess
Joshua nods in response and leaned forward causing the glider to shoot forward and into portal.
Artemis turns to her hunters
"Thalia protect your sisters until I return"
She turns and flicked the reins of her chariot and followed Joshua to a new world.
[Sorry of the delay, I was working on a few of my other stories. Please Review if you want me to continue]