FOR THE SEVEN: WHAT DO YOU LISTEN TO ON THE RADIO?

Hazel: What is a radio?

Frank: Well, it's a device that creates music.

Hazel: How?

Frank: Just don't think about it. I listen to 'Fight Song' and that kind of stuff. Clarisse always makes me listen to songs with the words 'fight', and 'hurt' in it.

Hazel: Ok. 'Seven years'? That's the only modern song I've heard.

Jason: 'Thunder'. Gotta be dad's favourite somehow.

Piper: 'Me and my broken heart' and 'love me again'. Mom won't let us listen to anything else. I'm no exception. You have no idea how many times I've had to listen to Drew singing that demonic song.

Percy: Under the see. Cause-

Annabeth: It's sea, Percy. Grammar. Remember?

Percy: Oh... Sure, Annabeth. Under the sea! Down there is better...

Percy walks away. Singing

Jason: There goes Aqua Lad. Hey... Has anyone seen Leo?

Frank: Yeah. Last I saw, he was heading towards bunker 9.

Piper: Well... Those two aren't going to be back anytime soon.

Annabeth: I don't listen to music much. So I don't have a favourite. Let's just hear what's on the radio.

Turns on radio

Radio: ...And she's burning it down...

Piper: Gods no...

Radio: Ohhh Oh oh oh oh...

Jason: Wait...

...She's got her head in the clouds...

Annabeth: Oh no...

And she's not backing down...

Hazel: What's going on?

Frank: GET SOME COVER! HAZEL! RUN!

Leo runs in, screaming

Leo: THIS IS MY JAM!

Radio and Leo in sync: THIS GIRL IS ON FIRE!

Leo lights on fire and sets fire to Juniper's tree

Annabeth: GODS! SOMEONE GET PERCY! JUNIPER! GET THE WATER NYMPHS!

We zoom in on Leo. He is dancing and flinging fireballs everywhere. Meanwhile, in the background, Annabeth is calling out orders. Jason has been hit by one of the fireballs and is currently running towards the creek. Frank and Hazel have legged it to look for Percy. Meanwhile, Juniper and a group of dryads have arrived and are flinging water at the tree. To no avail. The camp is in chaos.

We zoom out and close back to Percy. He is dancing with earphones on. He has his back turned to the chaos behind him. Suddenly he hears a shout. He takes off one earphone. No one talks. They are all just silent and waiting for Percy to turn. Percy thinks he's hallucinating and shrugs it off

Now... Back to the story.

Artemis POV

Yawn. This was nice. The sun was rising, Apollo was speeding across the sand, and I was petting an animal. It had nice soft fur and a white underbelly. Its upper coat was coloured a light brown. She, I think. She nuzzled my hand affectionately and backed away. She proceeded to gallop forwards, shining in the waning moonlight, and jumped.

I, distracted and mesmerized, blasted it with my powers. It shone, flaring out with so much power it caused Apollo, my younger brother (say otherwise and your face will meet my fist, even If your a female), to trip over awkwardly and land face-first in the sand. He spluttered out very... Colourful language... Very colourful... After running out of colours, he got up and muttered something about a shiny deer and needing to save his beautiful face. I looked around for the deer, but it seemed to have completely vanished. Sigh. Apollo must have frightened it off with his inexcusable stupidity.

I laughed jokingly," Apollo!" I giggled a bit. This was so unlike me that I nearly collapsed. However, I proceeded to interrogate Apollo further, trying not to fall over and laugh at Apollo's baby face," What did you say about your face and why?"

Apollo just looked at me, red-faced, until he replied," Umm... Because I need this face to get girls?"

He said it in such an innocent and confused tone that I started snickering. If possible, his face started to morph into an even more confused look before he frowned," Why are you laughing?"

I didn't answer. Instead, I just rolled around in the sand and laughed some more.

"Children!" I heard my mother, Leto, call out off in the distance. "It's time to feed your little stomachs."

The moment I heard the word 'feed', I was already bolting across the beach, halfway to our small but cosy home. I heard Apollo yell," Wait for me Artemis!"

By the time he got to the premises, I was already going up a set of stairs. When I reached the top of the staircase, I swung around and watched the island of Delos. He still liked to move on occasion and yes... He can move. He's the only island of his kind. Extraordinary, really. I focused my attention back to the house. I would never get tired of the sight.

I turned to our garden first. The garden that our wonderful mother, Leto, spent hours upon hours creating.

The area was wide and open, sloping gently down to a cosmic-blue river. A grove of cypress pines flanked us on one side, while a grove of peaceful beeches stood guard on the other. Apple trees ran through the centre of the garden, forming a lake of claw shadows onto the soft grass.

Then, there were the sections that Apollo and I made ourselves. It was split evenly. However, If you saw them, you'd think of them as opposites. Abstract.

Apollo's was flashy. To be frank. It reflected his personality perfectly. His need to shine. The garden itself glowed. His side sported golden flowers that didn't reflect sunlight. It literally mass-produced its own sunlight. Other than those, he had statues of instruments that hadn't been invented yet.

Yes. He actually made those. What would happen if a mortal saw these and tried to recreate them? Exactly. They would shift the course of the future. Then, Apollo would have almost definitely secured the wrath of the fates.

I was greatly and utterly embarrassed when he revealed information about the future.

Spoiling the future was looked down upon in Greece. It made people paranoid and often mucked up the future.

I, on the contrary, didn't get caught up in those unnecessary, avoidable, and millennia-long lectures. Instead, I was charged with the exhilarating job of hunting monsters. Even though I technically wasn't old enough to lead my own group. I had to wait until I was ten years old(at the very least). Even then, Dad would judge if I was mature enough first.

Back to the topic of the garden. My side wasn't overly extravagant, nor too dull. It's main colour scheme consisted of the finest shade of silver, and an underlying shade of raven black.

Past the river, there was a plush-green meadow that stretched away into the vast and unpredictable wild. I felt calm in the wild. Free. Like the many creatures that lived there.

I sighed. The sight would never seize to amaze me. It probably never would. Not for now, at least.

Apollo finally caught up. He was panting like mad. The kid didn't exercise enough. Looking back at it, I probably should've made him do an extra tiring and healthy training regimen.

I waltzed through our door. Ahh... The wonderous perks of having things thousands of years early.

Mother had prepared my prey along with our daily dose of nectar.

"Artemis dear," My mother began, starting a conversation on schedule," What have you done today?"

"Oh." I shortly after looked up at my mother" I shot a deer with lasers today."

"Really?" My mother inquired, obviously curious and at least a bit worried about the deer.

"What happened to her?"

My mother's deer were all females. Just how I liked them. The males were too aggressive and competitive. Ruffians.

"She ran away after Apollo frightened her; made her away by using his 'charms'." I put emphasis on the word 'charms' to tease Apollo. Which I was successful at.

A long and loud: HEY! Sounded across the island. I wouldn't be surprised if the animals on the other side of the island heard Apollo's shout. He would probably become the god of loud noises or something. Wait. Don't be a smart alec and say he would be the god of something. Those beings are so annoying

Mother sighed," I think you two should go visit your father. You should ask him abou-"

I intercepted her. "Wait? Are we going to visit our father? Wait... Why No! But mother! I don't want to go! Father is an ignorant jer-"

"Artemis..." Mother warned. She continued with what she was saying earlier," You two are going to see your father. He will help Apollo with his 'problems'... And help both of you with reserving your sacred animals for when you are older. Any complaints?"

I opened my mouth to retort but decided against it. I knew who I want to fight my battles against but against my mother isn't one of them. Plus, I already recognized that I clearly wouldn't win this battle since it was against my mom, who knows everything about me and can use that to her advantage. In addition, she's my mom, so she gets the final say in things.

As much as I hate to admit it. I'd be defeated in a matter of seconds.

I sighed, defeated, and slouched back into my seat. That's when I remembered that I wanted to catch a new creature to put into my personal nature reserve so that they never go extinct.

I got up and looked over to my mother who was briefing Apollo as to why he shouldn't be acting all high and mighty especially when he grows up. I couldn't help but think about our father. Zeus. He had arrived at mother's doorstep when she was at her most vulnerable, charmed her, and left her with twins so she alone would face the inevitable wrath of Hera. However, in the end, Hera and mother made peace.

They would sit together and joke about my father, laughing tremendously about how he had not charmed them through his 'good' looks, nor his 'funny' jokes, but because they felt sorry for him. He had looked so sad when they tried to reject him the first time. Like a kicked puppy, and no one ever ignored a kicked puppy. If you have, well, sorry to break it to you, but you're an incredibly bad person.

Mother didn't stay mad at my father. Actually. I almost forgot that she ever despised him. That is until he showed up again at our house. I had never seen my mother so angry. I also felt sorry for the hundreds of utensils that were crushed to sate my mother's seemingly everlasting rage.

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We were trudging to Olympus by foot, both of our bows in hand in case a murderer appeared on the road.

Why? You might ask. Well, Olympus was guarded. Those who were branded as a traitor or ones who hadn't become a deity (or you were mortal - in which case you'd just die while trying to get up. Just don't try), have to go under Olympus by foot before they could either take the clouds up (The clouds could only be summoned by an immortal deity. Sorry to you mortals or demigods that can't do that) like an elevator (like I said, the wonders of technology thousands of years before humans had known about it). Otherwise, you'd have to climb up Mount Olympus on foot.

Back to us. Apollo and I were trudging towards Delphi to rest before we continued our trek to Olympus when we heard saw them. Hundreds of townsfolk, seemingly the whole town, trekking towards Sparta. Why would they be heading in the direction of Sparta? Delphi had a debt for Sparta. Unless...

"Artemis!" Apollo exclaimed, waving in front of my face.

"Sorry," I shook my head, trying to organise myself," I zoned out."

Apollo groaned, obviously exasperated," Well, all of the citizens of Delphi seem to be following this guy towards Sparta." He pointed towards a figure off in the distance.

I had to squint to see him. He seemed like a boy of around thirteen (13) or fourteen (14). Why they were following the wannabe hero, was unbeknownst to me. Maybe they were just trying to help his self-esteem. However, It seemed that they were marching to war. Many held spears and swords while the woman actually held shields, guarding their respective husband or sibling.

There were at least six-hundred (600) people that lived in Delphi, including the children and women. Sparta had at least two-thousand (2,000) citizens, trained soldiers not included. Sparta was also under the protection of Ares, while Delphi didn't even have a patron god. They were goners.

I told all this to Apollo and he grimaced silently, a sour look etched across his face.

I sighed, resigned to the fact that Delphi was to become non-existent before Apollo half slumped and half suspired," We obviously have to do something. Maybe if we hid in the trees-"

"Trees!" I exclaimed, jumping up, before silently and professionally dropping down into the cover and safety of the bushes.

"We can hide in the trees and shoot the Spartans from above. Ares will never have proof that we did anything!" I shouted/whispered excitedly.

Apollo scoffed," Sure." He flipped his hair like he was trying to look cool," Ares is obviously too dumb to think this hunk would get his hands dirty!"

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We were trailing the swarm of citizens that formed a spear, the teenage boy leading the charge. We tirelessly kept up. I say we, but Apollo actually needed at least twenty (20) breaks. Seriously. It was only a few hundred miles.

For some reason, the citizens of Delphi seemed to be curving around the perimeter of Sparta. Not daring to cross over into official Spartan territory. That would be classified as a charge. Apollo was darting across the field. After the sun rose, he suddenly burst forward while I slowed considerably. I guess I rather moving faster under the cover of darkness. As of right now, the sun was at the point where it was closest to us. It seemed to be at the edge of the cliff we were scaling.

Seemingly at once, the whole collection of people stopped, and Apollo barreled forward, as fast as a bullet, zooming towards the sun.

Apollo POV

I screamed like a little girl (e.g. NOT my sister. If you tell her that, you'll end up with a blacker than black, eye. Sadly, I know from personal experience). One that was deprived of their sleep. Probably. I mean, I need my sleep. When I'm sleep deprived, I get cranky.

Anyway. Back to the important stuff. AHHH!

I was terrified. Screaming my lungs out like there was no tomorrow, which there would be in my case cause I was literally going to crash into the sun. I prayed to Helios and said a quick sorry in advance. I mean. I was going to crash right into his chariot, charging at it at speeds that rivalled the speed of light. The dent I was about to make would probably take at least a few years to fix.

I caught glimpses of the citizens of Delphi noticing me and pointing, making us lose the cover once had.

Then, something weird happened. I saw flashes. All appearing and flashing around before disappearing. They all showed different scenarios.

Me hitting it and smashing the chariot at full speed before landing on the ground below and fading.

Me holding my foot down and catching on a rock, causing my leg to break and for me to drop straight down onto the ground, and fade. Again.

Me screaming, shouting and calling for help when I slowed substantially and shone. I never saw the end of that one because it disappeared. That was the one I wanted. It showed me slowing down, which was something that didn't happen in the other ones.

So that's what I did. I screamed. At the top of my lungs. I called for help. I made as much noise as possible, but nothing happened.

I neared the edge of the cliff. I screamed for real, not even trying on purpose. I was actually afraid. Scared of fading. Scared of hitting the chariot. Scared of leaving Artemis and mom.

Holy Hera! What was mom going to do when she finds out that I'm dead? She's going to kill me!

Nevermind fading! She'll fade on purpose just to find me then scold me eternally for doing this kind of dim-witted stunt.

Buzz... I felt a surge of energy shooting through my body, and abruptly I had the urge to stop screaming. I had nothing to lose, so It wouldn't hurt to try to calm down and at least look dignified.

I closed my mouth, pushing against the rush of air and finally ending the strangled shriek that I had produced.

I heard the fading sound of Artemis calling out to me. Something about me growing.

I suddenly felt sick to the bone, like I had swallowed something funny, like a bee.

I tried to open my eyes, to find that I couldn't. The air was pushing so hard that the resistance it would have taken to open them would be tremendous.

For some reason, my eyes instantly shot open, straining it and overloading my senses.

I was huge. Massive. Bigger than the cliff I was initially standing on.

I saw Artemis, rushing towards the end of the cliff. The citizens of Delphi, pointing at me and informing the teenager. I turned around and screamed, undignified. I was heading towards Helios' chariot, ready for a head-on collision...

Helios POV

I was riding my lustrous sun chariot when I saw a giant five (5) year old version of me screaming as he flew towards me at speeds that weren't even supposed to be possible.

Woah! Woah! Let's back up a bit.

I had just started to start my ascent up to the sky for my journey across the sky when I saw the strangest sight ever.

About a hundred Delphians were marching in a perfect arrowhead formation, and that wasn't even the oddest part.

At the head of the configuration, a young teenage boy of around thirteen (13) or fourteen (14) leading and seemingly instructing the whole city of Delphi.

However, this completely distracted me from my task at hand, which I had done for hundreds of years since the age of the Titans. Driving my sun chariot. I forgot to start my ascent, which meant that I wouldn't get my daily dose of Vitamin D.

Zeus was going to have my head for this. He gets so annoyed when I do this.

His punishments are the worst. Oh no... I'm going to be under house-arrest... Again. Oh man!

Oh no... I'm getting distracted again. It's the lack of Vitamin D I tell you!

Anyway, then I spotted a pair of godlings, one elegant and silent, even in the sunlight. the other stomping around with about as elegance as an ostrich with a bee nest on its head. But I could see the resemblance they had. They were obviously and clearly related.

Sadly, it was the stomper than held any resemblance to me, but when the first ray of sunlight came into contact with his body, he made up for it with speed. He sped up drastically at a rate that even the sun chariot couldn't achieve (I mean it sped up faster than the sun chariot but obviously the sun chariot could achieve higher speed).

Then, his overall speed quadrupled and he lost his balance, causing him to fly forward, screaming like a complete idiot.

I nearly facepalmed from embarrassment. What if someone, or even Zeus, mistook that hooligan for me? I'd be ruined!

Wait... I'm getting distracted again. Gods! Why does this always happen to me?

Anyway, this is the last time that that is going to happen.

Back to the screaming ostrich! Yay!

So this tan blond guy, who looked disturbingly like me, continued screaming like a gopher when he zoned out and just stopped shouting. Sadly, that wasn't good new. Now, he looked like a lost fish. Luckily, he wasn't on the sun chariot so he obviously wasn't me.

He just zoomed forward unmovingly, like a dart. The weird thing was he was not even blinking.

Hear that? NOT. EVEN. BLINKING.

Does that not sound disturbing or weird to you? No? Ok... Whatever.

Then, after about 3 seconds, he clamped his eyes shut and screeched. He screeched like a bird. He screeched so loud that my right ear, which was facing him, became deaf for the next few weeks (OMG! SPOILER! I SURVIVE! Wow... Whatever guys. I'm a titan. I wouldn't die from a tiny screaming ostrich. Sadly, that wasn't the case. You never know... I might be writing this down in the realm of the faded, or Tartarus. I'm not telling).

Then, the stranges thing happened, he started growing. Like actually growing. A godling who looked to be only about three weeks old had already mustered enough energy to grow in size.

The thing is, he didn't grow, like, two feet. His whole body grew until he was about thrice the size of my ride. Yeah... He grew FAST!

The good news was that he probably wasn't going to crush my chariot.

The bad new? Oh... Well. You know... He's going to eat it instead. No biggie!

Artemis POV

I was chasing after my idiotic and non-stealthy brother when he grew. Yeah... He grew really big. He was about the average size of an Olympian during a meeting.

I watched him from a distance. It was obvious that there was no stopping him, so I just ran over to the edge of the cliff and yelled at the Delphians," EVERYONE! GET DOWN! HE'S GOING TO CAUSE A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE!"

Que the rumbling... Apollo, screaming loudly, swallowed the sun chariot, along with Helios, whole. He then proceeded to choke and crash to the ground, causing me to fall off the cliff, plummeting a good hundred (100) feet.

I closed my eyes, bracing for impact, but only felt a surge of warmth spread across the back of my neck and back. Sort of like a collection of animal fur. I opened my eyes to see the teenage boy holding me up, bridal style, grinning madly.

"H!" He exclaimed excitedly," I'm Percy! Wanna overthrow the king of Sparta?"

That's a wrap! Sorry for the really, Really, REALLY long wait. The chapters weren't saving properly and then there was the process of planning the chapter along with my academic life. Anyway. How are you guys? Good? Great! Now, next chapter will feature a few ACTUAL fight scenes. So I'm going to do these Q/A things at the start of every new chapter to entertain you guys. Tell me if you guys don't like them.

~MasterGravity