A/N Hi guys here is chapter 4 of The Forgotten Hero and as I promised you guys yesterday here is a FULL CHAPTER of the Hunters POV including Artemis' and others... . (all that happens in this chapter happens after Percy gets his new powers.)
The Forgotten Hero
Chapter 4
Artemis POV:
As the camp had finished been taken down near the clearing where Percy was last believed to be. I got a call from Zeus in my head, calling for me to come to a council meeting. It was bordering on 7:00 o'clock at night, yeah I know what a time to start moving camp, but I liked to travel a night when there was a full moon. So I told Thalia my Lieutenant to wait at the clearing with the rest of the Hunters until the Council meeting had finished and she came back to them. Thalia reluctantly agreed, saying she wanted to hear of the news of Percy that this meeting was inevitably about. But I had simply told to her we needed more than Phoebe and Atlanta guarding the Hunters.
So as she went back to the group of Hunters to tell them where I was going I flashed away and appeared in the grand room of the council, from there I walked over to my seat and changed to my God form and sat down on the massive throne which had many engravings on depicting numerous fights and hunters on the side, and on the back was carved a massive silver moon. Anyway as we sat bored waiting for Apollo to arrive, my brother, he was usually late to these meetings. A good 20 minutes later he appeared in a grand flash of sunlight in the middle of the Throne room. He looked up with a cheeky grin plastered all over his face.
"Ermm. Sorry I'm late, but the weirdest thing just happened to me." He said still smiling grandly, showing his pearly white teeth.
"Well Apollo, what is this thing that happened to you which is so important to postpone this meeting." Zeus said sternly.
"So Dad, you want to know I see," he said oblivious to Zeus' irritation of him being late."Well it all started about a Hour ago."
"So it took you over an hour to get over it, did you finally learn how to count." Athena said mockingly.
"Nooo, much more impressive than that. Well as I was saying it started an hour ago, I was casually flying around in my Sun chariot as you do, when suddenly I felt a heap tonnes more powerful, almost as if I had gotten full control of the Sun. But I thought to myself that is impossible since Helios is still alive, unless of course Helios had died or faded giving me full control of the Sun. I didn't know if this was true so I went to go and check on him. I usually find hi-"
"What do you mean you usually find him?" Zeus questioned.
"Well father when I get bored some days and want to go for a rest or do mortal stuff." He said winking at Aphrodite, who sighed and went back to looking at her mirror whiles a plying make-up to her face. I personally did not like Aphrodite due to the reason she is all about love and sex, so to say, and I am apposed to the company of men. The only male I have ever been close to bar my brother was Orion I had foolishly fancied him, but Apollo apposed to this friendship and tricked me into shooting him. But apart from Orion I have only ever been near another man before that I approved of and that was when Perseus Jackson took the weight of the sky from me so I didn't have to hold it any more."I would then let him drive the sun and therefore letting me relax. So again I continue, I went to go find Helios who usually resided in an old abandoned diner near Chicago, to find him gone, all was left is a letter, that reads.
To Apollo
I know you will find this when you come looking for me. I have faded, yes that does mean I can no longer help you when you need to do mortal things, but this does come with a positive I have therefore given you all my powers to the Sun because we now no longer have to share the same domain.
I have also met Perseus Jackson, as like Orion he came to me in a time of need. He was not blinded like Orion, but was running from his past. He had gained my trust when he killed 4 laestrygonian giants, he had also proven his strength by doing this. When we had talked I gave a ability to go unnoticed from monsters and Gods. Although he can still be smelled by strong Monsters,Giants and Titans.
From your Old Partner Helios.
"Here you look Dad." he said passing the note to Zeus. Who's eyes scanned over the letter and then passed it to Poseidon, who passed it along the line of the Male Olympians then Hermes who passed it back to Hera who did the same and passed it to the Female Olympians. When it got to me I read it , and I was trying to find forgery on the letter from Apollo but it seemed legit, my next thought was wow. Perseus had managed to meet and befriend the Titan Helios and even get an ability from him, he was also probably given a blessing from the Titan before he faded. I then passed it on to Aphrodite.
"Anyway Apollo before you butted in we were about to continue the meeting. So if you would take a seat and the meeting will continue." Hera commanded.
Zeus turned to me and asked "So Artemis how are you and your Hunters doing in capturing Percy."
"Yeah Sis" Apollo sneered from his throne, before I shot him a murderous glare.
"Well father, we have found where the boy was last and where he was there is massive destruction, cracks in the Earth , a massive crater and Gold dust allover the place, it is safe to say he is very strong, the Hunters and I were preparing to move this evening since it is a full moon, but you called me up before we could begin. We are now heading to Chicago to were he was last. Hoping to find him near there."
"Well we better not keep you any longer Artemis. Go now" Zeus said.
And with that I flashed out to camp. What I saw was very bizarre, the Hunters were fighting a Hydra. I didn't stand long and ran to go help.
Thalia POV:
As Artemis told me to I went and told the Hunters where she had gone. I walked into the camp and cleared my throat gaining the attention of the rest of the Hunters. "Hunters, Lady Artemis has been commanded to go to Olympus, hopefully whiles there she finds more about Percy Jackson," I sighed as I said the name, I missed him, he was like a brother to me and I'm pretty sure it is the same for Nico who is out at the moment looking for him on his own. But when I get my hands on that seaweed head I am going to kill him.
"Hey Thalia, why you look sad every time you talk about him," a younger Hunter shouted at me, followed by a lot of murmurs from the rest of them,"you don't like do you?"
"Yes Lucy I do like him," I replied, followed by gasps,"no guys I don't like him like love but as a brother, he is one of the only Men I can trust he is like a brother to me, when he left it was because of that bitch Annabeth who broke his his heart by cheating on him and I would do anything I could to bring him back and tell him he still has a loving family back at home. So if that answers your question Lucy I would also like to remind you that for now I am in charge of the Hunt whiles lady Artemis is gone."
With that said the Hunters finished packing up and got to making a perimeter around our old campsite whiles we waited for Artemis' arrival. We didn't encounter any monsters at all whiles waiting for her, and time seemed to trickle by slowly with all of us doing nothing and waiting.
Until about 30 minutes later from the opposite side of the perimeter there was a massive shout from some of the Hunters. "Help. Help. Hydra incoming."
I ran over there shouting for the Hunter to put face masks on and not to breathe in the fumes. I said before placing my mask on. As I had commanded all the hunters near the Hydra had some sort of face protection on, some wore a silver linen sheet around there noses but most had a silver mask on much like the ones which doctors wore. The fight was a struggle with the Hydra regrowing every head it had cut off plus one, I thought back to the myth on how Hercules had defeated it, I seemed to remember that if we cut off its head and then dip the swords,arrows or what ever weapon we were using it would kill the neck and stop it from regrowing.
The only problem how do we get that close to the heads to dip our weapons in. Especially since it was spitting acid and breathing fire at us. Just then Artemis ran up to us from her meeting at Olympus.
"Thalia what is the problem," Artemis asked.
"M'lady we have encountered a Hydra and I think I have a plan to kill it, listen here." I told her the plan and she seemed to agree with it.
"Hunters, to camp," She shouted and they all retreated quickly, when we got there she told them the plan."Phoebe you take a group of hunters to the West side and Atlanta you take the rest to the East and you distract the beast, try and not kill the heads, but send distraction arrows and get its attention away from me and Thalia who will cut of one of its heads and dip our weapons in it and then finish off the remaining heads. You can even take some heads and get some of its blood on your weapons. But today we will show the Monsters who the Hunters are." She shouted followed by a tremendous roar of agreement.
As Artemis had told them Phoebe and Atlanta sent a distraction party to the East and West side. Whiles me and Artemis charged the monster head on, we ran for the nearest head which let out a huge blast of fire at us as we dodged it and continued towards it , it tried again but we were running at it from opposite sides, so it could only aim at one of us, luckily it was only a baby one and had only about 8 heads, so it couldn't call for help as the other 7 were to concerned about the other Hunters. So as we neared it, it aimed one final blast at me which I rolled to the side to dodge whiles Artemis cut its head off and kicked it over to me to dip my spear into so it was coated in the poisonous blood and now me and Artemis had our knife and spear covered in poisonous blood and we went to work on disposing of the rest.
It now had a total of 12 heads, after some of the arrows had killed a few heads, so it now was a harder task , Artemis and I went to work on the remaining ones after we had got the desired poison it was a piece of cake, and after 30 minuets of fighting there was only one head, it's immortal one. Artemis obviously knew what to do, she chopped it off with one clean slice and kicked the head over to the crater that Percy had created and then the Hunters around placed large boulders on it which were scattered around the old camp.
The battle was over and not one casualty either which was a bonus no grieving needed.
"Well done Hunters, on defeating the Hydra," Shouted Artemis who got a round of applause for,"but now we must continue to Chicago where Perseus Jackson was last spotted with Helios who has faded after helping Perseus. Lets go." she shouted starting to walk of to where Phoebe's group used to be. We followed in pursuit with bows on back and arrows in the holsters. We set off for Chicago.
A/N I hoped you liked the Full Hunter Chapter, what did you think. Drop a review, and if I get 2 before 9:00 EST I will release another chapter tonight. Remember to Fav and Follow if you haven't already.
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