The Forgotten God - Chapter 4

Past

Keion and Artemis had surprisingly been great friends, although Artemis had been hesitant to become friends with a male God, ever since she had given him a chance they were almost inseparable. He was the God of the stars and tides, which would always be connected with moon, one of her domains. Many had been surprised when they became friends, but for some it wasn't a good surprised. Zeus, her father, had not liked him getting so close to one his daughters. Well it wasn't that he was getting close to her, more the fact he was Poseidon's son and as always, the two had been arguing over something new every other chance that they got.

Despite their father's fighting the two got along swimmingly. During the night, they would keep each other company, doing their duties, and to Artemis at the start it made sense for them to carry out their duties together after all. Completely innocent. That is what the Goddess would tell herself anyway. Their relationship took many years to develop, mostly because she didn't want to give him her heart, she didn't know whether she could trust him not to hurt her. She had seen many despicable actions that men caused.

Tonight, was no different from their usual routine. Her hunters' camp was set up for the night and all of them were settling down for the night. While she left to carry out her nightly duties, she would leave her lieutenant Zoe in charge of the camp.

Zoe approached Artemis, ready to take over the camp.

"Are thou waiting for Keion, milady?"

Artemis nodded about to speak when a flash caught her attention, speak of the devil, she thought. She turned to see Keion, he smiled at her, dimples appearing near his cheeks which she always adored about his smile.

"Are you ready, milady?" He spoke his grin turning to a slight smirk, to which she rolled her eyes at him.

He always tried to tease Zoe for the way she spoke, but always tried to tease her at the same time. Key word being tried. Many years with her twin brother made her almost immune to Keion's quips. Yet somehow, he still managed to make her blush every now and then. Zoe raised an eyebrow at the male God, she respected him immensely and trusted him with Artemis. He was after all the God of loyalty. He loved Artemis wholly; Zoe could tell just from the way he looked at her and treated with the highest amount of respect she had ever seen from a male.

There were other reasons why she respected Keion, he had fought Hercules after he had disrespected her, Keion defended her when she confronted the son of Zeus. Most importantly though, Keion had given her a new home with the hunters; he had brought her to Artemis where she started her new life as a hunter. He had given her a chance of a new family, a new start. To which she was immensely grateful for.

"How is thy always able to find us? The hunters move far and fast," Zoe enquired to the God before he left with the Goddess.

"The stars see many things, my friend." Keion cryptically stated before walking further into the wood, chasing after the Goddess of the hunt who had left without him. Leaving Zoe to ponder.

-TFG-

Present

Artemis sat in her room on Olympus. Silent and alone. Trying to gather her thoughts. The prophesy was about him.

She despised him, hated him, for what he did to her. If he were to be found she would surely put an arrow through him. Apollo would likely try to do it for her, for his hatred for the God that hurt his sister ran just as deep as his. Although her and her twin didn't always see eye to eye, having him back on Olympus would be the last thing they both wanted.

She hated him so much. One time she may have thought the world of him, and that he was the only male that was different, he wasn't like the rest of the gods. But he proved her wrong and went and cheated on her with Aphrodite no less!

To this day it still angered her, but even more so that when she had confronted Aphrodite about she pretended she didn't know a thing about her and Keion kissing, but she had seen them with her own eyes.

All of this was in the past however, she had her hunters and that's all she ever needed. When she had lost Zoe she had been devastated, Zoe was her closest friend after Keion. Her last words had struck the Goddess.

"I can see the stars again, milady."

She hadn't put Zoe in the sky like everyone had assumed, the stars were not her domain. So, when she saw Zoe as her constellation she knew he had been watching. The stars had been dimmer since he had left so to know he was watching made her scowl in disgust. How dare he watch. He betrayed them and more, he had hurt her. Despite her hatred, she was glad that he honoured Zoe in such a way that she would always be able to see her, even if she was no longer with them.

Keion confused her in ways she never knew, her family did not help soothe her thoughts when his banishment came about. Athena spoke logic which made sense, he was the God of loyalty; why betray his family, why would he betray her? Her own eyes did not lie to her though, she had seen him kissing another. Artemis, however, did not know why he would betray his family. Sometimes she doubted that he even did… The evidence had been brought to them by that despicable son of Zeus after he had been made a God (unfortunately Hercules had been made immortal to pester them for life). She did not know who to trust when the vote came along at the time. But her heart ached and she decided for his banishment.

She remembered the look of confusion and hurt that crossed across his face when her vote decided his future. As if he didn't know what he had done to her! He asked me why and all I did was stare. His blue eyes that changed from ice blue to a deep, dark night blue looked betrayed.

Artemis sighed, there was no need to focus on him anymore he was no longer apart of her life and never would she let him be that close to her again, figuratively or physically. She had spent too much time away from her hunters she needed to go see them, even if her father wished her to stay on Olympus a bit longer while the quest was to be decided, she had many things to do. And with that she flashed down to camp half-blood where her hunters were residing for the time being.

So it's been a while! I know, it been a very long time since I've been on here, but I am back. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I am slowly gaining more and more inspirations for my stories again so its looking hopeful.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Thanks for reading,

Beth