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Chapter 4
Percy and Leah spent a lot of time hanging around the pack after the bonfire. Leah seemed a little less colder to her pack mates but she still kept most of them at arms length. Three days after the bonfire they went cliff diving with the pack. Seth begged Percy to do something with the water so he pulled the current and made some waves for them to surf. Towards the end of the evening Percy seemed tense. Leah narrowed her eyes and said, "You ok?" Percy tried smiling but it turned into a grimace and sighed, "Somethings coming. I can feel it." The pack went onto high alert the moment he said it. Percy rolled his eyes and was about to say something when the wolves heard the twang of an arrow being shot. Percy turned around suddenly and caught the silver arrow before laughing. A girls laugh was soon followed, "Thalia, I know you're there." he called. He walked towards the woods when a girl wearing silver ran out. She tackled Percy who ended up pining her to the ground. Leah felt jealousy pour through her as her imprint and this girl were play fighting.
She was beautiful, electric blue eyes, long black hair, fair skin, some sort of silver tiara in her hair and a smirk. Percy ended up giving her a piggy back ride to the group where he dropped her and took her hand. He reached for Leah and said, "Leah meet Thalia, Thalia this is my girlfriend Leah." Leah smiled when he called her his girlfriend and took his other hand possessively. Thalia scrowled and pulled Percy away. She started talking really fast in another language and Percys smile vanished. He glared at her and shouted back.
Thalia was terrified that the girl would just hurt her cousin and she wasn't sure he would survive another heartbreak. She thought that Percy was getting out there too soon after Annabeth died. Percy just didn't get why Thalia couldn't just be happy for him, they argued, she shot an arrow, he deflected with his blade, he soaked her and she fried him. The pack growled as one once the lightening hit him but Percy just calmly got back up and asked, "You done Sparky?" She rolled her eyes and nodded.
Percy laughed and they walked back over, "Guys this is my cousin Thalia. Thalia this is Leahs friends." He was about to say something else when Embry gasped and Sam just muttered shit under his breath. Embry was looking at Thalia they way a blind man would look at the sun. Percy was mad for a second then laughed, until he cried. He looked up at the sky and said, "This is your idea of helping. You just made a bigger fricken mess Aphrodite."
Thalia looked at him as if he were crazy then muttered something about her sisters looking for her, "I gotta go kelp head but I am here to say Nico and Will are gonna show up soon. They're bringing the wedding to you and if you try and get out of it Nico will drag you down to the fields because you would make Will upset." Percy just nodded.
Once she was gone Embry turned on him with puppy dog eyes. "You just had to imprint on her. Tough luck dude." Sam just raised an eyebrow, "Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus was born about 15 years before me. She ran away met up with Luke and a 7 year old Annabeth. She was killed on half blood hill by a cyclops. Her father not wanting her to be trapped in the underworld turned her into a tree where she waited for 7 years, frozen. During the war her tree was poisoned and Annabeth, Grover and I went on a quest to get the golden fleece. It cured the poison and brought her back to life. A day before her 16th birthday she swore loyalty to Lady Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Thalia is an immortal maiden. She turned her back on the company of men and love, to join the hunters in partial immortality. She will not age but she can be killed in battle. To get her to accept the imprint means she has to leave the hunt."
Percy sighed as he looked at Embry, "I know what imprinting means to you guys but the hunt, its her home. The only place she ever felt she belonged. Thalia trusted Luke and he betrayed us all but her most of all. They were family and he turned his back on her. Lady Artemis will not be pleased. Thalia is the luientent of the hunt. You imprinted on the one girl who swore to be an eternal virgin. I'll try to help you but if I feel shes better off in the hunt then I don't care what your elders say, I'll force Aphrodite to break the imprint and if you ever harm her, I will kill you slowly and painfully."
He left the pack staring at him shocked. Thalia and Embry ran into each other that night and Embry explained everything to her. He felt that if he lied to her it would just backfire so the cold hard truth was the best way to go. They spent the night talking and once the sun rose, Thalia left to find Percy. She needed her cousins advice. Quil and Jacob followed her to make sure Percy wouldn't screw up Embrys imprint.
"Hey Perce." she called. Percy sat watching the waves on the beach and nodded to her. "Your friends are shapeshifters." Another nod, and "I'm Embrys soulmate." Percy looked thoughtful, "Why did you accept the oath Thals?" he asked. Thalia just stared at him with wide eyes, "Luke fucked up but that wasn't the reason. You hated the idea of immortality. I remember that clearly. You didn't want to age as your friends died around you, leaving you alone, so why did you accept the oath?" Thalia looked away in shame. Many of the pack members ended up listening in felt guilty for doing it. Embry would pop a blood vessel if they found out. His imprint was trying to find her way to accept her place in the pack and they were listening in on a private conversation.
"I did it to escape the prophecy. I'm so sorry Percy. I was so selfish but it was my birthday in a couple hours and I was terrified, I didn't want to make any choice and then I forced you to fight Kronos. I'm so sorry." she sobbed into his chest. Percy laughed, "I forgave you a long time ago Thals because it wasn't your fault. It was my fate. I was born to be the hero of the prophecy and nothing can change that. Not even your choice to stop aging." Thalia dried her eyes, "You knew? What about Annabeth?" she asked. Percy just sighed, "I always knew and Annabeth died. That was her fate. Its a bitch but she lived her life. She was never truly happy without Luke. We both know there was a love between them that would never die and I couldn't measure up. I tried too and we were happy but Leah, she completes me. She makes all the darkness I've seen disappear. In her eyes, I see a light that guided me out of a bad place. Shes my forever and one day my wife. Thalia you were needed with the hunters in the war. They needed a leader and you did a good job. You don't have to stay 15 forever. You can have that life you dreamed of having with him. His last name is Call. I think its time you stopped using just your first name and let him give you a new one, with a better life. Im tired of fighting monsters and running and I can see it in your eyes that you're tired too." She was silent a long time before she said, "What about Lady Artemis?" Percy amswered without looking back, "I will always protect you, even if it is against the Gods."
The next two days Thalia was no where to be seen and Embry was going out of his mind. Percy just sighed and looked away when he was asked for answers. The pack and imprints were at Emilys for lunch when they heard it. The sound of a hunting horn. Percy was out of his chair faster than a bullet. He waited outside wih the pack as a dozen girls in silver came out of the trees, leading them was a 12 year old girl with silver eyes. "How can I be of service my lady?" asked Percy. The 12 year old glowed silver, untul a 21 year old woman stood in front of him with long brown hair and silver eyes, "You dare to cross the hunt boy?" she shouted. Percys eyes narrowed, "Think carefully Artemis. Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked. A girl wearing silver shouted, "Fire." and the girls released their bows.
Leah exploded into her wolf form to protect her imprint as did many of the others but it wasn't even needed. Percy held up a hand and water appeared out of thin air, he formed a sheild of ice that stopped the arrows then, released it and allowed the water to freeze the girls.
Artemis pulled out a pair of hunting knives and before she could attack, Percy said, "Think Artemis. Fighting me is to fight my father. He will allow you no peace in the sea daughter of Zeus. And do not forget Goddess you owe me. You really want to fight me for Thalia? Do you really want to fight the favoured son of Poseidon, saviour of Olympus twice over, bane of titans and Gaia? Let this go and we'll call it even." as percy spoke the water around him formed a hurricane. Artemis scrowled and nodded. She disappeared with her girls but left Thalia alone.
The pack looked at him in awe as they saw the hurricane, while Thalia laughed, then ran into Embrys arms. Another bonded imprint. The pack smiled happily and then Nico appeared. "Get ready to be yelled at a lot. Will is leaving camp with a couple others. We want to be married by next week." he said.
