The Son of Calypso

Summary: After an angry God washes up on Calypso's shores, he commits a horrible crime against her just before leaving the island. She asks Poseidon for help to hide her son from Zeus. What will happen when a young Artemis is introduced to the god? Will Zeus find out it's him? And how does the father relate to all of this?

Chapter 4

Previously

If the child were his son, why would he want the child dead? All of his past children had become Olympians or have been living on Olympus. Her eyes widened as she realized something. Not once during the talk between Zeus and Triton did either one of them refer to the child as Zeus' son. She hadn't even stayed for the entire conversation to see if they even mentioned who the child's parents were.

With this she jumped out the chair she had been sitting in and teleported back to where she had left the child. She looked around the edge of the pond, searching for him, but found nothing.

The child was gone.

Now

Triton arrived to the spot where Zeus had told him to dispose of the child. He got a good look around before stepping into the trees. There was a slight rustling sound to his left, but he ignored it. "Probably just some animal." He thought to himself. Looking around he found a small clearing that was full of bushes.

He stepped in and placed the child on the ground. Crouching down he took a dagger out of his cloak and placed it up to the child's neck. As he was preparing to thrust the dagger, ending the child's life, he stopped.

Triton withdrew the dagger from the child's neck and stepped back. He stared at the child's face, which was full of innocence. The child wasn't even crying. How could he end a child's life in cold blood? Coming to a decision he slipped the dagger into his cloak and picked the child back up.

He looked around and spotted a cluster of bushes at the edge of the clearing and made his way over to them. Holding the child in one arm he pushed apart the bushes and found a spot big enough to hide him. He carefully placed the child inside and then let to bushes go, watching as they fell back into the position they were before.

He walked around the bush, making sure that the child was hidden. After fully inspecting the bushes he nodded to himself and then took a step back. Remembering the plan he pulled out his dagger once again. He held it up to his chest and slowly exhaled, bracing himself. He slid the dagger down his chest, watching as golden ichor slid down from the wound.

He gasped in pain, removing the dagger from his chest and proceeded to create other small cuts all over the rest of his body. When he finished he tossed the dagger into the forest behind in and started to make his way out of the forest. Slightly dazed from the blood loss, his walking became stumbling. Once he reached the forest's edge he used the rest of his energy and teleported himself away, back to Atlantis.

Poseidon sat in his office, papers and books in random positions all over his desk. He sighed and raised his hand to his head, leaning on his desk. He was struggling to keep himself awake as he read over the paper that was in front of him.

His eyes had just closed when the doors of his office were thrown open. His eyes flew open and he jumped to his feet, startled. He watched as the guard hastily bowed, "What's the meaning of this?" Poseidon growled, now having calmed down. Poseidon took a couple steps towards the guard. "Speak." Was all he said towards the merman.

The guard did not get up from his kneeling position when he spoke. "Sorry, my lord." He started, before taking a long breath. Poseidon now realized that the guard was breathing heavily, trying to catch his breath. The guard must have run here. "Prince Triton was found outside of the palace, bleeding heavily from many wounds. He is in the medical wing, at the moment we are not su-."

The guard never finished as Poseidon ran out the door, rushing to the palace's medical wing.

After about three minutes of running he arrived, bursting through the front doors. He continued through the large room, passing row after row of empty beds. He came to a stop at the end, where there were many nurses running in and out of a closed off area.

Making his way inside he first saw Amphitrite sitting besides Triton, who was currently asleep. She had a worried look on her face as she rubbed Triton's arm. He made his way over to her and took a seat beside her, wrapping his arm around her at the same time.

From here he got a better look at Triton. He had cuts all over his body, but one in particular stood out. There was a large gaping cut that spanned his entire chest. Thankfully since he was in the ocean it was already starting to heal, but it would still take a good amount of time for a cut like that to fully heal.

There were a couple of guards standing at the entrance to the little room. Poseidon looked over to them, "Do you know how this happened?" He questioned, his worry showing through his tone. One of the guards shook his head. "No, my lord. We had found him this way outside of the palace."

Poseidon nodded his head and turned back to Amphitrite. "Don't worry, he will be fine." He reassured her. She nodded her head sadly, "I know, bu-." She was interrupted by a low moan that came from Triton.

Amphitrite shot up from her seat and leaned over her son. Her hands went up to cradle his face. "What happened Triton? Why are you like this?" Triton coughed a couple of times, rattling his body, causing his face to scrunch up in pain. "Well, like you know." Triton coughed a few more times, "I had been walking through Atlantis with Perseu-" At this Amphitrite screamed.

"Where is Perseus!" She yelled, running up to the guards. "Take me to him, I have to make sure he is alright. If anything happened to him I'll never be able to forgive myself." She gasped, "And what would we tell Calypso! Please tell me he is alright!"

The guards turned and looked towards each other, as if talking silently. They turned back to face her and one opened his mouth to speak when Triton cut him off. "He is gone mother." He said slowly, "The person who had attacked me also took the child with him."

Amphitrite let out a wail of despair and sank down in the corner of the room. Over the past month they had been together she had grown quite close to the child. Poseidon slid over to her and pulled her into his lap, cradling her against his chest. He whispered soothing words to her as he tried to calm her down.

Triton looked on in sadness. He had never meant to cause his mother to feel this way. He had acted foolishly and selfishly, and now the child was most likely dead. And since he had sworn that oath to Zeus there was no way he could tell his parents where the child was.

All three members of the Atlantian royal family sat in the room, mourning for different reasons. Amphitrite was mourning for the loss of the child and having failed Calypso. Triton for causing his family to mourn, and the fact that he had been so easily manipulated by Zeus.

Last, was Poseidon, feeling sad for his wife, but also for another reason. When he had blessed the child so he could breath and see underwater, he had placed another blessing on him as well. This blessing allowed him to see whether or not the child was alive, in pain, injured, or dead. And he knew that the child was alive, but he kept this information away from his wife, unsure of how she would react.

Poseidon mentally braced himself, for he knew he would have to tell Calypso about what had happened here. Then he would go hunting for the child himself.

Leto was walking through the forest on Delos. Well, it was more like waddling with the large protruding stomach she had. She was relieved that she did not have to worry about running from Python any more. But then she thought about it and realized that Python would never stop chasing her unless ordered to by Hera. Well, she thought to herself, at least she did not have to run from it twenty-four hours a day.

She stopped at the edge of a pond, taking a seat on a rock to rest. She was staring up at the sky when she noticed a bright flash on the other side of the pond. Fearing the worst she fell to the ground behind the rock. Laying there she slowly peaked up to try and get a look at who was there.

Her eyes narrowed when she noticed it was Hera. She was the one who had caused Leto all of this trouble, all because she was jealous. She watched as Hera quickly placed something on the ground. As she flashed away a sharp cry pierced through the air.

Looking closer at the thing on the ground, she noticed that it was a child making the noise. She slowly got up and started walking quickly around the water. As she arrived at the child she picked him up and got a good look at him. From his aura she could tell that he was a god.

He had nice caramel hair, coming to a stop right above his eyes. His eyes were shut tight as he continued to cry out. She started to rock him back and forth in an attempt to get him to stop. After about a minute he started to quiet down and he opened his eyes. She gasped at the beautiful, bright almond eyes he had.

He stared up at her for a second before yawning and quickly falling asleep in her arms. Carrying the child, she walked back into the woods, coming to a stop at the edge of the forest. Looking down at the child every so often, she smiled to herself.

This is what she would have to grow through soon. Her thoughts drifted back to Hera. Why would she leave this child here like this? Leto frowned. She did not know how anyone could be so cruel, especially to a young child. Hera had abandoned the child and left him to die.

With that she noticed another flash next to the pond. Hera was there looking around frantically, obviously looking for the child.

"Perseus!" She screamed. Leto looked back down at the child. "So that is his name." She thought, "Perseus. It suits him well."

Hera looked back down, before flashing out.

With that Leto realized something. What about the child's parents? It was unlikely they would ever see the child again. What should she do with him? With that thought, she had an idea. She held the child out in front of her. She slowly raised a hand over the child's head.

He glowed slightly, before it faded. Leto smiled, bringing the child close to her again. The child yawned once again and woke up. "Hello Perseus." She smiled down at him, who was staring up at her. "I shall take care of you." She finished, sighing contently.

"My son." Leto muttered to herself. The child was smiling up at her, completely oblivious to the world. "My first son, Perseus."

Well, there you go! Sorry it took so long.

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And all of my Pertemis fans left. After all, they are siblings now.

I have thought of a pairing, although it won't be introduced for a while.

NO Percabeth. NOT a Hunter of Artemis. It just doesn't make much sense. So no Perlia.

Take a guess, and I may just give you another hint. ;) Maybe.

There will be a time skip next chapter, probably 10 years. Where the action can start. ;)

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