Yep. I knew this was coming. I mean, Artemis is amazing, but she needs to calm down, and not think about what others think about her. Plus, when she does, she is the coolest girl you will ever meet in your entire existence. I have only seen her let loose once, and she was wild.
During spring break two years ago, I was at the beach trying to help these Dolphins get untangled from some fishing net. I mean, I don't understand why these fishermen use these nets to catch fish in restricted waters. It's illegal and dangerous to sea life, but there I was, untangling scared dolphins. When I was finished, I told them to go and try to avoid nets if they could and got out of the water. When I walked on to the beach, I saw Artemis was standing there. I should mention now that there was a party a couple of yards away from where we were standing, but the dunes were obscuring the view. We could only hear the loud music and shouting coming from the party, as well as see a faint light glowing from that same direction.
Anyway, I asked Artemis why she was there. She said that, she felt some creatures were in danger, and she came to help them, but saw that I already finished helping them when she appeared there. My response to that sounded so stupid even to my ear, because I just said "Oh". Yeah, I know that was so dumb; I don't even know why I said that. However, even to this day I can't think of anything else I could've said back then. Artemis, on the other hand said something that really surprised me though. She had said, "Well, I guess great minds think alike". I was so dumbfounded when those words came out of her mouth, it didn't even register in my mind for the first few seconds. I mean it isn't every day that I get complemented by Artemis.
Afterwards, I just said, "yeah, I guess we both help those in need." Artemis just nodded in response to that, but I can't blame her. There isn't many ways you can reply back to that. After that, it got awkwardly quiet, so I said something that sounded idiotic even to me. I asked Artemis, the Maiden Goddess, to go to the Party that was occurring there with me, a MALE character. However, what she had said was even more surprising because she said, "Sure why not, I have some time before I have to go back to Olympus."
We walked over the sand dunes and reached the party a few minutes later. We really didn't know what to do, since we rarely hung out with each other. However, as time passed we drank some sodas which now I know had alcohol in it. And eventually, we started to socialize with each other. We danced together, and I can say that Artemis had some Moves. Her auburn hair was flying smoothly around her head, her arms were around my shoulder, and at one point, her left leg was even around my waist.
The next morning we woke up on the beach, next to each other, at first I didn't remember what had happened the night before, but after a while, all the memories came rushing back. However, we didn't talk about it, since it kind of went against her morale judgments.
"You don't have to worry about us being seen together, Artemis. Juniper would never tell others about this. And while we are talking about this, why do you think that it is bad for her to see us together?"
"What do you mean? I just think that people would think that there's something between us, and that can't happen, I'm a maiden Goddess, Percy. You know that."
"Yeah, I understand that but, you have to stop thinking about what others think of you. You can be and do whatever you want. Why are you putting restrictions on your life?"
"I'm not. Okay, you know what; I need to go back to my huntresses. I'll see you later Percy."
With that she disappeared from the woods leaving Percy in the opening.
Sigh.
Sometimes she can be a handful, thought Percy.