Chapter 4

Artemis' POV:

I got an Iris message when I was talking to Thalia in my tent, which was a problem as she didn't know about me and Percy, nor did she know where he was or how he was. When the man in the message appeared I was reminded that he had changed his appearance three years ago. When he noticed Thalia stood with me he made himself sound formal.

"Lady Artemis," He bowed. "Lady Hestia and Lady Hera would like to see you" Thalia gave me a questioning look.

"Where are you?" He answered. "I will be there shortly." The then flashed me a quick grin and swiped through the message.

"Who was that milady?" Thalia had recovered from the ease she had felt when I was talking to the man.

"Aunty Hestia's champion." Was my short reply. "Now I must be going, make sure no-one does anything stupid while I'm gone." Then I flashed out before she could ask any more questions.

Percy's POV:

When I saw Thalia I thought it would be best if I acted formal. I think Thalia recognised me from the few times I've turned up with young girls for the hunt, I usually sent them ahead but if I wanted to see Arty then I'd come with them. However, she didn't seem to like the ease in which Artemis talked to me. Ah well, she'll find out sooner or later, but for the time being I liked to keep my identity secret. It was better that way. When Artemis appeared she realised Hestia and Hera weren't here, she also noticed we were on a cliff, with a beautiful sight.

"Percy, why are we here?" I grinned and got down on one knee. I then presented a box in front of me.

"Lady Artemis, goddess of the hunt, Arty. I have loved you with all my heart for the past four years and I just ask one thing from you. Artemis, will you marry me?" I was so nervous.

"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" I slipped the ring on her finger, stood up and kissed her.

Two hours later on the cliff
Nobody's POV:

Hestia walked up to the now engaged couple and patted Percy on the shoulder, he turned around.

"Perseus, there's an eight year old girl; she's getting it very bad." The sadness was clear in her voice.

"Eight?!" She nodded solemnly. "Right, sorry Arty, I gotta go." I kissed her on the cheek, got up, got given a slip of paper and I flew to where the paper said the little girl lived.

-Time skip-

One hour later at Jessica's Address
Percy's POV:

When I got there I heard sounds of shouting, screaming and things hitting hard surfaces. I broke the door down and ran in to see what was going on. When I saw I was disgusted, so disgusted that the first thing I did was recite my usual 'have fun in the fields of punishment' beat the man up and kill him. I had enough control to make sure he had a slow and painful death, I won't go into details, and I don't want you to have nightmares about it. Once I was finished with the filth I walked over to where the small child was hiding.

"You okay? It's alright, I won't hurt you, I'm here to help." I said to her in a soothing voice, holding my hand out to her. I ignored the fact I was covered in blood. She was hesitant at first but took it after a few seconds of consideration. She was small, even for her age and had my hair and eyes (not the brown hair and eyes, black and sea-green) so it was kind of obvious she was my sister. "You hungry?" The girl, Jessica, nodded vigorously. "Okay, what would you like?" I laughed at how quickly she answered.

"Sometimespizzasometimespastasometimesmacaroni." After seeing my puzzled face she spoke slower, "sometimes I love pizza, sometimes pasta and sometimes macaroni." Jess was giggling now. "But cheese pizza'll do." I conjured one pizza and one glass of water for her, once she was halfway through I decided to drop the bomb.

"So, Jess, you ever heard of the Greek gods?" I asked.

"Sure I have, why?" She seemed confused as to why I was asking about what she knew.

"Well what would you do if I said they were real?" I honest to gods didn't expect her answer; then again, I have been told I'm slow.

"After you made pizza appear from nowhere?" She asked with a mouthful of food. "Awesome!" Then she decided to start on her quick fire questions.

"Wow, wow, wow! Slow down will ya?! Anyway, as I was saying, your mom or dad is a Greek god and I think I know who it is."

-Time skip-

Hunters' Camp
Jessica's POV:

Just before we got to the camp Daniel changed what he looked like, he had told me he was a son of Poseidon but adopted son of Hera so he could look two different ways. When we got there more than fifty arrows came flying our way (I said more than fifty 'cause I can't count any higher, I know, sad) when I asked why Daniel told me the hunters hate boys. The hunters are actually really nice, the asked me my name and I got talking with this girl, Thalia. Thalia told me she was the lieutenant of the hunters of Artemis and asked me loads of questions about Daniel, truth is, I don't really know much about him other than who his parents are. He told me that was a secret. But, he's like a big brother to me, I told Thalia that, and that he's the best, like, ever.

Percy's POV:

I told Jess the same I told all the girls about my name being Percy but that it's a secret so I'm Daniel. It was cute how she asked if it was a game. Anyway, when we go to the girls' camp I went to speak to Artemis, we got a lot of weird looks but didn't care.

"Artemis?"

"What boy?" She said that in case someone was watching.

"Do you think we should tell the girls who I am? It has been four years now."

" It could work, the girls do miss you, you know, Especially Thalia. After you left they realised that you are different and while you were here all you did was help." I smiled at that, Artemis saying it in that way helped tremendously.

"Come on then." I got up and led her back to the camp. When we got back I was on the receiving end of a lot of glares, it was then I realised we were still holding hands.

Dalia's POV:

As milady and this mysterious Daniel character walked back into camp, I realised that they were holding hands. How dare that stupid boy be so close to lady Artemis?!

"Erm… Hunters?" That idiot boy looked so nervous, it was almost funny. "I think it's time you found out who I am." What the Hades? When he snapped his fingers I realised why. "I'm not Dan, I'm Percy Jackson." Before he had finished his sentence Thalia ha tackled him in a hug. I couldn't believe that our guardian was back, not that we needed one.

"Where have you been kelp head?" She yelled he looked like she had just made him deaf. But he still answered, telling us a little about what had happened in the four years he was gone. After about ten minutes he turned to Lady Artemis. Who was getting something out of her pocket.

"Hunters!" About eighty of my sister's heads turned to her just in time for us to see her slip a ring onto her finger. "Sisters, Perseus Jackson is my fiancé." It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop for a few seconds until we erupted into cheers.

"Milady," This was Thalia speaking. "we know for a fact Percy would never hurt you, he is the one man we are happy to have in the camp." We all nodded our approval of her speech.

"They want me back in the camp?" The moron must have been voicing his thoughts as he said it to no-one in particular.

"Of course we do kelp-for-brains!" Thalia will be Thalia.

"Love you too pinecone face." He muttered, obviously thinking no-one could hear him.

A/N: Sorry, but my next chapter will be a bit late