FestusLives: Thanks for the reviews! :) The story isn't going to have Percabeth although I might make it so that she has a crush on him at least until she realizes that he is her half-brother.

Aedridon199: Cool! thanks for the suggestion. I've made the changes, I believe.

Guest: Thanks for the review!

Fairy Tail's She-Devil: I have a good idea for Aphrodite which I hope will make sense when I write about it.

TheMag1c1an: I'll probably be giving him domains based on his parents and maybe one that he acquires for himself, so probably nothing too far from Poseidon and Athena's domains.

Guest: Something along those lines, maybe not exactly the same but similar.

Guest: I meant that he was able to match against Poseidon in a duel without powers. He's not going to actually be as strong as Poseidon or the other big three when it comes to powers. He'll be like a second generation Olympian. Albeit slightly weaker in terms of power even then but only marginally.

MasterTrident13: I'll try but no promises because I'm not entirely sure on how to make him worthy for the domains that I want him to have. I'm probably going to give him 3-5 domains. Though they will mostly be passive. Like, Athena has wisdom which is a passive domain (in my eyes at least).

Guest: Frozen seas? umm... What do you mean exactly?

Death Fury: I'm happy that you enjoy it :D

Thanks to everyone that has posted a review on my story, I felt like I should reply and answer some questions and queries. Now, onto the story.

Chapter 6

Awkward. That was the perfect word to describe my predicament. Maybe awkward and tense but it was definitely awkward.

I was sat alongside the family of three on a small table while eating lunch.

Artemis was chatting away, saying random things without any worries. She was oblivious to the intense atmosphere between her other companions.

I was sat across from her with my eyes solely on my food because I didn't need to look up to see the glares on me as I could feel them. I was right, Apollo and Leto were far less trusting than Artemis was and still looked at me with suspicion. They still thought that I was sent by Aunt Hera to harm them.

I didn't know what to do and how to get their trust. I did know, though, that if I made a single mistake, I'd be chased away as the two, more hostile members of the family were watching me like hawks.

Artemis was still talking, as she had been the whole time since we'd arrived and so, I decided to focus on her. To help distract me from the unnerving stares.

As I focused on Artemis, I saw that she was looking at me expectantly. Not knowing what to do, I let out a chuckle, albeit a nervous one.

She beamed and said, "I know right! Even I thought it was hilarious. He just ran straight into the lake."

I stopped understanding after that and just watched her talk without waiting to catch a breath.

I turned my head to look at Leto after she cleared her throat.

"So you say that Zeus sent you?" She asked with a calmness that didn't reach her eyes.

I sighed exasperatedly after having been asked this question a hundred times.

"Yes! I found out yesterday that I was to come and help you and your children."

She raised an eyebrow and said, "and Hera doesn't know?"

"No, of course not. If she did, she'd be after you already."

"And what is your relation to Hera?"

I was fuming because I was getting tired of this constant interrogation, I mean that I understood why she was doing it but it didn't make it any less annoying.

"I'm her nephew and-"

She interrupted, "just who are you and why were you sent?"

Now that angered me because it was a blow to my pride and I knew this side came from my mother because I sat up straight and proudly announced, "I'm a son of Poseidon and I was sent because I haven't received my domains yet, so my aura will be concealed the most. Aunt Hera won't find out."

"You say that you are a god, then who's your mother?" She all but demanded.

"That's personal."

"Is it Hera?"

I just looked at her funny for even suggesting something so crazy.

I couldn't help myself and burst out laughing loudly, stopping Artemis from her rant like conversation.

As soon as i was able to control myself, I said, "a son of Hera..." And I started laughing again at the stupidity of the statement.

The sound of a metal slamming into wood stopped my laughter as i turned to see Apollo seething with a knife stabbed into the wood of the table. He looked pissed and seemed to be restraining from stabbing me with it.

'Not that he would be able to' the prideful part of me mused.

"That's preposterous. Saying, even thinking, that Aunt Hera will cheat and have an illegitimate son is crazy. That's got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard."

Apollo got out of his seat, knocking over the utensils.

"Sit down, Apollo!" Said Leto and then she returned her attention to me. "Who is your mother, then?"

"Like I said, it's personal." I said firmly trying to show that this conversation was over.

She could only sigh. "Please forgive me, but the situation that I am in, I can't help but be cautious."

"I understand, lady Leto. If I were in your situation, I'd act the same. That is one reason that I am here. It's not fair on your children to be hunted down when they haven't done anything wrong."

"Thank you, child. Now what will you be doing?"

I was slightly annoyed by the child comment but let it slide knowing that I've just gained her trust.

"First thing that I'll do, is provide Apollo with a weapon similar to Artemis."

I looked at him questioning, "your preferred weapon?"

He huffed and ignored me until he saw the glare from his mother and quickly but quietly answered, "a bow"

"Ok!" I exclaimed happily and removed a similar weapon to Artemis' except it was a ring but it worked with a similar mechanism. There was a beautiful, amber gem present in the centre which would have to be pressed.

I tossed it to him and told him how it works, "well... Go on."

He pushed it through his index finger on his left hand and pressed it with a bit of hesitance.

Instantly, it morphed into a beautiful bow very similar to the one given to Artemis except it was golden in colour with different designs. (A/N the bows aren't their symbols of power btw, they will be given by Zeus and forged by Hephaestus. These are just like gifts from Percy.)

I knew by the look on his face that he was awed by the sleek weapon although he did try hiding it, his amazement was plain to see.

He turned it back into a ring and said a meek "thank you".

"Anyways, I would also like to train you, both of you. While I cannot teach archery, I can teach you close combat."

I removed two swords from my pack and handed them to the twins. Apollo accepted but Artemis looked at it distastefully.

"Do you have anything else?"

'that puts a spanner into the works' I thought and racked my mind to think of a suitable weapon for her.

A spear wouldn't do, with her build, it'd be too big.

'Aha', knives would be perfect. She's small and agile.

I searched through my stuff and finally came across twin hunting knives. They were plain but they would do.

She looked at it appraisingly and took it graciously.

They both tested their new weapons in their hands and looked ready to train with me.

"Lady Leto, with your permission, we will start."

"Yes, you may." She said kindly, a complete flip in her attitude towards me. "And please call me Leto."

I smiled in return, "ok, Leto."

Then my smile changed to a mischievous smirk. "Let's begin!" I said while rubbing my hands together.

We walked towards a small part of the clearing that was very open and flat.

"So, who'll go first?" Asked Artemis.

"Actually, I thought that we could all train at the same time. So both of you versus me."

Artemis looked at me with disbelief while Apollo scoffed.

I didn't say anything but got in a fighting stance.

"Weapons or not?"

"Weapons" I affirmed.

They looked at me questioningly, wondering why I haven't removed mine but all I did was to beckon them to attack me.

They looked at each other and shrugged, then they attacked me.

I jumped back and patiently waited for them to continue.

Apollo directly attacked me while Artemis went to the side. He slashed at my head which I ducked under before quickly jumping into a roll forward to dodge Artemis' jab at my chest.

I looked at them playfully and taunted, "is that all you've got? Is that all that the children of the king of god's can do?"

The result was instantaneous, they charged at me in anger.

"Mistake 1, never let anger overcome you in battle. Always use that anger and channel it into your battle. Control it, don't let it control you."

But those words fell on deaf ears as they were intent on harming me.

Even though they had a numbers advantage, they didn't seem to be using it.

"Mistake 2, always assess the situation. Never charge in blindly. There are two of you, yet you don't seem to be using that to beat me. You're twins, your chemistry should be amazing and if you work on it, the two of you together can beat anyone."

Again, they seemed oblivious to my words of advice and so, I decided to take charge.

As I dodged both of their barrage of attacks, briefly I noticed that they were already very fatigued after only a few minutes. 'This will be easy' I thought.

And went with my own attacks. I didn't bring out my sword yet as I had no use for it at the moment.

As Apollo went for a heavy, downward slash, I sidestepped and grabbed him. I sent him a little smirk to piss him off and flipped him over.

He landed onto the ground with a heavy grunt and didn't look like he was going to get up.

Now, only Artemis was left and she was looking at me warily.

She ran at me while I stood calmly waiting for her predictable attack.

Just as I thought, she slashed at my head. I ducked quickly and immediately hit a pressure point on her hand, rendering it useless.

She cried out in pain but I didn't give her a reprieve, I grabbed her other hand, twisted it and after getting behind her, directly pushed her into the incoming Apollo.

They both collided with a sickening crunch and fell onto the ground with groans. I picked up their respective weapons and held them at their necks and said, "yield"

They only nodded before I helped them up.

I looked at them with a smirk before my expression took a complete 360.

"That was terrible." I stated frankly, "I will be nice in general but during training, let's just say that I'm not going to be a saint. During training, you'll have to listen to what I say. Especially if you want to get to the level of other children of Zeus like Athena and Ares. As well as the fact that I don't know how long I'm here and I'll be missing my normal fights. I want competent sparring partners and so I'll train you as hard as I can."

Apollo looked at me with disbelief, "who do you normally train and spar with?"

I smirked, "Ares and Athena."

That left them speechless, until their blank looks were replaced by ones of determination.

"We can do it, we'll beat you one day." Artemis said with a fire burning in her eyes.

"We'll see" I paused and added "princess"

I immediately turned around as I didn't need to see the look of anger.

"What did you call me?" She demanded to my retreating form.

"Are you hard of hearing, princess?" I smirked, I loved pissing people off.

I continued, "we will continue tomorrow morning, we will be doing exercise along with weapons practice and this is before breakfast."

I turned around and said, "welcome to hell"

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Third person POV

Artemis was running in the forest. She quickly looked behind her, after seeing nothing, she climbed up the closest tree.

It had been around two weeks since Percy had arrived and everything was routine for them now.

They would wake up early in the morning, train hard and then spar against Percy.

They weren't very close to beating him but they had improved drastically.

She trained harder than ever. She wanted to become the best fighter ever but more than that, she wanted to impress Percy. She had a tiny crush, that was not so tiny, on him and did her best to make him notice her. She knew that she was being ridiculous in her attempts and that she should just be herself but there was always this slight amount of self-doubt within her.

'Was she pretty enough, was she strong enough? There must be other goddesses, ones that are better than her, better for Percy.' these thoughts always ran through her head. That and the thought of rejection if she opened up about her infatuation.

She didn't know how she could have started to like Percy so easily but there was something about him that just made him trustable and likable.

She wanted to know what he thought about her as he always seemed to be closed-off when considering his emotions and so he wasn't easy to read.

Shaking her head off these thoughts, she focused on her current task. And that was evading the person that was occupying all her thoughts.

This was one game that she and Apollo excelled at. Hunting as well as avoiding hunting. Percy would still normally catch them but it took him time. More time than beating them in a spar and she took great pride in knowing that she was better than Percy at something as he sometimes used his sacred animal to help him hunt us.

She looked around and after making sure that there was no one around, jumped off her branch and carried on running. Best not to stay in the same place for a lot of time.

Running around, she looked for any disturbances. Not finding any, she bolted into the treeline.

She ran for awhile and she couldn't sense anything wrong, so stopped to take a breather .

And then she realised, she couldn't sense anything, there was complete silence. Immediately she set out running because she knew that he had caught up.

Unluckily, she got tackled as she was running and then there was a weight on her. They tumbled along down a slight slope until they lightly crashed into a tree.

Artemis looked up and saw vibrant green eyes staring back at her in triumph. For a while, she just stared at him until she noticed that he was on top of her. She blushed and looked away from him, unable to hide her embarrassment.

Percy pov

I wondered what happened to make her react like that. That was until I saw the position that we were in.

I instantly rose up and pulled her with me. I smirked at her victoriously and told her, "gotcha!"

She only groaned but looked up and smiled lightly.

"What about Apollo?"

"What about him?" I replied, "I caught him a while ago."

Her smile widened at that. And for once, there was an awkward silence between us after a long time, well in two weeks but...

"We should get back" she said.

I nodded and we started our trek back home.

"Do you... Do you know when you'll have to leave?"

I thought about it. "Only after yours, Apollo's and Leto's safety is guaranteed, will I leave"

She beamed at me happily but looked curiously, "but what about your dad and the others?"

"Hmmmm, what's about them?"

"Don't you miss them?"

Of course I do. But I can only return when the fates decide it is time for me to. I can't wile away my time doing nothing but moping."

She remained silent at that.

"As well as the fact that I'm enjoying my time here." I added.

She smiled at me, "I like you too." She stuttered, "I mean that I like the fact that you're here as well." She blushed.

I laughed a little and smiled brightly at her. We walked in silence for a while, both of us stuck in our thoughts.

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We reached after some time and were immediately ambushed by Apollo, asking us questions about the game.

I liked Apollo, he was a really chill and relaxed guy when not in his 'overprotective, big brother' mode.

But I appreciated that about him, I think that a person that values family highly is a very good person. That is one of the most important things taught to me by my dad and Aunt Hestia.

Regardless of what happens, your family is forever constant, in my case it's literally forever, and you shouldn't ever give up on them.

He asked the standard questions, "who won?" And "how long did it take you to win?"

As soon as we answered, I went to freshen myself up for dinner.

I helped Leto prepare food as cooking was one of my favourite past times and Aunt Hestia made sure that I knew how to cook and what to cook.

Dinner was calm and there weren't any incidences that occurred although it was relatively silent where not even Apollo was chatting non-stop.

I was sat outside by the lake after dinner. Just basking in the beauty of the night with the full moon shining up in the sky. Blackjack was by my feet and was sleeping peacefully with his head in my lap.

A voice broke me out of my reverie. "What are you thinking about?"

Looking behind me, I saw that it was Artemis and she looked radiant in the moonlight.

I stared for a moment before answering, "nothing in general. Just random thoughts floating around in my head."

She sat by me saying nothing.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" She broke the silence.

I looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"The moon" she clarified.

I smiled softly and nodded. "The most beautiful thing that I've ever seen." I didn't know then, but that one statement would mean more to her than I ever thought.

"What is Olympus like?" She asked changing the subject.

"It's beautiful, one of the most amazing places for sure. And the people; whether they are gods or goddesses, nymphs or nature spirits, they are all nice and kind. It's very peaceful up there."

"You miss it." And it was more of a statement than a question.

"Of course, I do. As much as I love this place, Olympus is and always will be my favourite place on the whole planet."

"And the other Olympians?"

"Most of them are nice once you get to know them. Even Ares and Athena. They might seem cold and indifferent but Athena is in fact my favourite Olympian, even more than my father."

When I looked at her expression, it was a mixture of surprise and jealousy?

"The only ones that I have any difficulty connecting to are the elder Olympians and even then it is only Hera, Demeter and Zeus."

"What about Hades?"

"He is simply misunderstood because of his domain, dare I say it, he can be as kind as Aunt Hestia." I replied.

"Are they really that nice?"

"Yes, especially when considering family. I miss them; my father, mother, aunts, uncles and cousins. I miss all of them. Even if I wouldn't leave from here until I have to, as it is not only my duty but also I have liked it here, I still miss them all dearly."

"Your mother?" She looked at me with curiosity and even a slight bit of hope. A hope that I would tell her.

I sighed slightly and looked back at the moon.

After a few moments, I turned back to her and said, "Athena. My mother is Athena."

She looked at me, eyes completely wide in surprise with her jaw on the floor. 'Figuratively' I thought in amusement.

"How? Is she not a virgin goddess?"

"She is" I replied, pausing to let me think of an appropriate response. "She created me with the power of herself and my father. I was created completely by her mind, will power and energy. Hence the reason that I did not want to reveal my mother, She is a Athena, a virgin goddess as well as a daughter of Zeus."

"Oh" she said and seemed very hesitant about something.

She grabbed my hand and interlaced her fingers with mine, "thank you for telling me." She said that without looking at me but I could still see the blush on her face which was probably reflected by mine.

Just as I was about to respond and talk about something that had been bugging me, there was a sound of something large moving in the forests directly opposite the house.

There was no movement for a second before a giant silhouette was visible to us.

All we could see was its glowing eyes before I said, "Schist! Aunt Hera has found out about you and your family!"

A/N sorry for the extremely late post guys, I've been very busy and haven't had any time for writing the story. I just wanted to inform you that I will probably be posting a chapter once every 2 weeks or maybe twice every 3 weeks, as I don't always find the time to write a chapter.