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sorry its been a couple weeks been busy with school and all that stuff. also i want to thank Princess of the god and DemigodLoverGirlz for their characters and for all you others who sent me one i will put your in the next chapter when they eat dinner. also the other person introduced is someone i made up myself hope you like it :) R&R!
Percy POV
We woke up the next morning, and I made two plates of blue pancakes appear for us to eat. After we finished we packed up the tent and sleeping bags in my bag that Hephaestus and Hermes had given me, and started to head back to camp. I knew the direction we had to go so Nico and I walked that way. We didn't want to shadow travel because we were still kind of exhausted from the fight yesterday, and also because if we appeared in the middle of the Hunters' camp, they would probably kill us before we could say anything. It took us about two hours until we reached the river where they had camped along. Then we followed the river up to where they had camped. After walking for another hour and a half, we caught sight of the camp. "Don't tell anyone about meeting Andrew." I said to Nico. Right before he was about to say something, we both got caught in traps that hung us upside down.
"We caught something in our traps!" Shouted one of the Hunters and we could hear a few running towards us. Nico groaned, and I heard him say, "Great, now they will make fun of us, and then kill us." As they ran into view, I could see that there were four, including Thalia, which I was thankful for, as we probably wouldn't die now. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Said Thalia slowly walking up to us grinning. "Let us down Thalia, please." I asked her. "Sure we will let you down right girls?" She asked the younger ones grinning.
The three younger ones who looked between the ages of 11 and 13 giggled to each other. Then two of them got their bows out and set an arrow on the string. Oh no, I thought to myself I really hope they don't miss. I closed my eyes as they shot and prayed that they would hit the rope that tied us. All of a sudden I felt myself falling and before I could do anything I fell flat on my face. I heard a similar thump followed by Nico groaning. "Thanks Thals," Nico said sarcastically. "Good shot, can I ask you your names?" I asked while cutting the ropes around my feet with Riptide. "I'm Kendra, daughter of Apollo." said the littlest one who I heard speak when I first arrived. "How old are you Kendra?" I asked. "I'm 11 years old," she said smiling up at me. I couldn't help but smile back and said to the other little one who had shot Nico down, "And what is your name?" "I'm Judy, Daughter of Aphrodite." she said. I raised my eyebrow in surprise at finding a daughter of the love goddess in the Hunt.
I looked around to find the other girl to find her name out but couldn't see her. "She went back to practicing archery, she is a little shy and is new to the Hunt." said Thalia. "Her name is Hannah, she's a daughter of mortal. She ran away because of an abusive family, which would beat her."
"Oh," I said becoming very angry about that, "I will do something about that." "It's too late, Artemis already took care of them but it's nice of you to care." Said Thalia smiling. "I'm going to do what I can to help her." I said grinning at her. "Umm, hey guys I'm still here." said Nico. "Of course Death Breath" Thalia said, "Thanks for helping Percy out when I called." "No problem," he said.
"Well while you guys talk, I'm going to tell Artemis I am back, then I am going to find Hannah." I said laughing at both of them. I walked off and headed to Artemis' tent. When I got there I knocked and heard Artemis say, "Come in." I walk in and see her with her back turned brushing her hair in front of a mirror. She sees me in the reflection and blushes and throws the brush down turning around and standing up.
"Percy, where have you been I was worried you would get in trouble or something." she said.
"Sorry, My Lady, I left I still haven't gotten over the break up yet." I said bowing to her.
"I didn't get into too much trouble." I said.
"Oh yes he did," Thalia said walking in with Nico right behind her.
"What is this boy doing here Thalia?" Artemis said growing angry.
"He saved my life, without him I wouldn't be here." I said quickly before she could turn him into a jack lope. "I won't run away again and Nico just came with me because we were both tired and needed to rest from a fight we had and we needed to look out for each other, but he will be leaving as soon as he has enough energy."
"I could have left this morning but decided to help my bro out and protect him." Nico said grinning at me before ducking the punch I threw at him. "Well I got to go now that your safely back." He said right before vanishing into the shadows.
"Is there anything you want me to do My Lady?" I asked Artemis. "No, just rest you are still tired I can tell, the fight must have been a tough one." She said with concern. I bowed and then left to go find Hannah.
Thalia POV
"You like him don't you My Lady?" I asked. "No I do not like him he is a male, and I am a Virgin Goddess." Artemis said becoming a lot more defensive than I though she would as she blushed. I grinned and said, "Sure, sure whatever you say." I bowed and walked out of the tent.
Percy POV
I walked toward the archery range, and found Hannah shooting arrows at the far end. I could tell she wasn't that great at archery but still better than me by far. I waited until she shot twenty arrows in a row, and stopped to rest and look at how she did. "That was good shooting." I said as she started walking down towards the target. She looked at me started and brought her bow up before realizing it was me. "How do you know how I did I can barely see how I did from here?" She asked shyly. "I can see very far, must be a blessing from Chaos or something." I shrugged.
"You got fifteen out of the twenty in the bulls eye."
"Not god enough," She said sadly, "all the other girls can get almost all the arrows in the bulls eye and some can split their arrows."
"It takes practice, but maybe archery isn't your thing even though you're a hunter." I said quietly, hoping I wouldn't offend her.
"You're right actually I am a lot better with my knives," She said pulling out two of the hunting knives that all Hunters have.
"Would you like to train, so you can get better? I promise I won't hurt you and can help you out more." I said to her pulling two of my throwing knives out as well.
"Sure but just warning you I am pretty good." She said to me with a glint in her eye. I nodded to begin the fight and I have to admit, she was pretty good, and came close to actually cutting me. I could have won easily because I was a lot faster and stronger but I decided to see how good she really was. I gave her pointers on how to hold her knives and good ways to block different weapons.
She had improved in the two hours we had been sparring and I could see she was getting tired. As I was about call a halt, to the fighting, I heard an arrow coming at me from behind. I turned quickly to deflect it and as I did Hannah took advantage of my distraction and tripped me and was on me in a flash with one of her daggers at my throat. "Ok, ok you win, but Artemis cheated," I complained as Hannah grinned and she jumped off me. "Thank you so much for helping me Percy!" she said jumping and throwing her arms around my neck after I got up. I was surprised but quickly put my arms around her hesitantly, not knowing if Artemis would get mad at me or not. I looked at Artemis and she looked surprised, but then grinned. "Ok time for dinner, and Percy is going to make it." She said grinning, not knowing I had powers to make delicious food. I grinned back knowing she was going to be surprised.
Artemis POV
I watched as Hannah, the newest Hunter to join spar and open up to Percy. I was amazed because she wouldn't really talk to the other girls and was very quiet. I was surprised that he realized pretty quickly that archery wasn't her thing, and taught her some things with the two knives. I decided to help Hannah out and shot an arrow at Percy while his back was turned. He quickly turned and deflected it, but that was all Hannah needed to trip him and hold a knife to his neck. "Ok, ok you win, but Artemis cheated." I heard Percy say. I grinned as Percy got up, then stood in shock for a second when Hannah jumped up and wrapped her arms around Percy's neck. I had never seen her be that friendly to any one least of all a male, but I shouldn't be surprised because it was Percy. "Ok time for dinner, and Percy is going to make it." I said grinning about him having to feed all of the Hunters.
