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Sorry for taking so long to update - busy life... I hope you like this chapter - more of the hunt in this one
Phoebe groaned, "I don't get all of this gun talk. Gun this, gun that, need to learn how to use guns. What about good ol' fashioned bows?" Phoebe whinged, annoyed that people were now using guns - which were easier and quicker to use than bows, which were of course the hunter's weapon of choice.
"Boys can't shoot boys." Zoe replied dismissively with a slight sense of humour present in her voice.
"Uh, hello? I can shoot boys, I seem to recall splitting your arrows just last week." Percy stated mock-annoyed at Zoe's comment.
"Who says your a boy." Harriet laughed and high-fived Phoebe as Zoe smirked.
"Umm, I'm a boy." Percy whined.
"Uh huh, keep telling yourself that 'cause right now your definitely not acting like one." Phoebe teased and all the girls burst out laughing at Percy who was scowling but the amusement in his eyes showed his true feelings.
"Lady Artemis wishes for us to learn about the guns so we can use them and treat wounds caused by them and other information that might become useful." Zoe stated, stopping the teasing towards the male of the hunt. Kelsey stomped in, "Lady Artemis wishes to see you Zoe, and Phoebe." Kelsey recited. The two elderly hunters walked to her camp. Kelsey soon stomped after, followed by Harriet who had promised to meet with Millie. Percy climbed a tree and sat for a while, swinging his legs and just going over his time with the hunt. He smiled as he thought of the time him and Harriet had put snails in Phoebe's bed, she screamed so loud (and very high-pitched), she'd been bad at the pranking duo for an hour, before getting retribution by putting worms in their quivers. Then there was the time him and Zoe had stayed up, they'd been located near a beautiful, large lake surrounded by mountains in forests in Canada. They'd laid down on the grass down by the lake and had watched the stars, before falling to sleep in the serenity of the area. He grimaced as he thought of all the scars and bruises he'd gotten from Kelsey. When she'd learnt he healed in water, one of Poseidon's nice powers passed down to Percy, she punched him as hard as she could in the ribs countless times, before roughly tossing him in the water and walking back to the hunter's campsite. He was broken out of the nightmare of the thought by a loud, deep voice calling his name from below. "Dad!" Percy exclaimed happily and jumped down, running to hug his godly father.
"Good to see you Perce." Poseidon chuckled at his son's enthusiasm. "How was your birthday munchkin?" He asked his son, staring adoringly at him.
Percy grinned, "It was great dad, me, Zoe, Phoebe and Harriet all went down to a lake and swam around then we had a picnic on the beach. Then at dinner there was a cake with a target drawn on it in icing and I threw the knife at it and hit the bullseye." Percy rambled excitedly
"I'm glad you had fun Percy." Poseidon said before reaching in to tickle his son. He smiled happily, he'd never been so close to any one of his children, and he loved the fatherly bond he felt. He truly loved and adored Percy, and while he missed Sally and wished she was still alive, he didn't regret impregnating her one bit, even if the action had caused her death, he knew she'd have felt the same. When he stopped tickling his son, after he'd though he begged for mercy enough he pulled out a big present, wrapped in sea green paper with little animated fish swimming around on it. After Percy stopped staring at the wrapping paper in fascination, he slowly and carefully took of the paper, preserving it as he loved it so much. Poseidon grinned at the thought of how much Percy would love his present - or how much he hoped Percy would love the present. Percy opened it to reveal a silver watch. The silver watch had little coloured buttons on. "The red one turns the watch into a sword, the blue one turns it into a shield and the green one turns it into armour. "Awesome." Percy exclaimed happily, "Thanks dad." He jumped in for a hug which Poseidon eagerly received, "You can't lose that watch, it will always return to you," Percy nodded thankfully, "I also got you some more normal presents." Poseidon said excitedly - he loved how happy Percy had been with the first present and couldn't wait to see how much he loved these. He clicked his fingers and more of the same kind of wrapped presents appeared. Percy immediately - but carefully - tore into the wrapping paper. He received a pair of flying green converses which matched the sea green hoodie. Some other items of clothing, a football which had animated waves on and a top of the model phone. "This phone is made specially so that monsters can't contact you, I got myself one so we could contact each other, my number's already in there." Poseidon told Percy who immediately embraced him.
"Thanks dad." The two conversed and played with the football for another two hours before Poseidon had to return to his kingdom, Atlantis and return to ruling the seas. Percy walked back to camp, all his stuff in an enchanted green backpack his father had got for him which could hold unlimited items. He felt something pinging in his backpack so opened it and called out "Phone." The Phone slowly made its way to Percy's outstretched hand and he smiled, 'Love you son xx' sent from Poseidon, Percy hastily typed a reply and headed into his tent. He'd eaten with Poseidon so decided to go to sleep, it had been a long day and he was tired - well at least him yawning every five minutes showed his body thought he was tired. He hazily got into his bed and entered Morpheus' realm.
