A/N Hi again. Welcome to the first chapter of Double upload weekend, *woot* *woot*.
Enough celebrations now, I have edited the story of Hard as Rock to,
Percy is a keen boxer and climber , he attends school and has friends. He doesn't know anything of his enemies and neither do they he has been hidden for years, but what happens when he is found. He is chased by the Gods and is finally caught but to what will happen to him he doesn't even know who he is now. Pertemis later, maybe guardian and lots of action. Plus underused Gods and Goddesses.
I have changed it to climber as it will make more sense plot wise. :P
First Chapter coming up anyway, bring in Artemis, *applauds*
Chapter 9 (The day Percy has to find Diana)
I woke up looking up at my tent roof. The roof had numerous embroideries on it, one of my favorites dated back thousands of years ago. It depicted the scene of Apollo and I running with my Mother, who was still recovering from our birth, the scene next to it showed Apollo notching an arrow in his bow at the Python which was following us at the time. I remembered the scene because after the arrow had left the bow it killed the massive Python, I never would say it but Apollo had saved my life but I am too prideful to admit it.
Another one of my favorite scenes on the tent roof was the Scene of Perseus taking the weight of the sky from my shoulders, so I could help Zoe Nightshade with her battle against her father Atlas. The scene was pleasant in design but the memories would pain as well, because that day Zoe my lieutenant had died due to her fathers actions, it was also happy that Perseus had helped her instead of being a rash male and taking Atlas head on he instead let me free and held the weight for me.
Thinking of Perseus I remembered her dream of how I had captured Perseus.
*Dream*
She stood in her Hunters uniform in the middle of the forest. The forest was beautiful with fresh Spring leaves sprouting on the branches, the flowers swayed in the breeze of the soft wind that wrapped around her legs before moving on through the forest. She started to head of in a direction where she could here noises and laughter, she was walking through the forest with her senses on top alert in case danger lay ahead of her.
The part of the forest where she had got to was covered in a massive canopy that let stray light in through the small cracks of the leaves, it was an exquisite scene that was ahead of her, the moss that grew on the sides of the trees were a deep dark green much like Percy's eyes when he would feel sad, in fact most of the forest was similar to his eyes, that I guess is the case since he has green eyes, but there was also tints of brown in his eyes that you would have to look for, she had spotted them during the celebration party after the Giant War when he had to do a speech and his face was projected on to a massive screen, courtesy of Hephaestus. The tints of brown I guess could of represented by the bark of the trees.
Anyway as she neared the voices, one sounded like a small girls and the other a boys it was muffled though. As she got closer she saw that there was only a boy in a clearing, apparently talking to the flames of the fire that he was sat around. She couldn't see his face because he had his face facing away from her, but what she could see that he had jet black hair that was messy and ruffled like he had been fighting. The boy sat on a log over looking the fire and was sharpening his blade whiles looking at a target range in the distance. When she looked at the target range she saw that the boy had split many arrows on the bulls eye.
That is when he turned around with a smirk on his face suddenly flushed out to a look of shock and fear, it was Perseus, he stood up slowly and gently leaned over and picked up a bag and ran, his sword that he was holding was now a golden dagger. I hadn't realized it but I was following him matching his great strides through the forest.
I had managed to chase him back round to the clearing I had first met him and as he was about to flee I notched an arrow and released. The arrow sailed gracefully in the air making a soft swooshing noise that was until it hit its target, and there lay Perseus pinned to a tree by the side of his collar I shot another one before he could escape and sealed his fate, he was now trapped to the tree with no option of escape.
I strolled over to him swiftly and cut a deep gash in his leg. I did this not do this out of anger but so he could not escape from me. I gathered up my two silver arrows and placed a firm hand on to his back to stop him from falling over. I helped him limp off the tree before setting him down on the log.
Just as I was about to speak, he lent over to me and kissed my cheek.
That is when I woke up
* End of Dream*
I looked back at the silver stitching of Perseus and my mouth crept in to a small smile. This is wrong my mind was screaming I was having some small feelings for a man. But he is so beautiful my heart whispered back. On this case like normal followed my brains instincts and left my heart behind.
I flashed my Hunters uniform on and was out the tent flap to discuss to the hunters what we were doing today.
I strolled over to the middle of the camp and raised attention to myself by clearing my voice," Good morning Hunters, today I feel we will make some valuable progress in these next 2 days in the search of Perseus." I shouted with authority in my voice.
"How?" Many of the Hunters muttered.
"Well, we will be heading to Minneapolis like we discussed earlier, then whiles we are in Minneapolis we will go in search of the first Moon Goddess Selene, she may know where Perseus is due to her brothers fading after meeting Perseus," I yelled affirmatively."Now pack your gear and we will get to Minneapolis by nightfall, Chop chop"
The Hunters scattered from the miniature circle they had formed around me. I walked through camp looking at how quickly the Hunters were dismembering the tents and chucking out possessions and clothes they had into small rucksacks and then would drop the tents, to swiftly roll them up and squish them in to a long circular bag. I made my way to my tent which held all my possessions, unlike the Hunters tent mine didn't need to be cleared as it was magical in that respect. My tent had many items one of them was a large king sized bed that had large wooden banisters coming up from each corner. They were each carved with a half moon and then painted silver so it left a wooden beam with a silver moon embedded into it. I had one of my many bows slung over the side of a chair which was in the corner of the tent. My hunting knifes were hanging from a beam which came from the side of the tent, you couldn't see it from the outside because like many of the hunters tents they were bigger on the inside and largely differed to what they would look like on the other side.
I grabbed the bow slung on the chair and headed out in to the now bright sunlight which encased the camp. It was now breakfast, the Hunters favorite time of the morning.
I made my way to the last tent standing after some Hunters took down my tent sharply. I drifted into the middle of the dinner hall and made my way to the head where I would sit and look over the Hunter as they ate. From the looks of what the cooks of camp had cooked it appeared to be pancakes and bacon, my favorite. Just what we needed for a long day of walking to Minneapolis.
The Hunters eagerly looked at me to take the first bite, it was a small tradition we held in this camp, before every meal began they would wait for me to start. I stabbed my fork into the crisp bacon and took a hearty bite savoring the delicious taste I swallowed and the rest began eating.
After a quick breakfast that didn't last very long 5 minutes at the most, we were ready to travel. Most of the Hunter shouldered small rucksacks that held all of the tents, even the bags were magic they seemed small but were massive on the inside plus they weighed considerably less than what they should do.
We swiftly walked through the forest at a fast pace, I still had time to take in the wonderful forest we were in, the trees were still losing leaves like the ones in Chicago were. The grass grew long here, it looked as if no one had made any movement in here for years, the ground was bumpy and hadn't been flattened, there was still animal footprints in the dirt that looked like they had been there for a week at least.
We finally came to the end of the forest and was greeted by a busy highway that ran parallel to the road, it was amazing how well the soft chirps of birds and other natural noises drowned out the noise of the road until you finally came to it.
We had to walk in the direction of the Minneapolis because none of us wanted to ride in a car, because I doubt that there would be one with enough seats for 50 girls and one leader in a regular car and we were certainly not calling upon my brother to pick us up from our location. All he would do was flirt with the girls. So we went on our way with little talk or at times none.
We had little to talk to about we, since we hadn't encountered any monsters for days apart from the Hydra which was a few days ago now. Anyway now was not the time to want to fight a monster
The sun was setting and it was casting a lovely crimson orange color in the sky littered with clouds. The sun was a beautiful bright orange and was slowly setting over the horizon of Minneapolis the city from our side was a dark shadow with the light coming through the gaps of buildings casting light on the smaller buildings to the sides of them.
We continued forward until we found a suitable location to camp and sleep the night.
After getting closer to the city we found a small woodland area with enough space to put down a camp.
We had a small dinner at the dinner hall before heading of to sleep.
(Day after Percy meets Diana)
I awoke in my tent looking fondly over the embroideries on the tent roof. I promptly put my uniform on before shouldering my bow and going to the dinner hall.
I wandered through the small camp seeing drowsy Hunters walk out of their tents with their friends behind also looking tired, it was like a camp of zombies this early in the morning, what they needed much like me was some good grub from the kitchen staff this morning.
I arrived at the tent to see a few Hunters already there looking expectantly to the kitchen doors willing the food to come out. I calmly took my seat at the head of the table and waited for my breakfast.
I sat there along with the rest of the Hunters now staring widely at the door of the kitchen waiting for the food to come out, after a some what long wait for the food it finally came out and graced the table. The Hunters hardly had to wait for me to start because I almost instantly pounced upon my food and started chucking it down my throat and then forcing down the water I had on my table, all together I can quite firmly say I was a little peckish. So after the worlds quickest breakfast we packed up the tents and set of for Selene's house. It was quite near the western side of the city and we were on the eastern side, that meant we had to walk through the infested streets of the city before reaching her house.
We arrived at the entrance to the city and set off to Selene's house. We quickly found ourselves surrounded by busy shoppers, hasty business men and gangs of people, it was not a fun experience as we walked through the city streets.
I would look up to the sky to be blinded by the sun which was reflecting off every different glass panel on every building, it was as if there was a second sun in the middle of the street. Unlike when we walked through the city of Chicago were we chilled by the harsh winds that battered our bare skin, but instead were welcomed by a small calm breeze that would cool you down on this warm Autumn day that we were in. Just as well we don't often use deodorant in the Hunt and only often take a bath when we can take one.
It took us quite a while to reach the less business part of Minneapolis because of all the bustling through the crowds and getting in arguments with arrogant men who had the cheek to flirt with us, I had refrained from turning any of them into rodents of animals, I didn't want Zeus to be mad at me again.
We arrived at a nice petite house with two floors and a cobbled foot path that led to the front door.
I asked the Hunters to wait for me before following me. I walked up to the door and rang the bell quickly three times. No reply. I tried it again and was yet again met with silence. I listened carefully trying to hear something, I was just giving up when I heard a large laugh and headed of in the direction.
It came from the back of the house and I slowly started making my way round the house before spotting the beautiful figure of Selene laughing at two people. One was a girl who looked very much like her Mum but more of a 10 year old version, she guessed that because their was a banner that read happy 10th birthday Diana and it was defiantly not for the boy who she sat next to.
I looked at the boy trying to catch a glimpse of him because I could not tell from the shadow he sat in. He then stood up again and looked at the girl before what appeared to change form before stepping back into the light to make the girl laugh.
Now I could clearly see who it was and did not like it.
A/N Yeah guys I am going to leave it like that, I suppose you know who it is but if you don't you will find out tomorrow. Expect it to be a Percy chapter may be some Diana if I feel like it. :D
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