I would really like if people would at least read the first chapter of the story that was first called 'Weasel's Story' but then called 'Lost' and is now called 'Life Stinks'….it's not as bad as it sounds!

HERMES'S POV

"Ow, ow, ow, can we switch arms now?" she was literally clawing my arm. Sure, I should be blaming myself for this, because I was letting her attack my arm. But I didn't know she would claw me this hard. Aphrodite said it was getting really close now. About another hour or so, and Artemis would be done with all this.

And my arm would be gold and sore, and possibly shredded. How can they expect me to hold my child with shredded arms?

"Fine." Artemis panted, as the pain eased a little. I walked over to her other side, and she grabbed my non-bleeding arm. She was calm for a few more minutes, and during that time she drank some water. But that time didn't last long enough. Almost as soon as she put the glass down she was back to ripping my poor arm apart. I bit my lip to keep from yelling out. The goal was to keep quiet, so no one would know we were in here.

What happened next happened so quickly, I couldn't recall it for the life of me. But im immortal, so would that count for me? Anyway, Artemis let out a gasp, and the next thing I know, Aphrodite comes in carrying a freshly cleaned baby girl wrapped in a little white blanket. I couldn't help but smile. But a few minutes after Aphrodite handed the baby to Artemis (I had to clean the ichor off my arms first), I heard a gasp from the opening of the cave. And when I turned to see who it was, I saw Apollo. He looked furious.

"You…" he pointed at his sister with a shaking finger. "You broke your sacred oath!"

"It wasn't her fault!" I growled at him.

"I don't care if it was or not! She should've knocked your teeth out the minute you made a move toward her!" how the heck did Apollo know already that it was me. Before I could snap something back, Apollo was gone.

"Get deeper into the cave. He's gonna come back." I said, helping Artemis back up and rushing her, the baby, and Aphrodite deeper in the cave. When we got to the back, I pushed a boulder out of the way, revealing a small path way.

"You'll be better off becoming smaller. Move as…I don't know a cat or something. But just keep going. This leads to where ever my mom is now. Just tell her what happened, and she'll help you." I told them quickly.

"What about you?" Artemis asked. I couldn't help but notice how this was starting to sound like some cheesy romance movie.

"I'm going to stay here, maybe find a way to get Zeus on our side for this, if he's there." Before she left, I gave her a quick kiss –causing Aphrodite to start tearing up in happiness- then watched as she and Aphrodite morphed into cats, and the baby into a tiny, newborn kitten dangling in Artemis's mouth, mewing for food. As soon as they were both in the tunnel, I pushed the boulder back and hurried back to the front of the cave.

Not even five seconds after I got there did lightning flash and thunder roar, and Zeus appeared in front of me, looking madder then Apollo had. Oh, how I would've preferred if Hera were with him. She'd at least calm him down a little. Unless she'd be mad too….

"Where. Is. Artemis." He demanded through clenched teeth.

"She left. and if you'll listen-" I never did get to finish that sentence. I was blasted with lightning too quickly for me to dodge. And that was just a warning. But it hurt.

"It wasn't her fault!" I tried again, but was shot at again, barely managing to dodge. I kept trying to tell him to listen, and I would explain, but he lost his patients far too quickly.

3rd POV

The air began to sizzle, and Zeus's most powerful weapon, his Master Bolt, formed in his hand. Before Hermes could get out of the way, the powerful lightning was striking him, burning him, while the power of the blast caused a major cave in. broken rocks and boulders poured down, crushing Hermes, while the blast of electricity continued to burn him, and the rocks.

ARTEMIS'S POV (in the garden of the Pleiades)

"Well, if it weren't under these circumstances, I would've congratulated you." Maia said as she herded us away. But just before we got to a huge, hollowed out tree, a bright light came from in front of us, and Apollo appeared.

"Give me the child." He demanded.

"I'd give up immortality before giving her to you." I growled at him. I didn't know where the motherly protection came from, but all well.

"You broke your oath!" he roared at me. "And with Hermes! That thief probably only wanted to satisfy himself, you know that!"

"It was my idea, not his! He warned me against it, but I wanted to know what it was like! I didn't ask for a child!" I snapped at him. He seemed shocked for a second, but soon got over it.

"He wont be there to protect you when Zeus gets his hands on that child." He sneered.

"Well if he won't, then I will!" Maia butted in.

"I already promised to side with Artemis and Hermes on this one." Aphrodite added.

"And others will probably side too. Immortals always take sides." I hissed.

"And they'll all side with the side that's honest."

"No. If Athena goes on one side, Poseidon will take the other. Ares will go on Aphrodite's side guaranteed, and it will move like that, as it always has." Artemis growled.

Thunder roared in the distance, and I looked up. Even from here, I saw flashing lightning, and heard the crash of rocks. A second later, I realized what had just happened.

"You destroied a sacred place. The birth place of a god, you destroied! You moron!" I almost screamed at him.

"Artemis, you're going to hurt the baby's hearing." Maia said gently, though from the glare in her eyes, I knew she was twice as mad as I was. If we were right, Hermes was hurt, his birth place destroied, and in huge trouble.

"You just invited someone to destroy Delos, Apollo. The island we were born, and you just invited Hermes to destroy it!" I punched him in the nose, before teleporting –as much as I hated that- to the cave where me and Hermes first realized our feelings.

It was cold, but I didn't care. Holding my daughter, I walked to the back of the cave, and stepped into the little hot spring, hoping to warm the two of us up. It was a few hours before I heard someone calling my name.

"Artemis! Come on, where the heck are you!"

It was Apollo. I didn't answer, just hugged my nameless daughter closer, and sunk deeper into the water. He continued to call my name, and a few times I was tempted to give my daughter to him, and let him destroy her. But then I would see a devastated Hermes. After all he had lost –May, Luke, a few other kids, the trust of some of his fellow immortals, his birthplace, and so much more- he didn't need to lose anything else. I had a feeling that destroying his daughter –OUR daughter- would destroy him too.

So I refused to answer his calls. Maybe he would give up. He doesn't like the dark, and it was pretty dark back here. Surely he would be too wimpy to come all the way back here. But I was wrong. A few minutes later I saw the glow, and he must've seen me in the water.

"Artemis, im sorry! I honestly….i just lost my temper! I never thought you'd break your oath….sure, I saw it coming, there was a prophecy about it, but I never really believed it…and Zeus destroied his birthplace, not me! Forgive me?" he looked at me with big, blue puppy eyes. But I was mad at him.

"What prophecy?" I yelled at him. The baby whimpered, and through motherly instincts, I held her close and calmed her down.

"It's nothing…it already happened, and the rest isn't really too bad…."

"Apollo!"

"Okay, fine! I just have to remember it, and that might take some time…"

"You won't have any time, if you don't tell me it now!" I threatened him. He sighed.

"A thief shall steal a forbidden heart, play a game of sacred art, an adventure to begin in a rain of fire, and end with much desire." He recited.

"That's it? Only four short lines?" I wasn't so sure if he was telling the truth. But he nodded, and being the god of truth, surely he couldn't lie…and wouldn't dare lie to his sister. Not if he wanted to live, anyway.

"If you were really sorry, you would go help Hermes." I hissed at him. He only sighed.

"You should put the baby somewhere safe. With your hunters or at camp. Zeus will be looking for it."

"For her. Not it."

A few minutes later….

"Just keep her safe. Don't let anyone take her. Even if Zeus himself comes to get, do not even think of handing her over. I'll explain more when I know more." I told Chiron as I handed my daughter over to him. I really didn't want to part with her just yet. But I had to make sure it would be safe enough on Olympus.

"I swear it on the Styx." Chiron said, taking the child and holding her close. He was always good with kids.

I didn't exactly enter Olympus the correct way. I teleported to Apollo's palace. There, I found him tending to Hermes. He was in bad shape. Burns covered his whole body, and many bones were broken. The cave had collapsed on him, and he had been struck by lightning multiple times.

"Is in waking-death." Apollo sighed. I could tell by the way he was glaring at Hermes limp form that he was still mad and most likely wouldn't forgive Hermes for a very long time.

"How long until he's back?" I asked.

"I don't know."

I walked closer to Hermes's beaten body, while Apollo put a towel on him from waist, down. His face was perfectly still, looking peaceful, but I knew he was feeling no peace at all. Although gods can't die, if we get injured bad enough, we will go into a waking-death. A god in waking-death can't move at all, doesn't breathe, and doesn't think, the whole body just shuts down. But they feel every bit of pain, and every touch sends waves of pain. And it was my fault. I had convinced to do what he did in the cave, I was the one who got him involved when I realized there would be a baby coming, and it was my younger brother who told Zeus. And now, he could be stuck like this for up to 3,000,000 years, possibly more.

The next chapter will have a lot of arguing, I think. Unless I think of something to happen before that. But if I don't think of something, I will continue with my plan.