Why do I even bother fleshing out characters like Frank or Tasukeru, no one ever reviews it...honestly when I try to deal with people complaining I focus on Percy or Orion too much, I never get any love for it. I need reviews after all, this is one of my big story arcs, and I would prefer to keep it going for as long as possible.
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Lets go!
A reminding flashback
A pack of ferocious, gigantic wolves were currently tearing at the bars of their cage, as the Sage of Ragnarok, who was looking at them nervously, with the fierce sun god of the mesoamerican natives, Knich Apu, and the tall, imposing, Dumbledore bearded Odin with her.
"Um...what exactly are these things anyway?" Knich did not like these things for some reason or another. They greatly bothered him.
"They, are the wolves who we sent to chase the arrogant twins Mani and Sol" the Norse moon god and Sun Goddess, sort of a reverse Artemis and Apollo. Of course, both were a bit vain and show offy, so in a sense they were more Apollo then Artemis "As was requested, I have captured them...ready to track down a new scent for Ragnarok"
"And...how will they do that? Diana is the patron of wildlife, she has an affinity for wolves" Knich pointed out.
"These wolves...chased the Norse twins to create the sun and moon patterns in Norse myth...if I recall they ate them during Ragnarok" the Sage said, a bit bothered by that.
"But we came back" Odin scoffed "So it is of no issue. The twins stay on Asgard for now..why the wolves go on a Midgard hunt..." Odin frowned "For now, Diana shall be their prey" he summoned the bow of Artemis that had been stolen "Now then...the scent to follow"
How quickly, the hunter shall become the hunted
Out in the wilds of Nevada
"...And I'm telling you, mother...that it is the government's job to provide care to those who cannot provide it themselves"
"Its not the Government's job to pay for a bunch of old people to play mal jong all day. Should the Government take over Health Care, their budget cuts will go into the care of birthing mothers and ill children. Better be expensive and reliable healthcare, than free, unreliable healthcare"
"Would you rather them live in chicken coops while Healthcare companies do the same?"
"How long have those two been at it?" Orion muttered as his mother and his newly discovered Half Sister Osprey Ebba was in a huge argument with his mother over Government Healthcare and Social Security
"About 2 hours, 16 minutes and 14 seconds" Quartz commented before blushing. She had the ability to tell time precisely, being able to always be aware what time it is, and if she had ever gone to school, probably could subconsciously make those last 5 minutes before the end of school go by faster.
Significant time manipulation, like what she did with the aide of Armistead on the Succubus mountain, was a lot harder.
"You know, when I ever, joking to myself of course, thought of ever having a sibling, I always pictured a little sister being cute, but annoying, harrasing me all day while my mother seemed to allow her more leeway than me...at no point did I ever think I'd have sisters who were once mentally controlled assassins..."
"Guilty" Kestrel mused
"Or...a nationalist Canadian who seems to want to push how much a mother can stand her child..."
"I'm just saying, you americans have a disgusting amount of murder in your society. If you don't get gun control than your entire nation will collapse...'
"It makes me almost fear what sort of sister or brother I'd find next..."
"Well, there is only one way to find out, and that is to see it for yourself" Armistead frowned as he noticed Osprey and Artemis still at it. "How long will they keep that up..."
"Until Midnight..."
..."Does anyone have earplugs?"
Having set up several tents, one each for the four of them, along with ones for his mother, out of respect, and Osprey, Orion closed his eyes...
As his mother entered the tent, changing into the form of the mother he knew, instead of the 12 year old she generally looked like.
"Orion...we need to talk"
Orion's eyes shot up wide "I WAS KIDDING ABOUT WANTING A SISTER BACK THEN...AND THE FAV..."
"Orion, not about that...well actually sort of...I need advice, and I feel your the best person to give it..." she looked him straight in the eye "What...am I supposed to do with them?"
"What?" Orion asked generally confused about where his mother was going at as she sat down on his bed
"Kestrel I could have handled, she could have joined the hunters...and they probably would have accepted you, and if not I would have made sure you wouldn't be alone, Orion. But...whatever chance the hunters would have at accepting a son who I raised myself, or Kestrel, who would be quite adaptable with them, if we introduce Osprey."
Orion had a sudden mental image of Osprey getting into a violent fight with one of the more, aggressive hunters.
"That's not taking into consideration Quartz and Armistead. Even though Quartz is female, the sheer fact that her DNA comes from Kronos will make her unpopular, if not hated, by and with the other hunters. And Armistead..."
"They would never trust a guy with the ability to be invisible"
"Exactly. The demigods, or demititans, created by the Splinter Cell, are my problem" she had come to that conclusion during talks with Kestrel, when she found out her DNA was the first used, the most used, and what spawned off the other DNA ideas.
Mengle created no demigods of the other kinds, he only wanted to create 'new' demigods.
In a sense, that meant that they were her responsibility, or perhaps it was just her guilt rising up for the fact that she found out that she had so many children who were lost without her even knowing about them, and manifesting with any Cell Demigod she found.
"Too bad you don't have a hunter's group for guys..." Orion commented as Artemis's eyes lit up
"That's...that's perfect!"
"What's perfect?"
"A second hunters group...it would take some planning but I could make a hunters group just for you and the cell demigods. When the hunters are returned, we can work out an exchange program to keep the two groups working together..." she appeared to be trying to figure out some more ideas for the group.
"Um, mom...could you actually go and form a second hunters group. I mean, I know that you and the other gods aren't at speaking terms at the moment, but are you sure that you want to risk provoking them by arming yourself. I suck at history, but even I recall that's a bad thing.
Artemis closed her eyes and sighed.
"Once, long ago, I had a second hunter group" she began "The hunter who was Percy's second incarnation, Rose Columbine, was their leader, but they were murdered during a war long ago" she really did have to talk in greater depth about Greece and Rome. "That group, I do regret, was just a copy of the Hunters you saw at Camp Half Blood, both of them following me more as the Goddess of the Hunt than anything else...but I am so much more"
"What are you getting at, exactly?"
"I have always wished I could do more to help those in my domain; young children in particular. Being a god...there are many benefits, but you have to suffer for your domain as it does..."
"Um, I'm not sure what your getting at?"
"Every attack on a maiden, every maiden who looses herself, be it willing or not, it hurts me. Every young animal killed, hurts me. In me exists an impulse to help, but Zeus has made it so we can't, not actively anyway. I've found loopholes, but even then its tricky to do. Even now, freed from Olympus, his ban still lingers on me. For how long, I know not, but I want to deal with the pain that my inability to save all those girls does to me. There is a reason why we didn't offer Percy Jackson the role of God of Heroes as a compromise after the Titan War; he'd have felt the pain of all heroes, with the likely outcomes of it being him going insane, rebelling against Zeus and saving them all, or becoming as jaded as Dionysus"
"Yikes"
"Very, if you and the other cell demigods, as I hope to save more, could become a team who would ease that burden on me. I admit one of the reasons I never used my hunters to go after rapists is how in danger they'd be in, but as males would be in your group, your in, less danger over all...
That's when the howling was heard, ending this conversation.
Omake
Canon
Percy is still lost (Going back to the Crisis in this omake)
..."Stupid Hero League...I can't even trust my own counterpart to give me good directions...this isn't even my own universe..." Percy mumbled as he found himself in a deep, dark forest.
"Where the Hades am I anyway!"
"POKEMON TRAINER!" Percy froze as a voice yelled at him from behind
'Wha...?' he turned around to see a guy who looked like the main playable character from Pokemon Black, but with black hair, with a dark shoulder cape and green ranger like cloths .
"When did I end up in Unova?"
The character gave him a strange look "Unova? This is the cameon region"
"The what?"
"The cameon region, and obviously the fact that you are here in Victory Forest..."
"Isn't it Victory Road" he hated all four of them
"HA HA HA! YOU THINK A CAVE FILLED WITH WEAK ROCK AND GROUND POKEMON, ALONG WITH THE ACCURSED ZUBAT IS A CHALLENGE! NO TRAINER, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT AFTER A TRAINER DEFEATS THE EIGHT GYM LEADERS..."
He suddenly had images in his head of The Blob with a Shuckle, Katniss with a Beedrill, Max Ride with a Swellow, Sora with a Gurdurr, Mizore with a Frostlass, Kaldur with a Lanturn, Ichigo with a Dusknoir, and Eragon with a Flygon
"YOU CAN FACE THE ELITE FOUR..."
More images appear around him, showing Jason with a Luxray, Naruto with a Zoroark, Harry Potter with a Stantler and Bruce Banner with a Weezing , not that Percy knew who some of them were, of both groups
"AND FACE ME, THE CHAMPION HERBERT, GRASS TYPE MASTER EXTRAORDINARY!"
Percy burst out laughing "A champion called Herbert! And Grass Types...they suck! WHO WOULD USE THEM!"
"YOU DARE MOCK THE NOBLE GRASS TYPE! SCEPTILE USE LEAFSTORM ON THE JERK!"
Leafstorm was super effective of the Water-Fighting Type Percy Jackson
