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Nobody's POV -Primordial training facility-

-Percy's last day of training-

Percy span around, fired two arrows at the targets that had appeared, flipped backwards behind a cement block to avoid Artemis's arrows, he felt the temperature start to increase, he looked over his shoulder, fired another three arrows at some target the other side of the arena and ran from cover, Percy rolled to avoid Artemis's arrows and looked for any more targets, the temperature was becoming unbearable, Percy removed his jumper and tee-shirt, He heard the sound of Artemis's top hitting the ground, he jumped from behind a tree he had taken cover behind and fired four arrows in the direction Artemis was,

Percy knew that if he completed this test his year and a half of training would be worth it, if he didn't he wasn't sure he could take another six months in the training facility, he knew it annoyed Artemis to be stuck in here and away from her hunters, Percy sent Shadow out to find the targets, Percy had named his four latest additions to his army, the shadow creature was called Shadow, his hunting companion would be named Fang, his Time energy companion would be called shifter and his humanoid/shark hybrid would be called Slasher, because he used Scimitars and his teeth were curved, Percy was knocked from his thought by an arrow embedding itself an inch from his head, he heard Artemis curse.

Percy saw shadow enter his shadow once more and Percy felt the locations of the target enter his mind, Percy had worked with Shadow closely over the year and a half and Percy could send Shadow ahead of him, then when Shadow entered his own shadow once more any information Shadow had discovered was sent to Percy, so Percy knew he had roughly thirteen of the hundred targets still to hit, Artemis had him pinned behind a tree once more, Percy slowed down time slightly and leapt from cover, the rules were Percy could slow down time slightly and for a set amount of time, he wasn't allowed to teleport of stop time,

Percy where Artemis was, saw the four arrows she had fired travelling at him and continued running, once the arrows had missed Percy let time travel at normal speed again, Shadow rose at Percy's side and jumped from tree to tree, shooting at Artemis, Percy ran into the open section of the Arena and fired at the three targets he could see, each arrow hit in the very centre, the targets dissolved, the last ten targets were each shaped in the form of a creature and they were moving around in different parts of the arena,

Percy looked from behind his tree, Artemis had become even more skilled in her powers, Percy taught her some of the abilities he had from his hunting power and decided to teach Artemis it, he was sorry he had now, Artemis was wearing a sports bra and the silver camo pants that were part of the hunters uniform, as part of the training Percy and Artemis had done together was archery in different temperature, at first they did below zero degrees Celsius, they wore thermal clothes and Percy had to learn to ignore the cold and still be able to fire his bow, after that they did between thirty and forty degrees Celsius, Percy remembered that day clearly,

-Flash Back-

Percy slowly took off his shirt, the temperature was still increasing, He turned round to speak to Artemis and saw her taking of her top as well, they had been training for a year and Percy was surprised when Artemis looked at his body and didn't looked repulsed of flinch at the ugly scars, "what are you staring at?" Percy broke from his train of thought and saw Artemis standing right in front of him with her arms across her chest, glare firmly in place, "I was just thinking about the training we have done," Artemis smirked "good excuse, sadly I don't believe you, Artemis lunged forward, grabbed Percy's chin in her left hand and her dagger in her right, Artemis pressed the dagger to Percy's groin, "you think with it, you lose it" Percy paled considerably, "Okay! Okay! What do you expect me to do Artemis; it's a natural reaction when a good looking person takes of their clothes in front of you to be aroused..." Percy felt the dagger move, he sighed in relief, Artemis's knee smashed into Percy's privates, he fell over in agony, "simple. Keep your eyes on the target"

-Flash back ended-

Percy couldn't help but look over Artemis's body when they were training, he was only male after all, but he did make sure she never caught him, Artemis did apologise for kneeing him in the groin about a week after, Percy just made sure to stay at least five feet from her at all times, Shadow spotted one of the target to the left, Artemis had left the forest momentarily, Percy fired an arrow to the left of the target, it jinked right, Percy fired and hit the target in the head area, Percy felt Artemis's arms encircle him, one around his waist, the other holding a dagger around his neck, sadly the fact Percy was in his full frame meant Artemis had to squeeze herself to Percy's back, didn't help his concentration, Percy ordered Shadow to hold a shadow blade to Artemis's throat, he then grabbed both her arms and disarmed her,

With Artemis out of the fight Percy mopped up the targets with ease, once the last target had dissolved the forest and ruined buildings dissolved as well, all that was left was Percy, Artemis and Shadow sat in the arena, "Thank you for everything Artemis, there were a few bumps in the road and I hope your time with me hasn't lowered your definition of men any lower, I had fun training with you, but I believe we are both needed by our respective groups, Percy walked over to Artemis, hugged her quickly, pecked her on the cheek and teleported to the Primordial council, only Ouranos was there,

Percy bowed his head, "I believe you know why I am here Lord Ouranos" Ouranos nodded his head once, stretched out his right hand and shot a beam next to where Percy stood, out of the beam stepped Zoe Nightshade, "The Fates have said that her time to be revived is now, they cannot wait until your wedding, Ouranos waved his hand in a circular motion and Zoe disappeared in a light blue flash

Percy's POV -Percy's throne room-

When Percy appeared on his throne his group of monsters appeared also, his guardians assumed their old position, Shadow rose from the floor to converse with them, Percy stood and walked around the room, petting the non-humanoid creatures and hugging the humanoid ones, once the introductions were complete Percy sat down upon his throne, lowered the intensity of the light in the throne room for Shadow, created a massive pool behind his throne for Slasher and called the Council to session,

"All of you report" Percy could see that they were all happy he had returned, Bianca spoke first, "the army has roughly doubled in size, a few new groups have formed that you will have to give final approval of and some of the squads have changed in formations, we will tell you each individual changes as you inspect each squad, the three creatures that appeared in the throne room while you were gone were placed into your squad, we have had no trouble since you left, however Thalia said that she and a few hunters may be leaving the hunt and asked if they would be able to join us, I gave Thalia permission to join us if she wanted, I said that she could bring the other hunters with her and you would have final decision"

Percy nodded his head once, "what about unique monster recruitment?" Luke spoke up, "there were only a few unique or small numbered monsters that have joined, we have had an increase in the amount of harpies, Hephaestus created a few sentient automatons, they decided that they didn't want to act as salves on Olympus and fled, they came here and they work with the Cyclops in the forges, also we created an estuary nearby for all of the monsters who live in water, not long after we created it the Kraken moved in, from what Tyson has told us the Kraken wants to live near us but not actually join us, apparently lots of sailors were trying to hunt him down, when he destroyed their ships the gods sent demigods to kill him, he killed them as well, so Poseidon sent half his army to hunt him, down he fled here then, I contacted Poseidon and told him that the Kraken had been killed"

Percy nodded again, "Okay, in half an hour I will inspect all the squads, Bianca and Luke organise how the squads are going to be re-shuffled to create Thalia and the hunters a small squad each, I'm going to spend the next thirty minutes catching up with my squad so you are dismissed, the councillors left to go prepare their own squads, Percy transformed into a hell hound and tackled Mrs O'Leary, Percy was so glad he had learnt he could transform into any monster.

Artemis's POV -Hunter camp-

When Artemis appeared in front of her tent at her hunters camp she was surprised, the camp hadn't moved, and Thalia was sat in the same place she had been when Artemis had left, the five other hunters sat with her were also in the same places, Phoebe and her group hadn't seemed to have moved either, Artemis was going to make a joke about how it looked as if they hadn't moved while she had gone when Thalia stood up "Lady Artemis, I believe it will be easiest if I just tell you straight, the six of us are leaving." Artemis saw Phoebe mutter something about Thalia being weak, "when we joined the hunt it was because we had nowhere to go, nobody who loved us, we joined the hunt because we wanted a family again, and for ages we did, we were happy, but over the last few years we have witnessed atrocities that sickened us, we don't hate men Artemis, we simply dislike the disgusting men in the world..."

"... but over the last few years I have found myself being more disgusted at them..." Thalia pointed at Phoebe's group, "... They hunt any man that steps into the forest, they slaughter them, sometimes even torture, but what they are too stupid to realise is that the men they kill are the men who go out and hunt so that their wives and children can eat, when I think of all the families that they must have caused to starve to death it makes me sick, the six of us try to hunt for the families we know about but they have killed so many men that we can't feed all the families" Artemis was shocked, there was a blue flash beside her and there stood Zoe Nightshade.

"Zoe!" Phoebe stood up and ran to hug Zoe, Zoe stepped away from Phoebe with a disgusted look on her face, "One of the bad part of being stuck in the sky is all I could do was look down at the earth, sadly that meant I had to see the women and children starve to death because you had killed their husbands and fathers, I used to be proud to call you sister, and the only reason I came here was to tell Lady Artemis that if she ever wishes to speak with me I will be in Perseus's camp" Zoe turned and walked over to the other hunter who were leaving, "Zoe how are you here?" Artemis was still shocked "The Fates owed Perseus a favour, he decided that since you two had to marry he would have me brought back to life as a wedding gift for you, I would love to get reacquainted with you Lady Artemis but Lord Ouranos has just told me we need to go now, he will teleport us to Percy's camp."

Artemis was dumb-struck, she turned to Phoebe "Tell me exactly what you have done without my knowledge, Apollo get here, I need a lie detector." Thalia, Zoe and the five other hunters disappeared in a blue flash, Apollo appeared in a bright golden one, "what's wrong lil' sis?" Apollo realised after he had spoken Artemis looked enraged, she looked angrier than she was when she found out he tricked her into killing Orion. "Please tell me I wasn't the one to annoy you; I haven't flirted with your hunters since before you left on your mysterious mission." Artemis shook her head, "No, Thalia and five other hunters have gone and joined Percy, apparently Phoebe and the other hunters have been killing men who enter the forest, which means that their wives and children have been starving to death" Apollo looked shocked before teleporting himself and all the hunters to Olympus, he called the council to session.

"What do you want Apollo" Zeus's voice bellowed around the throne room, "The hunters have been causing mortal families to starve to death while Artemis was gone no her mission," Artemis was sat in her throne crying, no immortal is allowed to interfere with mortal affairs, it is one of the main ancient laws, the punishment was you lost your immortality, well only if you broke the law and hurt the mortals, if you helped the mortals you simply got told off, "Any hunters who did not actually kill a man step forth and swear you did not, those who have will be killed" each hunter stepped forth and swore that they had not harmed any mortal men, Phoebe and eight others were found guilty, Zeus killed them with his master bolt, Artemis was openly crying, she had lost fifteen hunters in one day, that was one third of the total amount of hunters. Artemis knew that Thalia and the other wouldn't return, the rest of the hunters while not guilty themselves had sided with Phoebe, Thalia would feel betrayed, Artemis flashed herself and the hunters to their camp, Artemis decided she would go speak with Zoe tomorrow, she had missed her so much,

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T.B