First off, to those who says Percy is a coward and stuff… To me, I think it's natural when you're dating a pms, all powerful goddess, but sooner or later I'm going to make percy more rebellious and 'manly' ok?
Secondly I will be having exams in 2weeks, followed by a 2 weeks study trip. I'll try to get a chapter done right after exams but no promises.
Artemis
That was the best three hour sleep I had in the past few days. I missed the feeling of Perseus hands around my stomach, and his warmth seeping into me from the back. It definitely beats sleeping in his shirt. Unfortunately, I was awoken by my stupid, grumbling stomach. It was already close to 8pm, and I'm really hungry. I tried to wiggle myself out of Perseus's grip, but that guy has one hades of a grip.
"Perseus, wake up." I nudged him with an elbow.
"Unless Olympus is getting attacked, I'm not budging." He tightened his grip as I felt him sniffing my hair and sighing in bliss. Well, I totally understand how tired Perseus is, but…
"Perseus, get up now or the person getting attacked is you." I elbowed him harder this time.
"Can't I get some sleep?" He whined as he released me and rolled over, spreading himself out like a star.
"But I'm hungry." I rubbed my stomach as it grumbled in agreement.
"5 more minutes." He rolled away and smother his face in the pillow… which is probably contaminated with our… you know.
"No, I want to eat now." I pulled him up to sitting position, but still his eyes were shut and his head hanging low.
"You said you prefer me without the use of my legs, makes you feel like a 'man'. Now, you have to do your duties as a 'man', if you even are one." I taunted, but he just ignored me and continued sleeping.
"Perseus…" I swung him back and forth as his head knocked back and forth.
"Okok, just stop swinging me. It's giving me a headache." He grabbed my hands and stopped me. He peeled my hands off me and simply clasped his hands together. Just like that, a plate of venison pasta just appeared in my hands as he just collapsed back onto the bed.
"Aren't you hungry?" I asked with my mouth full.
"Too tired to bother." He said through the pillow. Sigh…
"What do you want now?" He complained with a bit of annoyance in his voice and his eyes shut.
"Feeding you so you don't have to move your body." I stuffed a piece of venison into his mouth.
"I still have to chew." He still has the cheeks to complain.
"Shall I chew it for you Mr. Jackson?" I said in the nicest, most cynical tone.
"If you want to kiss me just say. No need for excuses." He said cheekily as his eyes fluttered open, reviewing his sea green eyes and his cocky grin, which is annoying yet disarming at the same time.
"It was a rhetorical question you idiot." I sighed.
"What's . ?" He got up and asked me, articulating the words bits by bits.
"Questions that doesn't require an answer." I explained to him.
"What's the point of a question if you don't want an answer?" He asked again.
"That's because- wait why am I even debating with an idiot like you? If you have so many questions, I will be glad to hand you to Athena. She'll love to answer all of them. "I looked at him irritated.
"Yeah maybe I should. Then maybe I can try my luck and have telepathic sex with her." He joked, and I glared at him angrily.
"I give you a chance now. Take back what you say before I slap you." I gave him a warning, in return for the nice message he gave me just now.
"Well it isn't exactly cheating since we didn't physic- okok I take it back." He stopped whatever rubbish he was sprouting when I raised my hand.
"Anyway I doubt she would even entertain me. She hates my father, and all other "sea spawn" as she would call it." He "assured" me.
"Athena doesn't hate your father, they just love to argue a lot, but they care for each other. That time when your father flared up at me, Athena went over and calmed him. The way she looked at him, I'm sure she's in love with him." I pondered as I thought back to the scene when Athena was calming him. Her hands were on his shoulder, but it was like she wants to move down and touch him.
"Just like how you look at me?" He smirked and raised an eyebrow at me, making me blush a little.
"Shut up and eat." I changed the subject as he summoned a burger for himself.
"How's your leg now?" He spoke up.
"Still a little sore, but I'll be able to go back to the hunt tomorrow." I said as I wiggled my toes to make sure I can feel my legs.
"I think you should rest for a couple of days more, you know just to be safe." He suggested, and I looked at him.
"I just don't want to back to the hunt so soon. My relationship with the hunters went from dislike to hate again." He looked down sadly
"But why? I don't remember you doing anything stupid to them." I stopped eating and sat closer to him.
"They demanded to know why you were sad, and why I left, so I told them that I might have pissed you off when you were teaching archery." He replied, and I did the thing most people would do at this point. I kissed him on the cheek.
"Normally I would slap you for doing something so stupid, but you know you did it for me, for us." I couldn't resist but turning his head over to kiss on the lips.
"Now finish up the burger and get back to sleep." I pulled back from him and snuggled back under the blanket first.
"Wait a second, you wake me up just to eat?" He looked at me with his knitted eyebrow and frowning face.
"Yeah? How can I sleep with on a hungry stomach?" I got myself into my sleeping position. "Eat faster and come back to bed, couldn't sleep without something to hug." I closed my eyes to rest awhile first.
"Artemis, the most independent women I met, needs security when sleeping." He commended as he slipped under the blanket and wrapped me around him.
"Shut up before I kick you off the bed." I threatened.
"Sure you will." He teased, and we both chuckled a little before dozing off.
Percy
I woke up the next day, fully rested. The first thing that greeted me was Artemis's foresty scent. As I squeezed her closer to me, I felt her body seemed smaller than usual. I opened my eyes and saw Artemis in her small, twelve years old form.
"Aw…" I let out a sad pout as Artemis slowly stirs away.
"What?" She pulled her hands up between the small space in between us and rubbed her eyes lazily.
"You're back to your twelve year old." I commended sadly. Her eyes immediately flung open, showing her two slivery orbs as she looked down to inspect herself happily.
"I got my powers back!" She hugged me tightly happily, but I could only return it sadly though.
"Aren't you happy that I got my powers back?" She asked angrily but more of curiously.
"I am, just that… You looked hotter and sexier in your eighteen years old form." I admitted meekly as I inspected her body. Her breasts are definitely smaller, and now the uniform fits her, which means it's no longer hugging her curves.
"Sometimes I wonder if you're just sexually in love with me." She rolled her eyes, followed by a flash of silver light blinding my eyes.
"Why are we back in the hunt?" I asked the moment I could open my eyes.
"Because we've been gone for too long, and I miss the hunters." She pulled away from me and went to change.
"But I don't miss them; neither would I want to meet them." I replied as I went to get changed as well.
"That is your problem. The most I'm going to do is put in a few good words for you since you got into this mess because of me." She tried to sound nonchalant.
"I love you Arty." I went to hug her from the back, pressing her back against me.
"Perseus, stop hugging me already, we have to go find the hunters." She shook me off and tidied herself before walking out.
"Don't drag too long. The hunters are probably at the dining table already." She flagged the wing and went off without me! I don't know why, but I felt a little petty anger when she didn't bothered to wait for me. Nevermind, I could always get back at her tonight. I exited the tent and went to the dining hall, where the table was already filled with food and a bunch of hunters looking at me with…delight?
"I… shall go do my chores now." I replied awkwardly and decided to walk off before it's too late.
"Perseus…" Artemis said my name in her icy cold tone, which literally froze me on the spot. I turned over as I looked at her two silver eyes that displayed nothing but fierceness and anger. She may be shy in bed but wow she's good at playing two-faced.
"There's already food on the table, and- ok I will sit down and eat." I changed my mind when she opened her mouth.
"Here Percy, have some bear meat." One of the hunters actually served me, with a kind of forced smile on her face. Something is definitely wrong here. It's not poison definitely, they can't afford me to die. Maybe laxative?
"It's ok, I'm not hungry." I tried to decline as politely as possible, but the looks on their faces tells me that I don't have a choice. I looked at Artemis, who simply signalled the food and asking me to try it. Without leaving my eyes off them, I slowly raised a piece of the bear meat and moved it to my face. Reluctantly, I opened my mouth and placed the meat in it, and the first reaction I had was how freaking horrible it tasted! I haven't even bitten it, and I already wanted to vomit out. The seasoning on it was just horrible. It also had this burnt taste, as if someone decided to just throw the whole bear in a camp fire and cook it.
"So? How is it?" Artemis asked, and I could see the smirk on her face. She knew the food sucks. It was like back at the dining table in her palace, only this time I'll have thirty hunters ready to punish me if I reply wrongly.
"It's…ok…" I said grudgingly as I swallowed that horrible… I wouldn't even call it food, and I immediately regretted my decision as the hunters smiled and pushed all their food to me.
"See? I told you someone will appreciate my cooking." Thalia commended with pride.
"So it was your cooking? Oh gods no wonder it sucks so much." I started coughing, forcing myself to vomit as the rest of the hunters just laughed at me.
"Don't laugh so soon. You all also have to eat it, because I am not going to summon any food for any of you." I replied them as I started pouring cups and cups of water into my mouth. The lack of reply told me I won.
"Hey my cooking isn't that bad!" Thalia grumbled as she tried a piece of the bear meat and immediately spitting it out.
"Ok maybe I've used a little too much salt." She admitted angrily, and everyone started laughing at her.
"Alright playtime aside," Artemis cleared her throat. "Perseus, summon some breakfast for us." She ordered, and I immediately complied since I didn't want to eat Thalia's cooking either. It was that horrible. The hunters are still the same; they are ignoring me, which is totally fine with me. However, I still feel uncomfortable sitting on the same table with them. Any time soon they could just have a mood swing like their mistress, who is currently laughing away with her hunters, and decide to prank me or something. There was a lot of laugher going around, mostly happy and enjoying their reunion with their mistress, and not having to eat Thalia's cooking. Making use of this, I quickly finish my food and sneak away. I got away safely as I walked towards the river and noticed the usual pile of clothes there. I guess I have to follow the old schedule, the one that involves doing all the chores and training. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss life back at camp. I have friends there, fight some dummies or Clarisse.
"Hey, you didn't tell me you were going. Made me look all over for you, and why are do you look so sad?" Artemis popped out of nowhere and took a sit beside me by the river.
"Nothing, just thinking of the times back at camp. It was much more fun with sword practicing and capture-the-flag." I sighed as I started washing the clothes.
"I know how you feel Perseus. I'm also bored being stuck on overseer duty here. We are usually hunting monsters, but duties are duties. Who asked me to be the only one not constricted to the Ancient Law?" She also sighed as she picked up a pebble and threw it in the water.
"Actually… Shouldn't there be monsters attacking us? I mean, 31 demigods and an Olympian goddess here is will nationwide broadcast to monsters to come." I pulled up the cleaned uniform and will it dry before throwing it to Artemis.
"Like you said 31 demigods and an Olympian goddess, no monsters is that dumb to come attack us. We are ones who are finding them." She replied as she folded the uniform and placed it nicely beside her.
"Maybe we could sneak out and attract some monsters to fight. You could hide and let me be the bait. I'm sure lots of monsters would come." I suggested and was immediately answered with a knock on my head.
"Are you an idiot Perseus? What if it's too much for us to handle? You may be strong for a demigod but not invincible." She refuted my idea.
"Scared you can't handle it?" I decided to taunt her.
"What do you mean I can't handle it?! More like YOU can't handle it!" She stood up and raged at me.
"Hmm I wonder why I am here in the first place. Oh right, is because even Zeus thinks you can't handle it on your own." I smirked at her, and she was trembling in rage and anger.
"Perseus Jackson you asked for it! We are going out on a monster hunt later, and I'm going to amplify your demigod scent to attract every single god damned monsters in the world. We'll see who needs whose help!" She flared at me.
"I win." I grinned at her and let out a sigh as I collapsed on the ground behind me. I managed to trick Artemis. Yeah that's definitely going to be something to remember for eternity.
"Perseus you…! How dare you trick me?!" She raged at me and hammered my stomach hard.
"That's hurts!" My body curled up as I hugged my stomach in pain.
"You're god damned lucky I didn't turn you into a jackalope and hunt you down!" She continued to rage at me.
"Hey it's just a little trick, no need to get so worked up." I raged back at her, surprisingly making her flinch slightly. "If you can't take it, at most in the future I'll make sure not to trick you or have fun with you, in case you're too petty to take it." I continued to flare up at her.
"I…I'm just…I'm just n-not used it." She replied, fear ringing in her tone. Oh shit, I think I just went overboard.
"I'm sorry Arty. I don't know what got into me. I just don't understand why you can't take a little trick. That's like how people have fun, pranking and tricking one another. "I pulled her in for a hug.
"We don't usually have tricks and pranks in the hunt." She replied meekly. "The hunt was a more serious place. Sure we chat and laugh over dinner and campfire, but there was still a strict discipline and order. All that, was before you joined us. I just you changed us." She told me, and I finally understood her point. Not just in relationship, all these pranks, even teasing are new to her.
"I'll try to be more considerate in the future." I kissed her on the forehead, which I don't know now whether it is being considerate or not.
"I'll go uh check on the hunters." She said awkwardly and left. I suppose we do need a break from each other for a while. I proceeded to clean the laundry on my own. It was my fault, I should have known better than to trick her. During lunch time, she also wasn't there with me like she used to, neither was she there are the armory afterwards. Did I take it too far? It was just to have fun. I didn't mean to scream at her, or even hurt her. I just thought it would be fun to be able to taunt Artemis. After sharpening the arrows, it was time for hunting lessons. I used my tracking powers and found Artemis in our tent. I went towards our tent and just stood outside. Should I enter? What if she needs more time, or just don't want to see me for now? My presence might just piss her off even more.
"Uhh…" I heard Artemis groan and I immediately flagged it and enter.
"What's wrong Arty?" I rushed over to the bed and held her around me as she rubbed her temples.
"Just a little headache." She groaned out.
"Come on let me do it for you, you just relax." I removed her hands and laid her head against my chest as I rubbed her temples for her.
"Your chest feels good." I heard her sigh as I continued to message her temple. I continued for quite a while, with Artemis purring occasionally.
"Ok that's enough." She removed my hands and turned over, the broad smile on her face tells me her headache is gone.
"Let's go for our monster hunt now." She got up, leaving me in a state of confusion.
"I thought you were angry, and then you ran off and then…" I was simply at a loss of words.
"Did I tell you no specifically?" She asked. "Meet you at the Campfire pit in 5." She informed me and left, but now I'm starting to think this was a bad idea. She just had a headache minutes ago and now she wants to go monster hunting. She's a goddess yes, and definitely more powerful than me, and yet I'm still can't help but worry for her. Maybe it's just my overprotective boyfriend side acting up. Nonetheless, I was still a little hyped about monster hunting. Definitely beats using a stupid bow and shooting at target boards that I'll never hit. I took off immediately after my internal debate. The deciding factor in the end was there was no way I could change Artemis's mind. I quickly rushed to the campfire pit, where Artemis was already waiting there tapping her feet impatiently.
"I said in 5! Not 6, not 7 but 5minutes." She scolded me the moment she noticed me. She grabbed my hand abruptly and flashed us away without any warning.
"I'm going to amplify your demigod scent to about 10miles radius. We are going to compete who kills the most at the end of our hunting sessions, which is 2 hours if you had forgotten. Winner gets to demand any request from the loser. No powers, but all weapons are allowed. The game starts now!" She just throws me a bunch of information and snapped her finger. Before I was done going through her words in my mind, I could hear an arrow being fired.
"One" She smirked at me and ran off. "Two…" I didn't intend to make this a competition. I just wanted us to relieve the feeling of real battles, to sharpen our sense that's all.
"Two…" I heard Artemis shouting out from a distance. Ok time to pick up the pace.
Linebreak…
The battle was unfair right from the start. Artemis has a bow, and an aim that's not even godly possible. Every shot, I mean literally every shot, hit the monster right in between the eyes. The best part was she could shoot from I don't even where she is. I had to run up, dodge the monster's attack and then cut his head off. There was also times where before I even reach the monsters, a stupid silver arrow just fly out of nowhere and steal my kill. I tried changing to my bow, but let's just say I had trouble even hitting my target.
"I give up!" I decided to collapse and lay on the floor. About an hour has passed, and the score was 20-4, me being 4 of course.
"So I win the challenge?" I heard Artemis's voice as she jumped off from some vantage point of hers that allows her to shoot anywhere.
"If you think you deserved it then sure." I retorted her
"I did not cheat!" She raged back as I felt a kick on my arm.
"You stole 7 of my kills! I was going to kill it when your arrow just fly in and stole it." I got up and met her gazing eyes.
"You could have used your bow and steal it from me that is if you even can." She huffed and turned her head away from me.
"It's not fair at all. Bow against sword in hunting." I snorted back at her.
"Fine how about this. I'll pity you. I challenge you to a sparring contest. Same rules, all weapons are allowed but no powers. How about it? Dare to take up the challenge? Double or nothing." She taunted me. I took a minute then to ponder. If I managed to get near her, her bow would be useless against me. Even if she managed to pull back and shoot me, I could easily deflect her arrows. It's a sure win for me.
"You're on." I took out Riptide from my pocket and readied myself.
"Ready when you are, or else someone might say I cheated again." She snorted as she pulled back a little from me. All right, just charge in and give her no space to shoot. I tightened my grip on Riptide, and immediately lunged forward. As if knowing my plan, Artemis side stepped and started firing arrows while pulling away from me. It was tough deflecting her arrows, no argument about that, and the rate she fires her arrows is just insane. Sure her bow doesn't require her to reload the arrow, but she doesn't just pull the string back and randomly fire. All her firing seemed to have an aim and objective. She would aim for me leg, then my arm. Any second slower and I would lose an arm or a leg. Her movement is just so fast, and agile. The moment I thought I got close to her, she would just side step and changes her direction of movement so fast. I don't even have the time to swing my sword. Seriously, she could be the goddess. She makes my fight with Ares look like child's play.
"Having trouble Percy? I could give you some chance if you ask." She chuckled at my failed attempt to reach her. We were at a stalemate for quite some time. Her arrows couldn't reach me, neither could my sword. At this rate, the one who would eventually lose would be me since she's the one with godly stamina. I was thinking of calling it draw, but something she did shocked me. As usual, I reached close to her, and usually she would jump away in a different direction that for some reason I could never guessed it correctly. Instead, I caught her smirking as her bow changed into a spear and she met my thrust.
"Since when?" I blinked my eyes in disbelief at the spear. I never knew she could wield a spear. It wasn't mentioned in the studies back at camp, or was it I wasn't paying attention? The whole battle just went downhill from there. From the one attacking, I became the one on the defensive as she strikes me with such swiftness. Her style of fighting, I've never seen it before. It has the elements of both a stick and a spear in her strikes. She sometimes holds it like a stick and attacked me with both ends, or simply wields it like a spear. Soon enough, my sword and speed just weren't enough to counter her attacks as the blunt end of her spear hit me on the back of my right knee, followed by a swift kick to the chest that sends me flying backwards and landing on my back. Before I could get up, Artemis had me pinned down as she lunged at me, her legs and hands pinning mine down.
"Say it." She was grinning evilly as she knew she knew she now has two demands from me. I tried to move my hand, but she seem to know it as she pressed some point on my arm, forcing me let go of Riptide in pain. I looked back at her, and she looked back at me, demanding me to say it.
"Fine, I yield." I said gruntingly I looked away from her smirking face.
"Good, now I have two demands from you." She got off me and pulled me up.
"Actually, what can you do if I refuse to say?" I asked as I dusted myself. She pondered for a moment, before shrugging at me.
"I don't know actually… Maybe tickle you." She giggled.
"And since when you know how to use a spear? Aren't you all bow and hunting knifes?" I asked as she picked up her spear.
"Most people don't know this because they are too stupid to realize that hunting in the past is done by spears. The use of bow and traps only came in later as they were developed." She replied me, and I gave her my signature look.
"Oh." I looked at her blankly.
"So…" She wrapped her hands around my neck and tipped toe to bring her face closer to mine.
"What am I going to ask from you?" She grinned at me.
"I don't know. What can you ask from me? I gave you everything." I crept my hands around her back and squeezed her close to me, causing her to yelp in surprise.
"Well, there is one thing I want to do…" She trailed off as her hands were fiddling with each other, her head now tilted sideways to avoid my eyes.
"I want to…" She leaned in and whispered in my ear. "Do it with you again." She quickly pulled back, face totally red as she looked at me with anxiety.
"So who's the bad huntress now?" I chuckled.
"Perseus, I'm serious!" She raged at me, putting on her fiercest look with her face totally red from embarrassment.
"Why the sudden… interest?" I almost said desire, but decided to change it. I want to do it with her, not doubt. I'll love to taste that delicious… In short I'm not objecting to it, just interested in knowing why.
"Ever since that night in the forest, I-I always wanted to do it again. Besides the pleasure, I loved the feeling of you inside of me, and the after sex feeling." She said shyly as her body shifted left and right constantly.
"After sex feeling? You like not feeling your legs?" I knitted my eyebrow.
"Not that!" She raged at me. "The feeling like you are still inside of me and some other feeling that makes me feel extremely happy afterwards." She starts to smile and drift off to her own world.
"Hey." I shook her, causing her to startle and looked back at me curiously, before blushing again and looking away.
"I'll do it with you, but you don't have to go through all these trouble just to ask me that. You can just ask me at night you know." I chuckled at her silliness.
"I know, but It doesn't feel right just doing it for the sake of… doing it. If not I'll probably be fucking you all day-" I looked at her with wide astonishment as she clasped her mouth in horror.
"You want to fuck me all day?" I teased as I dragged my hands down to her butt.
"I do but," She grunted as she wiggled out of my hug. "I'm not going to." She crossed her arm in anger.
"But why not?" I asked. Our lives would be like so much more fun if we were to do it every day.
"Firstly, you're going to die of overdose of ambrosia if we were to do it every day. Secondly, doing it every day will cause it to lose its significance. I want do 'it' for a good reason, like winning you in a bet, our anniversary or some celebratory reasons." She huffed. Just as I was going to ask about weekly, two laughter burst out in my head, a male and a female laugher.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Those two laughed so hard in my head.
Percy, don't bother with what she says. All you have to do it bang her one good time and she'll want to do with you weekly, daily even. Aphrodite's voice rang through my head.
Yeah Lil cuz, that was how I thought when I first had sex. Now look at me. Apollo's voice came in, followed by a string of laughter and a slap across the face.
"Ouch! What was that for?" I asked irately as I rubbed my cheek.
"You were daydreaming." She said. "Had to wake up somehow." She added.
"You could have tried shaking." I mumbled quietly.
"I could have tried shooting you mean." She raised her voice at me. "Let's go back to camp, straight after dinner is going to be archery practice." She grabbed my hand.
"Wait what happened to dish washing?" Doing chores or archery practice with Artemis, I think I know which one I'm choosing.
"Leave it to the hunters. We need to work on your archery skills. It's just horrible. I just needed to watch you fire one arrow during the monster hunt and it was enough to make my boil blood." She continued ranting about her essence in me and being her boyfriend as she flashed us back to the hunt. Dinner commenced immediately, and right after I finished my food I was yanked away by Artemis to the archery range.
"Get into firing position" She ordered, and I did my best to remember what I learnt from last lessons, which was quite a few days back.
"Perseus, why is it so hard for you to get your stupid position right?!" Artemis raged as she used her bow to whack me into position. The rest of the three hours went on with me getting more whacks for forgetting my position. Artemis made to get in and out of firing position to test me, and it took about five tries to get into it without getting whack. It then proceeded to me attempting to hit the bulls eye, which of course never happened except for that one time where Artemis was holding my hands and doing for me to prove that I just suck, not entirely hopeless.
"If you still can't get it by tomorrow's lesson, I'm throwing you to the wolves." Artemis threatened as we both collapsed after three hour of torture.
"I'm trying ok? It's not easy." I complained breathlessly.
"How hard is it to get into firing position? You just to stand shoulder wide, back straightened, arms locked at 90 degree, stomach in-"
"Did you realize you just told me 4 things I have to do? It's like all over my body and I need make sure every part is correct-"
"You're just lazy to practice. I don't care. You either get it right tomorrow, or you can sleep with the wolves for the night. Now come on, we got a long night ahead. I decided to use my second demand for a full body message. My shoulders are killing me." She said as she messaged her own shoulder.
"Shouldn't I be the one to receive a message? I'm the one who got whacked all over." I looked at her, who in return gives me an angry look in return.
"I'm the one who had to use force to whack you. It's tiring you know." She retorted me. "Now come on, stop wasting time." She grabbed my hands and flashed us away.
"Wait for your turn." She warned me sternly, even lifted her fingers and pressed on my chest as she went into the bathroom and slammed the door at me.
Well that's all for now. Like I said, I'll try my best to get a chapter done during the buffer days before my trips. If not… you guys will have to wait for 1 month haha LOL.