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Percy looked at the silver arrow embedded in the tree in front of him. He put his hands in the air and turned around slowly. Standing about twenty feet away from him was a girl that looked a few years older than Percy. She had auburn hair and a silver eyes. She also had a silver bow in her hand.
"Do not move an inch you stupid boy" she said.
Percy cocked his head to the side. "I don't get it. You don't even know me, how can you just assume that I'm stupid?"
The girl's eyes widened. "Do you know who I am?!" she yelled. Percy shook his head. "I am Artemis! Goddess of the moon, childbirth, virginity, the wild, and the hunt! How dare you talk to me like that you imbecile!"
"In my defense I didn't know who you were" Percy said. Artemis shot an arrow that grazed the side of Percy's hair leaving a very thin streak of bald.
"You will watch who you're talking to boy" Artemis said. Percy held back another retort. "You're lucky I didn't kill you on the spot. This is a closed off area of the park, why are you here, demigod?"
"I don't even know where I am" Percy replied. Artemis narrowed her eyes. "You are in Adirondack park. This park goes on for over 9,000 square miles. This 2,000 mile area has been closed off to any member of the public."
"I was just walking around and I happened to get here" Percy said. Artemis narrowed her eyes even further but couldn't detect a lie.
"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you for your insolence, boy." Percy looked around nervously, trying to find a way to escape. If only he'd been able to keep his big mouth shut he wouldn't be in this situation. Suddenly, Artemis sprang at Percy, hunting knives drawn. On instinct, Percy activated his bracelets that turned into celestial bronze knives and blocked Artemis' hunting knives with his own. Artemis' eyes widened.
"What the..." She attacked again. Percy blocked. She slashed at his legs and he blocked that, too. Percy as completely terrified. He had a seemingly psycho man hating goddess trying to kill him. He was barely blocking her attacks and he wasn't sure how much longer he could hold out.
Artemis moved with incredible speed, hacking at Percy, not allowing him to get on the offensive. Percy got cuts all over his body but Artemis got none. Artemis kicked Percy in the chest, sending him flying back into a tree. She charged at him knives ready to end him, when a blast of dark energy erupted from Percy's body, catching Artemis right in the chest. She flew backwards and landed roughly on her back. Percy stood up shakily and tried to get away but Artemis got up to her feet and drew her bow.
"Take another step and you die" she said. Percy stopped. "I don't know what you are, but you are not making it out of this forest alive" she said angrily, spitting dirt from her mouth. Percy made a split second decision and turned his hunting knives back into bracelets. Then before Artemis could react, he took off his necklace and turned it into his bow. The red streaks on the bow glowed in the moonlight of the nighttime.
Artemis almost dropped her bow in shock. "Wh -where did you get that bow? It's beautiful." Before Percy could respond, he saw a flicker of movement out of the corner of his left eye. He quickly pulled back the string of the bow and fired at the empousa that was diving at Artemis. The arrow caught her straight in the forehead and she exploded into golden dust. Artemis looked behind her in shock.
"What in the name of Hades was that?" she exclaimed. Percy pointed his bow back at Artemis and slowly began to back up. "If you don't shoot me I won't shoot you" Percy said. Artemis scoffed.
"Look at the little boy trying to make deals with an Olympian goddess."
Percy cocked his head to the side once again. "You know, you're very bipolar" he said. Artemis' face reddened in anger.
"You want me to add to those cuts on your body, punk?" she snarled.
At the word punk, a sharp pain exploded in the back of Percy's head. The last thing he saw was Artemis smirking at him and another girl stepping in front of him from behind him.
A while later
Percy opened his eyes. He was laying flat on his back. Turning his head to the side, he saw Artemis and the girl he saw before he passed out. Sitting next to them was a plain looking girl with brown hair and brown eyes.
He tried to sit up but the plain girl forced him to lay back down. "Lay down while we talk, child. Your body is still very weak." Percy obeyed and lay down.
"Before I talk to you, Artemis here has something to say to you" the girl said.
"Who are you?" Percy asked. The lady gave him a warm smile and suddenly, Percy felt a lot more comfortable.
"I am the goddess Hestia" she said.
Artemis, meanwhile, looked angry. "You were serious?" she said angrily. Hestia nodded.
"And look him directly in the eye when you're talking to him." Artemis looked Percy directly in the eye and glared at him. She was pleased to see him slightly flinch.
"I am sssss...ssss...sor...sorely angry at you at the way you talked to me earlier" Artemis said with a sheepish glance at Hestia, who was glaring angrily at her. Before she could reprimand her for disobeying her, Percy spoke.
"Don't worry Hestia" he said. "She has hated men for centuries. It's very hard for people like her to get over their sexist views." Artemis looked torn between relief that she wouldn't have to apologize and anger at Percy calling her sexist. Hestia just nodded, even though she was still angry with Artemis.
"You're smart for such a young age" Hestia said.
Percy smiled. "Thank you" he said.
"But I am also intelligent, which is why I am going to ask you who you are and where you're from. You know about the gods yet you are not at camp half-blood" Hestia said. Percy suddenly looked nervous, which did not go unnoticed by Hestia.
"What do you mean. I'm just you're average demigod who happened to get lost in the woods and found by Artemis who decided to try to kill me but couldn't do it so I had to-"
"You're rambling" Hestia said. Percy's face flushed. "Who are you? Tell me child." Percy looked around. He was surrounded by goddesses in the middle of the forest, which was one of the goddesses' domains. There was no way out.
"Okay, but you can't tell anyone. Please." Artemis glared at Percy.
"You don't tell us what to do. We are goddesses you are a mere mortal." Hestia put a hand on Artemis' arm. She shutup.
"Swear on the river Styx that you will not tell anyone who I am unless I allow you to." Artemis was about to retort but Hestia cut her off.
"We swear to your terms." Thunder rumbled across the sky, sealing the deal.
Percy sighed. "Mom is going to kill me" he muttered before saying to Hestia and Artemis, "Both of my parents are primordials." Hesta and Artemis looked at him with shock.
"You lie" Artemis said. Percy rolled his eyes. "Would you like me to swear on the river Styx?" Artemis remained silent.
Percy continued. "My mother is Nyx, primordial of night and Pontus , primordial of seas." Hestia frowned.
"But isn't Nyx married to Erebus" she said. A look of disgust came over Percy's face.
"That man is easily the most disgusting person I've ever heard of." He proceeded to explain his life story from his birth to the death of his mother. Artemis looked surprised when she heard of Percy being beaten at the orphanage and at Gabe's house, as well as her companion. When she heard of Gabe murdering Sally, though, even Hestia could barely hold her back.
"Let me kill him! Let me murder him and tear him apart!" she screamed. Percy explained to her that something or someone killed him when he was unconscious.
"I don't know how it happened. I passed out and then when I woke up there was blood everywhere and he was literally torn apart." Artemis then calmed down when she heard there was nothing to kill.
"So where do you plan on going now?" Hestia asked. Percy shrugged. Hestia thought about it. "I know where you can go. I can take you up to my temple on Olympus. No one except Artemis ever comes to visit so there won't be much of a problem. You can stay there on one condition. Once you turn twelve, I will start asking you to go on missions to rescue demigods. If they're male you'll take them to camp half blood. If they're female, you take them to the hunters and let them choose whether they want to join or not." Artemis perked up at this. She only had sixteen hunters now after a recent attack of 200 monsters took nine of her hunters.
"Do you accept this offer, Percy?" Hestia asked gently.
"Of course" Percy said. Hestia nodded and shot a beam of warm light at Percy. "What was that?" he asked as his body absorbed the light.
"Well if you are to be my champion and live with me you must have my blessing correct?" she said. I nodded.
Artemis stood. "Well, I have duties to perform. Goodbye Hestia" she said, pointedly ignoring Percy. She picked up her bow and flashed out, taking her companion with her.
Hestia stood and helped Percy up. "Come, child let's go. I want to show you my temple and your new home."
Six years later
It had been five years since Hestia took in Percy. As promised, when Percy turned twelve, Hestia had begun sending him on missions to bring demigods to camp half blood and to Artemis' hunt. Percy remembered vividly the first time he brought a girl to Artemis' hunt.
Fashback:
Percy stood in the living room, waiting for Hestia to come and tell him his second mission. Moments later, she flashed in in a burst of flame.
Percy bowed. "Lady Hestia." Hestia frowned.
"I told you to stop doing that did I not?" she said angrily. "You've been here for what, three years now? Do that one more time and I'll hand you over to Artemis for target practice." Percy paled and apologized very quickly.
Hestia smiled. "Thank you" she said. "Now, I have a girl for you to pick up so you'll be going to Artemis anyway." Percy groaned and Hestia laughed. "It won't be that bad. I already told her that you're coming so she'll be ready. The hunt is currently in the Salmon Challis forest in Idaho. You have been practicing your fire traveling, right." Percy nodded. "Good, then you should be able to get there by yourself. The girl is currently in Utah. I'll teleport you right outside her home. She's living in some pretty... despicable conditions." Hestia's eyes flashed with anger and Percy flinched.
"Goodbye, my champion" Hestia said. Warm fire enveloped Percy and he was transported outside of a house in Utah, if you could even call it a house. It was easily the dirtiest thing Percy had ever seen besides Gabe's room.
It was one floor, Percy could tell. Before Percy could study the house any more there was a loud shriek from inside followed by banging and then silence. Then there was a loud scream. Percy narrowed his eyes and kicked down the door before running in, Chaos steel sword had named the sword anaklusmos in honor of his father, primordial of the sea.
The sight he saw in the house was so disgusting that it almost made Percy throw up. There was feces everywhere and piss all over the floor. A girl was chained by her neck to her bedpost and was bruised all over her body. She had no pants on but Percy knew she was still a virgin or else Hestia would've never told him to take her to the hunt. It was clear, though, that she had been abused horrifically. She was unconscious and Percy knew she was choking on the chain. He quickly ran over and melted the chain. Then he picked up the girl and got ready to fire travel away. Before he cold go, though, a fat man with a wild beard and thick greasy eyebrows walked in.
"Who the fuck are you" the man asked, his words slurring together, "and where the fuck do you think you're going with my toy?" Percy's blood began to boil and he gently placed the girl down before turning back to the man, eyes glowing an orange red color.
"Answer me you fucking freak. Who the fuck do you think you a-" he was cut off by a fist in the jaw sending him crashing into the wall. Percy wasted no time dragging him up and delivering another hay maker. Percy beat the man mercilessly until he knew he was dead. He sent a prayer to Hestia, asking her to send him straight to Tartarus and set his body on fire.
Percy turned around and saw the girl awake, eyes wide. Percy stepped towards her but she gave a loud shriek of fear and Percy stopped moving.
"I'm not going to hurt you I swear" he said, hands in the air. He took another step but she screamed again. "I promise I won't hurt you." The girl moved further into the corner. Percy sighed, then he had an idea.
"Are you hungry? Do you want food?" he asked. At the word food, the girl, who looked around six or seven, perked up.
"Food?" she said. Percy conjured a plate of spaghetti and meatballs thanks to Hestia's blessing, and put it down in front of him. The girl still didn't move. Percy sighed and stepped to the other corner of the room. The girl scampered forward, grabbed the plate, and ran back to the corner of the room before eating it like she'd never seen food before in her life. Percy watched as she ate, wondering if she had ever eaten a proper meal before.
The girl finished and held out her plate as if asking for more. Percy smiled and refilled the plate. When the girl finished she set the plate down and stood up. She had blond hair that ended around her midsection and blue eyes.
'That's either Apollo or Hermes' Percy thought. The girl's dress was tattered but covered her up for the most part.
"Thank you" the girl said. "I haven't eaten in three days." Those words filled Percy with rage. "Who are you" she asked. Percy knelt down so that he was looking the girl in the eye.
"My name is Percy" he said. "What's yours?"
"My name is Hannah" she said. "My mommy died when I was little and I don't know where my daddy is. I lived with my uncle for this many years" she said holding up three fingers. Percy's eyes widened. She lived with that monster for three years?
"Well I know a place where you can be safe?" Percy said. "And you might even see your father there." Hannah's eyes brightened.
"I can see my daddy?" she exclaimed. 'Yeah' Percy thought 'Getting shot in the balls by a bunch of man hating huntresses.'
"When can I go?" Hannah asked.
"Right now, if you want to" Percy responded. Hannah jumped up and down. "Let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go!"
Percy laughed and picked her up. She giggled and hung on to his shoulders.
"I'm going to do something that might scare you a little bit but it won't hurt, okay?" Hannah nodded. Percy then shrouded them in flames then transported them to Salmon Challis. They arrived in the forest and Percy put Hannah down. Before they even took a step, though, an arrow flew by and planted itself in the tree behind Percy and Hannah. Hannah shrieked and jumped behind Percy. From the trees Artemis appeared, bow drawn.
"Did you really have to scare her like that?" Percy asked. Artemis glared at him but her gaze softened when she saw Hannah hiding behind Percy.
"Hello there little one" Artemis said as she knelt down and held her hand out. Hannah didn't budge.
"Maybe she would've come out if you didn't try to take off my head with one of your stupid arrows" Percy said. Artemis glared at him again.
"Shutup you cretin" she said. Percy sighed and turned around to face Hannah.
"Hannah, it's okay, she's a friend" Percy said. There was a cough from behind him. "Well she's your friend anyway."
Hannah peeked at Artemis from around Percy. "Are you sure?" she asked. Percy looked at Artemis' withering glare.
"Uuuuuum, sure." Hannah came out. Artemis smiled.
"Hello, my name is Artemis." Hannah nodded. "My name is Hannah" she whispered shyly.
Artemis started explaining to Hannah the rules of the hunt and when she made the offer, Hannah excepted. Percy watched with a small smile on his face.
After, Hannah ran back over to Percy.
"Will I ever see you again?" she asked. Percy glanced at Artemis, who was staring at him coldly.
"Hopefully. For now, goodbye" Percy answered. Hannah hugged him one last time before walking off with Artemis.
After that first mission, Percy took three more girls to Artemis hunt. During those missions, Artemis' greetings were the same. A silver arrow that barely missed Percy's face, then Percy coaxed the girl out, then the girl agreed to join the hunt.
Currently, Percy was sitting on the couch, waiting for Hestia to give him another mission. Today, though, Percy as especially nervous because this mission involved Hades, god of the Underworld. After waiting about ten minutes, Hestia appeared in a burst of flame. The shadows began to gather in the room and Hades appeared next to her.
"Percy" Hestia said, "Meet my brother Hades." Hades nodded at him and took a seat on the other couch next to Hestia.
"Hades here has a mission he needs you to complete for him" Hestia said. "It involves his children."
Percy's eyes widened and he mustered enough courage to speak. "You broke the oath?" he asked. Hades sneered at Percy and he shrank back in his seat.
"I didn't break the oath. My children were in the lotus hotel and casino for seventy years. So try not to make assumptions, brat." Percy shrank back even further in his seat.
"Brother you're scaring him" Hestia said.
"Good" was Hades' response. Percy's face flushed in embarrassment.
"So you want me to rescue your kids?" Percy asked. Hades nodded.
"From Westover hall boarding school in Maine. I have left them there for the time being but that stupid camp half blood has sent demigods to find them. If they are discovered to be my children Zeus will no doubt kill them."
"Ok" Percy said. "I will leave immediately. I promise to return with your kids Lord Hades" Percy said. He merely nodded and disappeared in shadows.
"Hestia" Percy asked. "Can you please transport me to Maine?" Hestia glared at him.
"You need to practice long distance flaming yourself. You know I'm not always going to be there to make everything easy for you" Hestia said before flashing away. Percy sighed. He could flame but long distance flaming wasn't exactly his forte. He took a deep breath and concentrated.
Immediately Percy was dumped in a bank of snow. It was freezing cold up in Maine and Percy didn't even have a jacket. Hestia must have knew he was cold because seconds later, an orange hoodie appeared in the snow next to him.
"Thanks Hestia" he muttered. Percy put on the hoodie and began trekking up a small hill. When he got to the top, he saw a big school that said 'Westover hall boarding school." Just about 300 yards away was a cliff.
'Who the hell builds a school near a cliff?' Percy thought. 'Stupid mortals.' Percy was about to go inside the school when he saw two kids getting dragged out of the building by a manticore. Then, three demigods ran out of the school after them, weapons drawn.
"Put them down" one with black hair and sea green eyes said. 'That's a son of Poseidon no doubt about it' Percy thought. Then there was a girl with blonde hair and grey eyes. 'Athena.' And then there was one with short black hair and blue eyes. 'Zeus'. Percy watched as the boy tried to fight the manticore but was hit with a spike and paralyzed. Then the two girls tried to fight but were both knocked out. Before the manticore could get the children and escape, though, Percy jumped down from the hill, drew his bow and fired all in one motion. The arrow reached the monster the same time that an arrow from the forest to the left of Westover hall reached the manticore. The monster roared with pain as it got hit with two arrows at once.
Percy looked closer. The arrow was silver.
Percy groaned. 'Here we go again' he thought.