When the British band Queen said in Bohemian Rhapsody "I don't wanna die. Sometimes wish I'd ever been born at all", I felt that. It would be an accurate description of how I'm living my life right now. It's been two years since I found out I was a demigod, two years since Luke betrayed camp and every day more demigods following his steps, two years since that Percy Jackson arrived and, most importantly, two years since the start of the waiting to be claimed.

At first, everyone thought Apollo would've claimed me, but after a year and a half of praying to him every day, we all kind of lost hope. My friends from the Apollo cabin where the ones who were the saddest by this turn of events. I mean, I act, look and even have some of their traits like being really good at archery or slightly healing people, but after so long then we just kind of lost hope.

Nowadays I've just been training to avoid been killed by some monsters outside camp borders (not that I went there often). Like I said before, I really don't wanna die. That doesn't mean I'm happy about being alive. Trust me, if I could stop my conception I would give a thousand condoms, birth control pills and then if that failed, then I would drag my birth mother to Planned Parenthood to make her have an abortion. In other words, I don't want to live, but I'm already doing it so might as well survive.

A quick recap of the past two years. Basically Zeus lost his thunderbolt, he blamed Percy, Percy retrieved it, Luke betrayed us, he poisoned Thalia's pine tree, Chiron was fired and Tantalus or something like that replaced him, Clarisse and some others went on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece, Percy appointed himself as part of the quest, snuck out of camp, retrieved the Golden Fleece, saved Thalias pine tree, Thalia came back from the dead, and that leaves us here.

Lots of stuff I know, but if you were one of the background characters of the Percy Jackson adventures as his book will most likely be called, then nothing really major happened. Sure, Luke betrayed us, many demigods went to side with the Titans and Camp was briefely appointed a Hitler as Camp Activities Director, but nothing more aside that.

Anyways, right now I was in the car with Percy, Annabeth, andThalia because we needed to retrieve some powerful demigods from a military private academy. The driver was Sally Jackson, Percy's mother. She seemed really preoccupied about our mission, and I would be too if my kid was the son of Poseidon and going to yet another "quest".

Oh yeah, Percy is a son of Poseidon. Great, I know

The ride there was pretty calm in my opinion. Of course, Sally Jackson didn't seem to know when to shut up, but that was understandable as her son might've died tonight. When she dropped us off, Percy talked really rough to her. She looked kind of sad, although she hid it very well. I wanted to punch Percy in the face so hard, or maybe put an arrow on his rooster, or maybe break a rib, or maybe...

"Bucky you coming?" I heard Thalia ask me from a distance. I realized that while I was thinking of ways I could harm that blasted son of Poseidon, the group had started walking towards the entrance of the school.

"Yea, sorry I just got distracted" I replied jogging my way up to her. I put my hand with hers and started walking with the group. Might've missed that part in my quick recap. Thalia and I are dating and up till now, Zeus hasn't killed me.

When we arrived at the entrance of the school, there were two teachers guarding it. One of them was a woman and the other a weird French looking guy. The man looked at me and I swear his eyes spoke to me, saying "Finally arrived". Subconsciously, I held on to Thalia tighter, which made her blush.

At first they were reluctant to let us in, but after Thalia made her weird Mist thingy, we entered the facilities. We met Grover, the satyr that had found the demigods in the school. He told us that there were two of them, siblings in facts. The girl was supposedly 12 years old while the boy was 10.

We entered the dance floor (it was a dance night, forgot to say that) and we found a bunch of kids there. The kids stared at us while we entered because either they didn't recognize us (doubt it because of the Mist) or we were just really really ridiculously good looking.

We went dancing, me with Thalia and Annabeth and Grover. Percy was alone, good for him

"So, how have you been since the ride?" Thalia asked me trying to break the silence

"I love you" I replied. Thalia blushed madly and hid her face in my chest.

"That has nothing to do with my question," she said composing herself

"I know. I just wanted to tell you. There's just this feeling that something bad is going to happen here, so if anything were to happen to me, I just wanted you to hear that at least one time"

"You are so cheesy" Thalia laughed. I swear her laugh can brighten my mood any day. Even in those days, I think about the fire in the orphanage, I just hear Thalia laugh and my mood is changed for the day. There's just this special connection, you know? Plus, as far as we both know, we aren't that closely related so we aren't inbreeding.

We danced for a while until Grover came to us with Annabeth following right behind him.

"They are missing. Percy too! You guys gotta come with us" Grover said while grabbing both our arms and leading us out of the Gym (where the dance was being held). We were looking for them for about five minutes, when we found them at a yard or something like that. There were two black haired kids, one girl with a green cap that had her face barely visible and one young boy that looked both afraid and amazed. When I saw Percy, he looked like he had to tell something to the girl, so Annabeth put on her insivibility cap and ran towards the little demigod.

Taking that chance, Thalia, Grover and I attacked from behind. Thalia with her Aegis and I with my bow and arrows. "For Zeus!" Thalia yelled at the top of her lungs while marching forward with her spear.

In front of us, where once stood Dr. Thorn (the guy whoo seemed creepy at the entrance) now stood the Manticore. He tried to slice Thalia in half, but fortunately she used Aegis and rolled backwards, saving herself. From his scorpion-like tail, he fired missiles at Thalia and us. Thalia deflected them using Aegis, but I just had to manage with my reflexes.

Grover began to play his flute, making the grass "trap" the manticore at his feet.

"A Manticore!" Annabeth yelled

"No shit!" I yelled right back. The green cap girl said something but I really can't remember because it was so irrelevant to everything that was happening. Must've been something along the lines of "WTF IS THAT?!" or "WHO ARE YOU?!"

The manticore kept throwing his missiles at us and, at one point, my reflexes gave out. I was impaled with at least five of them right on the chest, thankfully not hitting any vital organs, but still hurt a lot.

I saw how the manticore threw Thalia off into the snow. I tried to yell at him but I was just too shocked about everything that was happening. Plus, you know, the lots of missiles sticking out of my chest.

Just when I thought my girlfriend was done for, the sound of a hunting horn was heard from the woods. The manticore froze, in fact nobody moved. Only the sound of my breathing and some helicopter was heard in the snowy passage.

"No, it cannot be-" the manticore started to say when he was interrupted by a glowing silver arrow that imbedded itself in the shoulder of him. He screamed in agony and I almost had pity on him. I mean, sure he is bad, but those arrows hurt way too much.

"Curse you!" he cried and released some spiked into the woods. Each one of them was shot down by an arrow. Awareness of who had arrived had just made contact with my brain, as I prayed to any deity that might've been listening that it wasn't who I thought it was.

Percy was stupid enough to try to attack him (the manticore) when he wasn't really injured. Amateur mistake if you ask me.

The Hunters came out of the woods wearing silvery ski parkas and jeans. They glared at all of us but, when their eyes landed on me, their glare intensified by tenfold.

"The Hunters!" Annabeth cried

"Oh wonderful" Thalia muttered, loud enough so I could hear

"You don't know the half of it" I said. Thalia lookeed at me strangely and I mouthed that I would explain later.

My best friend Zoë Nightshade came forward with her bow drawn, looking at the manticore with hate. "Permission to kill, my lady?"

Who was my lady? Could it be? No...

"This is not fair! Direct interference! It is against the Ancient Laws." the manticore wailed

"Not so," said a girl I hadn't seen the time they came to Camp Half-Blood. She looked about twelve or thirteen, with auburn hair and silvery yellow eyes like the moon. She was beautiful, no denying that, although she had a very stern face. "The hunting of all wild beasts is within my sphere. And you, fould creature, are a wild beast." She looked at my bestie "Zoë, permission granted"

The manticore growled. "If I cannot have these alive, I shall have them dead!"

He went towards Thalia and Percy, knowing they were weak.

"No!" both me and Annabeth yelled as we charged the monster (well, tried to in my case)

"Get back, half-blood!" the ferret said "Get out of the line of fire!" But Annabeth leaped onto the monster's back and drove a knife into his mane. I, on the other hand, tried to run as fast as I could and began to shoot arrows. This made the manticore turn his attention towards me.

"Fire!" Zoë ordered.

"No!" Percy shouted

But the Hunters didn't give two shits about something a boy said. They let their arrows fly. They hit the manticore in the neck, chest, and all around his body. "This is not the ed, Huntress! You shall pay!" and before anyone could react, he lunged towards the cliff. I tried to stop him and save Annabeth, but to no avail.

"Annabeth!" Percy yelled.

There was gunfire coming from the helicopters . Most of the hunters scattered as tiny holes appeared by their feet, but the girl with silvery eyes just looked at the helicopter and said "Mortals are not allowed to witness my hunt." and with that, she thrust out her hand and the helicopter dissolved into a flock of birds.

The Hunters advanced towards us, all of them glaring at me. Like, it couldn't have been more obvious. Thalia used me as support because, even if I felt like dying, I still needed to help her.

Zoë came towards us and stopped when she saw Thalia. "You," she said with distaste.

"Zoë Nightshade." my girlfriend voice trembled with anger "Perfect timing as usual."

Zoë scanned the rest of us, growling as she saw me. "Five half-bloods and a satyr, my lady."

"Yes," the twelve year old girl said. "Some of Chiron's campers, I see."

"Never would I have thought I'd see the day Zoë Nightshade was being respectful towards others." I intervened in their conversation. The hunters growled when I opened my mouth, but to be frank I didn't care the least.

"Annabeth!" Percy yelled somewhat breaking the tension. "You have to let us save her"

The auburn haired girl took a break from looking at me (that's right, looking, not glaring. Maybe there's still hope for these girls) and turned her vision towards Percy. She looked at him with compassion

"Your friend is beyond our reach. You're a son of Poseidon, can you feel her in the water?" At his silence we all knew the answer

"So why are you gals here? Let me guess, Zoë wanted to impress me with her improvement of manners. Unfortunately, even if you wanted me, I'm already taken. And I'm loyal" I said putting one arm at Thalia's waist.

Zoë's face went as red as a cherry flavored Gatorade. If she were a cartoon, steams would be coming out of her ears.

"Why you insufferable son of a b-" she started to say when she was interrupted by the twelve year old girl

"Zoë stand down," she said putting her hand up. "Why do you act this was boy?" She asked me forcefully, but at the same time with curiosity

Before I could answer, the annoying son of Poseidon opened his mouth "Just who do you think you are?!" He yelled at the girl.

Now, I may be stupid. But at least I can analyze a situation and infer when someone is powerful. Percy on the other hand is just plain dumb.

"Boy!" Zoë Nightshade yelled at him and was going to slap him when the young girl put her hand up once again

"Stop, I sense no disrespect," she said while Zoë reluctantly relaxed a little "Demigod, I am Artemis. Goddess of the moon, hunt, Woods, chastity, archery and maidens" she said proudly

"And apparently leader of little bitches" I muttered. Only Thalia and Artemis seemed to hear me as Thalia hit me hard and Artemis glared

"Jagger shut up!" Thalia yelled

"Nah, something inside tells me they will not kill me anytime soon" I told her while receiving death glares from the hunt. "Plus, why are they so angry all the time? It's not like they don't know who their parent is or if they got their only house burned to the ground. At least they're like a family. A family of brats, but still a family" I said glaring at each and every one. For the first time, they averted my eyes, all except one.

Artemis.