Have you ever met someone and when you started talking had an instant connection to them? I'm not saying romantically, it's just that you click.

Well believe it or not, that's exactly what happened with the goddess Artemis. Sure, she was leader of my anti-fan club, but there was just something with her. Might've been the fact that she was the only one who didn't want to kill me, might've been the fact that she didn't really glare at me, it could've been lots of things. One thing is for sure, I was not just an average boy to her.

She ordered the Hunters to set up camp, which they did in like five minutes. Artemis then went to her tent with the new demigod girl, Bianca di Angelo I think. The little boy, Nico di Angelo, wanted to go with his sister, but Artemis basically led Grover on to make him watch the boy.

While the girl Bianca and Artemis talked in her tent, Grover and the rest of the demigods (Thalia, the young boy Nico, Percy and I) sat on a log. I sat next to Thalia, trying to lift her spirits up a little, but she was just way too mad at Percy for me to be able to do anything.

Percy seemed sad, having just lost his "best friend" and sexual tension partner.

Nico di Angelo, one of the kids we just rescued, did not seem to sense the vibe of dread that was consuming all of us (well, almost all. I really didn't care as I didn't like Annabeth). He kept asking so many questions that actually considered putting an arrow through his head.

He asked many stuff to Percy, such as if he used his sword as a pen, if it ever ran out of ink, if he was a son of Poseidon, if he was good at surfing and that, if Annabeth was a daughter of Athena and supposedly smart, why did she fall off a cliff. I barely contained my laugh, while Percy looked ready to kill Nico.

Before he could do anything, the great lieutenant of the silver Girl Scouts came towards us, obviously glaring daggers at me.

"My lady wishes the presence of the two boys" she said pointing her finger at both Percy and I

"Why Zoë, hasn't anybody told you that pointing fingers is of bad taste?" I said while stretching my way out of my seat

"Thy doesn't deserve respect"

"That may be true, but a goddess just asked for my presence. In other words, I must be important, more so than you" I winked at her and walked like three steps then turned around.

"Lead the way ferret" I told Zoë. For the first time she just ignored me and walked past me in a fast pace. I began to follow her with Percy at my side.

"What's up without her?" He asked me. I turned my head towards him and spoke

"Don't talk to me so much. Just because the same person hates us doesn't mean we're friends"

He seemed sad, and I knew I was being mean. I just couldn't help it when a kid was being so annoying and thinking he's better than everyone else because of his father. Sure he didn't act that way, but I just sensed how he thought, just like a person like him would.

The task of befriending him had been much more difficult than I had initially thought. At first I was amazed on how he could defeat the Minotaur without training, but after retrieving the Lighting Bolt, he thought that every quest was for him. A perfect example is the quest for the Golden Fleece. It was given to Clarisse by Talantos, but Percy appointed himself because "he had the idea first" or something like that.

In other words, I don't consider Perseus Jackson my friend, nor my enemy. He's the kid that you don't talk to from your class that you don't really like, but at the same time you wouldn't do anything to him (for now).

We walked through the camp with Zoë on the front, leading the way. She stopped in front of a tent. The tent wasn't different from the others, although it held an area of superiority.

After knocking three times, a strong voice was heard.

"You may enter"

Zoë went in the tent, not even holding the flap open so that I may entered.

Inside the tent was Artemis and Bianca. The walls were covered in animal furs, which made me kind of happy. A person working for Peta might've died of shock here, but we're not two faced douches (not even Zoë, she's not two faced).

"Ah Percy and Jagger, nice of you to join us. Please, take a seat" Artemis said motioning to the seats in front of her.

The ferret took seat at the side of the goddess while Percy took a seat at the side of Bianca. There wasn't any room left for me, so I sat in the corner, right besides Bianca and Lady Artemis.

"You may be wondering why I look this age" Artemis said. Percy nodded while I was just doing a glaring competition with Zoë. "I may appear as a lamp, a buck, an old woman, but I choose this form as it is the average age of my hunters"

"So you can appear, say 17-18 right?" I asked, knowing the answer

"Yes boy didn't you hear her?" Zoë replied

"I didn't ask you"

"Well you were being disrespectful"

"Okay you are shunned for five years"

"What's shunned?" Zoë asked

"Lady Artemis, could you answer my question?" I asked her completely disregarding the ferret

"Yes I could, although I don't do it often" she replied calmly

"Could you do it now?" I asked her

"I normally don't do requests...especially from a boy..."

"Lady Artemis this is insane! He just comes here and demand you change?! He is just a disrespectful, womanizer, son of a b-"

"Alright that's it! Unshunned!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Until now, Bianca had been pretty scared and Percy was unsure on how to act. "I may be okay with you insulting me, hating me, wishing I was dead, attacking me, and many other stuff. But I won't let you degrade my mother to such a standard. I may have not known her, she may have not wanted me, but I do not give a SHIT. I still love her and if you say one more thing about her I swear I don't care who you are but I will kill you" I said as I stood up from my seat.

"The only person who could've had a son like you is a whore" Zoë said while standing up.

Something inside my head clicked. I marched towards her and punched her rib cage as hard as I could. She fell down breathlessly.

I grabbed her by the front part of her shirt or jacket and exited the tent. Once outside, I threw even more punches at her face. She was so beaten up that here was no way she could retaliate.

Normally when I was doing karate, a little part of me would've made me stop and take mercy on my opponent. But when I was beating Zoë up, there was no such thing. I just continued to punch her and kick her in the stomach.

A crowd was gathered, both the hunters and the demigods stood there unsure on how to stop the scene. The only one who had the courage to do anything was Artemis. She came towards me and grabbed me by the neck. She put her arm around it and the other one she used to hold my arms together in a way that I couldn't escape.

She led me through the woods far away from the beaten up Zoë Nightshade.

Now I tell you, being taken far into the forest by a man-hating goddess is not the most peaceful time a guy like me could have. Having heard many things this goddess had done to many innocent guys made my imagination go wild. I mean, I had just beaten up her lieutenant so bad that I may have broken her ribs, several of them, and even done some inside bleeding damage.

She threw me into the ground and just stared at me for about a minute. I grew impatient from the wait of my doom and told her "If you're going to kill me just do it and be done with it"

She stared a little bit more and just sighed.

"Huntley" she said quietly. How does she know my name?

"Don't call me that"

"Huntley" she repeated as she took a step closer. There was a bright light, so bright that I had to shield my eyes. When it died, I opened my eyes and saw that, in the place where the young 12 year old goddess was standing, an 18-19 year old woman stood. I recognized her as the girl from my dream two years ago. The girl I saw get raped by the blonde guy.

"Y-yo-you a-are t-th-the-the g-g-g-girl fr-from my dream" I said while reclining into a tree for support.

"Jagger," she walked in front of me. She put a hand on my cheek as tears began to fall from her eyes "I am your mother"