This chapter will be the beginning of this fanfict's second arc. Hope you guys keep enjoying it.

2nd Arc: The Golden Princess


Chapter 9: Here We Go Again

It is now November, it has been a bit over a month since the week that changed my life. If you've been following me, you might think: "Wow Aiden that must've been a hades of change!" But trust me, nothing much changed. Well, you know, except the fact that from that day onward I can only see with one eye, and also apparently I'm the unwanted descendant of a maiden goddess who despise all men, and I was somehow created instead of being born (wonder how that works…) so there are those. But other than that, I've been living my life like an ordinary demigod. In fact, it has been slow since the day I went to Olympus, I tried to ask people for any information for this Cerberus guy, but I haven't got much luck.

I released the string and the arrow fly toward the target, hitting it nearly in the center.

"Great! You're getting the hang of this" said Will standing behind me.

"Seems so, thanks for helping me trained" I thanked him.

"No problem man. So… any progress with this… Cerberus dude you're looking for?" He asked.

"Not really, I'm not sure where I need to start looking" I said as I draw another arrow.

"Sup' arrow nerds!" Gary comes out of nowhere.

"Did you just call us arrow nerds?" I asked, which he ignored.

"Dude, why are you still practicing anyway? You can shoot arrows with one eye better than me with both" Gary said after seeing the target with a bunch of arrows stuck to it.

"By the way, I've been looking up about this Cerberus dude you're looking for…" Gary said. Wow, he's actually working on something productive for once.

"I've been asking my brothers for info, and one of them told me about a guy in California named Larry Page, and he is said to have information about everything! If I'm looking for someone, that's the guy I would go for information" He continued. Larry Page… where have I heard of the name before?

"He also gave me the address right here" Gary gave me a card which says:

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043

"Thanks for the info man, I'll look into it" I thanked him.

If this guy is anything like Gary said, I might be onto something. And so I packed my bow and arrows (I got the normal bow and arrow again, they won't let me keep the silver one), get my back full of clothes and snack, ordered my plane ticket and…

I took a deep breath as I stepped outside the camp. "Here we go—" and just as I said that, everything went black.

"What the fuck", "help", and "this is a kidnaping" were the only thing I've been shouting trough the sack covering my face. It seems like a group of people tied me to a horse and carried me somewhere. I tried to break free and fight back, but all my attempts came to no result. I don't know for how long or where they were carrying me, but finally they dropped me from the horse, and untie me.

"Don't hurt him too much now" I heard a very familiar voice, and I think I might have an idea where they took me.

And I was right, when they took off the sack covering my face, I'm surrounded with teen girls wearing silver hunting armor. Well, this situation is oddly familiar…

"Pleasure to see you again Thalia. Now can somebody please tell me WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ALL ABOUT?!" I practically yelled.

"Hey, you don't want to have that kind of attitude here. We might be cool, but I can't promise you that no one's going to kick your ass around here" She said to me.

"Oh, excuse me. Why in the flummery did you girls kidnap me and bring me here?" I asked sarcastically, which of course earned me a kick in the butt.

"So you've made it here Aiden" Come the voice of none other than Lady Artemis herself.

"Barely, now is anyone going to answer my question?" I said while standing up and cleaning the dirt from my clothes. Honestly, at the moment I'm trying to disregard her as much as I can.

"Thalia, if you would explain" Artemis said.

"Certainly milady" responded Thalia.

"So our intelligence have been filling us information about you, since we all part of the front liner on a quest to stop the end" Thalia said. Intelligence? So it's Percy or Annabeth.

"And we just got the news that you were just about to go on a solo quest to find an informant" She continued.

"Okay, I need to stop you there. Where the Hades did you get all this information?" I asked her.

"Why that's highly classified" She answered with a grin, which made me rolled my eye.

"As I was saying, you were about to go on a solo quest. Only the problem is, you're not allowed to do that" Thalia continued.

"What… why is that?" I whined.

"You know, so you don't get yourself killed and all. Like it or not, you got a pretty important part in this whole quest" Thalia said.

"In any case, we've decided that while working on the quest given to you, you must be accompanied by at least 3 other demigods" Artemis said.

"Alright then, so I can choose whoever I want to do my work with right?" I asked, obviously I'm going to take Gary, Will, and Juliet with me.

"No." answered Artemis.

Damn it!

"Your companions have been chosen, you shall go on your quest with three of my hunters: Thalia, Rey, and Sasha" Artemis said.

Now I'm okay with Thalia since I've been on a quest with her before and she seems to be the coolest out of the Hunters, but I'll be damned if I need to be stuck with two other feminist.

"Out of all the demigods in the world, why all three of them need to be a Hunter?" I said half whiningly.

"Why, boy? Afraid that we're going to do all your work for you?" said an auburn haired girl.

"Actually, I'm afraid to be suspected as a child molester or kidnapper… or both" That and the fact that this means I need to deal with excessive amounts of sass.

"The Hunters were chosen for the task because they are the best at what they do. Their set of skills will help you in so many ways during your journey" Artemis said.

"I guess that's true, but do you really need to tell me all this by kidnapping me?" I asked.

"Apollo said that this is the only way we could make you come here" Thalia said. Of course this is his idea.

"Fine then, you wants me to go with them, I'll do it. Is there anything else I need to know?" I asked.

"You're going to take a Gryphon" Artemis answered bluntly.

"Okay then is that all- WAIT A MINUTE, did you just say—"


"WOOHOO! This is awesome!" I shouted.

I am currently 1000 ft. above the ground and on the back of a half lion-half eagle creature, with wings! This is a childhood dream came true! This quest might not be so bad after all.

"Keep it down will you!" Yelled a blonde girl who's riding another gryphon, her name is Sasha.

"How are you all not excited?!" I yelled again.

"We've all done this before. Just don't get too excited, this is not a vacation" said the auburn haired girl from earlier who I learned as Rey. They did this before? Man, being a hunter is awesome.

"Are we there yet?!" Thalia said from behind Sasha's back. She had her eyes closed and her hands gripping on Sasha's back.

"Come on Thalia… this is fun!" I tried to calm her down, she really does scare of height.

"I don't consider having death possibility every second is fun" Thalia said.

"So… you guys know the way right? I'm not really the expert of flying on a beast, or flying in particular" I said, everything looks so small from way up here.

"Don't worry, we'll be in California in no time!" said Sasha.

"I still can't believe I'm riding a freaking Gryphon" I said.

"You might want to keep your mouth shut if you don't want a bug fly into your mouth" Rey said.

And after about 2 hours of flight, we decided to stop at a nearby forest to take a break.

"Damn that was awesome" is what I said as soon as I get down from the Gryphon.

"Where did you guys get these Gryphons?" I asked the hunters.

"Just stumbled across a pack of them one day... Natures are naturally attracted to us, so taming it wasn't a big problem" Sasha said.

"Whoa Thalia, are you alright?" I said when I saw the pale Thalia, it must've been hades for her to be up that high for 2 hours.

"I'll manage" Was all she said. She's probably can't express her happiness to be able to touch the ground once again.

"Quick, prepare your tents, it'll get dark soon" Thalia said. Though it seems weird at first that the lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis have acrophobia, I can really see how she worthy of that tiara. She's a splendid fighter, a great leader, and a loyal friend. Well, at least that's what I've heard about her from Percy and Annabeth. As I say earlier, I haven't met her since my first quest. Would be nice to get to know her a little bit more though….

"Don't you hear what she said boy? Stop spacing out and set up your tent" Rey snapped me out from my thought. Their tent is already standing up.

"Be patient will ya, not all of us have a magical instant tent…" I said to her.

And with that, a new adventure of mine begins. I'm just hoping I'm not going to lose another eye this time.


And that's it for chapter 9 guys! Please tell me what you think about it.

As I said before, this is also the first chapter for the 2nd arc of this fanfiction which titled "The Golden Princess". I hope this arc can be longer than the last one because I feel like the first arc ends too quickly.

But anyway, thank you if you still continue to follow this fict from the beginning until now, I really appreciate it.

Bye for now.