Gaea's laugh echoed across the valley. The demi-gods' hearts all dropped. She had survived. The gods all appeared with a flash. Gaia rose out of the ground mere feet from them.
"And to what do I owe a visit from the amazing Olympian council?" She drawled, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"We have a deal for you grandmother," Hestia replied, stepping forward. "If you give us Australia, we will let you have everything else."
The demi-gods gasped. Most were boiling with rage, to fight so hard only to have the gods sell them to Gaia to save their own hides.
Gaia gave the Olympians a thoughtful look. As she did, the gods shifted in place nervously.
"Fine," Gaia finally sighed. "On one condition. Each of you has to follow one order from me every year."
The council quickly talked it over, "We agree," Hestia announced.
"Swear on your immortality," Gaia intoned.
The gods all swore and black lightning flashed through the sky.
"Perfect," Gaia smiled wolfishly. "Artemis, I have an order for you."
Artemis stepped forwards. She was ready for the worst Gaia had to offer but this was worse than what she expected.
"You are going to be allowed to travel to other continents besides Australia so that you can be with your hunt but, your hunt will always be accompanied by a male that your hunt is not allowed to hurt in any way."
An enraged look crossed Artemis's face. She glanced at her hunt who also looked enraged except for Thalia, who just didn't care.
Artemis gritted her teeth, "And who is this male?"
Gaia smiled. "And that brings me to the next item of business: who will be ruling the world. The answer is quite simple but at the same time, quite terrifying." She clapped her hands and the other 11 primordials appeared next to her.
"We will rule the world. After all, we are the embodiments of it." she smiled while even the gods cowered.
Artemis looked at Gaia, confused as to what this had to do with the male that was going to travel with her hunt. Gaia saw the look on Artemis's face and burst out laughing.
"Do not worry Artemis, you will meet your guardian soon," She laughed
The primordials all opened a portal next to them and out of each portal stepped someone about 19.
Gaia snapped her fingers and the fates also appeared, "Girls? if you would?"
"All hail Laima Daughter of Ananke, Araysh son of Erebus, Nora daughter of Aether, Amadeus son of Eros, Dionne daughter of Gaea, Nox son of Nyx, Dia daughter of Hemera, Ayla daughter of Ouranus, Zyanya daughter of Chronos, Adrian son of Pontus, Birsha son of Tartarus, and Kimon son of Hypnos," With that the fates disappeared.
Everyone was sitting slack jawed staring at the Demi-primordials.
"Amadeus?" Gaea called. "Could you come here? I have a job for you." She grinned evilly in Artemis's direction. "Artemis, here is your new guardian."
Artemis gave the boy a quick once over. He was 6'4" with brown hair, tan skin and a brilliantly white smile. His eyes started bright red around his pupils but as it went out towards the whites of his eyes, faded to gray.
The strangest thing about him were the wings on his back. They were covered in purple feathers and had a seven foot wingspan.
"You also have to follow any orders he gives to you or your hunters," Gaia continued, trying to suppress the urge to laugh at the look on Artemis and the hunters' faces.
Amadeus grinned, "This will be fun," He snickered. "Hmmm. Artemis, kick Thalia out of the hunt."
"What?" everyone but the primordials and their children screamed.
"Calm down," Amadeus told them all. "She joined the hunt to escape a prophecy. The prophecy has passed so there is no need to keep her in the hunt."
Thalia slumped seeing there was no way she was going to convince him otherwise.
"Th-th-thalia," Artemis stutered. "You are removed from the hunt."
Thalia glowed silver for a second before slumping to the ground, unconscious.
Amadeus turned to his Aunt, "So are we heading back to Nosbocaj now?"
Gaea smiled, "The final thing that all of you must know is all demi-gods will be moving to the new capital of the world, Nosbocaj." The Primordials all clapped and all the demigods, gods Demi-primordials and Primordials were teleported to the city Nosbocaj.
"Welcome to your new home, Demi-gods." Gaea announced.
Amadeus glanced at Artemis to see her deep in conversation with Phoebe, one of her hunters. He walked behind a building turning invisible and sneaking up silently behind Artemis to hear what she was saying.
"Phoebe, you're the most skilled and loyal hunter now so I want you to be my new lieutenant," Artemis was saying. "Will you please accept?"
Phoebe thought about it for a moment, "Of course I will Artemis," She replied, reaching out to take the silver circlet of the lieutenant.
Amadeus reached out and snatched it out of Artemis's hands causing it to turn invisible too. Artemis gasped and Phoebe looked around in shock. Amadeus then allowed himself to become visible on a bench a few feet away, spinning the circlet on his finger.
"Trying to make decisions without me Artemis?" He moped sarcastically. "I thought you were better than that so I'll have to reveal something Phoebe's hiding from you."
Phoebe's eyes widened into a pleading look but Amadeus ignored her.
"You know all those girls you have in your hunt that seem to always be the product of rape? Yeah, that was Phoebe's fault. Phoebe is the daughter of the goddess Viazo, The goddess of rape (I made her up when I couldn't find one). She would possess those men and then feel the pleasure they felt as they raped those women so that she could get off. Quite terrible right?" He smiled knowing what was about to happen.
"Phoebe!" Artemis screamed. "How could you? Those women were innocent and you just had to do that to them! You are no longer a member of the hunt! Get out of my sight you rapist!"
Phoebe stormed off to go sit with the Aphrodite kids since they were technically her aunts and uncles.
Amadeus looked over at Artemis who looked like she had found her best friend dead. He would know, he had the same look on his face when he found his best friend.
"Hey," he said to her softly. "Are you okay?"
Artemis looked up at him and saw the same pain she was feeling reflected in his eyes. Who was this boy and why was he so different from what she would have expected from the son of a love god?
"Amadeus-" She began before being cut off.
"Call me A, all my friends do. And seeing as we're going to be spending a lot of time together, you probably should, it makes things easier," he said, flashing a winning smile like he was trying to flirt.
Artemis snorted with laughter, "Who do you think we should choose as the new lieutenant?"
A looked up, skanning all of the hunt's emotions about the hunt, "Her," he said simply before tossing Artemis a new circlet.
"You're welcome!" he called over his shoulder as he walked away.
Artemis looked down at the circlet and gasped. One side of the circlet was made of silver and had wolves engraved in it. The other side was made of Shakudo, red copper, and had deer engraved in it. The two metals met in the front and formed a Red Amaranth (Artemis's sacred flower) along the side of the circlet.
Artemis walked over to the girl that A had pointed to. Her name was Lillian.
"Lillian?" Artemis said as she walked up.
"Yes, Milady?" Lillian answered.
"I have talked with Amadeus, and he and I decided that you are going to be the new lieutenant of the hunt."
Lillian gasped, "Me milady? But, there has to be someone more suited for lieutenant than me!"
"Amadeus seemed positive with you as his choice and everything he has said about people so far has been true so I'm going to trust him just this once."
Artemis offered Lillian the circlet who accepted it before staring at it for a few moments before putting it on. She glowed silver for a few moments before a purple glow covered it up.
Artemis looked around confused before looking back at Lillian and gasping. Lillian had been beautiful before but now, she had EE tits that were firm and barely bounced when she walked, an hourglass figure, perfect features and to top it all off, silver wings sprouting from her back. She was also wearing new armor. She wore red armored boots that came to the middle of her thighs, pretty much metal panties, a metal guard that wrapped around her stomach and a sleeveless metal chestplate that showed off her cleavage.
Suddenly, Artemis heard clapping behind her. She whirled around to see who it was so she could castrate them before releasing it was A.
"Wow dad," he said whistling. "I did not think you were gonna go through with that but, being you, of course you did."
"Change. It. Now." Artemis said, Drawing her knife and putting it to his throat.
There was a flash of black lightning and artemis recoiled, her body smoking.
"You may have forgotten Artemis, but you're not allowed to hurt me or threaten me," Amadeus snapped, his eyes sparking with anger. "Also, I didn't pick the armor. I got my dad to bless that circlet and allowed him to pick the armor. But now that you threatened to hurt me, I am not going to make him change the armor but, I'm going to get him to pick your new armor," A finished with a snarl.
He turned to his father who snapped his fingers. Artemis instantly found herself in armor that revealed even more than Lillian's and would be even more difficult to hunt in.
She was wearing gray high heeled boots that came up to the middle of her thighs, a gray bikini bottom, gray metal gloves that went up to the middle of her biceps and chest armor that showed off all of her cleavage.
The most embarrassing part though was the spiked collar with a name tag that said Artemis. Artemis looked up glaring only to find that A had disappeared. Artemis quickly scanned the surrounding area so she could find him and ask a demi-god to kill him for her.
Eros's laugh filled the air as he sensed Artemis's intentions. "You'll never find him, Artemis," he laughed. "He can change every bit of his appearance and his voice except for his gender."
At that moment Percy Jackson came sprinting up. "Artemis, your guardian wanted me to tell you to go home and that the hunt will be staying in an apartment building with him and the other demi-primordials."
Artemis spun towards the demigod and flipped Clarisse La Rue a drachma. "Kill the fake Jackson," she ordered.
Clarise smiled ruefully and lifted Maimer, her spear. Percy immediately shifted his weight drawing Riptide,
"What did I do now?" he shouted. "Amadeus gave me a five minute time limit and said if I wasn't back in time, Kimon was going to wipe Annabeth's memories."
A water pipe exploded under Clarisse's feet and Percy took off down the street. Percy disappeared in a cloud of mist as he turned the corner. Artemis sighed as every male she could see ran for it. It was going to be a while before any male even dared to enter her line of sight.