Percy PoV

I sat patiently on the chair in her magical tent and rested my arm on a cloth on the small table.

Artemis sat down on her bed, across the table from me, and opened up a first aid kit. "I don't have much use for this kit anymore since it uses mostly nectar. Good thing I have a few mortal kits as well."

"I thought healing was Apollo's domain," I remarked.

She shrugged. "Since we're twins, we kind of share the domains. He's the actual god of healing, but I still had powers in the subject. If you end up getting superficial injuries like these, I can patch them up for you."

"That would be so much faster than waiting at Apollo's clinic," I responded gratefully.

The woman smiled and ran her thumb over the faint scar the laceration had left. "That should disappear within a few days."

"I'm not worried. I heard that the ladies love scars," I replied jokingly as I cracked a grin.

Artemis scoffed half-heartedly and closed her medical kit. "Sorry about Phoebe. I've been trying to work with her, but it clearly hasn't been working."

I shrugged. "It gave me an opportunity to hang out with my friend a little longer, so I don't really mind. I have to go do a monster-killy thing now, and I happen to think you're a good person, so if you could close your eyes and not disintegrate that would be awesome."

I appeared at a grassy field where it looked like a bunch of college students were hanging out.

Except the college students had fangs or could fly or had poisonous breath.

I tugged on my keychain and it turned into my new trident.

With the weapon in hand, I approached the horde of monsters.

In an instant, everything became chaotic.

I was bombarded with attacks and gave up on trying to dodge the many less powerful ones.

The more powerful attacks, however, I tried very hard to avoid.

Not to doubt Artemis's abilities, but I wasn't sure she had the supplies to fix me up if the monsters decided to poke a hole in me with their weapons.

I stabbed a cyclops in the eye and he screamed in pain, flailing around until he detached himself from the eyeball and disintegrated into a fine yellow powder.

A monster slammed into my leg and I felt something crunch, but knew I didn't have time to stop and take a look.

I blocked, swung, stabbed, and pierced until the monsters around me were dead and those remaining fled.

Once the monsters had cleared out, I poked around the yellow dust until I found the loot that I was supposed to obtain.

I left the collected material in Lady Athena's mailbox and appeared in my apartment to clean myself up before going back to Artemis.

While I showered, I made sure not to heal myself with the water. Unfortunately, this meant I felt the growing pain in my leg.

No longer covered in monster dust, I got dressed and appeared at my friend's regularly moving residence.

She was now closer to the base of a mountain and near a lake instead of a stream.

I spotted Artemis returning from what seemed to be a successful hunt.

She dragged the buck over to the tent and shoved it into what looked like a meat locker.

When I looked back over at it, the container was gone.

Magic was weird.

The woman guided me over to the chair and held me steady as I stumbled. "You need to get some more sleep once I finish patching you up."