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CHAPTER 3

Perseus threw his sword at his feet in anger. He couldn't have lost, his plan was perfect. His boys had cleared a path, but he failed. All because he couldn't resist the vile woman he once called his friend.

Perseus seethed in silent fury, he closed his eyes, not wanting his warriors to see him in such a state. He clutched his aching chest, it was a lesser pain than before, but his healing system would take care of that. Though, his thoughts were on something much more disappointing than a blow to the chest.

'I should have won. I was supposed to win.' He screamed to himself, 'If I had been allowed to manipulate time, she would have been down in seconds!'

But no, Perseus was forbidden from utilizing his powers over time. At least, not in these circumstances. Perseus could only bite the inside of his cheek the day Zeus passed the law. Perseus was prohibited from using Time for anything besides in dire situations. In other words, situations that benefitted Zeus.

'Coward!' Perseus spat. Zeus had only passed this law after he'd seen just partially what he was capable of. The king of the gods feared him, feared his heritage, feared his power. If his father had not ordered him to stay as the Olympian guardian, Perseus would have left a long time ago.

"Father, why do you force me to endure such pain?" Perseus whispered to the sky.

No answer. He would never understand why his father had done this, sent him here, locking away his powers and origins, his previous life. It had all been for nothing after his life had been torn apart all those years ago.

'Never again shall someone have such power.' He thought, 'No good ever comes with romantic love.'

Perseus almost broke the law, Zeus had out into place out of his thirst for conquest, but a game was not enough grounds for him to do so. Zeus would punish him greatly. Perseus had to rely purely on his skills, but Artemis was a worthy opponent, and with much of his power locked away it did not bode well for him fighting against a warrior goddess.

Better yet, Perseus couldn't stand even fighting against her. His body rejected the impulse to hurt her, he loathed this. Perseus resisted the urge to stab his own leg with his sword, he knew he had been holding back! But why? Artemis would never know how hard it was for him to hold a sword to her neck as her opponent. His hatred invited the thoughts, but his subconscious disagreed with the very notion.

Though today, with all due respect, she stunned him. To the point where he allowed her to kick him into a tree and temporarily cause nausea. Who would ever expect some virgin goddess, or woman in fact to use a man's sexual desires against him? Probably every woman alive, but that's not the point. The point is it wasn't his fault, right?

'Oh who am I kidding? Of course it is!' Percy sighed. 'You were weak! You are weak. She makes you weak, she is your weakness.' He scolded himself ruthlessly. 'You are the mighty, Perseus. Feared by your enemies, you are not supposed have a weakness!'

Dante' came up behind him, "Perseus, we have to go congratulate them." He rolled his eyes.

Perseus shook his head, "How could they have won, Dante'? How?"

Dante' let out a long sigh, "Women?"

"Oh please." Perseus spat in response. "Gender has nothing to do with this-"

"It's Karma." Dante' stated as they walked towards where people were gathering.

"What?" Perseus asked. Not knowing what he meant.

"We used our larger size and greater strength to win, and they landed up using one of our greatest weakness as men to win. Sexual desire." He smirked ever so slightly as he glanced at Perseus.

He froze and glared at his second in command, "What on earth are you implying?"

Perseus already knew the answer to that, he just thought no one had seen his failure, his weakness. It seems he was wrong. Who else must have seen? Was the real question.

Dante' didn't answer, instead walking ahead to the clearing.

Perseus grunted and walked after him. Demigods crowded in front of Chiron, Artemis and the girls beside him, all with grins the size of their now inflated ego's.

"The girls-excuse me-women are victorious!" He announced with a grin.

They chanted mockingly in front of my boys. Artemis stood behind them, giving Perseus a smug look. He glared daggers at her and felt himself walking towards her. The girls parted for him, to caught up in their victory to see the look of anger on his face.

Perseus stopped in front of his rival, looking down at her, an intimidating tactic. She was still in her 20 year old form, meaning she was significantly taller than before, but even then her forehead only reached his nose.

"Coming to congratulate?" She asked with a stoic look, being forced to look up at him with their height difference.

Perseus growled, "Congratulations." Perseus leaned down so his eyeline was only slightly above hers, "You cheated."

Artemis's stoic expression morphed into that of strained amusement. Clearly she was biting back a laugh, but failing miserably.

"Cheated? My, you are quite the sore loser aren't you?" She smirked vaguely.

Perseus wanted to raise his sword in a rematch, but that was his pride talking. 'She won fair and square, just leave it.' He said to himself. 'No! She did not win honourably, she cheated! Teach her a lesson!' His sadistic side screamed to him.

People began to look now, curious as to what was to come of this argument.

The God of Time jabbed her shoulder, "Are you sure I'm the sore loser? Because if I recall, I had you incarcerated. Mind sharing how you landed up receiving the upper hand?"

He beamed at his cunning thought. Artemis may have won, but her methods were not what one would expect. It was Aphrodite who manipulated a person's sexual passions for her own use, but Artemis, no she was a maiden goddess, they were supposedly pure and virginal. But Artemis's methods were certainly not that.

Dante' stood behind his leader, paying close attention to Artemis's response. As did Zoe, who narrowed her eyes at Dante' venomously.

Dante' smirked at her and sent her a wink, making Zoe gasp and call upon her bow. Ready for a fight if he so chose for it to be.

Artemis sneered at Perseus, "Yes, you are just like every other male god. You are driven by your arrogance and lust-filled desires. I merely took advantage of that."

Perseus laughed, "Oh did you now? So you're saying, you abandoned your domains of purity for those of desire, are those not Aphrodite's domains? Her methods? Using lust for your own benefit. Hmm, makes me wonder what kind of virgin, you are."

Hunters that were surrounding them let out cries of protest, coming to their mistress's defence immediately. Unlike his warriors whom laughed behind him.

Artemis's eyes flashed dangerously, within a split second, her silver dagger was pressed against his throat. Their audience went silent.

"How dare you?" She hissed, Perseus stared at her with an emotionless mask. "You can act all high and mighty, but I know the pathetic, prideful being that is underneath all this false confidence. You disgust me, you hypocritical oaf." She removed her dagger

Her words didn't seem to affect him, or at least that's what would appear to onlookers. But inside, they were like gasoline to a flame that only grew with each syllable she spoke. A fire of fuming rage, making his chest tighten by the second.

Perseus's pupils flashed, resembling a burning green flame like greek fire itself.

He unsheathed his sword with an intimidating scraping sound of metal against metal. He blinked, the flames in his eyes disappearing, but what remained were the ashes of his anger.

Artemis took a defensive stance, her daggers in hand.

Perseus summoned his godly strength and harnessed it into the celestial metal of his sword. Artemis could sense the growing power in his hands, she was aware that one strike could injure her greatly. She closed her eyes and utilized her control of the moon. Her daggers glowed silver, like moonlight itself.

Chiron watched in fear of what could happen, he called out to their followers and ordered them to the messhall, older campers pushed down the tables and took refuge behind them, urging others to do the same, having experience with godly rage.

Perseus, in his angered state was not aware of the dangers he was about to put forth. Worse, he was not patient and did not wait for Artemis to make the first strike.

'Just one blow!' He growled to himself and raised his sword. He faked a right blow and instead attempted to strike her left side. Both gods having different fighting styles, made each other unpredictable to the other. She blocked his blow with both daggers, her eyes snapping shut, unsure but hoping she had blocked the correct limb. Luckily Artemis's judgement had saved her from a great amount of pain. A loud CLANG! was heard, like the sound of Heaphaestus's great hammer hitting celestial metal and echoing through his forge.

A force so strong it created a wind that nearly blew the demigods off of their feet. Even Chiron struggled to maintain his balance.

Everyone's eyes widened in shock and fear as Perseus's sword and one of Artemis's daggers was thrown through the air in two different, but close directions. Due to the sheer power of the force, they travelled at such a speed that an outline of heat surrounded them.

BOOM! The sound of wood splintering against the sharpness of a blade was heard. Zeus's cabin had been demolished, Hera's left only half standing. It's pillars could be heard straining against the wind, using what little strength they had left to sustain their purpose.

Perseus and Artemis's fury dissipated completely, they looked at each other and then the cabin.

Artemis's hand raised to her face, cupping her open mouth in shock. Perseus groaned and buried his face in his hands.

"Oh no." He said.

'Out of all the cabins to demolish, our weapons choose those.' Perseus thought with a sigh.

Perseus and Artemis stood in the centre of the throne room. All the gods surrounding them, sitting upon their thrones in all their immortal glory. Looking down on them, judging them, or perhaps feeling pity towards them. After all, what terrible luck the gods of the hunt had to have for this to happen?

"How dare you?" Zeus thundered, Perseus met his gaze defiantly. Artemis remained staring at the floor in either shame or embarrassment. Neither one of them answered. "I asked, how dare you?"

"Father I-" Artemis began.

Zeus held his hand up and glared at them angrily, his blue eyes turning grey, like the thunder storms he controls.

"No, Artemis. I shall hear none of it. As far as I'm concerned, this is damn wall near mutiny!" He slammed his fist on the arms of his golden throne. An echoing bang travelled through the room, striking fear into those who knew not of what could have angered the king so.

"Mutiny? I prefer the word treason." Hera hissed, she eyed Artemis like a feline ready to pounce upon it's prey. Which is pretty ironic since Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. "It seems your daughter doesn't know her place. I think she aimed for my cabin, she meant such disrespect towards me." Hera smirked, "Am I not your wife, Zeus? Someone disrespects me, they disrespect you."

Artemis bared her teeth, her eyes flashing dangerously at Hera, "You know that is not true father!" She protested to Zeus.

"Please child, you are of no position to-" Hera began.

Zeus held up his hand, "Enough!"

Both goddesses went quiet. Perseus, although reluctantly, had to take Artemis's side on this one. It is well known Hera had a personal vendetta against Artemis and her siblings, whether it be her half or full blooded. They were proof of his infidelity and Hera couldn't stand it. If Zeus could not see what Hera was trying to accomplish here, he truly is an idiot.

Zeus pinched the bridge of his nose, "Hera, do not try and pin my daughter to such acts, if you did then the same punishment shall be rewarded to Perseus."

'Rewarded?' Perseus scoffed, 'Easy to say such things when you are not at the butt end of the stick.' He thought. He glanced over at Aphrodite, she sent him a disapproving look. If she of all people was looking at him like that, Perseus knew he had to have been in trouble. He transferred his attention to, Hestia his wiser sister.

Her face remained neutral, showing no signs of emotion. Perseus sighed internally, this could only mean disappointment.

Hera opened her mouth to protest, but Zeus was not done.

"I will not hold my two fellow Olympians to being as stupid as blowing up your cabin on purpose." He stated, making Artemis breathe a sigh of relief while Perseus merely withheld his eye roll. "But I will hold them responsible for their actions which led to the demolishment of our cabins." He narrowed his eyes at the offenders.

Artemis kneeled before Zeus, "Father, what can I do to make this up to you?" She stared up at him, her words seemed laced with sincerity.

"Suck up." Perseus coughed.

Artemis shot him a venomous look. Perseus could only chortle in response.

Zeus watched this scene unfold before him and shook his head, "Therefore the Olympians had come to agreement for your punishment, before you stood trial for your actions."

Perseus felt a quiver of anger pass through his body. What was the point of a trial when the outcome had been decided beforehand? It was rigged like some beauty pageant. Did the Olympians suddenly adopt the mortal's justice system?

"Before you protest-" Athena spoke for the first time, "The Olympians decided, upon hearing of this dilemma, that this-" Her face scrunched up disdainfully, "This childish vendetta you have against each other is becoming unbearable to the rest of us."

Perseus decided he couldn't hold his tongue any longer, "What is unbearable is the fact that this-" He pointed to Artemis, "Sick excuse of a woman is not being held to the fact that she started this entire situation."

Artemis whipped around, growling animialistacly, "Oh I am the cause? Please, Perseus. You are so easily baited it's hard to blame the instigator. The fault is entirely yours to take." She stated matter of factly.

Perseus smiled sarcastically, "Oh you think I speak of just today's fight?"

Artemis's eyes widened in appallment, "What is that supposed to mean?"

Perseus took a step forward and smirked, "Oh I think you know, maiden."

He grinned internally at his brilliance. Now it was he who baited her, and she took it like a bee to honey. Finding the perfect button to push is as satisfying as sipping your first glass of water after a journey through a desert.

Artemis scoffed and jabbed his shoulder, "You have got to be the most sickening, most unlikeable man I have ever met." Mission accomplished.

Perseus hit her hand away, "Well you're no walk in the park either sugar."

Artemis's hand touched her dagger, "I am not sugar to you."

"Very true. That would imply that you have an ounce of sweetness or appealing qualities."

Artemis smirked arrogantly, coming right up to Perseus's face, "Saying I have no appealing qualities is pretty rich coming from the guy who just 20 minutes ago lost a game of capture the flag because he couldn't control his libido around me."

Perseus snarled, "Don't flatter yourself, I was merely caught of guard by your unorthodox methods." He crossed his arms, not decreasing the distance between them, refusing to be submissive.

'I will not be bullied into submission. I was the alpha. I will always be the alpha.' He declared in his head over and over.

Artemis let out a single hum of amusement, "Are you sure about that?" She leaned up just a few milimetres towards his face. The action was not intended as an act of seduction, but rather her body's subconscious reaction of her superior argument.

With her face so close, Perseus's condescending look faltered. For a mere few seconds he stared down at the woman he once loved. Recalling the image of her alluring figure, beckoning him into her bed.

'I'm waiting my love.' She whispered enticingly.

The tip of his tongue grazed over the top of his lower lip at the memory of the nights they had once spent together. 'My love.' She said, words he once treasured. Words that once inspired endless emotions of desire and affection inside him, but no more.

He blinked twice before growling and taking a step back. Though not a submissive gesture, it still gave, Artemis the pleasure of winning the argument.

"Exactly." Artemis sniggered.

Perseus let out a haughty laugh, "Exactly? You have no proven point-"

"Shut up!" Athena commanded angrily, "Just shut up." She huffed before Zeus could intervene. "This is a clear problem. Should it not be fixed?"

The Olympians murmured to each other in agreement.

Perseus massaged his temples, she was right. As much as he hated it, they were a large problem within the Olympian circle. Not they themselves, more so their feelings towards the other. And a problem always had a solution.

"A solution then?" Perseus announced with a long sigh.

Artemis eyed him with a raised brow, clearly confused. Perseus himself was also bewildered that he actually offered that they fix this so called problem. 'It needed to be done', He thought. Or his time here will continue to be miserable.

Athena, for some odd reason, looked over at, Hestia who shared a look with both, Apollo and Aphrodite. Perseus knew not of what they were seemingly discussing, but he didn't like it.

"Very well. What do you propose?"

"You're asking us, the offenders to propose a punishment?" Artemis asked, "I can't decide whether that's cruel or brilliant."

Athena smiled softly, "Well?"

Perseus shrugged, "How should we know? I can't stand her and-"

"Yeah well the feeling's rather complementary." Artemis chirped.

He ignored her and carried on, "Clearly she can't stand me. Why would I want to suddenly like her?"

It made absolutely no sense for them to be asking him to come up with some kind of compensation for the problem at hand, which for many years has been their hatred towards the other.

"Unless you intend for us to be locked in a room like some feuding mortals, and suddenly like each other at the end of it, you are out of your mind." Artemis rolled her eyes at her half-sister. Perseus bit back a laugh at this statement, she had a point.

Athena smirked, "That's it!"

"What?" Artemis and him asked together.

Zeus and Hera shared a look, putting together some type of puzzle, and Perseus and Artemis were the pieces. A look of realisation dawned on them, they seemed to be highly amused.

"I believe, Athena, my dearest daughter, is saying that we shall force you two together until you work out your differences." Zeus declared.

"And how do you expect to do that?" Perseus derided.

"From this moment onwards, whatever mission or task is assigned to either one of you, you shall do so together. You will be spending an awful lot of time together." Zeus ordered, "And I swear by the River Styx you shall not be rid of each other until we decree that the both of you can be at least civil towards each other." Thunder rumbled in the distance, binding Zeus to his oath. Though it's not like that ever stopped him before.

Perseus and Artemis protested within a millisecond of that statement.

"What?" Perseus gasped.

"No! I refuse to spend more than a waking minute with this man." Artemis pointed to him.

"But this was your idea." Athena frowned.

"I was kidding!" Artemis groaned.

"Now, now, my child." A soft voice entered the conversation. They turned to it's source. Hestia stood, in her 8 year old form, with a small smile on her peaceful face. "Do you not see? You both have provided a solution to a clear problem, whether it have been intended or not. Will you not both at least try to heed to this? If it does not prove effective, it shall be discarded. But I beg of you, look upon the chaos and disorder this causes among us. Please consider it, for me?" Hestia took both their hands, her gentle words both endearing and persuasive.

Artemis let out a long breath, she glanced at, Perseus, who seemed to be contemplating, Hestia's words. Hestia smiled brightly and took a step back, disappearing into the shadows of the fire from whence she came, feeling she had served her purpose.

"Oh alright." Perseus muttered. He held out his hand for, Artemis to take. "Agreed?"

Artemis eyed his hand cautiously. After so many years of hatred and violent fights, was she ready to just call it quits? She had to at least try, they needed to overcome this. 'The past was the past, right?' She rationalised to herself. 'But the past haunts her everyday, and everyday she wishes she hated him more than she actually did.'

Artemis took his hand, "Agreed." She paused, "For now."

Perseus rolled his eyes and turned to Zeus, "We accept your terms."

Zeus smiled, his elbows leaning on his knees as he clasped his hands together, "Excellent. You start tomorrow." He looked at the goddess of Wisdom, "Athena, if you will."

Athena cleared her throat and a scroll appeared in her hand, "A large group of monsters, more than one species, has been spotted roaming the forests of Yellowstone National Park. Tourists have been going missing and the police are nowhere near close to solving it. Your mission: Hunt them down, and kill them."

"Athena, if I may?" Hephaestus questioned her. The gods of the hunt having flashed away, was an opportunity for the gods who had not been paying the encounter very much attention, to get answers about the situation.

Athena nodded, "Yes?"

"Why did you choose such methods to instigate their punishment?" He frowned, clearly confused.

Athena could only smirk at her fellow Olympians, staring at her, expecting an answer. Zeus chuckled as he saw this, knowing exactly what she had done.

"Is it not clear that both, Artemis and Perseus have a problem with authority, especially Perseus?"

"How does that answer his question?" Poseidon asked.

She groaned loudly and rolled her eyes, "I was getting to that you big oaf." Poseidon sent her a very rude hand gesture in retaliation. "So obviously forcing some kind of consequence on them would cause them to rebel, thus making it harder to enforce it." She stated matter of factly before a book appeared in her hands. She then went silent, expecting that her fellow Olympians were now informed.

"Huh?" Hermes asked.

Aphrodite rolled her eyes at him, "You idiot. The bookworm is saying that by making Perseus and Artemis believe it was their idea, they are less likely to rebel and will more than likely try to accomplish what we have wished for so long."

"Which is?" Demeter asked with a yawn, clearly not actually interested.

"For them to fall in love silly!" Aphrodite giggled.

Hera groaned, "That is not what we are trying to accomplish you dimwitted moron." Aphrodite grinded her teeth at this statement, "We are trying to establish a type of relationship between them where they are civil towards each other." Hera sighed, "Though punishing them further would have been far more entertaining."

"Tell me about it." Ares groaned.

Apollo spoke for the first time that meeting, "This entire situation will have a positive effect on them, I have foreseen it." He said dramatically. "Actually it reminds me of a haiku I wrote a while-"

On cue at the mention of the 'H' word, the Olympians groaned loudly in sync.

Apollo clutched his chest with an appalled look, "I'm hurt!"

"Who cares?" Ares spat, "Come on baby-" He grabbed, Aphrodite's hand, "Let's get outta here before he poisons our ears with limericks and that poetry stuff."

They flashed away in a mix of blood-red and pink tinged light.

"Will no one listen?" Apollo frowned.

"Uhh-sorry son. I uhh-have a thing." Zeus lied and disappeared in a ball of a stormy blue light.

The other gods followed suit in a not so subtle way, making up excuses for their departure.

Before he knew it, Apollo was the only Olympians left. He stared at the empty seats of his family members in dismay, but he'd never let them know that. Although, he was only slightly hurt at their insistence that his poetry was to quote, "Like listening to cat's scratch their nails on a chalkboard." as he knew he liked it.

Yet he still sighed sadly and leaned on his elbow, not quite ready to leave. Feeling that rare sense of loneliness.

"I'd like to hear your poetry." A soft voice said below. Apollo's ears instantly perked up, he knew that voice. It was the voice of one of the few that could cause him great happiness with just a smile.

Apollo glanced down at her small frame, "You do?"

Hestia smiled and shimmered. She stood in front of him now in her 25 year old form, just like his. Apollo's heart rate increased rapidly. Though considered one of the lesser beauties of the elder Olympians sisters, he found her breathtaking.

Apollo found himself blushing as he walked towards where she had retreated to the hearth. She patted the spot beside her and tilted her head cutely.

He summoned his notebook, something so personal only very few knew of it's existence, including her.

He opened it gently and sat beside her, paging through it. He stole a glimpse of her feminine features. Her large, intelligent chestnut eyes were only filled with genuine interest. 'So beautiful.' He thought to himself.

She seemed to notice him staring and touched his shoulder, "Apollo? Are you alright?"

Apollo gulped quietly, "Ye-yes! I was just uhh-" She raised her eyebrow in a questioning manner, "Nothing, Hestia." He smiled brightly, his teeth almost blinding her.

"I see. Will you read your delightful works to me then?" Her honest smile was enough inspiration for even the weakest of poet's to concoct award winning work.

Apollo's cheeks went gold, Hestia saw this and found her own cheek's doing the same.

'It's just the fire.' Hestia said to herself, 'He doesn't see you like that. At least, he hasn't for a long time. But why did you change your form for him?' She asked herself. 'Because you still care-No you don't!' She tried to reassure herself. 'You don't, not anymore. Just look at him and let him read!'

Apollo's eyes softened, free of sadness or anxiety. He took a deep breath and read the title of the specific poem he wished to read to her.

"I call this one-" He met her her fiery chestnut eyes with a bashful smile. "The Fire-Eyed Beauty"

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-Princess