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Chapter 5

PERCY POV

After almost an hour of trying to evade Artemis I finally found somewhere safe to try and figure out how to turn myself back. It's obnoxiously pink in here and smells like cheap perfume. There were women's clothes scattered about the furniture and an unnecessary amount of mirrors lined the walls.

I remembered having to picture myself changing into an animal, and having to focus hard on making it happen. I figured it would work in reverse and gave it a try. As I successfully turn back I hear a door opening. I turn around to see a startled goddess of love and beauty. Once she got over being frightened she started to walk towards me with a predatory look on her face.

"Oh, hello Percy. I didn't know you were coming over. Why don't you come over here and.."

I didn't need to hear anymore to know where she was going with that and I wanted no part of it. I take off towards the front door, I throw the door open and tumble onto the front lawn. I notice a flash out of the corner of my eye and turn my head to see Artemis taking pictures. She breaks out laughing and says,

"And this is why you won't try to prank me anymore, right Perseus?"

I nod in agreeance and walk with Artemis back towards where we started the lesson. She explains that I could use the same concept I learned today to turn into different people, and change my age to appear younger or older.

After a while of just talking about the different godly powers that she would be teaching me Artemis asks me if I'd had a chance to spar with anyone since that night at the beach. I tell her about my fight with the Ares kids and she replies, " Okay, I think it's time you try out your new abilities against someone who has a chance."

'Nice, I've been waiting for a good fight for awhile' "Sure, where do you want to go?", I reply. She just grabs my arm and I feel her flashing us somewhere. When we arrive I look around and see we're in a pine forest.

We landed in a pretty big clearing and knew I'd have to close distance fast so Artemis couldn't just stand back and hit me with arrows. I stretch a little bit and take riptide out of my pocket. I uncap it and rest the blade on my shoulder while I wait for Artemis. I see that she's stretching and her bow was laying against a tree behind her. She gets done and walks toward me, stopping just out of my swords reach. "You finally ready Arty?", I ask with a smirk. Her face gets red ,"Don't call me Arty." she replies before lunging at me while drawing twin hunting knives from her hips. I barely had time to twist out of the way before she came at me again, trying to make sure I didn't have time to go on the offensive. For a couple minutes she kept up her nonstop attack before I noticed an opening. I swung riptide from right to left hoping she wouldn't have time to react but she just leapt away, evading my attack. I took my opportunity to go on the offensive but Artemis was just too fast. Every time I tried to hit her she'd just dance out of range. I stop and take a second to think about the situation. Artemis was clearly enjoying this. She had a bright smile on her face and was watching me closely waiting for my next move. I quickly thought of a plan and started my attack. I fainted a swing from my right and, as I expected, Artemis dodged to my left. I let the momentum of my swing continue, before releasing my sword, sending it towards where Artemis was moving. It hit the ground point first and buried itself almost to the hilt. As she landed her ankle caught the hilt of my sword and she tripped, landing on her back. I take my opportunity and quickly jump on top of her, straddling her waist and pinning her hands to the ground. "I win.", I say

Artemis just smiles and closes her eyes for a second and a blast of godly energy hit me in the chest, sending me flying off of her. Before I can get up Artemis jumps on top of me, switching our roles from just a moment earlier. She holds her knives to my neck and I told to her , ending the fight. She gets up and extends a hand to help me up. Still smiling she asks, "Forget we're gods Perce?". I laugh and shake my head.

We spar a couple more times before it starts getting dark and we decide and to go out separate ways. We agree to a time to meet up again in the morning and I flash to my cabin. I quickly shower and head out towards the beach for a swim. As I walk I look up and take a second to watch the moon. It gets me thinking about my day and I realize that I hadn't had that much fun In a while. I'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow morning.

(ARTEMIS POV)

As I looked down from my chariot I thought about my day with the son of Poseidon. I'm almost glad my father is making me teach him how to use his powers. I hadn't had a chance to get away from my duties in a while, and Perseus was really fun to be around. I think about what I'm going to teach him tomorrow and decide that I'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow morning.