Hey guys! I'm back again, after Remus/Hermione goodness, Bellatrix/Narcissa BlackCest and a Grand Theft, this time with action and some proper romance. Just making this clear, Persis is going to be the sarcastic, funny, teasing and slightly cocky little twit that s/he is in the books, except maybe ten times worse.
Shout out to JustLucky05 for best review!
Poll results:
Harem: Yes, Multi-Pantheon: Yes wins, too many of you wanted it, vote goes through.
New poll:
Any specific goddesses you want? Just say it! No demigoddesses, as per Lucky's request. I am inclined to do Bast, though, because I just love her character. Max of 2 goddesses will be chosen, as I don't want to start ignoring characters. I will probably stick to one more though.
Pantheons can be as follows: Celtic, Egyptian, Norse, Mayan, Aztec, Japanese and Chinese. Name the goddess, and I'll do the research in case I do not know about them.
Once again, best review gets a prize of their choosing and a mention, this time the second and possibly third best may get an honorable mention in the next chapter.
Another thing, Persis' roman aspect is a bit of an Aphrodite, except much more… raw, and with epic combat skills. You will understand once you get there :P
Disclaimer: I Own Nothing.
Warning: This chapter definitely borders the M rate, but I will not move the rate from T until I intend on writing a lemon, by which time I should be in Chapter 10. So, in essence, just read at your own discretion, and once things get heated, skip to the line break in Bold and Italics if you want to.
Song Recommendation: Thony Vera – Squares. Kinda fits the mood, the melodic is playful, like the start of the story, the drop is aggressive enough to inspire the fight scene and then it eases into the melodic again. P.S. That Swedish drop is epic!
Just as a side note, I'm just touching up some details on a pretty sick Electro track I'm making, should be out soon! Also, I am working on a One-shot Fem!Percy/Nyx Sub-Dom story, where Percy has the Stockholm Syndrome. Will be called Friends, after Grabbitz's song by the same name. I might turn it into a short story, maybe five chapters max if you guys really want it.
Zoe may be a bit OOC, but again, I can blame it on the A/B/O system as my excuse. Most of the time, I will try for them to be as IC as possible.
Chapter 2: Weapons, Scary Monsters, Sneaky Kisses.
Previously:
They appeared inside a coffee shop, and both sat down. Apollo decided to strike conversation with an apparently unconcerned Persis. "That was amazing. And I'm not buying that you are a mortal." He said. Persis took a small smirk, and eyed Apollo. "If you swear on Chaos' name, I will tell you who I am. All you have to say is you will not disclose the information I am about to give you." She said nonchalantly, giving him a small shrug.
Apollo, curious as to why 1) the Styx would not suffice, 2) how the girl had knowledge of Chaos and 3) about information on the girl, decided to swear the pledge.
"I am a primordial."
Now:
Apollo was dumbfounded. He is sitting in front of an incredibly hot female, who was a primordial, but was mortal at the same time. He really did not know what to say.
"So… let me get this straight. You are a primordial." Apollo said, earning a nod from our heroine. "Your mother is Thalassa, who through the tenth rule was shared with Eros, resulting in your conception." Another nod. "You hold the title of Matter control and molecular control, rendering you almost like a second creator, and you hold the titles of electronic music and music festivals, which, by the way, are pretty cool titles." Apollo said, earning a slight nod, a smirk and a cocked eyebrow. "AND you are an Alpha. And a lesbian. And you are hot." Persis just started laughing at the perplexed face of the Sun God. This was rich! "And, to top it all off – have I said you are a mortal? – you are fourteen years old, and you are going to willingly pass by my sister's encampment on your way to Camp Half-Blood just for the sole purpose of making the hunt awestruck? Ok, seems legit." Apollo finished, throwing his hands in the air, as if he was exasperated.
Persis was by now drawing the attention of all the people in the coffee shop, as her melodic and soothing laugh was getting everyone to look. The people that came for the laugh, then stayed for the looks, as truly, her looks were off the charts, for a fourteen year old.
"Well then," Persis started, "I better get going. It is almost seven and if I do not reach the forest within an hour, I will probably never find Artemis and her hunt. It was nice talking to you, and keep our secret." Persis stated, looking pointedly at a grinning Apollo. They then had a bro handshake and Persis walked off. While walking, she covered herself in a thick veil of Mist, and summoned her symbols of power. Two swords, a two handed Longsword and a hand-and-a-half thin gladius, the longsword made out of Chaotic Steel and the gladius made out of Chaotic Silver, appeared in her hands. Life and Death, respectively, were Persis' symbols of power. (Just imagine the two swords of Gerald of Rivia, from The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings.)
She held them in a dual wield fashion, Life (The longsword) in her left main hand, and Death (Gladius) in her right off hand. The power seeped from them, and she quickly diminished the aura being emitted from them, as it would probably garner her really unwanted attention. She liked her set of swords, they would most definitely come in handy in any close quarter combat situations. She put them on her back, as the sheathes had magically appeared along with the swords. She suddenly spotted silver, and decided to go for a hunt.
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Persis did not expect to walk to Maine as fast as she did. Maybe it was because of the Hunt's physical condition, and how fast they went. Or perhaps, Persis' mind suggested, it is due to the fact that you are walking after some sexy looking people. Persis didn't even bother to argue with that reasoning, it was a legitimate factor if she was to be brutally honest with herself. She did particularly enjoy two of the fifteen hunters, one being Lady Artemis in all her Alpha glory, with the deep brown hair and silver eyes, and a nice body. She looked to be in and around fourteen in physical age, actually, most of the hunt did look around fourteen to fifteen. The other one was perhaps a beta, with semi long hair to just below her shoulders, black volcanic eyes and a very natural Middle-Eastern tan that complemented her, she most definitely looked like a princess from Persia. She recognized her from the information her parents gave her, this was Zoe Nightshade.
As she looked on she started feeling really weird, and was about to succumb to the wonderful feeling, but her mother just jotted in her head, "NO! Control yourself Persis! If you do that, you will end up ravaging the entire Hunt, do you want that?" her mother cried out to her in a somewhat terrified voice. That shook her out of her thoughts. However, she did not seem to mind the thought of having an all-female bout with fifteen other people.
Before her mother got to scold her again, the hunt stopped. Persis decided it would be wise to listen in on what was being said, after all, who knew why they were in Maine other than the goddess that led the trip herself? Soon, talking was heard.
"-not the problem, the problem is that the campers might fail without our help. It would be calamitous if it did happen, as Hades seemed adamant to get the children. He said and I quote "they are of the utmost importance for the upcoming war." If he says so, there is absolutely no arguing. He would know better than us after all." Artemis stated. So they were looking for demigods? Strange.
Eros suddenly decided to pop into his daughter's mind. "Enjoying the view much?" he said, the question coming out more like a rhetorical one than an actual question. "I am about to give you access to all your aspects in all different pantheons. Since you are a primordial, you keep your name, just your form changes slightly. However, some of the mental attributes will change, sometimes quite severely. You may experience things you would normally not experience. This will be useful in the future. Once you go into a different aspect, you will gain something from it in your original form." Eros said, almost in one breath. He said it quite calmly, and that made Persis ease into it better. She still was slightly bewildered, but this was manageable information.
She tried to focus on the one which could dominate her feelings first. She felt herself change slightly, her hair went from obsidian to very dark brown, and her eyes darkened across the board. She rose an inch, and her bust grew a bit, along with her butt. Her clothing also changed to white leather boots, winter camo fatigues and a white tank top, with a large winter camo pattern overcoat. He basically looked like a US Army operative during winter. Her hair was pulled back in a braided ponytail, which came down her left side and over her breast. The overcoat had no hood, so she had her swords on her back, ready to rock and roll. On her head was a big pair of headphones which were magical, so as to allow her to listen to music and hear everything at the same time without blocking out either, and keeping both at reasonably high levels of volume. Her eyes gained a feral and primal glint, but also a passionate, possessive and playful look. The angles around her body sharpened, and she gained much more muscle mass. She had taken up her Roman aspect.
Her mental side took a change as well, she felt so much more… primal and raw in feelings. As she looked at the fifteen hunters, more specifically at Artemis and Zoe, she could not help but smirk at the thought of ravaging them. The feeling from earlier came back, however this time she controlled the feeling. She decided to not dwell on it though, she felt a battle incoming, and she wanted to see what this was all about. With that, she ran as stealthily as she could to the other side of a clearing, where a school stood. As she saw a man come out with two kids, a boy and a girl, in hand. She felt the auras, and the man was most definitely a monster, a pretty powerful one at that, and the kids were both demigod children of Hades. She did not try to get their names, as that would be a too creepy. She got to the other side and into tree line before the monster could spot her. He stopped at the edge of a cliff, and waited. For what, she did not know, but she would not intervene unless absolutely necessary.
Minutes passed, and suddenly, out of the school came three people and a satyr. The only reason she recognized the satyr as a… well, satyr was that he was running kind of strangely and his nature aura immediately hit her. The other three she deciphered by the means of looks, and the diluted auras. There were two girls and a boy, all around fourteen, one of which she immediately recognized.
The boy, with raven black hair and sea green eyes was immediately recognized as a child of the sea god. She was rushed by the sudden feeling of the sea, perhaps due to the blood of Thalassa. The other two were not hard to figure out either, a child of Zeus and a child of Athena. The eyes was what gave them away. (I will not do any in-depth descriptions, they look exactly like Annabeth, Thalia and Percy in the books, nuff' said.)
Out of the woods around her, about fifty monsters of just about all varieties came and stood in front of the man with the children. She delved slightly deeper into her powers, and identified the man as the Manticore, which was kind of surprising, as usually he only appeared in Great Stirrings. This was bad news.
The demigods hesitated a little before attacking, shocked at the massive concentration of monsters in the one spot. By the time they had killed ten, a hunting horn sounded, and a smirk played on Persis' lips as she looked at the battle, which stopped completely and everyone looked at the direction of which the Hunters sprouted. The Manticore looked mortified, and to an extent, undignified. Persis took the chance to sneak up behind the army and the Manticore, who was also not paying any attention. She unsheathed both her swords, and decided to wait. "Permission to fire milady?" Zoe said, but Artemis didn't even get the chance to answer.
Persis dug Life right into the Manticore's gut and driving the sword upwards, performing a half body split. Blood oozed from the wound, splattering Persis and the kids, the latter screaming in horror. Persis did not waste a second, she swung around with Death and decapitated a cyclops. At the same time, she tore Life from the body of the Manticore and swung it upwards to block a strike from an empousa. Using her momentum, she swung her leg low, dropping the empousa and striking both swords into the heart of the empousa, causing a massive explosion of blood, guts and limbs. She was by now coated in red and gold, from both blood and monster dust. She proceeded to lunge at a pair of hellhounds, shooting the gap in between them and impaling both in the spine, rendering them useless as blood sputtered from the puncture. They whimpered in pain before getting a merciful decapitation, ending their pain.
Persis then moved to the right, heading straight for Artemis and Zoe, who were still in a state of shock. The campers and hunters were not fairing any much better, but they got attacked. She looked at the goddess and demi-titan, gave both a wink as she pulled a Matrix move avoiding the club of a cyclops, and threw Death at the one-eyed felon. A hellhound came barreling at her from the left, and found itself impaled to the hilt on Life. As the creature exploded in blood, guts and dust right on Persis, covering her in a sheen of blood, the cyclops was trying futilely to remove the bastard longsword from its stomach. It was imbedded halfway into its stomach, and Persis just lazily decided to pick it up and kick the cyclops to its knees before executing it with a short blast of energy. Its head flew off, and hit another monster in the face, to which Persis just smirked. The smirk, though, looked more like a feral smile, which the stunned goddess and demi-titan found really attractive. Not that they would admit it, of course. It also knocked them out of their stupor, and they started doing some good. Soon enough, only two monsters were left, and they were back-to-back. Persis was nowhere to be found until mist started to form. It became so thick, nobody could see farther than their noses. However, Persis appeared out of nowhere, and as the mist started to dissipate, she impaled the two monsters fully with both her swords and left them there, one in each, and headed to Artemis and Zoe.
She reached Artemis first, spun her around and stopped her briefly, letting the goddess take a glimpse at her perfect face before diving in for a kiss. It was gentle, and she was vaguely aware of a snap in the back of her brain as Artemis unconsciously responded to the gentle ministration. Persis did not hand around for too long, however, as she wanted to take advantage of the mist she created to take one more maiden kiss. She left suddenly, rolling back into the mist and out of Artemis' line of sight. The goddess was left breathless and feeling absolutely amazing.
Zoe had decided to split from her mistress for two reasons. First, she wanted to kill the last two monsters, obviously. The second reason, however, made her cheeks sport a red tinge. When she had looked at the mysterious teen, she was put off, but in a good way. Then, the smirk with the girl covered in blood and monster dust ignited something in her, something she knew would speed up the process of her Omega heat. While she knew how to control her scent, it was extremely hard for her to resist any good Alpha, and she could barely resist Artemis, let alone this extremely empowering girl that reeked of power.
However, before she could notice she was deep in the mist, arms wrapped around her, and a chin rested on her shoulder. Hot breath and a soft touch basically gave away that it was a female, and the overpowering aura settled that this was the female that basically decimated at least thirty monsters in under two minutes. The girl then whispered to Zoe, "Oh, what I would love to do to you…" she said, in a low, sexy and husky voice, filled with promises. Zoe felt her heat coming on, and a hard blush completely covered her cheeks, as she let down her barriers, her mind replaying the words whispered to her. The girl gave a small gasp, which was really cute, in Zoe's perspective, then replaced by an overwhelming aura of possessiveness. The girl turned Zoe around, and she couldn't help but awe and droll over the girl, so perfect in every way. Zoe then gasped out in between labored breaths, "T-t-then do!" And just like that, soft lips were on hers, and she was pushed onto a bed that was not there before.
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As the mist subsided, the hunt was left staring in shock at their mistress and her condition. It seemed as if she had been hit by a frying pan after running a marathon. Heavy breaths and a dazed look were present in the goddess' eyes as she quickly flashed out, flashing back in a minute later, as if nothing happen. She turned to her dumbfounded hunters, and started a small headcount. Fourteen, including herself. "Anyone see Zoe?" the goddess asked her hunters, to which they shook their heads. She then turned to the campers, and noticed the satyr was out, while the three demigods were bowing to her. That kind of disgusted her, she hated bowing, especially any females that bowed to her. "Rise, campers, I hate formalities." The campers all rose, albeit the male seemed to be confused as to who Artemis was. What did Chiron actually teach the campers?
Before the boy could begin, Artemis spoke up, "I am Artemis. Goddess of the moon, childbirth, nature and the Hunt, amongst other things, and these," she said, motioning to the collection of pubescent girls behind her, "are my Hunters. They do not take to kind with any man, so I would suggest you being on your utmost behavior, son of Poseidon." Artemis finished, looking at the only testosterone barer here. Before anyone could move, a puff of snow showered the clearing, and panting and giggling was heard.
"-was fun! No really, it was…" the taller figure was the one talking, obviously she did not know what was going on, because when she looked around, confusion seemed to settle on her face for a second, before she gave a sigh. Artemis then decreed, from the clothing and the two massive swords on the back of the girl, that this was the teen that helped them. She fought off a small blush, not wanting to have to flash away to get over her embarrassment. Beside her stood Zoe, clinging on to the girl's left arm, as if they were best friends. Or maybe something more, her Roman aspect offered, only to be swiftly nudged out of the goddess' brain.
"Uh, Zoe, I think my dad decided to prank me. You may want to look around." The girl said to Zoe, who suddenly became aware of where she was. She stood up straighter, with the slightest trace of a blush on her face, and did nothing. Artemis decided to start speaking to the girl, perhaps get her to join the hunt.
Before she could, however, the girl spoke up. "Ah, Lady Artemis, pardon me for stealing your huntress without prior consent, but we had a… problem with Zoe, per se, and I decided to give her a hand." She said, looking slightly smug, although a faint blush appeared when she mentioned Zoe's "Problem", which was kind of cute, if Artemis was honest with herself. Then she looked at Zoe, and immediately understood what the "problem" was.
She wanted to be angry at the girl, but couldn't really bring herself to, she was a teen after all. However, she was curious, as the girl seemed to know her heritage. That would be strange, considering she knew of every single female that had stepped foot in camp. So, either this girl had a very smart mortal parent, or she was a Roman.
"That is… fine, I think. I would have preferred if I had been informed, but I won't judge. One thing though, was it consented?" Artemis inquired, raising a dubious eyebrow that made the newcomer stifle a giggle. Zoe seemed to be trying very hard to look anywhere but at her mistress, and a massive blush had covered Artemis' lieutenant's cheeks, giving away the truth. The answer, surprisingly, came from Zoe herself, who seemed like she had composed herself enough to speak. "Yes, it was consented. And before thou ask, I did not get marked."
Artemis immediately lost a bit of her worry. Sure, she wouldn't really have been surprised if she had been marked, or even been that mad, it was a girl after all, but it was a relief nonetheless. Before she could inquire more, the male in the group, Adam, she guessed, decided this was the right time to confess he was as oblivious as everyone knew he was.
"What problem? Who is Zoe? What is going on here? And what in the name of Tartarus is this talk about consent and markings? I mean, no offence, but I think the goddess of virgins shouldn't really be spewing sexual terms-"
Before Adam could continue, the unidentified girl and the goddess were glaring holes into him, both for completely different reasons.
"How dare you use my uncle's name as a curse?"
"How dare you control my- wait, what?"
The second statement, said roughly at the same time as the first by the maiden goddess was cut short when said goddess realized what the mystery girl had said. "What do you mean, Tartarus is your uncle?" the goddess stated, completely bewildered by the question. Our favourite primordial looked like she was caught red-handed. Her eyes widened comically, and she sucked in a sharp breath.
"Ok, nice meeting you all, yada yada, and imma skedaddle outta here, see you later!" the girl said, slowly turning to pixels. Before she decomposed though, she blew a kiss and winked at Artemis, and gave one hell of a deep kiss to Zoe, who looked just as comical as the mystery girl.
She looked at the campers and hunters, and noticed some really odd things. The campers looked completely embarrassed (Annabeth), smirking slyly (Thalia), or suffering from a nosebleed (Adam). Her hunters were wolf whistling, hollering and passing money around. Then she looked at Zoe, who seemed to be close to fainting, before the girl composed herself, muttering something about "annoying Alphas" and "Devil Dads". Then she looked at her mistress and immediately said:
"I can explain this!"
Well, everyone within the next five states could hear the laughter and feel the embarrassment.
Finito! Ok, I want to apologize first off for the delay, but Harry Potter came into existence in my life, and I fucked up severely at home which rendered me unable to utilize my PC for a few months. However, I am back, and updating should become regular. Spam your reviews, mash the fave button, and just send me some love :D
