Lord Perseus: god of Heroes
A/N: To PJOseph, "I edited my fifth chapter! So there! JK, thanks for telling me. I knew about the sister thing, but I wasn't sure about cupid or Eros. You see people? This is a real fan!"
To Angela Banaag, "That was a lot of o's, h's, and a's! I hope you didn't break your keyboard! I updated so quickly just for you. Merry Christmas."
To ESMT, "I know their relationship moved pretty fast, but I wanted to establish just how much they loved each other before I basically screwed the entire world with what Percy & Co have to do. It shall be epic in its epicness!"
To Pumpkinhead2, "You didn't review, but when I saw your pen name I burst out laughing!"
*Joins CookieHunterofArtemis in poking Annabeth.*
So anyway peeps, if you added me to your Author alerts (those that did, I love you. Seriously. I picked out a ring) you'll notice a new story written by me, either tonight or tomorrow. This doesn't mean I'll stop writing this one; I just had an idea and had to write it immediately. It's called, "Titans: Reborn." If it picks up any speed, I'll just have to write both of these things at once, because I'll be damned if I don't finish. BTW, OVER 85 REVIEWS? ! (still, it's nice to receive feedback so please review.)
Chapter 6:
Percy's POV
Artemis and I looked around the room at each god, trying to gage their emotions. This task, unfortunately, was extremely easy. The look on every single one of their faces was shock, pure, unadulterated, shock. Every single eyebrow was up, every eye open so wide you'd have thought they were going to pop out of their head, and every mouth was agape. Even Apollo was affected as such, though he knew of our relationship, he didn't expect us to make out in the throne room in front of everyone, but Apollo being Apollo he used his godly powers to make his jaw drop all the way to the floor.
"You are the most annoying brother ever, "Artemis said as she rolled her eyes at her idiot sibling while I chuckled quietly.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" yelled Zeus, finally coming to his senses. His face distorted from shock, to disgust, to rage, to confusion, and back again. Finally, he settled on a combination of all three. It made him look like he was choking on a rotten apple and it took all my self control to keep from laughing, but a glance from Artemis was enough to make me realize the seriousness of the situation and I quickly calmed down.
"Father," Artemis said, turning to Zeus, with some hesitation so I squeezed her hand to let her know she wasn't alone. She relaxed visibly and continued. "Father, I am in love with Percy Jackson." When she finished her simple proclamation, the trance over the Olympians caused by seeing us kiss, evaporated. The whole room turned into a cacophony of sound; shouting gods, the Earth shacking, the boom of thunder, the crackle of energy in the room, but soon one noise prevailed above the rest.
"I won't stand for this! My daughter shall never break her oath!" Zeus thundered, holding his master bolt menacingly. For once, my father and Zeus agreed.
"My SON shall never marry a child of Zeus!" Poseidon roared, sounding like a million waves crashing on the rocks of some forlorn beach. I jumped out of my throne along with Artemis, still holding hands for support.
"I don't give a DAMN about what you two want and I could care less about how feel! I love Artemis and I'm not going to let some pompous rulers of the world ruin that!" I shouted at them, uncaring of the consequences as long as Artemis and I stayed together. My father stared at me, surprised at the way I'd talked to him. Zeus, on the other hand, exploded with rage.
"If you two don't stop this insane thing you call love, I'll make you!" and so saying, he aimed at the both of us and threw his master bolt.
A/N: Aren't you glad I didn't end the last chapter here? You would've had to wait for a while to find out the super special awesome thing that happens. I mean it will blow you away! It is so freaking cool! It's amazing! Firstly, though, I do believe I should respond to some more reviews.
To Dx, "I liked calling her dumb to since her fatal flaw is that she thinks she can do things better than everyone."
To LeArtemis, "Thanks for that, need it. I really like your story, 'Witch and wizard remake.'"
To everyone who has ever read my story and reviewed, added it to your favorites, added me to your favorites, added it to your alerts, added me to your alerts, or all of them together, "You make me feel loved and are a couple of the reasons I love writing, thank you and God bless."
Now back to the story!
Artemis' POV
As our doom hurtled towards Percy and me, the reason for my sudden declaration of love played itself in my mind
*Flashback*
I looked as shocked as I felt when I realized that Aphrodite had absolutely nothing with me falling in love with Percy, so Aphrodite looked at me concerned.
"Are you okay?" she said worried seeing as I had been standing there frozen for five minutes. I nodded stiffly and moved my knife away from her throat.
"How is it even possible that you cause me to love Percy?" I asked, puzzled. She mumbled to herself for a few seconds, debating the issue, and then she looked up at me with a spark in her eyes.
"It's very rare, it's only happened once before in the history. Its love that's so powerful that it happens the very second the two people in love see each other for the first time. In fact, they feel a connection to the person before they even know the other exists. I'm sure Percy felt had feelings for you before he even knew that we gods were real," she squealed excitedly. I was very surprised by this. When Poseidon had revealed he had a son, I felt my heart skip a beat. Every time Percy was discussed by the gods, I always had trouble staying on topic and kept thinking about him. When I say him for the first time, it took every bit of self control I had to not kiss him right there on the spot. I had always dismissed it as Aphrodite's doing, but now that I knew…
I nodded my thanks to Aphrodite and walked away. I stayed at my palace inside my palace for the next week, my feelings for the new god growing every second I thought of him, and I couldn't stop thinking about him. I decided that the next time I saw him; I wouldn't care what my family thought and would tell him how I felt, no matter where we were or the circumstances that caused us to meet.
*End of Flashback*
These thoughts crossed my mind in less than a second and I decided that I wasn't afraid of my father's weapon, so long as I had Percy I was happy. Just as the bolt was about to hit us, I felt Percy's strong arm quickly guide me behind him and stand between me and certain destruction. He reached out a hand faster than even godly eyes could follow and plucked the bolt out of the air!
He began to glow, far brighter than even my father, Zeus, could and his eyes began to shine with a golden light!
"No one hurts Artemis, not while I breathe!" he yelled at the council, glowering at each one with his golden gaze, daring them to try anything. Zeus looked pale and horrified, while everyone else just stared at Percy. Apollo didn't even try to make a joke out of the whole situation!
Percy's POV
I wasn't sure what had happened, nor did I care at the moment. All I know was that I would protect Artemis until I collapsed on the ground and died, and you can't kill someone who's immortal. After what I had determined to be a long enough amount of time, I nodded and sat back down, the glow from my body and eyes fading, but with Zeus' weapon still in my hands. Artemis slowly sat down next to me, partly out of awe and partly out of shock of what I had done.
Zeus awkwardly gestured at his symbol of power, "Can I have that back?" he asked in a very small voice. I looked at him, then back to the powerful object in my hands.
"No," I said with finality, and then I clenched my hand and broke the lightning bolt in two. That's when a dark and evil looking portal opened out stepped a being that reeked of power and ancient evil. He had a featureless face, but this didn't stop him from seemingly looking into your soul, though he had no eyes. His skin was darker than Kronos' heart and was covered with white dots that shined like stars. just sitting in his presence made me want to take a shower for a week. The gods looked even more shocked now, if that were possible, and Artemis clenched my hand so hard that she almost broke my fingers.
"Finally," said the ancient being, "the time has come for the rise of Chaos! Now that the One has come out of the woodwork and taken his place among the gods, the battle has begun!"
A/N: Dun dun duuuuuuuu! Cliffhanger! Wheeeee! I'm sooooo evil. Now most of you are wondering, "What the heck you dastard? You dastardly left us hanging!" Well deal with it! Olympian hero gave me this idea, but asked to be the first to use it, so until he does in his story "Percy Jackson and the Final Adventure," I can't write the next chapter. I'm very sorry, but it can't be helped. If you get board waiting, you can always read and *cough, cough, review, cough* my new story coming out tomorrow, "Titans: Reborn." Please be patient and don't hire people to come and hurt me! As always, PLEASE REVIEW!
