An Enemy Appears

PERCY POV

I grabbed Artemis's shoulders, I then saw a bit of fear in her eyes, but I decided what the hell, why not. She already knows I love her might as well tell her face to face "Artemis, I do love you but I will not affect your decision in anyway but tell me by tonight if you want me gone or not." I looked at her with a stern face. I meant every word and with that I left her.

After that I decided to go to the hunters of what might happen. I walked in they looked at me with disgust which I expected. But I am just glad that they did not attack me. " I cleared my throat and said, "Artemis might not come back for a little bit do not worry she was just thinking some things through."

"why is are you telling us this?"

"Well, when she comes back I will probably not be with you anymore, I just thought you might want to no that."Just before that I called out Thalia I needed to Talk to her someone I could trust.

When we were outside the scowl slid off of Thalia face and was replaced with a slightly worried slightly annoyed look. "Thalia I've done something I probably never should have and well UGH I'm so confused."

Is that why you are saying that you might not come back? I f so what was it? It can't be that bad. Right?"

So I told Thalia what happened at the beach, and when I ran after Artemis. Thalia looked like she was going to kill me but decided against it. "UGH Percy how could you do that you know Artemis is the maiden Goddess. Well it's to late we will wait for now Percy but remember do not try and make a move. Well until the Hunters warm up to you."

I was confused about that and decided to sit at the beach to calm down and think about what Thalia said. It was now several hours later and I was starting to get worried. Artemis was gone for so long. I know I shouldn't feel guilty, but still. I wanted to find her and say sorry but I knew that might affect her answer so I got up and headed into the woods to find Artemis.

I entered the woods two hours ago and now I was completely lost. I was wondering around the forest randomly killing monsters when they attacked, but other than that nothing. When I say Nothing I mean absolutely nothing. No birds, no wind, there weren't even any crickets. There nothing here in the forest, or at least the part I was, until I saw him.

I have no Idea who He was but I could feel a similar power to me but different. Not different as one of the other gods but not even a god. I was curious, and I couldn't let him be here after all how did he even get anyway?

I decided to sneak up behind him when I heard talking. "It is almost ready my lord." "good, good. Report back to me when it is done." "yes my Lord."

With that the message was cut. Alright I thought to myself. I have no Idea who he is, all I know is that he is planning something huge and it is almost complete. Oh and he is probably as strong as some of the gods. Oh well time to go attack him now. With that settled I jumped out of my hiding place and attacked him.

Our battle was ferocious. It could be because we were both super powered gods or because we were both skilled fighters I don't know. But it was probably the fact that we were both super powerful beings.

Anyway he managed to block my initial attack which surprised me, but I didn't have long before he attacked. I had a gut feeling that if this guy did manage to hit me I probably wouldn't be up for a while.

As we were fighting I managed to get inside his guard and give him a huge gash on his stomach he roared out in pain and yelled "You will Not stop me I will have Artemis's Head!"

I looked at him confused and before I could react he took his sword changed it into a REALLY spiky mace and did the same thing to me. The only difference was that I now had a hole in my gut will he had a cut. He was obviously in a lot of pain because he disappeared in a flash.

As soon as he was gone I felt exhausted and in pain from the wound. But I need to make sure Artemis was alright, so I calmed my mind and focused on the camp and any out of the ordinary auras. I found none, then I realized that I could have done this before to find Artemis then I wouldn't be lost, but then that thing might have succeeded in it's plan this made me extremely happy that I managed to stop him, from hurting Artemis.

I looked down and saw I was bleeding a lot and it hurt like crazy. I decided it was time to head back before I passed out. By the time I got to the tree line I knew I wouldn't make it far, when I looked up and saw the Hunters looking at me quizzically, then noticing my wound. They all started toward me, probably worried about Artemis, but I smiled at them and said "Lady Artemis is fine." As soon as those words left my mouth I passed out.

I kept coming to in the next few days. The first time I slipped back into the conscious world was when I heard the voice of none other than Artemis. "What happened here and why is Percy like this?". I remembered the gapping hole in my chest and it hurt like crazy. I managed to crack open my eyes to see Artemis. When I saw her I was devastated, she was almost crying. UGH I thought to myself, how could I do this to her, Owwww Thinking hurt wow that sucks oh well Hopefully I'll wake up soon and everything will be back to normal.

Boy was I wrong.