So here is Chapter Five I hope you enjoy reading it.

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Aurelia' POV

Standing behind Zoë who was currently sitting at the council's table, which was oddly a ping pong table, Aurelia looked around the room.

Mr. D and Chiron, in his wheelchair this time, sat at one end of the table. Zoe meanwhile took the other end with Aurelia. Thalia, Grover and Percy sat along the right side and the other head councilors, Beckendorf, son of Hephaestus, Silena Beauregard, daughter of Aphrodite and the Stoll brothers, sons of Hermes, sat on the left. The Ares cabin was also supposed to send a representative too, but all of them had suffered rather serious injuries during capture the flag game courtesy of the Hunters. They were currently resting up in the infirmary.

Zoë, who was currently resisting the immense pressure to leave immediately to aid her Lady and didn't see the point in useless meetings said impatiently – "This is pointless. There is no time to talk. The Hunters must leave immediatly."

"And go where?" Chiron pointedly asked, quick to remind them of the more then criptical directions provided inside the prophecy.

Thalia too was quick to make her argument - "You're missing something, as usual, Campers and Hunters combined prevail. We're supposed to do this together."

"We're Hunters we don't need the help of campers, and definitely not the male ones." - Zoë said though with less intensity then before, it was obvious that she was beginning to accept that following the prophecy was the best way to retrieve her Lady safely that she had at the moment, although she was still very much against the idea.

"I fear the prophecy says otherwise. Hunters and Campers must cooperate in this." - Chiron was quick to reply. - "You have less than a week time to fullfill your quest. On December the twenty-first, is the Winter Solice Meeting."

It was more than important that Artemis was part of this meeting, she was the most vocal supporter for taking action in the upcomming war, without her vote they would lose another year of war preparations, Zoë had told her before the meeting that this couldn't come at a worse time although she was obviously loathed to think that it had ever happened at all.

Aurelia couldn't care less about some war, all she cared for was the family she found in the hunters, certainly not some campers or gods she never met, she would do her best to help where she could, but for her it was only the case of Artemis being the goddess missing and in need that made her care enough to help.

"... Now we must decide who shall go on the quest." - I should pay more attention that's for sure – She thought to herself, shaking her head, getting pulled out of her thoughts as the centaur finished his summary of the importance of the quest's success.

Soon it was decided, after what seemed to be a bargain contest between Zoë and the rest of the attending, that three hunters and three campers should go.

"Who could be the "Bane of Olympus"? Any idea?" - Percy asked.

After a short silence it was Thalia who answered – "Maybe it's her father I mean ...well Artemis said that her father is a big threat just before she left, didn't she." - She said that while pointing at Aurelia.

Following this words Aurelia felt the gazes of every single demigod quick shift to her and looking up she saw in their eyes the innate suspicion every demigod was born with regarding what their instincts deemed a threat.

"Lady Artemis also said that it was not the Nemean lion she was tracking"- Zoë spoke with fiery eyes seeing how the room's occupants had started to focus on Aurelia.

Percy again asked a question - "Chiron don't you have an idea about what this monster could be?"

What followed was a long speech by Chiron telling them that he had no idea what the monster was but he was sure that it must be pretty dangerous and deadly.

He does have a way with words for boosting the groups moral, doesn't he? – Aurelia thought after hearing the centaur out.

Now that Chiron broke the proverbial wall the rest of the campers also started to give in their two cents.

Beckendorf the burly Hephaestus kid pointed out that the quester should be sure to avoid deserts referring to the "One shall be lost in the land without rain" – line. The line "The Titan's curse must one withstand" however caused confusion with the campers, albeit Aurelia saw Chiron and Zoë quickly exchange anxious glances and made a note to make sure to speak with her friend about what clearly had them worried.

"One shall perish by a parents hand, whose parents would do such a thing to their own child " - The satyr Grover said. This line was the clearest of all of the them all, it was a clear indicator of what they should expect to lay ahead of them on the quest.

"Before we go any further we need to decide who will be going in the Quest. Zoë which hunters do you choose?" - Chiron interrupted any further attempts to analyse the prophecy.

"Obivously I will go myself. Aurelia Potter and Bianca Di Angelo shall accompany me." - She stated in a clear voice veritably ringing with strength, daring those around her to argue her choices. That was another thing she would have to speak with Zoë about, why would she choose two unexperienced hunters over the veterans? Phoebe quickly came to mind.

"And which of the campers will you take with you?"

That was obviously the cue Grover had been waiting for - "Me, take me, anything for the Lady Artemis!"

After a small pause and a few short minutes of arguing it was quickly decided that he could come along with the quest, not least because of Aurelia's backing knowing the worth of a satyr and having recently being reminded of it.

"I'll go too" – Thalia spoke up. There was no aguring.

"So who will be the last member?" - Chiron asked.

"I want to go" – Percy said.

"Oh no, I will not have a male travelling with the Hunters. Choose another one, a female one." - Zoë vehemently rejecting the boy's insistance.

A few minutes later however, it quickly became clear that there was no other choice. No one else wanted to go on a quest where at least two people were going to die, with another at risk enough to be warned by the fates, and a titan's curse didn't sound too tempting either.

So it was, though reluctantly in some cases, decided that Percy could come along for the quest.

...

That night she had a rather strange dream, she had been told they were normal for demigods, apparently demimonsters had them too.

She found herself on top of a mountain surrounded on all sides by the Ruins of a massive City. She stood in what once must have once been a throne room and in front of her she saw Artemis on one knee with her hands and shoulders holding a great invisible weight. She went to move closer but before she could do anything a man she hadn't seen suddenly walked right through her, staggering her severing the connection sending her reeling back to her sleeping body.

She immediately shot upright in her bed gasping for air. Looking around she quickly calmed seeing all the other hunters sleeping and relaxed beginning to lean back, but stopping just as she was about to try to go back to sleep when her gaze landed on Zoë's empty bed. Feeling slightly worried she knew that as a friend she had to look for Zoë so, sighing, she rose from her own bed and quickly stepped out of the dormitory into the main room. Thankfully spotting Zoë almost immediately as she sat silently while looking into the fire place.

"You should be sleeping, you know. We have to be at our best for Lady Artemis and we're leaving early tomorrow" - Her quiet but close voice startled Zoë, who jumped almost a foot in the air in her shock.

"I could say the same. It's not like you won't come with me." - Zoë spoke to her laughing friend giving her an unimpressed look.

"About that why did you choose Bianca and me? Why not Phoebe or one of the other veterans?"

Her question was met with silence, until. - "I have a feeling that it has to be you and Bianca. Besides I trust you and I have seen you fight, you definitely pull your weight and more. As for Bianca, I think she could benefit from the experience. Is that all?"

"I also wanted to ask you about your reaction to the The Titan's curse must one withstand - line."

"I rather not talk about that. Maybe later it is not important now."

With that the conversation was at an end. Zoë quickly leaving the room before Aurelia could say anymore. Deep inside she knew she had to wait before confronting Zoë again, she could tell that she wasn't ready at the moment.

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It was the next morning at about seven am when they were scheduled to depart from camp that the first problem quickly became apparent, there was no Percy. He hadn't come to the agreed upon meeting place at Half-Blood hill and when checked, was neither in his cabin or at the Big House.

For Zoë that was just further proof how cowardly boys, and the male gender in general, were.

So without further delay the questing group quickly entered the van where Argus, the camps security chief, was supposed to be to drive them, when he too wasn't there however Zoë quickly sat herself behind the wheel saying she would drive.

Aurelia personally had no problem with that and if the others did they certainly never voiced them.

It was already midday when they pulled up at a rest stop in Maryland. After taking a short break there and the group buying some drinks and snacks from the quest money she was also able to see Grover work his tracking spell, which with her knowledge of Nature Magic from the God of the Wild himself, she saw that he did to an acceptable standard, he really should have more confidence in his skill.

The tracking spell's results pointed them to D.C.. When she went to get back into the Van however Aurelia couldn't help but stop at the front, when she could, for some strange reason, smell horse. Which was rather strange considering that there were no horses around as far as she could tell. After quickly using her senses to search around some more she shrugged, though made a note of it, it wasn't that big of a deal after all, nor was it her problem.

It was only during the drive to D.C. however that she spotted a black point in the grey skys following their van.

...

It was a while later that they arrived in Washington D.C.. After parking their white camp van not far from the Washington Monument, Grover then led them through the streets all the while pointing at a large building, The National Air And Space Museum.

Once he entered the museum however Grover seemed to quickly lose the trace he had been following and started to walk aimlessly through the halls. It was about then when she lost the group.

She was walking into a hall which seemed to be a replica of the solar system. It was large and dark with huge planets hanging from the ceiling.

No one was around, or so she thought, when she arrived in the middle of the room.

It was here that she felt it, a presence she hadn't felt since before her training with Pan. She had felt the same presence many times before, lurking in her mind, only this time it was so much greater, it was overwhelming and it was close!

Aurelia quickly looked around herself, stretching out all her senses, she couldn't see, hear or smell anything unusual, but her instincts were screaming at her!

"Look who we have here" – A deep voice sounded from behind her, causing all the hairs on her neck to stand up.

She slowly turned in the voice's direction only to see darkness. "You still have so much to learn little one." - The voice was heard again, this time to her right.

She quickly turned but again there was only darkness staring back at her, it seemed that even just facing the owner of the voice was more difficult than that.

"Look at you, you look so much like your mother it's unbelieveable." - Coming from her left.

"Who are you?" - Aurelia asked, with all the force she could muster, although she already had an idea of who it could be.

"Oh! So much power in you! So much confidence! You could be so great if only you would come with me, I can teach you things no one else can. It's what fathers do after all."

It was one thing to have your suspicions and another to have them confirmed. She had a father right here, she had family that wanted her but still she felt something was off.

"What do you want from me? Why am I only seeing you now? Where were you, when I needed you?!" – The questions just came out of her, it were questions she had asked herself so many times, since she discovered that her father was still alive from Pan, she needed those answeres.

"What do you mean with 'needed me'? You were safe with your mother and James." – This time the voice was right in front of her, she was startled as a lion face seemed to materialise just in front of her eyes, out of the shadows emerged the largest lion she, or anyone else for that matter, had ever seen.

The way he said 'James' suggested that he wasn't found of him who ever that was.

"I didn't live with my mother and who is James?" - She answered to his question.

Ther was silence beteween them, the only sound being made by his mighty flanks as he came closer to her. - "There is so much we have to talk about." - There was curiosity in his voice – "Imagine the new life I can give you. A place to belong, a true family. Not like those Hunters. But before that you must help me. I know that you joned the hunters and arrived here with a quest. You must help me defeat them. They will not expect your betrayal. After that we can talk and I can teach you everything you need to know. We can live together as it should have been from the beginning."

Quickly ice-cold fear for her quest mates, most of it was concentrated on Zoë and Bianca, grew in her heart, here she was finding a father and then having to choose. But it wasn't a difficult decision, three years ago she would have jumped on the chance of being with her father but now she had the Hunters as a family.

"I will not help you."

"And why is that? Do you believe yourself to be human? I can tell you that you're most certainly not a human."

"I know that I am not human but neither am I a monster" - Aurelia spoke.

The lion seemed to find that a rather funny thing to say if his laughter, which sounded like rolling stones, was anything to go by. - "Not a monster? Oh that's precious." - As his laughter slowly came to a stop his voice turned to steel. - "I can smell the blood on your hands, human blood if I am not mistaken."

The lion started to circle her again as he spoke – "Don't you remember how good it felt to sink your claws in warm flesh? The feeling as the blood painted your face red?"

And she did remember, at his words realising that her face must have betrayed her. - "Ah that look, the inner predator in us which excites us and makes us relish the hunt and the kill."

With every word out of the lion's fanged snout she felt her mind go darker. She felt her previously merged mind beginning to divide itself and split apart. She could feel herself surrendering to her darker urges, quickly an image of Pan, the one who taught, raised her, flashed before her inner eyes in an attempt at helping her to muster her willpower to fight but it wasn't enough, Zoë's face flashed by as well but it just wasn't enough.

Just as she was about to be overtaken by her other half, she saw a pair of familiar silver eyes appear in front of her giving her, a boost of strength flooded through her veins that she wouldn't have thought possible, easily overpowering her inner predator. It were Artemis's eyes, the same powerful, shining silver pools.

"... It's the thrill of the hunt you seek. It's only natural for us at the top of the chain. The way nature takes its course."

"I'm not a monster." – She repeated through bared and gritted teeth.

That seemed to surprise the lion, as he had felt her human half being overtaken by her inner predator. - "So you choose to be prey instead? I will not have any of my children be prey. You will come with me even if I have to carry you back."

Aurelia yelled losing herself in her rapidly rising anger. - "I am not prey!"

"Then you shouldn't behave like it." - He said with angered his own saturating his voice. - "I see those hunters have messed up your mind, it is a wonder you are still alive, that they didn't kill you on first sight. They must have plans for you and I will not let you be used." - With that he lunged for her. Only long hours training combined with natural skill and talent saved her as she instinctively threw herself to the ground.

Coming to her feet again she saw her father already in position to attack again when the doors burst open.

Entering first was Bianca, bow at the ready, with Thalia, her hideous shield and spear drawn and Percy with a celestial bronze sword in hand following quickly on her heels. The question of where Zoë answered itself a second later when a silver arrow flew out of the dark striking the lion straight on but dealing no damage in the slightest. Aurelia could only think that she had somehow managed to enter with out being discovered although that quickly lead Aurelia to the new question of then how much has Zoë had seen as she hid.

It was when she, Thalia and Percy stood in a loose half circle in front of the lion with Zoë and Bianca behind them aiming their bows that she realised something.

She was about to fight her own father, a monster Artemis Goddess of the Hunt had described as being even a match for minor gods and there was no way to stop it...

...

Artemis' POV

Her whole body was on fire. But even with the weight of the Sky that was bearing down on her she couldn't help but think that it would be so much more bearable if it wasn't for Atlas. The amount of hate that she held for that Titan could no longer be measured. If she could be rid of him she would gladly bear double the weight of the sky but the Titan just had to be here!

As time passed she felt her body scream as her muscles were continually ripped over and over again before vigorously healing themselves. To say it was painful would be the understatement of the millenium. Still all she could think about were her Hunters how they were doing and what would become of them if she was held here for any longer.

Now and then she saw demigod spirits appear, the spirit of Poseidon's son and of Zoë were the first but near the end of the night she believed she saw the golden-blond hair of her newest hunter.

Every time the pain began to get the better of her, and became too much, as she began to feel her will start to fade she was faced again by a pair of beautiful orange eyes in her mind's eye giving her the power to continue and hold on.

Those eyes were one of a kind, even through all her millennia of life she had only ever seen those eyes on one person.

... Aurelia...

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