Legacy

A/N:Profanity included. I don't tend to say things like fuck or anything. Just mainly shit and Dimmit. And hell. That's about it.

Chapter 1:

Year 2000.

Ares was in his temple up on Olympus, sharpening his sword, when suddenly he felt a surge of power. At first he was worried and confused until he recognized the power signature as the fates. When he realized this he remembered the boy. He smiled to himself; happy that this boy still lives. This boy is the last true Spartan; the last true warrior of the world and he vowed to protect this boy till he came of age to protect himself. He would secretly train this boy to be a true hero. A hero that will be remembered. A Hero who created his own legacy to follow.

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Athena was in her temple, looking over some blueprints of a new temple she was going to put up for herself, when suddenly she felt a surge of power. She was confused at first but then she recognized the energy signature as the fates. Curiously she thought about what the fates are doing here. They almost never show themselves innless it has to do with something very important. Interesting, very interesting indeed. I guess only time will tell.

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A/N:So I'M just going to skip all of the beatings and other dark and bad stuff he goes through. I will add a tiny bit at the beginning of the chapter. Also remember. He is going to be more mature for his age. He is more like a 10 year old than 7 year old in how mature he is.

Year 2007

Finally, school is over for the year! After 9 months of teachers yelling at me and giving me detention, I get a break. I walked home happily for the first time in months. Not even the endless traffic of the city could deter my mood. As I walked up the steps to the third floor apartment I lived in with my mom I heard shouting. I approached the door quietly. It sounded like my mom was shouting at my step dad again. When I entered the room I wasn't prepared for what I saw. Standing in the middle of the hallway was my mom shouting at this man. But this man was different than any man I had ever seen before. He wore a cloak that seemed to have souls screaming in pain and fear. Just looking at it was making me so scared I wet my pants. Then I looked at his face. His eyes were black pits, endless voids that seemed to looked into your deepest secrets and take them out. His skin was an impossible ghostly white that only dead men had. His hair was blood red. Then I noticed that there was something dripping down from his hear and onto the floor. It was red just like blood. But I didn't get to this much on this because the next thing I know is him hit on the back of my head and all I see is black.

When i woke up I noticed I was chained to a wall. I opened my eyes a little and looked around the room. There wasn't a lot of light, just enough to be able to see everything in the room. There was old blood stains on the wall and the entire place smelled of dried blood, vomit, and a few other ungodly horrid things. Suddenly the door across from me burst open and the man I saw from before walked into the room. Following him were two unholy creatures carrying a table full of tools and devices. The creatures looked like beautiful, naked women at first but then you look down and notice that they had the bottom half of a snake. Instead of fingernails they had claws. I was so scarred I peed myself again. What are they going to do with me. What did this man want with me and my mom and what are those creatures. I opened my mouth to ask a question but the man interrupted me.

"Don't bother. You'll want to save your breath for later." He said in this dark voice that made me feel small and insignificant. That's when I noticed he had a presence to the room. He seemed to radiate power. But not just power but a kind of dark power. It made you feel scared and afraid of everything. The man turns to the two creatures and shows them where to put the table. He walks over to the table and picks up a knife that had this nasty serrated edge. He walk up to me and started talking again.

"So I guess you're wondering what you're doing here and who I am. Am I correct" He asks me as he twirls the knife around in his hands. I just nod my head, to scared to say anything.

"Well, I am Tarterus. Your mother paid me to protect you and I had for the past seven years but someone else paid me more to bring you here and torture you. So here you are. Down in the depths of hell about to get tortured for eternity." As he was saying this he was smiling then used the knife to cut off my shirt, somehow without cutting me.

"So why don't we get this party started" He said in a cheerful tone. He took the knife and dragged it across my skin from my right shoulder to my left hip. The knife dug deep into the skin but didn't hit any organs. I screamed out in pain. The pain was intense. How was I going to survive eternity of torture when just a simple knife cut hurts this bad. I started to cry and scream as Tarterus made more cuts all across my chest and arms. Finally after what seemed like hours of pain, I'm finally unable to even scream and I black out.

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Year 2013

I woke up like I usually do, with Tarterus throwing a bucket of weak acid at me. To where it doesn't burn me that bad but hurts like a mother F*cker. When I look up I noticed Tarterus was there but this time he had his two snake bitch's holding someone. By the looks of them they look like a woman. I know what he was doing. He has done it before. He asks me if I want to take their torture and add it to my own so they felt less pain. I always said yes and in the end he just killed them. But at least I gave them a few moments of peace.

"I see that your awake and that you have noticed out guest." He says happily. I wonder what's got him so happy today.

"Why don't you say hi to our guess for today, Ekdikesis?" He said as he lifted the woman's' head by hear hair. The woman screamed out in pain and when I saw her face I burst out in tears for the first time in years. I would of called out her name but I was unable to talk. Tarterus had rendered me mute years ago. I was only able to make screams and other sounds of the sorts.

"I brought her here so she could say a final good bye to you before she dies." He told me as he pulled out a blood red long sword from a sheath at his side. He walked behind my mom and pointed the sword at her back.

Between her sobbing I heard her whisper," I'm so sorry" and right as she finished saying that the point of Tarterus' sword was pushed through her chest. At that moment I broke. After years of torture, the one person who I was always thinking about is dead. The one person who I knew loved me no matter what. The one person who kept me sane, grounded to earth, alive. And that person is now dead. I fell to me knees and screamed. I screamed an unholy scream so loud that the very ground shook. Then suddenly I felt a power come from within me. I didn't know what I was I just knew it needed to release it. All the pain and anger and hate coming out now in a burst of energy. With this burst of power came a light. Light shined off my body and incinerated the two snake Bitch's. Tarterus looked at me wide eyed and scared for the first time in his existence before he flashed out leaving me alone with my mother's body. I snapped the chains from the wall and walked over to her body and picked it up. In front of me was a tunnel that suddenly formed and seemed to go up at a steep incline. I didn't waste a second. I started to run down the tunnel to get out of this hell as fast as I could, carrying my mother's lifeless body. I saw faint light ahead and I knew I was reaching the end of the tunnel. I slowed to a walking pace as I reached the mouth of the tunnel and looked where I was. I looked up and saw that I was in a forest somewhere with the moon shining down on this clearing. What I failed to notice was all the girls in silver hunting outfits all around me. I walked to the center of clearing, dragging the chains still attached to my arms with me. Once I got to the center of the clearing I set down my mother's body as if it was a baby. I kneeled down and started to cry. After a moment of crying I raised my head screamed out. The sound that came from my throat was such a sound that signified pain, unimaginable pain that the person had endured. With that scream I released all the pent up power and energy. The ground started to shake like there was a massive earthquake. Light seemed to glow off of him and then the light formed a circle around him and shot up into the sky, as if it was a beacon for all to see. With knowledge I didn't know I had I used the energy I had to raise my mother's body. Her body started to float in the air until it was about 15 feet off the ground. Then I used the rest of my energy and sent her body and soul up to the stars so she could still see me and everyone else in this world, forever. Her body seemed to start to fade and slowly particle seemed to come off of her and travel up into the sky until there was nothing left. As this was happening the chains that were still connected to me started to glow then float. The light seemed to turn them into energy and then that energy was infused with my skin forming tattoos all over my chest, arms, and back. When this was done I released my hold over everything and the earthquake stopped and the light turned off. Right when I did this I felt a piercing pain in my chest. I looked down and saw a silver tipped arrow extruding from my chest. Then suddenly I blacked out.

A/N:This is Artemis's pov. of what just happened when he walked out of the cave/ tunnel/ whatever the hell you want to call it thing.

Me and my hunters were hunter down a pack of hell hounds up in Idaho when suddenly the ground started to shake. I signaled for my hunters to stop. That's weird there aren't supposed to be any earth quakes here as we are far away from the ocean. Then suddenly in the clearing before us a cave just popped up out of the ground. Shortly after a man carrying what looked like a woman walked out. The male walked to the center of the clearing and set her down. He then kneeled down next to her with his back to me. I could hear him crying. That's when I noticed that the woman appeared to be dead. How dare this male kill her and then cry over her body, as if he had any right to do so! Then suddenly he shot his head back and screamed into the night with his arm out wide. The sound that I hear just shocked me. The pain was evident in the sound. Suddenly the ground started to shake again but more violently this time. Then light started to glow from the male. His body seemed to glow for a moment before condensing into a circle of light and shooting up into the night sky. During this all my hunters were on the ground panicking and I was just able to stand up. Suddenly the woman's body started to float up into the air until it was about 15 feet about the ground. The woman's body seemed to dissolve into the sky. As this was happening the chains that were attached to the boys wrists started to glow with power. Soon they seemed to disappear then reappear as tattoos all across his chest, back, and arms. I raised my bow to try and shoot him before he completed whatever sick ritual he was doing. But the ground was still shacking to be for me to be able to hit him. Finally when the woman's body was completely dissolved and the tattoos on his body stopped going the light disappeared and the earth stopped shacking. The second I could, I shot him in the back with an arrow. I saw his head look down at the arrow before he supped forward, hopefully dead but I doubted it.

Once my hunters got their balance back I signaled for them to move in around the boy. I walked right up behind him and turned him over with my foot. I leaned down to check to see if he was still alive. After a moment I noticed that he was breathing and had a pulse. With a disgusted look on my face, I ripped the arrow out of his chest and poured some nectar on the wound so he wouldn't die. I'll need him alive for interrogation later. I told Zoe, my lieutenant, to head back to camp. She nodded and rounded up the hunters to start their run back to camp. I waited in the clearing for a while after my hunters left, thinking about what kind of power this mortal had and who his godly parent was. After looking around the clearing making sure not to miss anything I flashed myself and the boy back to camp. When I got there I told Phoebe to chain the male up in an empty tent. She happily agreed. I left the camp to go for a walk, thinking on what torture techniques I was going to use on this boy. I smiled thinking of all the possibilities.

A/N: So now back to Ekdikesis's pov.

I woke up in a very uncomfortable position. I was sitting on a wooden chain with my arms tied behind me and my legs tied to the chair. I took a quick moment to check my physical condition and noticed that the arrow that was once in my chest was removed but the wound still hurt a lot. Once I did that I looked at the room I was in. It looked like I was in a large silver tent with no bottom. The floor was just grass and dirt. Interesting, the person who shot the arrow was probably the one who captured me then considering how I am tied to a chair. Suddenly the tent flap is opened and in walks a 12 year old girl wearing a silver hunting outfit. She had two hunting knifes strapped to her waste and a bow and quiver of arrows on her back. She had long auburn hair that was tied in a ponytail and piercing silver eyes. Well shit…