FINALLY, THE INTERNET IS BACK! BACK!...SWEET, SWEET INTERNET!
Damn Halloween Blizzard
Magicdemigod; Its a starting flashback, to begin illustrating how Theron exists, it will also deal with other things, like Krios and Hyperion's plan that resulted in the Kane Chronicles storyline to exist, Jason's guilt, Zaria being born and Sally's youthful appearance. The flashback will be explained more in its importance this chapter and the next few
Animeman; And Gato was particularly nasty, so because of that he got a very nasty death
Sage of Eyes; Everyone else did
Olympus
"A son of Artemis...you're pulling my leg" Demeter frowned as the Olympian Gods, minus Sir Fork, the former virgin and staff guy (I love nicknames), were discussing what had just happened; Hera and Dionysus had neck braces on from their wounds Theron and Artemis had inflicted on them.
"I'm not, somehow that freak of nature exists..." Apollo said darkly, with killer intent radiating off him like a dark sun.
"Yikes, he's about as nice as Hera" Aphrodite whispered to Ares, who chuckled
"SILENCE!" Zeus bellowed, as lightning impacted to emphasize his point "The son of Artemis is a point we shall deal with later, but now we must focus on the oncoming war"
"I second it" Ares chuckled like a rapid hyena
Athena sighed half heartedly, what Artemis had said just as she left was, haunting her...
"So, that Jackson took the virginity of not only my daughter, but also your own, both woman above his position..."
"Who says he got that" Artemis said in a sad overtone, that Athena overhead and froze briefly in shock.
They had assumed, from that Thalia look alike that had been with her granddaughter, and Theron, Zaria she assumed her name was, that something had happened to Thalia. But, that comment implied something happened to Artemis...
That would relate to Theron...but Percy wasn't 'that' type. The sea spawn was an idiot, but a morally strong idiot.
And while her loosing her virginity, could in theory destroy the hunters, Artemis was vindictive towards those who betrayed them...all gods were. So, if Thalia had left her, she wouldn't let Zaria near Theron
But yet she was...and who was Zaria's father
"Do we really have to" Athena put her thoughts aside for the meeting at hand "What point is a war"
"The Egyptians gods are out again" Apollo frowned "So we need to defeat them again. I have an arrow specially prepared for Sekhmet"
"Do you want World War Three?"
"YES!"
"Shut up Ares" Dionysus snorted.
"And we cannot attack, as long as we don't have one of the seven heroes...and they aren't being cooperative" Apollo shook his head darkly "Though prophecy or not, if I see Jackson, I will kill him" thank you Hera for getting rid of his Achilles Curse
The grove
Theron coughed violently, and rapidly, as Artemis continued to play nurse over her brother plague that was striking her sun.
The deer sentinels, standing proudly like compass points, rose their heads sharply as something landed on the branch of a nearby tree...
But it was just a hawk.
Further movement revealed more coming birds, a kite bird of prey, an ibis, a vulture and a oddly jackal like Coyote. The deer watched the new comers, nervously.
They were wild creatures, their mistress would find only aide from them, but something about them was...odd.
Flashback, three years after the Gato incident
The fur lined tent that Artemis resided in during the hunt was laden with many things, furs from creatures ranging from deer and bear to even older creatures such as aurochs and even, in her, well not youth but early hunts, a mammoth skin, to books.
For the hunt, while thrilling, had dull periods. While not her half sister, she did like her books. Lord of the Flies, The Inheritence series, Harry Potter, the Everworld series, and other books she had for times where prey was scarce
She was currently rereading the final of the Inheritence cycle, as Thalia entered her tent, bowing. Thalia bookmarked her page with a silver book mark.
"Lady Artemis"
"Ah, Thalia...he has left yet?"
Thalia nodded "Percy and Annabeth have departed. His mother has a dinner reservation for four at a restaurant that they wish to catch"
After the death of Paul Blofis by Zeus, Poseidon had put Sally under his protection. The only reason, as far as Artemis could tell, that Amphitrite had allowed this was A; because Sally had no desire to retake the sea god for herself, she was a rare breed of god lover who wanted them not for themselves, but their children, and B; she was much better at paperwork than the Queen of the Sea, she could handle the enemy of gods, presidents, ninja leaders and master wizards who love lemon drops much better than they could.
Oddly enough, the two had struck up a friendship, and as far as Artemis knew, the only reason she didn't have a Chiron like immortality deal (Live as long as you don't take my husband and do the paperwork) was because Percy was mortal (Who would not take immortality without Annabeth as well being granted it, and Poseidon could not make her immortal due to her not being either a lover or child of himself)
"Ah, that is nice. It always warms my heart to see a family actually care about one another, and it amazes me Amphitrite could bare to eat with one of her husbands, slips. His help with those animal smugglers was most appreciated, you told him that?"
In particular when she either was dealing with people she disliked along water, or really high risk operations like that Gato fellow, it always was good to have two children of the big three alongside her.
"I did, my lady" Thalia seemed troubled...
"Let me guess, there are still, problems" Artemis said solemly. Thalia frowned
"Unfortunately, the other hunters...aside for Lysandra and the five Percy helped rescue; Nirmala, Ahou, Hisani, Belecia and Hea, still view Percy with distrust and low tolerance, like he's a faun"
Artemis rose an eyebrow
"I mean like Don, not Grover"
"Its a tad offensive to compare Percy to a faun...most men are like Fauns, but for some reason, Percy is different. Much more Satyr like, just less hairy"
The two chuckled at the thought of a Satyr Jackson
A bit later
A slowly dulling fire illuminated the hunters clearing, as huntress after huntress went to bed in their tents.
She smiled as her five newest hunters left. The five were all making great progress, Hea had been mostly trained out of worshiping the North Korean despot, and Ahou had finally accepted that their were other gods.
She still was a active muslim, but then again Artemis had no secular, or religious, rules in her hunters. Though worship of Eros was a no no...
She had only just gotten them to stop calling her mistress...after a few blushes from Annabeth and Thalia pointed out what that meant, last thing she needed was people calling her a pervert or something.
"My lady" Artemis looked over her shoulder to spy the Huntress Lysandra. A black haired girl with light brown African American skin (who, with her minds eye, was who she saw when she thought of Nasuada or Angelina Johnson, despite her lighter skin tone), she was a poster child for why she went into the child protection business all those years ago.
Lysandra was born in 1838, the son of a slave and her master, and not a union of love but a full on rape. Despite her parentage, she was treated like any other slave, forced to labor in the tobacco fields for years.
When she was fifteen, her mother was killed after a whipping from an overseer got infected. As this particular overseer seemed to have, desire for her, Lysandra fled the plantation.
Running for two days, a slave catcher's hounds had nearly overtaken her when Zoe had intervened, saving her. After that, she joined the hunters, but sadly had faced discrimination from the other hunters.
That was likely why she didn't discriminate about Percy like the others.
"Yes"
Lysandra looked embarrassed "I regret that I had forgotten my locket at the pool we stopped at to bath earlier..."
And it would not do to have a huntress wandering alone at night, monsters were around after all
Artemis stood up "I understand. I shall retrieve it" Artemis blurred silver and sped away.
However, as she left, a burst of bright, harsh, golden light engulfed the Huntress camp sight
A bit away
Artemis reformed at a clear pool, where a sparkling bronze light caught her eye. Crouching down, she picked up a bronze locket, which she opened to spy a headshot of Lysandra, and below it a group shot of the hunters from about a year ago.
Pocketing it, she took off running back, enjoying a bit of the forests night life
However, she had no idea that years later, her son would see her run in a dream
How they would see the glowing stars, the only light on the sleepy forest with the absence of the moon by the new moon phase, which part of herself piloted.
How they sensed the drowsy dryads, the twitchy foxes stalking the night dwelling rats, the hooting owls choiring...
How they would see a huge explosion of light in the distance, and be hit with an offending scent
The scent, of titans
'How...' but that was not important right now, her hunters were in danger
It was times like this, that you wonder why she wasn't called the Goddess of Recklessness
After a speed dash that would impress The Flash, she had quickly returned to her huntresses, to find them bound by chains of burning light. But, before she could break them out, stars in strung bands, like tinsel but evil, bound her.
She tried to break the bounds, but was kicked to the ground by a starry boot. Looking up with hate, she saw both Hyperion, and Krios, the latter who had a shard of metal in his hands
"Well well well, how the mighty huntress has fallen. To think you could give Atlas trouble..." he was shut up by silver light blasting from Artemis's eyes, stinging him.
He kicked her downed form, rolling her on her back "Watch it Power Girl...and speaking of" he stabbed the shard into Artemis.
A scream shook the night, as it reverberated not only through the sleepy wood, but through two demigods dreams
A silvery light blasted from Artemis, as Krios looked on with a dark look, as her child form vanished, but her older form was revealed
"Lady Artemis..." Phoebe whispered
"Krios..." Hyperion frowned
The titan exchanged a look "What, I have morals...I don't do children" Artemis's eyes went wide with fear and a general hopelessness as Krios got an idea on the fly, to go with his chaos enducing plan
"Well then little Huntress, your half brother Jason defeated me, and now its time that one of his sisters pays the price...and I like red heads!"