Hello...little reviews from this chapter, but I hope you guys know that these chapters are important to explain how and why things in this story happened. Each chapter I hope to answer the questions I left unanswered before

I also plan to start something here, something amusing. If one's wanting fluff, your see it next chapter. This is just the finishing steps for setting up the stage

Now, my DSL is on the fritz, so as it dropped for a long time last night, I'm posting this, slightly shorter than normal, to ensure you get a chapter at all.

Lightning Kid; Um...Krios dared

Now then..., let us begin

Thoughts

What happened that night, had slowly been mentally erased by her, to put it behind her, due to her will and talking with Percy, Thalia and others

However, it was not pleasant to wake up after that night...

The past

Artemis was cold

That was what awoke her at first, as she found herself looking into a clear sky, an unknown fabric was covering her, from her chest to her legs.

It was a blue jacket...that smelled enticingly of sea salt and horses

Percy Jackson?

She frowned at that odd thought about the smell of sea salt, but shook it off

She pushed herself so she would be sitting up, as the jacket slipped a bit off her chest. Blushing, she pulled it back over, before the memories of last night hit her, as she paled like a moon

She, the virgin huntress...was raped by a titan...

"Lady Artemis" Thalia's voice said, relieved. Artemis blinked as she spotted her lieutenant, looking more terrible than any time she had ever seen the daughter of Zeus

In fact, it was only matched by how she looked when Jason was taken

"Thalia..." Artemis sniffed the air, relieved at the lack of a 'certain' smell, but disturbed at two things

One, Thalia's blessing was gone...but her virginity was in tact (It was a sense she had as the goddess of virgins, she could tell if a non huntress female or a male was a virgin as well). Could her loss have impacted the hunters

And second, Thalia, Lysandra and the five new huntresses were the only ones in about a quarter mile. She could smell two non virgin scents, Percy and Annabeth, nearby

She smiled briefly at how he could resist peaking at a goddess...

And then frowned again why she kept thinking of Percy so kindly

Tears were in Thalia's eyes, as she bowed in an act of total prostration before Artemis. She was alarmed at that, Thalia was too strong willed

"I'm sorry, Lady Artemis..."

Artemis frowned "And why are you sorry...last I checked you didn't...didn't..." she couldn't say it

Thalia looked away "They came because they were angry at Jason...and got at him, through me, through you..."

"That is not your fault" Artemis said sternly "You had no idea he was even alive"

"But..."

"And, if you must know Thalia, I long ago took time to plan for...well a situation I hoped would never happen" Artemis frowned grimly "For a few hundred years, I experimented with my childbirth side's powers, as 'birth control' if I should ever be attacked like..." she stopped and took a deep breath before continuing "I know for a fact that trying an abortion like procedure would be impossible due to my nature as a protector of children, not that such a procedure does not have use in some circumstances. I figured out how to control and influence sperm and egg cells; to those I favor, I can increase potency to aide them in having children...if they sacrifice something in exchange" she figured out long ago that such an act was required...like how gods couldn't speak clearly and say 'go to the Bermuda Triangle and get the Golden Fleece', but instead say 'Travel to the sea of death and search out Europa's legacy' or something "and for those I dislike, well I can keep the sperm from being released or create total sterility."

Thalia blinked "No wonder Krios looked ticked off..."

"While I can't say I still have...I don't have any possibility of being impregnated. Its not a redeemer, though I am thankful you and the other hunters saved me..."

"Actually, Percy blasted Krios off you with a water attack" Thalia corrected "That water broke the binds of me and we managed to take the Titans down"

Percy saved her...what a man...

And why did she keep thinking that?

"Thank you...Thalia. Defeating a Titian was valiant, for if he decided to..." she stopped and wished there was a goddess of therapy or something.

"But, where are the other hunters..."

Thalia grimaced, as Thalia noticed wounds...wounds that were more recent

Artemis paled even more "Thalia...they didn't..."

Thalia had a grim look "As soon as they were freed, aside for the six here, they attacked me, claiming it was my fault, that my 'demonic roman brother' destroyed the hunters. Your blessing...it seems to have vanished, and many of the older hunters are...a bit unstable. Percy and Annabeth took Mrs. O'Leary to try and stop them from doing something rash"

Artemis looked terrified, they might attack Percy...no she was worried about her hunters. Why Percy was in her head so much, she had no idea...

"Thalia, I'm going after them..." she then took note of Percy's jacket "um...I might need to change first" she closed her eyes as a plain white T shirt and jean shorts appeared on her body, only

"Great, my powers are off..." her body must be having some sort of reaction to loosing her virginity. Glad the form she was forced into, and could not change out of at the moment, had small breasts, she put on Percy's jacket, and mentally dealing with her odd emotions, whistled as her chariot, a gleaming silver vehicle pulled by four Golden Hind, descended in front of her

"All aboard..." 'I need to leave this place'

Flashback during Flashback

A younger Jason Grace stood in the center of a clearing, trimmed down of all trees by is mighty Imperial Gold Gladius.

He needed time to clear his head, and practice his swordplay...

That was when he heard rustling in the woods around him...

"YOU!"dozens of silver blurs attacked like "YOU MONSTER!"

Return from the flashback in the flashback

Jason was panting, as his golden blade now had a new color glinting on it...the red color of blood, as a full mob of dead huntresses lay around him. An arrow was sticking out of his shoulder, and Phoebe the Huntress was still upright

"Why...why are you attacking me...and where's Thalia!" Jason demanded

Phoebe spat at him "Why would we care for her! She ruined us, YOU RUINED US!"

Jason frowned "Okay, I haven't even been near your camp since Thalia and I reunited. Explain to me then, how I 'ruined' you?"

"You destroyed Krios...and he wanted revenge, and he got it on us! Apparently, he got it, from your sister!"

Jason paled, Thalia was...

"And not Mrs. kill Barbie" Jason was stunned...it was impossible...he didn't...it wasn't...

Phoebe then attacked him as he was stunned, before he defended himself...

And one last huntress was felled

Jason then dropped his sword, as he saw the carnage that he caused...as Artemis and Thalia crashed down in their chariot, as Percy and Annabeth rode in on the hellhound...and froze in shock at the dead

"They attacked...I was just..." he said, wordlessly, before he looked at Artemis with very un-roman desperation, greatly alarmed "I'm sorry..." he collapsed before the goddess "I didn't mean..."

"Honestly, you two are far too alike" Artemis glared at both of them "I don't blame you at all...you could have dealt with, them" Artemis noted her dead hunters with sadness "A bit less lethally"

"Forgive me..."

"Quick word of warning, don't give gods reason to blame you...that's a seaweed brainy thing to do" Annabeth reprimanded with a playful tone

"Hey!"

How cute...why did she keep thinking that?

Jason turned to leave, leaving his blade behind "If its okay, I'm going to leave now. I will never again take a weapon, to account for my misdeed..." he sounded formal, until he was turned into a tan jackelope

Percy, Annabeth and Thalia gave alarmed looks at Artemis "LADY ARTEMIS!"

She smirked as she flicked her fingers to return Jason to human form "I had to shut him up somehow" she picked up his blade "If you really want to make yourself vulnerable, be free to" she said with a business tone to the Roman "But, take this blade...you might meet someone who needs it"

"You don't really need to..."

Artemis slightly changed her form with a glare, the patented Roman God death glare, ending the argument once and for all with her next warning

"Jason"

"Yes Diana" he moped as she changed her form back to where it was stuck, aside for that one transformation.

"Good" she smirked

"Gods are...odd" Percy muttered to himself.

Artemis chuckle at that one, before she shook her head. What in her least favorite god uncle's name was with her?

Similar time, A bookshop

A new book was now on sale, a novel of great plot, legendary action and great quotes. It was already considered a classic in the making, a book capable of doing the culture shaking that Uncle Tom's Cabin did many years ago.

It was a book that outlined the growing chaffing between the Conservatives and Liberals, in factors ranging from Abortion to Religon to Stem Cells to end at their ideal world; a world where nothing changes, or a world where nothing is the same

Its author's pen name; Prom E. Theus

In it, was a quote;

'To keep things the same, you retain old values but one never grows. To change things, you may loose values, but they will be replace with new ones as you grow. While the path to get their is painful, the end holds promise of greatness. Be it the Oregon Trail, the trans Atlantic voyage (Slaves barred of course), or the eventual space flight to a new celestial body, change, while painful, is the only way to move forward in the world'