Master; Its a message, a bit of hint to how sometimes something bad, can lead to great new opportunities.
The Grove
Her son's fever was beginning to break, as her nature magic had finally figured out a way to counter the disease, a very unorthodox method actually
Apparently, one of the bottles that her animals had brought, filled with water, had once held soda, and apparently Coke a Cola weakened the infection.
Apollo was always a Pepsi fan...it was fortunate that this happened, or else she may have had to wait for who knows how long while the ailment assaulted Theron's body.
As far as she could tell, it caused cells in parts of the body to stop, eventually leading to a person's death as no cells were functioning. The heat was his body trying to restart them while burning away the virus...which was heat resistant.
Could she have healed him had she not gotten so lucky. Would she have been forced to watch her son die, all because her Brother was a prick.
Next time she ran into her brother, he would be shone no mercy. No one cursed her son and got away with it
Theron...his birth had saved her from a much greater disease than Apollo's virus, and it was all thanks to Thalia...
If it wasn't for her, who knows what would have happened to her, and Theron would have never been conceived, nor would have Shannon or Zaria.
Though, unknown to Artemis, some healing energy was actually coming from the strange animals who were watching her, and using magic to listen to her flashbacks
'Interesting...very interesting' the Ibis mused. He was now getting a first hand look at how a child of Artemis was born...all he needed was barbeque and this would be perfect
However, that would be bad for their cover
The falcon, however, had other thoughts 'so, one of my fellow hunting gods is desiring vengeance. This will be good, we must find out where she will go with the boy afterwords, I must speak with them if we are to defeat the Olympians'
Flashback A few weeks later, Artemis's tent
Gods are prideful creatures, be they Greek, Roman, Egyptian...or whatever others there were, they naturally assume they are right, and never admit they are wrong. Being told they were wrong, regardless of truth, normally results in painful death.
Even the better gods, such as Poseidon and Artemis, are like this.
They also don't care much for the advice of mortals or demigods, after all even Ares got a bit of wisdom for living all the years he did (Though mostly Mars has it)
So, when Artemis asked Thalia to come to her tent for some advice, Thalia was a little taken back
The Goddess of the Hunt looked around a few times, as if looking for eavesdroppers, before she sighed
"Thalia...I need your help...I think I'm falling for Percy!" Thalia blinked...did Artemis just say...
"Well...it could be a worse person...he's nice, strong...wouldn't hog the hot water..."
"THALIA!" her lady said exasperated "I am a goddess who harasses adulterers...and here I'm on the verge of being one!
"Technically...they aren't married, so you wouldn't be exactly an..."
"I saw Percy in a jewelry store looking at diamonds, Thalia" Artemis looked into a corner
"Oh..."
"I need help Thalia...and only you can..."
"I am not a shock therapist, Lady Artemis"
"Thalia" Artemis pleaded " I need help!"
She was making it sound like she was a recovering drug user or something
"Lady Artemis...I had feelings for Luke" she admitted "And they faded. So, if you just wait, they will go away without any volts..."
"It took until the end of the 15th century for my feelings for my feelings for Orion to ease, Thalia, and there's...another problem"
"What?" Thalia asked...a tad nervous now
"I'm the goddess of childbirth, and father" venom "was quick to warn me when I took the job that it was one of those roles that would really affect me mentally. In particular, it would make me want to have a child. That's why I took the virgin mantle as the official goddess, to limit its influence on me...but now" she cringed
"Every time I close my eyes, Percy in swim shorts flashes in my head, my moans buzz in my ears...I feel like a damn cat in heat. Thalia, that's why I need to deal with these, alien emotions harshly. I cannot allow them to grow, and I don't want to kill Percy to get rid of them. Shocking the sense back into me is the only way I will accept!"
Thalia frowned, as a thought came to her, a flaw in her lady's thought pattern. And it was a great flaw at that
The way Lady Artemis had described her plight, it sounded as though that she would continue to desire a child, even if they kept her from Percy, if she was in her state as she implied it, it would not stop with just Percy, and she couldn't monitor a goddess at all times if she ended up being some sort of 'watch huntress' for her lady. Hera proved that didn't work with gods...many times.
Artemis wasn't used to being, in heat, and she didn't fully understand the implications of it. So, with a frown, Thalia brought up the only option that could possibly keep her lady from slipping into some sort of lusty nutcase
"You could work something out with Annabeth" Artemis blanched
"What are you implying" she said darkly as Thalia frowned deeper
"Lady Artemis, you are aware that, if what you said is true, your, childbirth lust, won't end with Percy. It will just go to every other male you run into. And, I think I know quite well gods aren't exactly, self control wiz's" see herself, Jason and Percy for proof.
"I can control myself..." Artemis said, sort of like a pouting child "Hades did"
"But you don't know that you cn, as you never were in this sort of state" Thalia continued "And, there is no guarantee the guy your instincts see next would be as good a guy as Percy. If your instincts are telling you to..."
"HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND, THALIA, AND I AM NOT A MORMON!"
Thalia rose an eyebrow "A bit racist there, Lady Artemis. I actually was reading a National Geographic, one of yours actually, the other day, only a small subset, a fundamentalist sect, still performs Polygamy. You might also want to be careful about screaming things like that, as the Koran does allow it to a limited extent, if your rich enough"
"You read the Koran?" Artemis said, surprised. She never saw Thalia as the religious type.
"I was trying to better understand Ahou"
"Good initiative...but I am not a Islamic deity, and last I checked Percy isn't a Muslim or a fundamentalist Mormon, and he isn't the typical male who will jump the first person he sees when his wife isn't looking with a low cut line, so that doesn't help me!"
"Lady Artemis, some marriages are open, that allow some relationships outside the marriage without being called cheating..."
"And how exactly do you know this..."
"My mom's movies" Thalia said darkly, as Artemis frowned at again she knows things she wished no maiden had to because of that, and Thalia actually told her to say this, whore (See my one shot, Third Type of Mistress, for more)
"But, your forgetting something, and I'm surprised you did" Artemis turned away from Thalia "Annabeth is possessive. She would never agree to share Percy"
Thalia sighed "This may be a bit of my mom's legacy coming back to haunt me, or perhaps dad's, but I might have an idea"
For hopefully, having a child might take off Artemis' edge, if at least temporarily.
That night
The full moon shined brightly over a hotel, in which one of its rooms dwelt the Greek Hero of Olympus and his girfriend.
In the hallway of which, Thalia and Lady Artemis were finalizing their plan, the security cameras not picking them up, as deliberately set upped by the goddess.
"Okay...if this is going to work, you need to be more...dressed, and built for it" Thalia told her sister, who was now blushing
"What's wrong with my outfit?"
Thalia sighed "The strategically placed electric pulses...probably not unwarranted but extreme, its unflattering, and it doesn't get the point across. The way you look, is also not helping"
"What's wrong with the way I look?"
"AAA cup...while Percy is very decent to begin with, if you look like a child, that's going to hurt your cause. He's no lollicon" Though, other than that you look good" slim, long legs, slight tan, her lady was only lacking in one department
Artemis flinched "Well then..." she closed her eyes, as her clothing was replaced with the sort Victoria Secret's models wear, with H cup breasts
Had this been caught on camera, a geyser of blood would have blasted from the guard's nose
Thalia looked away "While not being something your definitely not. From what Piper's said, the only good advice Aphrodite has ever said is to be yourself. Don't look like a stripper, just try to be yourself"
Artemis seemed relieved as she returned to her form from earlier, as Thalia took to Artemis's clothing
"Got any sleep wear?" Thalia suggested, as a long, billowing silver nightgown, that didn't show anything
Thalia smiled "Better, but still it just needs a few modifications for this to work...first and foremost, a bit of cleavage"
Artemis rose an eyebrow "I thought you said I had to be myself"
"The Diana of Versailles has a chest, I'm not saying get boobs big enough to use to keep you afloat or suffocate someone, just something"
Artemis closed her eyes as her chest rose, not to a huge size, B cup's.
"That works" Thalia nodded. It would set off warning bells if she made them bigger than Annabeth's, which were probably C cup. "Now then...what do you have under that dress?"
Artemis blushed "Nothing..." it wasn't like she needed a Bra.
Thalia shook her head "No Lady Artemis, that's not going to work. I see where you going, you think that commando will make this go smoothly, but guys like a bit of teasing"
"Teasing? You want me to call him names?"
Thalia sighed "No...they like a bit of suspense. Try making a bra and some panties...nothing sluttish but don't go overboard with being conservative"
Artemis closed her eyes again, as a normal silver bra and silver panties appeared on her.
"I'll take your word for it" Thalia had no desire to look at her ladies undergarments, that would just be sort of creepy "Now then, I think you just might be able to pull this off
A/N to my diligent fans, expect me to try a lemon in the next chapter