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Previously…

"We do have at least nine months, stressing out right now wouldn't be that great. We should head back to the camp." Percy said as I nodded in agreement, there were just times where the boy would have common sense and others where he was the most foolish child to live.

Focusing back on to the task at hand, I teleported back to tell the news of what happened when Percy arrived right behind me to witness the camp tents astrewn everywhere and several Hunters tied up, an unconscious Deathseeker, the boy Xekes, and Phoebe, Ivy, Merida, and three other older Hunters facing off against Ryan, James, Blayze, Nemean, and the masked boy while Thalia did everything she could to stop both sides, only to be drowned out by the sounds of each side charging until everything froze.

Now…

Percy

It didn't make sense, I specifically told the Deathseekers to go train, they understood how dire the situation was, yet here they were fighting the hunters. They couldn't have fought at a better time though, practicing such a large scale time freeze would be the best amount of training I could get right now. So for half an hour, I trained while everyone else was frozen, adding more pressure as it increased to not only stopping time but exercising while doing it, which felt almost as bad as the river Styx. I then got up, removed all of their weapons, turned themselves upon their team, Deathseekers included. Then I stepped back in my original place and unfroze time, watching it all unfold.

Phoebe smashed right into the three other hunters, where as Thalia was the only one who avoided it in time just as Ivy and Merida were swamped by the falling Hunters. James fell onto Nemean, where he simply picked him up and placed him on the ground. Ryan was the only one to stop his attack immediately, only to raise his arm up just in the nick of time to take a blow from Blayze, causing an immediate force of wind that spread out through the forest that swept the masked boy off his feet. The Hunters were confused as they all stood up to bow to Lady Artemis as the Deathseekers knew immediately what happened, used to the fact that I would freeze them for my time training.

"It seems I may need to practice more to help improve your reaction speed, the only one that passed was Ryan. Now, tell me exactly what happened." I said, looking at each and every one of the Deathseekers.

"They knocked out Xekes." complained James.

"Your companion dared to tie up our hunters, we should kill you right here and now." growled Phoebe.

"Your welcome to try huntress." replied Nemean, his skin slightly rippling. Immediately, I froze both of them, we needed to move by dawn and rest as much as we could now. As much as I like to end the argument with a good dunking of water on both of them, there wasn't a source of water anywhere near here for miles.

"What happened?" I said, looking at "him". The Hunters were still staring at Phoebe stuck in time as Artemis just silently took note that I also froze Nemean, turning her attention to "him" for what happened.

"Like you told us, we were training. It was going pretty well until Blayze accidentally crashed into one tree. He was about to resume once more when he was interrupted by a silver arrow with two huntresses staring straight at him. Immediately, Xekes seeing them as enemies, flash and tied them up, saying he would take them back to their own camp. We waited, until several minutes later, the rest of the Hunters that weren't injured came after us, yelling at us for abusing their sisters. We knew that something happened to Xekes, we rushed to the camp with the hunters on our tails. Seeing Xekes on the floor pissed off James once we arrived, and he began to start chucking tents at the hunters. Blayze joined in next with Nemean following. I also got caught up in the fight while Ryan was only self defending himself for certain reasons." explained "him", retelling the entire story for everyone to hear.

"And why did the Hunters come in the first place, my Deathseekers do not take it lightly for someone to interrupt their training." I said staring questioningly as Artemis looked at her hunters for a reason too.

"We were tending to the wounded when we heard several crashes in the forest. We then sent Jackelyn and Elizabeth to go check it out, only for the boy of Zeus to come to our camp with them tied up." said Ivy defensively. It seemed logical, the Deathseekers would've reacted exactly the same, especially me, if a fellow Deathseeker was tied up.

"Alrighty then, I'm going to unfreeze both Nemean and Phoebe now, so would you please restrain her?" I said, walking over to stand in front of Nemean for him to know that time froze and that he had to stop transforming. As time resumed for both of them, the hunters were far away, explaining to Phoebe what happened while Nemean stopped for a moment and immediately reined in his emotions, trusting that I solved the issue already, as expected since the Deathseekers were brothers, beast or demigod had nothing to do with it, for they were now both.

"We're going to set up the camp some distance away, I think we should keep a bit of distance after what happened today." I explained, the resting nodding in unison, before setting off to find a suitable place to camp.

Artemis

I wasn't surprised that the Hunters would soon get into a fight with Percy's Deathseekers, but the matter had been solved and none of my Hunters have been hurt, hence no increase in the jackelope population. Although the sun was setting, I could still tell it was more bland without its rider, the most annoying brother in the world, to ride it, leaving it in autopilot. I couldn't take care the night as I watched it arch through the sky in auto pilot being that Zeus was now in control of them no doubt.

Once all the hunters were in their tents, with a silver wolf guarding the camp as the sentry, I went to my tent, the only one that wasn't disturbed throughout today's ruckus. After all that happened today, even a goddess needs a good night sleep. After a night of rest, the moment it was around five, I heard cheers and groans rise from throughout the forest. Unlike the Hunters, the Deathseekers were eager to see the camp they've never seen before, hearing things from Percy such as lava climbing and whatever boring stuff the boys liked to do. Snapping my fingers as I walked out of my tent with my hand outstretched, the miniature pack of gum flew into my hand as I then tucked it into my pocket as I saw all the girls do the same, until an arrow came flying right at me. Tensing up for a second, I realized that it trailed in the sky a lazy golden arc as the arrow slowly flew at me. Leave it to Percy to think of sending a message like that, I thought as I grabbed the arrow, reading it. "Hurry up, we don't have all day Lady Artemis." said the note. He dared to send an arrow telling us to hurry up while addressing me properly? Only he would do something like that at the last minute as I rolled my eyes. Without hesitation, I sent an arrow flying towards where the arrow came from, without having time slow it down because I couldn't and wouldn't want to anyways.

As we arrived at the place that Percy said he and his group would wait at, I found another arrow that said how they had gone off first being that Xekes and James were itching to go there and that they would meet us there. "Swear to the gods, once I find him, I'm going to put an arrow in him." I swore as I snapped the arrow with my hands. Having the girls gather around, we then flashed to the top of Camp-Half Blood, where Xekes and James were racing on the lava rock climber with Blayze, who took an interest to drink the lava, shocking all the campers there. I caught a glimpse of Nemean running across the rooftops as some of the Aphrodite kids were chasing after him, asking for his autograph thinking he looked like some actor on a tv show. Ryan was nowhere to be seen, as for Percy, the moment I spotted him, I wasted no time in drawing out my bow and sending an arrow straight at him, waiting for the faint thud as it hit him, except none came. Percy just smiled there as he was twiddling with the arrow as if it was nothing, then mimicking the motion that I did to catch his arrow.

It was only a few days and Percy was already back to his idiotic self. Chiron on the other hand, immediately bowed, as he already asked Percy what he was doing here, he asked if the reason I was here was the same one, his face turning ashen when I simply nodded.

"Despite the news, we are able to play one capture-the-flag game before we have to and assist the Prophecy of Seven to muster at least some chance of getting Zeus to open those gates again. It would also give your campers something to look forward to instead of something to do with Giants and Gaea obliterating the world as we know it." I said calmly, but there was also that part of me like Chiron that was slightly freaking out about the whole prospect of this.

"Percy also told me that with a bunch of other stuff he explained as he slowed time around us to explain everything of what was going on. He also explained about the new group of hunters that he made, The Deathseekers, and how he wanted to aide the campers in destroying you swiftly and completely." said Chiron, paling a bit as he said the last words as my face turned red, facing Percy who decided to rise from his chair, give me a lazy salute followed with a wink, before freezing time, something I figured out later, as he vanished to who knows where as he resumed time once more for the countdown until the game began.

Aw fluttering furies! Reasons why it's short: One, I already posted on Thursday and it's now and officially Wednesday and Friday now. Two, I'd like to see how long I can make the game and how they help the quests as one big ol chapter. Until Wednesday, good reading and please REVIEW, I want you to tell me if its good or needs improvement!