"What do we do sister? His fate keeps changing," asked an old lady who held a pink piece of yarn with silver veins throughout it.
"Yes sister, I've tried to cut the string but it won't work," said the second sister holding a pair of scissors.
"It seems that our mother has taken an interest in the young hero I suppose. We'll put him with an immortal to train him in the way of his powers," said the oldest of the trio.
"But who sister, no titan will train a mortal with powers to match their own?" asked the cutter.
"I have the perfect person in mind," she said with a devilish grin on her face.
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"Phoebe Artemis, we the fates decree that you train this boy and protect him until he can control his powers. Do this or face our wrath," said the three sisters in unison. Artemis' eyes shot open and she wondered since when do gods dream. She stood up and grabbed her parka and her bow then did her morning stretches.
"Milady, thoust may want to come see this," frantically yelled her faithful lieutenant. She rushed out of her tent and was shocked with the sight of her hunters surrounding the boy from her dream.
"Stand down," she hurriedly said, fear showing in her eyes at the fates threat. "The fates have ordered us to train him."
"But milady, he is a male," spat out Phoebe, one of her oldest hunters.
"We have to train him, nobody said we couldn't have a little fun while that happens. First I must go to Olympus and speak with a certain goddess," she muttered the last part to herself then teleported away.
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"APHRODITE," yelled Artemis," Get your ass in here right now."
"Hello Artemis, finally decided to give up that stupid oath of yours? I'd be happy to help," Aphrodite said enthusiastically.
"NO, I want to know why a son of yours has power to match a minor god and is randomly surging to the power of and elder Olympian?" she asked.
"What?" Aphrodite asked with a puzzled expression, "I've only had one son lately, and that is Perseus. He is one of the strongest children I have ever had, but he shouldn't be anywhere close to a god. Better yet an Olympian. What's he doing in your camp anyway? Has he already stolen the hearts of your huntresses? That's my boy."
"No he hasn't and it's none of your business why he is there. Leave my hunters alone or else," said Artemis angrily. She then teleported away.
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Percy was understandably terrified when he woke up and gad an arrow knocked in his face. He did what any son of the love goddess would do. He peeped at the girl holding the offending weapon and asked, "Do you come here often?" This caused the hunter to become furious. Throwing her bow down in anger, she planned to strangle the boy with her bare hands. Percy began glowing brightly, his fear channeling power his body could barely contain and an explosion of light caught the group of hunters off-guard, temporarily blinding them and giving him a chance to run. After about to seconds the light began to flicker and a familiar burning returned.
At this point Artemis came back to quite an unusual sight. Her hunters stumbling around ungracefully and the boy screaming in pain, a silver light flickering rapidly from his body. "APOLLO, GET DOWN HERE NOW."
"What's up baby sis-woah," said the shocked sun god.
"Check on the boy, I'll ask my huntresses what happened here," said Artemis, "Zoe, report."
"The boy attacked us without warning after trying to flirt with Phoebe, milady. He exploded in a bright light disorienting us, but most have recovered by now."
"Artemis, get over here now," ordered Apollo in his rarely used serious voice. Artemis briskly walked over to him. "His body is burning up from the power in it. It's sapping my energy to keep him from combusting. The only way to save him is to give him a type of immortality. Like your hunters, but let him grow until he's 18."
"I will not give a boy my blessing, Apollo," Artemis said distastefully.
"I have saw visions of him from my oracle. He will play a key part in an upcoming war. Do it or he dies."
"Fine," Artemis then began to chant in ancient greek and the pulsating light dimmed off of Percy.
"Not again," Percy thought as the darkness engulfed him for the second time this week.