Chapter 2

Last time on the Son of Artemis

I was then pulled into a big hug by all three nice big girls. I was surprised. Yesterday they only liked me, now they were pulling me into a massive hug? I thought hugs were for people you liked allot. That means that they all like me! Hooray! Cause I really like them to. They pulled me onto a brown bar that looked like the anvils in Hephaestus workshop. Then Miss Artemis started to talk.

"Percy, me, Zoe and Phoebe want to talk to you about something. It's really important that you listen to me ok?" She said worriedly.

"Okay, I'll try to listen really really close."

She smiled when I said that. Then she said that the three really nice girls wanted to be my mommies. That really nice of them I was so happy that I pulled all three of them into a really big hug and started chanting.

"I have three mommies, I have three mommies, I have three mommies" Over and over and over again. They started laughing after I said that. They laugh really pretty.

NOW

Artemis P.O.V.

He said he has three mommies! And I'm one of them! That is awesome!. Now how to tell the hunters that a boy will be staying with them for all of eternity...

Now.

Artemis P.O.V

After Zoe, Phoebe, and I went through the tedious process of adopting Percy, I looked at his aura. It was the color of orange, molten metal, a calming sea green, and a illuminating silver. But I could sense that all of these things could change, rather easily to. I decided then and there that I was going to try to teach Percy all of the possible ways that he could use his impressive repertoire of powers. He was going to be extremely powerful. But that is quite some time away now. I spent the rest of the day helping some of the younger hunters shoot better, while Percy watched. I could tell that some of the older hunters were glaring at him, and they weren't very happy he was still there. The leaders of the group were two of my older huntress named Kylee and Anastasia, two of the hunters that had openly shown disdain for Percy in conversation. But judging by the group around them, all looking at Percy angrily, I knew I was going to be in a long conversation with them later tonight. Little did I know that I wasn't going to get till tonight to talk to them...

about 4 in the afternoon, Zoe's Point of View.

After Percy stayed within relative distance of Milady for a few hours, he started to follow me around. It was cute. Percy didn't say a word to me, he just followed, looking around and learning. I think that Percy already knows how to shoot a bow, and he's never held one yet! When I was working on knife work, I heard an animalistic roar, and one thought went through my mind. SHIT. Last time I had heard that noise was when I was hunting Hellhound, and from the noise they were generating, there was a lot of them. My mind instantly turned to the why there could have been that many hell hounds gathered in one place. Only plausible explanation I could think of was a god of the dead. Crap, that meant that Hades was after Percy...

Phoebe Point of view

Percy is so freaking sweet. He followed Zoe and Lady Artemis around like a little puppy, it was pretty cool. I was shooting my bow when I heard an earth shattering roar. I looked up and saw a huge pack of hellhounds, in an arrow formation approaching camp. I put my bow away and sprinted to warn the others in camp.

Once I got to there, I saw all of the hunters standing in a circle with bows drawn, some pointing at me, some pointing straight at something on the ground. I rushed up to them and noticed that some of them were pointing their bows at me, at point blank! I ignored this for the moment, and quickly gasped out

"Massive horde of hell hounds are approaching. We need to get ready for a fight."

Many looked surprised that any group of hellhounds would be stupid enough to attack us at our own camp. The hunters then separated into their combat groups, the close range knife fighters and the long distance snipers. The snipers headed into the tree line where they prepared to lay down a devastating hail of arrows. The close combat group put themselves into the clearing, lining up shoulder to shoulder, preparing for what could be a very, very dangerous fight. Artemis and Zoe flashed in shining like the stars, as they prepared for close combat. I went and joined the combat group and prepared to fight.

Artemis Point of View

I had heard the roar of the hellhounds, went and found Zoe, then flashed to the campsite. Once there I prepared to slaughter the dogs that thought that they could enter my camp and leave alive. We probably stood there for about 5 minutes until I saw a group of 200 hell hounds enter the boundary line. I prepared to fight, along with my hunters. We were waiting for the hellhounds to charge, when something strange happened. I heard a deep, animalistic, masculine voice in my head, and I could tell that my hunters could hear it to. The voice said

"Greetings my fine Huntresses. I would normally be here to kill you all, but I'm more on a capture then kill mission. I'm here for the boy. Give him to me and I won't rip your pathetic little troop to bloody pieces."

"What boy? We have no boys in the hunt!" said Phoebe

The voice, which I guessed had been the big hellhound at the front, laughed.

It said "We know more than you think huntress. We are here for the boy, and we will take him, by force if necessary. "

Percy just had to roll out of the bushes kicking a ball around at that moment. He had rolled into the space right between us. The hound grinned and said.

"The fates smile upon us! Now we will take what we want."

"Are you talking about me? Cause I can leave you alone. But don't go close to the lady people. They're really nice. They shouldn't die." said Percy.

"You're funny demigod. Hounds, SIC EM!"

I snarled, and was about to lose an arrow at the lead dogs head when the chaos erupted behind me. There were another 200 hellhounds behind me, ready to rip my hunters apart. This was bad. This could be very close to disastrous. The dogs were attacking. There was no way that we could win. Then I noticed something. Percy had kicked one of the dogs and what I noticed astounded me. There was a pile of dust around Percy, It seemed that as soon as Percy touched any one of the dogs, it would disappear into a cloud of dust. I called out to Zoe.

"I'm going to go and rescue Percy. You take control here."

Phoebe's Point Of View

"Yes Milady. We have these demon dogs." I heard Zoe cry out.

I was worried about Percy. He had well over 400 hellhounds out for his blood. He seemed to be doing fairly well though. I spun out of the way of a lunging hound, shoving my blade through it's head as it went past. I then charged a group of hell hounds surrounding Zoe, who was shooting as fast as she could, each of her arrows sprouting from an eye or throat. We mopped them up and looked around. The battle was winding down, and what we saw astounded us. Percy was kicking in a whirlwind, and every time he kicked one of the hounds, it would burst into golden dust.

"How is he doing that" I wondered aloud to Zoe.

"My guess that the metal that he has running through his scars touches the hound, then kills it." said Phoebe, who did not look happy that the one son she had, and ever would, was currently in the middle of his own circle of death, kicking and killing hounds left right and center.

I found it strange that he was so good at kicking. He was so small yet was a whirling mass of feet.

We wrapped up the fight quickly after that, all the while Percy killing more than his fair share. It was pretty disturbing what I was seeing. Every move he made was calculating, and full of the power of the forge god's hammer.

When the major battle was over, everyone was exhausted. A few hunters had minor cuts on them, but nothing that a little ambrosia and nectar couldn't fix. Suddenly a piercing wail was heard throughout the mainly fine group.

"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

I jumped when Percy made the noise that he did. I looked back to him, along with Zoe and Artemis, in concern. What I saw was bad. He had an arrows stuck through his wrists and his ankles, as if he was being prepared for crucifixion.

All three of us rushed straight to Percy, worry clouding our eyes. Even some of the hunters who were closer friends to Zoe and I were running around getting medical supplies. The wounds were bad, but not nearly as bad as we would have thought them to be. When Percy had fallen, he had snapped off the fletching of the arrows, and had shoved it through. The arrows had also missed his ulnar and radial arteries, as he wasn't pumping blood everywhere. Same deal with his ankles. He had no severed arteries thank the gods. But there was a small problem. The fletching that we could see was not of the hunters, which could be considered a good thing under the conditions. But the fletching was black. The same black as the dracaena, snake women, use. That could only mea- THUNK. Suddenly I was on the floor with my mind spinning.

Zoe POV

I was stunned. Never had I thought that Phoebe could have been hit by an arrow. Then to my surprise I saw her sit up, and then noticed something. Percy was no longer right in front of my eyes. Then I looked up above Phoebe, and saw Percy. He had another black arrow between his teeth. He caught an arrow without any training, with his mouth! WTF!? Then he passed out.

"There is no way he should have been able to do that" I mused aloud to Phoebe after she took out the dracaena archer hiding in the trees above us.

"You bet your ass he shouldn't have been able to. But he did, and now I'm alive, which is really appreciated." She replied.

Artemis POV

May I have mercy. That really scared me. I left the site to get Percy some nectar and Ambrosia and I return to find him with an arrow between his teeth, then to watch him fall over. I promptly force fed him some ambrosia, then dripped nectar onto his wounds. He recovered astoundingly quickly. Then he sat up and said brightly.

"Hi mommy!"

The hunters just stared at him strangely. I sighed. This could take awhile.

"Sit down girls I have something to tell you. Phoebe and Zoe, take Percy to a tent. I'll be around in a little while."

"Yes Milady" They both said, oddly in tune. Then they left, dragging Percy behind them. It seemed like he didn't want to leave any of us after what just happened. I couldn't blame him. Having a ton of devil dogs come after you couldn't be a good thing, especially for a 6 year old.

"Girls, me, Zoe and Phoebe adopted Percy. He is going to be with the hunt for as long as he lives, and is a good HUMAN. Not male, or a good female, he is going to be a good person. Nothing more, and nothing less."

Immediately there was a massive outcry of frustration about those 4 sentences.

"But Milady, it's a male!" Said one hunter.

"Milady, boys are evil" yelled another.

"He's a son of Poseidon. And there has never been a semi decent son of Poseidon. Why will Perseus be any different." Logically reasoned a daughter of Athena.

"Percy will be different. We will train him in the ways of the hunt, how to be good, to be loyal, and to fight for what is right. Besides, as a six year old he managed to save your sister in arms. There is no boy now or ever that could do that with crucifixion arrows shot through his wrists."

After about ten minutes of this, the hunt finally relented, and promised that they wouldn't go after Percy. About 30 seconds after I finished talking to them, Hephaestus sent me a message via Hermes. Percy's gauntlets/ hands things were ready. Not entirely sure how that is going to work, but I hunt, not build things.

Zoe POV

"I don't know how I did it swear! I just did it! I saw the doggies trying to eat me, and I just had to move and do something! Please don't beat me!" screamed Percy.

I sighed. I'd been trying to get Percy to tell me where he learned to do what he did, and he's been giving me answers like that over and over again.

"Percy" I said soothingly, "I don't want to hurt you. I love my son, I'll never hit you just to hit you or just because I want to. Come here and give mommy a hug?"

"F-fine…" he whimpered.

After I had been hugging him, and he had calmed down, Artemis came in and said uncle Hephaestus had a present for Percy. Percy got really excited. It's kind of weird, he jumps between personalities so quickly. Maybe I shoul-

"Bye Momma, see you soon!"

"Bye Percy. See you when you come back."

Artemis POV

After I flashed to Hephaestus palace, Percy just rushed through the doors, and I chuckled. He really is an excitable kid, once you get past his shyness.

"Hephaestus, we're here!" I called.

"Come on in, I have some stuff that Percy might like." He grunted.

"Percy come here please." I said. In my mind I'm thinking Where is he? He was just here…..

Then Percy just appeared at my elbow, scaring the Hades out of me.

"Yes Mommy?"

"Uncle Hephaestus has something that should help you. It might hurt, so be brave"

"Ok Ma."

As we walked into Hephaestus Palace, Percy just relaxed, and once again I noticed how the clanging/crashing of the metal seemed to calm Percy. Then we found Hephaestus working underneath a car, again. I yelled at him for a couple of minutes, and nothing happened. Percy walks up to him, taps him on the metal shin, and Hephaestus responds immediately. WHAT?

Then Hephaestus says "I have a gift for you Percy. How would you like to have your hands back?"

Percy's face was priceless. He then rushed Hephaestus, and gave him a hug so tight that I thought that Hephaestus might explode from how hard he was squeezing.

Come on Percy, how about we get these hands on you, then I'll explain to you what they are, and how you can use them.

They went into the back room, where Hephaestus did his magic of attaching Percy's gauntlets. Percy is so strange. He hates most people, but he seems to get along with Hephaestus just fine. Still sticking with my theory of how if you're bad with people/ don't really like people, then you'll get along with one or the other just fine.

2 hours later.

Never before have I seen Percy so happy. He was doing some weird jigg, and he was moving really, really fast. If this was Percy when he was happy, I would hate to see him high on caffeine, sugar, and adrenaline. He'd vibrate himself into atoms. But it was absolutely adorable to see him so happy. Then I heard him talk. His voice, wasn't crazy hiss like, but still not normal (Think kind of like the artificial music things that change a rapper's voice to sound a little more mechanical. That is Percy's voice.) Then I saw his eyes. They were a little brighter than they were earlier and they were glowing with an otherworldly light. (terminator, just sea green)

"LOOK MOMMY! I have my hands back. Uncle Hephaestus was really cool! He showed me how to forge some stuff now that I have hands, and My voice is way louder, and I can actually see! It's great!" Then he spun around and then spoke to Hephaestus.

"Thank you uncle Hephaestus for everything that you've given me!"

"No problem Percy, whenever you need something forged, make sure that your let me know. Not many heroes can say that they can call on the forge god for new weapons or weapons."

"Okay Uncle Hephaestus. I'll see you later. Don't forget what I told you earlier"

Percy, he's not very old, and suddenly he's sounding like he is one of the most knowledgeable people on the earth. I don't even want to know what is going on with them. Don't even want to know. Not worth it. Just not worth it.

Authors Note: I told myself I wouldn't do these, but this is an extreme circumstance. I write really slow. I also got a set of writers block on the whole give Percy hands bit. why I haven't updated in so long, sorry about that. Being a younger member of high school, and taking pre-college classes is not helping either. Shouldn't change how fast I write, but still.