DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN PJO OR HOO
The Throne room was buzzing in Olympus. It seems that Artemis has finally had some news. They can finally end this 717 year old mystery. Or at least part of it
Poseidon was the most cheery he has ever been in hundreds of years at the thought of news of his sons
Apollo was scoffing about knowing Artemis not being able to find someone was too good to be true
Dionysius was just reading a magazine about wines and Demeter was saying something about cereal. Hades was being forced to eat cereal.
If anybody paid attention, you could see a tiny bit discomfort in Hestia's little fire and that Ares was trying to conceal his shifting from being in Ares mode or Mars mode.
Artemis arrived and so did the rest of the gods.
The king of the Gods arrive the last and started the meeting.
"Daughter, tell me of the news"
And that's when Artemis started relaying what has happened. The Olympians were listening intently, and no one cut in or gave side comments for they were too curious to hear the whole story. As the short story was ending, Artemis took a deep breath.
"He escaped from me" she said and Apollo started ROFL which in turn caused him into becoming a jackelope. Luckily for him, Zeus ordered Artemis to turn him back.
"So we are back to square one again?" Poseidon asked and they knew the sea below on earth was darkening. Ares, unnoticed by anyone except for Hestia, relaxed a bit and Hestia, also unnoticed, sighed in relief.
"No, there was one thing I saw before he had managed to escape me" Artemis says looking directly at Ares and suspiciously at Hestia. Said Olympians caught their breath
"At the back of the cloak I saw a crest. It a boar on fire, as if a merging of two gods' or in this case" Artemis paused, "merging a god's and a goddess's symbol into one"
Hestia sighed. Well, they would've been caught sooner or later, she thought. Meanwhile Ares face palmed at the failure of his.
"What is the meaning of this, son and sister?!" Zeus demanded.
Artemis took this as a cue to sit back down. Hestia was calm and Ares had switched from Mars and back to Ares.
"It is as you thought" Hestia says.
"Then you have known the location of this man and had not told us?!" Zeus bellowed
"And you son!" Zeus said. "Oh, father, don't look at me. At these things, Hestia takes charge" Ares says and his voice sounded defeated.
And thus began the heated discussion. Zeus demanded the man to brought, Hestia denied. At the end of it all, Hestia sighed and agreed.
"Bring the man to me, I will have Artemis make sure he is the man she met!" Zeus said
Hestia snapped her fingers and in a column of fire, a cloaked man appeared.
At first, the cloak man was confused and he took a second to take in his surroundings.
"Why am I here?" He asked and when he noticed Ares, he kneeled at him and to Hestia were he stayed kneeled.
"I am sorry. I was forced to bring you" Hestia says and the cloaked man nodded. "It is my fault to be careless enough to get caught"
"I demand to know your name!" Zeus bellowed. He first looked at Ares, who shifted into Mars. Mars nodded. "My name is Shay"
"Take off your hood!"
"He will not! I have promised him escape from his identity! You cannot take that from him!"
"I am you're king! You follow my orders! I only wish to see the man who had done our heroes and children favour, reward him rightfully, and know that he is not a threat to us!"
"He is not a threat. Mars and I are his patrons!"
"Excuse me father, ask him about his brothers. He mentioned something about having brothers" Artemis says and Zeus looked expectantly at Hestia who sighed and two columns of flames appeared once more with two cloaked men.
"Where are we?" they say in confusion and Shay had whispered something to them and the two nodded.
"Introduce yourself!" Zeus demanded
"My name is Shay" the two new cloaked figures says at the same time
"What?!"
"We are named Shay" Shay number one was inwardly smirking. Shay number two and three, the ones that have arrived was secretly holding their laughter at bay. Oh, if they only knew.
"Hestia! It is time to explain yourself!" Zeus bellowed
"Very well" Hestia says and she looked over at Mars and nodded to him. Mars sighed and snapped his fingers.
Columns of fire appeared and cloaked men were suddenly there in their confusion. All of them were boys, and their numbers, rivalled those of the Hunters. Like the hunters have wolves, these group of people had either tigers or lions at their side. One in particular had a very huge lion at his side. and unlike the others, his lion was white.
"Introduce yourselves!"
And all at once, the cloaked men said "I am Shay"
Mars couldn't hold it in, he laughed at the utter confusion his father was in.
"Come down brother" Hestia says and instantly, Zeus visibly relaxed a bit. "We are the patrons of these people. Think of them as our boy version of the Hunters" Hestia smiled warmly.
Artemis looked appalled and Apollo looked interest.
"How dare you create this without my permission!" Zeus said and thunder rumbled.
"Would you rather I have not then? And all of your children who have gone and been saved by one of my 'Shay' will be dead" Hestia said a little irritation in her voice which surprised the others. Hestia never got too involve in the argument
"Very well, I shall let them go, for now, if they swear to do what is good and follow you're rules, sister" Zeus said begrudgingly.
"I have a question" Artemis said. "Who is your Ace?" Artemis asked.
Shay number 1 face palmed. "I should never have mentioned the word Ace to you. For that," Shay number 1 turned to Hestia "I am sorry to have betrayed information"
"You have left something secret again, sister?! Reveal everything! That is an order!" Zeus bellowed.
"Well, father, if you must now, the Ace, is their leader," Mars said snapped and a column of fire erupted and another man, but this time while the cloak of the others were white, his cloak was pure silver and he was lying down on top of a just as silver wolf.