What a huge achievement, 15 chapters, it feels like such a huge mile marker! Well this is finally it, I think the story is going to get INFINITELY better after this, I have some EPIC ideas in mind for the battles, thank you all so much for the support and for sticking around this long! I really hope I can please you all as we go along, I know that last chapter was a huge cliffhanger, and I hope you guys have noticed by now that I love to do that:)
Finally, review shoutouts! (These are in no way, shape or form, bias towards my biggest supporters ans/ or frequent reviewers.)
Alright, first up, from DeadDredd, on chapter 11: "Nice to see that Artemis isn't above petty jealousy, honestly expected a bigger outburst than that but at least she knows that Percy is her's and vice versa. Great work on the chapter!"
I totally agree, I kinda wanted a bigger reaction as well, but it is fine as it was as I saw it... I wanted to firmly get Artemis to kinda be possessive and know that Percy is hers, and vice versa (I love the possessiveness of lovers)... Thanks so much for the compliment too!
2nd, from jujp on chapter 13- "Superb story so far. Quite funny and the lemons are great too. Definitely following for future updates."
Thanks so much, I really do try my hardest and this kind of feedback makes me feel so good, thank you! I'm no professional, or anywhere near it, I am just a guy that likes to write, and it makes me feel so good to hear that, thank you!
3rd, from, RedGrayAsh, on chapter 13- "Great book have read from the beginning. I actually came to fanfiction for betrayal story's and yours was one of the first I read here even though this is my first review on fanfiction. I think you deserve it because of the amazing work you are doing with it. The story line is well developed and characters are amazingly designed and connected. You are one if my favorite authors up here and now that I know you have a second book ill go give it a read."
Thank you so much buddy, I really appreciate it, you have no idea how touched I am to hear that, really hope you enjoy my other book as well, please review and tell me what you think of it!
4th (again in no order) from KloseKom, on chapter 10- "Epic bro...Nothing short of what I expected from you"
Thank you so much dude, really appreciate the support and hope you continue to enjoy it!
5th, is not a review, I just wanted to give a shout out to Zayden Shade for all his wonderful and kind reviews!
Gosh, that took me forever to write, I had to redo it once because fanfiction didn't save it the first time when I transitioned from my computer to type it up, to my phone to write in bed the following night... Ugh, what a nightmare.
Enjoy!
"AHHH!" Percy screamed, jolting upright in their bed.
"What a nightmare..." He thought to himself, rubbing his head and thinking about what he had just witnessed inside his dream... Artemis... cursing him, to never be able to have children, he couldn't think of many things that could be worse than that. The last few years have been so bad for him, he'd lost everything in the blink of an eye, and now that he had Artemis... His dream has always been to have a family.
"Percy?" Artemis groaned, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just a bad dream, go back to bed."
"No, I won't! Not until you talk to me."
"I really don't wanna talk about it." He admitted, and honestly he didn't really know if he trusted her in that moment, since she was the primary focus of his nightmare, and what she did in the dream... to him.
"Please Percy, talk to me, I feel like this is important." She pleaded,
"I-in the dream, you cursed me, to become infertile, I-I was so sad, sad that I could never have a family of my own, to ever be a father..." He stopped short, cut off by the urge to sniffle, he was on the verge of tears...
"Percy, I'd never do that to you, I swear, it was just a dream... I love you." She purred, and then she planted a loving kiss on his cheek, but Percy was a little more on edge than usual, and he didn't buy it. He suddenly grabbed her and flipped them over, pinning Arty underneath him and pinned her arms above her head... Artemis looked up at him with a bit of fear in her eyes, Percy never got angry with her, but Artemis also always tried to make him happy so that he doesn't get angry, and now he was angry with her.
"Percy, please..."
"Demigod or not, dreams don't come lightly, and almost always with a meaning... How can I trust that you're not lying to me?" He growled to her.
"Don't you trust me?! Please, Percy, I swear, I am not lying. How did the dream happen, what happened?" Maybe she could reason her way out of this, she really didn't do it, but she needed to prove it.
"How is that relevant?"
"Just tell me, please."
"We were getting ready for bed, and I got in and thought about our two wonderful nights together, and how you didn't seem to worry about getting pregnant, so I asked you, and you said you cursed me to become infertile... It was like last night when we went to bed replayed itself, but you just had a different answer to my question."
"Percy, I told you that I have my own way of birth control with being the goddess of childbirth, your mind conjured up that conversation with a more vile response in your nightmares, I swear it wasn't real, it's not true." She plead, praying that he would understand and let her go, that he would finally believe her.
As if the gods (herself?) answered her prayers (that she didn't make?) Percy let go of her arms and got off her, she hadn't resisted, because that she truly did love him, and because that if she had resisted that would have only made her look guilty.
"I swear on the Styx I didn't curse you."
Silence... No sparklers to be seen.
"I'm sorry... Artemis-"
"Don't be, I know how much family means to you, and I'd never take that away from you, perhaps after this war if we are still alive we'll have our own family, together."
And as she cuddled into his side and they drifted back asleep he did something he finds him self doing a lot more with her, he smiled.
Flashback (a few hours prior)
Percy stripped out of his outter clothes and got into bed, he pulled the covers up to his chest and watched as Artemis flashed her outter clothes off, he thought of the passionate nights they had had recently and realized that something was... weird, about it, normally a woman would be worried about getting pregnant from sex, and Artemis is the goddess of childbirth so she would be even more paranoid, right? But she wasn't.
"Hey Arty, weren't you worried about getting pregnant?"
Artemis stopped, and she smiled, thinking of the wonderful nights they've had together recently.
"Artemis?" He asked skeptically.
"Percy, I'm the goddess of childbirth, I can easily prevent myself from getting pregnant."
"Figured you might have something like that going on..."
She smiled and climbed in the bed next to him.
A/N- I hope he wasn't too harsh on Artemis, compared to what could have happened, that's pretty mild... I hope you guys understand that whole exchange, Artemis did NOT curse Percy, the flashback is what DID happen, I also hope you guys aren't too angry with me... Lmao, you should have seen your faces!
Next morning-Half blood Hill
"Haven't been here in a while, eh, hunters?" Artemis asked.
"That's an understatement..." Thalia responded, getting nods from almost every single one of the other hunters.
"Can't say I'm too thrilled though..." Percy groaned.
"I know, Percy, I'm not either... But you said yourself we have to do it, me, Thalia, and the hunter's won't let any of those half-bloods mess with you." She assured.
"Gee thanks, mommy." He mocked.
Giggles! All the hunter's erupted in giggles and laughs, making Artemis blush bright red in embarrassment. Too bad she was too innocent of a girl to understand the meaning of "d
Daddy."
"Hey!" Thalia exclaimed, like she wanted everyone's attention, then she looked at Percy and Artemis and asked: "You two ever gonna have kids?"
Artemis and Percy froze, looked at each other, then Artemis spoke.
"We've... discussed it, but we're not gonna share." She concluded, and walked atop half-blood hill and down towards camp half-blood, Percy and the hunter's follower behind.
Artemis was currently in the process of quickly explaining everything to Chiron, everything about the upcoming war, Nyx, and what they were going to be doing at the camp and why... He, of course, understood everything and welcomed them to the camp, boasting about how the campers had quote:"been practicing for months!" when the topic of capture the flag came up, and even with a war going on, or coming up, the games just MUST GO ON!
He wasn't very shaken up about the war, he didn't act like he hadn't known about it, so Artemis figured that Dick Dino had already informed him of it, or by rumor... Percy did not go into the big house, but he could hear everything that was said because of his improved hearing, one of the lesser benefits of being Guardian of the hunt.
The group moved through the camp, heading towards the Artemis cabin, cabin-8. Percy had decided that he didn't want to carry his new special silver sword on his waist, so he put it on his back. Percy also had a hood and sunglasses to cover his face, he didn't really wanna broadcast that the betrayed hero of Olympus is with the hunters of Artemis to these lowlife pieces of shit. Not all of them were lowlife pieces of shit, but most of them were lowlife pieces of shit, actually, speaking of lowlife pieces of shit, there's Annabeth!
Artemis must have spotted her too, because she wouldn't have walked up to her and decked her right in the face, sending her to the ground in a royal face plant... if she hadn't:)
"DAM that felt good!" Artemis yelled, shaking her fist in the air to cool it off.
Percy couldn't help but smile, he didn't wish Artemis's wrath on anyone, but dam it did feel good to see Annabeth get punched in the face...
"Hey! Who the fuck are you, bitch? And what the fuck do you think you're doing!?" Came a male voice, who was running over to them, it was that blasted son of Zeus, he probably wasn't happy that his bitch girlfriend got decked in the face...
"Oh, there you are! You want some too?! THOUGHT SO!"
Faster than lightning she darted over to him and before he could even think of defending, she decked him in the face, planting his ass on the ground so hard you'd think she took up gardening, because DAM she planted his ass. The bastard's name was John Harkon, real fucking classic. Big fucking mistake John, calling Artemis a bitch...
WHAM!
WHAM!
WHAM!
Kick, kick, kick she landed on him, bashing him into the ground. The hunters, lead by Thalia, cheering her on as she kicked the bastard. She kicked him in the gut, in the shoulder, once in the head and even in the balls, and it took some serious skill to hit such a small target... woowee.
BAM!
"Now maybe you'll think twice before calling a goddess a bitch, and being such a rotten little fucker." She spat at him, turning away from the filth and walking back towards the hunters, but she had to walk past a groaning Annabeth that was trying to get up, and Artemis just couldn't allow that so she punched her again, sending her flying right back to that good ol' dirt.
"And you, I can't believe I'm even entertaining talking to such a low life piece of shit, and I won't, I curse you, may your womb never bare children and lay barren for the rest of your days. May a bow, short nor long, never again serve your will. May the moon in the night's sky never again light your path in the dark, may you forever walk in the shadows of your own hate and despair."
As she walked away, she never once turned back to look at the two broken figures laying on the ground, one, sobbing blonde haired bitch, and the other a male pig... Nor to look at the crowd that had gathered, watching the entire exchange, some with aghast expressions, and a select few, smirking and celebrating the defeat of the two headstrong and arrogant demigods, celebrating something they never thought would happen: Justice, justice for their friend, justice for Percy.
None of the hunters commented on the way as they walked to cabin-8, but all of them were smiling, Hades, even Phoebe was smiling, but it wasn't for the reason you might think...
Flashback... Yesterday
"Percy, I was wrong to attack you, and wrong to be so mean to you for so long, I don't really even have an excuse, please... forgive me."
Yep, that's Phoebe, sitting up in the medical tent on a bed, looking Percy straight in the eye and apologizing, asking for his forgiveness. Just as he hoped, and just as most of the hunter's predicted, Phoebe finally accepted him after she got her ass kicked. Now there was finally total peace and friendliness between him and all the hunter's. Something he finally achieved at long last.
"I forgive you, Phoebe, I know you didn't trust me, and I knew you just needed some time."
She bowed her head in respect and smiled.
"Thank you, Percy, and by the way, you're pretty dam good with that sword. I was shocked stupid when you deflected my arrow."
"To be honest, I was too..."
"I'm sorry about your shoulder..." She apologized.
"It healed nicely with that water, you probably would have won if not for the river I lead you to."
"Shit! Ahh, I'm so stupid, I knew there was something fishy about about all that defense and jumping away..."
End flashback.
Later that night.
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
Was heard as Chiron bonged his spoon against his goblet, to get the campers attention.
"Listen up! Listen up! As many of you already know, the hunter's of Artemis arrived early today and will be staying with us for a while, no one is to give them a hard time, besides... Who would want to try? Now, Lady Artemis will speak and tell you all what has happened recently, and the reason that she has come to camp half-blood."
Boom! The camp exploded into muttering, it was unprecedented for the campers ever to know why Lady Artemis came, or know of anything outside unless through rumors, and the way Chiron sounded, was really grim... Some were muttering guesses about what was going on, some where muttering rumors that Artemis wasn't a virgin goddess anymore, and some were muttering about who the hooded figure was sitting right next to the head of the Artemis table.
"Listen up everyone, earlier this week Olympus got news that a war is upon us, I'm sure you all remember the war with Gaia like it was yesterday, but this war is going to be far harder and deadly. Two of the most powerful Primordials beings have declared war on Olympus, they want to take over the Earth now that Gaia has been defeated. However we are not going to let them, I know you all have been training your whole lives, and in the few days that I am going to stay here, me and my hunters will all train you to become even stronger, even more skillful in every single weapon. Now, everyone go to your cabins, get a good nights sleep, and tomorrow I will answer any questions and we will start training."
And with that, she turned around and left, walking away to the Artemis cabin, the hunter's and Percy, following behind.
One thing was on everyone's mind however, and it couldn't be ignored, this war, was coming.
OK, lemme here it, what're your thoughts?