Hey guys here so another chapter! I just wanted to say thanks to sk18 who reminded me about Peleus and I'll fix that mistake next chapter. And I also wanna thank death fury who's been reviewing and reading this story so since the start and considering the the fact I didn't upload for a year I really appreciate it, cheers mate! Now onto the chapter but warning this chapter is just a bit about the hunters and Thalia coming back into it.

Chapter 7

(Percy)

"Well that was quick!" Percy spoke to no one in particular. He had just watched the hunters put up all the tents and set up camp in Central Park and they must have done it in a few minutes! I just really want to get my hands on one of those squares that turn into tents.

After Diana told us that I would be staying here for the foreseeable future she quickly left to go and get Thalia who was still on Olympus with a broken leg. But she flashed away saying,

"I'll leave you guys to get acquainted."

I swear she had an smirk on her face as when she teleported away. But when she did I turned to the hunt and they gave me a mixed look of anger, wariness but also a grudging respect. And that's when they started to set up camp.

I was thinking over this when a a smaller hunter who looked about twelve or thirteen with sandy coloured hair and light blue eyes. She introduced herself rather timidly.

"Hello Percy, my name is Beth and I just wanted to welcome you to the hunt and whatnot. And also I noticed you didn't have a tent so I brought you this spare one just throw it on the floor and it'll open up."

Beth quickly gave it to me then took a step back .She rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly.

"Thank you Beth it means a lot to me but may I ask why you're being so nice to me when I thought that all the hunters dislike me?"

"Well they actually don't dislike you at all really..."

I cheered up a bit, I thought they were going to make my life a living hell.

"... but they just hate the fact you're male and that outweighs the fact that they like you."

Never mind, I guess I'll just have to get them to to know me and that I'm nothing like other males.

"But I'm not as big of a man hater as the others and that's why I'm talking to you now and partly because the others won't. Oh yeah and I came to give you the tent, wait I've given it to you already. There's probably something else I was going to tell you but oh well." She gave me a sheepish grin, I noticed she seemed a bit immature for her age but then so was I when around her age.

"Oh yeah that's what else I was going to say, we're all going to play multiple pranks on you just a 'heads up'."

She put that in air quotes while having a mischievous smile on her face but I just brushed it off as nothing.

"You certainly talk a lot don't you Beth, you're a daughter of Hermes I'm guessing?"

She looked at me in shock,

"How did you figure that out?"

I chuckled lightly,

"You've got the same hair and eyes as your father and you seem to have a lot of energy that I've seen in lots of your siblings."

"Ahhhhh ok, I understand now. By the way that heads up warning I gave you,"

She said this while slowly stepping away so I'm a bit scared now.

"You may want to look up."

And my being the oblivious idiot that I am, I did.

Only to see a bucket of chocolate sauce being dunked on me by hunters who must have been hiding in the tree with that huge bucket.

Oh but that's not all, the next thing I knew, a huge bunch of pigeon feathers were dropped on me from yet another bucket.

Then all the hunters burst out laughing! Lots of them even fell out the trees, but thankfully they're weren't that high so no one got hurt and I turned to Beth to see her cackling like a hyena.

I shook my arms trying to get some feathers off but then I heard a laughing voice call out from a few feet away.

"You only look like a pigeon kelp head you can't fly like one!"

Oh yeah of course, it must have looked like I was flapping my arms like a bird with its wings...

I turned to see my mum who had a small smile on her face, oh I guess she finds her son being pranked funny then, and my best friend and cousin Thalia aka pinecone face who was somehow laughing while still smirking.

I jokingly glared at her and a plan started forming in my head to her revenge on her for that little comment.

"Pinecone face! I may look like a pigeon but you seem to be hobbling along like a penguin!"

I smirked at her angry expression and she stormed her way over to my while some sparks surrounded her. I know I probably shouldn't do this but oh well,

"See you're hobbling again Thals, do you like being a penguin?"

"I am going to kill you seaweed brain!"

(3rd person)

Percy's face quickly fell and his shoulders slumped. Everyone stopped laughing noticing his sudden change in mood.

"What did I do seaweed brain?"

He flinched at being called that and answered quietly.

"You called me seaweed brain..."

"So? Annabeth always calls you that."

Percy flinched again and Diana, well at this point she was actually back to Artemis, cringed at what Thalia had done but Diana would wait to see how this would play out as the hunters would get irritated at her showing him affection right now even if she was just his mother.

Percy's eyes seemed broken but he replied none the less,

"Annabeth, she betrayed me when I killed Kronos, she tried to kill me and then my dad disowned me because of her, he then adopted her and together they got me kicked out of camp and that's why I'm here."

Thalia and the hunters were shocked. The hunters because they'd never heard of a man who was betrayed by a woman and they felt a twinge of sympathy for him. Thalia on the other hand was furious at the fact Annabeth had done this, so much that you could hear thunder and sparks were crackling all over her body. However, she took deep breaths and calmed herself. She went over to her cousin and comforted him by holding him in a hug.

"I'm sorry she did that to you, I know how you feel, Luke did the same to me."

At this sight Artemis smiled at tbe fact the two were as close sibling and were acting so much like they were. Fighting one second then hugging the next. This would help Percy to get over the betrayal hopefully, but if the hunters continue being hostile it may make him worse.

"I'm going to have to fix that" Artemis thought to herself.

Percy looked at Thalia thankfully,

"Thanks Thals but don't apologise, it was hers and Poseidons fault. And also, you forgot about the fact I'm covered in feathers and chocolate sauce."

He finished saying that with a smirk on his face as Thalia's eyes widened and she stepped away quickly.

"I AM GOING TO KILL YOU FISH BREATH!"

Percy laughed and quickly sprinted away with an angry Thalia running after him.

"Maybe this won't be so bad after all." Percy thought.

I hope you enjoyed that chapter sorry I fell it wasn't a but boring I just wanted to update it. Please review it makes me want to update quicker and as always...

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