"William, is that you?"
His mind snapped back into place as he turned to face the door where the new voice was coming from. A voice he's never heard before, but one he knew he wanted to hear more of immediately after hearing it.
"Who are you?" he asked, the low light of the room and hallway, as well as the plants and semen everywhere made it hard to make her out from across the room.
"I- oh gods" she whispered, her hands went up to cup her face as she tried to hold back tears. William got up off the bed and slowly made his way across the semen covered floor over to the open door.
"Wait... I know you. You're the woman from my dreams. The one who is always running in the forest. The one who looks so much like Eros, except for the..." He was cut off as she uncovered her face to look up at him, her giant silver eyes glowed in the low light of the Underworld. "Except for the eye" he finished, voice full of amazement. They were even more beautiful in person than they were in his dreams.
"Y-you don't remember me?" she asked, her voice choked up.
"No. If it makes you feel better I don't remember anybody. That Nico boy said I should know him. And somebody named Percy. But I don't know them, or you. I've spent all my life in Tartarus and have only met a very select few people" he explained, trying to ease her pain.
"That doesn't help at all" she sniffled.
"I'm William, god of hyperfertility, conception, breeding, endurance and sexual prowess" he introduced, sticking his hand out for her to shake. This only made her beautiful silver eyes tear up even more.
"I- I'm Artemis, goddess of the moon, hunt, maidens, childbirth and- and I was your girlfriend" she choked out, shaking his hand.
"Wait,you'reArtemis?" he question. Her eyes lit up a bit at the prospect of him just having not recognized her.
"Yes. I'm Artemis. I am- I was your girlfriend. You saved me from Atlas. Don't you remember? You saved me while they raped me" she said, trying to kickstart his memory. He just shook his head.
"I'm sorry, all I know about you is what I was told" he said sadly. He wanted to know who she was, he wanted to be her boyfriend, she was utterly stunning after all. She put all of his lovers to shame, even Eros who looked so similar.
"And what were you told?" she asked, her eyes never leaving his.
"Well, the Fates told me that I had a great fate ahead of me and that someday I would return to my beloved. The only thing I remembered before I found myself down here was the word 'Art', the Fates told me that it was important and that I should remember it for the rest of time. I believe that they were talking aboutyouArtemis. I think I was supposed to remember so that I could find you once I escaped, so I could find my beloved" William explained. Artemis' eyes were even wider now. He didn't know who she was and yet he believed that he was supposed to be hers.
"But then Nyx told me something just before I left. She told me the I had indeed been dating you before I joined her in Tartarus. But I had come to her and begged her to take me away from you because you were abusive and hated men. So now I don't know-"
"No! No it's not true! She's a liar! I would never hurt you! I loved you- Istilllove you. I've spent every day searching the earth for you since you disappeared. You promised you wouldn't run away again." Her voice started out loud, but by the end she was speaking barely above a whisper.
"I don't know you. Your word means nothing to me" he said simply. Artemis choked on a sob.
"But you know her? You know and trust Nyx? The woman that kidnapped you from your family?" she hissed.
"I've known Nyx for fifty one years. I know her body unlike anyone will ever know it. She rescued me from the river and gave me a place to stay. She's the mother I never had" William said. Tears were rolling down Artemis' face now.
"Speaking of mothers. Persephone and I have a gift for you. I believe she wanted to say sorry for something and I- well I had to make the gift so that's why it's from me" he said, turning and trekking deeper into the semen swamp. Artemis was hesitant to follow him into the stinky room covered in a substance she did not recognize. "Over here" he called.
She joined him and her eyes went wide as she gasped. "What are- who are- how did-"
"I brought them back to life for you. Six of your favourite huntresses returned from the dead for you. I also brought back that one there, her name is Bianca, a daughter of Hades. Persephone and Melione both helped as well. But I did all of the real work" William said proudly.
"I don't understand. How are you able to raise the dead?" Artemis questioned, gently poking Atalanta's face.
"I just had to cum inside them a whole bunch of times. Twelve each to be candid. Apparently my semen is so potent and full of life that it's able to be absorbed by their ghostly forms and return them from death" he explained.
"W-wait.Semen?Did you have sex with my huntresses?" she asked angrily.
"Yes. Twelve times. I just said that. And as was the terms to return to the living, their life was raised and so they too must raise a life. Persephone set the terms, but it was going to happen no matter what. It always does. In fact, you'll probably get pregnant just by standing in it" he mused, like it was a funny joke.
"What?"she screamed at him. "That's what all this fluid it? It's semen?" she disappeared a moment later and reappeared in the hallway, in a different set of clothing. "How did that even all come out of you? Have you been in here for years?" she questioned.
"No, only a few hours" he responded as he made his way back over to the doorway.
"That's impossible" she said, flabbergasted.
"Not for me. Breeding is my specialty" he said.
"Says who?"
"Says Nyx and Chaos. I was created for the purpose of breeding Nyx an army."
"Alright, you and I clearly need to have a much more in depth, from the beginning chat because you're not making any sense at all" she said. In a flash two chairs were in the hallway and she took a seat. "Start from the beginning, I want to know everything."
So he sat down and started explaining. How Nyx saved him from the white river, Artemis started crying there. How Nyx had turned him into a god. How Nyx told him that he had been created with the purpose of impregnating her and her daughters. How he'd bred thirty two women on a cycle sixty eight times each, resulting in at least that many children each. He told her about the monsters that were also sent to indulge themselves in his excessive cum and bring more of his bastard children into the world.
He told her about the Furies and Petulantia and Anaideia and Achlys who tried their bests to kill him as they enjoyed themselves. Artemis turned furious at this, "only I should be allowed to almost kill you" she muttered under her breath. She uttered all kinds of expletives and curses towards the goddesses.
The tears returned when he told her about Hemera and the Charities, how he was certain that Eukleia, Euthenia, Eupheme and Philophrosyne had fallen in love with him and that he thought he might have a deep connection with Hemera.
She silently thanked them for providing her soulmate with the love and support that he needed while being imprisoned, but she couldn't help the jealousy and hate that bubbled up inside her. He was supposed to behersbut instead he had fucked all the women in Tartarus and then come up to the Underworld and fucked almost a dozen more.
"For the record," William said, interrupting the goddess' thoughts, "you are be far the most beautiful of all the women I have ever seen." That was enough to wash away her anger. He still loved her, she was sure of that, he was just going to have to be reminded of why.
She threw herself into his arms and squeezed him tightly. "We'll find a way to get your memories back. I'll find a way to get you back" she muttered into his chest.
As he continued the story, he knew that Artemis was his person. The feelings that he got inside himself were explosive and unlike anything he'd ever felt before. When she touched him, his entire body tingled with excitement. It was as if his cells remembered her and it was just his brain that had forgotten.
He told her about how when Nyx appeared yesterday she had set him free and how he made his way to the Underworld at the behest of the white river's spirit. Hearing about how the spirit had helped William increased the hope inside Artemis. Maybe there was a chance that it would be willing to help get his memories back.
Finally he finished his story with how he had finished impregnating Taygete and that once they had borne his child, they would be able to rejoin her and the Hunters once again.
"But they aren't virgins" Artemis said sadly.
"Are you a virgin?" William countered. He didn't remember having sex with her, but he knew for a fact that the things he had seen in his dreams of her pleasuring herself with monstrous sex toys was not the acts of a virgin, but rather someone who had been stretched out by a cock such as his.
"Well no, you took that from me, but..."
"So why can't they join? If you aren't one then there shouldn't be any sort of problem" he argued.
"I- I guess you're right" she sighed. She snuggled further into his chest. "I missed you."
"I missed you too Artemis. At least I think I did. I mean, if I felt the way I do now everyday before, then I definitely missed you. You'll just have to make me fall in love with you again" he said, squeezing her tightly.
"How about I start by telling you our story?"
"I'd love that. But first, do you think we could get out of the Underworld? I've had enough of being underground for a lifetime" he asked and she nodded violently. In a flash of light, they were gone.
"So I raped you?"
"Only because Atlas forced you to and threatened to throw me into Tartarus and have me bound and raped for eternity. So really you saved me by having sex with me. After we were freed, you ran away thinking that I was going to punish you for taking my virginity. It took years to capture you so that I could explain myself, and tell you that I loved you."
"What happened next?" he asked.
She continued to tell their story as they lay on the beach under the stars. The moon was brighter than it had been in five years, the five years it's lover had been missing.
The sound of the ocean brought William an untold amount of peace, the crashing waves and wet breeze excited him to his core, not as much as Artemis' touch did, but close. And with the two meeting inside him at the same time, he felt more pleasure than a whole years worth of prisoner sex could ever bring him.
Rage seethed through his veins as Artemis recalled what really happened on the night that he had disappeared. How he'd sacrificed himself to save Thalia. He'd been made a breeding bull for fifty one years at the price of his own life and hers. There was nothing he wanted more than to march right back down to Tartarus and beat the shit out of Nyx. Throw her into the infinite abyss below the Pit and let Chaos deal with her as it saw fit.
"I'm sorry," he said after a few minutes of silence.
"For what my love?" She had jumped right into calling him as such, determined to make him believe in what he should, but didn't, remember.
"For leaving. And then cheating on you countless times. I can't believe someone would do something like that. How evil do you have to be?"
"We'll get our revenge baby, don't you worry. The only thing I'm disappointed in is that I didn't get to have your first baby. I took your virginity, it was only fair I got your first child. Now I'll be number ten thousand and something probably" she said sadly.
"Artemis?"
"Yes?"
"Would you do me the honour of bearing me a child? A real child. One I can see, and hold and raise myself. Those otherthingsI helped create aren't my kids. They're monsters and minions in Nyx's dark plans. I'd doubt if they even have names or mothers. I want you to give me a real one, one with the woman I am going to fall in love with all over again, from the start."
"I'd be honoured" she said, happy tears falling from her eyes as she pushed her lips gently onto his.
"Do you think there's a way to recover my memories?" William asked.
"I don't know. I hope so. We can ask my dad tomorrow" she said, relaxing herself to a sleeping position. That night they had the best sleep they'd had since their separation.