All rights belong to Rick Riordan. Heavy Lemon scene near the end that can be avoided if you are not used to it by now.
Why You Should Never Compete With A Goddess
(Percy)
After all the commotion that was yesterday I was quite content to lay there on the cave floor. To my side the gently sleeping goddess lay with her right arm across my chest and leg intertwined with my own.
Despite our current state of dress beneath the bear skin, no sexual thoughts crossed my mind. I was simply happy to be here; apart from the mystery of Delia there was nothing to worry about on this island. No risk of monsters, no unwelcome visitors or relatives wanting help… no angry father-in-law.
Instead the ever vigilant Nemea was keeping watch, the hunt had come to understand our relationship and we had a no contact policy in place for a whole month.
For the first time in a long time life was… good.
Rumble
To my side I not only heard the goddess but also physically felt her stomach protest. Almost instantly as a result, the heterochromatic eyes of the goddess shot open. Seemingly out of embarrassment judging by the increasing blush on her face. However it became apparent from the way her eyes were looking around before focusing on my face that she had not expected me to be awake already.
"Good morning." I said cheerfully to the clearly embarrassed goddess who promptly decided to bury her face in my arm.
"It is not like I got to eat anything yesterday." She mumbled.
"Oh I got to eat loads, besides that is not entirely true, is itttttttt-ow." I whined before the sensation of four finger nails digging into some fleshy skin subsided somewhat.
"You were saying." She said raising her head up whilst looking at me glaring.
"I'm not embarrassed about doing it, and you sure as hades don't complain about it. I could go for 'breakfast' now and I guarantee that you would not make a single mention about your stomach for an hour." I challenged playfully poking my tongue out.
Looking back at me I could almost see the gears in Harmony's head freeze in place as she struggled to come up with a comeback. After the last week of constant love-making I was getting pretty confident with some of my skills. I didn't have a choice, this relationship had very quickly become sink or swim in the bedroom. As a son of Poseidon I knew how to get someone wettt….owieee.
"The look on your face told me you were thinking something inappropriate." Harmony chastised rolling her eyes.
"Says the woman who has literally got me by the balls!" I protested with teary eyes
"They belong to me now, everything about you belongs to me alone now remember?" She whispered pulling herself up yet not releasing her grip even as I bit my lip.
'Pretty sure that is supposed to go both ways.' I mumbled mentally thankfully though she released her grip at last.
"Then go right ahead." Harmony challenged confidently rising to her feet, hands on hips, presenting me with a full frontal view of this avatar of perfection. Almost immediately I instinctively gulped at the sight.
"Hey Seaweed Brain, are you still alive in there!" The recognizable voice of Thalia shouted from outside the cave suddenly breaking the mood as Harmony rolled her eyes. Thinking about it, the time was almost ten in the morning. We had really stayed asleep far more than usual.
"I don't know why don't you come in and check on him?" Harmony shouted back as I looked at her in horror. The problem was Thalia was not someone who would take that statement as sarcasm, she would actually do it. But whilst I hurriedly covered myself up with the bearskin, Harmony simply stood there uncaring, even as Thalia's head popped around the corner before immediately freezing as she caught sight of the nude goddess.
It seemingly a few seconds for the younger sister to comprehend what she was seeing but soon enough her eyes became like saucers.
(Thalia)
'I will remain faithful, I will remain faithful, I will remain faithful.' I thought to myself as I found myself staring at the buck naked glowing goddess. I was so focused on Harmony that I didn't even notice the small almost concealed figure of Percy's head poking up out of some animal skin blanket.
"So did you want something little sister?" Harmony said cheerfully, whilst all I could do was stand there with my mouth open.
Harmony was unnaturally beautiful, even when she was dressed in exactly the same clothes as the rest of us Hunters. She would still stand out and would be the person everyone invariably focused on. I had enough confidence to say that I was now truly good looking and in the top percent of mortals. Harmony made me feel self-conscious. I was too short, my skin was not as smooth as hers…
"Harmony stop messing with her and cover yourself up." Percy chastised finally drawing my attention to the almost totally concealed Titan. Now it did not take a genius to link her current state of undress, him hiding most of his body to work out what they had got up to last night… and this morning. If I had focused more on those long, slender legs I would have got the complete confirmation from the faint trace of pearlescent liquid running down the inside of her thigh.
"Fine." Harmony sighed as a dozen silver wings appeared behind her before enclosing around her body concealing most of the important bits. Well Percy still probably had a good view of the perfect curves on that backside… gods damn it.
'Think of Reyna.' I thought to myself in a futile effort to distract myself.
Turning my back on the goddess and waiting twenty seconds, I finally found my voice.
"Err. We just wanted to check that you were alright, after last night we were all worried about you. That if there was anything you need… we are here for you." I sputtered out, before taking a deep breath. Even as I talked I found my head turning back towards her before physically having to use my hand to slap it back away.
"That's so sweet; you are all good girls... Three portions of whatever is breakfast today, two cups of nectar and whatever he wants." She said sounding almost jokingly but the tone of her voice told me that she was not joking. She wanted food and she wanted it yesterday.
"Coffee… please Thalia." Percy added wearily as unbeknownst to me behind me Harmony egged him on to say something.
"So are you finally admitting you are eating for three now milady?" I commented with amusement, before suddenly I found myself casting a larger shadow, as the source of silver light was suddenly right behind me.
"Remember that you are not currently immortal, would be a real shame if you suddenly went back in time and it undid all of those changes. Time can flow in mysterious ways after all, who knows what might happen?" Harmony whispered into my ear as I suddenly remembered that the all-powerful, beautiful goddess was still temperamental and quite capable of cruel and unusual punishments.
Not wasting another second I broke out into a run and got out of the cave as quick as possible and began to hot foot it up the hillside towards the campsite. I didn't even pause to explain what was happening to Reyna as I passed by her, causing her to have to run after me.
"Thalia, is everything OK?" The daughter of Bellona asked after catching up with me somehow.
"Can't talk, got to get Harmony food or will lose tits." I responded causing the other girl to stop and break out into a fit of laughter.
Me, I didn't stop running until I reached the camp.
(Percy)
"You knew she would come in here right?" I asked with a sigh as the smiling goddess turned back towards me, not without moving her wings back behind her. The glowing winged figure could almost be described as angelic, were she not several magnitudes above that level of holy figure.
"This is Thalia we are talking about; of course she was going to come in here. She was going to get a little big headed with her transformation. So I had to knock her down a few pegs before she got to that point." She said with amusement.
"Who's being big headed now then?"
"The one who can actually justify it, or would you like to make an argument against me." She said putting her hands on her hips. After a few seconds one of her hands passed inside her left thigh and she swiped a pair of fingers across her skin before putting them in front of her mouth and licking them clean seductively.
How the hell was I supposed to argue with her when she was literally standing naked in front of me? I had no confirmation of what she had just licked but if it was what I thought it was. Then I was sure that was the reason for the rapidly developing erection that was appearing beneath the fur cover.
"I thought so. Anyway I guess we really should get this show on the road." She said before instantly getting dressed back into her usual outfit, albeit without the parker. However before I could appreciate the fact she still made the silver outfit look hot, I suddenly found myself exposed as the bear skin disappeared.
"Looks like little Percy is getting awfully big headed too." She said laughing in an ironic echo of my own words as I went to cover myself up before questioning the point of doing so.
"You get sadistic joy out of making others uncomfortable don't you?" I said sighing again as I leaned across to where my clothes had been discarded nearby.
"Just those closest to me, besides it is your influence that caused the Hunters to enjoy having fun at my expense. Even Zoe seems to have amusement at my misfortune, I have to bala- even it out somehow." She said quickly, as I noted not for the first time, she had actively avoided using that one word now over the last few days. There were a few times she had failed to correct herself and her expression would instantly change to almost pained.
The truth was I was beginning to realise what Harmony's 'unknown' domain was and I think she knew more than she would admit.
But the truth was, what could someone with control over 'Balance' accomplish? If her suddenly gaining all of my abilities was any indicator it was not beyond possibilities. But why would her powers be mirrored against my own? She had not displayed a similar capability to anyone else's powers, and somehow I doubted it was anything to do with our relationship.
Not unless it had something to do with the fact a notable part of me was inside her when she first manifested… and most of the time since.
"Gods damn it." I muttered to myself as once again the thought of the goddess dragged my mind back into the gutter.
"Did you say something?" She asked curiously causing me to shake my head and carry on getting changed. At some point I really had to learn how some of the other immortals were able to so easily change clothes instantly. I had asked Harmony about it a few days ago and she simply laughed and said she enjoyed watching me put on and take off my clothes.
Which whilst that was always good for your own ego to hear, did very little to further my development of my abilities. One day maybe I would learn the awesome ability to summon sandwiches on demand. That was an ability far better than changing Constellations to be truthful.
Speaking of food just as I was finished getting dressed the other daughter of Zeus appeared carrying a tray of sausages, bacon and eggs which judging by the way it was presented and the haste with which she had made it back I was willing to bet that several hunters had just had their breakfast stolen.
"I should have done this years ago, if it was this easy to make you compliant." Harmony teased taking a sausage off the tray as Thalia stood their panting.
"Because you couldn't." I reminded rolling my eyes.
"There were many things I couldn't do before." She teased before tilting her head back and swallowing the entire sausage before turning towards me with a satisfied smile. In response all I could do was close my eyes and sigh even as Thalia started to make some strange noise between laughing and trying not to cough.
"Can we just go already, or do you just want to make her sit there and watch next time… That was a joke before you get any ideas." I said opening my eyes only to find her looking at a wide-eyed Thalia almost predatorily.
"You're no fun in the mornings, you should get more sleep." She said turning back to me with a not so innocent smile.
"As if you are going to let that happen. Come on then, I think you owe your Hunters an explanation of what is going on." I told her before walking out, though not before reaching for a rasher of bacon only to be shot a withering glance by the goddess instantly making my hand shoot to my side.
'You said you were not hungry remember.' She reminded before relieving the entire tray out of Thalia's hands. Interestingly now that I was up close I could have sworn I saw a piece of bread on the platter already with a bite taken out of it, confirming my suspicions.
"Drinks are up at the camp…" Thalia began to say before Harmony was simply gone leaving the two of alone.
"So are you going to learn to wait and be called in before doing so next time?" I remarked teasingly as the young woman blushed.
"I mean like wow, I know that she is my sister but you know…" Thalia said trailing off.
"Try not to give her too much ammunition to work with; the last thing any of us want is this becoming awkward when she tries to make this a group affair. It would probably be fun at the time but extremely messy afterwards." I told her warningly putting my foot down now.
My interest was in the goddess alone and not just because I had no interest in my own personal harem, because to be truthfully honest if given the choice. I would pick the two flawed goddesses over the one perfect one almost every time of asking. Harmony was dangerous and unpredictable and had a greatly reduced sense of what was acceptable in the real world. Artemis and Diana could cause me all sorts of headaches but that was nothing compared to the migraine that Harmony's slightest whims caused.
However whatever the state the goddess(es) was currently manifesting I was dedicated to her alone and nothing would change that. I wanted us to be better than our fathers who would seek anything with a pulse and two X chromosomes. It was almost amusing considering their public annoyances with one another but I suspected that Perseus and his subsidiary aspects harboured hidden feelings for the goddess. Why else would he make no efforts to do anything when given the chance, instead they merely acted emotionally around her trying to provoke any form of reaction out of the goddess. What had happened between Harmony with Greed and Envy only seemed to support that position.
"Relax Seaweed Brain, I am not after sharing your dick no matter how hot the pair of you are." Thalia retorted finally.
"I don't know whether to take that as a compliment…"
"I mean I can still fantasize about it, besides who says I didn't purchase my own 'little per…'." Thalia teased before losing control of most of her body.
"Thalia stop taking cues from your sister, that line you should not to cross is not the first stage of the triple jump. What you and Reyna get up to on your own time is your business. Likewise I would prefer it if my private affairs were exactly that, private." I told her firmly before releasing my control over her.
"Fine…Fine, I don't think your fiancée is as worried about privacy as you are. But I see your point; I suppose Reyna would probably be against it as well." She said with a sigh, still considering the impression I had left on the Roman girl I wasn't sure she would be that against it either. It was better for everyone if things stayed as they were right now.
"Exactly think about others opinions before going mad on an idea. Anyway I think we need to catch up with your sister just in case she decided to flaunt her birthday suit to the rest of the Hunt." I explained with a sigh.
"You know we used to bathe naked together sometimes, before you came along right of course. We had all seen Artemis naked before, I mean sure she looked a lot younger then and wasn't anywhere near as hot. But it was still a somewhat regular occurrence, we only stopped after you turned up because we thought there was a chance you would be a lecherous pervert that we would have to hunt down if you did. Well the others did, I didn't care too much but it would have been embarrassing until recent changes took effect." Thalia explained as my subconscious was automatically thinking about that scene out of curiosity.
Not Thalia, I had seen almost every detail of that change up close recently and in all sorts of barely there lingerie. But what man wouldn't be distracted by the idea of more than a dozen forbidden girls cavorting in a river…
"Thalia hit me as hard as you can!" I suddenly told her seemingly shocking her judging by the wide eyed expression she was now sporting.
"Why?... Ok if you insist." She said uncertainly before stepping forward quickly and delivering an open palm strike to my gut, the blow further enhanced by an electrical discharge was enough to cause me to fall back on my ass and winded. After a silent half a minute I stood up and brushed myself down.
"Thank you." I said simply as the girl looked at me like I was insane.
"Percy WTF."
"I am not supposed to think about the Hunters in any form of sexual way, including spying on you bathing. Besides most of them are underage which is just… wrong." I explained like it was nothing.
"I didn't have to beat the shit out of you when I was almost naked yesterday or when we kissed." She said before I held my hand up in front of her.
"You kissed; I had no active part in that. Also you were not a Hunter then or even now so it didn't count. Now come on and lets drop all the subjects or I will drop your haul in the middle of the camp and let you explain to the others what each and every one of them does." I threatened causing Thalia to pale further if that was possible. Dear gods she needed to get some sunlight on her skin whilst we were on this island, else I was going to start calling her Casper. Then again the friendly ghost only died once so she was beating him on that front.
"Deal." She finally said before silently leading me up the hill towards the campsite where the other hunters and the goddess were congregated.
"So err. Have you thought of a name yet for the kids?" Thalia asked nervously just as we reached the top of the slope. In fairness I was quite surprised it had taken this long for her to inquire about that details seeing as she wanted to know everything else that was going on.
"Yes and no. Artemis has already decided on Arianna for the girl but nothings finalised for our son." I said shrugging, even if by finalised I meant hadn't really gone anywhere."
"Arianna… I think that she will look a lot like you." Thalia said softly looking at my face.
"I hope not, but then again if she takes after her mother then that will bring me a whole load of headaches." I said scratching my neck. The last thing I wanted was to end up acting like Zeus but there was a high chance that our daughter would inherit Artemis's Chastity domain. Therefore, I would not have to worry about her getting involved with boys.
"Well I mean, you looked good as a girl even if it was basically only a black haired Artemis. Lust is not exactly bad looking… So I think she will be quite cute." Thalia said sounding almost strangely nervous.
"I hope you have not got eyes on my daughter before she is even born. Besides who knows she will probably take after her mother." I said semi-seriously glaring at my cousin who suddenly decided that the floor was real interesting.
(Thalia)
Damn I just managed to almost give the game away that I knew something that the divine duo did not, whilst also sounding like a predator.
But still I would need to drop the subject for the time being or else I risked attracting too much attention. I still had no idea what was happening in that dream, there was zero context provided to work with. All I knew know was that nothing was going to happen until after the goddess gave birth due to the presence of their future daughter Arianna.
So whilst I could tell them about what I had seen with no other information it was likely to put everyone on edge for months. With had been going on lately I thought it would be better if everyone had a chance to unwind a little. There was enough going on with the whole Delia mystery that needed to be resolved first.
Still even being able to put a name to a face now was a small step forward at the least. Even if remembering that small girls face made me shiver in a way I could not describe. She was unnatural, not unlike Harmony who radiated extreme amounts of aura when she did not control herself that it felt almost suffocating. Along with the fact she was extremely beautiful and perfec…
'Dear gods how did Percy managed to stay sane seeing that every day and night.' I thought to myself mentally kicking myself as I tried to forget what I had seen earlier.
Back on the subject of Arianna though she looked extremely young which meant little for a goddess or Titaness whichever she was. But despite what was going on she seemed rather not bothered by the whole affair, showing very little concern for her own mother's condition. In fairness it was strange that no one in the entire room was anywhere near Artemis. If anything they were all as far away as possible from the weakened goddess.
Was that because they knew she was going to be alright and they were offering some privacy.
No that couldn't be it, Apollo stuck around like glue every time there was any issue with his twin, but I had seen him too across the room with Artemis's uncle, the winged Titan Lelantos.
Was it perhaps that Arianna herself was the reason why nobody dared be closer? If she made me feel uncomfortable in a dream was it possible that she affected all the gods present in a similar way? After all both of her parents were extremely powerful, so what sort of powers could the girl herself have?
"Thalia look out." Percy warned to late as I stumbled into and over a tent line, so focused on my thoughts that I was not watching where I was walking, that I almost fell on my face. Still the mostly rocky ground didn't provide much padding as grazed the palms of my hands breaking my fall.
"Fuck." I cursed angrily at my own clumsiness. That I had done so in front of Percy only made things worse.
"Hehe purple today." Percy joked as I hurriedly pushed myself back to my feet.
'What's purple?" I thought to myself before suddenly realising what he had seen whilst I was face down, ass up right in front of him.
"Do you want me to hit you again?" I threatened futilely even as I belt myself blushing.
"No need, I can look at YOU all I want. I'm not going to do anything to you but if you want to just flash them at me then I am not to blame." Percy said flashing that damned happy-go-lucky smile back at me.
'Damn it sis, why did you have to claim this damned adorable idiot?' I cursed internally, it was still morning and I was already a raging mix of hormones and sexual tension.
Besides it was abundantly clear that any sanctity of this island had already been corrupted last night by those two. So tonight I would not be holding back, the poor daughter of Bellona would not know what hit her.
(Harmony)
While it was already amusing to spy/listen to my husband-to-be and my half-sister seemingly settle their sexual tension. Including, a certain little nugget of information about her kissing him at some point yesterday, that I was surprisingly unaware of. That was something I was going to have to bring up with her at some point.
I suspected that he knew I could hear what he was saying through his engagement ring. It was not actually an intended feature of the silver band when I gave it to him. But I guess the fact it was made from my own string of Fate linked it up with my mind in some way. It was part of me I suppose but there was very little precedent to go from with regards to obtaining your fate string and then gifting it to someone else.
So that combined with my own senses of tracking and detection, I basically knew everything he had said and done since I left the pair of them.
Still listening to him tell her to watch out where she was going, then visibly see one of the outer tents suddenly shake as she blundered into it made me laugh out loud. Hearing him mock her for it was just the icing on the cake. It was nice having Thalia be the butt of the jokes for the time being, I had sufficient leverage over the girl presently that I could do as I wish with her.
Still my sudden outburst of laughter was a surprise to the Hunters around me, which were listening as I started my explanation of what happened to me yesterday. On my lap the resting head of a fully grown lioness readjusted its position as to get comfortable again.
"Do I even want to know what is so funny?" Percy said walking around the corner followed by a blushing Thalia. Atop her head the silver circlet was lying crooked as a result of her fall.
"Thalia if your view to what is in front of your feet is so badly affected I can remedy that for you." I teased playfully as the embarrassed girl silently sat down close to Reyna albeit still a few feet away.
"Oh that reminds me, can you do that to any of us?" Suzie asked optimistically despite the fact that both she and her sister had clearly undergone puberty several years ago
"No, as was explained to me to great lengths by a certain someone. Doing so is extremely dangerous and full of who knows what risks. Besides what do think I am some magical breast provider?" I said rolling my eyes.
"Well yours got noticeably bigger, I am sure Percy isn't complaining." Phoebe said smirking as I glared at her. See what I mean, they were all so lippy and prone to snarky remarks nowadays.
"That's not the issue here." I retorted biting my lip as the French girl took her victory.
'For the record I am not bothered either way, as long as it is you.' Percy told me mentally sitting next to me on the side Nemea hadn't occupied, his hand reaching out and stroking the muzzle of the great golden feline.
'Aww. That's so sweet, keep it up and that won't be the only pussy your stroking in front of the girls.' I teased; watching with amusement as his face suddenly froze except for his eyes looking at me for a few seconds before finally he rolled his eyes in resignation.
"Who wants to bet that that they are talking to each other mentally and she is thinking something inappropriate?" Atlanta commented joking before quickly turning silent as my head slowly swivelled around towards her.
'They are catching on quick.'
'Shut up you.' I shot back.
"Atlanta you already know what I am about to explain. So why don't you go take a trip around the island and get the search started here first." I told her in irritation.
"I already did that this morning. While you were still cuddled up 'sleeping'." She retorted back smugly and suddenly I was reminded of the fact that she was still a daughter of my annoying twin. In the past she like the others was reverential in dealing with me. Now with them being more open to dealing with me it was easy to see individual personalities and heritage come out once in a while.
"Well maybe you missed something." I told her glaring.
"Like half a Titan Lord dumped on a beach." Percy mentioned off-handed and I could have suddenly sworn Thalia's eyes shot wide open.
"Haha… Wait seriously? Ok maybe I might have missed some things." Atlanta said rising to her feet before darting off to the north.
"Right then, anyone else want to make any smartass comments? Or are you going to listen as I explain some history from several thousand years ago and how it affects you now?" I challenged paying particular attention to my on again, off again Lieutenant sister, who instead was looking at Percy almost pleadingly as if trying to get a message across to him.
'Start now; I have got to go deal with something before Thalia potentially kills herself out of embarrassment.' Percy said before flashing away from us.
Whilst the Hunters were surprised by his sudden and unexpected disappearance, I was instead more curious about exactly what Thalia had brought yesterday.
'We need to have a chat.' I told her mentally causing her to visibly gulp.
"Anyway whilst he is gone let get going. Who can say how many Lieutenants we have had in the Hunt and theirs names?"
"Two." Several shouted at ones
"Four." Someone said correctly but quietly enough that I couldn't pinpoint who.
"Three. Thalia counts twice because she can't make up her mind." Tania shouted earning a complaint from the 'not quite current holder of the position.".
"In that case we are up to five but four individuals have held it, from the last to first. Thalia obviously, Zoe was before that and her untimely but not quite permanent demise. The second and the reason we are having this conversation was Delia the namesake of this island. As for the first she… I cannot say." Phoebe explained in as correct manner as she was permitted to do so. While she was not old enough to have served under the original Lieutenant she had met her since after all, only Atlanta had been around long enough to have the distinction of serving under all four holders of that title.
Perhaps when this mystery was resolved I may actually set the record straight with Britomartis. After all my half-sister too, had attempted to locate her replacement after her disappearance. If we managed to any form of confirmation for better or worse it was only fair to tell the minor goddess. Besides, the whole cover story about her betraying the Hunt no longer held any weight, not considering my own actions over the last few months and especially these last few days.
"Phoebe is correct on all counts." I said nodding my head, albeit technically once Thalia renewed her oath again it would be six at that point.
"Not like you had six-hundred years to learn that." Amy said bitterly folding her arms being one of the ones who answered with two previously.
"Six-hundred years of never losing anything to a daughter of…" Phoebe boasted before I cut her off.
"Girls! I talk, you listen or the next person who says something out of turn and not relevant gets to spend the rest of this chat as a gazelle… With Nemea sitting behind them." I threatened, at the mention of her name that Lioness raised her head to look at me almost optimistically.
"Yes Lady Harmony." Phoebe said calmly whilst the other girls wisely chose to straighten up and keep quiet.
"Right then let's go back to the very beginning, three thousand years before even I was born and even Zoe was but a humble gardening nymph, albeit one with a terrible father who l would still prefer to be holding the weight of the sky. Back then there were three sister nymphs who lived on a verdant island in the Aegean. The oldest the namesake of the island, who had dominion over the plains from which all life rose. The second of the woods and forest and the bounty of life it provided. Last the youngest, the spring and the stream that flowed from it, supplying all life on the island with water. Despite being only humble nymphs in the eyes of the life that lived on that island both big and small from a humble vole to the Dryads of the forest they were each akin to a goddess. Life flourished on that island for many centuries until one day a new arrival stumbled onto their shores." I explained pausing to gauge their reactions. Despite the way I was being overly dramatic in my explanation it was to a point. Delos had been a paradise that was lost to what came next. Namely me… and Apollo I guess if you wanted to argue semantics.
"Alone, weak and pursued by a wrathful goddess, the Titaness Leto crawled out of the surf and onto the beach. For three years, she had been pregnant and yet nowhere was she able to seek solace and bear her children for the land itself was afraid to earn the ire of the Queen of Heaven. Isolated and remote, the three nymphs knew nothing of the danger they brought into their home after welcoming the powerless newcomer to their sanctuary amongst the rocks and trees of the tallest hill. Hidden from all outside observation at last, for nine days and nights Leto lay in labour before at last a child was born under the light of a full moon. A girl who even at birth was truly the most fairest of babes to ever..." I said proudly only to cut off when Percy reappeared alongside me and sat down against me.
"Oh jeez I wonder who she is talking about. You ever realise you and your brother have more in common than you think." He joked before kissing me on the cheek.
"Shut up you, no we don't. I was just getting to the good bit." I hissed in annoyance even as he just grinned.
"What Apo—." Percy started to say before literally being frozen.
"Oh wow great to know that works on him too, that's not terrifying." Phoebe said in shock risking earning my ire before I noticed that most of the other hunters were sat in stunned silence. I guess if they considered that Percy was a preventative in case I became a risk to them, my action just now had put a sudden emphasis on the fact that was not the case.
Percy was almost unarguably the most powerful Titan or 'normal' god. In my current state I was most certainly not normal. I was an outsider to the normal bal- structure of power that existed, this combined with the fact I was no longer bound by any set fate made me truly dangerous. A mortal could defeat a demigod but never a full divine, a demigod could beat a divine, case in point Percy had done so numerous times, but against a Primordial they should stand no chance. (Unless they had the specific anti-everything sword and were swallowed by them.) Lastly there was the slim chance a regular divine had against a Primordial, whilst doable theoretically it would normally take multiple powerful gods to even match one of the progenitors. It took five Titans to kill Ouranos, all of us Olympians combined were no match for Gaia, my normal selves arrows were useless against Chronos once he was annoyed and even then that was after he had been greatly weakened by poison.
If I did not control myself I could quite literally walk into Olympus or Orthrys and everyone would collapse to the floor without me having to raise a finger. I was likely beyond the capabilities of anyone who had not existed since the beginning.
'Even if suspected, I was potentially the Primordial Goddess of 'bala-Harmony'. What in hades did that even involve and why me? I was most certainly not a first or second generation being like the others. I was a fifth generation goddess of slightly above-average power. So why was I like this? What purpose was I supposed to have as the incarnation of Balance? Why did that fucking word hurt my head so bad every time I thought or said it?'
"Hello, are you ok?" Percy said touching my shoulder making me realise that I had reflexively cupped my head in my hands when I had that last thought and it must have broken the time lock on him.
Slowly releasing my grasp on my head, I took a series of deep breaths in an attempt to calm myself down. Looking around I caught sight of the scared almost terrified looks that were on the majority of the Hunter's faces. To my other side the figure of a lioness was regarding me uncertainly having vacated its position on my lap.
"I-I-I'm sorry." I stuttered out in embarrassment pulling my knees up to my chin.
"Everyone go take a break for ten minutes before we resume with the story. Zoe can you get Harmony some Ambrosia or Nectar?" Percy said taking over the situation as everyone else shot to their feet as if in an effort to get as far away from me as possible. Not that I could blame them.
'I am scared of a damned word, how pathetic am I?' I asked him placing my head on his shoulder as he then wrapped his arm around my neck.
"But at least you are brave enough to admit it; we can work through this together until we find out the truth about what it means for you. There has got to be a reason that it affects you like that. A domain is not supposed to cause its wielder discomfort and pain every time they even think about it." He said calmly in an effort to calm my nerves with mixed results. I knew he meant that we would resolve this together but I wasn't sure if I wanted to.
What sort of revelation would the truth bring me? Would I still be me? Or perhaps I return to the way I was before. Was that possibly a good thing for those around me?
"I hope you are right because nothing about me has made sense for a while now. I mean when you are not around I am almost unable to react properly, I become an emotional wreck. In the past I would describe myself as emotionless, unless it directly affected me I cared little for others opinions. My Hunters have obviously always known what I am capable of a goddess, even in my unstable fully unleashed form. Yet now I see the looks of terror I can inflict upon them by doing something that seems mundane to me like freezing you in time."
"When did you do that? I thought we had stopped doing that?" He asked surprised seemingly not noticing that short period.
"That is not important." I muttered under my breath.
"Sure it isn't." He teased sarcastically giving my shoulder a playful tug causing my head rock from side to side.
"So then do you still want to carry on with the story or wait till later? Because whilst I cannot comment if you were the fairest baby that ever existed, I do know that you are the sexiest goddess ever now and no one even comes close. I mean even girls get jealous of me because of you." He said proudly whilst trying not to laugh.
"Percy, shut up and just let me have this for a minute." I told him snuggling up against him and closing my eyes. The comfort of his presence alone was easing the burdens on my heart and mind even if only a little.
(Thalia)
Although we were told to give it ten minutes we all pretty much decided that we were not in too much of a hurry to return to the goddess unless we were summoned. However even as much as I wanted to go through the bags of clothing and other items that had been deposited by the Titan Lord inside my tent. I instead hung around as close as was seemingly possible trying to waylay the fears of some of the younger hunters.
Particularly Jacqueline and Erika, neither of their parents (Demeter and Hermes) were particularly strong or combative gods despite being Olympians, being more those that instead supported others. As such whilst even I knew that I stood zero chance against the goddess the slightest change in her aura was enough to make my skin crawl and hair stand on end. For some of the others it was bad enough that they almost wanted to throw up or curl themselves into a ball, were it not for the fact that they were terrified about how she would react to that display.
Still at the point where it was half an hour since we had been dismissed I decided to venture back curiously to see what was going on with the two immortals.
So it was strange to watch the image in front of me as the clearly sleeping goddess lay against her lover's side. The look of serenity and beauty on her face almost making me forget the sheer unrivaled power that she could exude when emotional enough.
That was the crux of the issue we hunters had with Harmony though, she was seemingly not able to control her emotions and thoughts very well. In the past she was almost devoid of feelings. Now it was quite the opposite when she reached an extreme of emotion, she seemed to forget about everything else going on around her.
We had enough issues predicting when she was likely going to disappear into light without vaporising any of us unlucky enough to not look away. Let alone the fact of remembering something from thousands of years ago suddenly setting her off over the deep end and with no way for the rest of us to get to safety beforehand.
Even Phoebe and Zoe had to admit that even knowing about the real possibility of the Eidolon possessed Artemis going off the deep end, was still less worrying than what Harmony was capable of doing by accident.
Of course, from the moment I had poked my head around the tent to spy on the pair. A pair of green and gold eyes watched back as Percy regarded me in return before raising his free hand not wrapped around her to his face before holding his forefinger up to his lips in an effort for me not to disturb the goddess.
'I know you have questions and concerns but trust me enough that there will be a time for everything. There are still lots of things that 'we' don't know about yet and some of those things scare her just as much you.' Percy's voice said calmly straight into my mind.
Slowly walking closer I got within a few yards before sitting on my knees.
"But you must know something." I whispered trying not to awaken the goddess. For a second I got a quick flashback to the weakened unconscious goddess in my dream before blinking and looking again at the supremely beautiful goddess in front of me.
If that dream showed me one thing that I could place a certainty over other than a small girl who had not even been born yet could terrorise the shit out of me. It was that at some point Harmony must revert back to Artemis because that was definitely Artemis there. Other than the overall obvious 'downgrade' in beauty, her hair had been back to normal length and back in a ponytail.
'Thalia… some things we want to keep secret, I think you can agree that you have already seen far more than you should have today.' Mentally he told me again obviously trying really hard not to disturb the goddess by moving too much, of course his words made me blush before I hurriedly shook the image out of my head.
'Look we have tried and failed to keep major secrets from you all, this is not like that. We honestly do not know enough ourselves about what is going on. How would you feel if a single word accidentally thought or said was enough to cause you a sudden burst of excruciating pain and disorientation. That is literally the only clue we have, can you understand why we are having trouble investigating it?'
"What word is it?" I asked almost immediately out of instinctual nosy curiosity and was not surprised to simply receive a glare in response.
'That is why you aren't being told by me, because the first thing you will do is go and say it to her… The whole idea of why we came to this particular island was to have a calm period where we could try and resolve this situation without outside interaction. Unfortunately, with this whole unplanned for Deliah-thing digging up old wounds, it is not doing your sister any favours. Let's just deal with that somewhat or get a plan in action at the least. Before you try and poke your nose in somewhere it doesn't belong.'
"Fine, fine. I do know there are some lines I cannot cross."
'I find that doubtful.'
"Hey!- shit. Look take as long as you need, I will keep the others busy until she is ready to carry on talking to us. Just send a signal whenever you are good to go. Oh and thanks for getting my stuff off the beach, would have been embarrassing to explain all that to Atlanta." I shouted before quickly remembering the all-powerful sleeping figure in front of me. Once I finished I rose back to my feet and walked away without waiting for any further words from my cousin.
Making my way back through the tents I reached the group of hunters that were closest.
"So what is going on, are we in danger of getting zapped?" Suzie asked first looking up from her second round of breakfast of the morning. The first along with her sisters and poor Marina's had been confiscated to feed the goddess in an emergency. That was their punishment for getting out of bed late, well in fairness the younger girl was up well past what someone her age should have been awake to last night. The two older twins though had no similar excuse biologically they were the same age as I was and I was the second one up in the morning after a certain Demi-Titan. The daughters of Aphrodite were just notoriously groggy and lazy in the mornings and perhaps thought that they could avoid chores by staying in their tent.
They were wrong; we just waited for them to get up before reminding them that it still needed doing.
"Only if you go over there and wake her up." I responded with a shrug.
"Didn't she spend all morning asleep?" Amy commented.
"You cannot talk." Erika said joining in and rolling her eyes at the hypocrisy of the two twins.
"Well to be honest I don't think she actually spends that much time sleeping, despite how much time she spends in bed. Poor Percy recently looks like he normally wants to crash out all the time." Zoe said with amusement, as I found myself looking at her with surprise.
"What do you mean? Oh Harmony and Uncle Percy are…" Marina said before being silenced by Phoebe's hand over her mouth.
"It's a bit late for that Phoebe; we all know exactly what those two have done. She didn't miraculously get pregnant by any other means. Frankly considering her father I am surprised she waited as long as she did to do it again after proverbially breaking the seal." Zoe said laughing and suddenly I felt nervous as several of the other girls looked at me like I was anything like our father or even Harmony.
I mean I had promised to rock Reyna like a hurricane tonight… and basically drooled over my sister…. And propositioned my cousin into a potential harem situation, and almost blabbed that I brought a sex toy based on Harmony's statement about his… asset. Fuck I really was becoming as bad as they were!
"Don't look at me, that is their choice in life. I have just as much experience with the other sex as any of you." I said defensively not counting anything from the last twenty-four hours, now if we were talking same sex… that was a different matter.
"In that case, I suppose that makes me the loser seeing as I was actually happily engaged to Meleager, until he quite literally went up in smoke." Atlanta commented sadly, seemingly having got back from her lap around the island whilst I was gone from the group. Their blooming relationship had ended rather suddenly when his mother threw his literal lifeline into a fire.
"At least he was an unequivocally good guy amongst all the Argonauts and actually respected you, I fell in love with Heracles the very opposite purely based on the fact of his appearance. I mean if I knew at the time the reason he carries around a club is as a means of compensating I would have stayed at home and let Ladon eat him." Zoe retorted laughing causing a round of light-hearted laughing and giggling to happen amongst those that understood. Poor Marina and Jacqueline though just missed the insinuation and looked around the rest of us blankly.
"I got a nice boar hide out of it at least. Then there was that stupid golden apple incident, how many men have got to die before they get the hint that I am not interested in another relationship. Thirty-four is not a small number and even then it was only due to Aphrodite that I lost that bet eventually otherwise it would have been a lot more. Fortunately Artemis had seen enough by that point and turned Hippomenes into a Lion for his trouble and I joined the Hunt at last. That was a fun first hunt; I don't think he expected to have the tables turned with me chasing him. He didn't get far." Atlanta said almost sinisterly. Suddenly I had been reminded that the much older girl was amongst those in the Hunt like Morganna and Zoe that had killed her fair share of mortals.
"Hold up, you did all that… how old are you biologically?" Suzie said in awe.
"Sixteen and a bit. I was an overachiever as a child. Besides you got married really young in those days because generally in comparison to today you died a lot younger. I was only fourteen when I joined the Argonauts and fell in love with Meleager." Atlanta said causing no small amount of shock amongst the much younger hunters.
"Meanwhile there I was spending the first fifteen years of my life living on a tomato farm in Arkansas. Way to go make my childhood sound boring." Erika complained as several others that had not been involved in the wars and joined after nodded in agreement.
"So whilst we are somewhat on the subject of men and allowed to talk about them now… Percy." Amy brought up almost making me literally bite my tongue in surprise.
"That depends on how high your death wish is. Harmony doesn't strike me as the sharing type." Phoebe laughed nervously. Judging from her words and actions I actually doubted that was true, it was almost purely his decision to keep their relationship monogamous.
"She can keep him for all I care, the further away from me the better." Tania said gruffly.
"I don't think there is another woman in existence that could lure him away from her regardless. I mean you cannot deny that she is stunningly beautiful in a way that mortals just cannot compete with." Reyna said honestly.
"Mother could not compete with her… even if she wanted to." Suzie said.
"Considering what he looked like when I first met him five years ago, the transformation is quite outstanding from the spotty average at best son of Poseidon who I didn't think was worth being in Artemis's presence…" Zoe explained.
"To being the only one ever who can charm his way into her panties. Yeah me neither." Atlanta said causing the other girl to glare back at her.
"Well let's look at our very own Lieutenant and see that time can certainly change someone in big ways. I mean look at them!" Phoebe joked laughing as I began to blush as sure enough almost every pair of eyes focused on my chest; subconsciously I ended up folding my arms in front of me out of embarrassment.
"Phoebe!" I complained weakly.
"Cry all you want, it is the only thing you can beat me with. Besides let's wait and see how you fair in a little competition before you brag too much. Those things are looking real heavy and cumbersome." Phoebe teased.
"Oh look, a French girl crying that others are better endowed than them. How original." I shot back sarcastically causing the poor former peasant farm girl to stand there with mouth open unsure of how to retort.
"Well in fairness you did grow up with the wonderful fat filled American diet of sugar and fast food. You have seemingly just managed to channel it all onto your chest." The super slim athletic figure of Atlanta teased back defending her closest friend.
"Yeah well… You are so old they didn't even have growing seasons back during your childhood, hades there wasn't even seasons back then." I tried and failed to come back at the Greek girl with.
Fortunately our brief little bitching match was ended by the sound of a lioness roaring followed by a loud whistle.
"Boo things were just getting interesting and by that I mean pathetic to witness." Zoe said leading the way back to where the goddess was. I mean she was lucky; she was in the nice middle ground of athletic yet curvy, cute with her new inherited oriental features adding an extra layer of beauty to appearance. All hiding the fact, that she could one punch an elephant or even suplex it if she wanted to.
If I was not in a relationship with Reyna, but still somehow ended up going for another Hunter, it would probably be her.
But still that was purely a hypothetical, as it was I was with Reyna and nothing was going to change that. Apart from perhaps a certain goddess, if I kept her waiting too long.
(Percy)
"Are you sure you are ok?" I whispered into Harmony's ear as we watched the Hunters slowly begin to appear in front of us.
"Yeah I'm fine besides it would be better to get this over and done with as soon as possible. That way we can focus on actually searching for Delia." She told me even as she grasped my hand tightly.
"Just try and keep calm, don't do anything to make them freak out again. If you need anything just ask." I told her not able to as easily get over my concern for her and indeed the hunters wellbeing in this situation.
'If I look like I am going off tangent do something to distract me, anything will do. Even if you have to push me down and-'
'We are not doing that in front of them, nice try though.' I told her rolling my eyes as the goddess giggled at her audacious request.
"They are doing it again." Atlanta said laughing causing the pair of us to look at the Greek girl.
"Find anything?" Harmony asked sarcastically.
"One unconscious idiot on a beach, ancient ruins, an empty mortal campsite near said ruins and absolutely nothing else of interest. Not a single living creature in sight." Atlanta responded with a smile.
"Thank you, it would have been too easy if you had." Harmony said with a sigh as the girls all finished sitting down and paying attention to the goddess.
"I think we got to the bit where a bratty girl with sexist tendencies was being born." I commented with a grin gaining a withering glare in return.
"Indeed, right then as I was saying earlier. The slow death of all life on this island began at the same time I was born…" Harmony said beginning to finish off the rest of the history of this island.
Afterwards she would go on to talk about the founding of the Hunt and the original Hunters, which of course also included the first and only remaining Nymph remaining on this devastated island. Her younger sisters having already succumbed to Hera's curse, causing Artemis herself to move quickly in an effort to swear the near dead girl in as one of her followers before she too had died. Even then it was only Zeus's intervention for his young daughter's sake that finally caused Hera to calm down and not actively seek the death of Delia. But still the damage was done to this land, even if she had stayed there was little left she could do on this cursed land.
So began the long journey of a naïve nymph with no special skills and no innate ability for hunting or killing into one of the most deadly trackers the world has ever seen. Over the course of two centuries Delia became Artemis's shadow, always at her side whether in times of confidence, hunting and indeed even the Trojan war. (Harmony was quick to move past that part, I knew for a fact there was a story involved somewhere along the line about Hera spanking the younger goddess with her own bow. Though I off course would pay to see Hera try and do it again now of course. The top two gods had certainly lost their place in the pecking order over the last year or so. Albeit I was not a god thankfully, so I didn't even have to pretend to listen to Zeus.)
Finally though we got onto how Delia became Lieutenant and eventually her disappearance.
How despite months of searching by all parties no trace was ever found, until yesterday here on this very island where it had all began thousands of years before.
For the most part the Hunter's stayed silent as they listened with rapt attention to the story of things that their goddess normally never spoke about. With the exception of the older duo of Zoe and Atlanta this was the first many of them had ever heard about any of this, even Thalia was unnaturally silent throughout, though whether that was due to being engrossed in the story or fear about losing her recent gains was up in the air.
But still by the time the story was finished the winter sun was already beginning to set again preventing any further searching for today at least.
However for the first time in almost two weeks the pair of us would actually return to the moon chariot for the night. Partially because I felt somewhat bad for making Leto do the job for us and second because it was an extremely useful place to be able to sit and map out potential search points from above.
Also after most of the last twenty-four hours sitting or laying on rocks, I didn't want to spend another night in a cave.
So as it was the pair of us answered any questions or concerns that we were able to, before eating dinner with the group before retiring away for the night to the chariot high above.
To my surprise it was not the friendly Titaness standing on duty but instead my own splintered aspect who was equally surprised to see the pair of us suddenly appear next to her.
"Well look who decided to show up. Wait what are youuuu." Lust complained before being grabbed by a leg and flipped off the back of the chariot in one motion by the goddess. I at least had the decency to look over the edge and check that she had disappeared into light rather than impacting with the rocky terrain far below. I guess she had learned from Perseus's experience suffering the same fate.
"Well I guess that answers whether she got out of Irkalla or not." I said looking back at the goddess next to me.
"That's a shame. Besides I have better things to be doing than listening to her shit tonight. First things first we need to identify which islands in the archipelago can sustain advanced life, anything too small for that can be excluded. It would need to be somewhere with constant access to fresh water, food and fuel. Without any of those three she would not have been able to survive all this time. Likewise the larger islands can be excluded as already being searched, Crete, Rhodes, Lesbos, Mykonos we scoured all of them at the time." Harmony said seriously already focusing on the job to be done without a moments pause.
I was almost unsure whether to be happy or disappointed that the goddess hadn't instead tried to use me like a sex toy, before getting straight to business.
Still as I sat down with my feet hanging over the edge I felt Harmony sit down next to me, placing my hand in hers and enjoyed the fact that the pair of us could have a moment alone without it breaking out into sex every time.
AN. Below is read at the reader's discretion being entirely smut with no overall bearing on the story itself.
(Thalia)
"Fuck… Fuck right there, don't stop!" I pleaded the daughter of Bellona as she expertly brought me near to climax with little more than her bare fingers and tongue. For all my talk earlier, it was me that was at her tender mercy the moment we were alone.
However just as I felt myself close to coming, the naked smiling girl pulled back from her position between my thighs leaving me panting but unsatisfied.
"Don't stop there." I whined pushing my hair back behind my head whilst watching as Reyna bent down and out of my immediate line of sight and I heard rustling as if searching for something.
After half a minute her face reappeared grinning as she held something behind her back. Climbing back onto the bed she crawled her way above me so that her breasts were hanging only a few inches above mine before bringing out what she had found.
At the sight of the dildo I couldn't help but gulp and question my decision to purchase the toy purely based on a potential joke from a goddess. Because up close and personal ten inches suddenly seems a lot bigger than you think.
I mean even if she was telling the truth, she was still a goddess and was able to alter her form to accommodate it right?
Apart from a finger or two I was still basically a virgin, there was no way that could possibly fit right?
"Reyna let's not be hasty…" I tried to tell her before she silenced me with a kiss, her tongue easily subduing my own even as I tasted myself on her lips. Her free hand making its way between us and grasping the abundant flesh of my right breast causing me to let out a moan and break away our kiss.
Sitting up whilst straddling me the other girl had the cream coloured sex toy in front of her mouth before slowly the tip and first three inches made its way inside before she began to gag on the silicone phallus holding it there for twenty seconds she eventually was forced to pull away from it, tendrils of saliva draping from her mouth to it. That sight alone increasing my excitement as my legs squirmed underneath her.
"Your turn." She said commandingly as I instinctively obeyed opening my mouth as far as possible whilst closing my eyes.
The shock of having such a large object inserted was enough to make me suddenly open them back up again as the still saliva soaked object rubbed against my tongue and the roof of my mouth before Reyna began to withdraw it a little before pushing it back inside harder, the tip brushing first against and then past my tonsils.
Feeling it expanding the top of my throat I began to cough in surprise as Reyna hurriedly withdrew it completely. The daughter of Bellona's look of concern turning into smile as I got hold of my breathing again.
"You did better than I thought you would." She said almost proudly as she held the large toy up her fingers wrapped around it about six or seven inches from the tip a thick swath of saliva reaching up to them.
"How on earth… does she deal with that thing?" I said struggling for breath.
"How does who?... You brought this to try and keep up with Harmony of all people? I mean Percy… who knew, no wonder she won't leave him alone if that is the case." She said with a quiet whistle of appreciation.
"I didn't buy it to keep up with her, I was just curious that's all." I said meekly even as Roman demigod begin to reposition herself lower down my body, the slippery toy being slowly trailed across my skin, between my breasts, down my navel before finally rubbing against the tender flesh between my legs. I was still more than wet enough from Reyna's earlier 'attack' but the feeling of Silicone rubbing against my clitoris and labia made me keep moving my hips around in a half-hearted failed attempt to get away from it. Instead all I was really accomplishing was increasing the ministrations that it was having upon me down there
'Was this similar to being electrically shocked?' I thought to myself as several times the toy would begin to open my labia as if trying to enter me before my body would sub-consciously jerk upwards and away from it.
Feeling the toy being pulled away, I let out a deep breath before shuddering again as Reyna's own ragged breath once again tickled me, before her wet tongue ran up the length of my womanhood before slowly teasing my clitoris itself causing me to wrap my thighs around her head locking her in position.
However once again she pulled her tongue back leaving me at the edge of satisfaction until eventually I released my grip on her as she licked her lips in a sultry manner.
"So then what do you want to do? I can carry on going as I am or do you want to try and compete with your big bad sister?" She asked almost challenging me to take the easier option.
I mean despite everything we had done tonight and previously I had never crossed that one line of losing my actual virginity. The other girl having managed to get me to climax without 'true' penetration. There was a hell of difference between a gentle probing finger and whatever on earth that thing was.
Then again Reyna had been rather indecisive a week prior before she had 'popped her cherry'. Albeit that toy was a lot smaller and both of us were not sure if we were ready to go that far. Sure this one was a fair bit longer and had more girth but it couldn't be that much harder to handle surely?
However the fact that she brought Harmony and by extension Percy into it basically forced my choice out of stubborn refusal to accept anything less. If she could do it, then of course I could, right?
"Red bag on the floor, at the bottom you will find another black bag." I told her making her pause for a second before hopping across the room to find the mystery item. All the while giving me a great view of her athletic toned ass, across her back were now familiar scars that she had gained in her time before joining us. Whether through training, battle or at the hands of Blackbeard's thugs. The story of pain they told was in complete opposite to the grin she was sporting as she withdrew the leather strap article of 'clothing' from its hiding place.
"You really thought of everything, was Percy even paying attention to what you were buying?"
"Obviously not, now hurry up and put it on." I said with growing excitement as she figured out how to put it all on. As she did so my left hand reaching down inside my legs delicately touching my innermost recess for the last time before it would be irreversibly changed.
After a few minutes she had finally got everything assembled and adjusted before presenting me with the view of the large phallic object strapped between her thighs her left hand holding the shaft up against her own flesh past her own navel.
Rolling off the bed I crawled my across the floor towards her before finding myself at eye level with the colossal protrusion. Looking up directly at my lovers face I began to slowly lick my tongue up from the base where it was secured towards the tip. She removed her hand to let me carry on unimpeded causing the silicone dildo to bonk me on the nose, though any discomfort I momentarily felt was ignored as I instead raised a hand myself to grip the shaft and steady it as I ran my tongue around the tip before once again opening my mouth wide in an effort to accommodate it.
All the while my free hand roamed around inside my thighs keeping my own excitement at breaking point, even as Reyna moaned as the small vibrator inside the strap on base rubbed against her own clitoris as I manipulated it from my end.
Still from my kneeling position this time and with knowledge of what I was going to get, I began to ease the toy in my mouth with short repeated motions forwards and backwards in an effort to work it further inside.
Despite forcing myself to endure past watering eyes and fighting my own gag reflex I was unable to do much better than before. It was simply too large for me to accommodate… for the moment.
Still removing my hand from the shaft even as I continued to hold the tip in my mouth, I instead moved my hand inside the increasingly moist thighs of Reyna who seemed to inadvertently push her hips towards me as I rubbed against her own labia, feeling the pulsing bullet that was doing its work on her.
Finally though I began to shuffle my position around, not once breaking away my points of contact with her until eventually she was back towards the slick sticky bed that we had occupied before.
It was only at this point that I pulled my head from the saliva coated dildo and placing both hands on her thighs I pushed her back onto the bed, before she hurriedly sat up as I moved between her knees. My breasts sandwiching the 'dick' as I pushed my large cleavage together even as I drooled on the tip in a final effort to lubricate it for what was to come next.
Of course with no real sense of feeling in the fake object there was little point in continuing to massage it for too long, past making sure the whole thing was slick with my fluids, though to be fair more of my saliva was probably coating my breasts as a result but hey it felt sexy to do it.
Slowly though I began to climb onto the edge of the bed on top of Reyna who repositioned herself slightly further back until I was straddling her open thighs, the strap on cock pinned between us even as I looked down into her blushing face as she seemingly struggled not to look directly ahead at my boobs.
"Only you could do something this crazy." She told me giggling before her tongue quickly darted out and licked my left nipple.
"And it is only you that I would be willing to do something as crazy as this with, I love you Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano. And I would rather do this with no one else but you, now make me yours for now and forever." I told her as I raised myself up on my knees as far as I could before finally Reyna was able to position the tip at my entrance, before it slid out and caught against my butt.
'I don't think so.' I thought to myself before once again straightening everything out, the tip lodging in place even with minimal pressure I felt the size of it already pushing my labia to the side as my pussy began to crave it.
For the next twenty-seconds there was uncomfortable pause as the pair of us seemingly waited for the other to move first. Before finally I felt Reyna's thighs seemingly tense as she began to thrust upwards as I then simultaneously relaxed and allowed my body to relax.
Biting my lip I tried to not cry out as my Hymen was finally torn asunder even as tears began to well in my eyes.
"Are you ok?" Reyna asked with concern repeating identical words that I had myself.
"I'm fine… how much more?" I asked feeling the new sensation as I was filled inside from below despite the pain.
"Honest answer. A lot you are at like three inches tops." Reyna said nervously as my eyes opened wide even as my body locked itself in place to prevent going down any further.
"Three? I feel like it is splitting me in two." I said almost in irritation with myself at my perceived failure compared to my goddess sister. Despite the fact that I was not a goddess and was instead a mortal confined to a fleshy body with natural limitations.
'I've got this.' I told myself before dropping my weight down heavily before suddenly regretting that choice and pushing upwards as the pain spiked from my pussy straight to my head as I pulled myself off her completely and collapsed against the bed gnashing my teeth against the mattress as I tried to overcome the pain pulsing up from my core.
"Thalia are you ok?" Reyna said with concern grasping me from behind.
"No it really hurts." I whined at my own stupidity, I knew I was at my limit but I still tried to be clever and the obvious result was obviously going to happen.
"Look It is just as much my fault, we should have used something smalle-"
"No, it was my decision no matter how stupid it was. Out of curiousity how much did I take?" I said focusing on the most ridiculous thing as a distraction.
"About five no maybe six inches." She said nervously after a short delay, little did I know exactly how she came to that measurement for a few more days. The small amount of crimson fluid from my lost virginity acting as a level.
"Hehe more than half, that will do for starters." I said laughing through the pain as Reyna hugged me tightly from behind and sighed.
"I guess it was too much to hope that you would learn your lesson." She said in exasperation.
"Of course not, you know me. I won't back down from a challenge, it may take a while but I will not lose to her." I told her pushing myself back up and looking her straight in the eyes.
"I think you already did to be honest."
"Not with that attitude, now come on and give me that, it's your turn." I said playfully grabbing the other girl around the hips as we both fell to the floor giggling in a struggle for dominance.
We wouldn't make it back onto the bed until morning.
Back to normal now
(Percy)
The night had passed without much in the way of major incident or discovery. The two of us had each surveyed a large portion of the smaller isles and outcrops that dotted the Aegean only occasionally asking the other for opinions about the viability of a particular island or two which were chalked up into a maybe pile of those worth investigating.
Still something was off as for a period of time Harmony seemed distracted however almost as strangely was that she was blushing for most of it. Though she refused to say what the issue was so I was forced to leave the matter as it was before she seemingly went back to normal after an hour or so.
Eventually around Five AM the pair of us had returned to the campsite just before the normal early risers of the two former Lieutenants rising before the others to make sure everything was ok, about ten minutes after our return the demi-Titan emerged already dressed and looking far more awake than I felt at this time of the morning on the best of days.
Still after making and relighting the campfire so that it would be ready for breakfast soon, the older girl made her excuses and took off on a run around the island as a recreational jog. Never did it cross my mind that six miles across rocky terrain was any form of fun, but the daughter of Atlas clearly thought differently.
It wouldn't be for another twenty-minute that there was any sign of movement from the 'current' Lieutenant's tent as a dishevelled looking girl stumbled out of it walking with a strange gait initially, before correcting it eventually as she spotted and approached us, the bags under her eyes showing that she clearly got no sleep or at least very little sleep.
"Good morning!" Harmony said far to optimistically for even my liking as Thalia cringed her eyes narrowing even further somehow.
"Wow and I thought I could look like shit in the morning Thals, why don't you go back to sleep?" I suggested looking at the bird's nest that was currently her hair.
"Maybe the pair of you should actually try and go to sleep this time." Harmony muttered playfully as Thalia slumped her shoulders and actually nodded silently before heading back in the direction of her tend without a single word.
"Wait you don't mean..." I said putting several clues together.
"My little sister is finally a woman, and I have several more things to hold over her. Including about five more inches of leeway." Harmony said laughing to herself as I simply took a deep breath of sea air and wondered what other dysfunctionality was going to come today.
AN. Well that is that out of the way. Thalia there is a reason that anyone who tries to challenge a goddess generally ends up getting hurt. Albeit unlike a lot of others who did the same she didn't end up dead, transformed or crippled. However she will be walking like John Wayne for a day or two.
Other than that it was nice to actually bring Atlanta to the forefront at last as the oldest remaining Hunter (Zoe excluded) and quite the legendary figure herself. After all she was one of the original Argonauts, though i of course changed her eventual fate following the Golden Apple incident. It was not as if she ever was interested in being in a relationship judging by the fact that she killed multiple people before that. Admittedly she isn't getting the level of indepth story that Morganna got but just enough to remind people that she is badass in her own right.
Anyway the hunt is on at last for our missing Hunter but what will they find?
Last chance for name recommendations for the new snake-girl.
Further to the point I made in the last AN about the new disney series. I have no personal issue with the actual actors and actresses that have been made. I have never heard of any of them apart from Walker being a young Ryan Reynolds (Who would make an excellent adult Percy). But we have been reading and re-reading these stories for 20 years at this point, with clearly described and indeed illustrated characters. what we are being given is not what was sold to us all this time at the second time of offering. However I am truly looking forward to Elizabeth Warren playing Piper. I here she ticks that box even here in the UK. However this will be the last time I address this adaption of the Perry Johnson TV Show unless it turns out to be a absolute trainwreck like the films were.
Lastly the number of lemon scenes will be getting toned down from now on as we get back to usual. Everyone in story is quite aware of what the pair of them get up to at every available moment, they are not even able to deny it and frankly Harmony doesn't even try. Thalia and Reyna are free to do their own thing now, hopefully with a bit more success next time.