The Unknown

Chapter 5: Stories of resurrection

The hunt was camping in upstate New York now, still low from the losses last month. It had been a month and a half since the war ended and a month since Percy's funeral.

The hunt had lost many of their sisters and nobody was happy right now, all of them had lost sisters or friends, some of the new members lost brothers from one of the camps. But they weren't the only ones still mourning, everyone was; the camp, the Olympians and all the minor gods.

The night was cold and the moon's dim light didn't have much light so a fire was made for all of them to sit around. "We should start hunting soon," Artemis started, "Our sisters would not want us to sit around all day because of them."

"What would we hunt, most monsters were killed in the war and all the other ones are hiding and not causing any disturbances?" One of the younger hunters asked that.

Thalia replied to that, "Well I think we should star—" But she stopped he eyes widening and her jaw fell as she gazed past the hunters on the other side of the hunters. Artemis looked where she was gawking and saw her best friend and old lieutenant, Zoë Nightshade.

"Zoë..." Artemis breathed, and then she leaped over the fire and grabbed her former lieutenant in a bear hug. "What? How?"

"It is alright milady," Zoë said, "I was brought back because he said you needed me." Artemis had tears in her eyes before she got a look behind Zoë, there stood many of her fallen hunters from the last 2 wars, all perfectly fine and healthy. The hunters got over their shock and all started to rush the returning hunters.

After what must have been an hour of reintroduction and 'meet-the-new-hunters' the entire group was gathered around the fire and at Artemis' feet was the wolf, resting against her and savoring her touch. The first girls to talk were the ones that died in the Titan war and the Giant war. Elise was the oldest from that group so she talked first.

"We all had given our lives in battle but instead of arriving at the ferryman's port or even the underworld we arrived at a beautiful forest clearing. In it there was this man sitting there, but we weren't the only ones there as the man said we were the fighters that fell in the Battle of Manhattan, and the protection of the roots of Olympus from the Giants but there were also campers and Romans that died in the siege of the palace of Orthys."

Then Stacy continued, "Then he offered everyone a chance at a new life. But asked us to think about it before anyone denied. Some campers did, most of the Romans, and about half of our sisters thought they had an honorable death and wanted to join their friends and family on the other side."

Alex took over from there, "He also told us about Camp Olympus and what it was like now. He let us know that the tension between Greek and Roman has died down and that we have gained several new Roman maidens." With that she sent a smile to all the new faces. "But he never did tell us his name but his voice was fairly familiar."

And so all the girls gave their own opinions on the man and called him arrogant, powerful, mysterious, dangerous, all those words were thrown around a few times. Then Bianca got her turn to tell everyone what happened to her.

"Well I was about to enter the river Lethe, I was going to go for rebirth. This was right after the Titan war too. So when I was about to step in this man put his hand on my shoulder to stop me. The way he handled it was so kind too, he acted like he cared if I came or not. He said that he didn't need to ask me if I deserved to get another chance he said that I was more than worthy and that I had my brother to look out for and a new sister that he said I should meet." Bianca paused for a second, "He also told me that my brother was made immortal for his heroics in something, and I am guessing the giant war, because only Percy was offered it at the end of the Titan war right?" When she said Percy everyone that knew him dropped their heads slightly, noticing this the wolf sat his head on Artemis' lap giving her some needed affection, "But when he said that then he said that I would have to stay with him for his life and granted me immortality. Full immortality." All the hunters were shocked at this, especially Artemis, Who is this man and how is he so powerful?