Shattered

Girl

[A/N: Anything weird about this chapter was from Josh's head. No worries, all of this is temporary. You will know what I am talking about when you get there.]
Artemis was fuming as she sprung away from the son of Poseidon.

None of her hunters had yet managed to last that long against her on their first encounter. Most gave up by the second minute of the first spar, and yet the boy had somehow managed to get past the first test, and that too, relatively unscathed.

Though she supposed the boy did have an advantage due to his current... situation. He did have knowledge of the future... If that could somehow help him...

Artemis smirked when she turned around only to find the panting boy trailing by a dozen yards. He was clearly struggling to keep pace with the hunter goddess.

Artemis decided to go a little easier on the boy, so she stopped her sprint and turned around to face him. She was confident that the boy wouldn't be able to lay a single finger on her. And she had good reason to be confident, the only one who could best her in speed and agility was Hermes himself.

Percy panted heavily when he finally caught up to her.

"Thanks for that, by the way..." He glared at the goddess.

"You are welcome, boy."

Artemis had a playful tone in her voice, which only served to aggravate the boy further.

It was obvious, he was trying to rile her up, so she would make mistakes so that she would be an easier target.

Unfortunately for the boy, the goddess had a few thousand years of experience more than the mentally sixteen-year-old demigod.

"Come at me, Percy," she challenged.

Cracking his neck, the boy charged at the goddess. His skin glistened with sweat and his toned muscles rippled with exertion.

Artemis could see why Zoe was attracted to the boy. Well, besides his incredible personality that is.

Artemis dodged his first swipe and back-flipped away from the roundhouse kick the boy sent her way.

She smirked.

Two minutes had passed.

While she still planned on training the boy regardless of his results in the test, she wanted to test the boy's ability.

But that would not mean she was willing to go easy on the boy.

She would not lose a game of agility, especially not to a boy.

Artemis bounced away from the child, as he swung towards her. She instinctively went for her knives, but had to mentally hold herself back.

She was in a game of cat and mouse. She wasn't going to attack, and there was no need for the blades while defending. Her sheer agility was more than enough.

Artemis briefly glanced at her two knives.

She had grown fond of the two blades that had been a gift from her brother after he had slain Python.

One was named 'Dusk', made of celestial bronze, the blade gave off a silver hue when exposed to moonlight.

The other, 'Dawn', was imperial gold and shone. Always.

It was a useful flashlight nonetheless.

Artemis deflected Riptide with her fingers again and pushed Percy back with a swift kick to the chin.

Shaking off the pain, the boy charged again, seemingly attempting a different angle, he was crouched low and seemed as though he was about to pounce on her.