LAST TIME:
ARTEMIS POV:
I stayed at the top of the stairs and just watched the both of them converse with each other; I could tell Percy was falling asleep by his body motion. He slumped over onto Zoë's shoulder, she didn't mind in her half-asleep state but what happened next made me furious.
Zoë leaned over and slowly kissed Percy on the lips, I felt rage build up inside of me for what she just did. But I felt something else also but I didn't know what it was but if felt stronger than the rage. I was trying to figure it out when a voice I know all too well spoke in my head.
'Jealousy.' Is all that that woman said in my head.
NOW:
PERCY POV:
I felt myself slowly wake up from last night, I have no idea what happened towards the end. All I remember was a warm and soft feeling on my lips then I was out, I slowly felt feeling return to my body like I normally do every morning. I tried to open my eyes but I had no yield, as my body said to me 'no don't wake up' as I tried to move my body I felt a weight on my chest and down.
The first thing that hit me was a mild smell of roses in my nose, this confused me so I used what felt like every ounce of energy in my body and opened them. I was met with I sight I will never forget for some reasons, one it was of peace, two I was probably going to die.
Lying on my chest and currently wrapped around my body was none other than the lieutenant of the hunt Zoë nightshade. Even though her body was that of a sixteen year old she was short for it and I stood about an inch taller than her. Her head was nuzzled under my chin and her black hair ran all over my right arm, which was currently over her shoulder and holding her close.
I could feel her C cup breasts press softly against my chest on the right side, her eyes were closed and her left arm ran below my back. While her right one wrapped over my chest, her legs were tangled in mine but they weren't in any painful position. She was drooling a little and let me say even for a man hatting demi titan, she looked adorable.
I inhaled once again and got another full whiff of her sweet sent, she moved a little to resituate herself. She pulled herself closer as she readjusted, I could feel her breasts press a little harder against me as she did. She was wearing silk pajamas that felt amazing on my skin; yeah I wasn't wearing a shirt at the time. But I was wearing shorts, thank you Zeus.
I tried to move but she just kept pulling me back into her warm embrace, her warm breath on my chest felt weird but not uncomfortable. That's when I thought of what time it was, instantly a number was shoved in my thoughts which told me the exact time. '10:30 A.M.' I started to mentally panicked the hunters always woke up at 10 a.m. I turned my head to the left to see a sight I wasn't really prepared for.
"Hey Percy you finally awake, nice just stay like that were not done yet." Said Tracy as she was sketching down it on a note pad, while the others were taking pictures and giggling like high school girls.
"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" I whispered not wanting to wake up Zoë.
"You see this is just too good of a chance to pass up, so stay still so I can finish." She whispered back.
"Where i Artemis?" I asked her looking around.
"She went up to Olympus for a while; she told us that you get to look after us like old times. Now stay still, we don't want Zoë waking up like this now do we?" She said sketching down some more.
I sighed and went back to the position I woke up in, I waited for anything to happen as Zoë was still sleeping on me. Suddenly she started to do something that made all of us mentally stop for a second; she had started to suck on my neck like a hickey. The others instantly took action and started to take pictures, and Tracy got an evil look on her face. She finished the sketch of what she had left, once she finished in a couple of seconds she came over to me.
"Percy act asleep and cradle her head, if you don't we will call Artemis right now and she can deal with you later." She just gave me an evil grin and I gave up and nodded slightly.
I did as she said and did as she said, Zoë was still suckling on my neck and didn't seem to mind me move my arm. Once I got into position I closed my eyes like I was sleeping and as I did I heard the cameras go off like crazy, as they were taking pictures Zoë suddenly yawned signaling that she was waking up. Instantly all the girls scattered to different areas they could watch but not be seen by her.
I with all my might pretended to be asleep as she started to push herself up from my chest; I took a quick peek to see her eyes were still closed as she whipped to drool off her cheek with her sleeve. She suddenly stopped moving as I breathed in and out like I was asleep; she opened her eyes to see what she was laying on and stopped all bod movements. She didn't scream or suddenly jump, she just looked at me and in surprise and something else.
She took a quick look around then back at me; apparently one of the girls had changed my clocks in my house and set them all at 9 o'clock. She took one last look around and back at me as if she was making a decision about what to do. She looked at the nape of my neck and blushed deeply at the visible red spot on my neck; finally she seemed to come to a conclusion and laid back down on me.
To say I was shocked would be an understatement; she snuggled closer and got back into position. I looked over to see Tracy making the largest smile she had ever made like ever. The others had grumpy looks but not like usual men hatting looks a little softer. They suddenly started to pass small pouches to Tracy who gladly accepted them, they had been betting on this dammit.
I felt the sudden urge to yawn, I tried to fight it down but it won by a mile. As I did Zoë stiffened and seemed to hold her breath, once it passed I stayed in the same position. She seemed to relax and go back to snuggling with me, but then we heard a voice that both of jumped at.
"What the hell are you doing boy." Said a growl from in front of us, Zoë was the first one up and put on surprised look. I opened my eyes to find a beet red angry Artemis looking at both of us.
"Zoë what are you doing?" She asked with a dangerous tone in her voice.
"I don't know milady, all I remember was walking down stairs to get a glass of water for the night the I woke up just know." She said trying to get away from my half-dressed self, she just seemed to look at her for any signs of lies and nodded in approval of this story.
"You boy what are you doing with Zoë in the first place?" she said as I stood up beside Zoë who was looking down at the ground.
"I don't know I just remember watching TV then Zoë came down stairs, she sat down to my right then we started talking. I swear I didn't do anything I swear on the Styx, all I did was fall asleep while we were taking that was it." She just glared at me for a little, until Tracy finally spoke up from behind her.
"Its true Milady when we woke up they were in the state that they were in when you found them. The most that we could tell is that they snuggled for warm, see look at this picture." She said handing one of the cameras the girls had, Artemis looked it over with a look on her face that I had never seen someone make so I brushed it off.
"If that is true then please explain that mark on his neck, what is that anyways?" she asked in all seriousness, Zoë looked at it and blushed a bright shade of red. She knew exactly what it was and how it got there. Seeing that she wasn't going to answer I decide to cover for her.
"I got is last night I accidently slipped and scratched myself with my nails as it came down." The look on Zoë's face said thank you as I covered for the hickey, Artemis seemed to buy this response and nodded at it.
"Fine I won't do anything yet, for now girls go get packed up we have to leave soon. Zoe don't you leave I'm not done with you yet, Percy go upstairs and get showered then meet us down here for our send off." Once she finished there were multiple groans and other things, I ran up the stairs wasting no time to get away from the angry goddess.
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I just waited for Artemis and Zoë to finish packing then that would be everyone, no one was really happy they had to leave the beach but they had to. I was kind of happy to have the house back to myself but at the same time I was very upset, that my third family was leaving. As I waited for the two the girls were raiding my kitchen one last time, taking all the junk food they could fit in their bags with them.
Once the two were ready I put waited for them all to gather in the front were they would leave, everyone looked sad mostly Tracy though. Zoë didn't make eye contact with me at all, and Artemis still looked mad at me for some reason.
"All right this is everything, you guys." Zoë said to everyone, they just nodded and waited for the goddess to say the word.
"Percy this past week has had its up and downs, but it was alright in the end. The council told me you have one week left until your job starts, also if I ever see you with one of my hunters like that again. I swear I will chop off your balls you got that?" Artemis told me as the rest grabbed the luggage and onto Artemis's shoulders.
"Yes ma'am." I said in quiet tone.
She nodded one last time, but before she could flash out Tracy ran up and hugged me one last time, she cried in my shoulder while I patted her back. She stopped in about a minute and nodded one last time, she ran back to Artemis and just as she grabbed on and closed her eyes she flashed out.
I just started at the flash that consumed my front porch; Artemis in her true form was something I will never forget no matter what. I sighed once the flash died down and started walking back to the kitchen to see what they left me to eat for the week, until it restocked. Just as I turned around I felt something in my back pocket like paper, I reached back to find an envelope that had my name on it.
I opened it up to find some pictures and a note it read:
Dear Percy:
Hope you like these.
From: your self-pronounced little sister Tracy.
I just shook my head in laughter as I read it, then I got to the photos. There were about twenty of them, some of the hunters on the beach others of Tracy doing hand signs. But there were some that made my face red, one had Zoë in her bathing suit facing the sunset in the horizon. She was alone and didn't know that the camera was there.
The other one looked like Artemis in her school bathing suit, she was making a sand castle like any kid that age would. But the one that brought a tear to my eye was one of the whole groups, each one mad the heart sign with their hands. Each one was also in their bathing suits, but Artemis and Zoë were in the middle but there eyes didn't meet the camera in embarrassment.
But the back is what made me cry was the writing on the back. It said 'even if you live forever don't ever forget about your family'. I read this with tears in my eyes; I couldn't stop crying from an unknown emotion.
"Don't worry I won't ever forget about you guys I never will not matter how old I get."
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TIME: PERCY'S BIRTHDAY, LAST DAY AT CAMP JUPITER.
I sat by myself in my house I didn't have a cake or people over for my birthday, instead I was busy locking up the house and packing my things. I had everything I needed and all my stuff; I had left a key to Chris if he ever needs the place for anything. I had officially two hours till my birthday and I was counting down since I knew what time I was born on thanks to mom. I was walking out of my house when I noticed my sendoff party; it was only Chris and the praetors.
The council had told them of my job and they let me stay in the legion because it was a request of Jupiter. Apparently every year I was in the legion a new line atomically burned itself in underneath the others. As I came closer I flipped down the hood on my hoodie revealing my face to them, apparently the day after the hunters left I went down to get my hoodie and not a drop of blood was left in the room. It apparently had absorbed it all I think but who cares.
"Hey guys you here to send me off?" I asked they just nodded, they didn't say anything or else Chris would have cried. So all we did was exchange handshakes and hugs, Chris being my closest friend in Camp Jupiter was on the verge of tears once we finished.
"Well I'm off, and don't let anybody give any crap about me while I'm gone. Chris stay safe." I said one last time then started walking to where Diana was waiting; she was going to take me to Olympus.
Once I left there sight I heard Chris start crying and the praetors comforting him. After about a ten miles of walking into deep forest I could tell I was about a three miles from where the meeting place was. Suddenly I fell to my knees as a felt a searing pain cover my body, inside my body felt like it was on fire as this happened. I tried to scream but the pain was too much as I just lay on the ground and struggled gripping my chest in pain.
The pain was passing I tried to stand up to only be hit again by the pain again, all I could do was cry. Every time I passed out the pain would just bring me back to reality, I finally managed to scream at the top of my lungs to get someone's attention. The pain felt like it was burning my skin I sprawled out on the ground my backpack was off as I struggled against the pain. It seemed to last for hours upon hours as I kept screaming as the pain left and returned.
In all it came and left nine times I lay on the ground panting in soreness, I could barely feel my body at all. Sweat poured down my body, I had taken off my hoodie after the fourth one as my body felt like it was on fire. Sweat soaked through my shirt and even through my pants, as I lay there I wished someone would come and help. Almost as if on cue I heard a voice I would never forget.
"Percy are you there?" Asked the man hatting goddess as she ran through the brush, I couldn't turn to face her as I was too weak from the pain. She saw me and my sorry state and ran over; she slowly rolled me over on my back. She was in her Greek form and had a scarred look on her face, I blinked signaling that I was okay, she just sighed.
"What happened to you Percy?" She asked in a worried voice. "I heard screams of pain and I thought you were getting attacked by a monster."
"I-." was all I managed when a pain so powerful it felt like I was being torn apart and burned on the inside by molten lava consumed my body. Any pain I had felt before palled in comparison to this one, it reached my head in an instant and it felt like my head was being dipped in acid. Artemis saw this as I twitched in pain, tears streamed down my face as the magma rolled all over my body.
"Percy what happening to you." She said to herself, as she tried to do a quick vital check on me. I suddenly grabbed onto Artemis's shirt with my left hand, she tried to make me let go but my grip was like a vice it wasn't coming off some. Seeing me in pain Artemis started to do something but seemed to halt the progress as she did.
She steeled her nerves and continued on with the progress, she slid my pained body around until my head was in her lap. I starred up at her in tears as the pain continued to grow in my body, she said nothing just stroked my hair and said it would be over soon. It felt like hours passed and the pain had finally subsided, I looked at me and nodded slightly. She understood the message and helped me sit up.
"Thank you Artemis, the pain was something I hadn't planned for." I croaked at her with a dry throat.
"You're welcome for helping you, next time you decide to do that call Apollo first okay. I'm not very good at helping men with things like this." She said standing up brushing herself off.
All I could do was chuckle as the goddess held out her hand to help me up, I took it gratefully but I stumbled at I stood having no feeling in my legs. She helped steady me then walked me over to a tree were I propped myself up against to let my body rest. She just sat by the tree to my left and watched to full moon above us, it was vibrant in its silver glow. But suddenly an oval of black appeared in the center; almost in a second Artemis had her weapons out and was in front of me.
It didn't do anything for a second then three body's shot out of it like cannon fire, almost as if they had been on fire smoke followed them as they landed a few feet from Artemis and me. They lay still not moving for a while as I tried to move from the spot but I had no yield.
Artemis stalked forward and kick/rolled over one of them; she gasped then suddenly was trying to wake up the person. I looked over to see it was a young woman with blood red hair and the other two looked the same, as I looked over at them.
The portal closed in a second as it was hear, suddenly one of them moaned and pushed herself off the ground. The other two started to stir as Artemis helped the awake one over to a tree were she sat her up.
"Are you okay?" I heard Artemis ask her as she looked her over.
I summoned all the strength in my arm and reached over to my hoodie, I managed to get my hands in one of the pockets as I summoned some Ambrosia. I ate a giant piece of it as I instantly felt my strength returning to me, I rolled on my knees and managed to stand up with wobbly legs. Artemis wasn't paying any attention to me as I walked over and helps the other two up and over to the tree, I handed them each a piece of Ambrosia they gratefully accepted.
"Who are you three?" I asked as I gave all three at the Ambrosia at the same time; Artemis looked at me like I was stupid. She was about to say something but the woman in the middle beat her to it.
"Well I can see why you don't realize who are in our younger forms, we are the fates boy." I was at a loss of words as I just bowed to them.
"Don't bow to us we find it a pointless at this time." I rose from the bow and I just sat crisscross as was Artemis as the fates were still taking small bites of the Ambrosia.
"Why are you hear, shouldn't you be on your planet of fate?" Artemis asked observing the three. Their heads hung low and they looked at the ground, they didn't say anything until the middle sister spoke.
"We were but we were called to battle by our mother, we fought for what seemed hours upon hours. But the opponent was too strong for us to handle, so the last twelve primordials that could still fight defended a portal that Chaos had opened for the rest to escape." She said in a quiet voice.
"What do you mean Chaos; she should have long faded from existence with some of the primordials." Artemis asked in tone of disbelief.
"No she still exists at least she did, for all we know she may be dead by now." She said.
"Wait what do you mean?" I asked before Artemis could do anything. She just starred at my panicked face then came to realization, why they had shown up here instead of with the others.
"What I mean is she died at the hand of Abyss, I looked back one last time to see her. She was held by the throat by him and he brought his arm back to land the final blow, all the other twelve were on the ground bloody and some even decapitated."
"Only Gaia was left but she was crying and looked of absolute terror. All I could tell was that the main eleven primordials of the universe were killed by this man, as I felt no power from them as I left." Once she finished I just stared in disbelief at them, not knowing what to do.
"Wait wait wait, how does that explain how you are here. Also how in this cosmos could over power the creator of all?" Artemis asked franticly.
"She was not at her full strength or she would have had no problem with Abyss, the reason why she was weak was because she gave birth to a boy." Artemis was stunned by this and didn't say anything.
"The reason we are here is because she sent us here to do one last task for her, right before she died." Once she finished they stood up and made me stand up, they put their arms on me and started in chanting in something much older than anything I had ever had. Artemis seemed to not even understand it, it lasted a couple of second and then they finished.
"What did you do to him?" Artemis asked, they didn't answer instead their eyes changed color to pitch black as they said the following words.
"All hail Perseus Jackson primordial of, Time, Shadows and Night, Procreation, Waters and Seas, the Constellations, Light and Day, Energy and Matter, Dreams and Sleep, Mountains and Terrain, and Creation. The Adoptive son of Poseidon the earth shaker, Adoptive son of Order creator of energy, Champion of Hestia of the hearth, Hunter of Artemis, and true son of Chaos. All domains were inherited by the twelve primordial that once lived." Once they finished I just stood there in silence.
I didn't feel any different at all not even more powerful than before; I looked at Artemis who had a look of stupor on her face.
"What are you Percy?" she asked stepping away from me like she was going to run away. I didn't get a chance to act before the fates did for me.
"He is the son the Chaos herself bore from her own womb, but he is not a full primordial or god. But he is about seven eights both and the rest is mortal. Which still makes him a demigod, but before you act rash Artemis there I something you should know first." Artemis just nodded.
"He can't control any of his domains at the point in time; we made sure that only if he is ready to handle the power he can access it. Also you will not tell any of this to your father, that power hungry god will never know about what Percy truly is. To be honest he is no more powerful than a demigod at the moment, but that does not mean his powers will activate when he his body is in a time of protections that his normal defense can't handle." Artemis just nodded, but she stayed in the same place.
"Wait, are you saying I'm officially control all of the domains of the twelve primordials and my mother. But that would mean every one of them is dead." I said the last part in a whisper as I fell to my knees at the news.
"Yes boy your mother is gone, she has faded with your other brothers and sisters." The fates said in a sad voice, that's when Artemis decides to say something.
"Wait all I got was Percy just got a bunch of domains and he's the true blooded son of chaos." They nodded as she continued.
"But that many domains cannot be just given to a normal demigod, or they would have exploded from the power. How is Percy even alive right now?" She asked.
"The domains are his but the power that goes with them he cannot wield yet, the powers will only appear as his body is powerful enough to handle it. But he must become immortal before he can use them all." They said, she nodded in understanding.
"Wait does any immortality work then?" she asked out of curiosity.
"Yes it does even partial immortality works, like your hunter immortality." They said she just nodded.
"Now that his powers were covered we need you to swear an oath to never speak of who Percy really is. Only if he tells the person who he is may you talk about it with them." They said in a serious tone, Artemis gulped and nodded.
"But don't swear on the Styx or she will know of whom he is, swear on Percy's name it is the only thing in the universe that is more bonding, since he is now the creator." She nodded again and took the oath, once she finished I felt a small string of power connect us both forming a bond.
"Thank you niece for how you help us, know I'm pretty sure the others are panicking of our absence." Just then the fates disappeared in a dark flash.
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ARTEMIS POV:
Once I swear the oath to Percy's name I felt a small power connect both of us, once the fate flashed out however I walked over to Percy who was still on the ground. He looked up at me and flinched away, but he looked once again but this time I slapped him before he could look away.
"Why in Hades didn't you tell me earlier?" I asked with venom in my voice.
"I- I thought that you were happy with what you knew already about me." He stuttered out, again looking at me with a red cheek.
I slapped him again just as hard as the first time; he didn't make a sound he just sat on the ground looking at the ground. "You just do not tell someone you are the son of the fucking creator of the universe Percy. I understand why not wanting to tell my father, but why didn't you at least tell one person like Tracy of Zoë?" I yelled at him, he looked up at me with tears in his eyes.
"Because even if I did they would have thought I was crazy, they would have just forgotten about me if I had. You guys were the only family I had at the time; I didn't want you guys to abandon me. Also I didn't know until the day before you guys found me in my basement hurting myself." As he said this he was crying in not pain but sadness of the news he had just received before, as far as I could tell.
I stayed silent not wanting to trigger any more emotional responses, so I did something I haven't done in years. I leaned down and hugged him as he cried in my shoulder; I patted his back as he wept in in my shoulder. I was watching my surroundings as I did to make sure nobody was watching when I caught a flame eyed goddess looking at us. I had a silent conversation with her in my stare; she came out of behind the tree not saying anything.
She kneeled down and wrapped her eight year old arms around his back, I felt the warm and hope from the hug as she hugged Percy. I didn't mind that she did, she was using her powers to help Percy which made me happy. Even though he was a male he had somehow dug a shallow hole in my heart just for him, the only other males I had ever hugged were my brother and father.
Once Percy had stopped crying he nodded and we both let go, Hestia stood to my left in her eight year old form. She didn't say anything as Percy put on his hoodie and back pack.
"Hello Hestia." He said in quiet voice.
"Hello Percy." She replied back.
As they talked I could sense a hidden message, I bet it was from his kiss he had shared with her. Dam I don't know why but it made me angry when I thought of him kissing a girl, I just cursed Aphrodite in my head.
"Hestia did the Fates talk to you?" I asked, she nodded at me.
"Percy can you feel the oath liking you two?" I asked but I had no reason why.
"Yeah I can feel two people bound to me, or you two." He said brushing off why I asked.
"Okay then we must get to Olympus, father is probably going to pissed we were late. Hestia, go first I will follow right behind with Percy." She nodded and flashed out, but I noticed Percy had his eyes open as she did.
"Wait you can view our divine forms?" I asked amazed.
"Yeah I guess you could say that, but let me tell you. But don't hurt me, you look beautiful when you are in your divine form." He said with pure honesty in his voice.
I didn't feel like hurting him for saying that, normally I would turn him into a jackolope and chase him with my bow. But I blushed slightly and punched him in the arm slightly.
"I will let this slide this time, we must hurry the council is waiting for us." I grabbed his arm and flashed without notice, knowing he was going to be fine.
'I wonder what father is going to do since Percy finally got his job?' was my final thought.