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Daughter of Shadow, Legacy of Water	By : Emereld_Kitten_Tail Category: M through R > Percy Jackson & the Olympians Views: 13986 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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If she was sad before she was positively recluse now. It had been two weeks since she had been told of DJ's disappearance and she still hasn’t said a word to anyone. Derick tried to talk to her at school but he couldn’t break through her wall any better than anyone else. DJ's mothers were emotional wrecks and lost in a world of guilt.
Like she did at camp she went to a large water source that wouldn’t damage her home. She had taken to running to the long island sound before letting her emotions out. Each night she would pour all her mana into controlling the water making it freeze into chunks of ice before having it crash down into the waters below it. What she didn’t know was that her papa was watching her at night and when she would finally pass out from exhaustion he would take her home.
Her control and the amount of mana she had available to her had been increase due to this late-night activity. Sometimes she wondered what she would have done with her shadows if Poseidon hadn’t done what he did but quickly gave it up for foolishness.
After her breakdown in the school showers things had changed. The other kids were nicer to her, not accepting but nicer, and her teachers were less strict with her. Apparently, the school had thought DJ and her had started dating in the second half of the year. Some wanted to blame her for his running away but whenever they brought it she would run off with tears in her eyes. Those people became less popular for it and had detentions for harassment. Funny that they never got detention for it before.
Derick had started spending time with some boys in their class but she was okay with that. She knew she wasn’t being good company or friend to him and had even told him to do it. He was reluctant at first put eventually he gave in and tried. He ate lunch with them now so she was alone in the back room once more.
She finally got out of her rut around Christmas time and as always it involved camp.
She was just lying in her room enjoying the silence when a voice scared her out of her trance.
"Persia get packed!" lifting her head up she stared blankly into the rainbow in front of her.
"what do you want Chiron? I’m busy at the moment." That wasn’t even true but she really didn’t want to deal with them at any time soon. Between Dionysius and DJ, she had enough of boys for a while.
"We both know that’s not true. Now I have a job for you and a few others. Grover's found two really strong demigods but he thinks one of their teachers is a monster. He can’t safely move them. So, I need you to go extract them." there was just no winning with this horse. Besides there was no way their scents were stronger than hers and she barely ever was attacked. Letting out a sigh she caved.
"Fine where are they, who am I going with, and how do we get there?" She didn’t want to be stuck with a bunch of idiots like on her first quest. From what she heard Drew had started training more but not that much more. It was sad that she got a weapon made by her mother and Hephaestus and she was wearing it for accessories most of the time. Well she is too but she still uses them 20 time more than drew and she wasn’t even at camp.
"Thalia, Peter, and Annabeth. The camp has a car ready for your use. The school is a military boarding school up in Maine called Westover Hall. You leave as soon as school is out tomorrow and dress nice there’s a dance."
That was the school the D’Angelo siblings had went to! A smile bloomed across her face for the first time in months. Who cares that she was stuck with her unknowing brother, his friend, and the girl from the barrier tree. It still amazed her that the fleece brought her back from death.
The she paled and she started trembling. A dance...dance... She didn’t have anything to wear! What will she do or even worse what would the girls think? Getting up she ran upstairs, completely forgetting about Chiron as he blinked a few times before ending the message.
"Mama Mama! We have to go shopping quick!" her mother was sitting at the table with her Papa happily chatting.
"Wow where's the fire baby girl? Now what’s this about shopping?" her Papa could be so dense sometimes but she was used to it, he was a male after all.
"I have to help some of the campers go get some Demigods. Apparently, the only chance we have is during the school Christmas dance. And I don’t have anything to wear! I will not go there in jeans and sweater!" That really all she had in terms of nice clothing beside her school uniform and that is just not going to happen.
Hades held his hands up in surrender, "Sally I think you better handle this one. Dating and clothing aren’t my area." Persia wanted to roll her eyes at her papa but then again, he was still dressed like a rocker, even after all these years.
"I think that’s why she asked me." she turned toward the worried girl. "If you just give me a moment to get my coat and after you get dressed, we can go." Her mama braced herself against the table before slowly hoisted herself up. The baby was a few weeks until its due but they were always ready in case they came early. Papa had even extended her room so the baby wouldn’t intrude on her space once it got older. They hadn’t checked the sex yet because they wanted it to be a surprise.
The girl was gone just as fast as she appeared to get dressed. Meanwhile both parents were finally relaxing as their child got out of her rut and acting like a regular teenage girl for once. Two and half hours later both Jackson girls returned with a few shopping bags per hand and a smile upon their lips. It had felt nice to have some girl time.

0/0
the drive up to the school was taking forever. To make matters worse she had to sit on Thalia's lap since she was the smallest of them all. Now Thalia was a comfy spot to sit but with them both in knee length dresses it was a little worrying when their kept riding up. Peter was busy looking at the snow fall while Annabeth tried to get Argo to talk.
"So how are you liking camp? Getting tired of them yet?" the girl rose an eyebrow when Thalia frowned, must be having a hard time.
"Camp is fine, but the constant worry they have around me is annoying. It’s like they expect me to zap them for talking to me. Then there's that stupid statue of Zeus in my Cabin. The place has one bed and the damned thing is staring right down at it!" Persia couldn’t help but giggle at the girl’s annoyance.
"Why don’t you ask Dionysius or Chiron if you can use one of the rooms in the Big house? I know for a fact that the second floor is mostly empty." she wouldn’t let them take the third floor, she had just finished turning it into a good storage unit.
"I tried but they said I didn’t have a good enough reason. I nearly lost my control but was able to hold it back until I was out in the woods. Even found this neat clearing that I’ve been practicing in."
She froze on the other girls lap before turning her head toward the lightning user. Was it possible that she found her clearing? Dionysius had told her it would only let her in but she guessed that it was possible for it to let other in when she wasn’t there. Good thing she didn’t leave anything there.
"Was it on the Cliffside? With an ancient ship beneath it?" please oh gods don’t let it be her cliff.
Thalia didn’t get to answer. As soon as she mentioned the ship Peter's head whipped in their direction.
"You hid my ship? Give it back to me now!" Spittle had actually flown from his mouth but she stopped it with a wave of her finger before sending it back to him.
"Now now cousin dearest, we all know that your daddy didn’t give you that boat." Thalia was looking at her in awe as she gapped like a fishy; Annabeth wasn’t even going to get into this argument. "All you did was release bloodthirsty horny pirates on an island of woman before stealing one of their speed boats, completely ignoring the ship. If it wasn’t for me those pirates would have killed and violated those women and children. They gave me the boat for stopping those pirates." It may still eat at her how close those women came to a life of servitude.
Thalia stopped her gapping to give Peter a hard stare, she may not know the circumstances but that doesn’t mean you act without thinking.
"That crazy witch turned me into a guinnepig! it wasn’t my fault they got out."
"Be glad I didn’t turn you into sushi! I could have left you floating in the sea to die but I didn’t. Now forget about the boat already! I’m not giving it to you and you won’t touch it if I have anything to say about it." as voice was so harsh it almost sounded like hiss from an angry puma.
The car was silent for a long time, none sure how to get the tension out of the air. Peter stared out the window sulking once more, Annabeth pulled an architecture book out from somewhere, and Thalia wrapped her arms around her waist when she leaned back.
"So how did you send that spit back at him? I thought you were a daughter of Hades?" She really should have expected that one.
"I am but I’m also a legacy of Poseidon. The bastard decided during the quest last summer that I needed more focus on the powers I get from him. So, he forced his to the front and suppressed my Papa's. At the moment, I’m lucky to be able to connect to the shadows." she growned her teeth at what the bastard had done to her. IT was like stealing his trident and turning it into a giant spoon.
Thalia gave her a light squeeze telling her it would get better, but she knew it would be years before she can use her shadows like she used to.
"sounds like Poseidon's a real jerk." She snorted at the simplicity of it.
"you don't know the half of it."

0/0

She should have brought a jacket. The group were standing outside the school’s doors waiting for Grover to come let them in. To make it worse there was snow blowing up her dress and down it! Burr! And from the looks of it Thalia and Annabeth weren’t doing much better. Why did they all dress like this?
Getting feed up with the waiting she pooled her mana into the snow around her and turned it into water. Carefully she manipulated it into the lock before freezing it. Giving it a quick turn the door popped open. without a second though she turning it to steam and it dissipated like it was never there.
"Wow how did you do that? I can’t even do that!" Peter had a voice filled with awe but an undertone of jealousy. Not like she cared she spoke honestly.
"Lots and Lots of practice. Now can we hurry up I’m freezing." She didn’t stop to look and see if they were following her inside.
The entrance hall is exactly what you would think of an old time military boarding school. Tan walls everywhere and sharp pointy blades and other weapons strewn up all over. kind of tacky actually.
She jumped when she heard the clocking of dress shoes upon the stone floors. The others were looking at her in confusion but it was soon answered when Grover ran into the entry way.
"Thank goodness, I’ve been looking all over for you." his breath was labored from the run. It was sad this was the 'protectors' of demigods. Most regular humans have more stamina then them.
"Did you think to check the front door?!" She bit back at him. It was immensely satisfying to see the downtrodden look on his face. Don’t yell at her she was freezing to death.
"Sorry I didn’t think"
"No, you didn’t. now where is this party you spoke of? I'm getting hungry." Okay she may be a little hormonal at the moment, so sue her!
Behind her the others were looking at her like they never seen her. Well Peter was while the other girls were looking at each other knowingly.
Not wanting to get yelled at anymore by the short dark-haired girl Grover turned and started back the way he came. As they walked down the hallways Persia slowly calmed down from her bout of anger. She would normally feel bad for snapping at the Goat boy like that but she just couldn’t deal with stupidity at the moment, Like peter earlier.
With one quick stop by a pair of teachers and Thalia's interference with the Mist they were home free.
The dance was being held in the gymnasium, like all school dances. They had this really trashy DJ that didn’t know good music and seemed to favor Rap. Seriously how are you supposed to dance to that without it looking sexual?
First thing she did when she entered was hurry over to the food table. They had a lot of snack meats and cheese cubes but her mouth watered at the pot of Meatballs. The smell alone was enough to drive her into blissful ignorance. In no time at all she had a Styrofoam bowl loaded to the rim and then some with them.
"Are you really going to eat that?" Thalia was looking over her shoulder at the food in her hands. there should be no way a girl her size could eat all that, unless it was all going to her firm butt.
"Yup" Persia picked up a toothpick and stabbed one of them before putting it near her mouth. Just to mess with her friend she licked all around the ball before putting it in her mouth and moaning at the taste. When she opened her eyes again the girl was blushing to her ears.
"Don’t. Do. That. Again!" there was no way she wasn’t going to do it after she got that reaction out of her. It was too much fun. Sadly, before she could do it again Grover stole her and dragged her off to dance. She heard something about blending in. If that was the goal, then Peter and Annabeth were failing miserably. Come on who stands there with a girl and just fails to even talk without fumbling? By the look of it Annabeth was getting pissed.
Shrugging her shoulders, she walked away from the awkward duo in hopes of finding her friends. It was a pain though in the crowd. Between the weaving of bodies and ducking arms she almost dropped her meatballs like 27 times in the first two minutes. With a tight grip of her food and a growl in her throat for anyone that got in her way she made it to the far side of the gym where the tables were. Seriously who puts the food and tables on complete opposite side of the room? Stupid military school.
There were only eight or nine people sitting in the corner and they all looked goth. She swore in the corner there was a guy in a spider web look dress but she couldn’t be sure. Scanning the rest her eyes fell on a pair of olive skinned people. There was a girl watching the crowd with a beanie and her hair braided to the side while the boy was fussing over some cards with scruffy looking hair. Both were in black.
"Bianca, Nico?" both of them looked over at her and their eyes widened to saucers. Instantly she was being crushed under both of the siblings and was lucky that she was holding her food away or it would have ruined her dress.
"Persia! What are you doing here? Don’t you still go to Barchley?" Bianca always the sensible one of the pair.
"Persia Persia! Did you bring me more Mythomagic cards!" and then there’s Nico. She gave them the best hug she could but she eventually had to push them away. Besides she didn’t like the way Nico was seeming squishing his face into her left breast.
"Well I’m here to party of course! My friend Grover invited me and a few friends. two of them are over there, they are the really awkward couple." She pointed over to Peter and Annabeth for her friends to know. "And I do Bianca. Things have gotten both easier and harder at the same time. And Nico does it look like I have somewhere to hold you stinking card?" The only place she would have to do that would between her cleavage and that wasn’t going to happen.
Seeing their faces, she gave them a rundown of what had been happening between their group of friends and how DJ split town during summer. Both of them were sad to hear that thing fell apart so fast but she told them not to worry too much. They seemed reluctant to do so but she assured them she had some knew friends, which wasn’t true.
It was about an hour later when Bianca decided her brother should get to bed. Nico whined but Bianca was strict with him. Maybe she should take lessons for when her own little sibling was older.
Seeing as her friends were off to bed she went to look for her group. The awkward couple were making it even worse by trying to slow dance to a fast song. Well at least Annabeth managed to get the idiots attention on her and where his hands were at. Aww young love! Thalia was munching on some cherry tomatoes and Grover...was grinding against some boy that look totally confused. Not even going to ask.
"Do you even know who we are looking for? It’s kind of useless being here if we don’t know.” she paused for a minute, "Do you think Grover is gay?" Thalia choked on her tomato for a moment but a solid hit from Persia she managed to get it out.
"What!"
She pointed over to the Goat boy and Thalia's jaw dropped. It was kind of adorable. Reaching over she picked up to of the tomatoes before putting one in her own mouth and the other in Thalia's. that seemed to work when she started munching on it.
"I’m not even going to think about it but yeah Grover told me about them. They're a pair of sibling with dark hair. Girl wears a beanie and the boy is always fiddling with some type of cards."
"FUCK!"
Her voice growled out over the crowd. A few of them looked at her to see what made her say such a thing but it was nothing obvious.
"what? Have you seen them?"
Rubbing her temples, she whined in distress, "see them? I know them! I just spent the last hour talking to them and catching up. They just..." Her face paled before realization light up her eyes. "Go tell the others that the target has left the room. I need to move."
She didn’t wait to hear the other girl’s response and ran out the door. Her head whipped around trying to find which way they went. That was when she heard a high-pitched scream not that far away. Not caring if anyone saw she summoned her armor and Chain blade before heading off toward the source.
What she found wasn’t what she expected. Peter was there already fighting of what looking like the Manticore with a dented shield and his sword. there were spikes littered everywhere while the siblings were hidden behind the boy shaking in fear.
tightening her grip on her blade she waited until the next volley of spikes came. When it finally happened, she swung her own blade and cut just the tip of the creatures tail off. Funny fact, the manticore can’t fire its spikes without that tip because it works as a release of a sort. The monster Roared in pain before pouncing at Peter.
Small little peter against muscled monster...in an instant peter was flat on the ground while the siblings were being picked up by what was left of its tail before it sprinted out the door, breaking them off the hinged in the process.
"Peter, I’ll go after the siblings. You stay here until the others arrive." drawing her blade back into its handle she readied herself for a much tougher fight.
"What? No way, I found them I’m saving them!" she could tell he was getting angry now but she didn’t have time for this. Turning toward him she stared him in the face before her hand whipped out and slapped him across the face.
"Idiot! This is not like the pissing contests to show your male bravado! We are here to save two kids. Now you will stay like a good boy and do as your told." Not even caring at the moment of what he was doing she ran out the door.
Snow was billowing around everywhere by now. The storm that had followed them up seemed to have finally reached them. Luckily, she had enhanced vision or she wouldn’t have seen the monster tracks out in the forest.
Crouching low she scurried across the snow. Her legs were freezing by the time she got there but this offered more heat and protection then her dress did. As she snuck across the frozen earth she wondered about what was going on.
Why was a manticore, one of a kind creature, hunting these two demigods? It just didn’t make any sense! Considering that its warm blooded and weak to the cold, this is really far away from its hunting grounds. Then there was the timing. It just so happened to make its move when they were set to arrive? It would be easier to get them while the entire school was busy but still this was to fishy. Was it possible the Kronos has a spy in camp? That is the only viable way unless he can intercept Iris messages.
A scream echoed off the land in front of her. Kicking it up a gear she jumped speed just enough so she was fuzzy to the naked eye. In no time, she caught up with them. The Manticore had them pinned down with the cliff behind them and was slowly making them step closer to it. She could see Nico cowering behind his sister while Bianca looked to seconds away from peeing herself.
Needing to get its attention she pulled a very Peter style move.
"Hey Porcupine butt!" Yeah, she definitely needed to stop spending time with her Half-brother. He's a very stupid influence on her nickname making abilities.
The manticore spun around and snarled at her. A smirk filtered over her lips which only seemed to irritated further.
{Daughter of Poseidon! I will feast on your flesh!} she blinked at its words before snarled right back. She was a child of Hades not Poseidon!
{Call me that again and Ill shove those spikes right up your arse!} It reeled back in shock at the very thought. It was rather disturbing to think about. All those spikes ripping his anal passage into confetti all the way to the base and up into his stomach. Almost made herself sick but she's done worse. Well kind of.
Shacking off the crazy thoughts she narrowed her eyes at the beast. Taking it as a sign of challenge the Manticore leapt at her with its claws extended. She didn’t move an inch, just waiting for it to get near her.
"PERSIA!" She could hear Bianca yell out over the bellowing winds. There was the sound of crunching snow behind her from way more sources then were in her group. Pushing them away she focused on the still airborne creature.
Pulling her arm back she cocked her fist while focusing as much force as she could into her muscles. There was a tingling sensation before the burning hit her. She wanting to scream out in pain but it wouldn’t do her any good. Finally, its claws where within inches of piecing her when she acted.
Launching her body upward she smashed her clenched fist into the bottom of the creature’s jaw. there was dual crunching sounds and blood rolling down her fist. During this the Manticore's claws sunk into her shoulders but the moment his strength was put behind them they snapped like twigs against her Armored Leotard. The creature itself was hit with so much force that its entire front body flipped backward making it slam down on its back. She was sure there were a few more crunches when he landed as well.
As she walked up to it the poor thing let out whimper in both pain and fear. It wasn’t normal for 4 foot 11-inch-tall girl to sucker punch a monster such as him into submission. Lifting her leg, she brought it down on its paw breaking it on contact. the beast screamed in pain.
{Tell me who you work for! Answer falsely and I’ll make your death more painful than you can ever imagine.} Her words were heard by all but she only cared about what the monster thought of it. Most were probably to shocked to answer.
{The general! That’s all he is ever called; he sent me to get Demigods. Please don’t hurt me.} She almost wanted to see how far she could take it when a voice next to her called out.
"Don’t shoot. It’s too weak to do anything, the other monsters will pick him off." The voice came from an Auburn-haired girl in a silver parka that wasn’t no older than 11-year-old but her presence alone felt ancient. The Manticore took its chance and leapt off the side of the cliff, none bothered to look it sink into the ocean below.
Persia looked around to see the D’Angelo huddled together with her own group while a group of girls from preteen to late teen were separated and searched out the area and set up tents. It was obvious that they had done this before.
"that was a very effective way to deal with the beast. You must be strong to be able to do that, Young Demigod." Her eyes snapped over to the other girls and locked her multicolor eyes with a pair of molten silver. IF it wasn’t the wording or the presence that hinted to who this girl was then the eyes did.
"I prefer persuading them to tell me what I want to know if I know they know something. And what are you doing in this Area, Lady Artemis?" Said goddess looked at her in surprise but it didn’t last.
"I was sent by the council to pick up a pair of demigods here for questioning. And yourself? I'm pretty sure you don’t live in this area." it was fun playing with gods and their words but don’t tell Dionysius she thought that.
"Sent by camp because one of our satyrs contacted us needing help." the girl nodded to her but could tell that she had more to say.
"And this information you wanted? What was it?"
"That I’m afraid My lady I can’t tell. If you wish I can tell you more once I know."
"agreed"
With that the goddess walked off to the group of tents to supposedly find her own. Meanwhile turning around, she found Her group but Bianca was missing. Considering what group was literally 10 feet away it wasn’t hard to guess what they wanted. Personally, she didn’t want to lose her best friend but if she chooses to do such a thing then she wouldn’t hold it against her.
Walking over to them she looked in their faces to see what they were thinking. Grover and Nico were staring in awe while Annabeth was looking at her like she was some kind of puzzle. Peter was seething in jealousy as usual while Thalia was drooling. Literally there was drool running out her mouth.
Seeing it as the easiest to handle she leaned toward the lightning user whipped it off with her thumb. The girl blinked a few times before burying her face in her hands. From the pink coloring in her neck and ears she must be blushing as red as a tomato.
"What the Hades was that! You slap me and then punch a freaking monster cat thing in the jaw before torturing it some more! What kind of demented bitch are you?" Peter had his arms crossed in his anger but she was sure that if he could do it fast enough his blade would be at her throat.
"Not demented just protective, get it right idiot. And I don’t appreciate you using others as a way to get your jollies off." His face was twitching every few seconds. she knew that if she pushed hard enough he would attack. It was almost tempting but she needed to set a good example for Nico. Well as good as one that her nature would allow, so not a totally good one.
It was then that she noticed something was poking her in the butt. turning around she wasn’t at all surprised to see Nico standing there trying to look all innocent. Which she knew he was about as innocent as she was vegetarian.
"Why are you touching my butt, Nico?" she could tell he was trying hard not to grin but he was failing spectacularly.
She never got an answer to that question. Out of nowhere a black military grade chopper rose from the cliff side. The wind was staggering and she couldn’t hear anything. From her spot, she could see the form of the Manticore laying belly up inside it. It must be the Generals. Before she could think any more a cable with a claw at the end shot from the riding carriage. It flew faster than she could see. Looked to the right she could see the cable reaching passed her. Following it with wide eyes she saw the same stupefied look on Annabeth’s face.
The cord jerked and Annabeth was yanked forward. As she was dragged across the ground we snapped out of our shock. Running for the girl she tried to reach her. But it was to no use. Eventually the chopper started rising higher and flying away with Annabeth dangling at the end fifteen feet below.
The group stopped at the cliff edge but she was already a speck in the horizon. Instantly Peter sank to his knees in despair. None of them knew what to do but all three demigods of the big three promised in their hearts they would get her back.
Seeing nothing could be done Persia walked away. She did rest her hand on the boy’s shoulder for a moment but it wasn’t nearly long enough for him to register it. When she noticed the hunters looking at them in confusion she just clicked her tongue and a few looked away in embarrassment.

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It was early morning when Persia arose from her slumber. The hunters were nice enough to lend them a spare tent even though she knew they would likely burn it since boys slept in it. Stretching like a cat she let loose a jaw popping yawn. When her mind cleared of it fuzziness she noticed she wasn’t the only one awake.
Thalia's spot to her right had been cleaned up of all her things. She was most likely out thinking about Annabeth being kidnapped. Letting it replay over and over again. Persia had tried to talk to them last night but most gave her the finger or just cried into her chest. Getting out from under her sleeping bag she slipped her spare clothes on. Wasn’t much better than her armor but it was something.
After her things were all bundled up she put her Sleeping bag with Thalia's outside the tent. She wasn’t in sight but that could mean anything when there was a wall of tents in front of their own. Seeing as she wasn’t fighting she let her mana slowly pour from her body and as she walked she turned the snow into water vapor.
AS she walked she picked up on the sound of panting and the swishing of a spear. She had heard it many times while at camp during her first summer. Speeding up her pace she got around the tents and was a little surprised with what she saw.
Thalia was standing not five fee from the Cliffside with in just a pair of short and sports bra. Even from here she could sweat clinging to the girl. Her spear was flashing back and forth with a few random stabs. What surprised her was that she seemed to be sparing against a girl with tan skin, black hair, black volcanic eyes, and a silver circlet in her hair. The girl was weaponless but she was good enough to dodge the spear just millimeters away from her sticking into her flesh.
"They are quite good. It was been a long while since I have seen someone push Zoe as hard as the Daughter of Zeus is." Persia jumped out of her skin at the suddenness that the voice had appeared. She hadn’t even sensed them before that point. Looking over her shoulder it didn’t shock her to see the silver eyed goddess staring at the spar in interest.
"I wouldn’t really know. I’m not a spear fighter and there weren’t any good ones at camp last summer. Besides my weapons aren’t good for spear users. I’m much too far for them to reach me."
"And what are you good at? I’ve heard rumors but they are just that, nothing concrete." The curiosity was almost rolling of the smaller girl.
"I use a weapon I call the Chain blade, I designed it while my Papa had it forged. I also use throwing knifes and a bow. I am also fairly good at hand-to-hand. Add in my abilities to control shadows and water...well you see what I’m saying."
the goddess was silent for a long time, just thinking over everything she had said. If she could master her abilities, in a fight she would be practically unstoppable. Attacks with the something the enemy can’t ever get rid of or control their blood to kill them. It would be invaluable but also a danger of betrayal.
"Would you be willing to join the hunt?" Persia couldn’t stop the giggle that escaped her lips.
"Milady, If I joined your hunt at the moment they would be killed within a month. You could say I’m very bipolar at the moment and I wouldn’t not want to deal with the way I feel on a daily basis." Artemis tensed up before understanding. "I also wouldn’t want to swear off men. None have assaulted me in recent times, not counting that retched son of Hermes." Not many would have noticed it but the temperature dropped a few degrees. Artemis also noticed her wording but didn’t bring it up.
"That’s a shame, you would have done well with us."
"No I would not have." Not wanting to talk to the god any longer she headed over to the dueling pair. Like before the snow was disappearing before she could get within 5 feet of it.
Behind her all Artemis could do is stare at the girl as she walked with the confidence of a warrior. From her short talks with Hades she had been lead to believe that this confidence had been smashed under the weight of another friend running out of her life but it appears it had been reignited somehow. then there were her words about men. She had made it sound like she was used by men a long time ago, much more than her thirteen years of life. The girl was a walking conundrum and she didn’t like it but she wouldn’t report it until she herself figured it out.
Two hours later the girls had to deal with the presence of the largest man-whore in existence.
Persia had been sitting on the dry green grass just watching the clouds. she was having fun finding ones that looked like other things. So far all she had found was chicken legs and a puppy. By the time everyone had awoken she had managed to melt all the snow on the entire Cliffside. She even managed to get her Water manipulation up to 14. Guess taking her emotions out on the bay was good for something.
At the moment, Nico was laying down next to her while Bianca got introduced to her fellow hunters. She had come and told them last night that she was joining the hunt. Her brother didn’t take it too well but after a long talk and a hug from Persia he understood that his sister wanted to live for once and had been filling the roll of a mother for him. It hurt both involved but it gave them both a chance to grow. When the girl had tried to apologize to Persia she just pulled her into a hug and told her it was alright and that she understood. Maybe it was because of all her other friends leaving that she was able to accept Bianca’s choice or for once her period was giving her a more rational train of thought instead of bipolar.
Guess Clarisse was right; Demigods originally defined weirdness, she just redefined it.
Suddenly the honking of a car filled her ears. It was actually so loud she was positive it would be heard over a nuclear explosion. It was then that a bright yellow flash flickered in the far-off sky. Inside she was worrying that she had somehow jinxed them with the nuke thought.
"that Idiot always has to be so obnoxious." Artemis was rubbing her nose in frustration. she was going to ask who she was talking about but she figured out a minute later as the Sun in the sky seemed to get even brighter than normal.
"Apollo?"
"Apollo"
There was the revving of an engine and she knew her head was going to hurt by the end of this. Soon a Flaming red Spyder was parked on the Cliffside, so close she wanted to walk over to it and flip it off the side and into the waters below.
Apollo was the definition of a surfer appearance. Long windblown blonde hair, a little stubble, black tank top, tanned skin, and khaki shorts. He even had sunglasses hiding his baby blue eyes. Even his voice made her tummy flip in excitement.
"Well well what do we have here? You Ladies ready for the ride of your life? I promise it will only be bumpy at first and then you'll all relax."
Wow there were so many innuendoes in there that she almost got lost just trying to figure it out. Thankfully Artemis put it to an end with a firm whack upside the head.
"Ow! Artemis is that how you greet your brother?" the god whined as he rubbed his head.
"yes, and don’t flirt with my hunters! your only here to give them a ride to camp and that’s it." The little goddess' fists were clenched with a light pinking to her cheeks. If it wasn’t that there wasn’t any anger in her eyes Persia would have thought, it was real. Something clicked in the back of her mind but there was no way she would voice it until she knew she was about to die.
Once everyone was settled on the yellow school bus with the hunters and Bianca in the back and the campers and Nico in the front Apollo started the engine. She didn’t like the look on his face when he turned around and surveyed everyone. Finally, his eyes locked onto Thalia’s in the seat with her.
"So, sis how would you like to drive the Sun Chariot?" The girl went pale white in an instant and was gripping onto the seat with a death grip. She was trying to say no while trying to shake her head as well but her body wasn’t responding. Seeing the fear in her eyes Persia wrapped her arm over the other girl’s shoulder and held her tightly while glaring at the God.
"Do you own damn job Apollo." He frowned at her but it didn’t last as that smirk return.
"You wanna drive? You can even ride in my lap and ill teach you." His smile turned lecherous.
"Fuck off"
Seeing that he wasn’t going to win the battle her turned around and started their accent. It took her a minute to keep Thalia calm while they were in the air but in the end, she ended up straddling the girl and forcing her to look her in the eyes. Soon color came back into her face and she stopped shaking but neither girl wanted the other to move so they didn’t. From the corner of her eye she could see Peter and Grover exchanging glances towards them while Nico just stared on in confusion.
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