Previously on Son Of The Moon.
The sky god felt a weight drop on his heart. Looking at his brother he could feel the injustice served upon him. Abandoned to the depths of the Underworld. An outcast among his own kin. The elder brother who had stood by his valiantly as they faced their father. Not for one moment faltering in his step or showing weakness. Now a bitter man. Forced to hide his own children from his brother. To win his brother a different tactic would have to be employed.
"What is it you want brother?"
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"What you ask of me is impossible brother even you know that?" Zeus protested.
How could he have the Hades spawn reside within the Underworld it was against the most ancient of laws.
"I find no fault with them living here in the Underworld, it is their home,"
"Stop toying with me brother. You know the ancient do not permit such folly,"
"The children have spent a greater part of their lives in a hotel, it is time they came home,"
"The land of the dead is no home for any child no matter whom their parents may be,"
Hades was well aware of this. The Underworld was cruel and bloody place. But how would he have his children live on the outside and still keep watch over them. At least here he would protect them.
"I will compromise om anything brother. But this is out of question," Zeus spoke yet again firmly.
"Then let this here be the case. My children will remain unharmed. No plot is to be set against them by Olympus. I assure you brother should anything of your construction occur against them I will raze Olympus to the very ground,"
"I swear this to you brother. The children are allowed to reside within Camp Half Blood among their own ," the sky god spoke fairly.
"They are to be allowed to visit the Underworld whenever they wish," Hades affirmed.
"Fine," Zeus agreed grudgingly. The two children were a threat to Olympus. But Hades was an invaluable ally.
"You may leave now brother,"
In a flash of lightning Zeus flashed away.
Hades leaned heavily in his throne how was he going to break this news to the children. They had loved the place but rules were rules and there were some he didn't dare break.
LINEBREAK.
It had been a month of searching and Artemis was growing frustrated. Every track ended in a dead end. Perseus tactics were ingenious. They were now in a forest in Idaho, Wyoming. The hunt moved stealthily through the forest. Something did not sit well with her. The forest was too quiet. She stretched her senses. Monsters. She motioned for a stop and the hunt froze at once. Pointing to where the scent was strongest the hunt followed her. Prepare to ambush she spoke through the empathy link she shared with her hunters. The hunters skillfully positioned themselves. A small clearing was right in front of them. some of the hunters went up the trees and nocked their arrows. They spread themselves around the clearing awaiting the command. Seven cyclopes, ten drachmae and twenty hounds. A piece of cake. But that wasn't all. Tow hooded figures faced each other. On wore a dark hood and hunter's garb. Slung on his back was a Winchester rifle. Two guns were holstered on his hips and a knife on each shoulder. Perseus. The other man was all too very familiar with Artemis. Lelantos.
Was Perseus working with the Titans? The though ran painfully through her. she watched the exchange between them. They knew each other at one point of time. She saw Perseus turn as if to leave. She issued the order. Attack. A barrage of arrows rained at the company. An arrow sailed at Perseus head who caught it with relative ease. Lelantos pulled out two axes and was chopping the arrows out of the air. In the stunned moment Artemis leaped forward in the form of a bear and plowed through the monsters. Heading for Perseus unsure of what to do to him when she got to him. Several hunters had joined her and were weaving through the crowd with admirable prowess. Even though outnumbered the hunters were the finest arsenal Olympus had. The monsters were slowly diminishing some fleeing as they saw the bloodlust in the eyes of her hunter. She changed into her human form. Shooting an arrow into the eye of a cyclopes with so much force it stuck an unsuspecting hellhound behind hound. She leapt over a hound shooting its back. Somersaulting once and landing swiftly she pulled out a knife and stuck it hilt deep into the neck of a drachmae. She pulled it out and turned and hurled it into the head of a hellhound. She nocked three arrows and shot them into a hell hound.
She turned to see Zoe and Phoebe engage Lelantos. The two hunters were silver blurs. But Lelantos appeared to hardly be straining. His movements were swift and calculated. One mistake in their attack and she'd be picking up their heads. Phoebe went in too close and got kicked into a tree. Zoe was left alone with a furious Titan. She lunged forward in a flurry of attacks but only landed a cut on the Titan who seeing golden ichor flow out went on a full spate of attacks. In one powerful strike disarmed Zoe having snapped her blades. He spun around her and kicked at her knees. Zoe fell to her knees. Behind her Lelantos raised his axe to decapitate her. she was too far away. Artemis was too far away to do anything but watch. Time seemed to stop as the hunters watched as the axe came down. It was all in slow motion. Then the axe shattered into fragments.
Perseus cocked the Winchester.
"I told you she was of bounds," he spoke in a low rough voice that promised pain.
Lelantos shuddered a bit before regaining his composure. the air currents around him twisted before vanishing. The monsters had all fallen. The hunters looked at Perseus and nocked their arrows.
"Nice to see you have found me," he said plainly.
His hood was still up. Zoe stood and stood next to Artemis. She was battered and bruised but even more conflicted.
"What were you doing in the company of that Titan?" Zoe asked her lieutenant bravado rising.
"Two friends catching up,"
"Are you working for the Titans?" Artemis asked eager for an answer.
Perseus must have noticed this. Behind his hood a smile crossed his face.
"What I do is none of your business? You should call off your hunt for me. You have more pressing issues,"
"What do you speak of?"
"The Ophiotaurus has been born. The Titans have begun their search for it. Thought you could use a heads up," he said in a matter of the fact way.
"You lie!" Artemis said. This was bad,
"Why should I? I have seen it. Nice creature by the way,"
"Where is it?"
"What's the fun in telling you that?"
"You dare defy an Olympian goddess!" Phoebe roared.
"I will be taking my leave. You owe me one," he said disappearing in a mass of shadows.
Zoe took a glance at Artemis and would have sworn she'd paled a few shades.
"Milady are you okay?"
"No Zoe. That beast is as old as my father's beard. I have to report this to Olympus and begin my hunt,"
"Then we'll wait for you here,"
"No you go to Camp Half Blood. I will have Apollo transport you there,"
"But milady!" she cried out.
"No time for buts Zoe. I will hunt the beast alone,"
"Take charge of the hunters, I'm entrusting this responsibility to you,"
"I will milady,"
Artemis nocked a silver arrow that pulsed brightly and shot it into the sky vanishing in a silver flash.
It begins.
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