Everybody hears our double feature chapter for all the time I've been away. It's been a crazy year with everything going on in the world I hope you're all staying safe and healthy during this pandemic.

I hope this gives a little light in yard day or night depending where you are in the world right now with joy from another reading. Unfortunately this may be the last reading for this series for the foreseeable future. It's been a blast but I need to turn my attention to furthering the main story so breathe a sigh of relief. Once I have more for the regular version I'll get back on with the reading.

Please enjoy your new long chapter content featuring chapters 22 and 23.

Poseidon kicked his nephew Ares to his throne after his session with the war god.

"What'd I miss?" He asked as he sat down wiping the ichor from his hands.

"Percy went to check on his mother and sister in the hospital and his fellow demigods went with him." His sister Demeter answered as she flip through a catalog of the next season's possible trends with farming. "Our siblings went to check on their domains and Hades is with Apollo and my daughter getting looked over. Sus the number on him after finding out what Naruto did with the-"

Poseidon roared with laughter at the memory of the lord of the underworld being reduced to a pile of white paste on this guest throne. "That boy is a troublemaker."

"He needs to get more grains in him."

Shaking his head the sea god looked at the remaining immortals in the room. There was snoring Dionysus in the corner with a bottle of lime juice, some of the custodians working cleaning up after the mess left by the demigods when they followed Percy. Aphrodite eating a Sunday in her casual clothes, a simple T-shirt and jeans...

"No Poseidon, I do not always wear dresses and skirts." The goddess of love stated as she took a bite of her treat. Hee legs dangling off on hand rest while there head the other. "And I'm not in an outfit for yours or anyone's else's fantasy."

"I did not think..."

"Hush Sea boy." She chilled the god blinked.

"I am not-"

"Between the two of us who is older?"

Poseidon blinked and open his mouth, "you are."

"And what am I to you based on our family tree?" She asked as she turned over on her throne so she was laying on her belly.

"...My aunt..." He groaned as her eyes sparkled.

"That's right sea boy."

"Demeter a little help here?"

Aphrodite chuckled as her Farm loving niece pretended to have an interest in one section of her article.

...

"So here we are again." Zeus thundered as he flashed into the room. He knew he didn't have to make a flash entry into his throne room but where was the fun in that? The time he walk through the door was the last after being hit by Hermes newest prank tool: water balloons. "I believe it was you daughter of Athena."

"You do know my name sir."

"Read girl."

Annebeth cursed softly before opening the book.

Ares sharpened his sword as he watched as his daughter save her fellow campers with a scowl. He had to admit that the sea spawn did a great job at damaging the cruise ship with his explosives several days ago, but the god wasn't going to say so out loud.

"I still won't. My daughter is a better hero then prissy there."

"MMMMHHHOPPHHH!" Yelled Percy as his mouth was gagged by the pasty hastily stuffed in there by Piper.

His uncle sat nearby as he waited for Hephaestus to finish with an order he had asked to be done for his wife.

"Most likely another dungeon theme or something." He huffed.

"So your brat nearly sunk that vessel." Ares commented to his uncle. "I still don't see why the old man wouldn't let you sink it anyway."

Poseidon shrugged his shoulders. "My brother isn't the best at looking at the long term effects of his actions Ares.

"That's not true." Huffed Zues at the accusation.

Apollo whispered under his breath, "lier lier toga's on fire."

"What was that?

"Nothing dad."

Besides, can you can imagine his reaction of a ship sinking full of demigods that have and I quote, 'Only lost their way.' Or how about, 'They are only being irrational.'

Zues looked at his brother. "They were."

"Oh no," the god the the sea said as he reached for a drink. "I'm not doing it this time."

Sometimes I wonder if it just him slowly turning into a more American god of lighting or just his more annoying root self."

"A mixed." Piped Athena.

"At least you can say you had nothing to do with it." Poseidon could not answer Ares as it was unnecessary. Both knew that Zeus would summon the god of the sea to see if he had anything to do with the ship. It was times like this that Poseidon wondered if Zeus's issue was that he had no one to grow up with other then those nymphs. While he was safe from their father, Zeus never really understood the bond between his brothers and sisters.

Zeus blushed and try to look away from his family.

Poseidon shuttered as his mind slipped into the memory of slowly being digested and the fear of drowning.

"Wait, What!?" Was the cry from everyone but the sea god and Percy who was just stunned.

Yes, he was afraid of drowning.

"You are scared of drowning? Dude your the god of the seas how does that even work!?" Exclaimed Hermes who watched as his uncle took a drink of water.

Getting over the shock Annebeth read on as the middle brother was unwilling to answer Hermes.

Each of the first five gods and goddess were afraid of something that related to their time in the fleshy prison. Athena in his mind was weaker then what she thought she was as she had no idea of what could kill her or make her weak.

"Plans not able to work are your nightmare Annabeth," Piper spoke as she recalled their fight with the bane of the smith. "So... not being wise?"

"Like asking that question while I'm here GIRL?"

"Sorry." Squeaked out the demigoddess under Athena's gaze.

He knew his weakness and was stronger because of it. At times he hated his domain as he was forced to confront his fear. He let a small uneasy smile cross his face that his nephew didn't see at the irony. It was amusing that none of the Greeks of old didn't know that part of his story. Of why he was so angry and wrathful in the past. Even the Romans didn't even know.

"You were rather... wrathful sir." Jason said trying not to sound insulting to the god. The god only hummed and eyed the room with a blank stare.

Only Gaia and his giant knew.

"And now everyone here. I trust not one of you will say anything..." Poseidon didn't need to finish his implied threat.

'Only a few of my children know of their weakness.' He thought as he watched as his son and Ares daughter squabble on the ship the girl had summoned. 'I hope that you do not know the fear Percus. For once you do, you will never be the same.'

Percy coughed and tried not to blush at the stares being redirected from his father to him.

"...ke is going to have to take the ship to a yard to get it sea worthy again. What you say Hep? 'bout a week?"

"Two. Minimum at least." Grunted the smith.

The god of smiths grunted out a negative and held up two fingers. He and Ares were chatting on the damage done to the ship while their uncle was out of it. As the best engineer that existed Hephaestus could tell the repair time for anything that was in his domain. Ares, as the god of war, also knew some about repair jobs, not that anyone would believe it.

Ares puffed up his chest. "Of course I know a bit. What sort of war god would I be?"

"If you did why do you keep on bringing your bike to the shop?"

"Because," Ares answered with a gleeful tone, "your the best at the job."

"... True. Now stop breaking it else I'll beat in the skill into you."

Few knew Ares had skills outside of the battle field as they only thought of him as a blood thirst god who was on the council so Zeus and Hera could keep an eye on him. He did admit that he was blood thirty, but he was also a soldier and soldiers don't think about war all the time.

"I also think about women, food, cleaning my gear, my kids I guess... oh and also squirrels."

Athena blinked. "I hate to ask but why squirrels?"

"Because I love road kill."

"That so, well at least out residential thief can be satisfied that his son is still kicking. Next time I hope that kid uses something stronger in power. If I didn't hate him so much I would let him take some of my caesium."

"Don't even think about it Ares." Zues was not about to have the war god see what caesium would do. The hydrogen bomb was bad enough.

"Father would most likely have your head as well as Athena. New York city would be damaged and the mortals would be in a panic. Don't you recall 9/11 at all?"

The New York demigods winced.

Ares grinned at the memory of the terror and the beat of the war drums in the nation. "... I could have it blamed on the British, no let it be on the Koreans and we can see- OW!"

Poseidon lifted his trident of the war god's head. "Enough Ares. We don't need another front to open with them rising and don't think I have forgiven you for your actions."

"Yes, let's not have another global war... please." Frank pleaded with his father.

"%&()%$** #*" Cursed the god in Persian

Zeus scowled at the book.

as he shook his fist at the master of the sea. When Poseidon lifted his weapon up again Ares cowered down. "... I miss that jerk Verethragna. At least he was fun to fight."

"Who's Verethragna?" Asked Nico to Athena.

The goddess pursued her lips. "He is... was the god of victory, strength and war of the Persians. He was the last of their Parthenon before he disappeared."

"So he faded?"

Athena shook her head to Leo's statement. "We are not sure."

"Don't let Zeus hear that name and especially not the demigods."

"Why? Him and the rest of his kind are all nearly dead by the time Xerxes attacked Greece. Mithra and him asked us to take care of the heretic as last rights before they faded or the latter disappeared.

"Best. War. Ever!" Cheered Ares shotting his massive AR-15 into the air. The marble plaster that fell onto his head made Zues smirk.

Percy consoled his girlfriend who had a fit after having all she had done to repair the place being destroyed.

We were once fighters Posiden, not diplomats. Once we and the rest of our kind fought and allied ourselves throughout the ages and now look at us all. We barely have any power compared to the ages bygone and we must break bread with those we once would never do so. I am tired of this need for humanity to grow with peace." Ares spitted out the word peace like it was venom or a curse.

Ares rubbed his head where a lump had formed and agreed with his counterpar. "Peace is evil."

"Growth though pain and struggle... conflict and war. It is the force of history itself and the mortals think that they can just lay down their arms and go all similes and niceties? The weak die, the strong are made even stronger and evolution is served."

Apollo and Athena turned shades of green as Ares wasn't wrong... There was truth and history to back his argument. They both had argued this philosophical argument and had found no clear solution.

Hephaestus snorted and felt the glare his brother sent him. "Your just upset that the only wars to be fought are border conflicts, civil wars and the war on terror. Humanity has earned a chance to try and find another way instead of the whole lets destroy our enemies routine. Isn't the reason soldiers fight the fight; to end the fight and to go home to their families?

"Booo!"

"Ares shut up." Groaned Hera.

I may not be a solider or one for family but I make the weapons that are used to tear families apart Ares. Each death by a machine or a forgers hand is one that I have helped in killing. And I for one and tired of humanity trying to kill each other. That International space station and other such projects stand as monuments to what can happen if the mortals worked together. If not for your influence in a few years to only two decades they should be able to fly between the stars."

The demigods look at one another with excitement at the idea of moving across the vastness of space. Zeus's reaction was to think of ways to stop it from ever happening... indirectly of course.

Ares spat on the ground. "I know their kind and that will never happen. Even if I helped them to put aside their differences, war will still happen. Either as a new world war or war with some far off people we never heard of."

"That is why I love Star Wars. Eternal conflict."

Hermes swirled his drink. "Trek is better."

"What? No, Mark Hamill made it great when he drank his milk with cereal." Demeter argued as she changed clothes into a rebel flight suit.

"I hate to break it to you Demeter but Trek is the better." Apollo gave his tow vents in as he shifted into an original gold Captain uniform for the show. "It even featured me in it."

The Council room broke into chaos as the gods went into camps of star trek or star wars. Even Hestia had a say in it as she fought for the star wars camp.

Finally after having enough of the argument Aphrodite place two fingers into a her mouth and whistled loudly to break apart the argument. "That is enough from all of you! We are not going to finish this if you all keep going on about some science fiction TV entertainment! Now shut up and listen to the story... NOW'"

"Aliens do not exist Ares." Posiden pointed out as he wondered how his son's brother was doing. Ares sneered at his uncle as his brother tossed his his keys.

'They should.' Thought the god.

"I better not see your bike in my shop for the next decade Ares."

"Whatever daffy. Latter old man fish." Ares taunted as he roared out on his repaired bike as the song 'Highway to hell' blared from his speakers.

The two gods rolled their eyes as the god of war left. Glancing at each other, Posiden shrugged his shoulders and followed his fellow nephew inside. After dealing with Ares, Posiden was feeling the need to do some forging to cool off. Summoning his favorite hammer he went to work banging away at the metal with Hephaestus tending the flames.

Tossing mountains or causing tidal waves would ruin his date night after all... And he really wanted to get laid tonight.

His wife nodded with agreement... even if it was impressive to see her husband throw multi ton rocks to show off his muscles.

Naruto's eyes flickered open as he awoke once more. It felt like they were made of lead but he was able to slowly open them to reveal that he was on a fur covered cot in a tent. A single candle lit the space and his eyes flickered in terror as he waited for the other shoe to drop. After waking up from a nightmare or being eaten by timber wolves he wasn't sure if he was alive or in Hades' domain for being in the hunters camp.

"Oh right... wasn't he dreaming he was having surgery?" Mr. D drawled as he flicked though his magazine.

He felt weak and was happy to find all his parts after checking.

Snickering came from some of the immature Immortals for a moment before being silenced by their own memory of being under Artemis' knife or one if her hunters after a glance from the huntress.

He hear sounds of several girls outside the tent's entrance and his belly rumbled slightly at the smell of cooked meat. Wiping the drool from his mouth he swung his legs to the side of the cot.

"Meat yum." Thalia licked her lips at the memory of roasted monster pork. Piper puked a little in her mouth at the idea.

"That's disgusting."

"I'm a hunter and I love meat. What's there to be grossed about?"

"But but," stammered the daughter of love. "What about Bambi or thumper?"

Thalia grim turned shark like. "They are yummy in my tummy."

Jason head onto his sobbing girlfriend as he glared at his sister. "Why did you do that?"

Thalia shrugged. "Cause I could and I can't do my job if I'm a vegan."

As stealthy as he could he creeped to the tent's entrance flap and peered though the opening. He spotted several girls that he identified as hunters around a spit with deer cooking.

"Bambi!" Wailed Piper at the sight.

He watched as one of the girls spliced a piece off and toss it to one of the other girls who caught it by stabbing it with a dagger. The mood around the fire was one of family and acceptance, of being a part of something greater then oneself and propose.

Hestia cooed at the sight as she lead Piper out of the room to an adjacent place to calm the distraught demigoddess. Thalia shivered under the glare that Aphrodite sent her way for upsetting her daughter.

A part of him was envious or jealous of the hunters as they had a feeling that the camp seemed to lack.

Hera blinked.

Yes, the campers were family, but this felt more than just a family bond. To Naruto, it was as if the girls had shown some of their darkest secrets and pains with each other and shared that pain together.

Artemis puffed her chest with pride at his comment.

The campers never really accepted him. After the events of the quest, he was more of the camp's outcast then a camper. Percy never noticed as none of the campers wanted to get on the bad side of the boy who saved the world,

"Cabin 5 hates me." Bemoaned Percy

'Such good brats.' The war god thought with pride.

but him? He was a target for many in the camp when his brother's back was turned. The girls were jealous of his looks as they made them look plain at times

Aphrodite nodded her head. "He does have that natural feminine look to him. To made puberty may change that."

while the boys and satyrs hated him for being on good terms with many of the nymphs and demigoddesses.

"Wait... didn't it say he was in bad terms?" Leo asked confused.

Aphrodite shrugged her shoulders. "It's a girl thing. That may be jealous but be friendly..."

"Unless it's one of Apollo's or yours, Aphrodite, daughters. Vanity is after all your thing."

Apollo blinked and tried to formulate a response to Athena's comment.

He recalled the beatings he would get during the games from several of the campers and the healing so that Chiron wouldn't find out. They never went to far and his adopted cousin's training sessions hurt worse, but it hurt worse knowing it was family doing it.

Hera growled causing Zeus to inch away from her. His daughter of spring was gripping her husband's arm as to not do anything. As for the other queen, Poseidon decided to distract her the best way was to kiss her deeply.

He felt something seed itself in him as he watched them in the depths of his soul. A seed, he didn't know, could one day become the undoing of the gods... Or the making of the greatest hero in many ages.

The gods blinked and shivered.

He clenched his hands together as he went back to the cot. Lying his head on the pillow he nodded off, not noticing he was being watched by the immortals of the huntress herself. But they had decades to thousands of years to practice the art of hiding.

"Hide and go seek is horrible." Thalia complained to Artemis.

"You'll get to an acceptable level eventually lieutenant."

The hunters were well aware of him watching them eat and go back to bed, as it did not affect them. Zoe's eyes watched the tent's flap with hidden interest as she was the first to notice that the boy had untapped potential in the art of the hunt as a predator. He clearly wasn't as good as the hunters, but with training, he could become a great hunter that would be the terror of many beasts and monsters.

"High praise from her." Noted Apollo.

Hazel recalled her training with Lupa. "Think Lupa would agree?"

"She's a hunter in her own right but yes, for a youth like him he has potential." The huntress stated, slightly miffed at the idea Lupa was the frist the roman would think of.

She fought back her distaste of the boy's gender as she took a bite of some of the meat. Diana would deal with him once she returned from her trip.

"So we're meeting your counterpart?" Asked Percy who hot a blank stare.

Artemis and Dianna had an interesting relationship with each other. Both agreed with each other on many related shared aspects and had a deal to flee to the island where they were born to make sure that they didn't fall into the insanity that plagued their family. Both agreed to take care of their hunters with respect and the hunters in turn were respectful of both sides of their goddess.

"It made it safer than what happened with the rest of you lot." Apollo shivered at the idea of being plagued by the nightmare of what happened to his family. Good thing he had medicine to help cure the side effects before they went to battle with the seven against the giants.

Currently, Artemis was resting as her roman side took control. The deal was simple as Artemis would hunt so many monsters in a given time and then switch with Dianna until she was done with her own hunt. Then they would switch again. Sometimes the two sides would work as one to hunt a monster or prey that was new to them as they did once the new world was discovered and they wanted to check it out before the hunt followed them. Or they would take over when dealing with demigods on one side or the other on the occasion.

"Hunting here was amazing." Artemis stated with a wistful tone in her voice. She missed those days.

Zoe knew that Dianna interest in the boy stemmed from her counter part's interest. The huntress, once she had something that interest her as a new hunt or otherwise, would chase it to see if it was worthy prey, worthy of her eyes or not.

"Like a puppy." Snickered Apollo who ducked under a punch by his sister.

Zoe let a small grin cross her lips as she recalled Hermes using a laser pointer for the first time and the goddess went after the red light

Snickers were suppressed by the glare the goddess sent to the bemused demigods.

until she heard her brother laughing.

There was a reason dogs hunted mailmen in America after all.

Hermes pouted at the memory of the first dog that got his new career hazard started.

The boy was an interest for all the gods as he was not a normal demigod. As the son of the Queen goddesses, he was heir to powers that spanned the domains of multiple immortals. Considering that his 'mothers' were at a lost to why he was created, the fates were oddly quite when asked about him, Zoe was interested slightly as what he would become.

Hestia returned with a more calm demigoddess with her.

A flash of white came from the edge of the came and Dianna strolled in.

The Greeks all leaned towards Annebeth with glittering eyes. She rolled her eyes at her friends, "Really you guys?"

Unlike her counter part who wore a tunic of silver as she did for countless years, Dianna wore something more like a commando would wear in the military. Her hair was wrapped in a bun with two hunter daggers being used as pins. Her face was set in a look of boredom, but if one looked more carefully they would see that her eyes flickered to scan the area every few seconds. Her foot falls made little sound, but one could tell that it was formality of being with her hunters to let them know she was there. Otherwise one would not hear her move though the dry grass.

Leo wolfed whistled at the image of the goddess. "Wow."

"Careful now," warned Apollo. "That's my little sis there."

"I AM THE ELDEST!"

The hunt's noise lowered considerably as they watched their mistress walk towards them. Zoe knew that something must have happened as her lady was clearing her hands with a rag. With a shiver, she realized it was the T-shirt of a Camp Jupiter camper and she was cleaning the blood from her hands.

The Romans (and Percy) gulped. That wasn't a good sign at all.

The nymph shivered more as she recalled that Dianna only did something like that if she gave her target a chance to live by avoiding her for three days. One day was with out powers and weapons. The seconds was with a knife and the last was with her bow. This was the chance she gave roman demigods to live if they avoided her if they failed in her eyes. A near impossible chance to live.

"Only about thirty have been lucky." She casually stated causing the morals before her to pale.

Monster's would not go near demigod when they were marked as prey by the goddess as they would become her target and the demigod would only be raised to finish her hunt.

Hades glared at her. "The paper work is s pain you know. You only rekill them after I send them back. Do you think I enjoy doing it?"

"She thought that she could get away from me to avoid punishment. A pity that she lasted only till the sun began to set." Dianna commented as she threw the now bloody garment into the fire. Facing towards the tent she glanced at her right hand girl. "So that's him? I would have thought that Juno's counterpart would have had him struck him down, if not her then her husband."

Zues grumbled about the comment but did not reply. He wasn't about to go down that hole.

"He is the child of two other goddesses my lady. Perhaps she didn't want to offend them?"

"Perhaps. I sense that he is more then what he appears and I can sense why Artemis is interested." Sitting down the goddess took some stew for herself. "He has a heart more pure then any male child I have sense in too long. Venus must be gritting her teeth having to wait to sink her claws on him. Given the chance she would force him to fall in love and have his heart broken like so may of her play things."

"It is unfair. Can't you imagine all the possibilities for him?" Pouted said goddess at Artemis.

Zoe blinked at the words her lady spoke of. A shiver of excitement went though the hunters of a new pure heart boy being found. The few that they found and kept their hearts pure were always spoken of to newer hunters as they became men of great allies to women everywhere.

"So few these days..." Whispered Artemis. "Percy could have been but he is with miss Chase."

Percy blinked. "Um... sorry?"

"Oi, don't apologize to her." Lectured Aphrodite who shook a finger at him. "Perabeth is a great couple. So much fun watching you two dance around each other... oh I still have to test your resolve..."

"No thanks, you really shouldn't." Squeaked Percy as the goddess began to mutter to herself.

The last few were however found by the filthy goddess of love and they were forced to watch as those boys become love filled and broken hearted beings that learned to hate the opposite genders for their pain.

"What is his name?"

"Naruto, my lady."

In the tent Naruto turned in his sleep, unaware was what was going to happen once he woke with the dawn. But for once in many days he slept with a smile on his face as he listened to the soft humming of the goddess of the hunt as she sung her hunters asleep.

"I need a break. Who wants to take over?"

"I'll do it!" Gushed Aphrodite who a sixth sense that something fun was about to happen. "I haven't had a try yet and I would like to try."

"Errr, ok."

She. Was. Exhilarated. And. So. Dam. Pissed. Off.

Artemis blinked in surprise before worry washed over her. What happened to make her... Dianna like that?

Dianna spat out the mud from her mouth as her target raced away in a mixture of laughter and outright screams of terror. She had thought that this little hunting game she challenged the demigod was going to be easy.

"Nemesis must have done something." Thalia consoled her mistress as the goddess looked at her.

She was, after all, the goddess of the hunt. But after several hours it had become clear to her that the boy wasn't easy prey. In the back of her mind she could feel Artemis watching her hunt fail as she tried to capture the demigod. Her blood pulsed in her rage and joy of a worthy hunt after so long that she was determined to not kill him.

Artemis leaned forward. A hunt that her counterparts were invested in? That was rare.

But this humiliation had to stop and she was going to make him pay.

Wiping the mud from her eyes, at least she hoped it was as the alternative was far worse, Dianna wondered how long sense she had a hunt like the one she was on. She loathed the idea that she was flailing in her game, one that she should be winning at the moment!

"Yo Hermes! Ten says that she loses!" Called out Ares.

"Got it!"

"I will make you beg for mercy demigod. NO one, NO ONE! Gets away with what you did without punishment." Standing up she raced after the demigod and in her angry state did not bother to be as stealthy as she could have been. But after the horrors the boy pulled on her it was to be delicious when she had him in her claws. The idea of making him beg at her feet, the power she will have over him... Making him do whatever she wanted...

"Oh la la. Something you want to share with the rest of us dear?" Aphrodite's grin at a possible scoop about her long time project was huge. Zeus stared at his daughter with worry.

Artemis backed away from her rival. "It isn't me!"

Dianna blinked as she and Artemis wondered where that train of thought came from. Stopping where she was she puked her last meal up as the disgusting idea that she had in her head was replaced by other, less pure ones. She paled when both sides of her persona, Roman and Greek, came to the same conclusion.

'Order, she must be getting to me!' She thought in horror

"Horror!? I think not after what I read here Artemis." Artemis sputtered at Aphrodite's comment, trying to form a coherent statement to rebuke the love goddess.

at the idea that the goddess of love was under her skin now more then ever. Returning to the chase even more determined then ever to finish it before he survived till the deadline, Dianna wondered if the fates were making it hard on her after so long having done a proper hunt. The moon glowered brighter as her ichor pulsed thought her veins and arteries as she wished in secret that this game wouldn't end so soon as she was having too much fun.

Not that she would admit it.

Artemis blushed at the snickers from her brother.

Further along in the forest of Yellow Stone, Naruto finished making another trap to delay, humiliate and piss of the goddess in their game.

"He has balls of gold." Ares said as he ate popcorn.

Zeus nodded his head. "He will be missed."

"Speaking from experience Dear?" Hera fluttered her eyes at her husband.

"Errr."

He wasn't going to lose this game to the goddess of the hunt. She may have an advantage as the goddess of the hunt, but she wasn't the goddess of victory, games or challenges.

"Nike, myself and Apollo claim those... no one has challenges." Hermes noted with a smirk.

"Herc the jerk should be the last." Piper grunted.

And he had a plan that he was sure was going to make her suffer for challenging the greatest prankster of the demigods in history!

"Le gasp!" Commented Leo with fake French.

Two demigod sons of Hermes sneezed as they awoke with shivers going down their spine.

Percy smiled. "Must be Connor and Travis. They did say they were the most pranksters in the last decade."

Heroes wiped a fake tear from his eye. "I was so happy when it was confirmed."

"Not an achievement we should encourage." Athena muttered.

"Travis, I think someone is going after the prankster demigod in history right now." Connor mumbled out as he was half asleep.

"As sons of the great prankster Hermes we must defend the title of the greatest for all our fore-brother's and sister's pride!" Travis agreed.

"Let's not have Mercy's and Hermes child's met on April fools." Commented Renya with concern.

"Agreed." Came the demigod chorus.

"So what do you want to do about it?"

"...Let's deal with it in the morning. We have time to plane during our shift defending the border tomorrow."

"...Night..."

"...Zzzzzz."

Thalia shivered from the memory of being poisoned and her sacrifice being destroyed by Luke.

Naruto finished his trap just as Dianna fell from the sky. His face paled several shades of white as the goddess's feet left cracks in the earth as she stomped towards him.

"Oooh you better run now Naruto! " called Apollo with a grin.

Hermes opened a coke. "I haven't seen Artemis this made in decades."

The story of his life flashed be fore his eyes and he wondered if it was a good idea to have given Hermes' porn stash to Hestia to feed the flames of the heath at the camp.

Hermes spat out his drink. "HE DID WHAT!?"

Artemis' grin was shining. "Such a good boy. I should reward him..."

"Mistress," Thalia spoke up. "He's not real."

"Oh... what if I gave something to Percy here? He is Naruto's brother."

"My porn!" Wailed Hermes in horror still.

'Mr. D seemed to have had a heart attack when he saw that I was removing the vintage magazines from the attic.

Mr. D hummed and hid his face with a newspaper at the look Hernes sent him.

I didn't know it was his stash till Hestia began crackling like a mad lady as she burned them

Hestia blinked and blushed at the look. She hated those magazines and burning them was so much fun. 'So many families ruined because of them.' She thought.

and told me what they were. Today I could have given them to the hunters for kindling.

"And become our favorite male ever." Thalia noted with interest.

I could have made a fortune in those magazines. Also D asked to buy them from me for twelve bars of gold and three bars of silver, all pure, for them.

Hermes squawked. "They are worth eight times as much!"

The room darkened as the female goddesses glared at Mr. D and Hermes.

Let it be known that there was a large amount of screams for mercy by two gods.

R.I.P

Before history to 20XX

"We're not dead yet!" Wheezed out the god of wine as he curled into a ball in the corner if the room.

Hermes groaned in agreement. "Curse you disembodied voice being... thing!"

Aphrodite huffed as she sat back down. "I will continue now."

But it was for a good cause and those cookies she cooked in the hearth were amazing.'

"FOUND YOU YOU RAT!" She roared as she closed the distance between them.

"Boo!" Ares called out. "Do something more rare or original!"

Finally after all those humiliating and aggravating traps she had him cornered. "No where to run from me now demigod."

"Hold it! Take one more step or you will regret it." He declared as she got closer. Dianna paused as she she did note the hastily covered pit trap. "Surrender and give me your private stash of Hestia cookies as my prize as promised!"

"You bet your Hestia cookies?! You never bet Auntie's cookies with me!" Complained Apollo. "How could you Arty?"

"He is a pre pubescent boy and you're a god of how many centuries again?"

-Hours ago-

Naruto opened his eyes and got up as he felt the urge to pee. After making sure he was dressed decently, he really had to go but he didn't want have a shorter life span with all the hunters around him, he walked out of the tent.

"If anything they would look away or remind him of that he need to wear something." Hades tried not to think of the paperwork for someone entering without clothes in his domain.

All around him were the hunters of Artemis, either waking up like he was or going to sleep after their shift guarding the camp. His eyes flickered back and forth as he tried to figure out if he should ask for a direction for somewhere that wouldn't be weird or creepy for everyone... But it was hard as he had to go.

"Horrible when your on the morning patrol." Noted Frank.

Seeing a passing huntress he shyly spoke up. "Ummm, excuse me but.. Um..."

The huntress looked at him before noticing that he was shifting his weight around. "That need huh? Guess I'm the lucky one this time... Figures. Follow me and do keep up. we don't causally let anyone wonder though the camp and I was going to head there in a bit myself."

"So polite. Artemis dear are they only this polite with young ones that interest you?" Asked Demeter.

"Ummm."

"T-thank you." Naruto didn't know what to expect from the hunters and by his experience so far he was unsure what to do. Following her though the camp was not easy for him as the huntress had to avoid her sisters groggy selves as they went about their business.

"Thalia take note. I'll have to have this looked into."

"Yes lady Artemis."

Wanting to end the awkward silence, in his mind, he spoke up. "Um, I'm Naruto and you are?"

"The chances of her answering her are approximately 3,720 to 1." Came a mechanical voice from the machine Hephaestus was working on.

"...Naomi."

Ares laughed at his brother who threw his wrench at the war god.

Naruto winced at her short and to the point answer. Tuning her head to look at him Naomi signed. She did not like interacting with children as they reminded her too much of why she joined the hunt in the first place. Even if she and the rest of her fellow hunters looked like they were teenagers, there were decades if not more years in age.

"Wasn't she that girl from Hiroshima you took in?" Athena asked her sister. Artemis nodded in response.

The fact that Naruto was a boy made it more weird for her as usually not allowed in the camp and even then not for long. Pursing her lips she chose to continue the conversion before the child made it harder for her. "So ...Naruto, what brings you to Yellowstone?"

"Percy we should go there." Annebeth stated ti her boyfriend.

Percy hummed in agreement. "No monsters ok. I am done with them for the foreseeable future."

"I'm on a mission!" He exclaimed happily as he avoid being ran over by one of the camp's pups. His brows bunched together when he noticed something. "Wait... This is Yellowstone? As in the natural park near the other side of the nation?"

Face slapping was the resounding result.

Resisting the urge to groan or slap her face Naomi stopped walking. "Why is it your going to say something along the lines that you had no idea where you are?"

"I'm in the camp of the hunters of Artemis... Are you alright?" He asked as the hunter slammed on her face in anime style.

"That was... different." Commented the goddess of spring.

"I'm ok." She moaned up as she got up. Rubbing the spot where she landed she lead Naruto to a portable restroom. At his confused look and knowing that he was going to ask she spoke up first. "Yellowstone remember? There are several rest areas around and this camp spot is reserved for us."

"Plus it helps keep it safe from human encroachment."

"Naomi! When your done here bring the boy to the breakfast area. Or mistress is interested to knowing why he is here and not at camp! Also if you see- THERE IT IS GIRLS! GET IT!" Naruto blinked as the girl who was wearing a tiara around her head and walking towards them shot several arrows at a fox that was racing away with a string of sausages in its mouth.

The hunters blinked in surprise. That was weird as that should not have been possible.

He watched as several girls followed after the thieving fox who had a mischievous look in its eyes.

"... I'll be back after I help them caught that fox."

"Another error?" Apollo took out a red sharpie. "It should say, I'll be back after I help them capture that fox. See sweetheart?"

"Apollo." Zeus rumbled at his son. "Let her read."

"But-"

"No."

'I miss Kyuubi.' He thought as the hunters spat out curses as the fox made off with it's prize. Entering the restroom he wondered if he would ever see his friend again.

"You know kit I wasn't expecting you here."

"Kyuubi!? Naruto exclaimed as he saw his friend.

"Ah look a boy and his stuffed fox."

"Spirit animal maybe is better?" Piper suggested to Leo.

Poseidon shook his hand in a chopping motion across his neck to convey to them not to go on.

"...And that is how I got here. Looks like without me you can't help getting into trouble kit." Kyuubi half joked as he finished up his tale after listening to Naruto's adventure when they were apart. looking at Naruto's confused face he became worried. "Kit?"

"That was gross Kyuubi!" Naruto made a barfing face as he tried to get over the lovely-lovely story of his friend and the Teumessian fox met. The love struck face of his friend and the idea of him being enraptured by her green eyes and silky fur made him physically ill.

"Cooties are bad for you Naruto." Snickered Jason.

Their hunter escort walked behind them in confusion as she was sure that Naruto was talking to an inanimate object and holding a descent conversation with it. To make it more painful for her mind every few seconds, she could swear on her oath, that the stuffed animal cast a larger shadow then it should.

"It's weird so don't worry about it." Commented a recovered Hermes.

'And where in the name of the gods did it come from?' She wondered as they made it to the cooking pit. Several other hunters were there after dealing with the monster fox that stole their sausages. Their dirty bodies were ignored by the goddess who sat eating her meal, amused at the morning drama.

Thaila had a shared glitter in the eyes with Artemis. A show with your meal was always fun.

To Naomi's surprise as Naruto was a Greek demigod, it was Dianna who was eating.

The gods froze and as one turned to a red faced Zeus. Zeus shook his head. 'I hear nothing. I know nothing. Not one thing is wrong here."

"Of course Sergeant Schultz. Dismissed." Hades finished off with a salute causing Poseidon to laugh.

"I loved that show." The sea god snorted out as he tried to breathe.

This also set a more tense tone as more hunters came to eat a meal before going back to sleep or patrol then what it would have been if it was just a boy eating with them.

Signing to Zoe to ask what was going on she had one of her fellow hunters help serve Naruto breakfast. [What is she doing? There is a reason that the two groups were separated! We don't need that kind of trouble right now!]

Athena blinked at the use of the ancient version of hand signals use by the people of her city.

Zoe rolled her eyes as she singled back to her fellow huntress. [She's interested and curious about him. Also she and Artemis said that they wanted to pull off a prank. Something along the lines that the boy hasn't figured out that Artemis is the Artemis he befriend at the camp.]

"He's an idiot." Mr. D didn't try to hide that comment.

Apollo shook his head. "Bro he is only like what, nine here?"

"Well I don't care. It should not have been that hard for bar roe here-"

"Naruto."

"... to notice."

[The Roman gods aren't know for their humor unless it constituents as something that they set up or a situation.]

"You guys must hate April fools day."

Jason and Reyna blinked and tried not to look at the other demigods.

[I still don't like it. She risks her fathers wrath and the rest of the gods if-]

[She knows what she is doing. Besides, better her then the other Roman gods. Jupiter is more vicious then Zeus on things that piss him off.]

"Umm, where should I sit?" Blinking, Naomi looked down to see the boy looking at her with two plates of food in his hands. "Also, I got you some too Naomi!"

Hestia beamed at the sight. "I hope Percy your as great as a sibling as you are with Naruto for your little sister. He is so well behaved because of your influence as well as your mother's.

"Thanks, I'll try lady Hestia."

"Thanks... Naruto. You can sit other there."

"Naomi, bring him over here. That way I can talk to him while we eat." Dianna's commanding voice made the hunter wish that Naruto survived the encounter even if the goddess wasn't about to try and kill him. Naruto followed her and bowed to the goddess, not noticing the quirking of her lips.

"He should considering that Arty rarely let's us dudes done with her in her camp."

"I don't have tome to give you a meal every day Apollo!"

Sitting down on the opposite side of the goddess Naruto looked at her in confusion as the huntress motioned for him to eat. "Normally you would make a sacrifice to the gods boy, but right now you must be hungry. Nectar and ambrosia may heal a demigod, but it does nothing for the hunger and need for a true meal after being sick."

Apollo frowned. "That's my gimmick sis!"

"So your not going to punish me for me being in your camp?" Naruto shyly asked. He was scared and he knew that unlike her half-brother Hermes, the goddess before him had no problems in ending his life.

Hermes shifted on his seat. "Well..."

Dianna snorted in a dismissal. "Normally you would be healed and placed somewhere safe to go along on your journey. I do not like it when my hunters let one as young as you go untreated or harmed. You are too young to understand and are in my eyes still innocent to the world around you."

"So that's why you-"

"Had Luke treated at the time? A bit... also because I owned Hermes a favor after a did a thing."

"And if I was older..?" He asked.

"Then I would have you either killed, transformed or healed and left to fend for yourself. Luckily for you that wasn't going to happen even if you were older as you are on a quest to find what Hermes lost."

Artemis shivered at a memory of interfering with a quest and the consequences that followed. 'So many hunters killed in that attack...'

Dianna took a sip of nectar as Naruto began to eat his meal with earnest hunger. Not eating for several days other then the food of the gods to heal made a mortal very hungry.

As he ate Dianna studied him. She could sense his immortal blood legacy and noted that he also had something else. Her brother had mentioned that in the east humans had discovered chakra and had learn to use it in their martial arts. But while she had gone to the east in her travels as the goddess of the moon, she never felt chakra like this. It felt off, as if there was a hidden dept within him of power. Power that would make him either a great hero or villain one day.

"Great he's like a puppy you want to buy." Summarize Aphrodite as she flipped the page.

The stuff fox also was interesting as she could not feel anything strange about it... Other then it seemed to be eating and leaving a mess on it's face every time she looked away.

There was one word on everyone's mind then; Creepy.

In fact she could swear that it was mocking her. Closing her eyes she rubbed her head as she felt she was getting antsy after the Cadmean vixen, Teumessian fox as the Greeks called it, stole one of her favorite meals items.

"You like sausages?" Hazel asked.

"Among other things yes."

At least she had some as the rest of her hunt was forced to have less then usually given out amount. She clenched her jaw as the urge to find and kill the monster came over her, but she knew that she could never kill it. She, her brother and their anti giant hunter working together for a few hundred years could not kill it.

"Worse. Bonding. Ever." The twins hissed out their displeasure of that fiasco.

"Kyuubi! Stop making faces at her!" Naruto hissed at his friend as the nine tailed fox mocked the goddess by making faces when she wasn't looking.

Hermes snickered at the twitch that was developing over Artemis' brow.

"I know you want to do so too brat. How many can say that they did this to her and got away with it?"

"Your going to get us killed!"

"Go and try on a hunter tunic if your so protective of her."

"He does have the legsfor it." Hummed Hera. "I won'tmind an immortal daughter after so long..."

"So Naruto, how did you come to the state of Wyoming?" Dianna asked after rubbing out her headache. Naruto blushed at muttered out something that she couldn't hear. "Say that again please, I don't think I understood you."

"Yes speak up, your like a mouse." Ares said as he tapped his seat. Where was all the fighting anyway?

"...I was kidnapped by a lamina who is my friend who wanted to make me her mate and escaped though the labyrinth with the help of another demigod who showed me the way out." All chatter ended as all the hunters stared at him. Suddenly the hunt was in a fit of giggles at the misfortune of the boy as Dianna made him tell her the full story from beginning to end. When it was over for Naruto he was red with embarrassment as the hunt was trying and failing to breath from laughing too hard.

They weren't the only ones as the demigods and the gods all had a laugh from the memory of what had transpired.

Rolling her eyes as she also tried to contain her amusement, Artemis had no issue and was rolling in the back of their shared mind in hysterics, Dianna summon her personal stash of cookies for the boy.

"Luck son of a... never mind. I like living." Leo trailed off smartly.

"Here you go. Cookies made from the goddess of the hearth herself. You can hav-"

Naruto's hungry expression and reaction to the box of cookies made the goddess question her decision to bring them out. Eyeing him like she would one of her hungry wolves she moved the box away from him.

"Speaking from experience honey?"

"Zip it Disney bimbo princess."

"Now Naruto-"

The goddess twisted her body as the boy tried to tack her to get to the cookies. This lead to several minutes of Naruto tried and failing to get to the cookies and the goddess showing how flexible and determined to not let him take all of her private stash.

"Ok that's impressive considering whom he is trying to steal from." Hermes stated ad he watched. Percy hid his face as his brother tried to get to the cookies.

It finally ended with her sitting on him to prevent him from moving and eating them with him watching with an increasingly angry look. While she was giving a look of indifference, her he mind she was amused by the antics of the boy.

As well as the hunters in the room.

"So you want my cookies Naruto?"

Grrrrr

"Mmmm, they taste so good~. She doesn't make any mistakes when she makes cookies that's for sure."

"Evil sister." Approved Ares as he paid more attention.

Grrrrr

"If you ask nicely I may share a crumb with you."

Naruto began to claw at the earth to escape her. Waving a cookie in from of his nose and eyes she continued to mock him

"Doesn't smell soo good? No visible flaws.."

"Dianna is mean." Commented Frank. Who quickly added, " ust stating an observation ma'am."

Now Naruto was using his demigods powers to help him escape and steal the cookies from the goddess, but she flared her power to cancel his out.

"You must really want one huh?"

Grrrr

"You your words." Groaned Percy, why was this so much more embarrassing than if it was him?

"How about a game? Winner gets the box of cookies and also if you win I will grant you a knife and an archery set."

Athena nodded. "If he wins he'll be better off."

"If he wins sister. If he wins."

"...What's the game?"

Grinning she stared him in the eye. "Why the only game that I enjoy. I give you till sunrise tomorrow to avoid me and I hunt you till then. No one other then us in the game, using our skills and no powers at all. You up to it?"

Naruto consisted it. "Swear on the river and yes... After you get up and I finish eating... Also I get a head start."

Dianna's shitting eating grin only matched his as she agreed.

-End flashback-

"Surrender and give me your private stash of Hestia cookies as my prize as promised!"

"Well that was fun. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm going to take a nap. See ya." With a flash the love goddess was gone.

I hoped you liked it and see you later