Hello everyone, I know it's been a while, but do know that this story isn't dead. Also, I have changed a plot point last chapter, and I highly suggest you go reread it. It's good to be back writing this, I hope you enjoy.
He had to eat this food as fast as possible, he wasn't going to let Artemis take it away from him! It was his, he saw it, and he is eating it, therefore, by universal Saiyan law, it was his! She kept on staring at him until he told her to stop being creepy, she diverted her creepy staring, and Broly went back to destroying the food. Soon, the table was cleared, and he fell backwards, his stomach completely full. How satisfying, granted, not as satisfying as ending a life, but satisfying nonetheless.
"Are you done?" Artemis asked.
"Leave me alone." Broly said.
"That's basically half of your available vocabulary." Artemis said.
"Okay then, how about leave me the HELL alone woman?" Broly stated.
Artemis took a deep breath, trying to control her building anger.
"Listen, I am the one who got that food for you in the first place, the LEAST you could do is thank me for feeding you." Artemis said.
"Whatever." Broly said.
"Broly! I am this close to hurting you!" Artemis yelled, making a gesture with her two fingers.
"Please, as if you could hurt me woman." Broly said.
"Broly, follow me please." Artemis asked.
"Why?" Broly asked.
"Just come on." She said, making a follow me motion with her hand.
Broly got up from the ground, and followed her into the forest. After about five minutes of walking, Artemis sat down on the ground. She gestured for Broly to do the same, to which he complied, sitting cross-legged directly across from her. Broly felt as if the trees were mocking him, though he did not know why he was getting this feeling. Damn those trees!
"Broly, why are you the way you are?" She asked.
Well, that was an easy question.
"It's because I'm a Saiyan." Broly said.
"And? There has to be more to it than that! You may be a Saiyan, but you're insane, I want to know why you are crazy." Artemis asked.
"Why do you care woman? It's none of your business, and if I were you, I would be living my life right now while you still have it." Broly stated.
"Broly, I have told you this before, and I will say it again. The gods will never die. Just give up hope on trying to kill me, because that will never happen. Even if you were to blow up the earth, we would still be here." Artemis said.
The gods could fade however, if Broly were to find out about that, he would just destroy the planet. If there aren't any humans to remember them, then they would in a sense, 'die.'
Broly stiffened at the word 'Earth.'
"This is Kakarots planet? Hehehe…" Broly chuckled.
If Kakarot was here, he was going to kill him in front of his son; or better yet, kill his son and make Kakarot watch! It would be so….
"Kakarots earth and this one are different." Artemis said.
"That's not possible you idiot. There is only one earth that I know of, and it's this one. After I kill you and Kakarot, ill blow this rock to hell." Broly said.
"This isn't the same earth Broly! And for the last time, I cannot die! Do you not know how to listen?" Artemis said.
"There is nothing that can't die, if I break you bad enough, you will die, it doesn't matter how durable you are."
"You really are a fool." Artemis said.
"You really are getting on my nerves!" Broly snapped back.
"A monster like you shouldn't have nerves!" Artemis yelled.
"I'll kill you!" Broly said.
Broly jumped up, and punched at Artemis, only for it to fly off to her right. His fist impacted with the ground, sending dirt flying everywhere, and creating a small crater in the ground.
"Damn it all!" He yelled.
"Broly, stop this right now, it's pointless." Artemis said.
"I hate you almost as much as I hate Kakarot…" Broly mumbled, standing a few feet away from her and hyperventilating.
Broly was enveloped in a strange aura of energy just then, but it wasn't the same greenish aura that he had when he first showed up. It was dark. It was horrible, she could sense the emotion behind this aura, and it was murderous intent. She could have sworn that Broly's eyes had turned pitch black for a moment, and Artemis knew that this energy wasn't Broly's own. Something was projecting this energy into Broly, but what?
Broly started to foam slightly at the mouth, and he began twitching madly. Artemis jumped up from the ground, and drew her bow.
Broly then began to laugh madly, but it didn't sound like Broly, it sounded… different… almost… familiar.
Suddenly, the energy dissipated, and Broly fell forward and face planted onto the ground. What had just happened?
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It has been a few days since Broly fell unconscious, and Artemis still didn't know when he was going to wake up. She didn't tell her hunters of the incident, Artemis didn't want to spook them any more than they already were. Other events had transpired as well ever since Broly's unconsciousness set in. Percy, Annabeth, and a satyr named Grover were given a quest to go receive the master bolt. That was pretty interesting, she hoped that their journey bore fruit, for she didn't want there to be a war between the gods.
She didn't think that Poseidon took the master bolt, she had a strong suspicion that it was actually Hades who took the bolt away. Percy couldn't have been the culprit either, it didn't make any sense to her for him to take it. Her thoughts wandered back to Broly, the man capable of destroying earth. Where had he come from? He just appeared right there in the middle of the council. When Goku showed up as what she assumed a ghost, he had told her that a cloaked man brought him there.
A cloaked man capable of bringing beings from one dimension of reality to another, how powerful was he? Is the cloaked man metaphysical? Was he also the one responsible for bringing Broly here? Why even do that? Why bring Goku? So many questions, so little answers.
Artemis hopped down from the tree she was sitting in, and landed gracefully. She walked towards the tent where Broly resided in, and entered. On the other side of the tent, Broly lay, covered in blankets that came up to his neck. Strange, when he sleeps he almost looks normal.
"Food." Broly muttered like a certain satyr they had encountered.
"Just stay asleep, I don't want to deal with you." Artemis said.
She turned around and left the tent, walking towards her own. This had been a long few days, and she still hadn't found a way to kill Broly, his skin was incredibly tough, and he seemed to be able to survive almost anywhere. Wait, she hadn't tried putting him in lava yet, that may yield some results. Of course she wasn't able to do that, the arrow and its wide array of complicated rules prevented her from directly harming him. Why did Hephaestus even make that damn arrow? Was it really supposed to be a joke? It seems awfully convenient of him to just make this arrow. Something else is going one here, she was beginning to doubt Hephaestus.
Did he really make that arrow? If he did, why so many complicated rules? What was the point?
"Kakarot!" She heard Broly yell back in the tent.
He's been doing that a lot lately, what did Goku do to make him like this? From what she could tell, Goku was a good person. She doubted that Goku deliberately drove him insane, so what was the cause?
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Kakarots whining was everywhere, but the source couldn't be found. Why was everything so dark? Broly couldn't form coherent thoughts because Kakarots crying was driving him even more insane. Where was that little weakling?
"Kakarot!" Broly yelled.
Broly noticed some kind of light coming from behind him, and saw the silhouette of a man standing in front of the light.
"Kakarot!" Broly yelled at the figure, charging at him with his fist raised.
When Broly closed the distance, he threw a punch at the beings face, only for it to be caught by its right hand. The things hand was so cold…
"No, not Kakarot." The thing said.
Soon enough, Broly noticed that it indeed was not Kakarot, it was a man wearing a dark cloak.
"Wake up Broly." It said.
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"KAKAROT!" Artemis heard Broly yell once more.
Suddenly, the ground started shaking, and the tent that Artemis had left disintegrated. She saw Broly enveloped in a golden aura, and his hair had turned golden and spiked up. His eyes were now a solid orb of green.
He turned to Artemis, and charged.
"Kakarot!" Broly yelled.
He threw a fist at her, where its path was redirected into the ground to the side of her. Broly made another crater in the ground like last time, but this one was much deeper. Her hunters had come out of their own tents and held a panicked look on their faces. Broly threw a green orb of energy at her, which was redirected into the sky. She really hoped that wouldn't hit any of the planets in the solar system.
"Kakarot!" He yelled again.
Throwing more punches and kicks in an attempt to harm her but those too were redirected somewhere else.
"Broly, stop this right now!" She yelled.
For some odd reason, Broly did NOT stop, he kept trying to attack her. But why? She had given him a direct order, and he wasn't listening.
"I'll kill you Kakarot!" Broly yelled.
Wait a moment, could it be that Broly wasn't responding to the orders because he thought that she was Goku? Was that a possibility?
"I'm not Kakarot!" Artemis yelled.
Broly didn't listen, throwing punches and kicks in a vain effort to harm her.
"Just shut up Kakarot! No more!" Broly yelled.
No more? What did he mean by that?
"Shut up! Damn you Kakarot!" Broly yelled.
"Broly, you need to calm down, Kakarot isn't here!" Artemis stated.
Broly said nothing, but he did stop attacking Artemis. Broly grabbed at his hair with both hands, and screamed. His hair then turned black once again, and he fell forward onto his hands and knees. He was breathing heavily, and sweat was dripping down his face. Broly looked up at Artemis with rage in his eyes.
"I hate you Kakarot!" He yelled.
"I'm not Kakarot Broly, calm yourself." Artemis said.
"Shut up!" He yelled.
"Don't you speak to her that way you swine!" Zoe yelled.
"He is just confused Zoe, calm yourself." Artemis told her.
Zoe said nothing, but continued to glare at Broly. Suddenly the Saiyan stood up, and flew high into the sky. Artemis saw Broly fly off into the distance, leaving a trail of energy behind. Great, time to go and get him.
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He just wanted to leave this place, find the real Kakarot, and kill him. When he first woke up, everyone looked like Kakarot, and when the hallucination faded, it was just Artemis and her hunters surrounding him. He wanted to kill them all, Kakarot, Artemis, and her hunters. After that, he would blow up the earth, and then this galaxy! The wind flew through his hair and stung his eyes as he broke the sound barrier.
He wasn't being held back anymore, he could go where he pleased.
Broly flew around the world for about an hour before he stopped to land in a desert. On this side of the planet, it was nighttime. The seemingly endless sea of sand stretched farther than he could see. Nothing here could be alive, and even if there was, he didn't care, this desert was about to turn into glass.
Broly screamed as a powerful aura of energy surrounded him. He forced it outwards in a huge explosion of force, sending the sand flying everywhere. Broly amplified the power of his aura, and did what he wanted to do. Soon, the desert was turned into glass, cracks formed into the ground as the newly formed glass shattered under Broly's fist, causing the entire desert to crack.
The wasteland was now even less inhabitable, just like this entire planet will be in the future. Broly didn't want to wait though, he wanted to destroy earth right now. He formed a ball of condensed green energy into his palm, and threw it into the ground. Much to his disappointment, the energy ball just flew back out of the ground and into the sky. So he would have to wait, this isn't fair.
Broly sensed something coming his way, and turned towards the moon. Artemis was descending from the sky, leaving her chariot in the air. She landed in front of Broly with little to no sound, and looked up at him. Her eyes had turned silver, much like her hair. Broly noticed one thing that seemed to happen often to Artemis, and that was cosmetic changes. Her hair would change from silver, to auburn on occasion, and her eyes would do the same, and sometimes, she would look younger than she was.
Right now, she had the body of an adult woman, but that could change at any time.
"Broly what did you do!?" She asked.
"This is just a preview to what will happen to earth." Broly said, smirking.
"You're wrong, this will not happen to earth, and Broly; this right here, will never happen again, I won't let you destroy any part of earth like this again." Artemis said.
"Woman, I will kill everyone you love in front of you, and after I do that, ill blow up the earth. I will make you watch, then I'll kill you on the moon!" Broly yelled.
"You really are confident that you will be able to accomplish this outlandish goal." She said.
"It's not outlandish for me, I have the power to kill everything here with little effort. Don't doubt that I will either. Nothing will stop me!" Broly laughed.
"I won't let you do it you bastard!" Artemis yelled.
"Ha! Am I getting under your skin?" Broly said.
"I'm going to get under your skin with a knife you monster!" Artemis yelled.
"That's the spirit!" Broly laughed.
"This isn't funny." Artemis stated.
"It is for me, now run along now you bug." Broly said.
"You do know that you are coming back with me right? Or did your tiny brain forget about that?" Artemis said.
"Why bring me back? Just leave me alone, and after the six years, I'll kill you. You won't have to deal with me until then, and you can live your worthless life in peace, before you die of course." Broly said.
"Just go back to the camp Broly." Artemis said.
"You will regret this." Broly growled.
"Whatever." Artemis stated.
Artemis's chariot then came down from the sky, and she climbed aboard, taking to the sky and flying back to her camp with Broly following right behind her with his arms crossed. After they got back to camp, Broly walked off into the woods, he needed to be alone. Artemis walked into her tent, and sat down in front of her table. What was she going to do about Broly? If she couldn't kill him, what would she do? Goku wasn't very good at giving advice, how was she supposed to make friends with him?
She wished that she could find the answer to her problem. Artemis felt like the solution was staring her right in the face, but apparently it was doing so from the shadows. Something had to be done about Broly, the planets future is at stake, everything would be gone if Broly had his way. Humans, gods, titans, and of course the earth itself. She needed to think of something, ANYTHING to prevent the earth's destruction.
She has even tried turning him into an animal, but that didn't work anymore than shooting him did. She had to think about this…
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He would kill them all soon, six years is a long time to wait though. If Broly was going to stay here for that long, then he needed to do something to pass the time. He could train of course, but that's only one thing he could do to pass the time. Killing things would be a good pass time, but he couldn't kill any of the humans here. Animals would have to do in the meantime. Then again, there was that snake hair lady… and if there are others like her, then that means he has something sentient to kill.
Killing something that could think and reason was much more rewarding than killing an animal. However, he oh so wanted to kill some of the humans on this planet. Those weaklings would die if Broly so much a coughed on one. It's too bad that Artemis directly told him that he couldn't do that, but maybe there was a loophole he could exploit.
In the meantime, he decided to train for a little while in the woods. While doing so, he began to think of ways to 'accidently' kill a human. The closest ones around were those hunters that Artemis has…
Wait, who is that? Broly noticed that there was a woman standing in between the trees looking at him… in a strange way.
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She has been thinking of a solution for hours, but still couldn't come up with anything feasible. She could have him take a dip in the river Styx, then again, if he survived, he would be even more invincible than he already was. That's too risky to attempt. She could try to do reverse taming of the shrew on Broly, but that… just wouldn't be happening.
She suddenly felt the presence of another Olympian in her camp. Artemis got up from her chair, and walked outside. She saw Aphrodite standing in the middle of a group of her hunters. They were all glaring at Aphrodite with their arms crossed.
This had happened before.
Aphrodite loves trying to get the hunters to leave her for a man, and she despised her for that. However, this didn't seem to be the case. Aphrodite looked to Artemis and simply walked over to her, and her face was lacking that signature perverted smirk that she had. Whatever she had come here for, it was serious.
"Artemis, we must…talk in private." Aphrodite said.
"Oh? And why is this?" Artemis said.
"Just come on." Aphrodite urged.
"Fine, don't try anything funny." Artemis warned her.
"Trust me, I won't."
"Then let's go, follow me." Artemis said.
They made their way back into Artemis's tent, and both sat down on opposite ends of the table. Aphrodite remained silent for a few moments before she finally decided to speak.
"I came here to talk about our big planet destroying friend." Aphrodite said.
"And what is there to talk about? We have to find a way to kill him, and unless you came here to discuss ways to go about it, then you can leave." Artemis stated.
"Listen Artemis, just give up on trying to kill him, I have a better and easier way to go about it." Aphrodite said.
"Oh please, like you have a better solution. What would that be hmm?" Artemis said.
"Do not take this as a joke! The earth is at risk, so please just listen to me." Aphrodite said.
Artemis said nothing in response, but simply nodded.
"Now, just fair warning, you aren't going to like this plan one bit, and you will no doubt chase me out of camp after I tell you it. Try to refrain from doing that, alright dear? Now listen, Broly is an all-powerful planet destroying monster." Aphrodite said.
Artemis summoned a cup of nectar and began to sip it, listening to her plan. She nodded in response to her statement about Broly.
"However, Broly is also a man, and you know what that means? It means that he can be seduced." Aphrodite said.
"Ah, so you want to try to make him fall in love with you huh? Go for it, I don't care." Artemis stated, taking another sip of her drink.
"No, not me, I was talking about you honey." Aphrodite said.
Artemis spit out her drink in shock. How dare she even suggest such a thing!
"Are you insane!? You do know that I am a maiden right? And what's stopping YOU from doing it?" Artemis asked.
"I've tried actually." Aphrodite said.
"Explain yourself."
"I was in the woods with Broly before I came here. I tried to cast some love magic on him to fall in love with me… but it didn't work. Broly took offense to my attempt and tried to break my spine!" Aphrodite yelled.
"Well why didn't he?" Artemis asked.
"He did Artemis! I had to teleport away from there to prevent him from caving my beautiful face in with his size twenties! After I healed my back, I came here."
Wait, how was that possible? The arrow should have prevented him from harming gods, and vice versa. It worked for Artemis, why didn't it work for Aphrodite?
"He shouldn't have been able to hurt you." Artemis said.
"I know, but some black energy surrounded him and he just… did it."
Black energy? Was it the same kind of energy as before? What the hell was it?
"Ill figure this out, now get out of here." Artemis said.
"Not yet Artemis. We both know that you can't kill him, none of us can. You have to make him fall in love with you!" Aphrodite said.
"Get out, right now." Artemis said in a threatening tone.
"I said that you had to listen okay? So listen. I'll help you out with this, I'm the god of love remember?" Aphrodite said.
"Just go away dammit! I would rather die!" Artemis yelled.
"You WILL die if you don't do this Artemis. Not just you, but me, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, your precious hunters, and the earth will be demolished. If he does blow up the earth, the gods will fade into nothing, you do know this right?" Aphrodite asked.
"I'll find a different way, now leave me before I start notching my arrows." Artemis threatened.
"I know you'll come to me eventually." Aphrodite said.
"Ha! That'll be the day." Artemis said.
Idiotic love god. If Aphrodite herself couldn't pull it off, how could Artemis?
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Where did that weakling go!? When he finds her, he's going to break her even further! Stupid cowards, can't even face their own death honorably!
There we go everyone, did you like it? Also, it has been a long time since I read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books. I have a good recollection of what happened, but if one of you could create a timeline of events from the book, that would be GREATLY appreciated.
P.S I haven't read past Mark of Athena yet, so please don't mention anything from beyond that point.