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Percy's POV

I appeared on the rainy cliff again. I laughed for a few minutes. Oh, her red face… I chuckled again. I love getting on her nerves. I could still feel her anger through the night.

My thoughts went back to Artemis. How I felt when I embraced her. It was like a lost piece of me clicked into its place. I brushed my fingers over my lips. It felt so good to kiss her and I could go on forever. Just staying there, kissing each other…

I shook my head to clear my thoughts. I focused on the strange feeling started tonight, just mere minutes after I joined the meeting. There was something not right about the night, causing my gut to be filled with a feeling, a sense of absence… I closed my eyes and tried to be one with night. I am the night. I have to know everything. I thought. I focused on that feeling.

When I opened my eyes again, I was on a beach in Presidio, San Francisco. Golden Gates Bridge was standing tall in all its glory before me. Othrys was floating over the bridge covered by unusually thick Mist layers that could only be penetrated by the eyes of a god. "Now, why am I here?" I mused. Almost as an answer to my question I heard a soft groan from about three hundred feet to my left. There was someone lying face down on the shore. Everything blurred around me and I was standing right before the person. It was a girl with black hair and coppery skin. And she was naked. Little waves were hitting her body. But the strange part was that the girl wasn't wet. I took in her scent. It was like mine, when I was still a demigod.

I waved my hand and shadows latched themselves on her body and created a black sheet around her. I bent down and slowly turned her. My breath hitched, when I saw her face and I involuntarily took a step back. By the Chaos! I thought.

I looked into the sky, only to see my favorite constellation missing.

Once again I turned to see the face of the long dead huntress, Zoe Nightshade.

She slowly stirred and opened her eyes and looked around as if thinking it was a dream. Then she bolted upward in surprise and scrambled to her feet, holding pitch black sheet to her chest. Her eyes stopped on me.

"P-Perseus?" She asked tentatively.

"Zoe, yes, it's me. Calm down okay. What do you remember?" I asked still in shock.

"I remember me d-dying on Othrys, nothing more than that. Perseus, what is happening? How am I here? Is this even real? And you look older." She asked with fear. She was gripping the sheet around her body tightly.

"Yes Zoe, I assure you, it is real. Come, let's sit down." Two plain armchairs appeared behind me. Her eyes widened before she backed a little.

"How did you do that? W-What are you?"

"Calm down Zoe. Much has changed after your… supposed death. I am an Olympian now. I won't hurt you." Her eyes widened even more before she walked towards the chair and sat down. I took my place before her.

"Lord Perseus, how much time past since my… d-death?" I scowled.

"First of all call me Percy please. I am not as arrogant as the ruler of Olympus yet. For your question, it's been four years, approximately. I'll tell you everything but are you really sure that you cannot remember anything?" She nodded.

"Zoe, I feel something different about you and just want to confirm it. Do you trust me?" She slowly nodded again.

The nail of my index finger extended into that of a claw's.

"Give me your hand." I offered her my other hand. She eyed my finger skeptically before slowly extending her hand. I turned the palm of her hand upward and quickly scratched the middle of it. She looked at her palm in shock as it started to bleed golden blood.

Gaea's words replayed in my mind. She will have what's hers again huh?

"W-what? How can I bleed ichor?" She asked in surprise.

"I will explain everything I know but firstly do you want to join Artemis again?"

"Can you bring me to her?" She asked, hope in her eyes.

"Of course Zoe and she just gave me her consent to go to her camp." I said after Artemis' mental reply.

Artemis' POV

Fifteen minutes after he left, Percy asked me to let him in. I invited him immediately. He said that he would be bringing someone with him.

Seconds later, he materialized in the middle of our camp. A girl was by his side but we couldn't see her features. Dark mist was swirling around her, obscuring our vision. I stepped forward.

"Percy, who is this and why are you hiding her identity?" I asked curiously.

"Gather your girls Artemis. I have a surprise for all of you." He replied eagerly. I immediately called them. They gathered behind me. "So?" I asked him. He just smiled and swiped his hand over her head, dismissing the mist around her.

The moment I saw her, my heart skipped a beat. Tears welled in my eyes. I heard gasps of surprises from behind me but I didn't care. I tentatively cupped her cheeks with my palms, her silent tears soaking them. She was real. I lunged forward and hugged her.

"H-How? I saw you d-die? I put you into the sky myself. How are you alive?" I whispered, still not quite believing that she was here. I pulled back and wiped her tear stained cheeks. She smiled brightly.

"I don't really know milady. I don't remember anything of what happened after I died. I just woke up on a shore with Perseus standing over me." I turned to Percy.

"What did you do Perseus?" I asked him suspiciously. His smile faltered. I could feel all the hunters behind me glaring furiously at him.

"Whoa, calm down girls. I didn't do anything. I just found her." He held up his hands. Zoe nodded in confirmation.

"I will tell you everything I know, once you are done with your reunion." He smiled and took a seat by the campfire.

I turned back to Zoe and hugged her again, others gathering around us for their turn. After half an hour of hugging, laughing and crying, hunters finally started gather around the campfire, eager to learn about Zoe's sudden revival.

Percy was leaning on his back, his hands clasped at the back of his head murmuring some teenage song. I giggled softly despite myself. Silly boy…

Hunters didn't notice it, but Percy's eyes snapped open the moment I giggled. "I'm glad that I can make you laugh my love." He whispered only for my ears to hear and winked. I averted my eyes from his immediately. Don't blush Artemis, don't blush, for the sake of father DON'T BLUSH… I chanted in my head, fighting the light golden taint on my cheeks.

"Done so soon? You really surprise me sometimes girls." He said smiling knowingly at me. He obviously noticed my blush. I glared him.

"You look beautiful with golden cheeks and that angry look my Moon." He whispered into my mind, making eve more blood rush to my cheeks.

"Just shut up. We'll talk when we're alone." I told him the same way.

"We wish to know her story. So you better start before we got angry." Nami retorted.

"No need for unnecessary violence please, ladies." He sighed looking warily at a very pissed off Thalia. Campfire roared with a new vigor startling some of the girls. Scenes of Percy and his friends fighting against Gaea appeared within the campfire. Scene of his sword breaking, and that golden light shooting into the sky…

He then disentangled his hairpin and placed in onto the ground before passing his hand over it. Hairpin pulsed with white light for a moment before turning into the pieces of once great weapon. Tears fell from Zoe's eyes as she tentatively grabbed a piece.

She started tell us her encounter with Poseidon before The First Titan War, his graceful help and how she had gone too far and lost her immortal side.

"I had always hoped that I would get my mom's last gift back. But it is all gone now." She cried.

"Are you sure?" Percy asked.

"W-what?" We all looked up to him, only to see him smiling slyly.

"Why are you smiling, boy? Haven't you heard her story? It's not something to laugh." Phoebe shouted with teary eyes.

"Zoe, what returned back to you wasn't just a part your essence. That part used to contain your power. With that essence, I think you have your power back and I can actually smell it in your blood." He said, casting a warning glance to Phoebe, who paled a little in return.

"What don't we test it?" He said and a glass of water appeared in front of Zoe.

She eyed it skeptically before extending her hand over it. Water immediately shot up and took the shape of a ball around her hand.

Zoe started laugh and cry simultaneously while everyone cheered for her. Hunters immediately swarmed Zoe, kissing and hugging her. Seeing the opportunity, I pulled Percy aside and smashed my lips to his. He was surprised at first then responded by pulling me against him.

Soon I pulled back reluctantly.

"Thank you for bringing her back. I don't know what would happen to her if you hadn't found her." I finished sadly. He put his finger under my chin and raised my face.

"No need to thank. She is my friend too, you know. And now that she is here, let's not think about other possibilities." He frowned at the last part.

I buried my face into his chest as he wrapped his arms around me. "When did you become this important to me? I can't imagine my life without you anymore. Heck, I don't even know how I lived all this time without you." I poured my feelings.

He tightened his hold around me.

"I love you." He whispered. We just stayed there for a few seconds then pulled apart.

"As much as I would love stay, I must tell Zoe everything about us and the last few years."

He nodded.

"Okay. I need to take care of a few things in Atlantis anyway. I will see you in the morning on Olympus." He gave me a chaste kiss on the lips and dissolved into the night. I took a deep breath of that mixed smell of salty ocean and rain soaked earth he left behind.

Hi guys. Sorry for the long wait again. Seriously I am getting tired of apologizing for my lack of updates, however I told you about my reasons. I hope you will empathize.

So, Zoe Nightshade is back again. It was one of my main goals to bring her back with a good explanation and I think I caught a good point. Anyway it's your place to evaluate, not mine. As for Artemis' myth, I didn't read it and tried to create another universe, which I thought would be good, so bear with me MasterTrident.;)

This chapter is dedicated to my persistent reader, SonicReader1, for his (or her) insistent comments.(Thank you too, The Architect. I saw your review just before publishing this chapter.) I really hope you like it.

PS: I didn't forget you Lula, Taco, rider, toshiro and all of you(Don't expect me to mention all your names in a chapter:D Just wait for your turn.).Thank you for support. Till next time, be good to yourselves…3