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Percy opened his eyes. He looked around and saw that he was in the middle of some camp. He tried to move but realized he couldn't. He looked down and saw the he was, from neck to toe, wrapped in some kind of chains. He looked behind him and saw that the chains were connected to a tall wooden stake.

"What the fu-"

"Well well well, look who's awake" a voice said. Percy looked back forward and saw the goddess of the hunt herself walking towards him with about sixteen or seventeen teenage girls behind her.

"Where am I, and why am I here?" Percy asked. Artemis just smiled cruelly. Then she pulled out a long silver knife.

"What are you about to do?" Percy asked. "Cut my head off?"

"No" Artemis said, "we're going to castrate you."

Percy looked at them weirdly. "How are you going to do that if I'm wrapped in chains?"

Artemis stopped. "Oh shit I didn't even think about that."

"Of course you didn't. Fucking idiot" Percy said. The teenage girls gasped.

Artemis snarled. "You have a big mouth for someone wrapped in chains." Percy laughed.

"You mean these little old things?" he said. "I could break out of these things faster than you could put Ares' dick in your mouth."

The girls gasped again and Artemis face turned an ugly shade of purple.

Suddenly, Percy heard a voice in his head say 'Remember Percy, allies not enemies.' Percy sighed.

"I apologize for my insolence great Artemis" Percy said.

"Oh it's much too late for that, boy" she said. She advanced toward Percy with her knife. The girls gathered around Percy. "When I snap my fingers, the chains will disappear. Everybody hold him down. I will take off all of his clothes."

"Oh so you want to undress me now, huh?" Percy said wiggling his eyebrows. "Hey, I'm all for it." Artemis growled.

"You imbecile! How dare you even suggest!-"

"Look, if you're going to castrate me, can you get on with it. Talking to you is getting quite... boring" Percy said. Artemis gave another inhuman growl.

"You were the worst kind of male. Arrogant, cocky and prideful-"

"You are literally describing yourself right now. Like, literally" Percy said. "But it's fine. Just because you're a female, it's okay to overlook your own flaws to criticize a male. That's how it works here on Earth, right?"

"Enough talking" Artemis said. She stalked slowly towards Percy with her knife.

Percy yawned. "I'm sorry if I'm ruining the dramatic effect but could you please speed this up? Like for real. When we were fighting in the forest you were going more than a hundred miles an hour. Now you're telling me you can only walk in slow motion?"

"If you really want to lose your genitals that bad then so be it" Artemis said.

As Artemis approached Percy he closed his eyes and reached deep inside him. He focused in on the power that he knew was inside him. Then he opened his eyes.

"What the...?" Artemis said. Percy's eyes were white and crackled with electricity. Artemis took a step back, slightly nervous, especially as she remembered how Percy took out Ares back in the throne room.

Suddenly, Percy started to strain against the chains. After a few moments, the chains burst in one powerful electrical blast. Percy then slowly stood up, sparks shooting from different places all over his body.

The hunters surrounded him and drew bows and hunting knives. Percy just smiled and raised his fist, which was crackling with lightning. He then slammed it into the ground. There was a loud boom and everything was white for a couple of seconds before the light faded and the smoke cleared.

All the hunters were lying on the ground, out cold, with their bodies smoking. The only person left standing was Artemis.

Percy stared at her. She looked nervous, but a haughty expression still was on her face.

"I do not know what you are but I am an Olympian goddess and you are beneath me!" Artemis yelled.

Percy smiled at the goddess. Then, at the speed of light, he zoomed forward and punched Artemis straight in the face. Her body flew backwards, crackling with lightning. Her body then slammed into the ground and she lay still, her body convulsing every few seconds.

The lightning crackling around Percy's body faded and he suddenly felt very tired. He collapsed right at that very spot and faded into unconsciousness.

A couple minutes later

Percy opened his eyes. He sat up and glanced at his surroundings.

Most of the hunters were still out cold but some of their eyes were fluttering. Artemis, though, still hadn't stirred.

Percy quickly stood to his feet and ran out of the clearing just as some of the hunter started to sit up and rub their eyes.

Percy kept running for several minutes before he finally stopped.

He climbed a tree and sat there in thought. What should he do now?

Then, he remembered what the Zoe girl and Artemis had been talking about before he interrupted them. They were about to embark on a mission to get some demigod children. If he was able to capture the demigods children then there was a chance that he could use them to get to their parent. Then he could maybe get a lead on the pieces of the hammer.

Percy jumped down from the tree and headed back in the direction of the hunters' camp.

A day later

Percy stopped running for a few seconds to catch his breath. He had been running almost non stop for the past three hours. It was like those hunters of Artemis never took a break!

Percy had been chasing behind them for almost a whole day. They had decided to run all the way to Maine which was freaking insane!

After the short break, Percy started jogging again. They had to be at least close to this Maine place by now.

Half an hour later

At long last, the hunters started to slow down, then stop. They were at the edge of the woods. Percy was breathing heavily but he ignored the stabbing pain in his ribs and started walking.

It had started to snow and though the cold didn't really bother Percy, he didn't really like the snow.

He walked around the hunters, quietly, finally, he reached the edge of the woods, where the hunt was standing, watching something.

Down the short hill at the edge of the woods was a building. Percy didn't have time to read the name of the building because suddenly, the doors burst open and Percy saw some kind of monster dragging two kids out of the building.

The kids were struggling against his grip but he was unfazed and he continued to drag them. He looked like he was going towards a cliff that was about 200 yards away from the school.

Suddenly, the doors of the school burst open again and a couple of teenagers sprinted out.

Even though Percy was on the hill, he could still see the kids clearly. One of them was a pretty girl with long blonde hair and startling grey eyes. The second had spiky black hair and blue eyes and she was holding a spear in her hand. The third was a boy. He was shorter than the girls but he had black hair and green eyes. The last was some type of creature that had a human body from the waist up but had furry legs and hooves from the waist down.

Percy watched as the teenagers tried to attack the monster. Every time they tried, though, some kind of spike thing would shoot out from his tail at an incredible speed and almost impale them. Meanwhile, the manticore was getting closer to the cliff. That's when the hunters of Artemis sprang into action.

All of them fired their arrows at the manticore simultaneously. When the arrows, struck him, the manticore roared in pain. He pulled one of them out, but when he saw the color of the arrow, a look of fear came over his face.

"No" he said. "NO! You will not take this away from me!"

He picked up the two children he had been dragging and sprinted towards the cliff just as the hunters of Artemis began running out of the woods, firing arrows top speed at the manticore.

Suddenly, the manticore dropped the kids and yelled out in pain, holding his eye. One of the kids had poked him in the eye!

"You stupid brats" he growled. "You're lucky Kronos wants you alive or you would have been dead long ago."

By this time the hunters had reached the manticore and surrounded him but for some reason, the manticore was smiling.

All of a sudden, he reached into his coat and pulled out some kind of black, marble looking spheres.

He threw them on the ground and suddenly there was a loud explosion and black smoke filled the air.

Everyone was disable for a couple seconds as they were down on their knees, coughing.

After about a minute, the smoke cleared but there was one huge problem.

The manticore had Zoe in his grasp, one arm around her throat and a knife to her head.

"Drop your weapons, all of you, or my knife will go through her skull" the manticore said.

No one moved for the next 10 seconds.

"I said drop your weapons!" the manticore roared.

Percy wondered why Zoe didn't do any crazy hunter karate and free herself but when he looked at her, he saw that she was frozen with fear. It seemed like she was unable to move.

Slowly and reluctantly, everybody dropped their weapons. Everyone except for Artemis. Instead, she notched an arrow and pointed it at the manticore's head.

"Release my hunter immediately" Artemis said. The manticore laughed.

"You really think you can intimidate me? I am a servant of the general himself. Nothing scares me!" the manticore shouted. Artemis' eyes widened when she heard 'the general.'

"PUT DOWN THE BOW!" the manticore yelled. Artemis placed the bow down and the manticore smiled. "Good girl."

"Get your filthy hands off of my hunter" Artemis growled.

"Oh I won't touch her. But I can't say my monsters won't. They haven't fucked a mortal in a long time and they will be eager to have a turn."

Artemis' body glowed silver and she looked as if she was going to explode. She could do nothing, though, just watch as the manticore backed towards the cliff.

Percy narrowed his eyes. Percy hadn't planned to interfere, just kidnap the children and leave, but he could not allow this to happen.

Percy rushed out from his spot and sped towards the manticore at blinding speed.

The manticore barely had any time to register the blur that was flying towards him before he was nailed in the head by Percy's fist.

The manticore's grip on Zoe loosened and Percy grabbed her and ran over to Artemis. He then placed Zoe on the ground next to her.

Artemis' eyes widened when she saw who had saved her lieutenant. Before she could utter a word, though, Percy sped towards the manticore.

He drew back his fist, which was now crackling with lightning, and rocked the manticore in his jaw. The manticore flew back and skidded in the snow until he was a couple of inches away from the edge of the cliff.

The manticore stood to his feet shakily. He looked dazed and the hair on his head and face was standing up.

Percy's fist started crackling with electricity and he sped towards the manticore, ready to end its life. At the last second, though, the manticore turned around and jumped off the cliff.

Percy slowed to a stop and looked over the edge of the cliff as the manticore fell. Suddenly, the manticore disappeared halfway down.

'Must be a magical boundary' Percy thought. 'But who put it up, and how?'

All of a sudden, a voice behind Percy said, "Do not move if you wish to live."

Percy sighed and turned around. "I said don't move!"

Percy just shook his head at the goddess who currently had an arrow pointed at his face. "Seriously?" he said.

She just glared at him, her eyes full of hate and anger. "Uuuum are you just going to do something, like I don't know, threaten to take me to Olympus?"

"I will let you go free" Artemis said. Percy's jaw dropped.

"Um are you sur-"

"Hurry up and go before I change my mind. You saved the life of my lieutenant and this is my way of repaying you. Now get out of my sight. You were never here. We never saw you" Artemis said, looking pained just by saying those words.

Percy merely raised an eyebrow at her. "I know what this is. You just don't want to be in debt to a male."

Artemis' expression somehow turned even more hateful. "This is your last chance. Get out of my sight."

"No can do. I'm here on a... personal mission. I came to collect those kids" Percy said, pointing at the two children that the manticore tried to kidnap.

"You will not touch those children. I have orders from Zeus himself to get those children" Artemis said. "So leave or else you will become a very over sized pin cushion." All the hunters pointed their bows at Percy.

Percy's expression turned dark. "You have no idea what the worlds are in danger of. There is a lot more at stake than your stupid planet. By standing in my way, you stand in the way of the nine worlds, and I cannot have that. If you want to live past doomsday, I suggest you let me get those kids. I promise no harm will come to-"

"Oh would you look at that! A male making a promise. That pretty much guarantees it will be broken" one of the hunters said. Percy barely spared her a glance. At this point he didn't even want to try to argue with the hunters' sexist views. It was pointless.

"I am not here to bargain with you, boy" Artemis said. "I am running out of patience."

"Fine" Percy said. "I'll go, but I will need one thing: an answer to this one question."

Artemis didn't answer, so Percy asked the question.

"Around fifteen years ago or so, something happened in a place far from here and something was lost, broken to pieces. Did any of the Olympians feel a... wave of power? A shockwave? Anything out of place?"

Artemis' eyes narrowed as Percy asked these questions. How did he know about the wave, as the gods called it. It happened just under an hour after the loud horn was heard. The meeting had just been dismissed and then the shock wave was felt. As if something was slammed into Earth at a million miles per hour. Everyone felt it but to the gods, it felt like they had been rammed into by a truck. They knew that something powerful had just arrived on Earth. This didn't explain how Percy could have known about it, though. He would have been a mere baby when they happened. So Artemis lied.

"I have no idea what you speak of but I do know that your time is running out to leave my presence" Artemis said. Percy hung his head. He was failing his father.

Percy got ready and sped off into the forest. He would have to find a different way to get a lead. And then it hit him. Percy didn't know why he didn't think of this before. He was ready to run in the direction of the place he needed to go but all of a sudden, there was a loud roar. This was not a regular roar, though. This one was laced with malice and power.

Percy's eyes darted around fearfully.

Then, all of a sudden, the most terrifying creature Percy had ever laid eyes on burst through the trees and ran straight at him.

A creature that was up to 20 feet tall lumbered at Percy through the trees. The creature had two heads. One was the head of a dragon, razor sharp teeth and red demon eyes. The other head was the head of a snake, yellow eyes with venom dripping from his mouth.

The creature had the scaly body of a dragon with huge wings sprouting from his back.

Percy was frozen in terror a the creature gave another roar. A wave of heat rolled over Percy. Percy summoned jarngreipr and put the gloves on his hands. He then summoned astrapi and got in position to fight. The monster charged at Percy. Percy was forced to jump forty feet in the air but then the monster did something unexpected. He lifted his head and opened his dragon mouth. Percy's eyes widened as the dragon let loose a torrent of flame from his gaping mouth.

Percy slashed astrapi in a wide arc in front of him and a strong wind smashed into the torrent of flame. It pushed it back just long enough for Percy to land safely on the ground. He then sprinted towards the monster. He was so focused on avoiding another blast of flame that he forgot about the snake head. When Percy was about 30 feet away from the monster, the snake head spat a glob of poison directly at Percy's face. Percy was forced to do a baseball slide under it. It barely missed his head.

When is splattered onto the forest floor, it burned a giant, steaming hole into it. Percy's eyes widened.

'I can't let that touch me' Percy thought to himself. Percy got back on his feet.

He raised astrapi and lightning crackled from his fingers into the axe. The axe crackled with electricity. Percy then slammed it down into the ground with all the force that he could muster.

The forest exploded with a loud BOOM. The trees around Percy were completely obliterated. There was a giant white flash of light, and then everything was silent.

Percy stood up from one knee and looked around. In the air all around him was shimmering golden mist.

Percy let go of astrapi and it disappeared. He then took off his gloves and they disappeared as well.

'What the hell was that?' Percy thought to himself. He would never admit it but he was a bit shaken by the monster.

'Alright I have to get going' Percy thought. 'I know where I must go, but I don't know how to get there.'

Percy looked around, not exactly sure which way to go.

His plan was to find the oracle of delphi. He knew about her because of a story that Lairon had told him when he was young. He hardly remembered the details, something about some hero named Perseus but the point was, this oracle person gave prophecies to people that needed to go on quests.

'Who is the god that controls it, though?' Percy thought. 'Dammit!'

He searched his memory of all the gods he saw in the throne and tried to pinpoint one that looked like he would control an oracle.

"Perseus" a voice behind Percy suddenly said.

Perseus whirled around, summoning vronti in less than a second and pointing the sword at the figure that stood in the trees 20 yards in front of him.

"Who are you?" he asked. The figure stepped into the light. Whoever it was was wearing a black cloak with a hood. The voice sounded feminine but Percy wasn't sure.

"I am not here to harm you" the person said.

"So why are you here?" Percy asked.

"I just want to talk" the person said. Percy raised an eyebrow.

"You came all the way to find me to talk?" Percy said. "I find that quite... suspicious."

The person under the cloak reached up and removed the hood. Percy's eyes got wide.

"Hera? Queen of the Gods?" he gasped. He raised vronti, ready for any attack that Hera attempted.

"I am not here to kill or harm you, as I have already said before" Hera said. Percy shook his head.

"Why should I believe you?" Percy asked.

"Why would I want to hurt my own son?"

Percy froze. He felt as if his mind was going numb.

"...Son."

Hera smiled and nodded.

Many times Percy had asked Alfenhort about his mother. Alfenhort had said that Thor had told him who Percy's mother was but always said that it wasn't the right time to tell Percy.

"But..."

"You were born here on Earth and your father took you to Asgard" Hera said.

"But... Aren't you married to Zeus?" Percy asked. Hera sighed.

"I hold no love in my heart for that man any longer. It all died over the centuries of infidelity. I got sick of it, met your father, and..."

"I don't know" Percy said. "You could be lying to me."

"I swear it on the River Styx." Thynder rumbled overhead. Percy looked up at the sky and raised an eyebrow.

"Was that supposed to make me believe you?" Percy asked.

"Swearing on the river Styx is a binding oath" Hera said.

"So where have you been all my life, then?" Percy asked, slightly annoyed that his birth mother had let him just grow up without her.

"I didn't even know where you were?" Hera said, her eyes suddenly glistening with wetness. "I heard the ragnarok horn all those years ago and I got so scared. I thought Thor was going to die. I thought you were going to die." She was openly crying now and Percy had the sudden urge to go hug her but he wasn't sure yet.

"Thor..." Percy started to say but he paused when he saw the hopeful look in Hera's eyes. It would crush her to learn that Thor was dead. Percy didn't want to do it but he had to tell her the truth. "Thor died that day."

Hera's mouth fell open. "He..."

"He died destroying Asgard to try to fend off as many monsters and giants as he could." Hera was still stunned, though, and didn't say a word. "I grew up with elves and have been trained since I was 8 years old."

"He's dead?" Hera finally breathed. "Gone?"

"Yes, I'm sorry" Percy said, "mother" he added at the end. He had only used that word on an elf before so saying it to a person, especially the queen of the gods felt very weird.

"But, what about ragnarok" Her said, "the swallowed sun, the... the death."

"I'm not sure what went wrong but fate has gone off course, I believe. Nothing is the way it is supposed to be" Percy said.

A fresh batch of tears flowed from Hera's eyes as Thor's death hit her for real. This time, Percy stepped forward and wrapped his arms around his mother's body as she sobbed.

"It's okay" he said.

"So what are you doing here now?" Hera said in a shaky voice.

"I have come in search for my father's hammer. It was broken into pieces during ragnarok and it is my quest to find it."

"But, you have weapons" Hera said.

"I need any advantage I can get, I need to gather allies, and mjolnor can help do both" Percy said. Hera breathed in and then out slowly.

"How can I help. I'll do anything, Percy, anything" she said. Percy smiled. (Get your minds out of the gutter).

"I need a prophecy" Percy said. "Can I be taken to the oracle of delphi?" Hera smiled brightly.

"Yes" she said. "That is fairly simple. Grab my hand." Percy held onto Hera's hand and they were flashed to the top of a hill.

"This is camp half-blood, where demigod children of gods stay" Hera explained.

"What will you tell them?" Percy asked.

"The truth will not suffice?" Hera asked. Percy shook his head.

"I'm trying to keep a low profile" he said. Hera nodded.

"I will tell them that you are an unknown, then I'll talk to some of the other gods and see if I can get one of them to claim you." Percy nodded.

Hera glided through the barrier at camp half-blood and Percy followed behind trying to look as stupid as possible.

Chiron noticed them from the big house porch and galloped towards them. Just as he was about to reach them, Percy noticed another group approaching them.

"Are those..." Percy said as he spotted their silver outfits.

"Without a doubt" Hera said. "Hunters of Artemis." Percy groaned.

"Chiron" Zoe said respectfully, which surprised Percy to no end.

"You have the children?" he asked. Zoe stepped aside and a girl came from their midst. Another boy came forward from off to the side.

"Aaahh, thank you, hunters" Chiron said. "I will take it from here." Unfortunately, at that moment, one of the hunters recognized Percy.

"It's him!" she exclaimed. All heads snapped to Percy and the hunters drew their bows. At that moment, Hera stepped forward raised herself off of the ground a few feet, her body glowing. She glared down at the hunt.

"Put them away" she said. The hunters wilted and put their bows away. She gave Percy a short look that said 'No use in hiding it now.' Percy sighed and waved a hand.

"You are not to touch this boy, am I understood?" Hera said. One of the braver hunters decided to speak up.

"Who is he?" she said.

"You didn't even know who he was and you were about to castrate him in the woods?" Hera said in an extremely disappointing voice. "Why? Because he hurt your feelings?"

"Because he disrespected our lady" Zoe said, sticking out her considerably large chest proudly. Hera scoffed.

"How many men do you disrespect per day, Zoe?" she said.

"So he can just get away with being disrespectful to a goddess?"

"If she threatened him first and apprehended him when he did nothing wrong, then yes, he should get away with it because he didn't do anything."

Zoe gaped at Hera. Never in her thousands of years had she seen her defend a demigod like this. It was widely known that Hera despised them because they were born of infidelity.

"Lady Hera, I apologize if you took our statements as disrespectful" another hunter said. She had red hair and was muscular for a female.

"It is okay" Hera said. "just remember to never do it again." Some of the hunters seemed to now register that this was the queen of the gods and suddenly looked very nervous.

"But who is he?" Zoe asked. Hera looked back at Percy again.

"He is a demigod that I came across. His name is Percy. I don't know his parent."

"How old are you?" Chiron asked. "You look around 17 at least."

"I'm 15" Percy said. Chiron's eyebrows raised in surprise.

"Well you should be claimed pretty soon" Chiron said. "I thank you, lady Hera, for bringing the demigod. Percy, I will show you to the Hermes cabin."

Hera gave him a look saying that she would see him very soon and Percy gave her a slight nod and a half smile, glad to finally know who his true mother is.