Meeting the Moon at war

Chapter 21

Zoe was, to say the least, shocked. No one, and she meant  no one, has ever gotten a hug without her permission, and the unfortunate person that would hug her without her permission would either be shouted at or so badly hurt that in a few minutes he'd be taking a nice trip to Hades if not cared to immediately, depending to the person that had hugged her. She was broken out of her trance like state when she felt her shirt being soaked in the boy's tears.  

She didn't know why but the painful cries of his made her want to comfort the male and tell him that everything was going to be fine, like she did with the new recruited that would have horrible pasts from the abusive relatives. Then she remembered that this was a male that they were talking about and that all of them would do things for attention, money, fame and glory and she remembered how disgusting they were, this lead to her being furious with the boy  that was 'crying' on her shoulder, thinking that he was only doing this to manipulate her and then take advantage of her, like all the males did. 

Percy's mind was a whirlpool at the moment. He couldn't believe that Zoe was here, alive and healthy, not a single scratch on her unlike the time he saw her last, before her going to the stars. After 30 seconds of hugging her his senses spiked, warning him of danger thus making him jump backwards and was happy that he did. Where he was last standing was a dagger, no doubt that it was thrown from the same person that Percy was relived to see. 

Artemis saw the state of Percy both mentally and physically. She scanned Percy up and down and saw that he was bone dead tired, with large purple bags under his eyes and looked like it was taking up all of his effort to even stay on his feet. Then she looked in the mentally part. His eyes had gone from being mischievous, powerful, kind and caring to broken, shattered and a bit of insanity, which scared the hell out of her. She was surprised to see him in such a state, though she did understand the physically tired one, she didn't know the reason behind his mental state. As she was about to go deeper into his mind to find out what happened he suddenly broke into fits of laughter and mumbling under his breath the same two words over and over again, "You're alive." 

This made the hunters snap out of their mental debate of how to deal with the male using the worst possible methods that were invented to human kind. These thoughts stopped as soon as they heard the bone chilling laughter and the words that were coming out of the boy's mouth, he truly looked like a mad man, a mad man with tremendous power that could take them al out without breaking a sweat. That was when they felt a powerful aura making them bow, unable to stay on their feet for long due to the power that the aura was emitting. They all thought that one of the Big Three had come down to kill the lowly demigod but imagine their surprise when they found out that the aura was coming from the person that they had truly started to hate. This made them all frightened and terrified. A person with as much power as the Big Three was unheard of. 

The only person that was spared from the pull of the powerful aura was Jackie, the newest addition to the hunt. She was at first confused as to what was happening to them when she felt the aura that Percy was emitting though for some reason it wasn't effecting her in the slightest. She saw the terrified faces of her fellow hunters and knew that this guy in front of her was the real deal, since her sisters nearly never get scared of anything. She gathered up her courage and walked up to him, despite her sisters and mistress protests telling her to stand back. 

When she got close to him she noticed the pained look on the man's face, the look of terror, as if he was reliving one of the worst moments of his life. Form far away you'd think that he was laughing and looking as if he was mad but this close she saw the opposite. Instead of madness there was terror, worry and disbelieve and instead of laughing he was crying his eyes and soul out. Jackie stood there, unable to think of a solution to help the person in front of her until she came up with something that anyone would do to a broken looking person. She jumped up and hugged his neck tight, rubbing his back in soothing circular motions trying to calm him down. After nearly half an hour of doing this, Percy had finally calmed down. 

As Percy's eyes cleared, he was shocked by the outcome of his slight slip up of his powers. All the trees in a 2 mile radius had been destroyed, the campsite looked like it had gone through hell and back, meaning that everything is torn up and scattered throughout the felid, but worse of all was the hunters and Artemis's expressions. Those were the expression that he hated most of when looked at, the ones that he most dreaded. They had terrified looks. Terrified of him.