More Than the Sea

Found

three and a half years later

Artemis pov

"Listen up girls" I start " we are nearing the city of Manhattan witch means were going man hunting!" I got groan from the city part but a cheer when I said man hunting.

when we arrived at the city we went to the darker parts of the city so we could find more terrible men. As we got closer we heard an ear splitting scream and me and my hunters ran to the noise. We were led to a run down apartment building where there was only one person lived. We ran to the room, I kicked open the door only to find more blood than I had ever seen in my immortal life. There was dried blood, fresh blood. there was blood from years ago, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a corpse of a woman, years old, it was hanging on the wall rotting. The sight made some of my hunters puke. then my eyes drifted to a man so hideous that if I compared him to anything it would insult the thing in comparison. this man was hitting, stabbing, and carving a small rock that looked like dried blood. I immediately started to torture the man as my hunters were frozen is shock from the corpse I only stopped when I heard a barely audible  stop. I turned to see the rock vibrating, I then realize it is not a rock but a small kid covered in his own blood. My blood then froze I killed the man quickly and prayed to my brother Apollo for help he arrived suddenly.

"Hel- holy hades what happened to this child!"

"That man, now heal him."

Apollo started to work. when the small boy was clean I could see dry bone, and all his fingers were cut off, his face was covered completely in scars there were even scars on his eyes and I don't mean his eye lids I mean in his eyeballs, his torso had words carved into his skin like 'Property of Gabe' 'bitch' 'slut' and so much more. I look at his legs realizing he was naked but that didn't matter his legs were both bent at awkward angles but you could tell that it was an old wound. This is After my brother healed him. This boy looked at Apollo in fear the boy went hysterical trying to get away from Apollo the boy screamed and cried for his mommy. I started to cry at the state the boy was in I tried to approach him he stopped screaming but still tried to go farther away. I asked one of my physically older and kinder hunter to try and this time instead of trying to get away he let my hunter pick him up and what shocked me was he even leaned into her touch and cried ever so softly. 

"What happened?" One my hunter's asked.

"Smelly Gabe killed my mommy." He rasped and pointed to the corpse on the wall. "He said that if I did something he didn't like he would kill me too. Please don't hurt me, you can kill me if you want but please don't hurt me. I want to be done with pain."

This broke my heart. "Can I hold you." I heard my voice.

He wriggled out of my hunters arms crawled over to me and I scooped him into my arms. I looked into his hopeless sea green eyes I could already tell that he was a strong son of Poseidon. "Apollo we can't send him to camp he won't survive a day."

"Well what are we going to do then." He said in a tone I've never heard from him. A serious one.

"I'm going to adopt him, you're going to adopt him, and he'll live with the hunt only leaving to spend weekends with you." I left zero room for argument. "Child, what is your name?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean?"

"Gabe called me so many things I don't know witch one is my name."

"What did he call you?"

"Slut, bitch, whor-"

"Stop. What did your mother call you?"

"I can't remember I was only three when she d-died."

"Hold on one sec."

HADES!! I screamed in my mind. He appeared.

"What do you want?"

"I want you to find this man's spirit search his memory and tell me this child's name."

"Ok." Suddenly the man's spirit was here and the boy started screaming, crying, and trying to hide from Gabe's spirit. I put the child to sleep in my arms. "Memories." I demanded.

When we finished I wanted to cry and hug the boy who's name was discovered as Perseus or Percy for short. "He is going to the fields of punishment and the mother Sally Jackson better have made it into Elysian."

"Don't tell me what to do niece. I would have done it with or without you demands. Goodbye." Hades left and Percy woke up.

"Hello, me and my twin brother Apollo," I pointed to the said person. "Found out what your name is, the one your mother Sally Jackson called you. She named you Perseus, Percy for short."

"Percy?"

"Yes that is what I said. Now I have a question. Percy would you like it if I became your new mother and all these girls," I waved my hands in their direction. "to become your aunts and sisters, I promise that we won't hit you or hurt you with bad intentions."

Percy stared at me with shock and then he sobbed into my shoulder, "Yes I would like that very much mom, thankyouthankyouthankyou!" He kept going with the thank yous until Apollo interrupted.

"Percy, I know that you will probably will be scared of men for the rest of your life no matter what I do but I want to be an exception to that. What I'm saying er, asking is Percy would you let me be your new father. I promise I will never kill you or hurt you on purpose."

"Ok?" Percy looked unsure of him self so he looked at me and I nodded so he cautiously let himself into Apollo's arms and said "Yes I think I might like that."

"Now Apollo I think we should try to get Hephaestus to build him prosthesis."

"yeah we really should but first, I Apollo god of the sun, archery, logic, plagues, healing, and truth adopt Perseus Jackson and give him my full blessing." Percy glowed a golden color then Apollo's symbol appeared above his head.

My turn. "I, Artemis, goddess of maidens, childbirth, wild beasts, the moon, archery, and hunting adopt Perseus Jackson and give him my blessing." This time Percy glowed silver and my symbol appeared above his head. Now he is my son.

my first son. I found him