Old Vows, Young Lovers

The Six

I started writing this the same day that I posted chapter 6, why? Because it was such a cruel cliffhanger! I even faced the cruel nightmare that was Zeus on Sundays... Yikes.

Let me make one thing clear before you read this, questions are bound to pop up, so I will just answer this one right now: Zeus told Artemis to bring her lover, (if she had one, you'll find out why that part matters soon enough), but he did NOT know who it was. He has no idea that Artemis's lover is Percy.

Zeus sat patiently in his throne, (ok not so patiently), waiting for Artemis to show up... This meeting was about her, and she was late... Athena and Poseidon were arguing again, tensions between them had skyrocketed since Annabeth cheated on Percy. Aphrodite was doing makeup, Ares was flexing his muscles, and that left Apollo, Demeter and all the Olympians that names started with H. They were all doing nothing, just patiently waiting there. Oh, wait, Demeter was eating cereal. Wait, and Hestia was flipping through a cook book.

Suddenly there was a flash in the throne room, and guess what? Artemis appeared, she appeared behind her throne, Percy with her, she whispered in his ear and he nodded then sat down at back of her throne. She grew to her godly height and sat down on the godly seat, looking at all the other gods expectantly, slightly impatient... But that was nothing normal for Artemis, if anything she was more friendly looking than usual. No one had seen Percy, which was good.

"Welcome, Artemis." Hestia greeted her, and she nodded in affirmation.

"Yes, welcome, kind of you to finally show up..." Zeus commented.

He hadn't even called the meeting 5 minutes ago... So how could they pissed off that she was late? Whatever... Stupid gods.

"Forgive me, I didn't realize that I was late..." She replied, slightly flushing because she was not normally late. Her and Percy had gotten stuck in conversation and that is what made them late, she had also had to get her clothes in order and brush her hair so it didn't look like she had a rough night of fucking even though she basically did just that.

"Gosh, can we please just get to the reason of why we are all here? Like holy shit..." Apollo groaned, sounding extremely bored.

Hermes chuckled lightly, and Percy swallowed a laugh of his own, the last thing he wanted was to draw any attention.

"Yes, so the reason I called this meeting... Is to discuss the fact that Artemis, has broken her oath of maidenhood!" Zeus proclaimed, sounding exasperated and dramatic, as usual.

All at once there was either a gasp, gazes turned towards Artemis, shock, or dropped jaws... Or all three.

Apollo's head dramatically swiveled to look at Artemis, a shocked look on his face, like he couldn't believe that the man-hating sister he had always loved, and had nearly castrated him countless times for hitting on her hunters... wasn't a maiden anymore!

Well now that you put it that way, it sounds pretty shocking.

Poseidon had an appalled look on his face, but he also knew that Percy was the one that took her virginity, so he had an incredibly proud look on his face.

Hades had a... dead expression, his jaw open, but also with a look of: "Imma see how this plays out, because that's what death does, it sits, and waits."

Hestia looked proud... Hermes looked jealous, Ares looked jealous (much to the distaste of Aphrodite... I mean, even if you're the love goddess, your boyfriend is jealous of another guy because they took the virginity of another girl? Not the best feeling.)