Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH24: The Twins

(Percy)

We arrived on the Washington Mall in a flash of light, yet surprisingly despite the mass of people around us enjoying the summer weather around the reflecting pool, no one paid much attention to the pair of immortals that just appeared out of nowhere amongst them. To one side the white Mausoleum of the Lincoln Memorial dominated the view at the end of the artificial lake and the other the marble obelisk of the Washington Monument. Both of the former presidents had famously been sons of Zeus.

I turned and looked downwards towards the goddess and noticed she was still holding my hand which was kind of embarrassing because to others we likely looked like a rather odd couple, what with the age and general body size difference between us. The last thing I wanted was anyone getting the wrong idea, if anything our attire was not exactly helping us to not stand out either. I was wearing a full-length coat in June and the goddess was wearing all silver, jacket, skirt, leggings, shoes you name it.

"Err. Lady Artemis do you actually know where we are going then? I didn't hear that bit of the conversation." I inquired before letting go of her hand. Not that I didn't mind it too be honest, it was more the fact when my arms were by my side, it was at least halfway up her torso for her and it looked far to comical.

"Err. We are looking for a girl's boarding school around here." She replied after looking strangely longingly at her now fallen hand in front of her.

"Wait you didn't get the actual details from Aphrodite; you know the little things. DC is a big place you know." I asked surprised by the vagueness of her answer.

"I know that Perseus, I just well forgot, Ok." She snapped back defensively. Considering what had happened today already I was cutting her a lot of slack for that oversight.

"Well then Milady would you like to message her again and get the little details this time, or should I?" I asked abruptly.

"NO! I don't want to talk to her and neither are you either. We will find them without her help." She said angrily as if the mention of Aphrodite was a major problem.

"Ok then little miss huntress, hunt away then, lead us to the prey." I said sarcastically as she glared at me.

"Perseus quiet or I will turn you into prey. Iris show me the location of Amy daughter of Aphrodite and Suzie Daughter of Venus." She called out and I was surprised when an image formed in mid-air before us without the usual technical hassle of summoning the rainbow goddess.

The image changed to a large Victorian era manor house in Georgetown with a sign saying Lady Clarence's School of Ladies Fashion before fading.

"Well, I guess that answer that question, although what did you mean when you said daughters of Aphrodite and Venus?" I inquired curiously I thought she had called them twins earlier.

'The pink goddess managed to as mortals would put it 'fuck up' when she conceived them and had twins but of both aspects at the same time. Apparently she got lost in the moment or something like that. I would really rather not go into more detail on her love life, I am sure you can use your imagination to work out what happened. I learned enough about it this morning to scar the hunters forever." She explained with a shudder. I doubted I wanted to know what she got up to in her 'private' either, I mean I was still as much of a virgin as she and the Hunters were after all.

"I guess I really don't want to know do I? Besides I thought you didn't have Roman hunters?" I asked.

"Technically speaking it is Huntresses, as Artemis I have Hunters, Diana had Huntresses and as you do know, I am not really in a position to be picky at the moment." She explained sadly.