Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH27: The Lone Legionnaire

(Percy)

The move itself was seemingly uneventful and I simply stood to the side as the hunters re-erected the camp with practiced ease. The only source of amusement was when the figure of Artemis reappeared with a highly annoyed Nemea who seemed determined to swat the goddess. Despite her attempts Artemis kept acrobatically dodging her attacks before finally ending up a tree looking down on the golden monster.

Apparently, the Lioness was not a fan of being flashed around without her consent. She only calmed down when she saw me looking onwards before suddenly reverting to docile much to the hunts and the goddess's relief.

Thalia had offered to erect my tent amongst the others this time, but I elected to keep myself separate. Claiming it was so they had personal space away from me, when in reality it was the other way around. I wanted to be able to stretch my wings once in a while and I couldn't do that if they were constantly around.

So now my tent was built on top of the rock outcrop I had seen before. It allowed me to see down without being observed myself and I could see the entire camp from up here.

I had taken my leave after noon to go rest and soon found myself in sitting below a waterfall in Sonoma Creek. The cascading water both calming me as well as rejuvenating my energy, I had exhausted quite a bit in my haste to get back I time, normal flying and gliding was replaced by frantic flapping as I tried to get back in time, the energy required to flap ten metal wings was quite exhausting when maintained. The whole ordeal kind of rendering having a shower back at Orthrys pointless in the end.

I simply sat under the falls and thought of my discussion with the Titaness earlier and felt relieved I had finally confided in someone even if that someone was her own mother. The best bit was though the fact I had finally decided to admit what I felt about the goddess even if I decided to not act upon it for the moment. At least not until I knew what she felt about me. I did not plan on being castrated for even trying no matter what Leto assured me of her daughter's inner self. The problem was said supposedly softer inner thoughts were still concealed by the icy outer shell of the Huntress.

Finally, around three in the afternoon, I felt a presence approaching and knew it was the goddess. Perhaps it was a result of the Hunt domain I now had, but if I cleared my mind from distractions, I could seemingly detect life around me. Whilst it was certainly not clear on whom was who it gave me a rough idea of what was around me.

So, by the fact that I could detect her purely immortal divine essence, the hunters were still immortal, but it felt like theirs was diluted and not as strong. I could not know for certain, but I suspected my own was somewhere in between the two. I hadn't yet mentioned this to Artemis just in case she suddenly came up with some training regime for me to use to deal with this sense. I had enough issues with the archery and tracking/concealment ones already.

"Perseus cover yourself up I am not falling for that again." Artemis called out from behind a tree, hearing her over the crashing water I stood up and stepped out of the falls becoming aware of the distant sound of wolves howling for the first time.

I stepped towards my cloths that I had discarded and threw a shirt on, a job made easier by the fact that I could instantly turn dry on demand. Still, I was still not worried about anyone else seeing and left my wings on display for the time being.

"Ok done Milady." I called out and looked across to her and saw her frown, hey she called me Perseus it was only fair.

"Good I need you to return, we are having company." She explained and I was curious about this sudden news.

"'Good' company or 'Bad' company?" I asked using air quotes.

"The good kind. Why do you think we are in Annadel, so close to a major godly site?" She explained coldly and I had one idea.