Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH49: Luckiest Guy Ever (Possibly)

The problem with dating a supposedly relationship goddess secretly is that you have to keep up the illusion that there is nothing going on, so before we had arrived we decided that we should sit separately lest people Artemis and I were more than we appeared.

Of course being in a Greek camp being surrounded by Greek demigods caused her to revert to Artemis as we approached, though no one saw this and the only person who looked surprised to see her was Reyna after all she had been Diana only 15 minutes earlier but oh well.

As it was then Artemis sat at the far end of the head table on her own while I chose to sit between Nico and Jason so I could explain a few other minor things that I had not mentioned earlier or that Nico did not already know. In return Jason explained about what was happening at New Rome both inside and outside the Senate house to which I took an interest and I considered taking a small trip to the city. I wonder who in the city could actually still remember my face after all I spend less than few days there and I could probably change my appearance regardless anyway. The only problem would be seeing if Diana would come as well.

I had been surprised to learn from Nico about his part in my healing though I had to smile as I remembered the familiar Pedigree Hellhound that he had now. I had played with all of Mrs. O'Leary's and Cerberus's puppies and Jay was easily the most awesome of them all, sure he may not have had the multiple heads of his siblings but the one he did have was far more deadly. I had learned that the hard way when he had snuck up beside me when he was only a week old and about the size of fully grown Rottweiler and decided to take a bite out of one of my wings much to my surprise.

I had been sure the Imperial Gold would kill it there and then that I had briefly forgotten the fact the source of the gold was part of me. But instead the puppy had simply licked its lips and given me the pleading eyes as if too ask for more which I had to deny off course. It took 3 weeks to grow back the feathers he ate as it was.

The other reason I liked him was the fact he had eaten Minos when the annoying ghost who had been forced to act as a servant to Nico had complained rather aggressively about having to fetch Nico a happy meal and said something along the lines of he would rather go back to punishment and get eaten alive.

Well he got half of it right at least, turns out that spirits, though they can pass through the living, can't pass through a monsters gut.

Eventually though when all the campers had began to eat I finally realized that it been days since I last ate anything and probably a week or more since last actually ate normal food rather than just Nectar or exposing myself to water to return my strength.

So when Nico decided to summon his customary cheeseburger happy meal I had fallen to temptation and summoned a platter of a variety of foods from Barbecue to Takeaway the only thing that was not present was seafood because though of course I had eaten it before I still was wary of eating the denizens of my father's domain. Hera's sacred animal however could be found in abundance on my plate as I walked to the campfire being careful to blend in with the campers which was a whole lot easier when they are all starving and want to get back to there tables as soon as possible.

After waiting till I was the last one in line and making sure a certain friendly goddess was not around I tipped a piece of pizza into the fire.

'For Poseidon.' I said aloud before tipping a piece of extra lean steak into the fire as well.

'For Artemis.' I said quietly with a smile before turning around and walking back to my seat, noticing the smile on aforementioned goddess face as I walked around her end of the table despite it being the long way back to someone observing carefully.

'Thank you.' She said quietly as I passed her, giving me a small smile before quickly returning to her neutral expression of indifference though she still looked cute, it was kind of hard for a 15 year old looking goddess to appear anything but cute, well except maybe Melinoe when she was younger perhaps I thought with a shudder.