Perseus Jackson: Titan of The Hunt

CH69: I Bribe My Way to A New Sword

(Percy)

'Me and my big stupid mouth.'

Ever since Thalia had resigned as Lieutenant she seemed to have devoted all of her excess free time to torturing me.

It seemed that despite her initially taking the news relatively well all things considered she was now using holding the biggest secret imaginable as a get out of jail free card. So for the last week since then I had been the victim of just about every prank known to hunter kind. From the mundane whipping a chair out at the dining tent to the albeit borderline dangerous. Such as the case where I had curiously discovered a thin metal cable crisscrossing the campsite and had picked it up out of curiosity. Only to get blasted off my feet by 10000 volts when I did so by her holding the other end.

Not to mention this evening I was forced to go back to Orthrys because Rhea wanted to complain I missed the previous one which as I politely told my grandmother. I didn't care about such trivial matters about who snuck into Helios's old room or the Hesperides complaining that Koios had walked through a flower bed throwing Ladon a frizzbee (though I did consider the idea hilarious). The point was while I was forced to suffer in silence. Thalia and others though I had suspicions of course of who, had managed to dig a twenty foot deep hole outside my tent before concealing it.

Of course once I was finally released I had shadow travelled back to my tent and walked outside only to immediately fall in it and break my ankle. Once I had eventually calmed down from the shock and pain albeit not without a few curses. I had found that it was too narrow for me to stretch my wings and fly myself out and my brain was too preoccupied with pain and false promises of pain to the perpetrators to realize I could just shadow travel out.

Eventually though my shouting had got me some friendly attention. Though friendly was relative of course ever since I had broken her bow, Diana/Artemis's mood swings were becoming worse. Now she had added lethargic to the list which while I couldn't exactly fault her for that one after all I was partially responsible for most of her power loss. However it meant that she spent most of her time back at the camp resting and wanting to be left alone, which meant I had to spend more time with the Girl Scouts increasing my own woes.

As was the case here, where I got simply told to shut up and be quiet. So she could go back to sleep. Before she had stomped off and left me down there. So much for love and all that stuff.

This was all because the hunters were now aware of Artemis weakened state and I was blamed for it on account of breaking the bow (The scapegoat excuse for her whole situation at present.) So they were all more than happy to assist the former Lieutenant in her so called 'bonding' exercises. Take for example said hole was far too perfectly dug to be done by hand which was why I had known that unless Hazel had visited which I doubted. Morgana was responsible for it and likely magically hiding it as well.

The only other being that bothered to investigate was Nemea who briefly got her head stuck looking down at me before giving up and leaving. Yet I suspected the hunters were all secretly watching the whole escapade and loving it.

Of course once I eventually regained enough of my thought capabilities and realized the obvious answer to my current predicament. Well predicaments to be honest. The stuck in a hole looking back should have been obvious from the start. But the second was why I had decided to immediately limp all the way to Artemis's tent upon getting out. The fact I hadn't bothered to knock was generally a sign of my own patience wearing thin.

'Are you ok?' Artemis asked with a little concern noting me avoiding putting pressure on my left leg.

'Do I look like I am Ok? Why didn't you help me get out?' I demanded angrily.