Son of The Moon

Chapter 1

Artemis' POV

Artemis was running down the beach at Montauk, she had been tracking a monster and she had just seen it go after a mortal woman and her infant child whom she had been watching fondly for the past few days. Suddenly she heard the woman scream in pain,.... followed by the monster, a Cyclops, yelling out in fright; when she rounded the bend Artemis stopped in shock, the child, who couldn't be older than seven or eight months old, was standing in front of his mother and glaring defiantly at the beast.

But, that wasn't the most amazing thing. The amazing thing was that the ocean water around him was swirling faster and faster before it formed a hand and grabbed the Cyclops, pulling it under the waves. Once the boy collapsed Artemis ran forward and looked at the boy's mother, she was bleeding out on the sand with the beast's weapon in her stomach.When the woman saw her coming her eyes widened,

" Lady Artemis?" She asked cautiously.

Nodding, Artemis decided that she shouldn't be surprised, the boy was clearly a demigod so his father must have told the woman about the gods.

" Your injury is beyond my power to heal" I said gently.

"I figured that but can you promised me something?" the woman asked slowly growing paler as she lost more and more blood.

"What is it?" I asked, determined to help ease the woman's pain as much as as could.

"Take my son Perseus with you and raise him to be strong, brave, and noble? I know you don't like men but, please he is too young to have earned your hatred of men. Please." She begged and Artemis could tell that she only had moments left to live.

Looking from her to the unconscious child on the beach, she felt her heart soften towards the small demigod, turning back to the woman Artemis grasped her hand and said softly,

"I swear on the River Styx that I will do all I can to raise and help your son." The woman smiled and closed her eyes with hope in her heart for her son's survival. Picking up the child Artemis wrapped him up in a silver blanket and cradled him against her chest.

"Come now little one, time to meet your new family." Before flashing the two of them just outside the hunters' camp.

"Lady Artemis, you've returned!" Her lieutenant, Zoe Nightshade said happily as she and another huntress, Phoebe ran up to greet her.

"What's in your arms, my Lady?" Phoebe asked curiously when she saw little Perseus.

"This Phoebe is your new little brother Perseus." She told them, "He's a demigod and his mother was killed by the Cyclops I was hunting, then this little one used his powers to kill it."

"This infant managed to kill a Cyclops by himself?" Zoe asked, looking in awe at him.

"But he is male, my Lady." Phoebe protested.

"Yes, but we can raise him to be a good man instead of an ignorant barbarian like most of his gender." She told them, gently rocking her new son back and forth.

Suddenly he woke up and looked around afraid until his eyes settled on me,
"M-mama?" he asked confusedly causing me to smile.

"That's right little one, I'm your new Mama, and these are your new sisters Zoe and Phoebe" She said turning him so he could see them.

"Hello, I am Zoe," She said smiling down at him kindly.

"Ze!" He said happily making her laugh.

"I'm Phoebe," She told him obviously starting to warm up to the cute little kid.

"Phe-Phe!" He laughed out in delight.

"Lady Artemis, may I introduce our sisters to their new baby brother now?" Zoe asked holding out her arms for Perseus. Nodding, I gave the little infant to her and Zoe rushed off showing him off to every one of hunters.

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