Percy Jackson: The Guardian

Chapter Twelve : All is well... Right?

I finished the ten tasks. I was told after that, Artemis and I could live in peace. That was only partially true. For a few days  Artemis, the hunters and I returned to normal day to day life. Hunting, washing clothes, running. Life had finally went back to normal. That was until the same annoying lighting flashed. Out of instinct I grabbed my sword.

Zeus appeared out of the lightning.

"Father?" Artemis said.

"I bring good news!" He said with too big of a smile.

"What now?" I said, "Another secret task?"

He pondered that, "Hmmm, maybe one day, but this is more exciting!" He shook my hand.

"Uncle? What is going on?" I said, gripping his hand reluctantly.

He had the weirdest smile on his face, "Please, call me dad." I cringed at the words. They sounded so weird. I'm glad the gods weren't as close as humans in bloodlines. Artemis was technically my cousin. Then agian, so was Annabeth.

"WHAT!?!" Artemis shouted. Along with the other hunters.

"Your getting married!" He wiped away a single tear, "My little girl is all grown up!"

"We just started dating! How can we get married!" She said.

My head was spinning, I just turned eighteen not to long ago. How on earth am I getting married?

"The wedding will start in two days. Don't worry, Aphrodite, Hera, Hestia, and Athena have it planned already. Oh and be sure to get bridesmaids and groomsmen. It's going to be a half Greek, half American wedding. Now if you may, I will take my leave, I have to find a tux!" Like that he was gone.

"I am going to kill him!" Artemis yelled.

I grabbed both of her shoulders, "Is the fact of being married to me that bad?" I smirked.

She huffed, "No... but I figured we would have a little more time than this."

I putt a loose strand of hair behind her ear, "If I'm going to be married to someone, I'm glad it is you."

She punched my arm, "I guess so, Kelp Head."

"Now you have a major problem." I said.

"What is that?" She said.

"Who's gonna be your bridesmaids?" I said pointing to the hunters.

Artemis turned to see all of the hunters staring at her, "Shit."

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After a bit of cat fighting and whining, Artemis finally decided, Thalia was the maid of honor, Pheobe, Atlanta, Sipoites, Jamie, Carly, and Aphrodite where bridesmaids. (Just so she would shut up. Aphrodite kept bugging Artemis about it.)

Me? My groomsmen went like this, Tyson as my best man, Grover, Nico, Jason, Frank, Leo, and Apollo. (Apollo was the same as Aphrodite.)

After for what seemed like a century of planning, Artemis and I collapsed in my Cabin. Luckily Alex moved to Camp Jupiter. Turns out he was actually a son of Venus. The reason he was able to trick everyone so easily was because of his charmspeak. He even fooled my dad into thinking he was his son. Venus did me a solid be removing his charmspeak. Now, he was a floor scrubber for Reyna. She wasn't to happy when she found out who he was.

My cabin was mostly the way it was before. Chiron and a few of the campers restored it as a peace offering. Annabeth being one of them. Annabeth... I felt bad for her. She was forced to kiss Alex. It wasn't by her choice.

"I'll be right back." I told Artemis. She was already asleep. I kiss her cheek and left the cabin. I walked up to the Athena cabin and knocked.

Annabeth's brother Malcom opened the door, "She is on the beach." He said. I didn't even have to ask.

"Thank you."

I walked to the familiar salty sand of Camp Half-Blood. There she was, her usual clean blonde hair was now shaggy. Her face was pale and her eyes were red. I really messed her up. Then agian so did to me as well. Even if it wasn't on purpose.

I sat down next to her, "Hey." I said weekly.

"Hey." She said. Her cheeks were wet from crying.

We sat there in silence for awhile, that was until she crashed into me sobbing, "Percy... I'm so sorry..."

I rubbed her back, "No... I am. I should have know something was up about Alex."

"How could have you known? He was a manipulative jerk... Percy... I still love you." She sobbed.

"I do to Annabeth, just not like I used to. I love Artemis and I don't think I would ever leave her." I said.

"Good, Artemis needs someone like you." She said, but she still cried.

"We can still be friends. We don't have to be enemies." I said.

"I like would that." She sat up and wiped away her tears. "I wish I could just turn back time and kill him. I could be with you again. She pulled out her camp necklace, she started to fiddle with a ring on it. At first I thought it was her dads ring, but no. It was the ring Athena gave me. "Maybe it would be us that would be getting married."

"You still have that?" I said, the scene played again in my head. When I threw the ring at her.

"I've had it on my necklace since then, to remind me how stupid I was." She said shaking her head.

"Please! Wise Girl is dumb? Never in a million years." I said. That seemed to cheer her up, "Come on, lets get you back to your cabin." I helped her and walked her to her cabin. I helped her to her bed and laid her down. When I was about to leave she stopped me.

"Can I have one last kiss?" She said.

I walked back to her and kissed her forehead, "Goodnight Wise Girl."

"Goodnight Seaweed brain." She said before closing her eyes.

*Sorry, I felt like it was not in Annabeths character for her to do what she did to Percy. Although this is a Pertemis fanfiction, I had to add that little scene. Sorry!*