The Man Amongst women

Chapter IV

Chapter IV

Enjoy the 4th chapter of the story
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P.O.V Alexandr

He watched Artemis explain, and he teleported up to a branch overlooking the camp, lounging there, undetected by the hunters. I heard Artemis finish and my cousin butt in. I smirked, 'Rude Thals'. I decided to interrupt myself and drew the weapon and fired, taking a few strands of hair from in front of Thalia's face.
"Hey Pinecone face, miss me?" I called down to her.
Her expression was worth a million dollars, the hunters looked pretty stunned themselves.
Artemis was the first to react, laughing at the shocked expressions on the hunters faces', whilst the rest of the hunters laughed at Thalia's expense. She gritted her teeth and tried to strike me with lightning, but I leapt to the next tree branch, continuing the pattern. Eventually I ran out of places to jump and flashed down in front of Thalia, poking her nose and flashing next to Artemis. Again, the laughing resumed at my cousins expense. She eventually gave up and began laughing, then lashed out with lightning. I calmly summoned a bone that began to spin, deflecting the lightning into Thalia, causing her hair to shoot up in every which direction, causing more laughter to erupt.
Artemis mind spoke to me; 'This is the first time a male has made them laugh, truly a monumental moment.'
'Well that's good, I made them laugh, tomorrow I'll be dead!' I said to her in her mind without knowing.
She snapped her head to me, mouth agape, whilst I did the same. "Did you just- Did I-?" We spoke together, interrupting each other. The hunters must've been giving us odd looks because we must've looked pretty odd.

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Hours later
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I was sitting in Artemis' tent as she probed me for answers about what I could do. I can teleport and mind speak, and we discovered, from first hand experience, that I didn't bleed Ichor, so I'm not immortal, yet I seemed to have a higher pain tolerance than a hunter. Apparently I could also summon things when I accidentally summoned myself a mug of hot chocolate. A familiar voice said in my head as I summoned it; 'Use your gifts wisely'. I smiled subconsciously, 'Hestia, thank you,' I replied to her.
"Alexandr, are you ignoring me?!" Artemis growled.
"Wha- Uh, sorry zoned out." I stuttered, not really wanting to get blasted to death by the most beautiful Greek Goddess... HOLD ON A MINUTE! GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME! DONT TRY TO FLIRT WITH A MAIDEN GODDESS!!
I sighed, I just could not get my head straight. I glanced at Artemis, noting her body language and expression.
"You're tired, you want to continue, you push your body hard to continue your sleepless nights. You want rest yet you seem to be focusing on something, something that you'd usually not pay attention to has grabbed your attention, your curious, what ever this thing is, it's effecting your emotions...." I trailed off with an 'Ahh...'
"What!?" Artemis snapped, irritated.
"Nothing..." I trailed off with a smirk. "If you don't mind, I'll take my leave."
"You're gonna have to pitch your own tent." Artemis replied. "That will be fun for you."
"Don't need a tent." I said dismissively. "Goodnight Artemis."
"Goodnight..." She trailed off. "Alexandr..."
I walked out, to see a sea of females outside the flap, all looking at me with the expressions of 'Oh shit' and 'Explain Everything That Happened, Now'. I looked at the girls, winked and flashed over to the small campfire that light up the camp.
Thalia came over to me and opened her mouth, but I cut her off. "You want to know what happened inside the tent, correct?"
An affirmative nod.
I sighed and turned to face the sea of pre-adult girls, grateful for my long coat as the wind howled through the clearing, causing the fire to splutter. "If I must tell you..." The girls lent in, but they got the hint and sat down on the logs, leaving me alone with Thalia and a girl who seemed to be the youngest. "It all started..."
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I'm so bad! I'm leaving you with a cliff hanger where I will, in the next chapter, reveal the full story of Annabeths betrayal of Olympus.
Au Revoir Folks
~Max
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