Arrows

I Turn Blonde

Ogyjia

Percy POV

I woke up with an elf staring at me in the face. I screamed and punched him in the gut, and, as I opened my eyes more, the (now cursing) elf turned out to be Leo.

Oops.

"What the hell was that for man?" He asked, nursing the place where I hit him.

I shrugged. "I got startled, waking up with Santa's Little Elf's ugly face peering down at me."

"Hey!" Leo shouted. "I am not an elf. I am fully human. Well... not really... But you know what I mean!"

I smirked at him and got up. I looked around. At first thought, I had thought it was a beach, but as I looked now, it turned out to be an island.

I fingered my Camp Half-Blood beads, before I remembered why I left it. Of course, that idiot had to ruin everything. Well, not completely everything. I still had everyone who was at Bunker 9.

"So, the Sleeping Beauty wakes." I turned around to see Calypso casually walking to me. I was about to offer a very witty retort, but Leo interrupted me. I frowned.

Rude elf.

"I get you a TV and you haven't stopped watching Disney classics." He looked at me. "She chose Snow White over Star Wars. I mean, does she have a soul?"

His girlfriend whacked him in the head, and I snickered.

"So how do you feel?" Calypso asked.

"Other than practically having my heart ripped out, feeling extremely emotionally unstable, and being betrayed by almost all my friends?"

"Well... Yeah."

"Just great!" I replied with false cheeriness.

She rolled her eyes. "Well, if you need anything just ask Leo. I have got a camp to kill."

She stormed out before Leo could try and convince her not to.

"Calypso!" I shouted.

She flashed back.

"Please don't wreck the camp for me! And also, thank you for all your help, but... I just need to be alone."

She sighed, but nodded.

"Call a raft then. I hope to see you soon. Take care."

I nodded, then looked for Leo as she flashed out once more. He was in the workshop working on an Archimedes sphere. I stood a few feet back in case it blew up.

"Hey Leo!"

He turned to me, grease covering half his face.

"I'm gonna be leaving soon. I... I need some time alone."

He nodded, then stood up and hugged me. I hugged him back.

"Take care of yourself man. I'd hate to lose my pranking partner.

I nodded.

"You too Leo."

He patted me on the back, and walked with me to the edge of the island. I gave him a last hug before I hopped onto a raft that had just appeared.

"Bye Leo. Bye Calypso." I whispered.

I lay down on the raft and stared at the clouds.

The raft stopped on a beach in Miami. I stepped onto the sand, and looked around. No-one was there. Lucky for me. I walked aimlessly, thinking what I was going to do. After about an hour and a half, I ended up at a plain. I smiled. I knew what to do.

I was going to train.

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To be honest, I was quite surprised with myself. I could (kind of) summon water from within me, quite easily draw the moisture out of the air, change it to ice and air. Heck, I could even teleport. I could control lava, and was almost heatproof.

Awesome, I know.

I had pretty much mastered all the weapons I had, or could make with ice, to the best of my ability. Apart from one.

A bow and arrow.

I had already bought one (I felt bad, making the mortals think I had paid by using the mist), and as I lined up with the targets that came with it, I felt a sense of dread. But I pushed on.

I thought back to the times at camp Chiron had tried (and failed) to teach me archery. I adjusted my position, and drew back the string on my bow.

And released.

Somehow, it managed to veer up in mid-air, impale a leaf, then embed itself in some bread. Oops.

That was supposed to be my lunch.

I growled then went to try again. Just as I was about to pull back the string, I saw two flashes in front of me. Artemis and Apollo. I blushed when the saw the bread and the arrow.

"How did you find me?" I asked. To be honest, it was kind of nice seeing someone after two years of isolation, just not people from that world.

"What? No grovelling at my feet, or at least a haiku to welcome me?" Apollo asked with a cheeky smile.

I rolled my eyes. "Seriously, how?"

"We could feel the worst archer in the world due to our domain."

I blushed.

"So, we decided to remove your curse on archery." Apollo replied cheerfully.

"Curse?" I asked. Why the hell had they cursed me.

"Well, after Orion, we thought all sons of Poseidon would be..."

I nodded. "Gotcha."

I stood awkwardly whilst the twins closed their eyes and muttered under their breath. Once they finished, Apollo smiled. "I also gave you my blessing Perce. Don't waste it. I haven't given anyone that apart from Bichelola in Ancient Greece. He was amazing in bed!"

I shuddered and picked up my bow.

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Apollo's blessing had done a lot physically. I had blonde hair and bluer eyes, like him. My biceps (or triceps, I never really payed attention in biology) were more defined, which was needed if you wanted to pull back a bow string. Not only that, but my skin got a bit lighter, still tanned, but lighter. About in between Apollo's skin colour and Artemis'.

To be honest I got on quite well with Artemis. And if you call 'friends' one person constantly trying to get the other in the bed, then Apollo and I were friends. Best friends.

Technically, my name was Perseus Jackson, but I called people to call me another name now. I was known around the area as The Archer, or sometimes Hawkeye. But what I really wanted people to call me was Clint.

Clint Barton.