Son of Odin

Pain and Teasing

Pain shot through Percy's shoulder as a javelin cut straight through it. He shot up in an adrenaline fueled movement as his wings took him to the sky before he barreled towards his attacker. He'd told the girls to not hold back when he was the one training them. He didn't see them exactly progressing if they had to hold back so here he was with a five foot spear stuck in his shoulder. Percy would be able to heal himself slowly but surely, but while the fight continued, he had to keep it in there, but not to the point where it would be constantly pulling down on him. With a sharp twist of his free arm he snapped the javelin clean off, leaving only a small metal stump embedded in his arm. That left him immobile to some extent.

The shocking part was how he'd actually managed to get hit, he was faster that most of the Gods themselves and he had seen the throw coming ages away. He decided that this injury was enough for today and swung his sword in a deadly arc that took his opponent, Tracey, off of her feet and straight into the dirt before he halted his blade at her throat. It had become a custom for each of the girls to fight one on one with Percy and have a personal training session. He could only teach one girl a day because of his other duties but he was slowly getting through them.

"You did well, no one else has managed impale me yet." He chuckled lightly as he extended his hand to her. Tracey had an especially bad past with men but she found as she stared at the hand in front of her all she could see in Percy was somebody that she could trust. Even Artemis was shocked when she accepted Percy's help and rose to her feet.

"Lessons over girls, I need to fix this." He told them as he let his wings slowly take him off the ground and over to his tent some distance away from the camp. Artemis gave the girls duties for them to fulfill and went to see about Percy's wound. She found him sitting next to his tent by a little stream that came past as he had summoned himself a set of medical supplies.

"You believe that mortal instruments will heal a wound like that? Percy, Tracey demolished your shoulder joint. There's no sign of it left." Artemis told him as she looked at the now empty fist sized hole that went the entire way through his shoulder. Artemis noticed then that Percy was wearing a tank top and had his lean muscular arms on show for her to ogle at. He let out a slight chuckle.

"No, this is actually an advanced field medic's pack form Chaos' realm. It's designed to deal with much worse than impalement Artemis." Percy looked up at her casually with a stoic calmness flowing over him. Artemis couldn't help but hold the stare for a few moments before Percy smiled at her and she felt herself melt under his gaze. Percy got back to tending his wound. He had what looked like a laser pen that was making a whirring noise as he spooled the buttons on the top as if testing it. Percy quickly did something that Artemis wasn't sure about at first.

He took his belt off quickly from his trousers. Artemis raised an eyebrow at his actions, "This is going to hurt." He told her as he folded it several times and bit down into the leather belt. He whirred the laser gun a few more times before he put it straight into his shoulder and started firing at the misshapen bone structure that used to be his shoulder joint. After a moment Artemis could see the sweat pouring down Percy's forehead. The pain must have been awful. A few moments later and Percy changed the gun over to a blue laser.

"What's the difference?" Artemis asked him, sitting down in front of him, staring into his eyes as he worked silently on his shoulder. He took a moment to answer her before the belt was placed back in his mouth, "The red one destroys errors like the pieces of bone that were shot through the layers of muscles, and the blue laser repairs it via grafting new bone to the old bone. This one hurts more." He grunted.

The laser connected and he let out a very muffled scream as it bit by bit built up his shoulder until there was nothing more than a simple scar covering the area. Artemis looked wide eyed.

"Percy with those tools you would be a better healer than Apollo." She told him without a single trace of sarcasm.

"And that's why only I can use them. We wouldn't want Apollo to fade now." He responded just as seriously as before. Artemis grumbled something briefly before looking back into Percy's eyes.

"Hey." He said, cupping Artemis' chin. A very wide smile formed on her face from the close contact that he was able to give her. "I'm going to New Rome today, it might be very dangerous for an angel of death to appear out of nowhere. May I converse with Diana?" He asked her. Artemis nodded quickly, she could see Percy's thought process.

"Lady Diana-" She cut him off instantly.

"It's still me Percy, it's still the one who loves you, so just Diana." She informed him quickly. Percy couldn't help but smile at that.

"Diana." He corrected himself, "How should I approach the Romans? I'm very well with not giving away anything about the Greeks but how much do they know of this war?" He asked her. Diana considered this for a moment.

"Not much, it will be up to you how much you reveal. Luke Castellan will be arriving at their camp soon enough. You mustn't interfere with his mission TOO much. It may come to pass that you will be chosen to aid him, I do not know." Diana told him before shifting back to Artemis.

"Very well then. I shall take my leave, but not before I take what I've fought so hard for." He said with a soft smile before leaning in and kissing Artemis quickly on the lips. She blushed for a moment before smiling back at him, "You know, that did sound slightly different from just a peck on the lips." She told him with a wink before she stood up. Percy was shocked at the side of Artemis that only he saw but soon found his signature personality back. He looked at Yggdrasil which was in it's watch form.

"Well, you know, I've got time if you wanna' ditch the Romans and go with your idea instead." He laughed as she notched an arrow on her bow with a warning glare.

"You started it." He protested as he stood up to meet her and pushed the bow away from him. "Besides, you love me too much." He said, continuing to tease her relentlessly. "That may be so, but I can easily give you more punishment from the hunters." Artemis smiled innocently before she flashed away from him. "To New Rome." Percy sighed happily before setting off.