Shattered

Lake PT2

[A/N: POV Orgy coming your way.]
Did Percy appreciate the fact that the hunters had pretty much sidelined him?

No, he didn't. Not really.

It had been a request from Artemis. The swim was meant to be a challenge to the hunters - to make sure their skills and bodies were honed. But for Percy, the swim would be anything but a challenge. If anything, he'd probably feel more energized AFTER the swim. Artemis had pointed that out, and then told him she'd rather have him watch over the hunters. To keep an eye on them.

Percy sighed. He found his job rather meaningless. The hunters have done this challenge as a routine thing for many years already, and they'd never had the need for a lifeguard before, why now?

He also suspected if any of the hunters did need help, they'd rather drown than have Percy rescue them. Either way, he had to at least pretend he wanted to do his job.

Something cool about being a son of Poseidon: With little practice, you can walk on water. He skipped along the surface of the water, letting the water below him almost carry the weight of his feet forward with each stride. He was running along the swim route, half his attention placed at the pairs of hunters he danced past. The other half, was of course, focused on Horus which continued to squawk in his ear with persistence.

SQUAWK! Horus squawked, pecking at Percy's shoulder.

"I know you're hungry Horus. I am too, but I gotta pay attention to the hunters," Percy told.

SQUAWK!

"I know you don't like them, but you don't have to be so mean about it," Percy laughed.

SQUAWK!

"Horus..."

SQUAWK!

"Dude, don't bring my love life into this. Zoe and I-"

SQUAWK!

"It's not like that! I'm not choosing her over you! There's nothing even there!"

SQUAWK SQUAWK!

"No!"

SQUAWK SQUAWK!

"I'll get you a nice juicy rat once we get back..." Percy tried. "With soy sauce, just how you like it."

SQUAWK!

"No, I am not!

SQUAWK SQUAWK!

"Fine," Percy mumbled. "TWO rats! You happy?"

Horus fluttered his feathers, in obvious contentment.

"Great," Percy sighed, "Now you're going to get spoiled."

Horus shrugged his wings.

"Dude, I-" Percy started before he sensed something. He stopped in his tracks, and did a 180. "Zoe! She's in trouble!"

Ω

Swimming was one of Zoe Nightshade's most favorite past times. She rarely had the chance to do it often. The hunters were always on the move, busy hunting and wandering.

As her arms swung in continuing cycles, her feet behind her paddling, she couldn't help feeling high from the adrenaline that pulsed through her. Her lungs gasping for air each time her mouth resurfaced; her heart beating with quickened pace. She absolutely adored the water, a fact that may or may not be attributed to her mother being the water nymph, Pleione.

The chilling, yet comforting waves of Lake Ontario relieved her if her troubles and she felt herself get lost in the cool and comforting embrace of the soft waves.