War and Woes

Chapter 16

Caz lay on the bunk as Frank and Hazel come in fuming. "You knew! You knew we were gonna have this quest, you knew who my father was! You know exactly what's gonna happen don't you!" Frank stormed in and Caz just looked back coolly.

"Watch you tone son of Mars. Yes i knew about the quest and i knew you father, but no i don't know the course of this war or what will happen. If i did this war wouldn't be happening if i knew how to fix it." He glared at Frank who flinched at his cold dark eyes.

Hazel took over. "Why are we supposed stay away from the earth, how will we get to Alaska?"

"Were taking a boat. Were fighting against Gaea," he choked up on her name. "She would be able to attack us if we were to travel by land." Hazel sat down next to him.

"Did you know her? You sounded pained when you talk about her."

"She was like another mother to me when i lost my own. She was captured and forced into her bad side by her children, that's why this is happening." He shouldn't have said that. He stood quickly and flashed out.

"How can you trust him?" Frank spoke in the silence and Hazel gave a quizzical look. "He hasn't ever taken his hood off, he's cold and emotionless and has no problem with killing. Hazel he knows our future!"

"Yes and i trust him because we have nobody else to trust, Frank! He knows what's gonna happen and we are part of whatever this bigger thing is! If we don't trust him the world could just end!"

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He was in the forest, god damn it, why do he always flash to places that have a connection to Artemis. Artemis, he couldn't even think her name without so much confusion. He loved her, he loved being in the hunt, he loved spending time with her. And yet once he left he was so much more free than he ever was in the hunt and for a some time managed to forget her.

Then they came back here and it was ripping his heart apart to see her because he loved Emm and he always will. He wanted to blast Aphrodite off her throne and off Olympus for doing this to him. He thought he found true love with Annabeth, then he was with Artemis and fell in love with a maiden goddess who would never love him back, then he found Emm who he truly loved and he knew she would never hurt him.

Yet there was still this part of him that yearned to be with Artemis, that part of him wanted to forget Shining City ever existed and move back to the hunt with his little sisters. But he would have to leave behind a life he loved, he would have to leave behind his mother and his friends. He would have to leave behind the rangers and the Army and his adopted children. He didn't think he could do it, he loved Shining City to much to just abandon them.

He doubted Artemis and any of the hunters would ever forgive him for hiding his identity and treating them like shit. He would be murdered by Thalia before the hunters could get to him. He laughed as he thought about how mad they would all be, but sobered immediately knowing that he would most likely have to stay hidden from them forever, they would live their immortal lives thinking Percy Jackson was dead, even if he was right in front of them.

He finally looked around to noticed where he had wandered to. "Shit." He muttered as he saw the silver glow of the hunters camp right in front of him. He couldn't move and noise would give him away and flashing would give him away. He tried to just disappear like he did with Emm, but it only worked without him meaning to. HE was gonna just have to move.

He slowly started moving towards the edge of the clearing so he could flash out. "Hey!" He turned and watched his blue eyed cousin barrel at him with Artemis right behind her. He couldn't fight.

He put his hands behind his head and Artemis chained them and dragged him into camp. "Artemis, hunters." He nodded to them as they threw him down into a chair.

"Why are you here, boy." He winced internally at her piercing silver eyes looking at him in disgust. It hurt him to know that right now she hated him.

"I was lost in my thoughts and didn't notice where i had wandered to. I will leave as soon as you wish me to." She narrowed her eyes and stepped aside, but the person that stepped in front of him hurt worse.

He looked into her blue eyes crackling with electricity. "What were you thinking about that caused you to just wander near our camp?"

"My past." He said simply. It was the truth he just didn't tell them that he was thinking about his past here, with them.

"And how do we know you're not lying and trying to seduce one of the hunters?" Artemis snarled.

"Because i have a girlfriend that i love with all my heart and never want to hurt her the way i was hurt." He looked straight into those silver eyes holding her glare. "I have to be getting back to my mission i was never supposed to leave in the first place." He stood easily overpowering the girls holding him down.

"Just never come back here, boy." Artemis said.

He looked at her and said something he shouldn't have said. "I'm so sorry moonbeam." He let his eyes flicker green for a split second before he disappeared.

"Percy?" Thalia breathed. All the hunters stood stunned conviced they just saw their dead brother. "That idiot!" Thalia slammed her hand down.

"Thalia he must have a reason." Artemis tried to reason with her as she held back tears of her own.

"Yes, and i wanna know. We are going to Camp Jupiter people, im getting an answer." The hunters all shouted in agreement.

"Thalia!" Everyone froze. "Percy is hiding for a reason he will reveal himself when it is time. Until then we never saw Caz. Understood?" All the hunters nodded grumbling.

All the hunters walked away leaving Artemis and Thalia alone. "He has a girlfriend." Artemis breathed out before running off into the forest.

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A.N. Ahhh sorry i haven't updated this story in forever i dont really know where im going with this and im more into blessing of misery right now so this story might be on short hiatus till i get some inspiration to write it again. i will still be active on other stories just not this one. sorry i love the story im just need to figure out where im going with it first.