Banished

33

Percy PoV

Artemis was fast asleep, cuddling a pillow as I returned to bed.

I set the breakfast on her nightstand and slid into bed behind her, holding her close. I kissed the spot behind her ear to wake her up.

She sighed happily and turned to face me, discarding the pillow to cuddle me instead.

"I made breakfast," I announced, kissing the top of her head.

"I know," she murmured, sitting up. "I can smell it."

I sat up next to her and kissed her temple. "Good morning, dear. Did you enjoy yourself last night?"

My girlfriend smiled contently. "Yes. The orgasms felt a million times better."

"Orgasms as in plural?" I asked, taking a bite out of the bacon.

Her cheeks flushed slightly and she swallowed the food that was in her mouth. "Well, I agreed that I enjoyed myself last night."

"So, what are you going to do today?" I asked, snagging another bite of bacon.

"I have to go to a meeting about the
creature you captured in Tartarus," she supplied. "After that, "I'll probably go visit my hunters. If I can find the time, I'll probably stop by whatever forest you're hiding out in to ambush monsters and make out with you."

"Well, I definitely like the sound of that last bit," I remarked. "I have a bit of hunting I need to get finished in the next few days, so I might as well do it while you're busy."

As she continued working on her breakfast, I got out of bed and summoned clean clothes to get dressed properly.

Once I was finished getting dressed and she had finished her plate of food, she cleared her throat. "I was thinking that it might be time for you to properly move in. You sleep here with me almost every night, and the idea of coming home to you at night is one I like. We've been dating for a while now, and I think things are going pretty well."

My lip quivered as I tried to keep in a cheeky comment that would spoil the moment and she noticed, responding by throwing a pillow at me.

I caught it, cracked a smile, and walked back over to the bed. I set the pillow down and waved the plate away before leaning down and kissing her.

"I love you, dear, and I would love to move in with you," I answered.

She gave me a quick kiss to the cheek and sent me off to complete my assignments.

I appeared in a dense forest infested with mutated cyclopses, and my orders were to exterminate all of them.

All the deadly, mutated cyclopses hiding in the dense forest that covered over two hundred and fifty acres of land.

I sighed and hopped out of the tree I was hiding in.

With the sheer number of monsters I was hunting, I opted for a more blunt approach.

It was messier and not nearly as stealthy, but it would get the job done faster and my girlfriend was really good with medical stuff.

My plan was to draw out the mutated cyclopses by wandering around the forest and making loud noises.

Once I was approached, I would start jogging and allow them to chase me.

Hopefully, the majority of the monsters would accumulate in the herd that was chasing me, and I would be able to slaughter them all at once.

Even if they didn't, more would attack once their brethren started getting killed, and I would be able to hunt down the few that remained when I was finished with the massive horde.

Sure enough, there were loud, booming footsteps behind me.

I turned to find myself faced with a mutated cyclops almost half the height of the trees‚ that made up the forest.