Banished

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Percy PoV

A third drakon we hadn't seen had appeared behind Artemis and tore a large chunk of flesh right out of her leg.

I barely heard her scream of shock and pain when the drakon began to roar.

Summoning Athena for the captured drakon, I picked my future wife up off the ground.

We appeared at the emergency section of Apollo's clinic, and the man after whom it was named, dropped his clipboard at the sight.

Ichor was dripping everywhere and she was getting paler by the second.

Apollo motioned for me to follow him and we quickly made our way to a private room.

I laid Artemis down on the table and held her hand.

Her brother stuck a tube in her arm and she fell asleep quickly.

"She's going to be fine, right?" I asked. Apollo nodded. "She should be alright. It might take a couple of weeks, but she'll heal."

I watched as he placed her leg in what looked like a small tub. He filled it up to where it was covering her wound.

"Artemis is going to be unconscious until at least tomorrow afternoon. You should go home and rest. Maybe pack a few things to keep her from being bored while she's here," Apollo suggested. "Or you could go talk to Athena and kill whatever in Hades did this to my sister."

I nodded and chose his last suggestion.

I appeared at the complex where the mutated monsters were being kept and found Athena poring over a desk with a mess of papers strewn about it.

Picking up the stray notes that had found their way onto the floor, I cleared my throat. "Apollo said that Artemis would be fine. Have you learned anything that could help me capture these creatures?"

"It seems that water will temporarily prevent them from blending into their environments, if not stun them entirely," the wisdom goddess replied.

I nodded and went to leave when Demeter appeared. "What are you doing here?"

The goddess of agriculture fumbled over her words and Athena stepped in. "She came to ask about how feeding the creatures different plants affected their mutations."

I stepped out to go observe the different monsters for myself.

I passed cyclopses, harpies, hellhounds, and the creature that had formed from the pieces of disembowelled Titans and Giants
before reaching the drakon.

Like the other specimens, it was kept in a barren room with a thick glass wall for viewing and a large tablet in front to list all available information on the creature.

I condensed some of the water that had been in the air inside the room with the drakon and spread it across the room.

Being a son of Poseidon was really helpful sometimes.

Sure enough, what had appeared to be an empty room turned out to be inhabited by a massive drakon that was temporarily paralyzed.

After seeing the monster in such a vulnerable state, I decided it was time to go back, find the drakon that had harmed my fiancee, and kill it.

Shortly after, I realized I didn't know whether she preferred I capture or kill any other drakons I found.

When I went to go ask Athena, the door was slightly ajar.

I peered in and saw her sitting up on the same desk she had been poring over earlier. To further my surprise, it seemed that her legs were spread and Demeter's torso was between them.

Deciding to leave them be and making the mental note not to ask for any updates the next day, I went to go hunt down the monster that had wounded my Artemis.