Chapter 10

Percy POV

"Ok I'll bite." I said "What's an illegal born."

Getting over her shock Artemis looked at me"Well the easiest way to explain it would be that Zeus over the centuries has forbidden certain immortals and gods from having mortal kids or mixing of certain blood lines because he feared that they would be too powerful and a threat to his rule. So he outlawed their very existence, and their called illegal born. He also does his best to justify the death of other demigods who are not illegal born for the same reason, he thinks they're too strong. Sometimes he'll use the fact that some come from a broken oath and try to use that to have them killed. He even tried using this method with you Percy."

"That's horrible it's not their fault." Percy said

"Most of the Olympians don't agree with it either which is why if a child is born who fits that description their godly parent will usually do their best to hide them. Technically your friend Frank would be considered an illegal born, the only reason he hasn't been killed by Zeus is because he helped save Olympus." Artemis finished as Frank and Hazel walked in.

"Now do you see why I must leave." Sliver said walking to the doorway. As he passed Hazel and Frank who seemed to be in a very good mood he went rigid for just a second then proceed to the doorway but instead of leaving he closed the flaps. "M-Lady Artemis." he said like he was catching himself before saying something wrong"Could you please soundproof the tent?"

"Why?"she asked

"I'll explain after just please hurry I don't have much time."Artemis frowned but did as he asked and chanted something in ancient Greek. When she was done Silver walk straight up to Hazel and asked "Who is the father." causing Hazel to stumble back.

"What do you mean."she said nervously

"Don't play dumb with me I know you're with child now who is the father?" Silver demanded shocking everyone in the room.

"I'm not pregnant am I?" Hazel said to Artemis.

She closed her eyes for a moment then said "Yes you are."

Hazel looked like she had been hit with a ton of bricks and Frank looked like he was but to faint. "Who is the father?" Silver asked again more gently.

"Frank." Hazel said.

Silver turned to Artemis and said"That would make the child an illegal born am I correct?"

Artemis nodded"What's that?" Frank asked.

"The others will explain after I leave." Silver said

"Now if you want you child to live here's what you need to do. First Hazel you're going to go travel with Artemis and her hunters for the first 8 month of your pregnancy. If anyone asks who the father is and why you're with the hunters you tell them that during a trip to the city by yourself you got drug and raped so you don't know who the father is and you're traveling with Artemis because she offered to help you after hearing what happened." Sliver said turning to Artemis.

"Second after the 8 months are up make it look like the hunters camp was attacked by monsters and Hazel was taken with them. Frank will also 'disappear' looking for Hazel in reality the two of them will go here." he said pulling out a piece of paper and writing an address on it. "This is the location of the entrance to Ogygia that opened up after Calypso was released the gods can't find it and it wards off monsters. The island is completely safe so you should be fine to raise your child there. You'll also be able to contact your friends and they can contact you."

"Thanks." Hazel finally muttered still shell shocked.

Silver nodded and said"good luck"before walking out.

Hazel POV

I couldn't believe it one night with Frank and I had to go into hiding just to save my child. "Will his plan work?" I asked Artemis.

"Yes it will, but may I ask when did … this happen?" she said.

"um" I said nervously looking at the ground"last night after Frank proposed why do you ask?"

Artemis was about to answer when Percy shouted"Congratulations!". The hunters just looked at him while Artemis and Thalia started laugh at how cheery he sounded despite the situation.

"Well back to the point" Artemis said looking at Percy with a look in her I eye that I recognized'she has a crush on Percy!'I thought"I asked when it happened because I thought it happened within the last week which means that only I should have been able to tell since I am the goddess of childbirth so how did he know?" Artemis said. Thalia panicked a bit but covered it up so quickly I pushed it off a just my imagination and with that our discussion ended as I got hit with the first wave of morning sickness and rush to the garbage can and hurled.

Time skip 3 days later

Artemis POV

The hunt was moving through a forest in the state of Washington. We search of a group of 20 hell hounds that had been some how stolen from the fields of punishment at the same time. Normally Hades' son Nico would be in charge of doing this by himself but Thalia came and pleaded with me that the hunt go with him. Because she said "I'm worried for him because it has to be something powerful to take them all at once." I nodded and said that her concern was valid.

Over the course of the trip so far I had tried to become good friends with Percy. But I had to keep some sort of distance because if I let my guard down too much my hunters start giving me weird looks. I also noticed that Thalia and Nico spent a lot and I mean a lot of time talking, it was never anything more than that, but no matter what Nico was doing he would stop if it meant spending some time with Thalia.

On the third day we heard a commotion up a head, we stopped at the edge of a clearing and saw all the hell hounds bound by some kind of glowing chain "Now I see why they haven't returned on their own" Nico said to my left making me jump a bit the kid was surprisingly silent when he moved unlike Hazel who was clumsy but not nearly as bad as Percy.

"That's sun rock it makes shadow travel impossible, heck with this much hear I wouldn't even be able to do it my self.". Surrounding the hounds was a large group of maybe 50 monsters consisting of cyclops, giants, and dracena. They seemed to be tired and in disarray so we decided to just attack them considering we weren't even tired from our journey.

Me and the hunters stepped out of the woods just enough to have clear shots and began firing arrows meanwhile Percy and Nico attacked from the side leading about ten skeleton soldiers that Nico had summoned. Hazel was behind us using her Powers over precious metals to turn the few imperial gold weapons and armor against them. She wasn't exactly happy about it but Nico convinced her to stay back because nobody wanted the baby to get hurt.

"Finally you hunters decided to stand and fight instead of attacking us from the shadows."one of the giants shouted which confused me"Release the hounds!" it shouted and a cyclops nodded and snapped his fingers, the chains holding the hounds loosened and the hounds charged us. I realized that they must have in a sense reeducated the hounds so they would fight for them, we were expecting them to still be loyal to Hades and thus Nico would be able to control them.

The hounds pressed us back and just as one was about to pounce on me Percy was there slicing it in half. He put himself in between the hell hounds and the hunters hacking and slashing like a mad man. But just as the battle seemed to even out we heard Nico cry out in pain. I risked looking to my left for a sec and saw him pinned to a tree by a spear through his abdominal thankful it wasn't a fatal hit but if we didn't stop the bleeding soon it would be.

To my right I heard a battle cry and saw Thalia charge the cyclops that had hurt Nico and kill it by running her own spear through its head, she then stood in front of him killing anything that dared get too close. We fought for the next hour and managed to defeat and kill them with the exception of one who we cornered "You weren't supposed to be here." the cyclops said.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

"We were told to kill the boy." he said gesturing to Nico who was being treated by Atlanta

"They promised us that if we killed him we would be the royal guard in their army, it was supposed to be an easy job all of us to take out one demigod and train a few hell hounds.". Thalia was bristling with rage and ran him through with her spear before he could say anything else.

Thalia POV

It had been a few hours since the battle everyone else was asleep seeing it was like 2:00 am. However I was in the tent we used as an infirmary, I had refused to leave Nico's side. Seeing him like this was killing me it felt like my heart was being slowly ripped out, all because it was my fault he got hurt. Everyone told it wasn't my fault, that I wasn't even near him but they didn't see what I saw.

Flash back

I was fighting a hell hound and right as I killed it I saw to my left a dracena with its bow aimed at me an arrow already pulled back. Nico saw it and he charged, in an attempt to stop it a cyclops through his spear at Nico. Nico saw it and was faced with a choice he could dodge the spear and I would die or kill the dracena and he would die while I lived. 'Don't choose me' I thought 'save yourself' but he didn't.

End Flashback

Now I was sitting here wait for him to wake up wishing he knew how much I loved him. Sure he was a little creepy and kept to himself but he was always there for me when Percy went missing he visited me often to make sure I was ok. Or 4 months ago when a hunter died he comforted me as best he could.

It was clear he wasn't sure what to do but he tried, in one way he was like Percy undying loyal if it meant protecting his friends he would do anything. "I love you Nico." Thalia said and almost on instinct she leaned forward and kissed him full on the lips.