Chapter 20

Artemis POV

"Thalia get ready to leave, we're going to camp." I said jumping off the couch.

A minute later we flashed to camp in the middle of the cabins "So where is this girl Thalia?" I asked with a little impatiences and a lot of excitement.

"It's that Zoe girl in the Poseidon camp." Thalia said and I couldn't help but smile. 'that's a good sign' I thought as we knocked on the door. I felt we should just go in because this was Percy's cabin s well but he thought it would be better this way now that he was a god.

"Coming." someone shouted from the inside and the door opened a second later a girl I recognize as Luna was standing there with a toothbrush in her mouth.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

"Yes actually" Percy said "we were wondering if we could talk to Zoe."

Luna seemed to get a little nervous but nodded "Okay just give me a sec I'll go get her.".

Luna left and we walked in, Luna picked up Zoe from her bed and whispered something in her ear. "Hey Zoe." Thalia said as they came over to us.

"Hi." Zoe replied still half asleep and holding her teddy.

"So what did you want to ask her?" Luna asked.

"We just wanted to see her hands." I said Luna didn't seem to like it but Zoe held out her arms with out any complaint.

There was nothing on either of them "Are you sure you saw the mark on her arm?" I asked Thalia.

"Yes it was right here on her wrist." she said grabbing the wrist of Zoe's right arm but it was still not there.

Thalia pulled away her hand "I'm sorry, I thought I saw it." she said. I felt deflated but waved her off"It's fine." I said and Luna looked relieved.

Thalia turned to leave clearly upset about getting our hopes up "Thalia what's that on your hand?" Percy asked. I looked as well taking note that part her hand now had a different skin tone.

"It's makeup," Thalia said after a minute.

"Zoe could you give me your hand again?" I asked summoning a wash rag, wiping the makeup off her wrist and a small black band with a wolf appeared.

Percy POV

I stood behind Artemis as the band was uncovered, Artemis looked about ready to burst from excitement, softly she touched it and the band began to glow along with the one on her arm closest to her elbow. "Arty does that mean what I think it does?" I asked she put her hand over her mouth and nodded. I locked the door and went back to Luna "start talking"I said taking a seat across from her.

"Busted." Zoe yawned cutely getting a laugh from everyone.

Artemis and Thalia sat down next to me on a cot across from Luna and Zoe "So what do you want to know?" Luna said.

"I get you can't tell us everything so tell us what you can."I said.

Luna sighed "Well I guess we should start with this." Luna said taking off a necklace Zoe had been wearing. I realized that Zoe had been wearing that since I met her and I had never seen her with it off. Now I understood why as her previously sea green eyes changed to a pure silver color much like Artemis'.

"S-She's my daughter." Artemis said tearing up, I felt we had already established that but I let her have the moment.

"Your youngest." Luna said.

"Youngest?" I asked "Youngest of how many?"

"Four." Luna said.

"What are the other three like." Artemis asked.

"Well your oldest child's name is Melissa but you already know her. The second oldest is named Samuel but we call him Sam. He"s usually a pretty carefree guy loves the woods and such. and has a habit of taking naps in trees. He's actually quite well known being the champion of Artemis and all, in our time at least."

"He's my champion?" Artemis asked.

"Ya he trained for years to become strong. Though not always through methods you liked and once openly showed his strengths you made him your champion." Luna said as Zoe fell back asleep "And you already known me so that's it".

"Wait you're my-"

"Yes mom I'm your daughter." Luna said, Artemis got up and hugged her tightly tears streaming down her face.

Zoe who was still in Luna's arms woke up when Artemis hugged Luna. Zoe yawned and started rubbing her eyes as if noticing that Artemis was there for the first time she held out her arms and said "Mama."

Artemis pulled away from Luna and took Zoe in her own arms "Hey Zoe." Artemis said in a soft voice "Hows my baby girl?".

Zoe gave Artemis a hug and said "Fine." before falling back asleep once again.

"Sorry." Luna said. "Zoe didn't sleep that well last night."

"It's okay." Artemis said sitting back down with Zoe in her arms.

I had remained quiet for the most but the silence we found ourselves in was killing me "Um so you're my daughter."

"Yep." Luna said seemingly laughing at me "And I got the mark to prove it.".

Luna pulled back the sleeve on her left arm to reveal a tattoo of a Pegasus. "How does that prove you're my daughter?" I asked.

"It's my mark as your first born." Luna said.

I was still confused and Artemis sighed exasperatedly. "When a god or goddess has their very first child the child gets a mark on their body and are stronger than normal."

"Wait a second If that's true and Luna" I said looking at her "is your second oldest why does she have my first born mark is Sam adopted or something and why don't you have Artemis's first born mark.".

"No he's not adopted." Luna said "Me and him are twins so when we were born he got mom's mark and I got yours.".

Artemis POV

I was so happy to finally see my children. After I picked up Zoe in my arms I couldn't help but stare at her. I still paid attention to the conversation but for the most part I was trying to burn the image of Zoe sleeping into my mind.

Looking at her I could see that she had gotten most of her looks from me the only differences were her naturally tanned skin and her black hair. When I heard Luna mention a twin brother I remember that Percy had said he heard Silver call Luna sis "Could you bring your brother here?" I asked.

"How did you know he was here?" Luna asked positively stunned.

"I may have overheard you two talking." Percy said with a grin.

Luna face palmed "I knew you weren't a nature spirit." she said.

"Why would you think I was a nature spirit?" Percy asked.

"Well you know how satyrs tend to react around mom."

"They go love crazy." I said

"Exactly, Sam puts off the same kinda power and the nymphs tend to go 'love crazy' as you put it."

"Just like his old man." Percy joked, I gave him a light smack on the head as Luna got up to leave.

"Umm Luna before you go do I have any kids here and if so could you bring them too." Thalia asked, Luna just waved her hand and left.

A few minutes later the door opened and Luna walked in dragging two boy's by their ears "Ow ow Luna what are you doing." one of them said and I could help laugh a little. Luna let them go and turned them to face us the one on the left I recognized as Silver I mean Sam, the other one had black hair and was dressed in a black hoodie and jeans with a snow white shirt.

"You're here because they figured it out." Luna said Sam groaned.

"So what they wanted to meet us?"

"Correct." I said standing up and giving Zoe to Percy. I walked straight up to Sam and said "Take off the ring I want to see what you really look like."

"You've seen me before." he said.

"True but I wasn't really caring what you looked like I was just making sure you weren't going to hurt anyone, now take it off." I said. He took off his ring and then his sun glasses. Luna looked so much like her father but still beautiful and Zoe looked like a much younger version of me.

Sam on the other hand was more of a mix, he had both of our hair colors my nose and his fathers chin but he wouldn't open his eyes. "Show me your eyes" I said.

Percy gave me a pained look"Artemis he can't."

"Why not?"

"His first day here I saw his eyes, he's blind." Immediately I felt horrible for asking

"Actually I can see the ring just makes it look like I'm blind as long as I keep my eyes closed, but I still can't open them." he said.

"Why can't you?" I asked slightly annoyed Sam opened his mouth to explain but we heard someone calling yelling for him outside.

"Sorry but I need to go." he gave me a bear hug and said "I love you mom." warming my heart and left.

"Well since he had to leave I'll explain well the long version anyway. Do you remember what our aunt said about him." I gave her a confused look and Luna shook her head.

"In the beginning out of all the illegal born children Sam was the weakest. He was the smallest out of all of us and for some reason he couldn't use any of his inherited demigod powers at all. Not even the basic stuff like being able to breath underwater and even Zoe who takes after you got that one. When we turned five we had to hide him when Hermes came like we usually did. We grew up in the hunt by the way, but Sam started to think you were ashamed of him for being weak." Luna explained which made my heart sink.

"This wasn't true of course but at that age Sam just didn't understand why he had to hide while I could stay with the hunters. So Sam started going out at night while everyone was sleeping, he wouldn't leave camp but he would take a hunting knife from the weapons tent and practice with it like it was a sword or sometimes he would grab a bow or throwing knives."

"He went on like that for five years and none of us noticed, during the day he acted the same as ever so no one ever gave it a second thought. The only time any suspicion was raised was when he turned 8 and he beat the crap out of some 12 year old child of Nemesis that was making fun of me." I mentally cheered at that part.

"We all wondered where he learned to do that since we had never seen him display any skills like that before but just chalked it up to it being natural battle skills he inherited from you two. Two years later the hunt happened to be in Rome during the time of the yearly gladiator competition that had started after the giant war so we decided to stay and watch. The competition is a lot like it sounds demigods sign up to fight in one on one combat." 'Probably a male who came up with this.' I thought.

"The whole thing takes three days since there's usually a hundred or so who enter and the only rule is that you can't kill your opponent. Other than that everything is legal automation's, demigod powers, enchanted weapons everything. The winner and runner up of the competition is given a gift from the gods usually something small like an enchanted weapon but once the winner got immortality for winning four times. So on the first day me and the hunt took our seats waiting for the start. I should preface this by telling you that if me or Sam ever needed to say who our godly parent was we'd say Perseus god of Heroes, any way back to the story so we're sitting there but we can't find Sam." 'He didn't.' I thought.

"We didn't worry about it too much because he can take care of himself. The first round of matches started and we all had a lot of fun. On the last match of the round the announcer introduces this son of Ares with huge muscles, a club that would have made a cyclops jealous, and full battle armor.

His opponent about average size walks out with a bow on his back, throwing knives strapped to his jeans, and two swords. The closest thing the guy had to armor was the shirt he was wearing and seriously my first thought was 'This guy is so dead.', then we hear the speak say "..and his opponent Samuel son of Perseus god of heroes." and I think 'oh crap.'."

I mentally face palmed 'He did.' I thought.