Chapter 7

"So what can I help you with?" Percy asked as Piper half dragged him away from Thalia and Nico.

"I met this girl the other day and I thought shed be perfect for you" She lied in reality it was a suggestion she had gotten from her mom viva IM a few minutes ago. Percy groaned this wasn't the first time Piper had tried to set him up on a blind date with someone and she knew Percy had gotten tired of saying no

"Piper we've talked about this I'm not ready to start dating again." Percy said.

Piper looked at Percy for a moment then said "Tell you what I'll make you a deal if you go on this date no matter how it turns out I won't bother asking again till this time next year."

Percy looked at her for a while before hanging his head in defeat "Fine I'll go." he said.

"Great" Piper said with a smile "but you got to swear on Styx you'll give her a chance and not just go so that I'll leave you alone."

He sighed "I Percy Jackson son of Poseidon Swear on Styx I'll give this girl a chance." thunder boomed in the background and Percy had a strange look on his face

"What is it." Piper said, Percy shook his head then said "Nothing I just never thought I would actually be saying that."

"I see your point." Piper said laughing "Well anyway the date is on friday, you're going to meet her at a burger place called Virges at 6:00 PM it's about 10 minutes from camp by car, her name is..."

"Piper you're forgetting something I don't have a car and isn't Friday tomorrow?" Percy said cutting her off.

"Just take a taxi and yes it is." she said "Now as I was saying her name is Diana she can be a little shy but she's a ton of fun" Piper kept talking about different things Percy could do there was an arcade down there along with a movie theater, a dance club, and half a dozen other things she had found while on her dates with Jason but she left that part out.

She stopped when she hear the the horn blow meaning it was dinner time Piper realized she had been talking his ear off for almost 2 hours "Sorry." Piper said as they jogged off to the mess hall.

"Percy!" Thalia yelled as we passed the Artemis's cabin. "Come on we've been looking for you we need to be at the meeting like now." she said grabbing his arm and pulling him towards the cabin

"What meeting?" he asked "The Olympian council meeting Artemis wants you to be there for it and has been waiting for you to get back so we can go." she said.

"Oh, well see you around Piper." he said waving goodbye.

Thalia POV

We flashed into the throne room find the other gods already sitting on their seats of power, Artemis quickly moved to her throne and sat down "glad you could join us Artemis" Ares said clearly annoyed Thalia could see Percy's friend Frank standing by his fathers throne.

Zeus clear his throat then said "This meeting has been called to discuss the recent rise in monster attacks

"What do you mean?" Hephaestus asked

"He means that since the end of the giant war instead of their attacks slowing down they're getting more frequent." Hermes said "Last week around 20 Laristrong giants ambushed my son mark from camp Jupiter while he was doing a solo recon mission on a place in New Mexico where they've been supposedly gathering."

"on that topic my son Frank has come to give us a report on what's been happening at camp Jupiter." Ares said as Frank walked to the center of the room

"We've notice what's been happening and have started sending scouts over the past few months to try and find out what their doing. And what we've learned is not good, monsters of every kind have started forming alliances creating hundreds of small factions across the country most of which contain somewhere between 20 to 100 or separate monsters." Frank paused letting the information sink in.

"What we don't know is if the factions are working together, the individual factions have started ambushing and attacking demigods on quests seeming independently but I don't know how long that will last." he said "But we might have a little bit of good news."

"What do you mean by might?" Athena asked

"What I mean is...know what lets just start from the beginning around 2 months ago we started hearing reports about a guy wearing a silver cloak saving demigods, these report range from demigods who show up at the camps claiming he brought them, to demigods on quests getting harassed by monsters and him saving them." he said "The last report we have of him is from Hermes's son Mark where this guy killed several dozen monsters and managed to help Mark get back to camp safely since then we've had no sightings of him but we believe he is an extremely powerful demigod and he seems to be helping but we have no Idea who he i.s" Frank finished and Zeus asked if anyone knew something about this 'man in silver'

"I do my lord." Artemis said and the entire council turned to face her.

"On our most recent hunt to take down a nest of dracena that had started forming in Colorado which I believe might have been one of these 'factions' you were talking about, we ran into some unexpected problems." Artemis said.

"What kind of problems?" Zeus asked narrowing his eyes it was well known that Zeus was very protective of his daughters Artemis then explained to him the trap laid by the dracena, how they knew we were coming, and them special orders to have me killed.

Artemis went on to describe the battle and how Percy saved her life, Apollo did ask why Percy was even with the hunt to which she answered he had earned it so she allowed to join them for this one hunt to which Apollo cocked an eyebrow. And lastly she had me describe what had happened when I went after the dracena into the other part of the warehouse.

"Hmm… this news is very disturbing" Zeus said "First for the time being the hunt is to stay at camp half blood"

"My lord why?" Artemis asked standing up.

"With the growth in monster activity we'll be need even more."

"No I will not risk you getting captured." Zeus said flatly

"Father if you feel that my sister needs to be better protected why not assign the hunt a guardian." Athena said.

Zeus thought for a moment then said "Yes you may be right will you agree to this my daughter" he said to Artemis, Artemis seeing no way around this if the hunt was going to remain active said "Yes I will."

"Great I will have Heracles informed of his new position he should be rather happy to finally get away from those pillars."

"No father I WILL NOT HAVE HIM IN MY HUNT." Artemis said trying to control her anger.

"Then who?" Zeus demanded"Heracles is the only one strong enough to protect you that I can spare."

"What about Percy." Aphrodite said "he's strong enough to protect Artemis we know that because he already did 'at the warehouse' as for having the time, he spends most of his time in his cabin at camp half blood any way this will give him something to do and the hunters won't kill him on sight."

Zeus looked slightly annoyed but left the decision up to Percy and Artemis, Artemis agreed right away I assume to avoid having Heracles hanging around her hunters and Percy agreed once he got over his shock of Artemis agreeing.

My head was reeling to not just because Percy had joined the hunt but because Silver had predicted it. "Now is there anything else, no ok then this council is dismissed." Zeus said quickly standing up.

"Actually brother I do have something to announce." Poseidon said and Zeus reluctantly sat back down and motioned for him to continue. Poseidon took a deep breath and said "I have thought long and hard about this and I haven't told anyone yet but I have decided that I'm going to divorce my wife Amphitrite."

"Why?" Athena said, Aphrodite let out a small chuckle but stopped when she saw Athena's confused look.

"Oh I forgot you weren't around when it happened." she said.

"Around when what happened?" Percy asked to which Aphrodite replied

"Just after the titan war ended most of the sea wasn't sure if it should accept Poseidon as their new king or stay loyal to Oceanus, Zeus didn't want to deal with it so he force your father to marry Amphitrite Oceanus's daughter to unify the sea under Olympion rule. To be honest I'm surprised the marriage even lasted this long." At this I decided we needed to know more and I was taking Sliver up on his offer.

Artemis

POV

Zeus being unsure how to react quickly dismissed the meeting and flashed out followed by the rest of the gods except for myself, Aphrodite, Athena, Hestia the three of which were walking toward me. I turned to Thalia and Percy telling them not tell anyone about what had happened during the meeting and with that I flashed them back to camp half blood Just as Aphrodite reached me. "Ok so first things first I called my daughter and got everything set up fo.." I cover her mouth with my hand.

"Not here." I said removing my hand she nodded and snapped her finger and we were back in her palace and apparently Athena and Hestia followed.

"So as I was saying I got everything set up for your date and by that I mean I picked out a still good but out of the way restaurant and Piper got Percy to agree. Also I said your name was Diana, now have you decided on what you want to wear." I shook my head "How about the changes to your physical appearance" I nodded.

"Well show us." Athena said.

'she's really getting into this 'I thought "ok" I said nervously glowing as I change my form when the glow died down I was still wearing my hunters uniform but now I was around 17 or 18 years old so I was about 6' feet to his 6' 2'' I had brown hair instead of auburn, nice tanned skin making me look almost latino, and finally I made my I made eyes sapphire blue because I knew blue was his favorite color. I didn't really change how I looked other than that.

If you looked really hard you could tell it was me but nobody would expect to see me on a date so the would probably just shake it as just their imagination. "Nice choice with the blue eyes I bet Percy is going to love that" Aphrodite said "now that we have your physical appearance taken care of I can go pick out a few outfits that will go with it." and with that she disappeared into a room with a sign on the door that said date night.

"Well Athena since the four of us are here why don't you tell them." Hestia suggested causing Athena to blush.

"Tell us what?" Aphrodite asked sticking her head out to see what was going on.

"Hestia you promised you wouldn't say anything!" Athena said

"Say anything about what!! I need answers here." Aphrodite said setting several outfits on her bed. "She's been in love with a guy for almost 3 thousand years." Hestia said smiling

"You what?" Aphrodite screamed looking at Athena with wide eyes.