Chapter 6

Third person POV (back at camp half blood right after Artemis dropped them off)

"Ok lets get to the cabin." Thalia said, she could walk now but she still felt really stiff as she made her way down the hill.

"Need some company." Percy said walking beside her and it was then that she realized that the rest of the hunters had run on ahead.

Thalia sighed "sure" she said and before long she and Percy were talking like old times every hint of Percy's depression seemed to be gone except for a sad look in his eyes 'we can work on that' Thalia thought 'for now this is a good start' Thalia was brought back to reality when Nico half tackled Percy and then her in a hug Thalia would have been lying if she said she wasn't happy to have Nico's arms around her but she quickly pushed him away as she felt her face heat up thankful Nico didn't notice but Percy did and she gave him a look that said 'say anything and I will throw you into Tartarus got it' Percy cocked an eyebrow but didn't say anything clearly amused.

"You shouldn't hug me Nico if any of the hunters saw that they'd kill you." she said.

"Sorry I've been stuck in the underworld for weeks trying to sort out this strike some of the security skeletons went on, its just good to finally be back." Nico said.

They stood there talking for about an hour when Piper came up "hey can I borrow Percy here for a bit.?"

"sure" Thalia said.

As soon as she was out of hearing range Nico turned to the huntress and said "Side note what did you do to Percy?"

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"I mean Percys looking better better than he has in months he talking to people, laughing, and did not try to go to his cabin first chance he got so I want to know what you did to finally get him back to normal." Nico finished

"Well he may have joined me, Artemis, and the hunters for one of a missions from Zeus and saved Artemis's life."

"So let me get this straight killing a bunch of monsters and saving a damsel in distress was all it took to get him back." Nico said flatly

"Ya seems like it, but I would be careful calling Lady Artemis a 'damsel in distress' she is a goddess you know." she said walking to the woods followed by Nico

"good po..." Nico started to say before stopping completely, Thalia turned to see where he was looking and saw a six feet tall wolf with black and auburn fur staring at them Thalia slowly pulled out her spear extending it to it's full size and aimed the point at the wolf.

The wolf didn't even seem phased by her aggressive stance it just kept staring at her at that time two things occurred to her, first was that they wolf was exactly like the one Percy described that was standing by their tents and second the wolfs eyes were different colors the left was green while the right was silver.

She heard Nico unsheathed his sword to her left then she charged looking back on it that was probably a bad idea because she knew nothing about the wolf and it was just looking at them it hadn't even growled it might have just been curious about them.

Thalia went to stab it right in the chest but it stepped aside easily and as she move past grabbed her spear between it powerful jaws and wrenched it out of her hands. Thalia quickly stepped back and Nico moved in front over protectively, she was expecting the wolf to attack but instead it simple shook the spear back and forth until it shrunk back into a can then walked a little distance away and sat down.

"ok" Thalia said inching forward when she got within 3 feet it turned and ran father away before sitting again.

"I think it wants us to follow it" Nico said to which the wolf barked happily.

"ok lead the way boy" Thalia said and the wolf turned and walked away at a fast pace Thalia could tell that it could go faster but it was slowing down so they could keep up. When they near the clearing where Zeus's fist was the wolf surged forward out of sight as they struggled to catch up. When they reached the clearing Thalia saw her spear still in its compacted form by Zeus's fist where the wolf seemed to have dropped it.

"Well that was weird." Nico said as they jogged over to Zeus's fist "Why would it get us to follow it all the way out here if it was just going to run away?"

"That would be because of me." a guy in silver said stepping out from behind the rock formation his face was covered by hood, a mask, and a pair of sunglasses. "You again! Who are you?" Thalia yelled

"I believe I already told you that who I am is currently of no importance." he replied calmly

"I demand you give me back my quiver and that hunters bow you stole." she said picking up her spear and extending it again

"I already told that the bow was a gift from my mother and as for your quiver here you can have it" he said tossing Thalia an empty silver quiver "Now that that's taken care of I brought you here so we can talk."

"And why should we believe you, you stole my quiver, you keep your face hidden, and you refuse to tell me who you are?" she snapped

"One I gave you back your quiver and two I hide my Identity for the sake of my family, if Zeus knew that someone like me existed he would try to have me killed and if he couldn't have that he would go after my family." he said clearly trying to contain his anger.

"Why would Zeus want you killed?" Nico asked "Because I'm what you would call an illegal born."

"What's that?" Thalia asked the guy just simply sighed.

"An illegal born is someone 'usually a demigod' who Zeus decides is too powerful and therefore dangerous to exist so he has them killed." he said flatly.

"Wait if you're so powerful where were you during the last two wars I watched you kill 13 drakons in under 10 minutes we could have used your help." Thalia said her anger rising again.

"It's complicated" he said looking away.

"Then why don't you explain" she said through gritted teeth "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." he said

"Try us" I responded.

"ok lets start with this today is the 4th of February 2014 correct?"

"Correct." I said confused.

"My birth date is July 18 2014" he said hesitantly.

"WHAT YOUR TELLING US THAT YOU'RE NOT EVEN BORN YET." Thalia screamed.

"I told you, you wouldn't believe me but I swear on Styx that what I have said is true." he said thunder boomed signifying that it was accepted. "There now as you can see I'm still very much alive so can we move on.".

Nico and Thalia were dumbstruck standing right in front of them was an actual guy from the future an, after a while Thalia seemed to find her voice"If your from the future then why are you here in the past jeopardizing your family?" she asked and Nico had to admit he was curious as well.

"I'm not saying any more unless you swear on styx that you won't tell anyone who I am or what you learn about the future."

"No how do we know youll tell the truth, heck if you're from the future how do we even know if your bound by your oath on Styx."

"Fine a goodwill gesture than when you get back to camp you'll find lady Artemis waiting for you Thalia, so she can take you and Percy to a council meeting at this meeting, Percy will be named 'guardian of the hunt' instead of Hercules who Zeus will try to assign at first, Poseidon will also announce that he is getting a divorce from his wife Amphitrite. Now go by the end of today you'll know whether or not what I have said is true. I be here at noon tomorrow in case you decide you want to know more." and with that he ran off into the woods.

"Do you think any of what he said is true?" Nico asked

"To be honest I'm not sure but there's one way to find out." Thalia said and with that we headed back.