Chương 123: Chapter 123

Ping!

Skill leveled up!

· Physical Endurance, Lv-18 (20%)

Your Body's durability increased and you take less damage.

42% less damage from physical attacks.

Percy got out of the ruble and looked around for the pot. But before he could search for it Artemis appeared in a flash of light and stood in the middle of the Amphitheater with an arrow locked onto Percy.

"Don't move boy," the goddess warned as she narrowed her eyes at him.

"My name is Percy Jackson, not boy."

"Oh really? I thought it was Peter Johnson," Artemis replied with a smirk.

Percy smiled, "well what do you know, you do have a sense of humor."

"I assure you Perseus I am very funny, like there was this one time where I shoot this son of Poseidon who had a very loud mouth and a stupid looking grin right between the eyes. Think that's funny?"

Percy shrugged, "well maybe not haha funny..."

"You have guts boy-"

"-Percy," Percy interrupted.

Artemis narrowed her eyes and repeated,"-boy. And as I was saying you have guts, and your ability is very unique something I have never seen a son of Poseidon achieve. But you have had you fun, you will return the souls you stole back to the Underworld and come with me to Olympus."

"And if I don't?"

"Well then I'm going to get some good target practise."

Percy started to sweat, this was a little above his pay grade. He could use the Master Bolt but something told him that she is a lot faster than Ares ever was. Just then Percy noticed something between the stone stands and the Amphitheater stage, the clay pot.

Quickly Percy thought up a plan, first step, distract Artemis. "Do you even know why you were sent to go after me?"

"You stole souls from Hades's domain. We don't know how but we know Hades must have assisted you in some way."

'Okay good she doesn't know how I transported the souls meaning to her the pot is just an ordinary clay pot.' "Do you know whose souls I have taken?" Percy then put his hands up as he slowly walked towards the goddess.

"It doesn't matter whose souls it was. The laws of Olympus are final, and you have broken one without the permission of the gods."

Percy raised an eyebrow as he slowly stepped off the last step of the stone steps onto the main theater floor, the pot was just a few feet away from him now, "really? It doesn't matter who? Not even if the 36 souls belong to their dead children?"

Artemis's eyes widened the moment Percy said that, "w-what?"

Percy nodded, "yup. I'm not just bringing back any normal back to life, I'm bringing back their kids, and they still want to stop me?"

"W-we weren't aware that any demigods died," Artemis said with confusion in her voice as she lowered her bow and arrow.

"You didn't? You didn't notice when the freaking Titan of the sun came and started impale campers like shish kebabs?"

"That can't be true," Artemis replied in a low voice, "how is this possible?"

"Look around," Percy gestured with his hands, "the proof is all around us."

Artemis turned and saw the camp destroyed. The Arena was surrounded by golden dust while the cabins were broken down into pieces. The Climbing Wall was covered with scorch marks that broke down pieces of it littering the grounds with stone.

Percy took a few steps to the clay pot while Artemis was distracted but before he could reach it she turned back to him, "Helios is back?! That's impossible!"

"Ah, no, Hyperion."

"Hyperion if the Titan of the Fire and Light! Get your Greek Mythology right!"

"Right, anyway what the hell were you guys doing when all of this was going on?"

"We...we were having a meeting."

"Oh? So you guys had a meeting while your children were being slaughtered by monsters, that's nice."

"The meeting was about Hyperion!" Artemis snapped back, "he had recently escaped Tartarus and we were trying to locate him before he did any damage."

"Looks like you all were a little too late," Percy replied back as he stepped right besides the pot.

"I don't need to be told that by you boy," Artemis called out as she aimed the arrow back at Percy, "be whatever your intentions may be you still are attempting to bring back the dead, which is illegal. Stop right now or I will be forced to kill you."

Percy sighed as he nodded, "okay, you caught me," he then took a step forward and brought down a foot over the clap pot shattering it into little pieces.

"What did you do?!" Artemis cried out as balls of light rushed passed her, out of the pot and to the Big House.

"Oops?" Percy said shrugging with a smile on his face, "I didn't see where I was going. Honest mistake."

Lie Failed!

Artemis then looked at Percy, "oh I am going to make you hurt for that one boy." She then threw her bow away and took out two hunting knives as she slowly walked up to him.

Percy grinned with the souls all safe he could now cut loss, "now this is more my style," he then took out Riptide and uncapped it forming his sword, "bring it girl scout."

Artemis roared as she charged him, "AHH!" Percy blocked her first swing and stepped aside to avoid her second. He jumped to the Amphitheater grounds and turned just in time to parry another of Artemis's blows.

"Your good boy," Artemis kicked Percy sending him rolling across the ground, "but not good enough."

Percy groaned picking himself up, "tell me about it." The demigod then raised his blade, "you may be faster stronger and smarter than me but at least I am better at one thing than you."

Artemis raised an eyebrow, "oh? And what is that?"

"I can do this, Earthquake Fist!" Percy then smashed his fist into the groud breaking the stone in half forcing Artemis to move away from the crumbling platform and the random flying stones.

Percy smiled and jumped back heading to the Lake, if he was going to fight off a god he would need all the bonuses he could get. But before he could take more than a few steps forward a blur of silver appeared in front of him causing Percy to stop.

Artemis was not happy. Her clothes were dirty, he face had a permanent frown and her hair a mess, "you are a slippery one. But you're the only one who can break the Earth," she then lifted a fist and and smashed it into the ground.

BOOM!

A web of cracks appeared below his fist breaking huge chunks of the Earth throwing Percy off his feet. The son of Poseidon struggled to get up but when he looked up Artemis was there with a knife held under his neck, "move and you're dead."

"How did you do that?" Percy asked.

"Godly strength."

"That's it? Just pure strength?"

Artemis nodded, "yes."

Percy looked at the goddess with amazement in his eyes."You're amazing."

Artemis looked shocked as his comment caused her lose focus for one second, and that was all Percy needed. He brought Riptide up and knocked the knife away from his neck and out of her hand. "Smoke from!" his body transformed into smoke as he flew away from her to the lake.

"Get back here!" Artemis roared as she snapped her fingers and Percy felt something overcoming his body and pushing past his mind and soul piercing his very being.

Ping!

Artemis's will has concurred yours resulting in a forced transformation!

Percy's eyes winded at that, 'what?!' Just then his body started to compress back into his normal body and then in flash of light everything changed.

Percy collapsed onto the ground and the moment his hands hit the ground he heard it, 'clack, clack.' Percy's eyes winded at the sound and looked down to see his arms were now covered with fur with his hands transformed into ….are these hooves?