Chapter 27: Plans and Actions

[Percy POV:]

Telling the story of the wolf king went easier than I expected, the story flowed well, at least i think it did anyway. We're now just sitting by the Tv all of us in blankets watching something called Taskmaster? I was funny seeing them do all kinds of stupid tasks while getting points that were clearly bias to what was most funny or sucking up to the host. I had Reyna cuddled up in my fur already asleep peacefully. I would never have thought she'd actually let her guard down around any of us, let alone monsters. She looked so cute I couldn't help the desire to nuzzle a strand of her hair out of her beautiful face.. Something the rest of the females in the room noticed giving me knowing looks..

"Hey it's not like that! I'm just making sure she is comfortable.." what I am!

"Sure wolf, I've only known you a few hours and I see how you look at the demigod" spoke Arachnid. I will never be used to that voice. Ever. gotta admit those legs do make up for it in a very confusing way.. Did I just think spider legs are sexy? I can't even blame the wolf brain on that one. Still true though… Holy Hera I need help.

"And now you're looking at me in the same way… should I be worried during our travels wolf?" Please let me die now. Zeus? please? Sheesh he never kills you when you actually want him to does he.. I bet If I marched up to him asking for death he'd find some stupid reason to suddenly keep me alive like being a guardian or something.

"I- I was not! I'm not looking at anyone in any way!" I responded defensively. I definitely was, what I'm a male wolf ok..

"Oh my should I be worried too Damian? You should know I have my hands full with one daughter as it is" now they're just teasing me.. It's not my fault that those scales look sexy on her! I should probably stop thinking now.

"Sexy scales you say? I'll take that as a compliment" I said that aloud?!? Fates please erase that from history.

[Fates POV:]

"No"

[Percy POV:]

"Seems your wolf companion wants to make another pack of his own" she laughed. Zeus if ever was the time to throw a bolt at me, now would be the time….

Please?

My pleas unanswered like usual, I went back to watching the Tv opting to pretend like nothing happened. Because nothing happened ya got it?

Anna, Emily and Fidi were in the camper, snoozing in comfort. Since they weren't too keen on sleeping in a literal den of spiders. Understandable, I'm surprised Reyna and I weren't deterred by the thought.

"So, tell me honestly why do you both want to join me on my way to Alaska, I know you're hiding something, but I feel I can trust you for some odd reason" I had my suspicions since she asked, only increased when she led us here, but I want to trust them. I want to believe they can be more than just monsters again.

"Medusa, tell him. He can not hear you here" who is he? Oooh I smell drama. Kinda pungent, Wait thats just the left over food from earlier Stupid wolf nose

"Are you sure?" Arachnid gave a nod "ok then.. I was told to follow you by someone, someone who has been contacting me since I reformed. He would often ask me to gather information for him on monsters and demigods alike before I settled down here. After that he'd only check I was 'in my place' that is until some days back when he informed me that Percy Jackson may be on route to me in order to save the Titans much like you intend to do Damian. I was told to kill him on sight. I had half a mind to refuse, I no longer care for revenge now I've my Fidi. but this man, whoever he is, I feel a fear for him instinctively. When you arrived he spoke to me again, told me I must convince you to let me join you on your travels and sabotage it. He doesn't want the Titans free much more than he wants Percy dead.. I didn't want to betray the first trust any demigod had truly given me even if a wolf. So I contacted Arachnid and asked for her help. I.. I want to fight against them" holy Hera I don't know what I was expecting (maybe a minor trap here, or a secret betrayal there), but this was not it.

"Wait wait, some god wants to kill m-Percy? Er, why him? All I know of him is he was the ex praetor, got turned into a guinea pig on Circe island and cut your head off once (I still feel guilty old me did that..)

"Percy Jackson was turned into a Guinea pig?!? That is priceless.. Wait till the other monsters hear about this!" she laughed in the cutest way possible, even her hair was doing the same. cute.

"Percy was the err.. Lets just say he did a lot for the Greeks and romans" oh c'mon is it that hard to tell me a bit about myself??

"Ok.. so you want to fight whoever this.. Dude is? Any idea who it could be?" Please don't say some super annoyingly hard to kill deity.

"I don't know, I can never remember what his voice sounds like, but they seem to hate Percy Jackson and monsters bonding with demigods" She replied. I get the feeling someone hating Old me isn't uncommon. I hope I wasn't some supervillain.. Nah the legionaries at camp talked about him with praise and mother wouldn't have adopted me if I was. I think. hope.

"So how did he know I- Percy was heading your way? Hasn't he been missing for years or something?" I hope they didn't notice that slip up.. Thinking of which I hope this deity doesn't know who I am.. Honestly I don't even know why that'd be bad. I need to investigate this situation more. I've been so distracted by this Titan and monster debacle that I completely forgot about my own dam memory issues.

"I don't know and he doesn't seem like the type to explain himself either.." damn, was hoping for a spill your plans type villain… Is that too much to ask for?

We discussed the plans for dealing with this unknown deity, that meant finding out who they were, what they were, what they wanted and why in the hades they wanted it. We decided it'd be best to first amass some allies, and not just demigods. Since this Plan meant working alongside Titans and monsters alike, the prejudice from other demigods could be counterintuitive and for all we know the deity in question could be their father. Then again It could be the titans or monsters parents as well but they tend to care less when they aren't trying to kill us all.

What we needed was an army that would be loyal to greater harmony of all, an army that wouldn't be biased to any one species, race or whatever other category they can come up with. Basically we need pretty much everyone.

[Artemis POV:]

Holy Hera why didn't Demeter ever give any of these cookies during our meetings?!? They could've ended wars, calmed even father! they're so good!

"Mum, why did Dad never try to come back here?" Coral called me mum!! Directly to my face! I never thought the day would come where my heart would swoon at being called Mum. A few seconds later I composed myself to answer her question. I gotta keep up that cool mother rep.

"Hmm, well in all the time I've known your father there's one main thing I've learned about him. He is very defensive of what is his and himself, something that came from the wolf side of him. It caused him to always focus primarily on one aspect of his life at once and for the longest of time that has always been you and your sister. When he found you in the alleyway all those years ago everything else didn't matter to him as you left no space in his wolf-addled mind to think of anything else. The wolf instincts in your father are more active than you'd think, driving every decision he makes like a constant paranoid whisper in your ear with one hand on the wheel. Percy has always been too loyal, but after becoming a wolf that got blown up to new heights and extremely focused on those in his 'pack'" they looked thoughtful for a moment before responding.

"So why didn't he come back to us now? Are.. are we no longer part of his pack? Are we not important to him anymore?!?" Aria cried in panic, I couldn't stop my motherly instincts kicking in to stop their tears with a bear hug worthy of Agrius and Oreius.

"Nonono, of course not. When he saw Annabeth with a child and a supposed father, he ran in pain. Probably not out of betrayal just hurt thinking he missed his chance. I don't know what his instincts would've done, as wolves Greek or not, would have challenged and killed the male for touching his mate, perhaps that's why he left to protect him or something like that. As for he Isn't back.. I- I think the prophecy is at play there, someone is keeping him from us and I intend to find ou- wait why is my hunt moving? Oh God dammit Thalia!" She may be my half sister and lieutenant but she can drive me crazy sometimes.

"Can I leave the kids with you? I have a sun to chase." Sally chuckled and nodded her head.

"Now you two behave for your Aunt and grandparents, I'll pick you up later.. Oh and no stupid male shows I won't have them corrupting your minds" what Just because I love Percy doesn't mean I suddenly don't hate male, Paul is ok though. For a male.

I left the room and flashed away trying to pinpoint my idiot brother with my hunt. It seemed like they were on route to Camp for some reason, were they in danger or summoned? Suddenly I'm more concerned than annoyed.

"So, little brother, stealing my hunt without my permission are we?" I asked with a pointed look.

"Arty, funny story. Your hunt kinda asked me too" bullshit.

"Bullshit" Bullshit.

"Actually we did Lady Artemis" wait what? Bullshit!

"Lemme get this straight my hunters, the hunters sworn of men, asked Apollo, the male whore of Olympus, to drive you to camp.. Why are you even going to camp and why do you need him to take you" I do love my brother. Somewhere deep inside. Deep.

"Ouch sis, you think so low of me, accurate but low" sometimes I really wanna punch his lights out, but unfortunately he's a rather big light.

"Well we figured out where Percy may be kind of so we asked Apollo" they what?!? And why did they ask Apollo to take them and not me?!

"We think he is in Alaska, So we asked Apollo to take us since you seemed busy at the time" dammit I don't regret meeting sally, but why now of all times.

"Ok So I'm guessing you're heading to camp to drop off the younger hunters right?" I hope so, mingling with Apollo is bad enough I'd have a heart attack if they started enjoying camp on top of that.

"Yes Lady Artemis" being called Lady feels.. Wrong after all that's happened, but It's good for command and respect.

"Good, we'll switch to my own chariot when we arrive, I will not have Apollo around you for that long, I fear he'll end up flirting the whole way.

We began our approach to camp not long later, the pace looked bigger and smaller from above. We stopped at my hunters cabin. Cabin number 8, I remember the day I was asked about one.. I almost castrated and killed them on the spot for assuming I'd ever sire a demigod. Luckily the boy was given enough time to explain that it could be used for my hunters instead. The place was constructed under my careful watch ensuring no male hands sullied it. The place shines in my light and depicts all our hunts as well as stags. I love stags. As we landed various shouts of wins and losses sounded off.

"YES"

"Phew!"

"OH C'MON! Can I at least get a copy picture Percy?" ah seems we have our babysitter, a daughter of Hephaestus by the name of Haley. I hope she will actually care for them rather than spend all her time in her cabin forge. Also did they bring along that painting?? I hope Apollo didn't hear that. Definitely can't let him join us now, he'd never let me live that down.

Apollo went in for a landing but not before deciding to perform a loop 4 times to 'show off' safe to say no one's stomach survived. We all got off of my brother's death trap kissing the ground or puking on it while Haley guided the younger ones to my cabin.

"Did you have to loop 4 times? Before landing?" Why am I asking him this? I already know the answer..

"Because I'm awesome" 'because I'm awesome'… knew it.

"Whatever, go back to dragging your ego around the planet" he smirked and nodded and drove off in his car thing before I could shoot it off his face, what is with males and their cars..

Now I could flash them to the borders of Alaska, but that'd be annoyingly tiring and I want to try changing my chariot for once, Plus what if we see Percy on the way there? I summoned my chariot, moon in tow, luckily today the moon was scheduled up alongside the evening sun so it wouldn't raise any questions to the conspiracy fanatic mortals.. Can you believe some of those idiotic mortals (probably males) think the moon has cold light? As much as I hate to admit it, the only reason it emits any light is from Apollo reflecting off it.

My chariot was objectively gorgeous, made of glowing silver and pulled by a set of the most majestic stags.. I gave them a little something to nibble on before I set them free to the forest to await my next call. Then I started thinking of a mortal vehicle, something like a bus? I think they called them whatever they called it, it looked like what Apollo made but by me so it was better. If a male can do it I can do it better- ok Percy doesn't count.

My chariot began its transformation into my vision, keeping most of its original style. It was similar to my brother's only slots along the side for archery access. I will not allow myself to be vulnerable in my own chariot.

"Hop on girls It's about time we find our wolf"