Percy sighed as he looked at the list of tasks he was supposed to do.

I think I was too cold with Artemis. Whatever. He thought as he trekked towards the river to wash the clothes.

Using his water powers as before, he lifted the clothes and washed them. Quickly separating the underwear from the clothes, he tossed them aside and cleaned them and sent them away.

After washing the clothes, Percy would go sharpen the arrows, most probably being pranked on the way by the hunters. Thalia and Artemis didn't know about this, and each day the pranks grew worse.

One time Percy was hung upside down over a pit of scorpions.

This one time, when Percy was bathing, Artemis happened to come to the river in her swimsuit. Both stared at each other for a while, before Artemis screamed in shock and knocked Percy out with her magic. When Percy woke up, he found himself with a little extra something on his chest. "What have you done?!" He screamed at Artemis distraught. Artemis was laughing. Percy had raven hair growing past his shoulders. His chest had increased in size and his body was slimmer and curvier. "Change me back!" He demanded. The hunters came out and saw him and started laughing at him. Artemis changed him back with an apology but Percy was already back in his tent. The teasing and pranks got worse.

Another time Percy was tossed into piles of mud.

The hunters all kept calling him degrading names.

Percy's patience begun to grow thin. But nevertheless, he stayed silent. Thalia noticed a change in his eyes. His once cheerful sea green eyes were now a dull green. His shoulders had a defeated slump in them that Percy certainly never had before. Thalia was curious why by each day Percy seemed even more jumpier and almost ready to just cut and run. Every time Thalia called out to him Percy was easily startled, and he also seemed to be angry all the time.

Then on Friday, a week after Percy arrived at the hunt, Percy snapped.

-Friday-
Thalia crept behind Percy just as he sullenly carried the laundry towards the river. Her usual greeting to him was just met by a silent glare. Curious, Thalia followed him. She followed Percy, hopping from tree to tree. Then suddenly she heard a snap, and saw that Percy nearly had his leg caught in a bear trap. Thalia frowned. There shouldn't be a bear trap there. Thalia continued following Percy. Then Percy was pulled up and hung upside down by a rope. Gemma came out from behind a tree. "Look what he trap caught." She took the laundry Percy was going to wash and dump them into mud. Thalia growled. This girl was absolutely pissing her off.

Gemma smirked and just left Percy hanging there. Percy sighed and cut the rope with Riptide, before gathering up the muddy clothes and trekking to the river.

While at the river Thalia watched as Percy quickly washed the clothes, then suddenly his foot got caught in another rope and he was sent flying towards the end of the river. Gemma came out smirking with two other hunters and dumped all of the washed clothes in mud or into the river. Thalia growled. As Percy came walking back Gemma teased him constantly about being a useless male, then left. Thalia had seen enough and she crept back to the hunters' camp, determined to beat the shit out of Gemma.

Back at camp, Gemma was boasting of how she had apparently "bravely managed to hurt the male despite him fighting back."

"So then I swung at him-"

"GEMMA!" Thalia's voice rang through the camp.

Gemma turned just to be blasted off her feet and into her tent which collapsed from the impact.

"You no-good lying bitch!" Thalia yelled from across the camp. The hunters Gemma were talking to quickly skedaddled. Gemma got up. "Yes Lieutenant unhappy that I got to him before you?" Gemma asked only to be hit by an uppercut. "HE IS MY COUSIN. YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO MAKE HIM SUFFER!" Thalia begun punching the daylights out of Gemma. Phoebe and Atlanta managed to pull Thalia back. Gemma, being the idiot daughter of Ares. "Why are you so mad? He's just a male. A useless male that deserved everything he got!" Gemma yelled. Thalia snapped. Phoebe and Atlanta let go of her just as a huge lightening bolt crashed onto Thalia. The electricity arched across Thalia's skin and flew off her fingertips at Gemma, who cried in pain as the electricity hit her.

The only Atlanta and Phoebe thought was, This feels familiar, like when we watched Star Wars episodes 1 to 6.

"Thalia stop!" Thalia paused from her assault on Gemma to turn towards Artemis. "She has been torturing Percy for the past week!" Artemis glared at the badly injured hunter, who cringed a little under her glare. "Is that true Gemma?" Artemis asked. Gemma nodded. "Atlanta bring her to the infirmary, Gemma you are not to leave for now until..." Artemis heard loud swearing behind her and turned to find Percy flying overhead. He was heading for the cliff side! Artemis ran to catch up with him but he already flew over the side. Artemis heard a thud. Artemis' heart stopped. Why? Why did this happen to me? She just collapsed near the cliff. Why Perseus? She thought.

Artemis heard angry yelling and looked up. Percy stood on top of a very angular plane. A stealth plane, She realized. "I'm leaving for awhile Artemis! I'm sorry! I have to go before I get angry and destroy the hunt. Goodbye!" The cockpit slid open and he hopped in before pulling on the controls and flying away. Artemis felt like her heart was breaking every second he got further. Soon once he was far enough, he angled upwards and sped towards the skies. He soon disappeared.

Dejected, Artemis walked back to the hunt. Thalia was pacing the ground agitated. "Milady! Where's Percy? Is he alright?" Artemis took a deep breath. "Thalia, he is...gone. He left us. He had a plane stashed under the cliff. Luckily he landed on it. But he decided to quit." Thalia was silent. A huge lightening bolt erased Gemma's tent from the earth.

The sky rumbled and Artemis paled. A meeting wasn't supposed to happen today, but she got the feeling that her father already knew.

Artemis flashed into the throne room. Zues was staring, disappointed with her. The rest of the council flashed in. "Why does Artemis look so crestfallen? Why isn't Percy with her? Did Percy do something?" Apollo shot off quickly, getting angrier by the question.

"No. This time it wasn't him." Zues defended. "No. Ask Artemis what he did, what her hunters did." Poseidon looked at Artemis. "What did your hunters do now? And how does Zues knows of this?" Poseidon asked. Zues sighed. "I sensed young Percy in my domain not too long before this. Curious to why he was in the skies instead of being with Artemis I asked him in his mind what was he doing. He said he had to take a break from the hunters before he gets too angry with them." Zues explained. "He quickly ascended upwards and disappeared completely from the skies after that." Zues finished. "He must have a space-capable ship." Athena reasoned.

"Artemis, I'll ask again, what did your hunters do to my son?" Poseidon asked in a quiet fury. Artemis gulped. Poseidon was the scariest of the Big Three. He was the angriest when he was speaking in a quiet voice when he should be shouting. The phrase "Calm before the storm" was essentially made by Athena to describe Poseidon when he was extremely angry.

"For the past week. Since Percy joined the hunt there has been this girl called Gemma who has been apparently pranking him mercilessly and disrupting him from doing his chores. Today she rigged a trap that threw him off a side of a cliff. He landed on some plane and rapidly ascended out of the skies to outer space." Artemis cringed as Poseidon's eyes seemed to be narrowing very quickly.

A floating portal opened up in the middle of the room. Every god could see Nebular. She had a puzzled look. "Artemis, why did Percy arrive in the middle of a battle, blow up two enemy cruisers before crash-landing onto the enemy carrier and proceeded to beat the crap out of the carrier from the inside?" She asked. Artemis sweat-dropped. "My hunters may have been pranking him too much?" It came out as a question.

In the portal the image rumbled and shook. Nebular frowned. "We have boarders! Boarder repel squad 5 to section 35 now!" She yelled. "Talk to you later. I have some people to kick off the ship." She took a shotgun from beside her and the image fizzled out.

Apollo whistled. "That's one hot and badass girl."

A note floated down.

Dear Apollo
Thank you.
But try and flirt with me.
I will allow Artemis to castrate you.
Or I will do it myself.
I want a real man, not a playboy.

Thanks again,
Nebular.

Apollo gulped. Artemis laughed. Poseidon sighed. "Very well. We have to wait for-"

An image appeared again. Nebular was holding a shotgun. Two pairs of footsteps ran towards her. She leapt out and swept her shotgun, knocking one soldier out. She pulled the trigger just as the barrel aligned with the other soldier's head. His head blew up. Aphrodite vomited seeing that. Nebular turned and shot at the other soldier who was reaching for a gun. The soldier's hand turned to mush. "You and me. Will be having a talk later about boarding ships." Nebular said while holding the soldier by his neck. "Now scram." She pushed him into a portal. She turned to look at the image of the Olympians. "Percy has been retrieved. He is currently in a Medical Bay. I'll talk to him and try to get him to go back." The image disappeared. Artemis sighed in relief. Percy was alive!