Artemis' POV

I was about to tell my hunters that we were going to have to go back to camp Half-Blood for the threat that was arising. Then a red flash in the trees caught my attention and my bow was out and aimed at its direction not a moment later. It stopped five meters from camp and my hunters immediately got their bows out and had arrows trained on the wolf that had revealed itself.

Please forgive me for showing up like this lady Artemis but I have someone I think you can help, and so I came here. His head was bowed and those green eyes spoke the truth.

I lowered my bow and had the rest of my hunters stand down. Then Thalia ran up and hugged Percy's chest, making him stiffen. When she separated from him he sighed and licked her cheek. When he lay down I saw what he was talking about. There was a girl on what looked like a Fire platform behind him, unconscious. I gasped and went up to her, then I looked at Percy and asked him what happened.

Amelia and her half brother were under the care of a man that...didn't treat them well. I healed her to the best of my ability and eased her into an unconscious state so that I could find a way to help her deal with her past. As he spoke my grip on my bow tightened with every word. I don't believe he used her body in any way, at least she didn't tell me so. I can show you and your hunters what happened if you let me. Will you?

"I don't think they need to know about this" I said and Percy nodded acknowledging that whatever I chose was what he was going to accept. I looked at the girls as they watched in confusion and then turned back to Percy, and he started speaking again.

The man that did this to her is also behind me, you will know why he looks that way when you see. I nodded and he slowly came forwards.

I am going to put my snout on you; once I touch you I'm going to let what I saw flow through you and after you see what's happened you can decide whether or not you will let me drag him down to Tartarus for eternal suffering, or you can do what you do to men that mistreat your Huntresses.

I watched as his snout touched my forehead and I was cast into his memory. I saw what the man did, and I saw what Percy did after discovering what he was trying to do to her. Then it got to the point where he tortured the man, knocking him unconscious, and then he healed the girl to the best of his ability and ran to me. I felt his snout leave my head and I looked at the man behind them with disgust.

Would you like me to bring him to Tartarus or do you also want a small piece of him first? I looked at my girls and then at the broken man with a collar around his neck, in chains and broken in every way, I didn't see any worth in taking a piece from this broken scum. It simply wasn't worth dirtying my hands for him.

Okay then, I will bring him before father and soon there will be nothing left of the soul that did this to her. Then he was gone only leaving the girl in our care, behind him a note floated in the air and I grabbed it before it floated out of reach:

Oh, and her name is Amelia

Percy's POV

I was in dark, oddly familiar room in an instant, with the chained and broken abuser set up like a toy in the center of the room. Chains keeping his legs and arms spread with as much flesh as possible open to the cool air here. And yes he had no clothes on any longer. After all what slave and torture dummy needs clothes?

After a second my father came in with, ironically, a tray of toys. Actually. There was a rubber duck that squeaked, a tiny sand shovel attached to a beach bucket, a whistle, and there was a water pistol. Beneath the tray there was a box sealed like some cube. With no visible top or door to open it.

"Don't look at me like that" he said as he rolled past, "these have much more use than they seem." I just shook my head and left the room, he could do that part alone. I had a few challenges in the Arena waiting for a beatdown.

Thanks for reading and this chapter changed A lot. Sorry it's a bit shorter than I originally thought it would be. I may come back later and make it longer, but for now I hope you enjoyed the new and improved chapter 9.

Anyways it is taking a bit longer than I thought to go through all of this and I will be putting a note on chapters that I have not revised yet. I thought about outright unpublishing them so that you don't have to deal with the mess that comes with a bad setting (plot), but I don't want to lose their views 😅

I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in the next chapter.

Revised: 3-4-22