Chapter 9

Artemis' POV

I woke up to a great pain in my chest and the first thing I thought was 'one of my girls are in pain', but I looked around and I saw all of the girls in their beds sleeping, the pain came again and then there was a loud screech coming from the outside and everyone shot up and was armed with knives looking around for a threat, as was I. We walked out of our cabin, and then I realized I fell asleep by the lake, so how'd I get to my bed. 

"Stealthwave brought you back and put you in bed" Thalia said from my left seemingly  reading my mind and I looked at her confused, "he scared me bringing you over and almost an electric punch in the face. Then I fell asleep on the stairs as he was putting you in bed and woke up in my bed as well, but other than that what's going on" 

"I don't know, but it feels like one of you are in pain, are any of you" I asked wincing again as the pain came again

"No" they all said shaking their heading and I sighed in relief, and then there was another screech and everyone started run out of the barrier into the forest in full armor or with just their weapons, shields and pajamas, and we followed in our silver parkas. As we ran up they parted for us letting us past and those who didn't got either smacked or tripped from my hunters...for obvious reasons. 

We stopped as we saw the big field full of golden dust up to our knees and then I saw something purple near the middle of the field and I gasped. I completely forgot about the bonding ritual between me and Stealthwave. I was running full speed towards him leaving my girls behind. Then I saw a giant golden spear protruding from his back. I went around to the front of his vision and bent down next to him with a hand on his head just as his skin dulled to a grey color and I felt a slight wind as my hunters joined me and they all gasped, except for Thalia. Who ran to the other side of his head and checking to see if he was still alive, and when she saw that he barely was she looked at us and stood. 

"Come on stop standing there and help me get my cousin to the lake" she said and we all seemed to snap out of our trance and we picked a side and lifted him up, and almost threw him into the air from the lack of expected weight. 

"Why is he so light?" on of the hunters asked and I shook my head in shock and slight disbelief at why he wasn't heavier than all of us combined either. Then we all started to run at a hunters pace as we carried him on our shoulders through the camp passing the other campers who were knee deep in the dust still looking around at the golden field in shock to notice anything else and when we got through the barrier Thalia pointed to the nearest body of water, which was at the back to the third cabin, the Poseidon's cabin, and we ran in that direction and set him in the water. 

"Now I am going to take out the spear and we wait" Thalia said as she and a couple other huntress' wrenched out the ten foot spear and Stealth's body began to glow as the water took him in. He sank under the waves with us all praying that he wouldn't die on us, mainly me due to my guilt for forgetting about him. Then the light died down and Thalia went into the water after him and not a second later something shot out of the water with Thalia and when they stopped rolling. Stealth was on-top of her like their first reunion with his paws on her stomach grinning like his old self. 

So. What'd I miss? he said still grinning and she wriggled him off and punched him in the face, but recoiled holding her wrist. 

"Dang Stealth, your face is like a rock" she said and he breathed ice on her hand and I heard a couple cracking sounds as her bones healed, and then he opened his mouth again and bathed it in yellow fire and we all gasped when her hand looked healed. 

Sorry about that he said and she stared at her healed hand in awe and then she hugged him and he froze up from shock. When she parted from the hug he shook his head and looked at her.

I am never going to get used to that he said and he all smirked and Thalia laughed and slapped him lightly on the neck. I motioned for Thalia to come back and then I stepped in-front of Stealth and looked at the girls. 

"So last night Stealth and I did a bonding ritual and he is now officially a part of the family as our guardian" I said carefully wondering on how they would react, and they surprised me by smiling and rushing in to hug him, and he stiffened with a shocked expression and I smiled. 

Stealthwave's POV

I stiffened again as they all hugged me and I looked over to see Artemis smiling, then I looked down at them, and I didn't know what to do or say. 

You guys don't hate me or want to kill me? I asked them and they all backed up going back to Artemis and she stepped forward

"No we all accept you as a part of our family" she said 

"You took the sky for our mistress" Thalia said stepping forward

"You befriended Bianca, and Zoe, the biggest man-hater of us all" Phoebe said surprising me as she stepped forward

"And you won our mistress' heart by just being you" one of the hunters, I'm guessing a child of Aphrodite said stepping forward "and you swore yourself to us and our mistress, and thus swore off children" Artemis looked down with a silver blush coming to her cheeks and then glared at the hunter who said the first part. 

"Katherine" she growled looking down and Katherine just smiled and motioned to her looking down to hide something

"That proves it" she said grinning and Artemis groaned before walking off in defeat 

I followed her and tried to click my tong but it just came out as hisses, and my face scrunched up every time I tried and I heard laughing and I glared at Artemis playfully. 

"Are you trying to tsk me" she said and I blew mist at her before brushing past her to go into the forest, but I felt a slight pressure on my tail before it was lifted and I looked back to see Artemis holding me back by the tail, and I smiled at her making her face fall into confusion before I threw her up into the air and she 'flew' screaming before landing on my back. She smacked my shoulder in frustration and I playfully pouted looking at her like 'that wasn't nice'. 

"No it was not and I do not care" she said reading my thoughts as I guessed "you threw me in the air, but I am not letting you roam off alone without supervision from now on, and that means off-world too mister" she glared at me playfully but strict and I rolled my eyes

Fine mother I said and then a black portal opened up underneath me and I spread my wings quickly to keep us from falling in and then my wings were pulled in by something and I fell into the portal with Artemis screaming on my back. We came out of the portal and I spread my wings before my face could hit the white floor and then I landed silently and carefully, and a woman stepped out of another portal...Chaos. 

Really you had to go and scare us like that mother I scoffed huffing in annoyance and she smiled 

"What I can't play or mess around with my son and his girlfriend" she said grinning, and I looked down blushing on the inside. 

She is just a friend I said and mother shook her head tsking her tong, 

"Oh we all know that you two think of each-other as more than that now" I said and I looked down unable to say anything against it, and Chaos laughed "but the thing I summoned you here for is because I was going to make Stealthwave a full primordial, and though I am his mother and me and his father are two of the most powerful beings in the universe. You will be stronger than us both combined, and will be the heir of the throne once I fade" and I stomped in annoyance causing her to look at me.

I don't want to be a king, much less try to be a ruler like you mother I exclaimed and she laughed

"That is why you'll be a good ruler, just be yourself and everything will be fine" she said "but Artemis would you please get off of my son please" I felt her slide off my side and she walked away holding her head down not in shame but to hide her face. I smiled and then Chaos started to chant and I looked at my mother in confusion just as she stopped and I felt something burning inside of me, like the poison that the spear had but lesser, and then it got slowly worse and spiked making me fall to the ground in pain and growling trying to push down and bear the pain. Then it got worse and it felt like my entire body was holding up a burning sky while being halfway in the river Styx and I screeched out in pain and then my vision went black. 

I woke up feeling stronger, more powerful, and alive like I was flying every second of my existence, but I was on the floor, and the first thing that flooded my vision was white. Once the white cleared I saw Artemis and Chaos looking at me in worry and then Artemis hugged me making my body go rigid frozen in shock and awe, then a deep rumbling came from my throat and I realized that I was purring. I shook my head, but the tingles and numbness as she hugged me stayed with me even when she pulled away and I just wanted to crush her again and have her skin against...I shook my head free of my thoughts and pushed them down in a deep, dark hole in my mind. 

Then I noticed that I had gotten taller than my already enhanced height, and I noticed that was about the size of three four story houses stacked on each-other and six houses long. I guessed that my head would reach at least to the gods' knees if I were to stand up straight and I saw my wings were twice as long as my body and I didn't even want to guess how long they were. I looked down and saw that Artemis was rather small, and I focused on what I looked like when I was about the size as a house and I shrank down and put my chin on her head and she hugged my neck once again. Then I lifted her up with my tail making her squeak and I turned to my mother as I put Artemis on my back. 

Thanks mother, but why didn't you warn me that it would hurt so much? I asked annoyed and I bit my leg making it tingle and then I saw silver blood before it sealed up and left no scar. 

"I did hon" she said and I 'oh'ed like the blockhead I was and then I was about to turn away when I realized that I didn't know what my domains were, and I looked at her again. 

What are my domains? I asked and she smiled

"There's a-lot" she said and I shrugged

I've been through a-lot, shoot I said and she looked at me like 'you asked for it' and then she took a deep breath

"Primordial of Water, Metal, Monsters, Titans, Lightning, Electricity, Earth, Time, The Void, The Universe and it's Galaxies, Animals, Shifting, Fire, Nature, Thought, Battle Wisdom, Power, Portals, --" she had to take another breath but I cut her off before she could say anything else

So basically I am the Primordial of Pretty much Everything  I said and she nodded and then opened her mouth again and I groaned 

"And plus all of your other titles of which I am not going to list" I sighed and looked at her in gratitude "but something that concerns you both is that you both are linked through the moon as well as him and the other gods, archery" 

I scoffed at this one "yes I know you can't shoot a bow, much less in this form, but that's why you have your powers of Glamour, Truth, Lies, and other things that have to do with deception, discovery, thought, and instinct" 

I was shocked, but I didn't want to shape shift into my old self anymore because that wasn't who I was, what I was anymore. The old me died when I was born as Stealthwave, and I liked my new name. I put a glamour on for those that couldn't see through the mist and to them I looked like a large wolf, or dog as it might seem. 

Wait does that mean I am king over the titans, giants, and gods? I said smirking at the thought 

"And everything else you can think of, oh, I almost forgot you both share the fact that you're both virgins" she said smiling crazily at we both looking down in humiliation, and I glared at her the best I could through it 

"Oh, and since you're both linked to each other in basically every other way, even to the Pit, you have even more power if you both share you power with each other. I do not know why, or how that is actually a thing with Primordial Mates but we can't do anything about it" 

I sighed in relief and then I growled silently at the fact that I'm the second Primordial of the Pit. I literally have a connection to the very thing that caused me so much pain, but I also realized that neither me or Artemis could die...literally, due to the fact that I am over Death now and nothing could kill us, maybe harm us, but nothing could kill us. And if something did manage to it wouldn't last long because it would probably be like a mini blackout until one of us revived the other, and that meant that we couldn't fade either...cool. 

Since I am the Primordial of Death, and me and Artemis are joined together by a Mate's bond, does that mean that she's a Titan now? Can she die and leave me? Or--

I felt a hand on my neck reassuring me and I looked back and kissed Artemis, well licked her,  making her push my head away saying 'ewww' at my dragon side's strange ways of affection and looked back to my mother.

"Yes to all of them except for the dying part, technically Artemis can be a Titaness, but she can also choose to keep her Godly status for now...if she wants to" she said and I thanked her, looked at Artemis happily, and she looked at me with the same emotion. Then we said goodbye, and thank you to my mother, and she told us that the only way we could actually die would be if we were both killed at the same time, or mortally injured at the same time, leading to death, but if one of us survived, then the other did as well. I opened a portal to my second and true home world and a second portal to Artemis' earth, my old home. 

What do you want to do first Artemis? Do you want to come to my world? I asked her and she nodded but pointed to my new home Earth which was underneath us and I made the other portal disappear. 

"First we'll go to old Earth so that we can explain to my hunters what happened, and where we are going next, who's in charge, and so on. Then we can go to your Earth" she said and I looked at her in shock. 

What about the huntress'? I asked "wouldn't they want to come with us?"

"Probably, but let's ask them when we get there, and you said earlier that I can be a Titaness if I choose to, so does that mean that the girls are goddess', titans, or still the same?" Artemis looked at me in slight curiosity and I tilted my head.

I don't know I said truthfully, but one thing that I did know is that the hunters were going to kill me for what they more than likely saw. Then we stepped through the portal and at the stairs of Artemis' cabin, and I smiled as I heard Artemis call her hunters to the cabin and then began thinking about what to tell them. 

Now you're not the only one that can hear other's thoughts I said with a smirk and she playfully smacked my neck before she lept off on my back and landed on her feet with grace. There were multiple flashes of silver and then when it stopped the girls were standing in-front of Artemis. I saw Phoebe and the rest of the Huntress', but no Thalia. I looked around for her and saw another streak of silver before I slowed time down just as she lept at me with her shoulder extended to tackle me to the ground, and it would've been hard too if I kept time at normal. But I walked around her and grabbed her waist as time returned to normal, and she froze as she realized that she was trapped. 

Thalia, it's not nice to try and tackle your family I said as she struggled in my grip before stabbing my tail with her silver knives and I let the knives pierce my scales making my silver blood show for a split second before the wound healed. The feeling left a tingling sensation for every time she stabbed me and it healed until she tired after the tenth showing that she was out of breath 

You done? I asked and she froze in shock as she realized what she did. 

"Oh Stealth I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry" she said and I set her down in front of me and she rushed in with a hug. Weeping into my neck for a couple minutes before going around me and grabbing my tail. I let her lift it and examine the surface, and she gripped it tightly as she searched for scars or cuts but when she didn't see any she stepped back and hugged Artemis before looking back at me as I ripped off a scale on my chest with a claw and lifted it up so that everyone could see what happens. The silver blood welled up before spreading out and forming a new scale that looked the same as the one I ripped out. They looked at the process in awe and I explained to them.

The portal that we fell into was my mother, Chaos' doing and she made me into a full Primordial and after finding out what my domains were as well as what I could do I blessed Artemis and we used a portal back here I said and I growled as Artemis cut me off, and she wasn't fazed by my deep and menacing warning growl as she continued the story. 

"And we are going to another dimension of which you cannot come with for a little while" she said and the girls groaned at the fact that they couldn't come "and so I am leaving Phoebe and Thalia in charge for the period I am gone, but don't worry even if I am in a different dimension, and technically won't exist in this world for a period of time" she said and even though the girls weren't happy they complied and Thalia and Phoebe stepped forward 

"What if the boys get bad ideas and manage to subdue one of us" she said and they all shivered at the thought

Then one, defend your sisters at all times and I do not want any one of you going somewhere alone even if you have odd numbers for pairs I said and I just got confirmation from Artemis that if anyone wants to join the hunt make them swear the oath that is needed and tell them what we have told you and that we both expect to meet them when we come back in a week or so, but if they manage to take you both on, split you up and violate you both then one or both of us will come and tear them apart. Me more than her for the tearing apart part anyways I grinned and the girls smiled and I could practically hear the boys gulping in fear as they heard this I will be monitoring all of your thoughts in regards to this, as well as during hunts so that I can tell Artemis what is going on.

"Wait how can you do--" one said and I recognized her as an Athena child by the grey eyes "it's apart of your Primordial powers, what are they anyways you never said that" 

Oh sorry I said scratching at the dirt I am basically the Primordial of Everything Living, Dead, Fiction, Otherworldly, Hidden, and Anything else you can think of I grinned toothless and then remembered Toothless and the others, oh how he was going to kill me for leaving them this long, and I grabbed Artemis and shot into the air opening a portal to my first home-world. 

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