An explosion threw Percy against the ground, he had only a split second to react before the second bolt of black lightning had rained down upon him in an attempt to erase his life entirely. How had this all happened to him? There was blood all over him, it wasn't his of course but it still wasn't pleasant.

He was getting tired, making mistakes and so far the only thing that had kept him alive was his overwhelming skill with his twin axes who had remained behind when he'd been stripped of everything. One moment he was fighting against Death, Alucard bravely took Conquest on head to head and Ten was... Well, Ten was being Ten and there was no guarantee that he'd actually fight Famine rather than simply fuck her instead but Percy didn't care about that, what he'd cared about was the fact that halfway through his fight with Death, he'd finally fallen into the delicate trap laid out by the Horsemen.

His power was sealed away almost entirely and to make things just that much worse, Artemis had appeared out of nowhere with a face like concrete, incredibly angry with Percy for hiding something from her. Because of her unexpected appearance, she too was engulfed in the trap that had been intended to take the Son of Odin out of the picture long enough for the Four Horsemen, which was now three, possibly two if either Ten or Alucard succeeded, to finally finish their plan and release Abaddon, the avatar of complete destruction.

"Artemis?" Percy asked quietly, floating amid sheer nothingness. He could feel that despite most of their senses being dulled by being surrounded by a void like space, that they were both actually moving somewhere.

"I'm not talking to you right now Perseus." Artemis huffed, folding her arms and turning away from him. He was the single source of light anywhere near them.

The manifestation of Yggdrasil appeared on Percy's shoulder after a small flash of light. With a lazy yawn she looked around, having not really been paying that much attention even during the fight with Death. "You're not just going to let her be angry with you, are you?" She asked in an innocent tone, perhaps the first time that he'd ever heard her sound like that.

Artemis was silently moving alongside him with her arms folded and a heavy scowl on her face. Percy was far more relaxed with his current situation, probably because if they ever did resurface somewhere, he could fly, so there would be no issue with him falling to his death from whatever weird kind of gravity tunnel they were currently in. He remained with his legs in front of his and his arms comfortably around the back of his head almost like he was in a hammock on a day of rest.

"Don't listen to that doofus." Ban told him after appearing in a blaze of red flames. Yggdrasil sighed with a roll of her eyes from where she was sat on Percy's left shoulder. Ban folded his arms and gazed up at the two of them from Percy's leg. "She's tryin' to lead you down the path of righteousness, I'm gonna lead you down the path that rocks!" He announced before donning a hugely mischievous grin.

"Oh come off it!" Yggdrasil told him with an even heavier sigh than before. Percy suspected that the two of them had probably been arguing whenever they weren't manifested as something other than his axes.

"You come off it!" Ban responded immaturely.

"You."

"You."

"You."

"You infinity." Ban was barely holding back his laughter at the increasingly enraged Yggdrasil that was proving to be very easy to get a rise out of.

"Listen up big guy, I got three good reasons why you gotta take this chance and woo your woman." Ban continued to give off a toothy grin while a scroll appeared in his hands.

"Excuse me?" Artemis demanded as she turned her body back to face Percy and his arguing axes. Percy simply shrugged, he was innocent in this random tirade. Ban had chosen to ignore Artemis as there was literally NOTHING that she could do to hurt him.

"Number one; look at her, she's all torn up and needs some lovin'." Ban actually let out a small laugh which was mostly caused at Artemis' rising aggravation this time, not Yggdrasil's.

"Number two; look what I can do." He laughed before flipping over his head and doing one handed handstand pushups. "Ha ha, ha!"

"What has that gotta do with anything?" Percy asked with a confused look on his face.

"No, no, he's got a point." Yggdrasil frowned as she pointed down at the red leather idiot.

"Listen guys, we've probably got a long way to go and Artemis needs to be told the situation so you know, be gone, or ugh, however I get rid of you guys." Percy told them casually.

"That'll work." Ban nodded before they both disappeared, leaving just himself and the still pretty angry Artemis behind.

Artemis continued to look at him expectantly. He quietly let off a small sigh. "I went to Ouranos' Sky Court to retrieve a soul, really don't want to tell you why because then that will ruin my plans. Ouranos asked me to stop Asteria from assaulting his Court in exchange for giving me the soul I want. I brought your mother and Hecate to a big old party, Asteria is now dead, and that brings me to the point where you showed up trying to hunt me down, you got too close, I fell into Death's trap and now, correct me if you know more but I'm sure we're currently being sent to the past." Percy explained in one huge breath. Artemis wasn't surprised by any of this which made Percy suspicious as to why.

"So Chaos gave me a wedding present, something in which I can better keep you under control with. I have the same power as you do Percy and I know why you were in Ouranos' Court now." Artemis softened before pushing herself towards Percy and grabbing his face to give him a kiss.

"I really do appreciate that you would have gone to such lengths to do that, I really do Percy but you fell head first into a trap that was designed to obliterate Chaos. We are now both ridiculously weakened and being sent back to a time that we don't even know. How are we supposed to get ourselves out of this mess?" She asked him, finally resting her head in the crook of his neck. He was glad that she wasn't angry with him any-more but DAMN! Chaos had given Artemis the same power as Percy so that she could control him better? That was just... A savage untrust.

'Am I the only person worried about the fact that Artemis is now way ahead of us in strength because of the power we'd set aside for that secret project?' Armageddon's voice was heard clearly inside Percy's mind.

"I can heard the idiot. You better explain what it was you were trying to do that required you to LOSE power." Artemis' expression was one of complete neutrality and that somewhat scared Percy.

"Er, well, you see, what it was-SHIT!" Before Percy could actually even think of something the two of them were thrown into the light. The light of day. They were actually in a huge open desert with very little surrounding them except for the huge city behind them.

Huge city behind them.

As soon as Artemis saw it, her mouth had dropped. "Please tell me that's not what I think it is." Percy moaned as it all clicked in. He had finally been able to tell where they were and WHEN they were.

"Yeah... That's Troy Percy, that's Troy." She whispered.

"Fuck, alright, if you've got any power left then change your appearance and hide all of your power. The you from the past will recognize such an extravagant beauty-OW!" Percy shouted after Artemis had punched him in the arm. Gods he'd forgotten what it was like to be hit by someone with his level of strength.

"This is no time to joke around. We need to get ourselves some shelter and figure out what's going on." Artemis hissed at him before pulled him towards the only forest in sight. Of course she'd want a forest.

One of their previous conversations had for some reason entered his mind. "You want a baby? Fine, I'll give you a baby." He muttered at himself.

"What was that?" She demanded with a slightly red face.

"You heard what I said, come on." He told her with every ounce of dominance that he had left in him. Artemis watched his back as he walked away, the most alpha man she'd ever met and after everything was said and done, she loved it.