Chapter 9
A/N: Bold is Iris Message for this chapter. Thank you!
"Are you ready?" Artemis asked her hunters as she prepared to flash to Olympus.
"Yeah, mom," Zoe replied with a smirk as Percy said, "You all know what needs to happen. I will only have one shot to kill Hercules and make him pay for what he did to my brother's wife. So keep the Olympians and the Seven occupied while I do my job. Understood?"
The Hunters nodded and Artemis said, "Be careful, Percy, and return safely."
Percy nodded before he kissed his beloved and when they separated, Artemis flashed them into her palace and the Hunters followed their patron to the throne room where Zeus said, "Where is your child, Artemis? And your lover?"
"Safe," Artemis replied, her arms crossed.
"IRIS!" Zeus thundered as a misty screen appeared. "Show us Artemis's child and lover, and make it so that we can hear them, but they can't hear us."
Thalia and the rest of the hunters expected it to show Zoe watching TV in her mom's palace, but instead it showed Zoe in a tree somewhere on Olympus watching Hercules being surrounded by a small group of bodyguards.
"Where's dad?" they heard her ask as she glanced up at a building before looking at a bench and everyone saw a hooded man, his eyes being shadowed by the hood, with two flintlock pistols on the sides, a bastard sword that had steel and gold on the blade and a steel and bronze bladed dagger. "There he is."
"What is his name?" Athena asked her sister. "Why does he have weapons on his person? Why is he looking at Hercules? And why is your child following it's father?"
"In order?" Artemis asked as her sister nodded. "He's the Hero of Olympus, he's an assassin, he's doing his job, and Zoe wanted to help her father out by killing the guards."
The Olympians were silent until dear old Hestia said, "It's good to see that my favorite nephew is doing something about the bastard who forced himself upon my favorite Roman. I would've killed him myself, but luckily, my second favorite nephew told me that he hired someone else to do it."
"But what about me, Aunt Vesta?" Jason asked knowing who she was talking about. "Why am I not your favorite?"
Hestia just gave the Son of Jupiter a look that clearly read: Think about it. And Jason was quiet for a moment before conceding and saying, "Good points."
They all then turned back to the Iris message and saw that Zoe and her father had followed the God of Strength and his guards back to his palace and Zoe climbed up the palace walls and unto the roof, where she could hear Hercules bragging about how 'Reyna was the best one yet' and how 'he's going to take Artemis next'. Of course, Artemis, Hestia, Poseidon, and Apollo all could read lips and lets just say that they're rooting for Percy.
"What are they saying?" Percy asked his daughter whom he snuck up from behind.
"How he had fun with Reyna and mom is next," Zoe replied. not even a bit surprised that her father snuck up from behind her eyes glowing sea green and silver at the same time. "I can't wait till that bastard is dead."
"Come on," Percy told his daughter. "I need you to kill the guards so that I won't be interrupted. Alright?"
Zoe nodded, before jumping from the roof and landing on a thick tree branch that easily held her weight.
"Iris," Artemis said. "Could you please put it in Zoe's perspective for us?"
The screen then turned an odd shade of blue and 10 or so red figures appeared and Artemis said, "Thank you."
"What is this?" Athena asked.
"Eagle Vision," the twin deities replied in unison.
"How do you know that?" Athena asked Apollo.
"God of Knowledge," Apollo replied with a smirk. "Everyone and everything revolves around the sun, so I know everything about everyone and everything."
"So what does it do?" Annabeth asked.
"It allows an assassin to know who is an ally, an enemy, or where an object or of interest may be in a building, a wooded area, or a city," Artemis replied not taking her eyes off the projection as she watched her daughter use a rope dart to hang one of the guards from a branch killing the partial immortal demigod.
"One down, 19 to go," they all heard Zoe say, as she began to jump from branch to branch with more grace than a hunter. "I wonder how dad's doing..."
The projection switched to Percy who jumped down from the roof and killed two guards with his sword and dagger, before he climbed back up the wall and out of sight before running across the roof and then jumping down onto two guards killing them instantly as his sword and dagger combination pierced their necks.
"Too easy," Percy said before he noticed a red cross hanging off their necks and he growled out, "Templars... Should've known that Hercules was a Templar."
He then climbed back onto the roof, and soon after, the assassin jumped down onto a balcony and snuck inside, activating his own eagle vision and seeing only a couple of men inside.
The screen then changed to Zoe and saw that she had killed 5 more guards with the help of a single dart.
"Gotta love the Berserker Dart," Zoe said as she watched the guards kill each other, before the one shot with the dart fell down dead. "I might as well use my darts for now. I'm more like my mom, stealthy as a black jaguar."
Artemis smiled proudly and said, "This is my family, father, do you really want to tear them apart from me? Only for you to suffer their wrath?"
"Your daughter never should have been born, Artemis," Hera said to her husband's bastard child. "She's a forbidden child."
"You touch her, sister, and I will take all hope from Olympus," Hestia threatened, surprising everyone. "This is my favorite's child after all, and I want to get to know her."
Hera nodded and they all turned back to the mist, not wanting to miss this show.
As Percy snuck around the palace, he killed guard after guard, leaving bodies wherever he goes and soon, he found himself in Hercules's study and began to comb through his things when he heard a gun click behind him and Hercules says, "Stop what you're doing, Assassin, and take off the hood so that I can see whose face I'm going to shoot at."
"Percy," Artemis said, very worried now. "Please be safe, Percy, please."
"He's going to die at the hands of my father," a son of Hercules said.
"No he isn't," Nico said an evil smile on his face that would make his grandfather proud. "Percy always keeps to his oaths... And he always makes sure the deed is done."
"Do any of you know who hired him?" Athena asked.
Nico's smile, if it was even possible, grew even more evil as he said, "That would be me, Wisdom Goddess, Hercules raped my wife and I hired the best assassin I know to kill the bastard."
"You're married to Reyna?!" everyone who didn't know shouted, this included the councillors of CHB, except for Jason, Piper, and Thalia. "Since when?!"
"Since like, 12 years ago," Nico said, before Artemis said, "Quite, they're talking right now."
"-ay for what you did to Reyna, Hercules, and I will make sure that you die for good," Percy said, his hood off and sea green eyes narrowed.
"Who hired you?" Hercules asked the gun still in Percy's face.
"Nico Di Angelo," Percy replied as Hercules raised an eyebrow and said, "That little weakling? I should've known he'd try something after I enjoyed his tight little wife."
Percy's eyes turned hurricane-like right when Hercules finished speaking, and before the Son of Poseidon was about to speak, Hercules said, "You know that you shouldn't have come alone, Perseus Jackson, that was a bad idea on your part. Now you will die all alone in your world."
Percy frowned and held up two fingers and said, "1, it's Percy Jackson, not Perseus Jackson, the only ones that are allowed to call me Perseus are Artemis, my mom, my dad, and Paul."
That surprised everyone.
"And what's the other?" Hercules asked.
"Who ever said I came alone?" Percy asked his target as a tomahawk came flying from behind and hit his back. "I have a partner this time around, Hercules, and she's my daughter."
Hercules turned around to shoot Zoe, but before he could fire, Percy lodged his bastard sword into the god's chest and Hercules faded into the void, but not before hearing Percy say, "Repose en paix."
The Iris message then vanished and Nico said, with a dangerously sweet smile, "The job's been completed... The money will be in his bank account in a few hours."
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