Chapter 39 Prophecy Sinks in Tale


    The look of confusion soon was switched to betrayal. Percy stared at Artemis while she was totally out


    of the Earth. He tried to rise, trying to fighting back from the chain wrapping around him and the


    shackle around his neck. But an Olympian, whose  appearance looked so much alike with Paecus


    except his red armour and warlike looking restrained Percy and held his de at Percy''s neck.


    "Be a good dog" he warned. "Or I shall cloak your skin on my  shoulder."


    Zeus walked up to Artemis, whom face was as pale as a sheet and held her shoulder. He turned back


    to the Olympians and announced.


    "This credit will be given to Artemis! Without her, we wouldn''t have tracked down this werewolf!"


    "No father I..." Artemis tried to decline, to protest as her face was beyond terrifying.


    "ept it daughter" Zeus waved his hand. "This victory is yours. I have never doubted your hunting


    skills. You just made me proud today"


    "But-"


    And he startedughing. That hisugh shook the ground with tremendous sound and echoed through


    the buildings.


    Percy that moment didn''t say anything more, since he was trying toprehend it. But slowly, a


    realisation hit him from Zeus announcement. He couldn''t believe it, not that he had a choice. But it was


    clear to him that Artemis somehow involved in his capture. She didn''t dare looking directly at him,


    which angered Percy even more because right now all he needed was her correction, her  justification.


    Even if she didn''t speak, her look would have told him she was innocent. But she didn''t look back at


    him, nor pity her nce down on him and it hurt him so much that even Wolfsbane scrubbing on his


    opening wounds would be considered painless.


    There Aphrodite and Paecus appeared full of surprises as they observed the situation. Paecus


    intended to run in and help, but his mother held him back since it was not the time to do anything


    impulsive. One wrong move would reveal anyone that involved, including Hades and Hestia. The


    goddess of love secretly at the time casted an enchantment over the building of the hunters. Their


    interference would be the most of her concerns.


    "You caused us a lot of troubles wolf" Zeus sneered as he leaned closer to him.


    Percy growled. After all years he had been waiting and now the enemy that destroyed his father n


    and the legendary of his race was in front of him and Percy could not do anything to take his


    vengeance. Percy blood boiled as if the very  molecule in his body wanted to explode, to break free of


    that cursed chains and rip off his head. His eyes red red, yet he could not transform, like the shackle


    somehow imprisoned his power.  Percy attempted to snap but Zeus leaned his head back and started


    laughing.


    "Look at this!" Zeus said. "It''s been a long time I''ve seen a werewolf and they still not change. Stubborn


    as always. Don''t worry wolf. You won''t have the spirit to growl for long"


    Percy felt as if humiliated. The surrounding, the people. Someughed, some stared with wonder and


    with surprises and fascination as if he was an exhibit, a species that was brought before them. The


    shame he endured and theirughter echoed and thundered through his mind that it broke his inside.


    The look of hatred filled in his eyes, the fire of wrath burned in his heart that none could restrain and at


    the moment he silently swore an oath that forever he regretted. One day, blood will be spilled on


    Olympus.


    "Bring forth the execution now!" Zeus suddenly switched to seriousness. "I shall not dy any further


    this creature existence!"


    "I think you should wait" Aphrodite saw the situation had turned critical and decided to involve.


    "And why is it that you speak?" Zeus turned to her.


    "We should imprison him" she said. "Maybe we can find out some valuable informations. What if you


    will find out a den full of werewolves?"


    Percy looked at her with bewildering. Her words as if she had nned for his capture in the first ce.


    As if he had lured him to this ce and made Artemis the bait to lower his guards. Yet he also realised


    another purpose. She was dying him from being executed. Now he could not know which was her


    true purpose, for the goddess of love was capricious and unpredictable and not many could know her


    true intentions. Let along with Percy whose brain made of Seaweed ording to Artemis.


    "I say we kill him now so no more concern will be discussed tomorrow!" Zeus bellowed.


    "And I say we keep him for further investigation" Aphrodite held her ground and stepped forward and


    came toe to toe with the King of the gods.


    There now Zeus had long knew she was the oldest of the Olympians. Normally none would speak or


    involve Aphrodite in any of their business, or in fact she never bothered. But Aphrodite could be


    intimidating once she had turned serious about something and Zeus once had a taste of it. He stepped


    back and looked at his wife Hera, who was bored at their quarrels.


    "Do something about her" he muttered to his wife, the embarrassment was building up his face yet the


    gods King could not contain.


    "I don''t know" Hera shrugged and looked away. "Aren''t you the king?" And Aphrodite smirked when


    Zeus swallowed and looked back at her.


    "Fine!" Finally he decided since he could not win thepetition with Aphrodite and she mostly had the


    odds with her. Even though the Olympians did not bother much of Aphrodite, her beauty charmed so


    many gods that none could resist fighting for her. "Chain and bring him to Olympus! We will deal with


    himter"


    And there Percy was dragged by the chain away and as he looked back at Aphrodite, a sigh escaped


    her like relief but she only looked back at him and nodded.


    Then his eyes darted to Artemis, and now she had the courage to look at him. It was toote. The look


    of disappointment and for the first time he was furious at her that his eyes were  bright with fire, that the


    re he gave Artemis made her cowered by fear.


    And he was taken away.


    Now Artemis sat upon the silver bed and darkness befell on her. The counsel she took for herself of the


    mistakes she had made that led to this doom.


    She first thought Apollo that betrayed her. But by all witness and truth he did not reveal any word of


    their escape from the West. It was Artemis upon excitement that forsook the secret of their hiding. That


    night upon the cliff where she discovered the final decision, and she hastily returned to Percy the


    second time to reveal her thoughts. Through moment of haste, her heart churned with emotions made


    her power at the time radiated across the world without her knowing and they prated the clouds


    and came upon her father. That was how they sensed her and suspected she had discovered a vital


    deed and came to her.


    Now Artemis regretted of that foolish moment she made that led to Percy capture. So it was her that


    led him to his death. They said she was his doom, and now she knew why she was. Long she had


    feared what despair she would bring to him. Long she avoided and denied the danger of their


    acquaintance. She didn''t expect they would alle this early and it was so unexpected that she could


    not do anything to stop.


    The thunder cracked the silence of the room, for her father was enthusiastic and content because of


    Percy''s capture. Droplets of rain danced on the roof of her pce upon Olympus as if an army that was


    marching. Artemis looked at the shes of lightning in dismay of what punishment her father would set


    for Percy. The thought of him brought back the memory when Percy beheld her that look before they


    departed.


    She now was fear of the hatred, the disappointment and the pain in his eyes. He thought she betrayed


    him by leading the Olympians to him and he had to right to be so since it was her fault that all this to


    come. Now it was not just him, but whose that had acquaintance with him were also in danger and


    Artemis was the cause.


    Then the salty tears slowly fell on her cheeks and she wept in the darkness of the room. Never in her


    life had she wept so many time. But ever she knew Percy, so many tears she had shed and most were


    sorrow. She was now desperate and hopeless and knew not of what future would lead her and she was


    scared.


    Whence the night was less peaceful than it was. Amid the heavy cloud that hid part of  the moon,


    Artemis still could see half of it through the her window and the the radiant of it brought fear and death.


    Though its light were red and the moon churned with a turmoil she could not foretold. The red moon


    was never in her control, and they was always a sign from above. A sign of death. Artemis narrowed


    her eyes, as there seemed to have letter craved upon the surface of the moon as it though was blurry


    yet readable. Then through her power, her vision was extended and the magical words engraved upon


    the moon which was hidden from mortal came to her and fear was driven down her spine as she read


    the lines.


    The full moon ve with the unbreakable curse,


    Shall returns and the family will diverse.


    Vengeance and hatred he shall seek to pay,


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    Olympus shall be his and hispanion''s prey.


    For an oath that made must be believed,


    Thus decision contained or blood shall be sheathed.


    Three times leave and three times return.


    The concealed heart shall burn.


    It was the prophecy. The prophecy Apollo gave that day before the hunting of Percy began, as also it


    was the cause of it. Why of all time it would appear now and why at the moon? Through all the events


    many had forgotten it. Now it came back with such power and brought with it the wraith of malice upon


    the world. This time Artemis examined the prophecy more closely  and  she started to see patterns.


    It was about Percy it was no mistaking.


    Shall returns and the family will diverse.


    Every since she knew Percy, Apollo had been dwelling a hatred for her. Her father casting her mother


    into Tartarus, suspecting her for involving with werewolf. Now Hades her uncle, Hestia and Aphrodite


    had rebelled against her father and it seemed secretly the sides had been decided in the family of the


    gods. It came true. Once his identity was revealed, things would start to fall into the line of the


    prophecy.


    Vengeance and hatred he shall seek to pay,


    Olympus shall be his and hispanion''s prey.


    These two lines were what terrified and concerned her since the beginning. But ever since she knew


    Percy, never once he carried out his vengeance. Though she knew his hatred for her father and most


    of her family, he never mentioned it to her and never actually put them in some form of action. There


    was time when he ran way because of Thalia''s prank and on his rampage he identally killed three


    minor gods in the process. But that wasn''t as devastating as it soundpare to the warning of the


    prophecy. Then the next confused her even more when it mentioned apanion. Sure she knew


    Percy people were not extinct. But they would less likely thee to the god region and be exposed.


    Also as long as she knew, Percy had not met any of his kin and he never once mention any encounter


    with them. Perhaps it would be left for time to reveal.


    For an oath that made must be believed,


    Thus decision contained or blood shall be sheathed.


    She didn''t know much of many oath Percy had taken since she didn''t want to dig too deep into his life.


    He could''ve sworn many without her knowing and they were various which Artemis could not suppress


    them. If there were any oath she made with him, then it would be the oath that day she made in front of


    her mother that she would take care and protect Perseus. Also there was another that she made with


    him that no harm coulde to him again in her power and she would never betray him....


    No....


    Now somehow Artemis realised it. What if the oath wasn''t him that made to believe but someone else''s


    oath that he held and remembered. And that someone else was no other than her. He believed she


    could protect him, he believed she would not betray him so he trusted her and he obeyed her. That was


    why he never once did anything reckless like charging into Olympus or attempt to ughter any god.


    Because he believed her and her words were hismand. But now, ever since his capture, it all


    seemed as if she had betrayed him and that look he gave her that day. The look that she could never


    forget.


    Now she wanted to repent yet she could not. She lost his trust that moment and she had unleashed


    something far more dangerous and fearful than what history of Olympus had ever endured. No words


    of her could restrain him, no trust could bound him froming back to that beast, the dark side of


    him.


    Thus decision contained or blood shall be sheathed.


    This was what she feared for and as she looked out upon the sky. The rain had stopped, the dark


    clouds were driven away and the clear dark night sky wrapped the world in its eternal arms. The moon


    were like a red orb, a giant ruby upon the sky as it shined on the cold stars and that red radiant like it


    was squeezing out the blood that were ready to drop upon surface of the earth.


    That night was a full moon, and that night  blood might reddened the world.


    Now Percy sat in the dark cell, surrounded by the cold walls of moist that faced him  all sides and


    chanted in his ears of the lies and hatred. The moonlight shined behind him, it bored through the prison


    bar of silver that its  radiant danced on his back. The wrath he contained had yet to release as he was


    storing his energy.


    He kept rolling over and over again the memory and the denies he had in his head that Artemis would


    not betray him. But all he had heard and had seen, it also showed that she was the one that caused his


    capture. His hands were chained, the shackles kept him captive but he cared not of their weights. In his


    heart now was heavier than any that the sorrow caused him to wept, and the memory he spent with her


    were consumed by the fire that was sting and getting bigger in his heart.


    Now he regretted that day. Lucine was right, none in the world except his kindred that loved him. He


    should''ve left the moment he had the chance. It was a mistake of lingering in this hell, upon the ce


    of death and despair, of human and gods alike. Their world was not his and before he could realise


    that. It all hade  to an end. He would be imprisoned here forever, and death certainly was await


    him while his people would depart to the Undying Land in Adar. He couldn''t know how would he answer


    to his ancestors, his father whom took pride in him and he forsook his people for the folly love for the


    enemy. His treachery was beyond forgiveness and perhaps now it was his punishment.


    But the oath he made that would stain Olympus in blood had not been fulfilled. And the fire of wrath


    had never dimmed in his heart as the light of hope still linger for him. Even if he died, then at least he


    would bring down some with him.


    The prison door creaked open and suddenly a figure walked in. Percy eyes immediately turned red as


    he growl at the person before him.


    "Still have the strength you baseborn!" A guard sneered.


    "You caused us quite an uproar" then a second appeared beside him. "Here''s some credit!"


    As speaking he hurled his spear and it pierced Percy''s shoulder as he roared and shook the carven


    that dust fell upon the straws on the floor and the helmets of the guards.


    "Still have strength eh?" One looked back, though a little fear had emerged in him. "You won''t have that


    for any longer. Let''s see your strength is stronger or the hunger is stronger."


    They retrieved the spear and blood surged from his wound yet Percy held on that pain as a mark. The


    more they inflicted him, the more angry he felt and more powerful he would. Yet the cursed chain was


    the only thing that held him from snapping their necks. They mmed the door shut and walked away,


    talking among themselves of how they could y with him until the day of his execution.


    But suddenly their sentence was cut and silent emerged the shallow deep vault. Then the feet clenched


    against the cobblestones as the steps came closer. The fire grew dim and the shadow extended its


    arms closer and closer to Percy. And out of the darkness, a voice came.


    "What did I tell you about trusting the gods?"


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