Chapter 194

"Yeah but you completely outmaneuvered me, I got in a couple of lucky shots but…."

"Well that's because of experiance kid. I've been alive for a long time, I just kind of picked up my own fight style."

Percy blinked, "wait….how old are you?"

"Huh, somewhere around 3000-4000 years old, why?"

"Wait?! You're an immortal?!"

"Keep it down will you! Some of us aren't immune to hangovers!" Galen hissed as he healed his head in pain.

"Sorry," Percy whispered.

"It's okay, but yeah, everyone on the crew is immortal...didn't you know?"

"Well I knew Odysseus was immortal but not all of you!" Percy recalled his observation of Galen and remembered seeing Immortal next to Human, but he was distracted at the time so it didn't really register until now.

"Yeah well it's a funny story that. After Odysseus left the Underworld he was confronted by Hermes and Athena, they were pissed but Odysseus always was their favorite. Athena loved his craving from new and exciting thing and he Hermes was his grandfather. They granted him partial immortality and gave his this ship," Galen knocked on the Accession.

"What's partial immortality?" Percy asked.

"It's temporary immortality. It basically means that you live forever unless someone or something can kill you. So while a full immortal like a God or titan could reform later, a partial immortal can't."

"I see," Percy said, "so everyone here has partial immortality?"

"Yup. Anyway, so Odysseus then set sail forever looking for adventure and knowledge," Galen continued as a smile creeped on his face, "he eventually found me and I joined on as his first crew mate. Soon more and more people joined up each from different time period, your friend Marc? He's from the era of the French revolution. Our Chef Zed is probably the youngest member born in the 1950's while others are from Ancient Egypt or even from Iceland."

Percy whistled, "so basically you guys just do whatever you want?"

"Yup," Galen smiled, "the God's own Odysseus for popularising the story of the Greeks for the entire world to remember. It was his story that basically made everyone acknowledge the Greeks as the best, at the time. So the Gods just let u do what we want. We are basically like the Hunters of Artemis but with more freedom."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "Artemis's hunters have partial immortality as well?"

Galen nodded, "yup. Anyway I need to go to bed kid, still have a nasty headache. Good night."

Percy smiled watching the giant man wobble back to the sailor's quarters, "you do realise the sun is coming up right?"

"Bite me kid," Galen shouted back as he went inside to sleep.

Percy smiled and turned back to look at the sun's rays slowly coming up the horizon. Percy smiled and looked across the sky. The stars were slowly fading away to nothing, but the moon was still hanging in the sky. It was a crescent moon and though the sun was coming up the moon was still clearly seen.

"I wonder what your doing right now Artemis," Percy whispered as he looked down at the sea and smiled.

"Nothing much Percy what are you doing?"

Percy jumped in surprise and fell over board crashing into the waters below. He quickly gathered his senses and pulled himself up back on the ship with the help of the water. He got on again and there standing where he was and laughing his ass off was the red haired goddess of the hunt.

"Artemis what are you doing here?" Percy hissed as he got back on the ship and allowed his powers to automatically dry himself.

"Oh I just came to see how you were doing Percy," Artemis smiled as she looked around, "I haven't seen this ship in a long time."

"Yeah well I'm doing fine, I guess. Until you nearly gave me a fucking heart attack!"

"Oh calm down,"Artemis said chuckling, "you are acting like Her when she fails to seduce Zeus."

Percy looked away and huffed, "well thank you very much."

"Oh are you going to pout now?" Artemis asked leaning back against the ship's railing.

Percy grumbled and sighed giving up on his anger, "so what's new with you?"

"Nothing really, the hunt is currently tracking down-"

"-Something powerful, something which if we fail to get would mean the fall of Olympus. Yeah I remember."

Artemis nodded, "yes well we haven't really made progress, but luckily neither have the Titan's."

"What are you looking for anyway?"

"It's….I can't say."

"Can't or won't?'

"Can't, strict orders from Zeus himself. We need to keep this information secret for as long as possible."

"Why? Don't the one group of people we don't want to know already know?"

"Yes but we know that they know and if we say that we know that they know than they know that we know that they know."

"...you just got very confusing all of a sudden," Percy said as his stomach grumbled, "hmm, time for breakfast."

Artemis nodded, "yes it is getting late I suppose."

"How are you even here anyway? Don't you like have to chart the moon around or something?" Percy asked curious to know more about Artemis.

"Well yes, but right now is the time between morning and night when Apollo takes over and I can stop. It's still a bit early so I don't have to go back to my Hunters yet so I spend this free time doing whatever I want."

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