Pertemis: A Wolf’s Tale

Artemis's POV

I froze on my spot.

It happened just so fast that I didn't know what to do. The monster growled, trying to bend the silver bars. It's teeth glowing in the dark, like the razor of a saw, trying to cut the metal bars off. It's eyes were on fire. Red and glowing full of anger and madness.

The monster was no bear, but no wolf either. It was big, two and a half meters at least. It's head was a head of a black wolf, the ones with steroids. The shaggy hair grown out around its neck down to it back and arms like a black warm furry coat in winter. It's chest were human, pitch black skin, but smooth. Though there was skin fur cover it. In the end, its torso looked like an athletic gorilla. Its hands grabbed on the bars, trying to break it off and the claws were the last things I wanted to touch. Sharp like knives but hard like diamonds and they seemed like its hands had grown fangs.

Where the hell did this thing come from? I screamed inside my head. I wanted to scream out, but my jaw kept clenching like it wanted to break my teeth into pieces. I knew what it was, the moment I looked into its eyes. It was a werewolf.

It pulled all my courage, rising the bow and pulled my arrow backward once more. My eyes stared deep into the monster's. My breath was trembling, like a had a minor panic attack. My fingers were about to let the arrow go when a voice came to interrupt.

"ARTEMIS STOP!"

I turned to my side and Leto was there, breathing hardly. I lowered my bow, but the monster didn't lower its anger.

"C-can you explain why you have a werewolf on your island?" I stuttered pointing at the monster.

"I will tell you" she said. "I will tell you everything but please! Please don't kill him."

She was scared. It was written all over her face despite the face she was trying to calm me down. Like a cop trying to take a gun from a criminal through conversations.

"And why shouldn't I kill it?" I breathed hard, about to rise my bow again.

"Because..." She paused, her lips trembling, trying hard not to spill it out. But she looked up at me slowly. "Because he is your brother..."

Every last word of her like a hammer bagging on my ears. I let out a gasp.

"What do you mean?"

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"Ok can you explain for me now?" I sat on the chair, more like threw my self on it.

I wanted to split it open. I knew Leto was going to answer me anyway,

Leto said, slowly

you expect me to trust

table, hard enough to make the cups jumped. I leaned closer to

out. But you can't have that thing here. If

"Maybe he's a monster in your eyes, maybe he's a wanted criminal. But he's caring my blood too, coming out from me. How would you feel, when I put Apollo into danger? Apollo is your brother, but Perseus is still yours

my brother!" I screamed. "I don't have a brother like him! And how could

part of my mind was screaming in agony. When I was young, I have been told about different kind of monsters. There was only one that we all had to remember by heart. We are immortal, nothing can possibly kill us. But Chaos did not create a perfect kind. We still have a bane, a weakness. Not the Giants of Gaia or the power of Titan. But the creatures that were called myth and never thought to be  existed, werewolves. Their bites are fatal, the bites are cursed that can send an immortal back to the endless void. It is the

of death anymore. Until now, when I just found out that my mother. The one I loved and trusted most to possess a weapon that can destroy all of us. More than that, it was carrying some

were in my situation you would have known Artemis" Leto said. "Living

me. How could I accept something like that? But then

hands.

looked up to me with those red eyes from sadness and anxiety. Her lips started

island. I thought I could leave with you guys forever. But Zeus came and brought you away. For years that I cried, crawling and screaming to

and memories started to flood back.

arrived. He came on a broken wood that drifting on the water. He was injured really bad and I thought he was

Perseus?" I asked. "The one you lock in the

took months for him to heal. I couldn't ask much from him, because most of the time he was unconscious. But there was one thing that I certain. He wasn't a mortal. He stayed at the island after that, I took care of him from everything. Then slowly, the

breathing hard trying to find the courage to continue.

to stay inside and never to come out. But I disobeyed him and that was

tell anyone about that?" I frowned.

when I already loved him so much!?" she cried. "It was Zeus who attacked him. He told me everything, the truth about them. They never intended to kill anyone, Zeus just gave out that law because of fearing the death. He wanted to get

original Perseus?" I guessed. "Is that where

"His father wanted to remember his saviour, so he

cut her off. "Werewolves can't make

will always die before they can see

us, and even living on this small island, I felt like it was more than having freedom out there in that world.

the wooden table. Her hands started to shake like a nightmare was starting

I said. "Did you