This story just wouldn't leave me alone. I had typed this up in a three hour period. I am also three fourths the way done rewriting my Neko Harmony story: Upended Plans
Warning: This chapter has triggering elements: This chapter has Rape Aftermath and Child Abuse. Proceed with caution.
Moonlight filtered through the dancing autumn leaves, basking the forest ground in a pale silver light. It was a night just like this that Queen Hera came to Artemis on her knees, begging her to find her missing son. She could remember the time of Harry's birth. Due to the domain of childbirth, she knew about all births that happened at any time and helped those who were having trouble giving birth to a child.
Harry was a healthy baby boy who weighed in at five pounds, three ounces. He had no birth deficiencies and had a healthy pair of lungs on him. She could feel Queen Hera and King Zeus's pride and joy even through their mortal forms that they were using at that moment.
Artemis frowned at the memory of the two of them waking up from their coma a month from when they returned to their immortal bodies. Hera had fell into a bad depression when they found out that Harry was not there with them. It was soon after that Hera had apologized for her past actions with Leto and the twin archers before begging for her to find her son.
It had been four years since then and none of the immortals on Olympus had found any trace of the missing Prince. It had only been Hades assuring the king and queen that their son still lived that prevented the king and queen from falling any deeper into depression. The Olympian council has never been close but all of them had rallied around their leaders. The three brothers have never got along but now it was not surprising to see either brother supporting their youngest. Hestia was often seen holding Hera as she cried.
All the minor gods and goddesses were trying to help find the missing prince and the council had even gone so far as releasing the peaceful titans in return for help finding their missing son. Even going so far as prostrating herself in front of Leto and practically begging her for her help in finding her missing son.
Artemis focused back on her surroundings after feeling a gentle pulse of divine energy somewhere in the St. Ann's Hill Park and Nature trail. She and her hunt had been in England for the last four years to try to find the missing prince with the help of the Amazons covering for her in America.
She kept her steps light as she started tracking the steadily weakening divine pulses. Artemis kept her footing sure as she stepped around fallen branches and dry leaves with a millennium of practice. The Lady of the Moon paused at the trunk of a large oak tree a kilometer into the park. There at the base of the tree was globs of golden blood pooled around the larger roots and led toward the steadily weakening power. She knelt to check the consistency of the puddle and when she picked some of the blood up on her finger the smell of iron got stronger.
"Shit. That is the blood of an immortal, and the size of the puddle means that whoever this belonged to has life threatening injuries even to a god." Artemis abandoned any stealth in favor of speed. If the puddle belonged to who she thought, it she didn't have any time to spare.
A silver blur dashed through the woods following the blood trail before she broke into a clearing that held what would be the worst nightmare for anyone.
In all her years of living, and Diana agreed with her, she had never seen anything so brutal. It took a great amount of force to even get an immortal to bleed. This was well beyond that.
There, laying in the middle of the clearing, naked as the day he was born, was a young boy that looked to be tortured. He couldn't be any older then six but no younger then two. His skin had looked like he had been put into a meat grinder. His breaths sounded ragged and wet, his arms and legs laid at awkward angles that could clearly see were broken. His skin exposed skin was a ragged trail of scars and bruises. His anus was gaping and leaked a murky white fluid that she instinctively knew was semen.
Artemis couldn't help it. She threw up against the nearest tree before she got herself under control. With a few bounds she crossed the clearing toward the injured godling and as gently as she could she lifted the boy into her arms, ignoring the blood and other fluids that now covered her cloths.
Harry had let out an instinctive whine when he was moved from the ground. Artemis couldn't help but feel her heart go out to the young man, but she needed to get him stable. There was only one place she could go to in time. With a heavy heart she flashed to her hunt.
Zoe bounds over to her with a smile before she noticed the male in her lady's arms. Her coal black eyes hardened before she spoke in a harsh voice. "Why did you bring a male into the hunt, my lady?"
Artemis gave her second in command a look that told her that this is not the place before she called out for Ahma and Lucy. Artemis led the two girls toward the medical tent and gently laid Harry on one of the beds. When the two sixteen girls finally got a good look at their patient, they couldn't hold their lunch.
"Who would do such a thing to a young child!" Lucy stated. "Three cracked ribs, both arms and legs shattered. More scars than a World War two veteran and that isn't counting the internal bleeding that centers around his stomach and from the looks of it…" Lily's voice faded out in horror and her bronze skin paled. "He was raped by numerous males. Internal tearing in the lower digestive track. The genetic signatures are mixed up like soup, but I can clearly find over six different signatures and that is just covering the newest injuries. Every bone in his body has been broken at least twice and many were broken many more than twice."
Artemis saw her second in command step out of the medical tent in horror and she could clearly hear her losing her lunch to the side of the opening.
Both Ahma and Lucy tried everything that they could to stabilize the dying prince, even going so far as to pray to their father for help. For many hours the two worked with their mistress watching over them.
When the sun rose the two were given a break after their father arrived to take over. Zoe approached her mistress with her head down. "That is the prince, isn't it?" Her voice was despondent which was highly unusual. Artemis lifted her lieutenant's face so she could look into her eyes. With an almost sisterly move she wiped the tears that were trailing down the Persian looking woman's face.
Artemis brought her second into a hug before rubbing her back." Yes, that was Harry Potter. Son of King Zeus and Queen Hera and the prince of Olympus. And… from the looks of it he may have had a worse life then many of the females in the Hunt and Amazons."
That finally pushed Zoe Nightshade to start crying in sympathy. That surprised Artemis because the last time she had seen Zoe cry was during the times of ancient Greece when a certain male had tricked her into helping him and then abandoned her like trash after taking the sword that held her immortal essence.
"Who would do that to a young child. Male or not no one deserves to be treated as that poor boy did."
Artemis just held her sister in all but blood as she slowly got herself under control. "I don't know what would cause someone to do that to a small child, but I do know that who ever did that to him has their days numbered. Olympus and the free titans would be in a race to absolutely destroy whoever did that to a child. One thing that both Olympians and Titans agreed to is that small children were off limits and would protect any of them with the fierceness of a mother bear. Leto, Hestia, and Rhea would go ballistic after seeing what the prince has gone through.
Zoe pulled away seconds before Apollo stepped out of the medical tent. The front of his medical scrubs looked as if liquid gold was splashed on his front. "Artemis."
When Artemis looked at her twin she was surprised at the serious look in his eyes. "Thank you for what you did for him. If you didn't stabilize him when you did, he would be well on his way to Hades' realm since he lacks domains needed to power a reformation. He is in a medical coma to allow his nonlethal injuries to heal."
At the disbelieving look his sister sent to him he had to explain more. "If I had tried to heal them all right now his body wouldn't be able handle it and would flatline. Right now all we can do is wait for his body to heal on his own before we can bring him out of his medical coma." Apollo rubbed the back of his blond head before he continued.
"I am going to bring him up to my medical ward in my temple so I can keep a better eye on him. I am going to allow you and Zoe to watch over him when I need to handle the sun. From what I could read from his memories it would be better if he had females around him if he suddenly woke up."
Apollo shuddered before he continued. "The people who would do that to a child are absolute monsters. Most of his memories involve either being beaten or raped by males while a female I don't recognize watched with a smile."
Both females shared a wary glance at that information before they looked back at Apollo. "We will stay with him." Artemis and Apollo shared a glance that said a lot of information before Apollo flashed away with Harry.
"Zoe go gather everyone. We are leaving for Half-blood camp after I give everyone an update on the situation." It had taken over twenty minutes before all ten huntresses were gathered around the central campfire.
"When I was outside hunting I had found a odd pulse of divine energy. Following it I found our missing Prince which you all saw I carried into the medical tent before having Lucy and Ahma work to stabilize him."
All the girls gasped when they heard that the prince, a godling, needed to be stabilized. To even scratch a god enough to bleed took more force than most could make. For him to have the injuries that the two healers stated that he had meant that his life was truly nightmarish. The only one who looked to be scowling at the though of a male was Phoebe. That was until Lucy stated that he had been raped by more then a handful of males on multiple occasions. Then her face became one of sympathy and horror at the thought of a male being raped by his own gender.
After all of them heard about what the prince has been put through had all agreed that both Zoe and Artemis, who have dealt with rape victims within the Hunt, should look over the young prince and possibly calm him if he suddenly wakes up from his coma.
Within minutes they had camp packed into backpacks before Artemis flashed the hunt to Half-blood hill. Then both Zoe and Artemis left for Apollo's palace to make sure nothing happened to their new prince.