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When he arrived in Manhattan Percy was relieved to know his parents, Paul and Sally Blofis didn't hate him and want him dead. When he stumbled through the door, his mother caught him and called for her husband to get their secret stash of ambrosia, hidden in the kitchen. He collapsed onto the couch in their living room. Whilst Sally washed out his wounds with nectar and Paul fed him ambrosia, he retold the events that had just taken place. Then he sat and just cried, his mother and father had perplexed looks on their faces. They just could not believe the Camp would turn on Percy like that.

Just then there was a mighty roar from outside the block of apartments. ''The Minotaur,'' Percy was up in a flash and out the door, his parents and injuries momentarily forgotten. Percy fished Anaklusmos out of his pocket and the familiar 'Shink' of its transformation caught the attention of the beast. The monster growled in recognition of his old foe, and he charged Percy. As his instincts took over Percy ran at the bull and at the very last second slid between his legs, thrusting Riptide up his derriere.

Shaking the disintegrated monster dust off, he turned his attention to the dark alley he was in and heard whimpering coming from just behind the dustbins. Percy put Riptide away and walked slowly with his hands raised in surrender. A voice, female spoke up. ''Is it gone?''

''Yes,'' he replied ''it's gone... and it's not coming back. You can come out now, it's safe.''

''How can we trust you?''

''We?'' Percy thought that meant there were at least two of them. ''How many of you are there?''

''There's 2 of us,'' she paused ''me and my little sister.''

Then slowly they appeared from behind their hiding place two blonde little girls with piercing blue and green eyes, they had heterochromia. I invited them to my apartment; they reluctantly said yes and followed me upstairs. When upstairs i introduced them to my parents and explained the whole Greek god situation to them. The younger sister who had told me her name was Maya Fountain, just stared open mouthed at me but then carried on eating her blue cookies, her older sister, Astrid, just nodded.

''We've been on our own for days, the first night we had to sleep under a bridge, the second we were being chased by these demon-dog-things and last night, well last night we were close to the pier and these seal-people with dog faces chased us and we almost died,'' She was getting hysterical and tears were forming in her eyes. Percy put a hand on her shoulder to reassure her and she gave him a small smile before continuing. ''And then there was today we were backed into that alley by that thing you, you called it a Minotaur,'' She took a shaky breath and looked directly into Percy's eyes. ''It was going to kill us until you came and saved us,'' She gave Percy hug and he didn't know what to do, he awkwardly rubbed her back in an attempt to comfort her.

''Umm Astrid, Maya? We have to go, 3 demi-gods attract an awful lot of monster attacks, but I'll take you guys to my safe house,'' The trio stood up and thanked the mortals for the food and shelter. They then left abruptly. Maya had taken a liking to Percy quite quickly and was currently sitting on his shoulders quite happily as they left the building.