...Will Sometimes turn into Demons. Use with caution.

"Look I didn't wanna be a halfblood."

"Naturally." Nico nodded.

"If you're reading this .. normal life.

"That works if you're a minor halfblood but if you have a really powerful aura the more you know the better." Thalia pointed out. "At least that way the monster can't catch you off guard."

Being a half – blood is dangerous... painful, nasty ways.

"Brutal honesty there Percy." Nico commentated. "Wish you could've told me that."

"You didn't need me to tell you by then," Percy scoffed. "You were busy telling Thorn you had a good place for his bullcrap and that happened to be up his-"

"Okay, let's keep reading!" Annabeth interjected.

If you're a normal kid... of this ever happened.

"Who doesn't?" the half-bloods chorused.

The Olympians frowned at their negative reactions.

"There has to be something you enjoy about being a demigod." Hermes said.

"I like my powers." Thalia offered.

"My friends." Percy chimed in while his sister nodded.

"...eh, Camp Half-Blood is pretty cool." Annabeth decided. "And my cap too I think."

Athena grinned a little proud to know Annabeth still appreciated the little for her even in the future. When she'd given it to her, Athena had been worried her daughter would use it once then deem the hat worthless. Of course, not aloud but still. It was still nice to hear the hat hadn't collected dust throughout her daughter's life.

But if you recognize yourself .. and they'll come for you.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

My name is Percy Jackson.

"Hi Percy!" Nico greeted enthusiastically.

Percy actually stopped reading clearly thrown for a loop alongside the other demigods. They slowly turned to look at Nico with concern in their eyes.

"What's wrong with him?" Thalia inquired. "Not that I'm not happy he's... cheerful. But it's already weird and he's only said one thing."

Percy opened his mouth to respond only to feel a tugging on his shirt sleeve. He glanced down at his sister who pointed at Hestia and mimed writing on a piece of paper. Percy's breath caught as he remembered.

"The note." he said to them. "It's a new immortal learning their powers. Maybe happy Nico is their fault."

"They're inexperience will affect us specifically?" Thalia said with genuine alarm in her voice.

"Of course it would." Annabeth sighed. "Immortals always affect us whether we like it or not."

"We should totally get a savings jar that the gods have to put two drachma in every time one of them does something that directly affects us in a bad way." Percy considered.

Annabeth snorted.

"Bet we'd have a lot more friendly interactions with them then."

I'm twelve years old. ... New York.

Am I a troubled kid?

"All half-bloods are troubled kids." Nico provided.

Yeah. You could say that.

"See?"

I could... ancient Greek and Roman stuff.

Annabeth sat up with interest .

"Sounds fun." she noted.

Percy snorted remembering his thoughts on the matter as he read:

I know- it sounds like torture.

Annabeth huffed at him while the other half-bloods snickered to themselves. Percy shot her a grin and the daughter of Athena rolled her eyes playfully. The Olympians curiously watched the interactions. So far, their kids had been pretending they didn't exist and had been reading mostly to their own group. They sorted understood where their kids were coming from with this response to their presence.

Still, what all had those kids been through that they were this comfortable messing around with gods in the room?

Most Yancy field trips were... put me to sleep.

"I love those kinds of teachers." Thalia grinned. Kiara nodded enthusiastically with her remembering the occasional teacher that had happened to be awesome. Those were essentially the only classes she actually learned anything from.

I hoped ... wouldn't get in trouble.

Surprisingly, it was Apollo that scoffed here.

"You're a demigod. Trouble is stuck to you like gum on someone's shoe."

Boy was I wrong.

Apollo grinned.

See, bad things happen to me on field trips... I got expelled anyway.

"Hands down, best reason to be expelled." Thalia announced.

And before that ...unplanned swim.

"No, that's the best reason to get expelled." Nico argued.

"I think blowing up a school bus with am old war cannon is a pretty awesome way to leave school." Thalia retorted.

"Dropping your entire class inside a tank of sharks is just awesome though."

Kiara coughed quietly grabbing their attention. She eyed the gods with caution before raising her hands and beginning to sign.

'The best reason we were ever expelled was when we took a trip to the space museum and they gave us a VIP tour. We caused an unexpected rapid disassembly of a watercraft via percussive maintenance to the head control.'

Annabeth snickered as everyone glanced at her and waited for her to translate the official jargon she'd recited between laughter.

"A model rocket blew up after it ended up in the water when they didn't want it to because the launch wasn't going off and those two decided to try the method of hitting the computer until it worked."

Everyone burst into laughter at the official translation. They laughed even harder when Kiara assured them that while they were allowed back now, they had to accompanied by a security team everywhere they went now. After the giggles and chuckles finally died down, they returned to the book.

And the time before that... Well, you get the idea.

This trip, I was determined to be ... sandwich.

"Gross," Hermes grimaced. "Peanut butter and ketchup?"

'She's made a lot of poor life choices.' Kiara signed to him. Hermes blinked in confusion before Annabeth translated.

"Why doesn't she talk?" Hestia asked curiously.

"Because she doesn't trust you guys in the general radius of where you can be thrown." Annabeth deadpanned.

"She doesn't talk to people she doesn't trust at all." Nico agreed.

"Why?"

Nico and Thalia paused and turned curiously to Kiara who stubbornly ignored them.

"If it's not in the book, I'll tell you." Percy reassured. Kiara gave him a wide-eyed look before her expression turned angry and she shook her head.

"Why not? Thalia and Nico should know at least."

Kiara hesitated.

"They won't judge, we're all a little messed up Lion." he soothed. Kiara shuffled before finally sighing and nodding in agreement. She then buried her face in his shoulder clearly done with communicating for the moment. Percy rubbed her back apologetically and mentally hit himself wishing he'd done that someone more private instead of in front of all of their friends. Thankfully, she sent him a tiny smile to let him know he was forgiven.

Grover was an easy target.

"That's nice of you." Thalia remarked dryly.

He was scrawny. He cried when he got frustrated.

He must've ... muscular disease in his legs.

"Geeze Percy, layer that will you." Thalia grinned. "I'm totally telling Grover you thought he was a wimp."

"Not a wimp, just someone who needed protecting." he corrected. The of the sea glanced at his younger sister. "He reminded me a little bit of someone and that set off all of my protective instincts."

Following his gaze, Thalia made an 'oh' expression and nodded solemnly as she eyed Annabeth. She knew what it was like to meet someone who instantly made you decide you need to protect them from everything. As if she knew what she was thinking about, Annabeth shifted closer to Thalia who smiled a little and pulled her closer.

Nico watched them feeling a sharp pang in his chest. He avoided looking at them and merely sat quietly wishing his sister back to him. Thalia noticed him staring down at his lap and dragged him over to her and Annabeth as well. The blonde in question grinned at him when he joined her in Thalia's impromptu cuddle session.

"I guess you're offically my brother now." she remarked. "Thals seems to have adopted you now anyway."

Nico glanced up at Thalia who smirked at him and messed up his hair. He squawked in protest but couldn't hide the wide grin that had emerged on his face.

Hades caught Thalia's eye and gave a simple nod of thanks. He didn't know what was wrong with his son, but he was grateful she'd at least tried to make him feel better. Thalia nodded back a little before returning her attention to Nico. Now that she'd decided he was her newest ward, she took a closer look at him. She took note she would be feeding him more because he was thin and maybe see about getting him to play outside more because he looked like a vampire and...

Annabeth smirked and relief flooded her when she noticed Thalia's contemplative look. She loved her best friend like a mother but Thalia still sent her Iris Messages telling her she expected Annabeth to be in bed by 10 and asleep by 11. Maybe now that Nico was here Annabeth would be ignored for a while.

He walked funny, like ... it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

"Cover? What cover?" Thalia remarked sarcastically.

Hmm, Nico needed to socialize a little more. Maybe she could introduce him to nice campers one at a time throughout a few months? That should be spaced out enough to let him recover from meeting new people right? Three new people every month?

Anyway, Nancy Bobofit ... threatened me with death

Annabeth, Thalia and Nico tensed.

by in-school suspension

They each relaxed appearing slightly embarrassed by their own reactions.

if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip.

"I'm going to kill her," I mumbled.

"Do it." Ares suggested.

Grover tried to calm me down. "It's ok. ... lunch.

"But in you hair?" Annabeth asked in confusion. "It sounds hard to wash out."

"That's it." I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat.

Ares sighed at the lack of any form of action in the book so far.

"You're already on probation," .. then and there.

Artemis frowned a little but admittedly privately to herself no man should pick on a woman, but a woman also shouldn't be the one to pick on the man. Besides, he hadn't actually hit her and that was more than she could say for others sometimes.

In-school suspension would've been nothing compared to the mess I was about to get myself into.

"Wonderful." Poseidon muttered anxiously. Absently, he wondered why his daughter had yet to be mentioned in the book.

Mr. Brunner ... three thousand years.

"Even longer really." Athena pointed out.

"Still a miracle it wasn't shattered to a million pieces." Percy decided.

He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall ... evil eye.

"Oh she's that teacher isn't she?" Thalia grimaced.

Percy and Kiara nodded ruefully.

Mrs. Dodds ... had a nervous breakdown.

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you Percy?" Annabeth asked.

Percy shook his head and nudged his sister. "She might though."

Everyone focused on Kiara. When she realized the attention was on her, she looked up with her green eyes and blinked in a rumpled kitten way. Everyone dismissed Percy's insinuation and Kiara shuffled into her brother's lap for a quick nap. She was relieved when the immortal didn't decide to reawaken her but didn't want to push her luck so she simply relaxed on her brother. Percy simply couldn't believe everyone fell for her 'kitten eyes of doom' as he labelled them.

From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I was devil spawn.

She ... until midnight,

"Now that's just cruel. What if you wanted to sleep?" Hermes demanded.

"Then I was tired." Percy dismissed.

I ... absolutely right."

"Really wondering how he didn't blow his cover sooner." Annabeth complained.

Mr. Brunner kept talking about the Greek funeral art.

Finally... shut up?"

"So immature." Thalia grumbled.

It came out louder than I meant it to.

"It always does." Nico sighed.

The whole... "No, sir."

"I hate it when teachers call you out like that." Annabeth frowned.

The other demigods winced and nodded in agreement.

Mr... right?"

"Why is it always that particular picture?" Hades demanded as the rest of the older gods became sick.

"It's never any of the others. Always that picture. Just... why?" Poseidon groaned.

"Yes... king god, and-"

"It was corrected." Percy hurried to reassure to find out he didn't need to. Zeus was actually trying to soothe Hera so the Queen of the gods didn't throw up from the memories.

"God?" Mr. Brunner asked.

"Titan," I corrected myself.

"And... sisters-"

Demeter squeezed her eyes shut and Hades actually pushed aside his annoyance at her existence to pat her back while he too tried not to go worship the porcelain throne.

"Eeew!" said one of the girls behind me.

... won."

"Ah yes," Athena commented dryly ignoring her sickly relatives. "The gods won and after the wonderful stage-play, all of the actors and actresses went to celebrate with ice cream."

"Now you know where I get it." Annabeth whispered to her friends who all snickered in agreement.

Some snickers from the group.

'I hate when the other kids did that. It always made me feel like I'm doing something wrong.' Kiara signed in an attempt to distract the alarmingly green gods.

Behind me... his kids.'"

"Hey you never know, maybe you're going to be a Greek and Roman history teacher and that's apart of the qualification test." Thalia shrugged.

"And why...real life?"

"For a demigod? The more you know, the more likely you'll live." Percy concluded. "For a mortal? Don't try to punish people for things they haven't done yet or you'll regret it."

"Busted... radar ears.

"Ah yes," Annabeth mused wistfully. "The downfall of so many lay within those ears."

Everyone shot the daughter of Athena a shocked expression. Noticing this, Annabeth explained herself.

"Chiron doesn't like it when we swear. But with those ears, he could hear even when we were mumbling."

Looks understanding made their to everyone's faces as they moved on with acceptance.

I ...mustard and wine,

"That's disgusting." Nico remarked.

which... lead us back outside?"

"I'd hate to hear a bad note in that case." Thalia deadpanned.

The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guys pushing each other around and acting like doofuses.

"Because they are doofuses." Artemis provided.

"True enough." Kiara signed. Annabeth laughed while Percy huffed before translating for her.

"This is getting annoying." Aphrodite frowned. "Isn't there any way we can talk to the kid without needing someone to translate it?"

The room flashed and when everything dimmed once more, Kiara was wearing an odd looking box around her neck like a microphone. She picked up the note before jumping in surprise when a robotic female voice read aloud from the device around her neck.

I should've accounted for the fact Ms. Jackson dislikes speaking to new people earlier on. My apologizes, this nifty little device will serve to help her communicate without her hands as well as not forcing her to speak. I know it sounds weird, but I've already had it read her thoughts and differentiate which were important, which weren't , which she wished to vocalize and which she wanted to keep private. As a result, the voice is robotic. It's the best I could do without making it spit out her every thought instead of ones she clearly wanted to communicate.

-K.J.

"Well that works." Annabeth remarked with a grin. "Say something Kiara."

"YoU sUck Chase."

"It works." The daughter of Athena nodded. "The pitch needs work but otherwise it seems to be just fine."

"Don't ask." Nico advised the confused looking Olympians. "Even with Percy around, her relationship with Kiara is... different. But they're happy with it."

"Our children are mental." Poseidon muttered to Athena who nodded in agreement.

Grover and I were about to follow when Mr. Brunner said, "Mr. Jackson."

The demigods all groaned alongside Apollo and Hermes.

"Lecture time." Hermes sighed.

I knew what was coming.

"Who doesn't?" Nico asked.

I... everything.

"Not everything but sometimes it feels like it." Hera mused.

"... apply to it."

"Oh."

"Percy Jackson in a nutshell everybody." Thalia claimed.

Percy shot her a playful glare and huffed with annoyance.

"What you learn ... pushed me so hard.

"If it means you survive another day, it's for the best." Poseidon declared.

Percy and Kiara smiled at their father- truly the sea god showed the most love and affection for his children. Annabeth, Nico and Thalia watched on with a familiar twinge of jealousy that they brushed aside. Just about everyone in camp had grown to accept that the twins had the best relationship with their godly parent.

It wasn't like their parents didn't care. It was just that their own parents would have to threatened with fading and losing their legacies for them to cough up an ' love you.' Though from what Kiara and Percy say, Poseidon hadn't managed to muster an 'I love you' so far either.

Noticing their expressions, Athena, Zeus and Hades averted their eyes from Hestia as the goddess sent them a disappointed expression.

"[No children should ever look that happy to be inadvertently reassured their parent's care.]" she told them firmly through telepathy. They all simply nodded in silence accepting the scolding.

I mean... spell them correctly.

"I feel you there." Thalia grumbled. "Stupid spelling tests..."

I mumbled ... at this girl's funeral.

"Depending on who it is, he probably was." Annabeth remarked.

He told me to go outside ... if this was a hurricane blowing in.

"Well someone's cranky." Hermes notes glancing over at Zeus and Poseidon.

Nobody else... seeing a thing.

"Ug, favoritism." Kiara grunted in discontent. She signed her words out of habit before remembering the box around her neck. Well, this would take some getting used to.

Grover and I ... make it elsewhere.

"You're not." Annabeth told them quietly. "Neither of you."

"I know." Percy nodded. "It was just... how things were."

"We understand." Thalia agreed softly. "But with other half-bloods, you're not a loser or a freak. You're normal. Like us."

"That's a normal feeling?" Hestia inquired with concern.

"How else are we sUpposed to feel?"

Hestia shot an accusing look at her siblings, nieces and nephews when the children returned to the book. None of them had the courage to meet her eyes.

"Detention?" Grover asked.

"Nah.. not a genius."

"We know." Nico teased.

Percy stuck his tongue out and blew a raspberry. It was strange that Nico seemed so cheerful, but he kind of enjoyed it. Maybe now that he wasn't actively avoiding him, Percy could finally find out why Nico seemed to hate him beyond the obvious Bianca incident. Warmth and reassurance flooded his body abruptly alongside sorrow and apology. He smiled and reassured the other that he was okay. The emotions turned to relief and slight cheer was injected. The emotions retreated to the back of mind where he could still feel them, but not be distracted.

Grover didn't say anything for a while... apple?"

"Oh Grover." Annabeth said fondly.

I didn't have much of an appetite, so I let him take it.

I watched the ... sad look she'd give me.

The demigods all winced as if in pain.

"I hate that look." Nico frowned.

"Me too." Kiara agreed.

"Aunt Sally really has a way of making sure you feel bad for what you did without raising her voice once." Thalia grimaced.

"Or even knowing what you did at all." Percy grumbled.

"You've met her?" Poseidon asked curiously.

"Yeah," Nico agreed. "Aunt Sally heard 'demigod' and 'no where to go' then basically adopted us."

Poseidon smiled broadly getting a small smile from Aphrodite as she sensed the pure love flowing off of him directed at the mortal.

"[You still love her.]" she remarked warmly.

"[Yes.]"

Mr. Brunner parked ...motorized cafe table.

"I now have to build that." Hephaestus decided. Instantly he whipped out his sketchpad and started drawing basic ideas and designs. Aphrodite looked curiously over his shoulder and took note of his idea, when he stopped drawing she looked at him for permission. When he nodded she promptly began comparing colors and developing color palettes for all of the different designs with his input.

"Huh," Annabeth mumbled. "So Aphrodite dabbles in designing."

"Makes sense," Kiara commentated. Somehow, the little device around her neck understood she was making an attempt at a whisper and lowered its broadcast volume- no wonder K.J. couldn't fit any other features into it. "After all, how else woUld HepheastUs have so many good designs and well thoUght oUt colors? And who better to do them than the goddess who is basically fashion?"

"What do you know? You can come up with logical thoughts."

"Screw yoU too Chase."

I was ... Grover's lap.

"I'll kill her." Thalia announced.

"I'll help." Annabeth volunteered.

"No," Percy told them both. "We leave her alone, what if someone thought you guys associated with her as an accepted enemy?"

Thalia and Annabeth looked so revolted by the idea of considering her a worthy enemy and challenge that Percy just kept reading before they decided to crush him for his audacity.

"Oops... liquid Cheetos.

"Interesting analogy." Athena remarked making an attempt to stay neutral.

She ignored the looks of utter shock that came from everyone else.

I tried ... my ears.

"The sea prince awakens." Apollo rumbled in the most ominous tone he could muster.

"Fair." Poseidon agreed before anyone else could argue.

"I don't remember... "Percy pushed me!"

"Tattletale." Thalia grumbled having her own fair share of kids who ratted her out.

Mrs. ...like it grabbed her―"

Poseidon swelled with pride for his son's skill. It wasn't good that the students had noticed, but it was like witnessing Percy's first steps (he did, he went back and hid just to watch his son's first steps as well as his daughters. And their first words. And their first day of school.) He was allowed to be a super proud dad about this.

Zeus reached over and wordlessly congratulated his brother alongside Hades. The others merely smiled remembering how proud they were when they saw their children's first use of powers.

I didn't know... waiting for all semester.

"I swear they're always looking at Us like they're waiting for something." Kiara complained.

"Now, honey―"

"I know," I grumbled. "A month erasing workbooks."

Hermes opened his mouth to scold him only for Kiara to cut him off giving her brother an indignant look.

"Never gUess the pUnishment! That makes it worse! Haven't yoU learned?" she demanded.

"You already told me off about this." Percy reminded her.

"Still." she huffed.

That wasn't the right thing to say.

"Of it wasn't." Hermes agreed nodding to younger Jackson. Kiara straightened up before sending him a timid smile as if she'd forgotten the gods were in the room.

"Come with me... I pushed her."

"Brave but it won't work." Apollo noted. "Most teachers are stubborn about the student they're punishing."

I stared at him...

"But... smirked.

I gave her my deluxe I'll-kill-you-later stare.

Nico and Thalia shivered.

"At least Kiara wasn't there." Nico mumbled. "Twin kill-you stares are horrible."

"At least it wasn't a glare." Thalia huffed. "I nearly passed out."

"You were given the glares?" Nico said with surprise. "When?"

Thalia lowered her voice so the Olympians couldn't hear her and whispered.

"I insulted them the summer Annabeth was taken and implied it was their fault." she muttered. "Not my sanest moment."

"Not your sanest?" Annabeth scoffed. "You know I'm 60 percent of their impulse control right?"

"I wasn't thinking straight." Thalia said in a tense voice remembering the haze of confusion and pain she'd been in. She'd closed her eyes fighting hoards of monsters to buy time for her friends- her little family on the streets. Then she'd woken up with Annabeth and Grover much older than they were before and Annabeth had this telltale glint she wasn't the little girl she'd raised with her best friend anymore. Then said best friend turns out to have turned villain and Grover is traveling a lot and Annabeth (who was all she had left then) didn't really need her anymore.

Then Annabeth was stolen from her.

Thalia thought she could be forgiven for her less than stellar state of mind then.

Then ...me to come on.

How'd she get there so fast?

"And it starts." Nico muttered shaking off the sadness that had engulfed him at the mention of that summer. He was doing better now and whatever K.J. had done by mistake, he hoped they wouldn't fix it. Whatever it was had taken most of the bad thoughts he'd been having and... made them less intense? More distant? He couldn't describe it. Nico just knew could now look at each thought objectively without his emotions getting in the way and fogging things up.

He was glad he could think of Bianca now without feeling like he would break down sobbing or screaming the second he left the company of other people.

I have moments like that a lot... misinterpreting things.

"Sometimes it is." Annabeth agreed. "Most of the time it's a monster though."

"And not the energy drink." Kiara chimed in helpfully.

Annabeth shot her a look that only too clearly called her an idiot. Kiara gave her one right back that called her a know-it-all. The other half-bloods merely sighed with exasperation, all of them completely done with the two girls. Thalia privately admitted that it was pretty cute.

I wasn't so sure.

I went after Mrs. Dodds.

... in his novel.

"Chiron..." Annabeth groaned. "We talked about this."

I looked ... gift shop.

"Good thing she didn't." Percy interrupted himself mumbling. "I was broke."

"We're always broke." Kiara reminded him.

But ... like growling.

"That didn't set off any alarms?" Ares asked skeptically with Athena frowning in agreement. The two war gods eyed Percy as if he was particularly dense (he was but in a different way than what they're referencing).

"To be fair, she growls too." Thalia pointed out gesturing to Kiara.

To demonstrate this, Annabeth leaned forward and jabbed the younger girl in the back of the neck. Kiara reflexively whirled around giving a vicious snarl like a wild animal and hissing at her with narrowed eyes. Annabeth made a move to poke her again and received a warning growl that stated she would lose that finger should she continue with her plan.

Point made, Annabeth sat back and Kiara calmed down.

"...what was that?" Artemis asked finally.

Kiara shrugged.

"She's always preferred the company of animals to people." Percy explained. "Most of the time when we were younger, if she ran off we'd find her in this one house that had friendly people who let her hang around their pets. We think she picked it up there."

"Well, compared to that a teacher growling a little seems completely normal." Apollo concluded without the slightest bit of sarcasm. The other immortals nodded in silence. Poseidon merely stared at his daughter and once more wondered why she had yet to come up in the book.

Even without the noise... said.

"I think you meant her." Annabeth said casually pointing at Kiara. The ravenette growled at her.

"No seriously, what is up with that friendship?" Demeter asked in bewilderment. The other Olympians shrugged.

I did t...away with it?"

"No." Kiara said automatically. "I didn't do anything wrong that I'm aware of."

Hermes shot her a look of approval, clearly she read the rule book at some point in her life.

The...going to hurt me.

Kiara frowned.

"Did yoU forget aboUt Ms. Lysander?" she asked.

Percy scowled.

"No, but mom promised that would never happen again."

"A teacher hurt you?" Poseidon demanded furiously.

"JUst smacked the back of my head," Kiara reassured her father. "Nothing serioUs."

"Me too." Percy agreed. "And it hasn't happened since then."

Annabeth eyed the twins with empathy. She'd had a 2nd grade teacher who had the mentality of "her way or the highway" and had regularly smacked the back of Annabeth's head when she'd been in class and done something different she had found saved her time. Plus with Annabeth knowing most of the answers ahead of due to self study, it had been a miserable time. She'd told her father and her stepmother the first few times but nothing had changed.

It was another factor as to why she ran away.

I said, "I'll―I'll try harder, ma'am."

Thunder shook the building.

Zeus frowned. He was very angry, why was he so angry?

"We are not fools...you will suffer less pain."

"They always say that!" Nico protested. "Then they chase you and screech about 'how dare you' when you actually confess!"

"I hate when monsters do that." Thalia grumbled.

I didn't ... out of my dorm room.

"How much did you make?" Hermes asked.

Percy smirked and Kiara grinned slyly.

"We cannot reveal the earnings we've made to an outsider of the business but if you become a seller, you'll get a cut and be allowed in on the dealings." Percy informed professionally.

Hermes didn't hesitate to climb down from his throne and shake hands with Percy and sign a contract Kiara had produced from what seemed like hammer-space. The other Olympians gave him looks of utter disbelief. While they focused on Hermes and Percy, Kiara covertly slipped an envelope of drachma and mortal money to Annabeth who accepted it behind her back with a poker-face. The daughter of Athena hid her earnings beneath her blankets to collect and pocket later with less prying eyes.

Hey, Percy and Kiara had loosened her up over years.

Or maybe they'd... the book.

'Thank you' Annabeth caught Kiara mouthing to her. The raven haired girl distinctly remembered the name at the top of the paper she and Percy had taken alongside the differently written version ("In case you have a friend/sibling with the same problem") that had saved their English grades for 2nd quarter.

Annabeth winked when her mother wasn't looking glad to know her fun had indeed saved someone the stress of the essay.

"Well... hissed.

"Interjections, show excitement, or emotion-" Kiara began.

"Lion, hush." Percy told her making his sister pout. "That was an interruption anyway."

"Schoolhouse Rock?" Thalia said with surprise.

"It was the only way she really learned anything in school." Percy informed. "If it hadn't been for Schoolhouse Rock, she still wouldn't be able to multiply sevens."

Kiara shrugged knowing it was true.

Then the weirdest... slice me to ribbons.

Poseidon leveled his brother with a calm expression.

"If you even think about doing this now, I will make you a resident of your own kingdom and Thanatos will have to take over as god of death and the dead."

Hades swallowed nervously.

"Understood brother."

Then th... a pen in his hand.

"A pen?" Demeter blinked.

"What ... used on tournament day.

"Ah, that makes more sense." Demeter muttered.

Mrs. ... almost dropped the sword.

"I understand." Nico commented. "The first time I was training with a sword at camp, I nearly dropped it right then and there."

She snarled, "Die, honey!"

"I mean, she was polite about it."

And she... Hisss!

"So many water references." Annabeth chuckled.

Mrs. Dodds ... watching me.

"Creepy~" Kiara sang.

I was ...Nobody was there but me.

"ActUally Nobody hasn't met Us yet." Kiara said with a smirk. She cursed herself for missing the first opportunity.

Percy and Annabeth snickered while the rest of the room leveled them with confused expressions.

"Inside joke." Annabeth informed.

"Yeah, my mistake." Percy agreed with a grin. "We haven't met nobody yet."

My ... something.

"Nope, I wasn't there to pUll that on yoU this time." Kiara informed.

"You've put 'magic mushrooms' in your brother's food?!" Poseidon demanded,

"No," Percy informed. "She told me she did and watched me freak out. She just added extra sugar and laughed her butt off while I panicked at the different taste."

Had I i... your butt."

"Mrs. Kerr?" Hades blinked thrown off a little, then his expression cleared. "Right, the mist."

"Which is annoying." Annabeth grumbled.

"You said it." Percy agreed.

I said... messing with me.

"He's sUch a bad liar." Kiara murmured shaking her head fondly.

"Being a good liar is never a good thing." Annabeth told her gently. "It either means you don't trust anyone or that you've been taught to fear something if you don't."

Kiara averted her eyes and shrank away a little. Annabeth stole the smaller girl from her brother and sat her in her own lap. She rubbed Kiara's back (demonstrating actual care for her beyond the teasing/fighting they did) soothingly and quietly motioned for Percy to move on. Percy nodded drawing the attention from his sister, he understood where she was coming from.

"Not funny, man... realized I was still holding it.

"That's how I end up stealing pens by mistake." Annabeth joked quietly to the girl in her lap.

"Sir," I said... Are you feeling all right?"

"Now that's proper lying." Hermes said with approval in his voice.

Annabeth shot him a look and tilted her head at Kiara. The god winced and sent her an apologetic expression mouthing 'sorry.' She nodded acceptingly before looking to Percy (who looked out of breath).

"Could we get some water please?" Annabeth requested cautiously.

A bottle of water appeared next to Annabeth with a note taped to it.

Thank you for saying please.

-K.J.

Annabeth smiled and handed the bottle to Percy who drank it like he was dying of dehydration. A gallon of water appeared next to him as he finished the the bottle with another note attached to it alongside a rubix pyramid and a battery with a wire.

Sorry, I forgot about the different requirements of different half-bloods. Forgive me.

-K.J

Annabeth grinned widely and grabbed the pyramid and instantly began shuffling it around feeling a tension in her body releasing. A shadow appeared over Nico and he sighed quietly with relief and relaxed himself. Thalia instantly set to shocking herself while Kiara took the cup and poured herself some water in silence. Percy's water bottle seemed to start refilling itself and the boy instantly began drinking with even more vigor than before. Similarly, Kiara drained the gallon rapidly and the moment it refilled, she got another cup.

The Olympians looked at each other nervously with confusion reflected in all of their eyes.

"Different needs?" Apollo asked hesitantly.

Another note.

Children of Poseidon tend to need more water than the average person if they don't soak in saltwater once every two weeks. Children of Athena need near constant mental stimulation or else they get board and usually turn to dangerous stunts and ideas as a result. Children of Hades tend to need at least 3 hours out of direct light or just some time in a graveyard or they get antsy. Children of Zeus need occasional electric shocks to help their nervous system which requires more electricity than usual to keep up with their use of electric powers.

-K.J.

P.S. These are your children. Why don't you know this?

"You... do?" Demeter asked in a stunned voice.

"We thought you all were just like mortals..." Athena mumbled. "Just with powers."

The Olympians sat in silence and wave after wave of shame and guilt descended upon them at this revelation.

How... didn't they know?

"To be fair, we only found out a couple decades ago we have slightly different needs." Annabeth sympathized. "Some of us are normal with powers."

Decades?

This has been a thing... for decades? Why were they just finding this out?

Zeus felt revulsion towards himself fill his stomach as he remembered that the Ancient Laws he enforced were the answer. They couldn't contact their children. Or talk to them. They barely knew the favorite colors of half of them. How could they know about the... differences?

They couldn't.

"...Children of mine?" Aphrodite asked hesitantly.

"Normal with powers." Annabeth agreed warily.

"Mine?" Ares demanded.

"They need a decent spar at least twice a week or they get frustrated and angry, then they take it out on everyone around them." Percy piped up.

Mr. D stared at them.

"Just a glass of grape juice every couple weeks." Annabeth reassured. "And it just makes them sluggish if they don't get it."

Demeter raised her hand.

"Field time is important for them, but they tend to get sicker faster than usual if it's cold?" Nico pointed out. "Apollo kids are like flowers. They need at least 5 hours of sunlight a day."

"Yeah, we had to add heat lamps to Apollo Cabin to simulate it." Annabeth agreed. "Or else they get really cranky and then depressed then they just sleep a lot."

"Hermes kids just need to 'steal' things." Thalia said putting quotes around it. "All we have to do for that is lock some stuff up and let them get it. It's not technically stealing, but it soothes the itch so they don't steal for real."

The Olympians nodded taking note of all of the information the half-bloods gave them. They'd already learned so much about their children and it was only the first chapter. Was there anything else they missed about them?

Probably. They all resolved the listen carefully and take notes on anything that seemed like it was something they personally need to work on about their kids. The demigods noticed the serious expressions on their parents' faces and the way they materialized notebooks and wrote down what they were saying. As Nico picked up the book to read next, they all exchanged small smiles.

Maybe this plan of K.J.'s would work.

Kiara will make her way into the story in chapter 2.

Hopefully, the last part is different enough to keep you interested yeah?