Thank you reviewers! You guys make me so happy! :D

Okay, so was just reading through this story yesterday, and I realized that I never added a disclaimer. I'm pretty sure that I'll forget again, so this one right here is for the entire story: ME NO OWN! And, this is before the Lost Hero, so Percy still has his curse and everything. And there are no Romans. Okay, now on to the story!

Fang looked around, his dark eyes glinting with suspicion.

"Who are they?" He asked, tilting his head in a way that gestured to the new kids.

"I'm not really sure..." I replied carefully. Fang raised his eyebrows incredulously. I sighed and turn to the other kids.

"Okay, you lot. Who are you?" I said in my best tell-me-now-or-die voice.

"I'm Percy Jackson, son-" Percy began, and was cut off by Annabeth.

"I'm Annabeth Chase, that's Nico di Angelo and Thalia-" Again the introductions were cut short.

"Just Thalia," Thalia snarled. Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"Just Thalia," The blonde repeated.

"I'm Max, this is Fang," I said, gesturing to myself, and then Fang, who scowled in greeting.

"Oh my gods, Nico! He's like an older you!" Thalia said excitedly. "Do you think... you're related?" She put extra emphasis on the word related, like it was some special "inside joke" sorta thing.

"No, I don't think so," Nico told her, narrowing his eyes at Fang. "Anyway, back to introductions?" He looked back at me.

"Past Fang is Nudge, then..." I broke off, straining my hawk eyes to see past the unconscious Nudge.

"Angel," Fang supplied. "Then Gazzy, Iggy, and I think Total is on the end." Nico nodded, though I was sure that he shouldn't be able to see so far.

"You guys have a dog?" He asked. I looked at him in surprise. I could barely see him, but he could see our dog, several cages down? (1)

"Yeah," I said, nodding my head to hide my confusion.

"Cool," He said. "Percy has a dog, but she's a lot bigger than yours." Percy and Annabeth glared at him, and Thalia snickered quietly.

"Shut up, Nico," Percy growled.

"So, are you guys from around here?" I asked. We needed somewhere to go after we escaped, at least at first when all the Erasers in the whole place were after them.

"Depends," Annabeth said. "Where's here?"

"California," Fang told them.

"Whoa, then definitely not," Percy shuddered.

"No Seaweed Brain, I live here, remember? San Francisco?"

"Oh yeah! And then there's Mount-"

"Percy!" Annabeth exploded before he could finish his sentence. "Just shut up, and let's leave our friends on the mountains out of this." (2)

"Oh, sorry," He muttered. "I keep forgetting that they," He gestured to us with his hands, "aer not like, you know, us."

"What do you mean?" I asked. "Like, not completely human?" Percy stared at me in shock.

"Okay, maybe I was wrong," He said, surprised. I nodded.

"None of us are," I informed them. Unfourtunetly, that's when Nudge woke up.

"Ya, were not completely human. We're only, like, 98% human or something and 2% bir- wait. Who are you?" I mentally face palmed. Talk about the Nudge Channel!

"I'm Percy," He said, "and these are my friends Annabeth, Nico, and Thalia." He looked at her curiously. "What did you say that you were 2% of?"

"Bird!" She exclaimed excitedly. Percy's eyes widened. He turned around to his friends, and they all began talking in that weird language again.

"Poulí? Eínai ta pouliá?" I heard Percy mutter. (3)

"Kalá, eíste sígoura den i̱mítheous," Annabeth growled. (4)

"Pistév̱ete óti léne ti̱n alí̱theia?" Nico butted in. (5)

"Den nomízo̱ óti i̱ kopéla í̱tan xaplo̱méni̱ Ó̱thi̱si̱," Thalia replied, eyeing us warily. (6) I leaned over towards Fang's cage.

"What language do you think they're speaking?" I asked him.

"I dunno," He whispered back. "Maybe Latin?"

"So, you guys are part bird. Why don't you look like birds?" Percy asked. It seemed they were done with they're private conversation.

"We have bird wings, 'cause we're only 2% bird," I told him "What kind of mutants are you guys?"

"We're not exactly... mutants," Percy mumbled.

"Oh, you haven't been experimented on yet," I said, glancing at them sympathetically. They all nodded, but then I remembered something. "Wait, you said that we weren't like you, and asked if we were completely human. What are you, if you're not experiments?"

"Umm, well, we're, umm... Annabeth?" I almost laughed at Percy's nervous face.

"Don't worry, it's not like we won't believe you. With what we go through every day, nothing will sound crazy to us," I reassured them. Percy glanced at Annabeth, who shook her head. He sighed, and shot us an apologetic look.

"Sorry guys. Maybe if we survive this place, we'll tell you."

"Why can't you tell us know?" Fang asked.

"We would put our entire family at stake if we told you," Thalia said.

"Well, we told you what we were, and potentially endangered our family," I pointed out.

"How big, exactly, is your family?" Nico asked me.

"There's about ten of us, if you count my mom, and my sister," I said proudly. We sure had a big family.

"Well, our family is huge. There's..." Percy broke off, and looked at Annabeth, who sighed. She looked like she was counting numbers in her head.

"About sixty campers, thirty Hunters, twenty nature, umm, lovers, and of course our friends on the mountains, so there's about a hundred and fifty of us," (7) I just stared at her.

"Are you all related? Or are you like us, just bestest friends forever?" Nude asked excitedly.

"We're all related, but some very distantly," Annabeth told her. "The director of our camp, for instance, is Percy and Nico's cousin, my uncle, and Thalia's brother." Thalia made a face. "The activities director is uncle to all three of them, and my mom's uncle, while my mom is Percy and Nico's cousin, and Thalia's sister. Percy's dad's brothers are Nico and Thalia's fathers. All of us have lots of siblings, but it's usually just half-siblings. It's rare in our family to have a real, whole, 100% sibling." Thalia and Percy cast sad glances at Nico, who was staring at the ground.

"But, none of us are related through DNA," Thalia added. WTH? How are you realated, but not through DNA? And that is one big family. I turned to look at Fang, who was staring disbelievingly at her.

"Whatever," He muttered.

"But, that's not important right now. Chreiazómaste éna schédio diafygí̱s," Annabeth announced.

"What did you say? What language is that? How many languages do you guys spea-"

"NUDGE!" Iggy yelled. "Shut up!" Apparently he was awake now, too. Thankfully, he didn't ask right away who the people were. I think they were getting tired of introducing themselves.

"I said, we need an escape plan," Annabeth announced, in English this time.

"Ohhh, I thought that you said something about Cleopatra or-"

"Nudge, what did Iggy just tell you?" I asked her.

"Oh, he told me to shut up! He tells me that all the time, like once, I was-"

"You should listen to him, Nudge," I sighed. She nodded her head.

"So, you said we need a plan," Iggy stated. "Who exactly are you guys?"

"Can we do this later?" Percy grumbled. "I've already introduced us like seven times."

"Fine," Iggy said. "Let's make a plan."

"Okay, have you guys been here before? Do you know your way around this building?" Annabeth asked. I was slightly confused by this. Percy had seemed to be the leader of the group, until we mentioned planning. Then Annabeth kind of took over.

"Yeah, I mean, we practically grew up here," I muttered bitterly.

"Well, do you know how to get out?" Annabeth questioned.

"Well, if I was just us, we would probably fly out some window," I began. I saw Percy's look of confusion, so I had to stop and explain. "We're part bird, remember? We have wings. We can fly," He glanced at Thalia, who immediately shook her head, looking very frightened. I had no idea what was going on, but Annabeth and Nico obviously did.

"Come on, Thals, please?" Annabeth pleaded.

"Ya, you'll only have to carry Annabeth and Percy, cause I can get out by myself," Nico added. Thalia glared at her friends, who looked pleadingly back.

"Please? Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please pretty please? With like, lightning on top?" Percy said. Wow, he was good. Even better then Angel at times! Although, the lightning thing was kinda weird.

"Fine!" Thalia threw her hands up in exasperation, narrowly missing the top of her cage. "I'll do it."

"Do what?" Nudge asked. "Can you fly, too? Or are you a bird-kid, like us?" Thalia glared at her, and poor Nudge flinched visibly.

"I can fly," Thalia said through gritted teeth. "But I don't like it."

"Well, if we go out through this door, and take a right, then a left, there's a window that we can fly out of," I informed them. "But, Nico, how are you getting out? You can't fly, right?"

"I have my ways..." He muttered. Thalia smirked, and Annabeth just rolled her eyes.

This doesn't really have much of a cliffy... Oh, well, it seems like a good spot o end. So, thanks for reading, I love you! =D

1- Nico has awesome skizzles, and because he lives in the freakin' Underworld, he has good night vision.

2- The Titans have their base on Mount Oryths, in California, and the Olympians have Mount Olympus, so she's talking about all the myths in general.

3- Bird? They're birds?

4- Well, they're certainly not demigods.

5- Do you think they're telling the truth?

6- I don't think the Nudge girl was lying.

7- In the Lost Hero, it says there were about 60 campers. In the Last Olympian, it mentions 30 Hunters. I was guessing on the nature lovers, (nature spirits like satyrs, dryads, and naiads) and I have no idea how many gods and Titans and immortals there are all together, so I guessed. (And maybe kinda exaggerated.)