A/N: Bonjour mes amis! Lol, so hi guys. Sorry this one's shorter, but I wanted to update and give you SOMETHING. Also, thanks for reading and your comments. Honestly, it makes my day that someone likes my writing- insecurities and all that xD- anyway, read on you loyal, beautiful people.
Once everyone had regained their footing, Piper sent another glare Leo's way. Leo looked utterly unruffled. Finally, he had gotten his excitement, but at a price. Everyone could see smoke still spiraling up into the sky from where the Greek fire had erupted.
"Well that was fun," Leo said bouncing around like a crazy, a huge smile on his face.
"'Fun'?!" Annabeth cried angrily.
"Yeah, Leo you could've gotten all of us killed!" Percy exclaimed.
"Again," Frank muttered.
"WHY WERE YOU CARRYING AROUND GREEK FIRE IN YOUR POCKET?!" Piper yelled scathingly.
"Um, guys," Thalia cut in shooting looks at the four people they had run into.
"Oh," said Piper regaining her senses, "We're sorry. Is everyone okay?" she asked turning on the charm speak full force.
"Yeah- yeah," one of the boys stuttered out.
A girl who looked to be his girlfriend or something glared at him, totally unaffected by Piper's charm speak. "Yes, we're quite alright," she said coldly with a slight accent.
"What were you running from?" asked the other girl curiously; she also had an accent, but hers was easily identifiable as British.
"There was an explosion, obviously. I don't know one of the gas lines must have erupted or something!" Piper exclaimed sounding genuine and a bit as if she was going into shock. Having her charm speak and Tristan McLean for a dad gave her exquisite acting abilities, so the rest of the group backed off and let her work her magic on the mortals. Thalia had called up some Mist to shroud them as well- you never knew how reliable children of Aphrodite are, even if it was Piper.
Something strange was going on with the people they had run into though. The boys seemed a little confused, but not like they were completely buying Piper's story. The looks they were giving the group suggested that they believed the story to an extent, but not enough to walk away and stop interrogating them.
"Look," Leo said getting fed up with how difficult they were being, "If you want to know what happened just go over there and look- though I don't advise getting too close."
The blonde girl with purple highlights and a British accent raised an eyebrow at his tone. Dang this guy is impatient. She thought amusedly, you'd think we were interrupting the most fun he's had in months. She looked as if she were gazing off into the distance, her eyes glazing over before she took in a sharp breath and a hasty step back from the demigods.
"What are you?!" she asked sounding slightly scared and definitely wary.
The nine of them exchanged glances. They hadn't gotten anything weird off of these guys- they definitely weren't monsters. Maybe they were just mortals with the ability to see through the Mist? Not unlike Rachel Dare…
In those glances, they all came to the same impulsive and rather reckless decision: they would tell them what and who they were. These kids had definitely seen some crazy stuff in their lives. None of the demigods had noticed before, but all of them looked warily and tiredly at the explosion, not like scared or even curious normal teens should. There was something off about them, for sure.
"What do you know about mythology?" Percy inquired, none of the demigods knowing quite what they were about to get themselves into.
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