*Chapter 10*

(Percy's POV)

The conch horn sounded as Annabeth, Thalia, Grover and I walked to breakfast. I had wanted to wait until after everyone ate and then left for their daily activities, so I wouldn't cause a big scene, but this was urgent, and I needed to talk to Chiron, now. The Romans would be coming any time today.

And, as I had suspected, as soon as we were in everyone's view, heads turned and people gasped. The place went absolutely silent. Rachel Elizabeth Dare, the Oracle and one of my close friends, actually stood up in alarm.

Then I saw Chiron, and I headed toward him quickly, dragging Annabeth along because of our still intwined hands, with Grover and Thalia following.

"Slow down!" Annabeth laughed.

Chiron was looking at all of us. I stood in front of him, Annabeth, Grover and Thalia at my side.

"Percy?" Chiron asked, uncertain.

"It's me, Chiron," I sighed. How many people were going to mistake me for a storm spirit?

Chiron was shocked. "But . . . how? Tell me what happened."

We sat down and I quickly explained, telling him everything exept two things: about Juliet being my daughter and the fact that I had a Roman sister. I guess I should be mad that Poseidon had broken his oath twice and had another kid, but the truth was, I was kind of glad. It made me feel like I wasn't alone. And not to mention Zeus had broken his oath twice, too, and sired both Thalia and Jason. Hades was the only god of the three brothers that kept his promise. Go figure.

When I was finished, he looked sincere. "Percy, I don't know about this. The Romans coming here?"

"Percy's right, Chiron. That's the reason why Hera switched Jason and Percy in the first place. To make us come together," Annabeth reminded him.

"And my brother, Piper and Leo are three of the seven from the prophecy. It means that some of the seven are Greeks, some are Roman. Were meant to defeat Gaea with each other. Or, at least, the seven half-bloods have to," Thalia said.

I thought to myself for a few moments in silence while Annabeth, Grover and Thalia talked to Chiron. So there's Sarah and myself, Thalia and Jason, and Nico. Five kids in all of the Big Three. How did we go from there being four to there being five? Well, actually three.

Nico's sister Bianca, a hunter of Artemis and a daughter of Hades, had died a few years ago on a quest with me, Thalia, Zoey(a huntress that had also died) and Grover to save Annabeth and Artemis from the clutches of Atlas and Luke, a son of Hermes that had sacrificed himself to save Olympus. I couldn't say Annabeth and I had walked away unmarked from the experience, either. We both still had a gray strip in our hair from holding up the sky, which had been so painful it felt like being smashed under a thousand trucks.

If Jason -a Roman- Piper and Leo were three of seven in the prophecy, the there's four more to go. Two may be Roman and two may be Greek, none of us knew, but either way, we were going to win, or we were going to go down trying.

Annabeth nudged me in the ribs, probing me away from my thoughts. "Percy, tell us."

I was confused. "Tell? Tell you what?"

"About whatever your not telling us," she said.

"I did. I told you everything," I lied. I hoped my face didn't give me away.

Apparently it did, or Grover could feel it through our link, because he said, "Percy, there is. Something big. I can tell when your lying, you know."

I thought it over. If I tell them about Juliet now, without her actually here as proof, they'll bound to think i'm lying. And not to mention how ballistic Annabeth will be if I told her now, two weeks later after me finding out first. But if they know about my sister then they'll have to believe that, at least.

I took a deep breath. "Okay . . . well, I have a sister," I said, trying to sound like it was no big deal.

I saw the suprise on everyone's faces, but not total shock. I guess Zeus having a Roman kid and a Greek kid kind of wore off the amount of suprise of me having a Roman sibiling, too.

"She's only seven. Her name is Sarah. And unlike most of the campers at the camp, she actually didn't try and kill me," I joked, but half-heartedly. I was actually being pretty honest.

Annabeth squeezed my hand and Grover clapped me on the back. "It's alright, dude. It's not your fault that your dad never told you you had a Roman sister. It's not the first time the gods have kept stuff from us, is it?" Grover said. I laughed. "It's tough there. I don't know how Jason could live like that. One mistake and you get used for sword practice. Lucky i'm invincible, huh?" I said.

Grover and Annabeth laughed. Chiron even smiled, but Thalia didn't laugh or even crack a smile.

"Okay, moving on from my brother," she said coldly. All the laughter died away quickly. Annabeth looked worriedly over at her.

"Thalia, are you okay? We were just kidding. Really, we didn't mean to offend you or Jason." She kicked me and Grover under the table.

"Um, yea, Thalia, sorry. Really. We didn't mean Jason when we said the Romans were cruel and mean," Grover apoligized. Thalia looked at me. "Well, Seaweed Brain?" I didn't answer though, because she was giving me her death glare, and because only Annabeth can call me 'Seaweed Brain.' It mad me mad when other people said it.

"Hello? Percy? Can you hear me, or are your ears full of kelp?" Thalia said, getting angrier by the minute. So was I, and thats when my ADHD started going into overdrive, making me say things that would probably get us at each other's throats, though it's not like that was hard to.

I glared back at her. "What's it to you, Pinecone face?" I said coldly, my eyes narrowing.

Thalia stood up. So did I. "Take it back, Kelp face," she said.

"Make me, Lightning fingers," I shot back.

Annabeth stood up, too. "Stop it, the both of you. You two can't even be around each other a day without fighting. Percy, say your sorry. Thalia, cool it, because he didn't mean it."

I was still heated up, angry and prepared to fight, so when I snapped, "just stay out of it, Wise Girl," at Annabeth I immediately felt bad.

I saw the hurt clear on her face and I tried to calm down, for her, feeling guilty. "Annabeth . . . I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. Thank you for trying to help." I didn't want to risk taking her hand in case she didn't forgive me so easily for snapping at her. I turned to Thalia. "I'm sorry, okay? I'm cranky when i'm tired. I didn't mean to offend Jason or the Romans."

Thalia's and Annabeth's shoulders relaxed from the tension.

"I'm sorry I snapped at you," Thalia said.

"Well, I think it is time for a meeting, since Percy is back now. Thalia, you can be the leader for the hunters, since Jason is head for Zues's cabin," Chiron said.

Thalia nodded. "Okay, I'll go tell them." She got up, and I did too, falling into step with her. By now breakfast was over, and the space was cleared out except for the four of us, but I still hoped our voices wouldn't carry. "Thalia . . . I really am sorry. I didn't mean-about Jason, you know, because he's Roman-"

She looked at me. "It's okay. It's been three weeks since i've been with him again since when we were little. Thats the reason I ran away, you know."

I stared at her. "You mean, you were with Jason when you were little? So, your mom, and Zeus . . . "

She nodded. Zeus was the one to make the pack between his brothers to have no more kids, and he goes and has two. With the same woman. Yeah, thats fair, considering that he had wanted to blast me to ashes for being born.

"Yeah. Zeus went back to her a second time, but in his Roman form. Jason was born, and everything was fine, despite the fact that my mom was a drunk. Then Zeus left a second time, and it made my mom, well, she didn't handle it too well. We were at this park, and I had left for something in the car, but when I came back, Jason was gone and my mother was crying," she said.

"Jeez, Thalia, that really stinks," was all I could say, and it really did. I couldn't imagine what I'd do if I had my sister taken from me when we were little. Run away like Thalia did? Probably not. I couldn't do that to my mom, though. Thalia's mom had died in a car accident after Thalia had run away, making Thalia feel guilty about it ever since.

"Yeah, then after I ran away I met Luke, we eventually found Annabeth hiding, waiting to ambush monsters and people with a hammer." she laughed, and I laughed too, imagining a seven-year-old Annabeth nailing some random guy in the head with a hammer.

By then we were at the cabins. We went into each one, telling the head counsilors about the meeting, and when they saw I was back girls gave me hugs and the guys clapped me on the back.

In the next ten minutes we were all around the ping-pong table, where we have our usual meetings. Since I've been gone, nothing's changed much, besides the fact that everyone was so tense. Clarisse was sitting with her muddy boots on the ping-pong table, Connor Stoll was trying to light a ping-pong ball on fire, Thalia was beside Annabeth, who was beside me, our hands intwined and on top of the table for everyone to see, with Grover on my other side. Rachel was here too. She smiled and waved once at me, and I grinned back.

I also noticed three new kids on the opposite side of the table. One had blond hair with blue eyes, like Thalia's, and a tiny scar on his upper lip: Jason, Thalia's brother. Other then his eyes, he looked nothing like Thalia. Beside Jason, a girl with a short haircut and a snowboarding jacket sat very close beside him. Piper, probably. She looked very different for a child of Aphrodite, I observed. Not the makeup wearing, girly looking type at all. Pretty, but from naturalness. I can see why Jason might be into her. Beside Piper was a guy with a dark tan, dark hair and a smile that instantly says, troublemaker. Leo, son of Hephaestus. Plus, it was kind of obvious by the way he would build something quickly with stuff from his pockets and then take it apart just as quick. It reminded me sadly of Beckendorf, so I quickly looked away.

"All right, let the meeting begin," Chiron said.

Everyone was quiet. "Well then, we have a slight problem. As you all know, Percy is back safely, so there's no need for us to go to the Roman camp. However-" But he was inturrupted by a familiar voice calling, "Percy!" I looked back, and couldn't help but smile and get up.

Tyson, my cyclops brother, was running towards me, his big brown eye welling up with tears.