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Annabeth's POV:

Great. The training instructors just had to be Empousa. Hazel had used the Mist to manipulate what the other people in the training room saw, probably just seven tributes practicing with the instructors. That was one problem taken care of. I turned to where- oh schist!

Rye was curled up in a ball, his head buried in Willow's shirt. Willow sat next to him, her eyes wide with terror. The Mist had no effect on them.

My first instinct was to get away from them, avoid them and act casual, and hopefully they would think that they were hallucinating. But I could see that they knew that we weren't normal, and what just happened had confirmed their suspicions. I don't know what I was thinking, but I walked over to them and sat down.

"Y-you k-killed the instructors!" Willow whimpered, scooching away from me.

"Willow, Rye, I can explain. We're not going to hurt you." I dropped the dagger I was holding.

"Y-you'd better."

"Okay, how much do you know about Greek myths?" I looked at the rest of the Seven. They looked at me like I was crazy, but joined me on the floor.

"Greece was a country back when Panem was called North America. They worshipped a god, no- multiple gods?" I nodded and gestured for her to continue. "And there was a story about a giant maze and a bull monster where people would be sacrificed. It was similar to the Games."

"Right. And those gods, they had children with mortals called demigods." I explained, and we told them our story. The whole story, about the Titan and Giant wars, our two camps, and how we were taken out of the past and brought to the future. It didn't sound too good coming out of our mouths, but Piper backed us up with her charmspeak.

"Th-that thing you're using in your voice right now. That's a demigod power?" Rye lifted his head.

"Some children of Aphrodite have it." She answered.

When we finished, Willow and Rye seemed to be fighting a mix of surprise, terror, disbelief, and awe.

"Th-that's not p-possible." Rye stuttered.

"But it has to be." I could almost see the gears in Willow's head as she processed this information. "That's how Sonork restarted the games, how you guys know each other and can fight so well. That's why the en-el-"

"Empousa." I supplied.

"Why the empousa attacked you. It all adds up." Willow's face chose a look of pure amazement. "That- that-"

"That's so awesome! We believe you, but darn. If that's really what's going on, you're in serious danger."

"So I'm assuming you don't want to be allies anymore."

"Are you kidding me?" Rye exclaimed, finally coming out of his shock. "That thing you just did, with the empousa, that was freaking awesome!" He turned to Percy. "Wait, if you're a son of Poseidon, are you not allowed to eat seafood?"

"Really, Rye? And to think I thought you took off after mom." Willow hit her brother.

"I think we have the Nico of the future right here." Percy laughed.

"What?! I'm sorry, by Nico, you didn't mean di Angelo, did you?" Leo voiced all of our thoughts.

I thought back to when we battled the manticore in Maine. It's hard to believe that the immature little kid is the same person as our extremely dark and antisocial friend at Camp Half Blood.

"Don't ask. But listen, you can't tell anyone about this." I think Percy was trying to sound forceful, but he was still laughing so it wasn't very convincing. Well, what do I expect from Seaweed Brain?

"Because you'll be taken out of the games if we do?" Willow guessed.

"It's not just about the games anymore, the games were set up for us. After he gives us our 'punishment', he might not stop there. Once he gets a body, he might- he will- try to take over the world. And with the gods out of the way, nothing will stop him." I replied, dread filling my voice.

"So what do we do?" Rye asked.

I locked eyes with the rest of the Seven. A wave of silent agreement passed between us.

"You train. We're going to need good fighters if we're going to take down Kronos without the gods."