The screen popped up and everyone saw a weird room. They saw a kid they had never seen before eating at the table. Hephaestus paused the video when Nico came up to him and tipped a couple things, he then restarted it and saw the kid shift into… Percy. Everyone gasped
"Percy's been wearing a glamour for over 4 years" Nico explained
They looked back to the screen and saw another kid, Nico they realized, come into the room holding who they could only assume was Sarah, Percy turned as soon as Nico was in the room and they heard him start talking
"Percy, you know you're going to need someone to look after her when you go to the Norse, Will and I will have our hands full with the helpers" Past Nico said
"What are the helpers?" Present Artemis asked
"They are sort of like the hunters but with no immortality or criteria, Helpers go out every week and try to get as many demigods or magicians and bring them back to base, after that at the end of the month we get all the kids together and we ask them if they want to stay or go to camp. When the war started we started keeping all the kids together because the camps were abandoned"
"Yes, but the way you talk the kids that stay have a special fate," Athena commented
"Not really, if they don't like it they can leave for camp as well but the kids that stay start training to become helpers as well, Will and I were the teachers for fighting and Healing while we lived there, when the war started the senior, the oldest, took charge and are still running the place"
"Who started it?" Dionysus asked, for once not being drunk
"Steel started the helpers," Nico said
"Can I ask who is steel?" Leo asked
"No you may not, can we continue," Nico said
Instead of an answer, Hephaestus just played the video
"Yeah, Yeah I know" Past Percy said, "You and I both know that the only spot where she'll be safe is…" He continued
"Hazel and Franks place" Nico and Percy finished together as if they had done it a thousand times
"Then why do you still ask that," Percy said making Nico hit him, hard "Do you want to start that Nicks"
Present Nico gritted his teeth at the nickname
"Don't call me that" past Nico said in the projection
"Fine" Percy said deflating
Past Sarah who was now on the floor because Nico had put her there while they talked, randomly turned on fire.
Leo looked at her as if she was his best friend before Sarah pulled out another fireball and juggled it with both hands. Leo gulped 'there was no way he was so good at controlling it at her age, heck he was still randomly combusting when he was 10'
"Were did you get the power to do that?" asked Annabeth
"Eir" was Sarah's only response
"What or who is Eir," Carter asked (none of the magicians knows about his Norse heritage)
"Wait, Eir as in Eir the goddess of fire healing and metalwork," Sam asked
"Yes" Sarah responded
"Are you a demigod?" Annabeth asked
"No… I am a legacy and a magician" Sarah explained
"And this Eir heritage does it come from your mom or your dad's side," Annabeth asked
"Um… I think my mom" Sarah said, Percy had never told her outright that the Eir heritage came from their mom
"Annabeth, yes it comes from her mother's side" Thalia answered to be sure everyone understood. Everyone did
"So he has Greek, Egyptian and Norse ties, please don't tell me he also has Roman ties," Annabeth said
"Well, it depends on what you mean by Roman ties" Will said trying to avoid Hestia being in trouble
"I mean does he have any ancestors that were Roman," Annabeth explained
"Well we all probably do but of what we know he is not an ancestor of the Roman gods" Frank explained (Not a total lie)
"That's still a lot to take in" Piper stated, everyone had to agree with that
"And there will be more to take in shortly" They heard a voice say
Sorry, this is going to be a little less Percy centric in the next couple of chapters