Hey guys, I finally have gotten around to updating my neglected story. Sorry it took so long. I'll try to update more frequently! I'm bringing in more familiar faces, I hope you enjoy! I've made this chapter pretty long!

Disclaimer, I do not own Percy Jackson all rights belong to Rick Riordan

Percy woke up hours after Annabeth had gotten him back to his room. He was surrounded in darkness. The demigod wondered if he slept through the rest of the day. Or had it been night when he was last awake? He wasn't sure of anything other than the fact he was finally wide awake.

He tried to force himself back to sleep, but after lying still for so long the young teens ADHD started prickling just beneath his skin like little needles. He needed to move, do something other than nothing. Slowly he eased himself from under the silky blankets. When his bare feet touched the cool marble floor he shivered. Percy didn't know where his shoes or socks were, so he decided to walk around without them.

The hallway was a ghost zone compared to when he had been awake last. It only confirmed his suspicion that it was now night. Percy couldn't help but wonder where all of the other kids had gone. He didn't remember seeing any rooms or doors for that matter. Other than the quick trip the bathroom Percy hadn't been anywhere beyond the hallway. There had to be an exit, right? Or maybe doorway to a kitchen?

Percy's stomach growled at the idea.

The teen regretted falling asleep as soon as Annabeth had helped him back into his bed. He could faintly remember the endeared smile on Annabeth's face as she tucked the blanket up to his chin. Percy blushed when he remembered that he hadn't minded at all how much she coddled him. It was like she had two sides; one a fierce force to be reckoned with, and the other, a soft gentle hand to wipe away any worry or fever. Percy shook his head before he let his thoughts dig any deeper than that.

He was starving. It felt as if he hadn't eaten any thing in weeks, the poor teen was sure his stomach was in the process of digesting its self. Percy tried to ignore it as he walked down the now eerie and dim hallway. The lights from earlier had been all but snuffed out. Statues seemed to loom over him like tall guardians and he could faintly hear the comforting gurgling sounds coming from the fountains around him.

"Looks like we've found another late niter like us, Travis." A voice came from the shadows, but Percy couldn't make out who was out there. He could only see two lumpy shapes.

A second voice that was similar to the first chimed in, "Isn't that the new kid? The one Annie told us to not bother, what do you think brother Connor?"

Two identical teenage boys walked from the darkness in the a similar fashion to villains from a kid's cartoon. Honestly Percy had to bite back a laugh because he found the whole thing humorous. Especially considering that they hardly looked like a physical threat. He had seen bullies before and he doubted that these two were one of any kind. Though he was sure that if he had a wallet he would want to keep one hand on it and an eye on them.

Even though they both looked almost exactly the same, Percy would be able to tell them apart if he knew who was named what. Both had the same brown hair and blue eyes. Percy couldn't help but think they looked kind of impish despite their height. The twins came up to him, each slinging one of their thin arms over his shoulders. Percy refrained from wincing when one accidentally bumped his wound.

"Hello." The taller one on his left smiled. "I'm Travis, and that ugly guy to your right is Connor."

Connor pouted at the insult, but said nothing. Percy blinked, "You just called your twin brother 'ugly'."

"And?" Travis asked as if he hadn't just insulted himself too. "Anyway kid, we're the Stoll brothers."

"Stoll?" The darker haired teen asked.

Connor nodded, "Yeah, has Annie told you to avoid us yet."

"Annabeth?" Percy didn't think she had said anything about them, but he could tell these two were the pranksters. He had seen enough of them in every school. "Not yet. I haven't seen her since I fell asleep."

The two looked disappointed at first and then just as suddenly began to smile as if they had won the jackpot. Percy yelped as they seized him by the arms and whisked him farther away from his room. He didn't know what they were planning, but he was too weak to protest as they carried him along. It was almost like he weighed nothing to them. Percy began to wonder if they decided he was their next prank victim.

"Uh, guys?" Percy began as he tried to slow their relay with his bare feet. No such luck on marble.

A nerves feeling tugged at Percy's gut. He could hear some of the fountains and other structures with water start to tremble. The son of Poseidon realized that he was unwittingly calling on his powers over water. If he didn't get control back he'd expose who he was too soon. And then he wouldn't be able to see if his father would claim him. The only way Percy would know his father actually cared is if he claimed him.

Calm down Jackson, Percy scolded himself. The teen closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on the pull in his gut. How would he be able to stop it when he didn't even know how it started? Soothing thoughts, A voice told him, you're too wound up, think about a calming memory. Subdue the raging ocean within you. Percy tried to remember the last time he was calm. His thought immediately went to him spending time with his mom.

He focused on the memory of him and her baking three batches of her blue chocolate chip cookies when he was a little kid. Percy was so close, almost like he could reach out and yank a steaming blue morsel from the plate. He could almost feel her running her flower covered hand through his hair and telling him that anything was possible. Making sure he knew how special he was to her. Percy felt a tear fall as the memory slipped from his grasp.

The tug in his stomach was gone and he was sure that neither of the boys noticed anything.

"Where are we going?" Percy finally asked, the twins had dragged him around yet another corner and showed no sign of slowing down.

"You'll like it..."

"Trust us..."

Having no other choice, the green eyed teen slumped in their grip, he let them drag him to the unknown. Percy could feel his thoughts wondering to his hunger. Remembering his mom's homemade chocolate chip cookies wasn't the best idea. He knew what it was like to go without food for a night or two, sometimes Gabe decided that his hunger was more important than Percy or his mom eating, yet he couldn't even begin to describe the starvation he felt. Travis and Connor were both whispering to each other, but Percy couldn't bring himself to pay attention to what they were saying. He hardly noticed when they finally came to a stop.

"Hey newbie." Travis smirked. "We're here."

Percy saw a large dining hall in front of him. There were wooden bowls stacked with various fruits and other healthy treats. There were so many tables set up in long rows that Percy felt as if he were in the Hogwarts dining room from the movies, though the floating candles were gone, Percy did read the books when his mom gave them to him and liked them, but his dyslexia had made it a slow and painful process. The magical lights that seemed to fill the whole palace lit to a dim glow, making all of the bronze plates that lined the tables glow gold. Each table had a name engraved on the end, it looked like they were in different languages so Percy felt as if he would have no hope of reading them, but suddenly he could read them. The words were either in Greek or Latin either way he was able to tell that each of them were the name of a god.

"Wait guys!" Percy called after the twins and followed them to the other end of the room. "What are we doing in here?"

"Late night snacking." They called back in unison.

Percy caught up to the two of them, "Won't we get in trouble for sneaking around at night?"

"You're with the Stoll brothers," Connor smirked, "Expert sons of Hermes."

'Hermes' Percy thought hard to remember what he was the god of. Messing, writing, medicine, and...thieves! The two other teens with him were thieving sons of Hermes with the last name...oh that was too funny. Percy tried not to laugh, but he was failing terribly. They were the sons of the god of thieves and they had the last name Stoll! The twins looked at him as if he were the strangest person on the planet.

"He's probably crazy from hunger." Travis suggested. "You get him to shut up and I'll grab the snacks."

"I'm sorry," Percy chuckled. "It's just you're the sons of Hermes and your last name is Stoll."

"Yeah, so?" Travis asked, not getting what Percy was saying.

"Never mind." Even if they didn't understand the irony, Percy felt more at ease in that moment then he had felt in a long time.

The three teens went to work pillaging anything they could get their hands on. Fruit, chips, chocolate, you name it and they were magically pulling it out of cabinets and off of the tables. Connor explained that whatever food they thought of would magically appear onto the plates (they had an inside source who kept their night raids a secrete). Once their arms were fully stocked with goodies, the boys made their get away into the night. Though Percy knew his mom would disapprove of stealing, he didn't feel it was too heinous of a crime when the food supply was never ending.

It didn't take long for the twins to lead them to where they usually consumed their spoils. It was a bridge that was just outside of the palace. Percy had been amazed to see an exit. The bridge lead from Olympus to another small floating island where the twins said the elevator to the Empire State building was. It was the only safe way off of the large temple. The second way, well, Percy didn't think there would be anything left of him to go 'splat' on the concrete. The three of them sat with their feet dangling over the edge of the bridge, once Percy had gotten over his vertigo, he actually was enjoying himself.

"Man, maybe you are a son of Hermes." Travis smiled.

"It'd be great to have you as our brother!" Connor agreed and took a bite out of an apple.

Percy looked down at the bag of salt n' vinegar chips he held in his hands, "Yeah, it would."

He really did like the idea of being their brother, but he knew full well it was not ever going to be true. Percy was the son of the sea god. He already knew he didn't have any siblings, it was just him. Apparently, it was very rare for his dad or Zeus and Hades to have children for some reason. He never really thought to ask Annabeth why.

"I see you're up late." A familiar voice spoke. Percy was so glad that he didn't end up falling over the edge when he jumped. "Didn't Annabeth tell you two to stay away from the new kid?"

Percy looked at the speaker, it was Jason. His blonde hair was messy, blue eyes full of exhaustion, and he wore pajamas. Despite all of that, he didn't appear to be angry with them. Jason even went so far as to sit down next to Percy after snatching a snack from Connor.

"We got hungry, and we found him wandering the halls and figured he was hungry too." Connor protested and then set his hand on Percy's shoulder as if laying claim. "We call him, he's our new adopted brother."

'When did I get adopted?' Percy wondered.

Jason gave a smirk, the scar on his lip stretched, "Did you even bother to learn the name of your 'newly adopted brother'?"

"Crap." Travis began, Connor looked horrified, "He's right. New kid what's your name?"

"Percy Jackson."

"Wow!" They both smirked. "Hey Jason, you might have a brother here. He has the same name as your other brother."

"I doubt there is another living demigod like me." Jason sounded both rueful and proud, but Percy knew that Jason's bubble would be popped soon.

"Why do you think that?" Percy asked, entertaining the idea he wasn't a child of one of the big three.

"Because of the pact made years ago after World War two. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades agreed to never have any more children again, my dad slipped up twice, but I'm Roman, so it doesn't matter as much."

"Twice?"

Jason's face turned bitter and sad all at once, "I had an older sister, she and I had both the same mother and father. She was Greek though and because of the pact Hades hunted her down until she was slaughtered at Half-blood hill protecting her friends. Dad turned her into a pine tree just as she was dying. I don't remember much about her, Hera took me away when I was a baby and sent me to the Roman camp where I belonged."

"Basically any child of the big three shouldn't exist?" Percy's mouth went dry just saying that.

He wasn't supposed to be alive? All of the hunger he had felt was now replaced by an icy pit in his stomach. He wasn't a son of Zeus, would he be given as much leniency as Jason had gotten? Maybe he wasn't safe on Olympus after all, people wanted to kill him where ever he went.

"What are you boys doing up so late?"

A new person had come onto the bridge. It was a girl, a very pretty girl. She was so pretty that Percy couldn't help but gawk at her. Everything about her was perfect, perfect makeup, perfect hair, perfect smile. Her hair was dark brown and it stopped at her elbow, she had beautiful multicolored eyes, and she looked so kind as her eyes rested on him. Percy wanted to look away, but he couldn't.

"You must be Percy, Annabeth told me you were cute, but she didn't say you were this cute." Annabeth thought he was cute? Percy tried to ignore the fact that he secretly liked the idea. The pretty girl spoke again, "I'm Selena, daughter of Aphrodite."

"Hey Selena..." Travis smirked. "Am I cute?"

"With Katie." Selena began. "Why don't you ask that girl out already?"

Travis blushed and looked away from Selena as she smirked triumphantly. Percy wondered if 'Katie' was a crush of Travis, but decided not to ask while said boy was so close. Selena grabbed Percy's hand and brought him to his feet.

"I think it's time all of you boys went back to bed." As she spoke, Percy could feel a strange urge to do as she wanted wash over him. "Come on Percy, I'll take you back to your room."

The son of Poseidon didn't protest as the girl lead him away from the other teens, through the hallway and back towards the room where he had been before. He let himself sink gratefully back into the covers as Selena fussed over his messy hair and made sure he didn't have a fever from being up and around.

"You know there are easier ways to get Annie to spend more time with you than getting sick." Selena teased. Percy wanted to tell her he wasn't trying to spend more time with Annabeth, but felt like it'd come out wrong. "I'll bring you some nice clothes tomorrow, you may look hot all messy, but I think you'd be cuter all cleaned up."

Percy could feel the strange force from earlier trying to coax him to sleep. He tried to fight it, but eventually he fell back to sleep.

If it was slow I'm sorry, but I will slowly bring up intensity as I go. Please review and keep reading!