New chapter! Ok, so no new people this chapter, just some random stuff, but enjoy it anyway!

While the younger demigods went to bed, the futures stayed up a while longer and talked. Mostly it was the Greeks asking what had happened to Percy the past 8 months. So he told them. He woke up a couple months ago in the Wolf House, was trained by Lupa, and made his was to Camp Jupiter. He was going to avoid details because he didn't want Annabeth to worry, but then Frank had to open his big mouth and mention the gorgons.

He could really kill Frank right now.

Percy's POV

Annabeth freaked a little, ok, I know she worried what with me just disappearing for 8 months and all that, but she knows I can take care of myself.

I sighed and glared at Frank, who just looked back at me innocently.

Huh.

Didn't know the guy had it in him, of course, its not like I've known him for very long, still.

I sighed again and turned to face Annabeth, dimly hearing everyone else snickering in the background. They all knew that look, it was the look that said, "Perseus Jackson, tell me what happened now."

It didn't help any that she was fingering her knife like she was debating using it if I didn't tell her. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. It's happened and it wasn't fun. Will in particular found it hilarious though, which I found to be... out of character for the healer.

I sighed and told my CHB friends all about how I got to Camp Jupiter, from when I left the Wolf House, to meeting the Gorgons in Bargain Mart, to the sea-snake somewhere in California, to then being chased by the Gorgons all the way to camp.

When I mentioned the rash of car thefts I left behind me, the Stolls started crying about how their "little boy was all grown up."

Needless to say, Annabeth was not happy about that comment.

When I got around to the part where I carried Juno into camp, purposefully leaving out my sledding idea, Annabeth was soooooo not happy. She already hated Hera BEFORE this whole mess of Hera kidnapping me. Now...

Frank and Hazel picked up the story after I told how I crossed the road, telling about how Hazel held them off and collapsed the tunnel while me and Frank ran for the river, when Frank told of how he was caught at the river, but I saved him by controlling the river, he sounded so amazed that the Greeks laughed.

"Frank, controlling water is a Poseidon thing, you get used to it after a while. But, I guarantee it that everyone at Camp Half-Blood looked and sounded exactly the same when Percy first showed us his powers the day he arrived." Annabeth explained when he looked confused.

When she was done speaking, all of us who had been there for the bathroom incident cracked up, well, except for Clarisse.

"You know, I think that's the last time Clarisse tried to initiate newbies..." Connor said thoughtfully, then we started cracking up over the Romans confused looks. I figured they thought we were losing what little of our minds we had left.

Clarisse just scowled at us, oops, I guess she's still not over that. All these years later too... I guess holding grudges isn't just a Hades thing.

Speaking of Hades... "Oh, I forgot to tell you guys, I'm free of the Curse."

I think I heard crickets, if, you know, there had been crickets in the room.

Their reactions were priceless though. While the Romans freaked out a little, demanding to know what curse, the Greeks were celebrating. None of them had been very happy when I told them about my latest Underworld trip, so they were all happy I was free of that dumb thing. Apparently I freaked them out when I collapsed from exhaustion after the Battle of Manhattan.

Can you blame me though? The dumb curse made everything harder. Trust me when I say, invincibility is overrated.

Finally, Annabeth got the others quiet enough to ask me how.

I grinned, "Since its a Greek "blessing," and I was entering Roman territory, the Little Tiber washed it away."

Annabeth opened her mouth to say something, probably to question how the Achilles Curse was a blessing, when my mom came over and shooed us all to bed. I didn't want to go, but she promised no blue cookies in the morning if I didn't go. I was the first one to bed, and I heard the other Greeks laughing about that fact as they walked to their own rooms. I don't care though, I mean, mom's cookies! They know exactly how amazing they are so I don't even want to hear it from them.

Meanwhile, with the gods...

The gods had all drifted to their own areas of the Palace, some of them may have their own palaces elsewhere, like Poseidon and Hades, but they all had rooms in the Zeus's palace just in case they needed to stay over for something.

When Poseidon, Amphitrite, and Triton got to their rooms, Poseidon tried to get away from the talk he was sure was coming, but didn't move fast enough.

Amphitrite grabbed his arm and pulled him over to the couch, then her and Triton stood in front of him, watching and waiting for him to crack under the pressure of an "angry" wife and annoyed son.

She wasn't really angry, not anymore. She had been watching Sally, saw how the mortal interacted with her son and the other demigods, saw the looks Percy gave her; it was quite clear to her how she had caught Poseidon's eye and honestly, she didn't blame him. She just wanted him to think she was still angry. Call it the wife's prerogative.

Triton, on the other hand, yeah, he was kinda annoyed that his father had cheated on Mother, again, thought Percy was a pretty cool guy. Everyone from the future certainly seemed to look up to him, even the Romans. And Rome never liked his father, in fact, he would have to say they tolerated him slightly better than they did Minerva. And to say they didn't like her was the understatement of the century. Only that Jupiter kid seemed to not like Percy. That's probably just a 'son the King of the gods' thing though.

Finally, Poseidon couldn't stand the two of them standing there staring at him and nervously demanded Amphitrite to say something.

"You know, I was angry, I'm still annoyed by this all, but... I think I can kind of understand how you were attracted to this mortal. That doesn't mean I'm happy about it, and if you ever do this again you are dead, but..." Amphitrite trailed off. Poseidon just stared at her. She... understood? He wasn't expecting that, he was expecting a lecture and shouting, not... understanding. It didn't surprise him that she wasn't happy, but he was not expecting her to say she understood. Nervously he looked at his oldest son.

Triton caught his look and said, "I think Percy is pretty cool, of course, I'm not too happy either that you cheated on Mother again, but I like him. He seems like a cool little bro."

Poseidon was floored. They weren't nearly as angry as he thought they would be, they were way too understanding.

But, isn't this what he wanted for Percy? For his immortal family to accept him? Poseidon never expected them to like him of course, he was the product of two broken oaths, the oath to never have children again and his marriage oaths... ok yeah, maybe being with Sally wasn't using his best judgement. But, they were understanding! This was more than he could have ever imagined. Maybe this whole reading thing wouldn't be so bad after all.

He didn't let any of his excitement show through though, instead he just grinned and suggested they all go to bed.

Hera and Zeus...

Hera didn't speak to Zeus all night, while she was starting to maybe, kinda, warm up to and start to like her step-children, she had an image to uphold. She was the goddess of marriage, and the man she was MARRIED to, couldn't keep his MARRIAGE vows for nothing. Not to mention the oath to not have more demigod children after WWII. On principle, she didn't like demigod children, especially demigod children of her husband. So, while on the inside, she liked these children, she couldn't show it, although it did irk her to no end that both of them had the same mother, I mean, come on! She didn't care that one was Greek and the other Roman, that was a technicality, and nobody cared for technicalities anymore.

Zeus just took his wife's silence in stride, he knew he should probably say something, but let's face it. This was his wife he was talking about. He may be the king, but the saying 'don't poke the sleeping tiger' was very accurate, it didn't matter who you were. He was just glad he would have hearing when he woke up, that woman could yell.

Hades and Persephone...

Persephone didn't really care that Nico and Hazel were there, after all, those two were born back during WWII, they weren't new. A fact that she knew the other Olympians would be very surprised at, is that her husband is the only one to have kept that blasted oath, especially since he never wanted to make it himself. Besides, while she may not appreciate that those two were born because of her husband cheating, she had to admit that those two were probably her favorite of all her husband's demigod children.

Hades was still trying to understand what events happened for Hazel and Nico to be there. Nico, he could understand, he was just in the Casino with his sister. Speaking of his Bianca, wonder why she isn't here... hmmm. He'll ask Nico later. No, what surprised him was Hazel's presence. After all, the girl is dead. Now, if it weren't for the fact that the Romans and his nephew all knew her, he would assume that the Fates had brought her here from the Underworld, but they all know her as if she were alive. What could have possibly happened?

Not that he's complaining about his daughter being alive, he's definitely not. But there are rules, laws older than he is governing life and death. The fact that she was alive again made him fear for the future.

By the time 10 o'clock rolled around, all the demigods were up except for the older Greeks. Even Leo and Piper were up. The Romans were up earlier despite the fact that they were up just as late due to their training. They trained themselves to rise at 8 o'clock sharp everyday regardless of what time they went to sleep.

For those futures who had a younger counterpart present, said younger counterpart was given the task of waking up their older selves. This was done under the assumption that nobody knows you better than yourself.

Sadly, they were all shocked at the revelation of just how heavy of a sleeper these futures were. Nothing anybody did could get them up.

Sally watched the attempts at waking the demigods up with an amused smile on her face. Finally she took pity on the kids and told them to step aside and be ready to duck, she knew how to get them up. To everybodies shock except Paul's, she walked to the center of the room and yelled, "GET UP NOW OR NO COOKIES FOR YOU!"

All them shot out of bed, wide awake, as if they hadn't been the world's heaviest sleepers seconds earlier. Everyone was shocked, especially when they all ran to the kitchens without bothering to get dressed, only for Sally to call after them that she had them on her.

Several of them pulled a 180 so fast that they fell over in their haste for cookies. Percy was the first to reach her, he grabbed the bag (leaving the younger demigods to wonder how long she had been holding that) and ran off with the other future Greeks in hot pursuit, all of them yelling something like, "Give me cookies or give me death!" Those left behind just turned and stared at Sally, wondering what just happened. In response Paul handed her another bag of cookies and she passed them out.

Those cookies were AMAZING, no wonder the futures were acting so weird at the mention of them.

When 10:30 rolled around, the future Greeks showed back up, laughing and joking about something called the Great Cookies War of Camp Half-Blood.

Percy saw his mom and gave her a thumbs-up, telling her, "excellent as always mom, next time make more though." She just grinned and winked at the younger kids.

It wasn't long before everybody was settled and ready to read, but before they could, two more readers appeared. A boy, and a hellhound.

Just a warning now, I leave for college later today. I can't really say tomorrow because it's almost 2 in the morning, but oh well.

Anyway, I will try to keep updates somewhat consistent from here on, no promises on that fact, I do promise that there will be updates, I'm not forgetting about this just because I start college.