A/N: Woohoo! Chapter sixteen, people! I have been waiting to put this one up for a long time, and I have a feeling you guys have been waiting for this one for a long time. Thank you to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and followed. I don't really have anything else to say and Ranger seems to be MIA for now, so I'll let you go read. Enjoy!

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Team Flash and I stood expectantly in the breach room, waiting for my friends to come through. The breach they created had been strangely reluctant to open fully, but it finally did.

Annabeth was in the lead, landing lightly on her feet before coming over to kiss me. "Took you long enough, Seaweed Brain."

"We were...occupied," I responded with a smile. We shifted so that my arm was around her shoulders.

Hazel was next, her golden eyes glowing slightly in the light from the breach. She glanced around the room somewhat shyly before smiling at me and coming over to stand by Annabeth and I. Then came Piper. She gave Team Flash a two-fingered mock salute, her kaleidoscopic eyes hopping from one color to the next and joined us off to the side of the platform. For some reason, Piper was followed by an Australian Shepherd, which I assumed was Frank.

Sure enough, Frank morphed back into a human, a thoroughly embarrassed expression on his face. In explanation, he merely said, "Breach travel is weird."

Jason was next to come through, with his glasses folded onto the neck of his shirt. Leo was the last one through the breach. As usual, his hair was smoldering.

"Guys," I started, turning to Team Flash, "you remember Annabeth."

"No," HR and Jesse responded in unison.

I glared at them and they all took a minuscule step back. "Well, this is my girlfriend, Annabeth," I introduced. Then I pointed to each of my friends in turn. "That's Piper, Jason, Hazel, Frank, and Leo."

As everyone waved, Leo snorted, "Typical. Put Leo at the end of the list. Just because Calypso isn't here right this second-"

Jason rolled his eyes tolerantly. "Give it a rest, would ya? We get it. You're the very-much-in-a-relationship-not-a-seventh-wheel guy."

Iris frowned worriedly. "Um, Leo, was it?" As Leo gave her a fake bow, I noticed that he had allowed the fire on his head to spread so that the tiny flames licked about half of his scalp. "Um, you do know that your hair is on fire, right?"

Leo frowned and waved off her concern. "Nah, that can't be right. I would've felt something." He put a hand to his head, patting the flames. "AAAAAAAHHH!" he screamed as fire raced up his arm. I rolled my eyes at his antics and exchanged exasperated glances with the rest of the seven. I turned to Team Flash, expecting similar reactions, but their faces were pure pictures of terror. Oh. Right. I didn't tell them about Leo's fire powers.

As Leo continued to scream and fell to the floor, nothing more than silhouette in flame, Barry rushed in with a fire extinguisher and sprayed the whole thing on Leo. That did absolutely nothing. Leo kept burning and screaming until he finally lost his composure.

He lay flat on the floor, laughing like a maniac. The expressions on the faces of the members of Team Flash were priceless.

I sighed. "I probably should've told you who our parents were before." I pointed to each of my friends again. "Daughter of Athena, son of Jupiter, daughter of Aphrodite, son of Mars, daughter of Pluto, and the pyromaniac on the floor is the son of Hephaestus. He has control over fire, so..."

Everyone still looked pretty shell-shocked, so I ignored them. However, I did notice out of the corner of my eye that they turned to each other and started talking quietly.

Leo finally pushed himself up off the floor as I turned back to the rest of the seven. "Where's Nico? I thought he was coming with you guys."

"Oh, we sent him on ahead a couple days ago," Hazel said with a careless wave of her hand.

Almost like background music, I heard snatches of Team Flash's conversation. Iris's voice stood out, saying, "Are we sure having them here is a good idea?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Woah, I just got permission to bring you guys over here like, ten minutes ago."

Annabeth cocked her head and gave me her patented Oh-really-would-you-like-me-to-kill-you-now look. "I thought you got permission three hours ago."

I laughed nervously, rubbing the back of my neck. "Well, I got permission, just not three hours ago. And what exactly is Nico exploring? This earth is literally a copy of ours, just without the gods and with metahumans."

Frank shrugged. "He offered to take the luggage over ahead of time."

"Who's Nico?" Joe asked suspiciously. I guess Team Flash finished their little impromptu conference.

"He's a friend of ours," Leo answered for me. "Son of Hades."

Caitlin frowned. "Wait, why are some of you the children of Roman demigods and some of you Greek?"

We all sighed.

"It's complicated," Jason finally answered.

"Why did you bring children of the death god here?" Cisco asked.

Hazel blushed and looked down at her feet, embarrassed. The rest of us immediately whipped our heads in Cisco's direction and glared at him. I saw him swallow hard and take a small step back under the intensity of our stares.

"Hazel and Nico have been essential parts of quests to save the world many times," Annabeth said in a dangerously low voice. "You're lucky Hazel here has a better temperament than her brother. Nico might've summoned a bunch of zombies just for that."

I barely repressed my smile. "I don't know about that. Nico has certainly seemed...sunnier recently."

The rest of the seven laughed, but Team Flash just frowned and looked at each other in confusion.

Barry stepped forward slightly, still maneuvering his right shoulder carefully. "As much as I would love to get to know your friends, Percy, I've got to get going."

"Right," I sighed. "We're kinda in the middle of something."

Annabeth narrowed her eyes as she looked at Barry. "You shouldn't go anywhere. Your shoulder's broken. And I'm guessing your accelerated healing has been focusing on that, so your ribs are still bruised. Not to mention that whack to the head you took. How'd that happen, by the way?"

Jesse looked taken aback. "How do you know all that?"

Annabeth blushed and I squeezed her shoulder. "My Wise Girl's a genius, obviously." She looked at me gratefully.

Nico suddenly shadow-traveled into the room, melting out of nowhere. "I sense death," he proclaimed grimly once he was fully formed.

Cisco screamed a high-pitched scream as he whirled to face the son of Hades.

I sighed. "Every time, Nico."

"No, seriously," Nico insisted. "Either someone in here has died before or is marked for death in the near future." He frowned, like he was listening intently for something. "Maybe both."

Piper chuckled. "I highly doubt anyone in here has died before."

Barry bit his lip. "Well…"

I stared at him. "You're kidding." He shook his head no. "Why didn't you people text me or something?"

"Relax," Cisco pacified. "It was only for like, twenty-four hours."

I thought for a second. Then I realized why Nico sensed death. "Oh." I glanced furtively at Iris. "Um, this is awkward."

The rest of Team Flash seemed to get what I was talking about, but my friends looked confused.

Barry started fidgeting until he finally spoke up. "Seriously guys, I have to go."

"Well, good luck with whatever you're doing," Annabeth said.

"I have a feeling I'll need it," Barry muttered.