Chapter 5

Disclaimer: You know what, I'm tired. Look at earlier chapters, it still applies here, I'm not going to rewrite it.

Oliver had just finished talking to Thea in Latin, and knew that he was going to ask her about that later in private. She knew two other languages, and had never told him. Suddenly they heard a crash from the kitchen. They heard Annabeth scream, and all stood up at once. Thea and Percy rushed into the kitchen, and Oliver could have sworn he saw swords appear as they entered. He was about to rush in to see what was wrong, when he saw a leathery wing. 'What the…'. His thoughts were interrupted as he saw Thea backed into the doorway, and empty about twenty bullets into the creature. For a second he thought that she was fire, before he realized that she had a glowing aura of red around her. He saw the gun disappear, and a sword take it's place.

As he stood there in shock, he saw Percy and Annabeth retreat from the kitchen, and could see that there were three of the creatures. Thea came jogging over and asked Sally if her and Percy could flood her kitchen, which is a weird thing to ask. They couldn't even get to the faucets from here! Not with those… monsters there. They had a conversation that seemed almost joking, and Oliver noticed that Thea's eyes had changed color from their normal brown to a ocean blue. She jogged back over to Percy, who she had a conversation with that Oliver couldn't hear over the crashing in the kitchen. Percy suddenly stepped back and gave Thea his spot, who started to hold the monsters off like an expert.

Suddenly things clicked for Oliver. He had seen people like this in Hong Kong, rambling about Greek myths and powers and how monsters were real. And about how their parents were gods and who ever had released the disease would suffer their wrath. Oliver had assumed they were going crazy because of the bio weapon, but now… Wait back up a second. Parents were gods? But that was crazy. Suddenly he saw Percy hold his hand up, and all of the faucets turned on in the kitchen, and the water formed a wall between Thea and the monsters. Oliver gulped. Not that crazy. He knew magic existed, but this was ridiculous. Constantine had used words and items, not just gestured and moved things with his mind. Thea stepped back exhausted. He could see that Percy was having some trouble though. He watched Thea tease him, and him glare back. Thea gave an eye roll, and stepped back from Percy. As she lifted her hands, all of the water in the room rose. Oliver didn't expect this. Sure, Percy he could believe… he didn't know the kid. But he had known Thea his whole life. She sent the water into the kitchen and trapped the monsters in a whirlpool, where they disintegrated… and started to reform. Could they not die?

She shouted at Annabeth to get Oliver and Sally out of there. Which Oliver decided wasn't going to happen. Not when his sister was in danger. He saw Percy make a rainbow, and then throw a coin in. Somebody's face popped up, a pale boy who looked surprised to see Percy. Oliver's attention returned to his sister, who was looking at him with an annoyed expression. Suddenly he felt something hard hit him on the back of his head, and, knowing a normal person would be knocked out by it, pretended to slump down, unconscious. But really he watched everything else happen through a slit in his eyes. The pale boy appear, the fact that his sister's eyes were now a startling sea green, and him get dragged out of the room and into an alleyway by Annabeth and Sally. As soon as they reached the entrance, he sat up rigid, and swept Sally's feet out from under her. He could tell she wasn't a fighter. He didn't want to face the girl though, on the chance she could beat him. From what he had seen from Thea, it was very possible. He ran deeper into the alleyway, which he quickly scaled the wall of and took off running over the rooftops. He pulled his phone out.

"Diggle! Get Felicity and Roy, fly down to the airport I had a flight on, bring all of the arrow stuff. I will explain when you get here, and nobody is allowed to contact my sister. Ok?" Diggle could hear that Oliver was running hard, and knew to ask questions later.

"When do you want us to be there?"

"As soon as possible Diggle. I'll meet you there." Oliver responded, and ended the call.

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Oliver watched Diggle walk through the airport with Felicity, Roy and Sara in tow. Sara surprised him, she hadn't been there when he had left. She spotted him, and took the lead, the group making their way over to him without being obvious. As they met up with Oliver, he took the lead without a word, and they followed him to his hotel room, placed about a block away from the airport. He locked the door, then turned to face his group. They all sat there, patiently, waiting for him to tell them what was going on. They knew he wouldn't of called them without a good reason, and knew that they couldn't make him talk. Sara broke the silence, when she felt that it had gone on too long. "What are we doing here Ollie?" she asked. He felt obligated to answer, considering nobody knew she was alive and flying with a fake I.D. was always a risk.

"You guys may want to sit down. This is going to take a while, and you probably won't believe me. Then Oliver explained everything that had gone on over the past few days, telling them exactly what he had seen, and what he had seen in Hong Kong. He didn't tell them what he thought, just gave them the facts, so they could come to their own conclusions. Sara was once more the first to break the silence.

"So, the most shocking part about this, for me is that your sister is only your half sister, and that she's a demigod. I already knew about the myth part." Oliver gave her a surprised look.

"How? The league?" She shook her head, looking more nervous than he had seen her in a while.

"Yes and no. I know about this because I'm one of those demigods too." Everybody in the room was staring at Sara now. "What? It's not something I advertise. What would you have thought if I'd come up to you and said, 'Hey, how are you today? By the way Greek myths are true and my mom's the goddess of wisdom!' You would of thought I was crazy!" Oliver could see her point.

"So, do you know about who these people are then?" Sara shook her head.

"I only found out about my parentage once I was in the league. Another member recognized me as a demigod and explained everything to me. I didn't see any point in mentioning it once you'd found out I was alive. It didn't affect anything." Oliver sighed. This day was not going well at all.

"Who's Thea's dad then?" Roy asked. Everybody in the room stared at him now.

"Hey, I don't know a thing about Greek myths, just that they exist."

"My guess would be Poseidon, considering the water controlling. I mean, he is the god of water, right? I may be thinking of something else, I'm not that familiar with Greek myths." Diggle said.

"You're right." Sara confirmed.

"Even though I still can't believe that this is real though. I mean, Greek gods?" Diggle continued.

"And monsters." Sara reminded him.

"Why hasn't this been on the news then? I mean, if there are monsters are flying around, why hasn't anyone reported them?" Roy asked.

"Because most people can't see them." Sara said. Everybody gave her confused looks.

"The Greek world is protected by something called the Mist. It keeps almost everybody but demigods from seeing what's really there. Sometimes it even fools demigods." Sara took a breath, then continued speaking. "The reason you can see it, Oliver, is because of a rare ability that non-demigods have, called sight. It means you can see through the Mist, and that most demigods see you as a threat."

Everybody was silent now. "How many different gods are there?" Roy asked. Sara shrugged.

"I don't know. Hundreds, probably more." She looked at everybody's shocked faces. "There is a god for pretty much everything."

"So what do we do now?" Oliver asked, drawing everybody's attention back to the problem at hand.

"Do you think Thea will try to track you down?" Sara asked Oliver.

"Probably. Should we just wait for her to find us?" Oliver asked. Everybody seemed surprised by this. "I don't want to be a sitting duck anymore than you guys do, but if we let Thea find us how much time it takes and who she brings with her will let us gauge what resources she has." Nobody seemed like they wanted to agree, but it did make sense.

"Felicity, you should probably be the person doing anything outside of the apartment. Sara is supposed to be dead, she knows Diggle is my bodyguard, Roy is her boyfriend, and she's looking for me, so you would be the least likely to draw her attention." Felicity nodded.

"Do we need anything now?"

"No, let's just sit tight." Sara responded. Oliver nodded his agreement.

So there's a new chapter! Nothing new is going to come out until at least next weekend, so I had about five hundred more words then usual.

Happy Reading!

-Leia Kasta