The gods shrunk down to human size and the half-bloods sat on couches , though the Romans and Greeks were still sitting separately much to Percy's chagrin.

Everyone looked at Percy expectantly, "Right, so for this story I am going to need Grover and Annabeth's help because they were my fellow questers, you guys good with that?"

"I'm good with that," Grover said with a smile.

"Sounds good Seaweed Brain," Annabeth gave him a smile.

Percy took a deep breath and smirked, "Once upon a time-" Everyone yelled, "PERCY!" "Jeez, no one has a sense of humor. Right, so my story in the world of the gods begins when I was on a field trip to a museum with a display on Greek and Roman culture."

"That sounds exciting," Annabeth commented, while others rolled their eyes.

"Actually at the time it was rather torturous," He received a glare from Annabeth for that. "But the teacher that was leading the tour did a good job to keep everyone entertained, Mr. Brunner."

"Isn't that Chiron's field name?" Athena asked.

"It is," Percy replied. "Anyways, Chiron made the field trip somewhat less torturous as well as my best friend Grover," Percy nodded his head in Grover's direction.

"A faun?" Octavian asked. "What can a faun do?" Many Romans nodded along with Octavian.

"I'm a satyr and satyr can sense half-bloods by their scents so they are often sent to schools around the country to find them and bring them to Camp Half-Blood to keep them safe," Grover replied.

The Romans looked shocked at that. Fauns were just nuisances in New Rome.

"Anyways Chiron wasn't the only teacher on the trip, there was also a Mrs. Dodds," Nico scrunched his eyebrows together at that and then his eyes widened. He remembered Percy calling Alecto, Mrs. Dodds on a number of occasions. "I had been kicked out of every school I went to for various reasons, whether it was because I accidentally shot a war cannon at a bus or hit the wrong lever at the aquarium thus releasing the sharks…"

Everyone laughed for a few minutes as Percy smirked, "So many kids were bullies and one instance was when Grover and I were eating lunch by a fountain one girl purposely spilled her lunch on Grover's lap," Grover made a face at this, while many people looked furious at this. Thalia said, "You better have gotten your revenge Percy!" He smirked and continued, "It happened so quickly, but when I later analyzed it I realized that the water had grabbed Nancy and she landed in the fountain."

"Nice!" Thalia said and gave Percy a high five.

"Yes, but of course Mrs. Dodds saw it so I knew I was going to get punished. Grover tried to stick up for me, but it didn't work," The two boys gave each other small smiles. "She led me into the museum which just so happened to be empty, she asked me whether I had 'it' I of course had no idea what she was talking about, then she started talking about suffering less pain, that freaked me out but not as much when she turned into a Fury."

"A FURY!" Everyone yelled. "I thought your first monster was the Minotaur!"

"No, that was my second monster, now I thought I was going to die, I had no weapons to defend myself until Chiron comes in with a pen," Percy looked up at his dad who was smirking, while the Romans were wonder what was so special about a pen. "When I took off the cap of the pen it turned into a bronze sword." Percy then brought out his sword to show them. "Right, so the pen turned into a sword, which stunned me so I almost dropped it, but then the sword felt so right in my hand so I naturally swung it when the Fury came at me and she exploded into gold dust."

It was silent for a moment until Hades spoke up, "You defeated one of my Furies in one swing?"

"Yeah, didn't she tell you?"

"No, she just came back ranting about revenge against that Jackson child," Hades replied.

Annabeth replied, "Now it makes sense."

Athena looked at her daughter, "What do you mean?"

"Oh, nothing…it will come up later I'm sure," Annabeth replied.

To save Annabeth from further questioning Percy continued with his story, "Of course Chiron and Grover used the Mist so I thought I was going crazy the rest of the school year.

Percy looked at Grover who nodded, "Well Grover and I decided to take a bus to the city, but our bus broke down."

"Rotten luck," Thalia injected.

Grover and Percy gave her nervous smiles, "Anyways, our bus was parked across from a fruit stand with three old ladies knitting a large sock," Everyone in the room froze at the mention of three old ladies knitting. Poseidon and Annabeth were looking at Percy to make sure he was still there. "Grover immediately knew who they were and I think subconsciously I did too, but for some reason my feet were rooted to the spot, so it was only when they brought out their scissors to cut the electric blue string I was able to move."

Everyone was silent in the Throne Room letting that sink in for a moment.

Percy continued, "Of course later I learned that it wasn't even my string…" Everyone glared at him for freaking them out. "Grover had me promise to wait for him," Grover glared at him. "But I kind of broke that promise."

"Yes, you did!" Grover glared again, while others were looking at him in exasperation.

"He was freaking be out though! Whispering about how they never make it past 6th grade and such!" Many nodded and so Percy straightened. "Anyways I came home, well home is lightly putting it when my mom married Gabe," Everyone looked at him strangely. "My mom only married Gabe to cover my half-blood scent. He was a bit of a jerk to say the least, but I put up with him so that I could go to Montauk," He shared a knowing glance with his father.

Everyone looked at the two curiously, "Montauk is where my mom met my dad and where the two of us would go every summer unless Gabe spent our cabin funds playing poker. Anyways my mom would buy lots of blue food, which was awesome," Everyone looked at him curiously. "I guess everyone is curious as to why I eat blue food?"

"YES!" It was a secret that no one, not even Annabeth knew about.

"Well, my mom and Gabe got in a fight one time about there being no such thing as blue food and so since then she went out of her way to make blue food, she's got a rebellious streak like me."

Everyone raised their eyebrows, "Streak?"

He rolled his eyes, "Okay, maybe not streak. That isn't my fault, the sea doesn't like to be restrained."

Poseidon beamed at his son, proudly while others rolled their eyes. Annabeth said, "That's like your catch phrase. Thalia and Percy looked at each other and said, "If you were to have one it would be, "Athena always has a plan."

Annabeth glared at the two while others around the room snickered.

Anyways I always my mom and I talked, but I was unwilling to tell her about what happened with Mrs. Dodds or the Fates."

"Why not?" Hermes asked

"Well for one, I didn't want our weekend to end and for another I thought it would sound stupid."

"Sally wouldn't think it would sound stupid," Annabeth said.

"I know that now, but back then I didn't, now did I?" Percy replied. No one replied. "Now, it was a dark and stormy night, I had just had a dream about an eagle and horse fighting it out on the beach with a dark voice goading them on…"

All the Greeks and the gods looked at each other, while the Romans looked confused. They hadn't known that Kronos had risen.

"Anyways I had awoken from my dream because I had heard a bellowing outside and knocking on the door, it was the first time I had seen my best friend as goat boy," Everyone laughed besides Grover.

"SAY-TER, satyr," Grover said.

"Whatever you say Goat boy," Thalia said as Grover groaned.

"To say I was shocked would be an understatement, something that I had originally been Greek mythology was standing right in front of me. My mom made me explain what happened at school right there and then pushed Grover and me into the car to take us to Camp Half-Blood which was thankfully not too far away. The only problem was that something was following us."

"I was extremely confused, while Grover was telling me that Mrs. Dodds did in fact really exist, which made me relax because I was starting to think I was insane. Then I started freaking out again because Grover told me that people were trying to kill me because of my dad which confused me when suddenly our car exploded, we had been hit by lightning."

Everyone glared at Zeus who shrunk back in his throne.

"Now, I was relatively alright, same with my mother, but Grover had taken the brunt of the explosion, so I was worried about him. My mother told me to get to the border; just Grover and me, that she couldn't cross and that confused me even more and I started getting frustrated but everything got erased when I saw what was chasing us."

Everyone took a deep breath, most of the older Greeks knew, Percy wasn't sure about the gods so he decided to rip off the band-aide, "The Minotaur."

"No!"

"So again I couldn't exactly believe my eyes because something that shouldn't exist, did exist but my mom began telling me everything she knew about it and reluctantly we separated. The Minotaur rushed towards me and just when I thought its horn was going to stab me," There was an intake of breath. "I dove out of the way," Everyone exhaled. "But then the Minotaur went towards my mother and Grover. The Minotaur picked my mother, like squeezed her and she disappeared into a cloud of gold dust."

"Man, no wonder you took on that thing straight on during the Battle of Manhattan," Will said.

"But I just visited her last week," Thalia said.

"It will be explained," Percy said to not only Thalia but to the group.

Everyone looked confused at that statement, "It will make more sense later, so I got really angry that was my mother that I thought the Minotaur had just kill so I grabbed his attention and while I had been planning on jumping out of the way again I ended up on the Minotaur's back, don't ask me how that happened because I have no clue," Percy said to the amazed looks.

"Now after bucking on the Minotaur for a minutes I got a hold of its horn and pulled with all my might,"

"Not going to happen kid," Ares said and there was a general consensus besides the Greek kids who had seen Percy carrying the horn on his first day or seen it in his cabin.

"And much to my surprise the horn snapped off," Everyone was stunned at that and didn't exactly know what to say. "So after that I fell off the Minotaur's back and my head hit a rock," Everyone winced. "I saw the Minotaur advancing and decided that hey, might as well use the horn as a weapon, so as the Minotaur approached I stuck the horn underneath its ribcage, then he exploded into gold dust."

Poseidon beamed at his son. He had heard that his son had defeated the Minotaur but never how he had done it. He was quite shocked that Percy had done it without training when Theseus had done it with years of training and the best weapons. The Romans were shocked and impressed that Percy had improvised when trying to defeat the Minotaur, while the Greeks just had looks of pride, this was nothing new to them. The gods were impressed, but also knew that Percy did other more impressive things.

Percy cleared his throat, "Right, so I was confused, upset that my mother was gone because I thought she was dead, and my head felt like it was going to split open, but I found Grover and hauled him across the border where I was met with Chiron and Annabeth."