AN: I'm back PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I've had a year of GCSE exams, they're British Exams that you take when you're around 16 and they're evil. But I'm done and back on fan fiction. Please don't hate me.
LEMON DROPZ won the last question so you get to choose someone to make an appearance in the story.
SCHOOLNERD, I hadn't planned on it but she just might be.
THE SEREITY OF DEATH, not sure I should tell you where abouts in Britain I live, as I haven't updated in so long and I'm slightly scared of your Username , but I live in Cornwall.
ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE QUESTIONS I HAVENT ADRESSED FEEL FREE TO PM ME IVE TURNED IT BACK ON IM 16 AND REBELLEOUS SO SUE ME PARENTS.
Again I'm So sorry for not updating, you can go ahead and read now.
In Which More Explanation Occurs:
Nick sat up on the bed, stiffly so as to not pull on all of his injuries. He looked at Leo, Jo and Harvey, and frowned, distrust pulling at his childish face (Yes Leo was allowed to say that, hey He might be twelve again, but Newbie was still younger) "Where's safe?"
Leo saw Jo glance at him out of the corner of his eye, before she addressed Newbie; Nick rather- two names were too complicated, so Leo would continue to address him as Newbie- hey he had saved the guys life- he could call him what he wanted.
"You're in New York, an apartment building down East 29th street, right by the turning to Madison Avenue." Jo bit her lip, and looked over at Harvey. They seemed to have a silent conversation. Leo had never been very good at interpreting those, though he guessed that they were deciding what to do about Newbie, in relation to what to tell Benny. Harvey stepped forward.
"You can stay here until your injuries heal, and then I guess we'll get you to M.O.N.S.T.E.R headquarters, if Leo can tell us where it is."
Newbie looked frightened, "Monster headquarters! I don't wanna go near any monsters!"
Leo groaned. "It's an acronym, Mobile Office for Neutralisation and Slaying of Threatening Evil Reprobates."
Harvey gave a week grin, "I guess whoever named it had a terrible sense of humour."
Leo almost protested. He had a perfectly fine sense of humour thank-you very much. In fact it was very much superior to most people's sense of humour. He looked toward Newbie and saw that the boy looked extremely confused. Leo stood behind Harvey and mouthed clearly in Newbie's direction "cover story". Newbie saw him and looked less confused, but then gave a massive yawn. Jo started fussing almost immediately.
"Ok, you've been hurt, you need to heal. Got to sleep-get healing. Harvey will make dinner and you can have some when you wake up, now sleep." She pushed Newbie down onto the pillow, pulled up the quilt almost over his head and dragged Harvey out of the room.
Nick immediately turned to Leo, "What in the name of all the various gods was that?"
"That was Jo my foster mom, and Harvey my foster dad, and I had to come up with a cover story for all the various demigod stuff, so, being the awesome Leo Valdez, I invented M.O.N.S.T.E.R"
"Wait, you named that!" Nick said with a small laugh, "That's got to be one of the worst acronyms ever!"
"Hey now Newbie don't laugh at my genius, now every time I have demigod friends around and we talk about monsters Jo and Harvey won't look at us funny. You may bow to my wise self later, first, what do you know about the whole children of the gods' thing?"
Nick looked down. "Not much, I know who my dad is, and a bit on how to fight, but I've been on the run about half a year since mom died, me and Cass left home at the same time. Cass was my best friend, but one night she left, she left a note, something about hunters, and how I'd be safer on my own anyway. I miss her, but she was right. Who are the hunters?"
"Right, well the hunters. They're basically, immortal, deadly, girl guides? They follow the Lady Artemis, and they hate males. So no boys in the hunt and boys have been turned into animals for even looking at the hunt. Depending on Lady Artemis's mood at the time she would have either turned you into a horrid animal or let you go for being her brother's son."
"How do you know who my dad is?"
Leo looked at Nick, blond hair, sun tanned skin, the surname Bewson, ok it wasn't Bow son, but it might as well have been. Frankly it wasn't hard to figure out who Newbie's dad was.
"It's really not that difficult. What about your injuries? Specifically that hand print. Because the guy who did that is begging for a bit of demigod fire to burn his hand off."
Newbie looked up it shock, like he was confused as to why Leo would want to defend him. "It was just a guy on the streets, I'm fine. I don't see why you'd care." Leo knew that feeling; he'd had it since his mom died, at least till he really bonded with Beauty Queen and Superman; why would anyone care for a street kid?
"Look Newbie, we're both demigods, I'm Hephaestus's son, which technically makes you my cousin, you're family, all demigods are family and we've gotta look after each other cus a lot of the time the gods won't help. I care because you're my family and so are all other demigods regardless of how screwed up some of us get; we look after each other and train each other. That's what camp's for" Leo paused noticing Newbie's look. "You've not been told about camp?"
"No"
"Well it's a safe haven, no monsters can get in and it trains you in weapons that will help you survive. Camp's where Harvey meant when he said M.O.N.S.T.E.R headquarters. We'll get you there, um I don't know if I'll stay, but I promise to get you there at least. Get some sleep Newbie, you need to recover, and no, you can't have anymore ambrosia it will burn you up from the inside, and I'm the only one who can survive that."
Leo left the room pausing to look back and grin at Newbie confused face, confusing people was such fun! Of course only confusing in a good way, confusing in a bad way was strictly reserved for enemies, and confusing himself was something Leo rarely did, or at least would rarely admit he did. He reached the lounge where Ben's program had just finished. Ben kind of reminded him of Harley, in that they were both small and occasionally sweet, although only one of them could probably beat Leo up, or at least build a machine that would.
"Hey kiddo how was school?" Leo flopped down on the couch and picked up the remote, switching to another kids channel where Tom and Jerry was on- best program ever, although how Tom wasn't dead was always a mystery.
Ben grinned at Leo. "School was amazing I made a new friend called Barney..."
"Is he a purple dinosaur?" Leo heard Harvey snort from the kitchen but Ben looked up at him with a frown.
"No, that's weird Leo, an it's rude to interrupt, Miss said so!" Leo grinned down and ruffled Bens' hair.
"You're right and I apologise, I mustn't teach you bad habits after all. Hang on, you're my little brother. It's practically my job to corrupt you, who else it going to? Now have you ever tried putting paint in the showe..."
A clearing of a throat sounded behind him, and Jo stood there with an evil gleam in her eye. Well not Fury evil; but Annabeth at her time of the month with no chocolate and when Leo had accidently soaked her with a bucket of water meant for Percy and what is she going to do to me evil. Leo knew which of the two was worse, and it didn't begin with F. Leo gulped.
"What's going on over here?"
"Nothing! We're good! Ben was just telling me about his day at school, right Ben?" Leo turned to Ben with a friendly grin, at least he hoped that's how it looked, in all honesty it was probably more likely a save me or else your mother will kill me look.
Ben grinned, "Yeah, I was saying about how my cool older brother was a superhero!"
"Good, good, I hope it stays that way. I'd hate for my son to become... Corrupted."
"Yes, yes of course, no corruption over here, absolutely no form of corruption whatsoever occurring, none at all."
Jo smiled and turned away, to join Harvey in the kitchen, turning back to say to Leo, the gleam still there. "So long as it stays that way."
Name Three Dragons in the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series.