I have nothing to say except the fact that I'm sorry that I updated so late and that this story is now officially AU. Carry on reading, people!

Third Person's POV

'Percy!' Annabeth said, and over-dramatically, jumped into his waiting arms. 'How are you?'

'Annabeth?' he asked, looking bewilderedly over her shoulder where two girls were giggling their heads off. 'What's wrong? Why are you behaving like a lunatic? And who's the girl with Thalia?'

Annabeth relinquished her hold on her boyfriend and smiled sweetly at him. Behind her, the unknown girl stopped laughing and tugged at her braids. She was wearing a blue tank top and faded jeans, which looked to be so old that they were white. She had also worn a fleece snowboarding jacket. She wore multiple bangles on one hand, and wore a pair of the same color of royal blue flats as her top. She wore pink eyeliner that enhanced her kaleidoscopic eyes and stood out against her dark skin. She had chocolate brown hair with blonde highlights which was choppy and unevenly cut. She had braided thin strands on the side of her hair.

'Hi, I'm Piper McLean,' she said, extending her hand to Percy. He shook it and said, 'You're new? How did you become friends with Annabeth and Thalia?'

She smiled at him. 'Well, my Dad wanted to send me here, and Dr Chase was kind enough to accept me into their house. I've been staying with Annabeth and Thalia for a day now, and we've become good friends.'

Annabeth leaned over and very quietly whispered to him, 'We suspect she's a demigod. All things point to it. I'll fill you in later.'

Percy nodded, smiled and turned to the entrance, waiting for Nico and the gods to arrive. Nico had been staying with Percy, and had told him to go on to school, that he would come later. Percy really hated shadow-travel sometimes.

Instead of all the gods arriving together, Hermes and Apollo (read: Fred and George) ran in together and breathlessly told the demigods and Piper, the suspected demigod, the others were on their way. They then started walking toward their lockers discussing some event with each other, leaving the actual sixteen-and-fifteen-and-a-half-year-olds to wonder what had happened. The question was answered when Hera (read: Victorie) entered with two kids. They looked to be around the demigods' age – fifteen to sixteen. Hera turned to them and giving a look of distaste to Annabeth, who scowled back, and said, 'Okay these are Jason Grace and Reyna, who doesn't want to reveal her surname, and this is – who are you, girl?'

'Oh, um, can I know your name, please?' Piper said, startled. Hera narrowed her eyes at the girl and said, 'I'm Victorie, and you?'

'Oh, um, nice to um, meet, Victorie, I'm Piper McLean,' Piper said, flummoxed that someone could be so hostile.

Hera's expression changed immediately. 'Oh, so you're Piper? Lovely. Now, I need you to come with me. I know your mother and I am going to introduce you to her.'

Piper's eyes widened and she started walking hesitantly towards the entrance where Hera had shooed her to. Hera turned to the demigods and said, 'Okay, that girl is a demigod. I am going to tell her everything. Greeks, these two – Jason and Reyna – are Romans. Praetors, these three are Greeks. Treat each other well. And where are the other two?'

Hera eyed the Romans beadily, while the two groups stood, shocked. Jason managed to stutter out something about the "other two" being outside and Hera swept away to where Piper was waiting.

'You know who she is?' Jason asked the Greeks, Reyna being too shocked to talk. They nodded.

'Let's introduce ourselves,' Annabeth said. 'Percy, you start.'

'Um, okay,' Percy said. 'I'm Perseus Jackson, but call me Percy. I'm a son of Poseidon, um, Neptune to you guys, I think (Annabeth nodded to him), and I did a whole bunch of stuff.'

'I'm Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, and I have done a whole bunch of stuff too,' Jason told Percy challengingly, but before Percy could say anything, Reyna hastily intervened.

'Okay, okay, keep the fights for later. As you know, I'm Reyna. My mom's Bellona, who's like a female version of Mars. She's pure Roman.'

Annabeth told the other two, 'Mars is Ares', before turning to the Romans and introducing herself. 'I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and this is –'

'I'm Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus,' Thalia said slowly. Percy and Annabeth stared at her. Why did she say her last name? they thought. But Thalia had her reasons. First, she believed that the Jason in front of her was, really, truly, her little brother. For gods' sake, he had the same last name and he even had the little scar on his lip. Second, if she just said Thalia, Jason, who might be her brother, would assume that she had the same name as his sister. If he remembers you, said a niggling voice in the back of her mind, which she pushed away. She looked imploringly at Jason.

The son of Jupiter, for his part, looked extremely shocked. 'Thalia?' he asked his sister in a soft voice. Percy, Annabeth and Reyna got shocked to the core. How did two people, Greek and Roman, know each other? Their questions were answered when Thalia flung herself forward and cried, 'My baby brother! Oh, Jason, where have you been for so many years?'

Annabeth and Percy were very hurt. Why did Thalia not tell them of her little brother? Didn't she trust them? Reyna knew of Jason's sister, though. Jason had looked very troubled one day and told Reyna all about how his mother had given him to Juno and how he ended up in the Wolf House. He also confided on how Lupa had told him all about this story. He had also mentioned a sister when Reyna asked.

'Her name's Thalia, but she's not important,' he had said quickly, then refused to elaborate further.

'This is your sister, Jason?' she asked in disbelief. 'Thalia?'

Thalia relinquished her hold on Jason and wiped her eyes. 'You told Reyna about me?' He nodded and she again pulled him into a hug. Nico, who was walking towards the lockers, froze when he saw Thalia hugging a boy who looked strangely like Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion. But it couldn't be Jason.

'Thalia?' he asked her. Thalia let go of Jason and turned to her boyfriend.

'Nico, Percy, Annabeth, I almost forgot to introduce him properly to you! This is my brother, Jason Grace, and that's Reyna,' she continued for Nico. 'They're Romans and Reyna's a daughter of Bellona. Jason's a son of Jupiter. Romans, this is –'

'– Nico di Angelo, son of Pluto,' Reyna said, glaring harshly at said boy. Nico paled. Thalia is going to kill me.

'How do you know him?' Annabeth asked suspiciously, forgoing her hurt for a bit.

'He is the Ambassador of Pluto for us Romans,' Jason said coldly to him. Thalia whipped around to face him.

'What? You knew about Jason and never told me? How could you do this to me?' Thalia cried. By this time, if you haven't already guessed, a crowd had gathered. Hearing the whispers, Percy turned to the crowd, a menacing glare on his face which resulted in shudders running through the crowd.

'Why can't you mind your own business? Shoo!' he snapped. The mortals only knew Percy as the hot popular guy, and were, excuse my language, shit scared of him. The crowd thinned quickly enough, and only Tiffany and her followers remained.

Today Tiffany decided to go to a new level of sluttiness altogether. She wore such a short dress that Annabeth was surprised that she couldn't see her underwear (if she was wearing one) (AN – Ew, mental images! And for the people out there who would undoubtedly ask why I wrote such stuff if it created mental images, I'll have you know that I'm just thirteen, and even if I seem too mature for that [which I'm sure I don't] a thirteen year old can only take so much). She wore platform heels which looked like it would be a miracle to stand in, much less walk. At least, it seemed that way to Annabeth. She looked like she had dunked her face in a bucket-full of make up before she came. Her skin was a muck darker orange than how Annabeth had seen on her first day, she must have done fake-tanning again. Her curly blonde hair (Annabeth learnt later from Stella that Tiffany thought Percy liked curly blondes, so she decided to go curly. Annabeth smirked) was half-way down her back, as she had gotten extensions.

'Oh, Percy, relax, why don't you?' Tiffany said breathily, stroking Percy's arm (AN – Ugh, you don't know how much pain I went through to write the last few words *shudders like I have seen spiders*. Anyway, continue reading.). Annabeth glared at Tiffany, who started backing away, seeing Annabeth was glaring ferociously, and could hardly be counteracted, so she just went toward the crowd, slipping and sliding because of her heels.

Annabeth and Thalia had decided that after dressing up for their first day at school, they would do something similar on an everyday basis. Today, Annabeth was wearing ripped shorts which were frayed at the ends (a monster had clawed the lower half off, leaving her with a stylish pair of shorts) and a plain grey tank top. She'd decided to wear a pair of grey flats and a grey headband holding her hair back. Surprisingly, all the grey she wore matched her streak.

Thalia, however, decided to go toward punk style. She wore a royal blue knee-length skirt with her 'Death to Barbie' top. It went well with the skirt, astonishingly. Two royal blue clips held her hair from her eyes and she wore black ankle boots.

Percy and Nico both wore jeans and Camp T-shirts with green converse for Percy and black for Nico. Jason wore a similar outfit, except he wore his Camp's T-shirt and blue converse. All three's hair was in their normal messy state.

Reyna wore a pair of designer jeans and a red top with a complicated design done in shades of white and grey. She had her hair in a high ponytail and wore a pair of red flats.

Reyna was about to say something to Jason when she suddenly froze and turned to Percy and Annabeth, 'You are the Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase? The son of Neptune and daughter of Minerva?'

Annabeth frowned and replied, 'Yes we told you, we are indeed the children of Poseidon (Percy) and Athena (me).'

Reyna's eyes narrowed at the two and the two were struck by déjà vu. Reyna had a striking resemblance to someone they'd seen.

'You two destroyed Circe's Island?' Reyna questioned. Percy and Annabeth looked at each other and nodded to Reyna. Annabeth suddenly gasped, 'I know you! You look like that girl who received us at the Island! Hylla!'

Reyna gave a cold smile. 'Yes, that was my sister. You destroyed our home, where we were well taken care of. You left us at the mercy of those pirates. Luckily for you, being the daughters of Bellona, Hylla and I were able to escape and become the Queen of the Amazons and Praetor of Camp Jupiter respectively. I owe you for that.'

'Look Reyna, we didn't mean to do that,' Percy said uncomfortably. 'We had a quest to finish (it was unauthorized, but that's pointless right now), our Camp was in danger, we had to do it to escape. We didn't really think about what would happen to the Island inmates.'

Reyna lowered her cold gaze and gave a wry smile to them. 'I suppose I understand your point. I would do the same for Camp Jupiter (our Camp). I think that you did Hylla and me a favor by releasing the pirates. We're happier where we are.'

'What are you talking about?' Thalia broke in. The two Greeks and one Roman jumped, having forgotten the presence of the others. Percy opened his mouth to say something when a shriek ripped the calm air of the school. The sounds were coming from where Piper had disappeared.

I'm sorry, really sorry for not updating and the cliffy. I also have a question/request for you guys. I have way too much on my hands, so I can't write all my stories at the same time. I have decided to put a poll on my profile, and whoever wants to vote can do so. Basically, which story I should work on first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. There's this one, one in which the future demigod kids go to the past (Past, Here We Come!), a rewrite of a story called 'Mark of Athena Goes Haywire', a rewrite of my 'Characters read the Series' of Percy Jackson, my House of Hades, and another one in which Harry Potter's parents come back to life. Vote soon, because I will put up one update on all stories except for the rewrite and the Harry Potter one; I'm going to wait to start a new story. This is the last update for this story until the results come out. I might update all my stories by one chapter during the month. The poll remains open after a chapter in all my stories.

PS – I have another Harry Potter Idea in my head, in which a young muggle HP fan gets her Hogwarts letter and is going to go to Hogwarts. I'm adding that to the poll too. Ciao!

Stella