Sorry for the late update, life is chaos right now. I own nothing.

Leo's friends were staring at him in shock. Both the ones from the Argo II and the ones from the Rap. The only one with a straight face was Artemisia.

"Ok." she said as he finished explaining.

"OKAY?" yelled Ace in something like outrage mixed with confusion. "You believe him? That him and his friend are monster hunting half-gods! Have you gone nuts, Atemisia!" Her eyes were wide and she was flailing her arms in a way that Leo would have normally found amusing. Chrissy was just staring at him slack jawed. Not a word came out of her mouth.

So that was why two thirds of the triplets were look at him as if he had just grown a second head.

His demi-god friends were staring at him because he had just told the truth. Except Percy, who looked at him approvingly.

"You told the truth." He said with his head cocked to the side slightly, looking at the twins with some new consideration.

Then their friends looked at Percy like he was the crazy person. That was nice.

"You aren't going to yell at me, or something for telling them? Isn't that like, a major, no-no?" Leo asked him. he had been sure that he'd be in for a major lecture. Of course that still could be coming from Annabeth.

Percy snorted.

"the last time I told a mortal friend about demi-gods, she ended up being our oracle. Its a good sign that one of them believes you. For all we know they could end up helping us."

Leo stared. Huh. He never had heard how Rachel had ended up as the oracle. he had known that she was mortal, but he had just assumed that Chiron or someone had tracked her down, or maybe it was a hereditary thing or something. Apparently not.

"You knew Rachel before she breathed green smoke?"

Percy smirked a little.

"We went to school together."

"Huh."

Thats when Annabeth broke in.

"Do you realize how dangerous telling them was, Leo? It puts them even more on Gaea's radar than already will be just for helping us. Besides, how do you know they aren't monsters? Do you know how rare identical triplets are? And they can all see through the mist?"

Well. he hadn't thought about it being dangerous for them. He actually hadn't thought about much except that some of his best friends wanted an explanation, and he really hadn't wanted to lie to them. Maybe that would've been better. But there was also something he needed to correct.

"they aren't monsters. No way. I've known them for years. They've been here since they were real little. Everyone knows them. They aren't monsters."

Annabeth sighed that sigh see did every time she didn't want to tell him something.

"Leo... Sometimes the best masks for monsters are the most deep rooted ones. the ones that have no flaw."

"Hello! We're standing right here!", one of the triplets broke in.

The group of half-bloods turned back to face them.

"Sorry," Leo said, turning a glare on Annabeth. "Some people don't think i should have told you the truth."

Atemisia snorted.

"Well its a bit late for them to complaining, isn't it? It's not like you can wipe our minds or something."

Annabeth's eyes narrowed as if considering that as an option.

"No." she decided. "I don't think Piper could pull that off. Not permanently anyway. Definitely not in this condition."

"Wait.' Chrissy said. "You could actually do that?"

'I just said we couldn't!" Annabeth responded with irritation.

"Okay! What the hell, Leo? You're just standing there and your friends are talking about wiping our minds like something out of friggin' Harry Potter, and i think you need to give a bit more in depth explanation of what this is." Ace said with wide eyes, her lips in the pout that they always formed when she was frustrated.

Leo recognized that as a sign of danger. When Atemisia got upset, she glared and yelled. Chrissy got scary calm, but it was always the wort with Ace who, for all of her sarcasm and attempts at recreating Artemisia's cool indifference, cried.

He did not want to be responsible for a crying Ace.

"Okay. Okay. So you know the whole part gods thing that I mentioned?" He asked her, meeting her eyes, searching for any hint of oncoming none as she gave him a slow nod, he continued. "So gods all have specific domains of power, right, like... like.. umm have you guys seen Hercules?"

Artemisia raised her eyebrow at him in an are-you-serious? expression, while Ace's eyes widened slowly, and Chrissy nodded with a mystified expression on her face.

"Right, so its not the best example, but you know how his dad is Zeus, right? And Zeus has his lightning bolt. All the gods have something like that. Like, Annabeth here," he motioned at Annabeth, who had been listening to his explanation with a mixture of irritation and amusement spread across her face. "Her mom is Athena, the goddess of wisdom, so Annabeth is like, super smart. Well Pipes, her mom is the goddess of love and lust and beauty and all that, so she's like, ultra charming. You'll believe anything she wants you to, do what she wants. Don't think she could make you forget though. that's kinda big. Don't know any demi-gods who could actually do that."

'Maybe a Hypnos kid. Or Hecate. Or even a Dionysus"

Leo was confused at that one. By the look on everyone else's faces, they were just as confused as him.

"Dionysus?" asked Jason, scrunching up his face.

"Yeah, he's the god of insanity and all that, and losing chunks of memory like that could be the symptom of a mental disorder."

Whatever you say, dude.

"yeah well, that's how it works. Like a kid of Hermes would be good at stealing things, or an Apollo kid would be awesome at archery, and-."

He stopped looking at the expressions on the faces of the triplets.

"there's a god named Apollo?"

"Yeah why- oh. no. It has nothing to do with you guys."he responded.

"Um, someone want to explain?' Asked hazel from the corner that she had been sitting silently in.

'Our last name is Apollo." Chrissy said, frowning.

'I thought you guys were Hispanic?" Frank asked.

Artemisia rolled her eyes.

"We are. But our father was some rich american man. Fred Apollo."