A/N: Okay, thank you all again for all the support you are giving this story, it really does make me smile. For anyone who commented about Percy always being the one being attacked, there is a special scene in here just for you :D now, on with the chapter!

"So let me get this straight." Tony Stark pushed himself back in his chair, feet on the table, hands behind his head. "You are expecting us to believe that there are all powerful beings out there, that you're half human kids of them, and that even more powerful forces are after him?"

As he said the last bit, his arm stretched out lazily so that he was pointing at the green eyed boy, his some what amused expression being met by a hard glare that made the billionaire flinch slightly on the inside, though he managed to keep himself in place. Behind the fake mask of a carefree teen, he could tell that the boy was hiding someone extremely dangerous and, more than likely, mentally unhinged, it was terrifying.

Suddenly, to the avengers' surprise however, Thor, Nico and Annabeth seemed to be finding this comment hilarious and they all doubled over laughing while their friend glared at them instead. Finally, when she had regained control over her emotions, the girl turned back to the adults, still shaking her head slightly.

"So, you're going to tell me that, although you have met, and fought, the gods of the Norse 'myths' yet you will not accept our claim even when your friend vouches for our sincerity?"

Now it was the avengers' turn to look slightly abashed as they looked at anywhere but the three teens and the god that were grinning in victory. After all, it was true, to believe in one brand of legend yet scorn another as only a fantasy was rather hypocritical. However, it seemed that the band of demigods were not finished there, especially as the younger boy was still laughing, clutching his side as though he had a stitch.

"Any way, its Percy, it would be easier to list the immortal beings that don't want him dead, you could probably name them all on the fingers of one had."

"Nico!"

All the previous tension in the green eyed boy's, no, Percy's countenance had disappeared with that last statement as he turned threateningly to the younger boy, though his voice belied his own joking expression even as it was hidden from the others in the room. Be that as it may, the boy just kept going, Annabeth joining in whenever she got the chance.

"Let's see then, there's Ares, Zeus, Dionysus, Hera…"

"Atlas, Hyperion, Kronos, Triton…"

"Athena, Tantalus, all the monsters in Tartarus…"

"THAT IS ENOUGH!"

That one statement from Fury quickly silenced the kids as they turned back to the others with apologetic faces, though their eyes were still lit up with a teasing voice. Sighing and moving a hand to his temple, the director merely glared at the group daring them to interrupt as he continued speaking.

"Now, we need to get back on topic. You said that the one attacking us is Pontus, primordial god of the seas, yet you did not explain why he will be going after you in particular. Nor did you tell us why you came to us for help, nor how we can combat him if the time comes. So I suggest you get yourselves seated and give us a damn good explanation for the whole thing!"

Still looking rather sheepish the three of them quickly did as ordered, though they looked anything but comfortable in their new positions, none of them being able to sit still for longer than a few minutes at time and their eyes were flickering from face to face in a speed that had to be dizzying. Still, Nico managed to answer the questions posed to them, kind of.

"Well if we go with the obvious reasons and ignore everything else, its simple. Pontus is the primordial of the oceans, yet when he fell into his sleep, his domain was passed down. First to the Titan Oceanus in the reign of Kronos, and now to Poseidon in the reign of the gods. So that he can regain his full power, Pontus needs to dispose of the one in his place as soon as possible and he thinks the best way to do that is to attack the only mortal child of the sea god, which is Percy."

Everyone was quiet as they took that in until Banner raise his hand looking rather uncomfortable in the whole situation. Smiling warmly at him, the girl nodded her head, indication that he should just speak instead of seeking permission to express his thoughts.

"I thought, in the myths, that Poseidon had many demigod children such as Theseus and Orion, why does he only have one alive today?"

At this, the boy in question laughed once without humour before answering in a flat voice.

"No, before you start thinking that it's because the gods changed, its not. They made an oath around the time of the second world war, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades that is, that they would not have any more demigod children, they were too powerful and messing with the course of human history. Technically speaking, I shouldn't have even been born."

This caught the Captain's curiosity, them mentioning his original time, causing him to look up and look at them shrewdly before asking the main question on his mind. He had begun to think of something, and he really did not like where this was going.

"You say they were messing with the course of history… how were they doing that?"

For a moment, there was silence long enough for everyone to stop waiting for an answer, but, with an almost imperceptible sigh, it was the younger boy who answered, flinching away from the view of the super hero while he spoke.

"Back before you got frozen… did you, er, well, did you by any chance meet Franco, Starlin or Hitler?"

This caused Steve's eyes to narrow, but he nodded is affirmation, he really did not like the direction of this conversation. After short moment, almost as if the boy was composing himself for something, Nico finally stepped out from the shadows of his friends, becoming clearly visible for the first time and making the soldiers heart stop. A part of his mind took in the slim figure, dark hair and pale complexion, recognising him as one of the leaders from his dream, but the rest of it was lost in flashbacks. Noticing his team mate's distraction, Clint shifted forwards to study the boy closely.

Short, barely over 5"6, apparently only 14/15 with shaggy black hair that fell into equally dark eyes. He was thin, though that was not to say he was scrawny, no, the archer could see quite a bit of muscle on the teen, and his skin seemed to have found a way to appear both Olive toned yet deathly pale at the same time.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you look like Lyndon Johnson?"

This random comment from the assassin seemed to shock the boy, who had been braced as though he was expecting an attack, but soon a confident grin had taken the place of a slight scowl and he was shaking his head as though trying to stop himself from laughing.

"No actually, they tend to be far more focused on one of my other brothers like, oh, I don't know, the one that committed the holocaust or the two who backed him up when he started world war 2. LBJ was actually pretty sane for my family, even if he did start the war in Vietnam. I'm Nico by the way, Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, god of the underworld."

At this, the Avengers were stunned, none of them really knew how to react to this announcement, after all, it had never occurred to them to believe that some of the most famous (and infamous) people in history had not actually been human. Still, it wasn't exactly hard to accept, after all, how could anyone with a normal mind have killed all of those people? Unfortunately, the first to recover from the shock of that last announcement was one other than the billionaire that had a problem keeping his mouth shut.

"Oh, and what about you grey eyes, you the illegitimate daughter of Zeus then, making it a full set?"

Faster than any of them could follow, Tony Stark, the supposedly unbeatable iron man, went from being seated in his chair to being pinned to the wall by a knife through the fabric of his t-shirt on either side of his neck. After removing him from this uncomfortable position, his team mates turned back to be faced with a 17 year old girl who was smirking evily and caressing a larger knife she had seemingly drawn from thin air.

"I'd be careful where you step Mr Stark, if you ad tried that on the real daughter of Zeus, you'd be dead by now. In actual fact, no I am not a child of the big 3 gods, but the daughter of Athena, goddess of Wisdom and battle."

With that she made the knife disappear with a flick of her wrist leaving no room to doubt that she was in no ways a normal person. Sighing slightly, the son of Poseidon rolled his eyes at her theatrics but turned to face an now irate looking Fury as he continued to answer the questions from before.

"Okay, back on track now before this actually turns into a fight that neither of us wants. The reason why we're coming to you know is because, well, we really have no other choice. We all just fought in a war that had a rather large death toll and we don't have enough fighters to survive another attack, Hades, we all just came straight from the battle field! Normally we would never get mortals involved but this is going to effect you too and we really want to minimise the casualties of this war. Finally, the way you combat him is pretty difficult, that's why we came here, to teach you how… if you will accept us as allies…"

He trailed off at that, glancing around all of the faces looking rather nervous. It confused Natasha, how open the boy was being now, there was no hint of a lie in his words but there was no sign of injury on his body. Also, the mood swings for the older two were pretty dramatic, one minute they would be laughing as though they were on top of the world and the next they looked as though they were imagining all the ways in witch they could inflict a slow, painful death upon you. Although a slight trace of this could be seen in the Nico boy, it wasn't anything like as dramatic as in the others, leading her to believe that it was not normal. Suddenly, the booming voice of Thor cut through the silent room, breaking her train of though half way through the examination of their new friends.

"Well, I for one will be happy to train with you once again my friends, it has been many years since I faced warriors of your standard and it will be good to go all out once again!"

His announcement seemed to shock all of the others out of their contemplation of the offer, and, although many of them did not wish to participate in yet another war, they could not help but be intrigued as to what made their friend so complimentary of mere teens. Seemingly happy with the resigned looks of the team as a sign of their acceptance, Fury rose to his feet and glared around the assembled heroes.

"Okay, I guess we will leave it there for now. Barton, Romanoff and Miss Chase, I want you 3 to come with me so that we can get the full scale of this situation down and start planning some sort of strategy of defence. The rest of you can do what ever you like until tomorrow morning. Then I suggest that we see what our new friends can really do. Dismiss!"

With that, he stormed out of the room with the mentioned people following him leaving 3 awkward avengers, 2 nervous teens and a broadly smiling god of thunder alone in a sealed room.

From where she was watching alone in her temple on Olympus, Athena sighed, she really had expected the director to have more sense than that.

A/N: there you go, I hope you enjoyed it. Now, I think, for this story, instead of me asking you questions like in the others, I will let you ask me them, you can ask what ever you want and I will try to answer them as truthfully as possible (so long as they aren't too personal or give away the plot) but otherwise, ask what ever you want