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Percy POV:

"Pewcy wake up, wake up!"

I opened my eyes to see four sets of eyes looking down on me. They belonged to my baby siblings, Jimmy, Michael and Samantha who were only 5-years old (yes my Mom and Paul were very busy at the time).

Let me lay down the simple facts: My Michael were born when I was 18 and Jimmy and Samantha were born when I was 19 making Michael 5 and the other two 4 right now and myself 23. And no I don't live with my parents; I do have my own home. I was just asked to babysit my brothers and sister and fell asleep here.

"Kids, I think it might be difficult for you brother to get up if you're all on top of him." Said came Mom's voice, who was just emerging from the kitchen (I was on the couch right now) wiping off her hands. "Breakfast is ready too. Percy you can eat with us if you like to sweetie."

I simply nodded as my siblings got off of me and ran to the kitchen to get breakfast. I decided to wash up first so I didn't smell like, how Nico once said, the waken dead. So I went into the bathroom and grabbed the spare toothbrush they keep here for me.

But when I opened the cupboard above the sink to grab toothpaste and closed it I saw the weirdest thing in my reflection.

No it wasn't gone it was still there, but on my face were these glowing blue lines going down and up to my eyes. And my eyes were glowing a bluish/greenish color. And on my forehead was a sword.

I took a few steps back, shocked by this. But when I blinked it was gone and I was just staring at my normal reflection.

Once I had finished washing up I put on a nice short sleeve T-shirt. As I pulled up a pair of blue jeans I checked the pockets to make sure Riptide was in. When I felt it I decided to pull it out and look at it. For some reason it felt good to admire the sword that has saved my life a few thousand times. It was also nice to see how clean the blade was too.

Now here comes the next weird thing. The moment I thought of the word blade I had a weird feeling, like it had a more significant purpose.

My thought was shaken off when I heard my Mom's voice saying, "Percy, can you come down for a moment?"

I just stood there for a second and finally clicked Riptide back into pen mode, put it back into my pocket and headed towards the other.

When I got there I saw Paul and my three siblings at the table while my mom was on the phone. Paul was reading a newspaper and only turned his attention from it for a second to say hello. My siblings were eating their blue cereal (yes they acquired my taste for blue colored food) and talking about something random.

I walked past them to the counter where mom was to pour myself some coffee. I looked up to see Mom hang the phone up and turned to look at me with a concern look on her face.

But I ignored it and said, "Morning Mom."

She gave a little smile but I still noticed the concern look on her face "Is something wrong Mom?" I asked.

She hesitated for a second before replying. "Percy… that was Annabeth on the phone."

I felt a small wave of grief in me at the mention of her name. You see the last three years were kind of shaky for us since with my whole being sent to the Roman Camp by Hera, battling the Giants in Greece and with her work as architect of Olympus. These past few months we have argued a lot until finally, out of nowhere, she ended our relationship last month.

Now she's sort of dating this Son of Hephaestus named Mark whose been helping her with Olympus and though he doesn't show it, I can tell that he is enjoying shoving that fact in my face.

"What did she want?" I asked, trying to hide my anger and sadness.

My Mom tried to make it sound nice. "They just finished making the monument to the heroes who defeated Gaia and are having a party. She wants to let you know you're invited."

I thought about it. I figured that all my camp friends would be there, and I haven't been to the camp in awhile. Maybe if I just focus on that and try not to run into Annabeth or Mark, it might be fun.

"I guess I could go and give it a try." I finally said, earning a smile from my Mom. "It's a good thing to do anyway. After all you wouldn't want to miss your own party."

I chuckled at the joke and soon grabbed one or three of Mom's blue cookies, said goodbye to them and headed off to Olympus.

I had to admit, the Gods out did themselves again. Everyone was here, even the Hunters, though they were avoiding the male demigods as much as possible.

I saw Nico with his girlfriend, Nicole. Nicole is a daughter of Iris, except she likes doing dark paintings. So yeah, she's Goth. The two met at camp when Nico was asked to give her a tour. The week after, they were caught making out in the Hades cabin.

A lot of my friends have gotten married and were supposedly expecting kids on the way. Clarisse and Chris already had twins; one was named Silena and the other Charlie. Travis and Katie were expecting a girl soon. Grover and Juniper had a little boy satyr who was right now trotting around the area like crazy while being chased by his father. Jason and Piper had given birth to a boy only two weeks ago. And Leo and Thalia (I know I'm shocked she left the Hunters as well) are having a boy soon.

"Hey Seaweed Brain." A familiar voice behind me said, bringing me out of my thoughts.

I turned around and right in front of me was Annabeth. She still looked the same as she did the month she broke up with me. I've become taller then her over the years, but she still had that dirty long blond hair and those intense grey eyes. Her skin was losing its tan a little but she still looked nice.

Shaking the thought out of my head I said, "Hey to you too Wise Girl." I guess it was easier to be around her without Mark here to mess it up.

She gave me another smile. I could have sworn I saw a look of worry in her eyes. Curious I asked, "Is something wrong?"

She shook her head but now that I got a closer look she looked pretty tired and she had her hand to her stomach a little.

I was going to ask again when someone yelled out "Annabeth!" and I knew that horrible voice.

Mark Huston walked over to Annabeth. And when he saw me, he gave me a quick smirk. This made me angry but I didn't want to stoop to his level.

"I think I'll go help Grover with catching his kid." I said as an excuse and walked away. I think Annabeth tried to say something but I wasn't listening.

I wasn't really sure where I was going until I heard a second voice call my name. This time it was Nico. When I turned to look at him and had a scared, frantic look on his face.

"Nico, something up? Where's Nicole?" I asked, because knowing Nico, he would never go 5 feet away from her unless it was something serious.

He caught his breath before replying. "She's talking to some of her siblings but that's not the point. I just had a bad feeling."

I raised an eyebrow; usually Nico's instincts were always something bad. "And?"

Nico looked up at me with worried eyes this time. "Like the someone-is-going-to-die bad feeling."

Now I was worried. "But why would you tell me this unless-" My hands dropped dead fast as I realized what he meant. "Shadow travel us there. Now!"

A few minutes later after turning a corner we finally saw it.

"No." I whispered, unable to believe what I saw.

In front of us was my Mom's building…on fire! A lot of the people seemed to have gotten out safely, and some were going to get the fire department. But I saw neither Paul, Mom, Jimmy, Samantha nor Michael.

"They must still be trapped inside c'mon!" I yelled to Nico as I jumped through a window. It was a good thing I was resistant to fire because I did not notice the heat around me, I was too concern for my family.

We finally made it to the third floor where their apartment was. Two strong kicks managed to knock the door down. I searched the place frantically.

"Mom, Paul, anyone?" I shouted. Then I heard screaming. It was the twins. I ran to the source, which was their room and opened the door to find Jimmy and Samantha clutching each other in the middle of the room with pure fear on their faces.

I ran to them and knelt down to make sure they were not seriously hurt. Then I asked, "Where's your brother and parents?"

Jimmy finally replied. "Michael went to use the potty, I don't know where Mommy or Daddy are."

I nodded and turned to Nico who just came in. "Nico get these two out of here, I need to find the others!"

I dashed out of the room and towards the bathroom. When I got closer I could hear frantic banging and someone screaming.

"Michael, get out of the way!" I shouted and with one big shove I slammed the door open. Michael was standing right there, tears in his eyes, looking scared to his wits.

I picked him up and saw Nico with the twins in each arm. Then I yelled, "Mom, Paul?"

No response. I yelled their names again, each time more desperate but still nothing.

"Percy." Nico said with concern. "We can't stay here we have to go!"

I didn't want to, I had to find them. So I yelled there names again and again, but still nothing.

"Percy," Nico said again, this time sadly. "I'm sorry but their gone."

As much as I didn't want to believe him I knew what he meant. Trying to hold the tears we ran out of the apartment into an alleyway and away from the other people and the fire trucks that had just arrived.

Nico managed to shadow travel all five of us to my apartment. The kids were already out cold and I didn't have the heart to wake them up. So I put all three in my bed while I grabbed a spare blanket for myself.

Nico was about to leave but he turned back to me and said, "Percy I'm…"

I raised my hand to stop him. I knew it wasn't his fault, and I just wanted to sleep. He seemed to have gotten the message and silently went out the door.

I just let out a big sigh, rubbed my face of the ash and tears and lay down on the sofa, hoping that sleep would calm me down.

Dream

Now usually demigod's dreams are never good but this time I couldn't tell what it was about.

I was in a room that was pitch black, couldn't see a thing. Then I heard several voices. At first it sounded like a foreign language that I've never heard. Then it became clearer.

The 1st voice asked, "So we cannot be sure that it was an outside involvement?"

To which a 2nd voice replied, "No, nor can we figure out the purpose of the way the attack was."

Then a 3rd voice said, " It was clearly an act of either hoping to kill him or demoralize him, either way it does not matter now is the time to act and make our presence known."

A 4th voice argued back. "No we do not know if he is ready, we cannot act rash!"

Then a 5th voice said, "Agreed If we contact him or send seeker to act as link, we would be breaking one of HIS laws. We dare not defy his will."

Then the 3rd voice spoke again, "And if we do nothing, he will whither and die and would have to wait again for who knows how longs. He carries the blood of three races, we must act."

Then 2nd voice said, "True, this is a rare moment and we dare not waste his skill. He has also shown signs of his true potential and he is of age."

Then the 1st voice yelled "ENOUGH! The Will must be follow we shall send a Seeker and see what happens from there."

Soon the voices began to grow fainter until I heard nothing but one thing is for certain:

They were definitely talking about me.

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