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Leo POV

Riding the Pegasus was amazing. To be honest, I was slightly wary at first considering that the first time I had been on a Pegasus, I had ended up in the canoe lake at Camp Half Blood. Although, I agree that it was probably my fault for insisting on riding Blackjack who was like Percy Jackson's private Pegasus and had a mind of his own. He hardly allowed anyone to ride him except Annabeth and that was if he was in a good mood.

We had been flying for like an hour before Nico's future house came into view. From the outside, it looked like any ordinary suburban house, quiet and unassuming as though the most exciting thing it had ever seen was a police cruiser passing by. However, that misconception lasted only till we reached the gate. Why, you may ask. The reason is that the moment the pegasi reached the gate, we were ambushed by at least twenty skeleton warriors. Obviously, considering our wonderful luck, the pegasi dropped us on our asses and took off in a hurry. I take back what I said about liking Pegasus riding. Before I could do more than stand on my feet, I was attacked by two skeleton warriors. Their teeth glowed as though they were painted with fluorescent paint and they made a click-click-clackity sound as they moved. We were outnumbered.

''What do we do?'' I heard Jason yell, a hint of panic in his voice. ''No matter how many times I try, I cannot kill them!'' He was surrounded by three skeletons and had his back against the brick wall. He was trapped. There was no escape for him. Not that I was having an easy time either. The skeletons seemed determined to kill me. I tried bashing their skulls with my hammer. I even threw fire at them to no avail. They just kept reforming themselves and attacking again.

''Stand back guys!'' shouted Nico. Just then, the ground at our feet opened up swallowing all twenty skeletons at once. Then it reformed itself till only a crack remained as though the concrete had come out during a car accident.

''Nico, how-how did you do that?'' asked Frank aghast.

''Son of Hades thing'' wheezed Nico. He was panting and his face was covered with a sheen of sweat. ''It was not easy to banish so many especially since they were unwilling to go back to the underworld.''

Not that I blame them. I don't think I would be too eager to go back to the underworld if I was a skeleton.

''Nice defence you have around your house.'' Said Piper wryly.

Just then, the door of the house flew open and Percy emerged with his sword drawn. I mean, the future Percy. His hair was now more grey than black now and he had developed laugh lines around his eyes and mouth. Apart from that, he looked just like he looked now-just as fit as ever. His sea green eyes were cautious and I did not want to calculate the odds of his taking me down in a sword fight. As soon as he saw us, he stopped in his tracks. His eyes bulged.

''Who-who are you all?'' he stammered.

''Percy, we are from thirty two years in the past.'' Said Piper and explained the whole story.

Percy looked stunned. ''So let me get this straight. You guys came to the future with the help of Apollo and Hermes to check if Annabeth and I were alive and you landed in Andy's house who sent you here?'' he said faintly.

''Yep, pretty much.'' Drawled Nico.

''Nico fainted when he came to know that he had two children with Thalia.'' I blurted out. Nico turned pink and glowered at me. If looks could kill, I would have been in the underworld by now.

Percy chuckled. ''Hey guys!'' he yelled inside the house. ''Come on out, I have a surprise for you all!''

Just then, Andromeda, Dennis, Charlie and Silena arrived. Perfect timing. ''What did we miss?'' asked Silena breathlessly.

Oh nothing much! We were just nearly killed by an army of bloodthirsty skeletons, nothing special. All in a day's work you know.

Nico POV

I was pretty surprised to see Percy. He looked old! I mean I should have expected that. It is just that, I still thought of him as a seventeen year old, not a forty nine year old. Just then, a thought occurred to me. How did I look thirty two years hence? I was not too eager to find out.

There was a flurry of activity inside the house (I mean my house) and nine adults and five teens emerged. I recognised the adults immediately. Travis, Katie, Annabeth, Thalia, my future self, Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel and three guys and two girls. Two guys had blonde hair and brown eyes and the other had black spiky hair and brown eyes. One of the girls had blonde hair again, and blue eyes. The other had black hair and electric blue eyes, like storm clouds-Thalia's eyes. She must be my daughter, Bianca.

''Hey Nico, meet your past self!'' chortled Percy. Future Nico (I know, weird right?) looked at me and gasped.

''How did you come here?'' he asked. So did everyone else. Once again (and hopefully the last time) Piper told our future selves the whole story.

''But how are you all still alive? The skeletons sniff out anyone who is a demigod, a monster or anything in between!'' said Thalia incredulously.

''Nice to see you care about us sis.'' Muttered both the Jasons together. Creepy, right?

''Not like that!'' said Thalia smacking future Jason on the head. Our Jason backed away warily. ''It's just that the skeletons should have killed you by now. How did you survive and where are the skeletons?''

''In the underworld,'' I smirked. ''I banished them there.''

Once I took a good look at everyone, I noticed some significant changes. Obviously, everyone had aged and most of the guys had beards. My future self had a moustache. Thalia had become more girly. That is the only way to put it. She was wearing a skirt for the love of Olympus! Annabeth had a deep scar across her neck, Travis did not seem so carefree anymore, he was actually looking serious and more responsible; even Perce now that I noticed, had two deep scars the entire length of his right forearm. What had happened? Was it the giant war?

''I guess we should introduce the kids to you'' said (future) Annabeth. ''This is Edward Frank Zhang. He is seventeen. This is Emily Hazel Zhang she is fifteen and this is Sammy Leo Zhang who is fourteen.'' She said gesturing to the three blonde kids. They were all slightly tanned.

''And these,'' Annabeth continued, '' are Fernando Jonathan and Bianca Maria di Angelo.''

''They already know mom,'' said Andromeda. ''Uncle Nico actually fainted when he came to know!''

Great, just great. Everyone was laughing at me.

''Seriously, dad? We are not so scary.'' Said Bianca.

''Yeah, right,'' snorted Dennis. ''What about the time you decided to cause a storm at camp along with a hundred skeleton warriors dancing the rain dance?''

Bianca blushed. ''It was an accident! Besides, I was angry. Luke had decided to douse me with water and I was dripping wet.''

Good reason, if I say so myself.

''I never thought I would see the day the great Nico di Angelo would faint on hearing he was a married man!'' laughed Katie. ''Especially since he what-practically kissed Thalia in front of all the gods after the Giant War!''

''WHAT! DID I WANT TO DIE AN EARLY DEATH OR SOMETHING?" I yelled. My face was so warm, I was sure that I could fry an egg on it.

''It was really funny,'' said Travis a far away look on his face. ''One second we were celebrating and the next second the son of Hades was making out with the daughter of Zeus. I swear, Aphrodite made us all deaf with her screeches of how this was the second greatest love story of this century, the first being Percabeth.''

''Oh, come on. We got together right? That is the important part. Let's go inside now.'' Said my future self.

''Thank you'' I mouthed. My future self just winked.

''Hey, where are Luke and Alexandra?'' asked future Jason.

''They will be here any moment. They told me that they will be coming by themselves.'' Said Charlie.

''How's the baby, Andy?'' asked Emily.

''Fine, she is kicking a bit now.''

''It's is girl?'' asked Percy, picking up a hint probably for the first time in his life.

''Yes dad.''

''Wow Percy, you are becoming a granddad now.'' chuckled (present) Hazel.

''I know! I will probably spoil her rotten!'' laughed Percy gleefully. Annabeth just shook her head, probably used to his antics after all these years.

Leo POV

Wait a second, where was I? I was nowhere to be seen.

''Hey guys, listen up. Where am I?'' I asked.

Everyone froze.

Just then, Luke came in with a girl who had blonde hair and eyes like a kaleidoscope-Alexandra. ''Sorry we are late. We got stuck in traffic.'' She said breathlessly.

Just then she saw me and gasped. Okay, now I was seriously irritated. It is not like I was some interesting specimen at the zoo that everyone was staring and gaping at me. ''What?'' I asked, irritably.

''Uncle Leo,'' said Luke as though I was going to disappear any second, ''how are you here? Did Uncle Hades give you special permission to come here from Elysium?''

''I-I don't understand. What are you talking about?'' I asked my hair involuntarily bursting into flames.

''How can you be here Uncle Leo? Didn't you die in the Giant War in order to close the Doors of Death?'' Luke asked.

My ears were ringing. My head was spinning. I could only faintly make out Annabeth murmuring in the background ''Luke never did have any tact, did he?''