There were rumbling all around the room. In the middle was a wide pentagonal table intricately carved and designed; it's legs portrayed different myths and stories of both Greece and Rome and the surface of it was painted with the design of a...pingpong table?

Oh yeah, Greeks weren't going to let go of that. Not for the past centuries and definitely not in this century or the next.

One the first side of the pentagon were the Greek counselors; the other side were the Roman senate; On another side were the immortal campers; on one side alone were Chiron and Dionysius; and on the last remaing side were empty chairs.

All of them were anxious. After that Ace's speech, everyone was giddy to move. They were ADHD. They couldn't help it. It was torture to get stuck in another meeting. Even the Roman senate was thirsting from their action. Each of them talked about recent happenings.

The fairly large door swung open and two silhouettes walked in. Once the door shut when they have entered, they bowed to Dionysius and Chiron. Dionysius raised an eyebrow. They sat down on the empty side. "That's it?" Drew spat. Everyone turned their heads to him with questioning glares. "Two people? It's all you send? What? The others are too illiterate and dumb to qualify for the meeting?" He said. Percy groaned. He looked at Dee. "He never stops, does he?" Dee just shook her head as an answer, dumbfounded at the kind of aloofness of the Ace's voice. What happened to all that bent up anger a while ago in the Assembly?

"Any of you can call me Ace. Nice to meet ya new faces. Forgive us if we won't remember your names right away. And nice to see ya again guys," Percy said smiling at some of the immortals

"We've met?!" Asked some of them

"Mhm, long long ago. And we meet from time to time, you just didn't know it was me" Percy said winking. Whoa. The Romans, who have started to respect the Ace, was very baffled at the laid out atmosphere around him.

"When did- -" They started to ask but was cut by the person beside Percy. "Don't bother asking him." He said. Everyone looked at him.

"I'm V, by the way. Greek, if your asking," he said looking at the questioning looks of the Romans and said, "Son of Athena, since your curious," glancing at the Athena kids in the meeting.

Percy cleared his throat. "Chiron, if you don't mind, my boys would be taking over training them" Percy said tentatively. Percy didn't want to imply that he surpassed his teacher. Skill wise, Percy thought he would never be able to beat him. Seriously, if he was strong, it'd be because of his father's blood. And if that was why he was strong, then Percy didn't consider himself strong at all. Chiron responded, "By the will of the gods"

"But, I have informed my brothers to seek advice and confirmation from you in every aspect of the training. They shall not lift a finger concerning this if without your approval. So I hope you don't mind that my brothers will come talk to you more often than not" Percy told him and Chiron raised an eyebrow. The gods didn't tell him anything about that. Actually, it was all Percy's decision. "We're here to discuss the general layout, details credited to V of course," Percy said gesturing to V. He just grinned, "Straight right, it is! Gods dam you all, this is so awesome, I'm so tempted to run out of this stuffy place and do all this training myself!" and then he pumped a fist in the air and everyone just looked at him like he just transformed into an elephant doing ballet.

V noticed their looks and coughed, "Oh, eherm, sorry, I was carried away," V said now rather embarrassed. "Just start explaining will ya. I wanna run wild after this with Aku," Percy said. V grumbled a yeahyeah.

He held out an arm, palm out. A golden symbol traced itself on the palm of his hand: alpha. Suddenly data appeared floating everywhere. A few people gasped.

"Hey, how do you do that?"

"Wow, cool"

"Aren't you just supposed to be a child of Athena" this one received a glare from every children of said goddess

"For your information," V glared at the person who said it. Said person almost peed his pants. "Any child of Athena can do this, with enough practice. It's just a simple concept of a projection of thoughts. Uh duh. How do you suppose Athena explains complicated things in meetings." He said in that isn't-it-obvious-tone that all children of Athena use.

"Whoa, we can do that?" Malcolm explained. "Straight yeah you can," V replied smirking as he pounded the table with a fist.

Percy cleared his throat again but he couldn't help but smile. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. So anyway, this is the plan." V said and figures started to appear floating above the table.

"These are all the campers here right now," V said pointing at thin air, when little faces appeared. "Whoa, how do you all know the people?" A Minerva senator asked. "Easy. I asked my Patron, Hestia. She knows all of you, you know. By blood definition, we're all family, so that falls under her Hearth too. It helps that I have photographic memory though cuz if I didn't, all I would've memorized were the stats and these faces would be dots.

Anyway, as was saying, we're going to split them into seven groups by age. 7 below, 8-11, 12-14, 15-16, 17-20, 21-23, and 24 and above." As he talked, the faces all separated themselves to columns as if to do V's bidding. "Then, we'll split the Romans and Greeks from each category so that we can easily decide what teaching methods to use.

"We're going to have a strict curfew here, though. All training will start at 6 in the morning. That's why the little kids will need to be asleep by 8 to at least get 9 hours. The rest's curfew is at 9. The morning would be more on skill based. Sword fighting, ship blowing, archery, trap making, spying, stalking, hiding, you know that kind of stuff. On the afternoon we're going to rearrange the groups.

"All of them will be separated according to their parents so that we can hone the godly gifts you've inherited-"

"But what about those who don't have any gifts like controlling lightning or plants or stuff?" somebody asked

Percy smirked. "What makes you think there's a demigod out there that doesn't have that kind of gift? V already proved you wrong for the children of Athena. But name one who doesn't have it, I dare you" he said. And V just winked.

"How about children of Nemesis?" the Nemesis councilor asked.

Percy's hand cupped his chin. He held out a drachma, lit his hands on fire, put the coin in the fire and mumbled something. A guy's face appeared. "C'mere quick, would ya?" Percy said and immediately cut off the flame before the guy asked more questions.

A few seconds was all it took and the huge doors opened and a guy came in, masked in the same way Percy and V was.

"What you want me for?" the guy asked. He was...lanky. "You," Percy said pointing to a son of Mars from the Roman senate. He raised an eyebrow. "Fight him."

"What?"

at the same time the guy said, "What?"

"What's this about, Ace?" the guy said.

"Introduce yourself, parentage included." Percy told him

"I am N, son of Nemesis"

Percy told N simply, "We were just talking about how everyone had inherited a godly skill from their parents. And they doubted it. Prove them wrong."

The son of Mars looked confused. "Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute. We're in a meeting! You want me to fight that lanky dude?" He complained. The son of Mars was at least half a foot taller than N and was a lot buffer.

"This isn't one of your senate meeting. You've got a weapon on your side, and he's got a weapon on your side. You lot wanted proof. And this is you getting it. Now. Fight." Percy said. The son of Mars looked at Chiron and what was now Bacchus. Chiron looked concerned but Bacchus just shrugged and gestured to go on.

The son of Mars stood up walked toward N and held out his sword. The moment he held a stance, N charged lightning fast and made the distance between them disappear. Clank. Every pair of eyes were trained on the battle. The Romans scoffed. It looked like N could barely block the son of Mars's strength.

After a minute, N's strength crumbled. His guard was blown away and the son of Mars hit deep on the side of N's legs. N didn't even react.

The whole room gasped, well except for Percy and V. The son of Mars, startled of the sudden pain in his legs, shouted and fell to a knee. He looked down at his lower leg and saw blood dripping.

"What happened?" everyone seemed to say.

"Son of Nemesis, goddess of Revenge, remember? If you stab me, you'll end up dead. Literally." N announced. He looked at the shocked faces in the room. "Oh, don't look at me like that. Any son of Nemesis can do this with enough practice. And it's not like I can use it all the time. The energy drain would kill me. Now, Ace, if you don't have anything for me to do, I was doing something more important than showing off for you," He said. Percy rolling his eyes. Some Romans glared at N; how can he talk to his superior like that?

N left without even waiting for Percy's reply. The room was silent. "Oh, c'mon guys," Percy said trying to break the silence. It was driving him crazy. "It's Nemesis we're talking about. It can't be that surprising, right? I mean, who do you think gave Cain his curse? You know, Mark of Cain." Now, this didn't help the silence at all. Now jaws were dropped.

Percy groaned. This is going to be a long meeting.

The next morning, people were up and about at 5AM. All of them were scurrying to take a bath, eat, prepare their weapons and such. The Pack said that there would be punishment for those who were to come on their designated training grounds later. They'd rather not risk it.

Meanwhile, Mars had sent some of the Pack to look for signs of any of the titans or giants or other of the dreaded creatures have begun rising.

By the time it was six, almost every camper had arrived at their appropriate location. But, of course, there were still campers late. Needless to say, they were separated from their group and was brought to the infirmary for their 'punishment'

After a quarter of an hour or so, the late comers joined the training with shaky legs. They were trembling all over as they walked. Everybody saw them and everybody was so scared that Percy was sure no one would be late for tomorrow or any other day.

The funny thing about the morning's training was that for six hours straight, all they did was run. What happened to the special training?

"You better not be wasting their time"

Percy raised an eyebrow. That was a familiar voice. He turned around.

"Ah, the immortal Jason Grace. Good morning to you too" Percy smiled and offered his hands. Jason just looked at it warily. He looked at Percy in the eye, trying to see if he could get pass through the Ace's suit and see the color of his eyes.

"How long are you gonna make them run?"

Percy looked at all the campers trudging along. "Every morning, the whole morning, for a week"

Jason shrugged, "Stamina?"

Percy nodded, "Stamina. Who cares if they didn't kill the monster if they bring a fellow camper safe back to camp?"

Jason nodded his approval when Percy said, "Hey, aren't you supposed to be sparring with one of my brothers? You're late for the immortal's training workout"

Jason grunted. "I was late. I just finished the punishment and I was on my way to the training grounds. Your pack's punishment on the late comers are awesome, by the way. Not that it affected me much"

Percy shrugged, "No surprise there. The visions created by my brother? Yeah, he's a son of Phobos. They were just to scare them."

"Hahaha, by scare you mean show them visions of circumstances where they let others die because they didn't train enough when they could?" Jason shook his head. "Well, you better go start sparring" Percy said

"What if I want to spar with you?"

Percy smirked. "Maybe someday"

Jason nodded and said, "You're not bad, Ace. Actually, I purposely came here to tell you that the Roman senate has acknowledged the Pack"

Percy smiled, "Let me guess. Reyna convinced the mortal praetors and the senate?" Jason nodded with questioning eyes. "That is so like her"

Jason asked, "You know her?"

Oops.

Luckily, someone cut through their conversation. "Dee?" Percy asked rather neutrally. His voice a bit lacking in emotion. "I want to talk to you," the daughter of Poseidon said. Percy was annoyed, but his curiosity took over and besides, he needed to escape Jason's question. "Okay." he said coldly at Dee and turned to Jason and said, "See you later"

Percy walked forward not waiting for Jason's response or waiting to see if Dee would follow

Everything still looked the same, much to Percy's surprise. It was very nostalgic. How many centuries has it been since he last saw this. There was a part of him that refused to not care about this. He missed this place and all the memories it held. There were few sour memories here and this used to be his home.

"Why did you bring me to Poseidon's cabin?" Percy asked.

Dee looked at him with her piercing sea blue eyes.

"Don't call him that disrespectfully. He's our father"

Percy froze.