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Assistant: Title: The theft that set it off
        Author: nlpiersee nlpiersee 
        Chapter: 1/7 
        Summary: The Hecate cabin decided they wanted to make a spell that showed them how they each came to camp as something fun to do. Of course, this devolves into every cabin trying to see how many people Percy Jackson helped reach camp or oriented on their arrival. Percy doesn't want to participate, he and a lot of his friends know that magic always reacts weirdly around him.And that was before the Fates decided to intervene.
        Contents: Chapter 1: New Spell
    

    


  

  
  
    
    
  “I think we’ve got it.” Lou Ellen said, as the memory of how Trinity got into camp faded away. “The biggest question is, if anyone else will find it as helpful as we do.”
 
  “I bet they would.” Trinity said, still smiling softly at where her memory had played. “So far, there’s been a recurring person in three out of five of our arrivals at camp.”
 
  “Percy.” Lou Ellen agreed, nodding thoughtfully. “I mean, maybe that’s just our cabin? Let’s go talk to the Demeter and Aphrodite cabins and see what they think.”
 
  “I still think the Apollo cabin would be more amenable to trying it out.” Greg argued from where he was sprawled across his bunk.
 
  “Hermes kids are usually up for anything.” Casey added, swinging a twizzler around.
 
  “We have Iris and Nemesis and Tyche we could ask, too.” Lou Ellen added, biting her lip. There were just too many options. “Ok, let’s split up. I’ll talk to Demeter and Aphrodite, Trin talk to Apollo and Ares, Greg talk to Iris and Tyche, and Casey hit the Hermes and Athena kids. If we can’t get anyone then, we’ll check with Hephaestus and go down the row.”
 
  As luck would have it, most of the cabins were in the arena arguing over who got sword lessons with Percy first since he was meant to come by camp soon. Usually Hermes got him first, but apparently Apollo and Iris cabins were no longer happy with that. Will was on his feet scowling at Connor who was gesticulating wildly with his hands as if that helped prove his point.
 
  “He was always with us, at first.” Connor finished, somewhat lamely, if Lou Ellen had a say.
 
  “Yeah, well it’s time he spent as much time with the other cabins. You can’t keep using the excuse that he was with your cabin before he was claimed. You don’t know him better than anyone else here.” Will said, scowling. 
 
  “I have a thought.” Lou Ellen said, drawing attention to the fact that the Hecate cabin had joined the debate. 
 
  “This should be good.” Nico snickered, looking on with an odd sense of excitement in his eyes.
 
  “We’ve just perfected a spell that allows us to see a person’s memory. We were curious how each of us arrived at camp and decided it’d be cool to see it instead of retell it, sort of like an Iris message. We’ve already tested it on ourselves and watched all the memories of our cabin, but we noticed a recurring person in each of our arrivals.”
 
  “Percy Jackson.” Nico said, nodding as if he’d expected it.
 
  “Right. He’s in at least three of five memories, either getting us to camp or welcoming us when we got here. So how about the cabin who has him in the most memories gets his time first?” She offered, giving a half shrug.
 
  “Ugh.” Conner groaned. “Great. I don’t think he had much to do with ours. Fine. If Solace agrees, then Hermes is in.”
 
  “If Hades agrees, and participates,” Will said looking at Nico pointedly, who rolled his eyes, “Apollo is in.”
 
  “I’m not participating in this for sword training, just fyi.” Nico said, holding up a finger. “As it stands, the Hades cabin has all of one camper so I’m at a 100% rate of Percy bringing my cabin to camp and welcoming us. I want to talk to him before I agree to anything, though. I won’t do it without his agreement.”
 
  “Excellent.” Lou Ellen said, giving them a smile. 
 
  “Demeter wants in.” Miranda said, standing up. “We never get time with him when he’s first starting.”
 
  “That’s fair.” Trinity said, chuckling.
 
  “What about Ares?” Clarisse asked, striding in and crossing her arms, her biceps standing out impressively in her cut off shirt.
 
  “What about Ares?” Will asked, raising an eyebrow and copying the crossed arms. Nico pursed his lips and tried not to snicker, but Lou Ellen saw it and winked at him, smirking when he blushed.
 
  “Jackson owes me a spar.” Clarisse said, as if it were obvious. “If you all are arguing about getting his time, we want in.” Sherman Yang, who was at Clarisse’s shoulder, cracked his neck and rolled his shoulders as if to intimidate them into submission. 
 
  “Then you’re game in participating in the spell to show your arrival to camp.” Will stated, staring Clarisse down, who smirked.
 
  “Fine by me. The twerp wasn’t here when I got here, so he won’t be in mine. Maybe some of the younger campers.” She shrugged.
 
  “How about,” Chiron said, striding into the arena, drawing their attention, “you all meet at the amphitheater to perform this spell? We’ll even get Ms. Dare to come and keep track for us.”
 
  “Who determines the order we go in?” Connor asked, before yelping when the wallet he’d snuck from Greg spouted sparks and burnt his fingertips.
 
  “Rachel.” Malcolm said, as if it were obvious. “Why not have the Oracle decide? It’s that or we go in order of cabin numbers.”
 
  “There’s no one here from the first three cabins.” Nico pointed out.
 
  “Yeah there is.” Thalia said, dropping into the seat beside Nico. “But what am I participating in?”
 
  “Hecate cabin made a spell to see how everyone arrived at camp instead of the orientation video which is psychologically scarring.” Will said, grimacing.
 
  “Ah.” Thalia said, lowering the dagger she had pulled out to clean her nails with. “Well. Mine isn’t pretty. Glad Percy was there on the second attempt though.”
 
  “Cool. So Hades and Zeus cabins have 100% rate at Percy getting us to camp or introducing us to everything.” Nico said, fist bumping Thalia who snorted and rolled her eyes.
 
  “Not counting Jason?” Connor asked, raising an eyebrow at the pair.
 
  “He was Roman. He went there first, at, like, two years old, so his introduction here was skewed. He already knew about everything before getting here, even if he couldn’t remember it. And Annabeth was there.” Thalia commented.
 
  “Yeah, and she hated him right off the bat.” Will agreed.
 
  “Rome and Athena don’t mix, so it wasn’t really her fault. Passed on grudges.” Thaila shrugged. 
 
  “I’ll send the cabins to the amphitheater, shall I?” Chiron asked, reminding them he was there.
 
  “Sounds great, Chiron.” Lou Ellen said, before heading off, each of the cabins present following along.
 
  When they arrived, Rachel was sitting and doodling on a notepad. 
 
  “What’s up, Rachel?” Will asked, looking at her warily.
 
  “Oh, nothing much. Just had a feeling I needed to be here. Not sure why, but have learned to trust that instinct. What are you guys up to?”
 
  “We created a spell to see the memory of how everyone got to camp.” Lou Ellen said, sitting beside her. “Now it sort of turned into a competition as to how many people had Percy here either as the one who brought them to camp or welcomed them. Whichever cabin has the most, gets lessons with him first.”
 
  “Well, he’s the one who brought me into all this.” Rachel hummed, finishing her sketch. It was a picture of what could only be a very young Percy looking down, as if he were attempting to appear small. 
 
  “You’ll keep tally for us?” Clarisse asked, looking over her shoulder and humming as if the picture were something she’d seen before.
 
  “Of course.” Rachel said certainly, flipping the page to another half finished portrait of Percy crouched on the floor with a scared yet defiant look on his face. He couldn’t have been more than seven or eight, and there was a shadow over him, like a fist raised to strike at him. “I wonder if he’d be willing to participate?”
 
  “Doubtful.” Clarisse scoffed, sitting with the rest of her cabin. “While everyone usually shares their secrets with him, his are completely unknown.”
 
  “What?” Nico asked, looking at her in confusion. “What do you mean?”
 
  “I mean Jackson never shares anything. Ever. I couldn’t tell you anything about him outside of camp.” She said, leaning back. “He doesn’t share or open up. He’s worse than us.” She gestured to the other Ares campers who grunted in agreement.
 
  “So none of you know how he got here?” Lou Ellen asked, frowning.
 
  “Well …” Connor said, tilting his head. “That’s not entirely true. Annabeth, Clarisse, Malcolm, and me and Trav were all here when he showed up. But we don’t really know what happened or how he got here. He was unconscious for like three days. All we could do was speculate because no one could make a lot of sense out of what Grover was saying. We know the Minotaur was involved, and that something happened to his mom. But that’s really it.”
 
  “I’d love to know how he got here.” Piper said, sitting down with the Aphrodite cabin that she had begun insisting attend lessons like everyone else, to know how to fight better and not just be barbie dolls. “And why everyone was so freaked that he was missing. No one talked about it when we set out for Rome.”
 
  “What?” Will asked, his voice cracking. “No one told you what he did for us?”
 
  “No.” She said slowly, frowning at him. “Aside from that, no one here ever talks about it. Annabeth said a few things in passing, but that was it.”
 
  “That’s b@llsh@t.” Thalia said, scowling. The hunters all sat at the back, staying as far away from the other campers as possible, all scowling along with Thalia. “Guess y’all are in for a history lesson then, once this is all said and done.” She paused and looked at Nico with narrowed eyes. “He won’t volunteer, will he?”
 
  “Doubt it. Unless the kids give him their puppy eyes. He’s useless against them. Oh schist.” Nico looked back with widened eyes. “The spell shouldn’t show that, right? Only his entry to camp?”
 
  “When has magic ever worked normally around him?” Thalia asked, biting the inside of her cheek. “Hopefully that’s all it shows. I’m not explaining that side adventure to anyone.”
 
  “Me neither.” Nico agreed.
 
  “Wait, side adventure?” Clarisse sat up, looking a little worried. “It shouldn’t go into those, right?”
 
  “Magic has always been weird around Percy.” Phoebe drawled from her place behind Thalia, looking thoughtful.
 
  “We’ll just go around for everyone, then.” Lou Ellen said, drawing their attention back.
 
  “Thalia, you willing to share as the Zeus representative?” Rachel asked, not looking up from her notepad as she worked on shading.
 
  “‘Spose. It isn’t pretty, though.” She said, pointing a finger at Lou Ellen.
 
  “No it isn’t.” Annabeth agreed, sitting with the Athena cabin who’d joined them. “I don’t have to participate, do I? I was with Thalia, so her intro is my intro, so to speak.”
 
  “Here.” Rachel said, handing a piece of paper to Lou Ellen that had the cabin’s by order all listed out. Zeus first, then down the row, Demeter, Athena, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hecate, Tyche, Hebe, Nike, Nemesis, Hypnos, Iris, Hades, Hermes, Hephaestus, Apollo, Ares, and Poseidon. She frowned at the list. 
 
  “Percy hasn’t agreed to share yet.” She pointed out.
 
  “No, but Tyson can.” Rachel said, inclining her head to where Tyson was hanging out with the Hephaestus kids. 
 
  “Oh. I hadn’t thought of that. Alright. Thalia first, then I’ll call out the cabins if you aren’t sure who’s next based on the order we start.”
 
  “Fine.” Thalia stood up and shook her shoulders out as if loosening up for a fight, cracking her neck, her knuckles and finally shaking out her body once more before standing by Lou Ellen in the center. 
 
  Lou Ellen recited the spell, and everyone looked up when the memory started playing above their heads. 
 
  Thalia was a bit younger, not by much, and she was tied up in a corner with Luke and Grover bound beside her, a cyclops standing over them a little too greedily. Out of nowhere, a tiny Annabeth comes out and stabs the cyclops in the foot before helping Thalia get free, who took out the cyclopes and the group made a run for it. There were hordes of monsters chasing them; hellhounds, scythian dracanae and and even the furies. They ran, Luke dragging Annabeth by her hand to help her keep up. Thalia screamed as one of the hellhounds tackled her, but killed it quickly before shouting at Luke, Grover, and Annabeth to keep going. 
 
  The big house was not far off, but Thalia knew she wouldn’t make it. She stood her ground, bleeding from the gashes the hellhound had given her. She took out monster after monster before she fell, her body badly injured and bl@@dy. She was dying. As her breath stuttered, she began to glow. Where she had lay dying, there was now a towering pine tree that shimmered as a shield surrounded the camp, where Luke, Grover, and Annabeth were all in tears and staring at the tree in shock. Anger flickered in Luke’s eyes, but he held onto Annabeth as she cried and screamed, trying to comfort her. 
 
  A storm shook the valley, lightning striking everywhere, especially near the tree. Annabeth was standing by the tree, clearly a teenager now, when Thalia was suddenly there, laying on the ground, completely healed. Campers all gathered, some crying, but most in shock, until Chiron came up with Percy jumping off his back and rushing forward straight to the girl on the ground, shouting instructions to get Ambrosia and Nectar before she opened her eyes, looking frightened. 
 
  “You’re safe.” He said gently, reassurance etched into his face as he helped her shakily to her feet.
 
  “Safe.” Thalia repeated. The same time as her image dissipated. 
 
  “Oh gods.” Lou Ellen breathed, not having expected it to be so gory or horrifying.
 
  “I was the first child of the big three since the forties.” Thalia said, her lips pursed. “I wasn’t supposed to exist. It didn’t help that I was traveling with two other demigods. Our scents combined drew in everything for miles. But … there you have it. My first attempt to get to camp, and when I finally got across the border that didn’t exist before me.”
 
  “Unbelievable.” Piper muttered. “I think I’ll take venti at the Grand Canyon over that.”
 
  “And that’s why I’m not participating.” Annabeth said, piping in. “Doesn’t make sense for you all to see the same thing twice.”
 
  “Well,” Thalia said, clapping her hands together before going back to her seat between the hunters and Nico, “that’s the Zeus cabin, with one Hermes kid and one Athena kid thrown in for good measure. Who’s next?”
 
  “Demeter.” Lou Ellen said after clearing her throat. This wasn’t turning out as fun as she’d expected. 
 
  She breathed a sigh of relief when Miranda Gardner’s entrance to camp, as well as her siblings’, were all uneventful. Just their parents dropping them off at the border. As Annabeth was abstaining from participation, they went through the rest of the cabin’s inhabitants. Malcolm had been chased by some karpoi, another camper had encountered a cyclops, but those were it. 
 
  One of them had been picked up by Percy and Annabeth in his beat up Prius and taken to camp while Percy sang a bunch of disney songs, including doing the various voices, making everyone watching laugh and clap for the performance. 
 
  “All of his road trips are like that.” Annabeth said, rolling her eyes. 
 
  “No they aren’t.” Nico said, frowning. “He’s usually got classic rock blaring whenever we go anywhere. You should hear him do ‘Separate Ways’ by Journey. He’s annoyingly good for someone who said he couldn’t sing.”
 
  “He’s usually got Green Day or Nirvana on when we meet up.” Thalia said, looking between them. “Is he purposefully playing music we like to get us to relax around him?”
 
  “Probably not intentionally.” Said Garrett, the kid who’d been in the car with Percy and Annabeth. “We were talking about his baby sister that his mom is having soon and I mentioned I had a five year old sister and he just turned it on. Made me less anxious, honestly.”
 
  “Aphrodite is next.” Lou Ellen said, looking over at Trinity to make sure she wrote that down. It was a curious fact that Percy seemed to be able to pick up on things that made people more comfortable so easily. 
 
  Most of Aphrodite had similar drop off routines to what Demeter did, aside from Piper. Her’s was a little more intense and several people had tensed up when she was harassed for being Native American before she was rescued from falling in the Grand Canyon by Jason, when Annabeth and Butch showed up, looking at them in frustration and disappointment, before crash landing in the lake at camp where Leo was claimed immediately.
 
  “Looks like you were always meant to be our leader.” Lacey said proudly, Mitchell nodding along, while Drew rolled her eyes.
 
  “I guess.” Piper sighed. “Think I’d have preferred just being dropped off. Granted, I’d have probably run away, but whatever. Who’s next?”
 
  “Technically Dionysus, but I don’t think anyone’s available.” Lou Ellen commented. 
 
  “He probably picked them up himself.” Nico said, leaning back eerily like Thalia.
 
  “He did.” Chiron confirmed, reminding them that they had an authority figure present. 
 
  “Next would be us, which all of our cabin has seen already, so it’s up to you if you all want to see them.” Lou Ellen continued.
 
  “Might as well show us.” Thalia said, taking a bite of an apple that Nico handed her before eating his own.
 
  “Right.” Lou Ellen said, trying not to think about how similar they were acting. “I’ll go first, then Greg, Trinity, Casey, and Jamie.” 
 
  She said the spell and when their memories were done, they were one more than the Athena Cabin had for meeting Percy right off the bat. Tyche had Chiara, but there wasn’t anyone else at camp yet with her. Percy welcomed her to camp, snickering as she cussed everyone out, eyes widening as she realized he understood her before she started talking to him excitedly. He admitted Nico taught him a little but she had to go slow for him to get it all.
 
  “I didn’t know you taught him Italian.” Annabeth said, her brow furrowed as she looked at Nico who was blushing.
 
  “It was only a little.” He reluctantly admitted. “He must have done his own research and learned more on his own, because I didn’t teach him enough to be able to understand Chiara.”
 
  “He helped me with my English.” Chiara admitted, shrugging before taking her seat again.
 
  “That puts Zeus, Hades, and Tyche at 100% Percy Jackson intros.” Rachel hummed, marking on her paper. “Next should be Hebe.”
 
  There were less than a dozen kids for Hebe, and half of them were younger and had been brought to camp with Percy getting them settled in. Nike was interesting as Grover had called Percy in to help the satyr who was struggling with the twins. They kept trying to compete with the monsters that were chasing them, shouting taunts over their shoulders and dodging out of the way. Percy whistled a New York cab hailing whistle, gaining their attention and challenging them to a race to the border. Percy was quick and the girls soon found they were competing with each other, since Percy had gotten ahead of them. When they crossed the border Percy high-fived them and told them to train as hard as they competed and they could beat him one day before jogging off.
 
  “Great. Zeus, Hades, Tyche, and Nike are 100% for Percy, and Hebe has over 50%, with all their campers.” Connor groaned in annoyance. 
 
  “Nemesis.” Lou Ellen called, and Damien stepped forward. To the chagrin of Connor, he was also brought in by Percy.
 
  “After Ethan,” Annabeth sighed, “Percy was determined to bring any other of Nemesis’ children to camp and ensure they felt welcome.”
 
  “Makes sense.” Nico agreed, tossing his apple core to Grover, who nodded in thanks before munching on it as he joined the crowd.
 
  “What are we doing?” He asked, sitting by Thalia.
 
  “Seeing which cabin has the most intros to camp by Percy.” Thalia stated, handing him her core as well.
 
  “Oh, cool. Hermes might win this one, just saying.” Grover said, leaning back like Thalia and Nico.
 
  “Really?” Connor asked skeptically.
 
  “Oh yeah.” Grover nodded emphatically. “He made a promise to Hermes after Manhattan and probably brought most of the kids here.”
 
  “Hypnos?” Lou Ellen said, looking around. “Did anyone want to wake them up and have them join us?” 
 
  “We’re here.” Clovis said groggily, yawning as he raised a hand up. She rolled her eyes. 
 
  “Going to participate?”
 
  “Nah. Percy didn’t pick any of us up.” He said, shrugging.
 
  “And you don’t want to share your boring arrival?” Miranda teased, snickering when Clovis rolled his eyes. 
 
  “Fine. I can do it.” He got to his feet and walked to the center where Lou Ellen was and letting the spell show his arrival. Granted Percy showed up in the background, giving him a nod before taking off up the climbing wall like it was a normal climbing wall in a typical fitness center and didn’t have lava flowing right next to his head. “Forgot about that. Watching him climb was insane.”
 
  “That doesn’t count.” Will interjected, before anyone else could say anything. “It’s like one of those cryptid sightings more than anything.”
 
  “Agreed.” Connor said, nodding his head. 
 
  “Iris?” Lou Ellen asked, nodding as Butch stepped up first.
 
  Butch’s memory started in a high school hallway where he had to jump out of the way as Percy rolled past on his skateboard before stopping suddenly in front of a middle-aged man wearing an exasperated expression. He said something about telling his mother, and Percy shook his head and promised not to do it again, but Butch snickered, drawing Percy’s attention as the man patted Percy’s shoulder before going into a classroom. 
 
  Percy introduced himself and said the man was his step-dad, fondly. Percy tilted his head curiously at Butch and started asking some weird questions, but Butch answered honestly. Something about Percy made him open up. Percy nodded as if confirming something and told him he wanted to take him somewhere after school if he was cool with an impromptu road trip. 
 
  When they passed the camp borders, Butch was claimed immediately and Percy showed him the new cabin that was being set up for him and any siblings they could find, explaining everything as best he could, before offering to take him back into the city or leave him at camp for a bit to learn more. Butch stayed and laughed at how weird the day had turned out after nearly being run over by a kid on a skateboard in the hallway.
 
  “Of course he’s a skater boy.” Thalia whined. “Dam.” She tossed a coin back to one of the huntresses who was smirking, while Grover started snickering.
 
  “He’s a dam good skater.” He said, still snickering when Thalia chuckled.
 
  “Dam kid.” She said, before they were both laughing.
 
  “Alright?” Lou Ellen said in confusion as Butch sat back down.
 
  “Inside joke.” Thalia said when she sat back up straighter.
 
  “Zeus, Hades, Tyche, Nike, Nemesis, and Iris, all now with 100% Percy intros.” Rachel hummed, sketching a new picture. 
 
  “Hermes is up, since Nico has abstained, at least until Percy gets here.” Lou Ellen said, watching all the Hermes kids line up. 
 
  Grover had been right. Out of the 15 kids there, nine of them were brought in by Percy personally. The only ones who hadn’t, were the kids who were there before Percy arrived.
 
  “Nice.” Connor said enthusiastically. “We’re up there. Definitely have to beat out Apollo.”
 
  “We’ll see.” Will grumbled, as Lou Ellen called the Hephaestus kids forward.
 
  Out of the six kids present, Percy had welcomed four of them, making Nyssa laugh at Connor’s annoyance. Will jumped up as soon as it was their turn, ready to see who they had that Percy had brought in. He’d gotten there the summer that Thalia came back, so he had met Percy, but hadn’t really interacted with him much since it was also a summer the camp was under attack frequently.
 
  The Apollo cabin was smaller than it had been in the past few years because of the number of campers they’d lost in each war, but Will didn’t like to dwell on that. He wasn’t entirely surprised when Kayla and Austin had met Percy at school and came to camp surprised to find him there. Technically their introduction with the Greek world started with Percy flying around the Garden of the Gods on what looked like mechanical wings while they were on family vacations there.
 
  “That doesn’t count.” Connor said loudly, jumping to his feet. “He didn’t introduce them to the Greek world, they just happened to see him during one of his quests. Not the same thing. It’s the same as the cryptid sighting thing you mentioned.”
 
  “Fine.” Will accepted through gritted teeth, while Connor sat back down.
 
  The younger kids knew Percy, as he had welcomed them to camp at the border and showed them around, looking as excited about everything as they were. So they still got three out of the six people present that Percy helped.
 
  “Ares.” Lou Ellen said, and Clarisse and her cabin stood up and waited while the spell was conducted. Clarisse had gone out and gotten several of her brothers and sisters after the Titan war, wanting to make sure they were safe. Percy went with her twice, since there were pretty strong monsters after the kids they were getting. When Clarisse and Percy fought the monsters, they moved effortlessly around each other, as if they knew exactly what the other was going to do. It was incredible to watch.
 
  “You two fight well together.” Nico said appreciatively.
 
  “We spent years training together.” Clarisse grunted, sitting back down with the rest of the Ares cabin.
 
  “Yeah, but you trained year round, he didn’t.” Will pointed out. “You moved as if you trained together a lot.”
 
  “We learned how to work together.” She admitted reluctantly, glaring at anyone who looked at her, forcing them to look away again.
 
  “What’s going on?” Lester asked, walking into the amphitheater with Meg, who promptly ditched him for the Demeter cabin.
 
  “Sharing memories with arrival to camp. Want in?” Will asked, watching him expectantly.
 
  “Uh, maybe? I don’t know what memories you’d get, though, from me. If it would be the real me, or this horrible mortal form.” Lester admitted.
 
  “Can always just do mine.” Meg said, jumping to her feet. “Maybe you’ll get to see how much this nerd drooled all over PJ.”
 
  “Shut up.” Lester hissed, face bright red.
 
  “Works for us.” Lou Ellen said, chuckling as Lester groaned and sat down with Kayla and Austin. 
 
  The image started with Lester falling into a trash bin as Meg hid and watched from a fire escape. Some street kids ganged up on him and tried beating him up, but Meg was a little terrifying in her defense of him. When Meg shouted that she claimed his service while he was telling her he needed to find Percy, thunder rumbled and Lester’s face paled. They found their way to Percy’s home and everyone snickered at Lester’s face as Percy opened the door and leaned against the door frame, lounging in basketball shorts and a swim team hoodie, reluctantly agreeing to let them in and eventually promising to take them to camp. 
 
  Connor cheered as Percy drove the Prius like a Prius really shouldn’t be driven, narrowly avoiding hitting trees, before they were cornered. Meg fought as best she could, a strange Karpoi popping up and helping them before Percy summoned water from the farming irrigation nearby and covered them with it to keep them from dying from the poison used. When he sneezed and blew up a pipe, several people’s mouths dropped open. When they finally made it to camp, the image dissipated. 
 
  “I hope that doesn’t happen in his apartment when he gets a cold.” Damien muttered, before they started snickering at the idea. 
 
  “Would definitely cause some issues.” Miranda agreed, still smiling, as Meg sat down once more.
 
  “Tyson? Want to show us how you were introduced?” Lou Ellen asked.
 
  “No.” He said, shaking his head. “Not unless brother is ok with it.”
 
  “Ok with what, big guy?” Percy asked, slapping his shoulders as he joined the crowd, grunting as Tyson yelled happily and picked him up in a hug. “Oof. Careful of the ribs, Ty.” He gasped, rubbing his sides when Tyson finally set him down.
 
  “Hecate kids have a new spell to show memories of kids getting to camp. They were trying to see how many you brought here.” Tyson said, sitting back down. Percy frowned and looked around at everyone, crossing his arms. 
 
  “Why does that matter?”
 
  “It doesn’t.” Nico said, waving his hand airily. “I didn’t share, neither did a few others.”
 
  “They thought it would be a better introduction than the ridiculous and cringe-worthy orientation film.” Thalia said, throwing a dagger at him that he caught and threw back before any of them blinked. 
 
  “Hey!” Lester exclaimed indignantly, but no one heard him.
 
  “Still haven’t ever seen that.” Percy grumbled, nudging his way between Thalia and Nico who both scowled at him, rolling their eyes when he leaned back like them. “Is this an all day thing? Like, how many lessons are we getting out of by doing this?”
 
  “Everyone’s done but you, kelp head.” Thalia said as Percy handed her and Nico a blue cookie, eating one himself. 
 
  “Gods you are practically the same person.” Annabeth said, chuckling when the three turned to her looking offended.
 
  “I’m not participating.” Percy argued. “Magic works weird with me, so with my luck, you’ll see me as, like, a toddler or something. Or that time Hermes popped into my shower to tell me about one of his kids.” Lou Ellen bit her lip so as not to laugh at the number of kids who turned red and fanned themselves at the thought of seeing that.
 
  “Maybe, but baby PJ is adorable.” Thalia said, snickering when Percy frowned at her.
 
  “I can’t believe she showed you all those.” He grumbled, finishing his cookie.
 
  “Shouldn’t have invited us into your house, then, nerd.” Nico shrugged, wiping his hands off on his pants.
 
  “Like Aunt Sally would keep something as great as baby-Percy pictures secret from us.” Thalia scoffed. 
 
  “It’s your own fault for leaving her alone with us.” Nico agreed, fist-bumping Thalia in front of Percy who pouted at them. 
 
  “Perhaps it would be helpful for you to share, Perseus.” Chiron said gently, but Percy’s pout melted instantly to a dangerous scowl that had Chiron’s tail flickering anxiously as if he sensed a predator.
 
  “It won’t.” Percy argued. 
 
  “Think about it while we have lunch.” Chiron said before cantering away from the amphitheater. Most of the kids followed, leaving Percy, Thalia, Nico, Grover, Will, and the hunters.
 
  “They saw mine.” Thalia said, fingering her bow. “It didn’t seem to traumatize them too much.”
 
  “Your entrance and reentrance were both extreme.” Percy muttered, frowning.
 
  “There might be others, Perce.” Grover said anxiously, biting his lip. “Who grew up like you.”
 
  “No.” Percy said, standing up and walking away a few steps. “No, I’m not talking about that. You made a promise not to bring it up, ever, G-man.”
 
  “You could help a lot of kids.” Grover said, standing up and facing Percy. Lou Ellen had stayed and loitered by the entrance to the amphitheater as she watched their interactions. 
 
  “What are you talking about?” Will asked, looking between them curiously. Percy’s posture was tense and he was gripping his pen so hard his knuckles were white.
 
  “Nothing.” Percy growled out, but Nico frowned at his tone.
 
  “Stop being an ass, Percy.” Nico said standing up. “It was just a question.”
 
  “No, it wasn’t.” Percy said, shaking his head. “No one here knows about my life before camp. And I’d rather keep it that way.”
 
  “So you’ll let Piper continue to think you’re nothing but a flake?” Thalia said, leaning forward and staring her cousin down. “I saw what she thought of you when she found out that we were looking at memories that you had a part in. She has a very low opinion of you.”
 
  “Let her.” Percy shrugged, which looked awkward with how tense his shoulders were. “I don’t care what others think about me. People have always assumed they knew me and what kind of person I was after looking at me. I don’t give a sh@t. Their opinions don’t matter.”
 
  “So prove them wrong.” Will said, stepping forward and looking angry. “Show them the cr@p you were thrown into at 12 years old. Show them how much you did for them to be able to have any sort of opinion and not be dead or enslaved right now.”
 
  “Will-” Nico said, but Will shoved his hand off his shoulder as he stepped closer to Percy again.
 
  “They need to know what you went through to get to us. Aside from Thalia, your introduction to camp is the most important one. We’d all be dead a dozen times over if it weren’t for you. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for those of us who have followed you for years. Do it for those of us that you’ve saved countless times. Do it for those who died, proud to have followed you.”
 
  “You really believe all that?” Percy asked quietly.
 
  “Yes.” Will said firmly, leaving no room for doubt. “You are NOT a flake or a poser or some idiot who got lucky. Show them, or,” Will grinned wickedly, “or I’ll have Nico get the albums and bring them here.”
 
  “Nico wouldn’t dare.” Percy argued, glaring at his cousin who raised an eyebrow at him.
 
  “I would.” Thalia said, finally standing up. “It won’t hurt anything cuz. Just humor them and we’ll leave it alone after that.”
 
  “Let me think about it.” Percy said after a few moments of intense eye contact, turning and heading for the beach. 
 
  “Guess that’s the best we’re going to get.” Will said, his lips pursed in a straight line as he watched Percy walk away.
 
  “He’ll agree, Sunshine.” Nico said, tugging his wrist toward the dining pavilion. 
 
  “He will.” Thalia sighed, nodding to the hunters who followed. “I just hope it only does what it’s supposed to do. The spell, I mean.”
 
  “Gods, me too.” Nico groaned.
 
  “Magic and children of Poseidon have never really mixed well.” Grover hummed trotting along with them. They nodded to Lou Ellen as she joined them, none of them questioning why she stayed behind.'
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