**Percy**
"I'm going to kill you." Thalia broke the silence.
"I'd really rather you didn't. I smiled nervously. "I don't like being killed."
"Five years Jackson." Thalia took a step towards me. "Five years."
"About that..." I stepped back.
"Tell us why or I'm helping Thalia kill you." Nico threatened.
"One word...Nathan." I grimaced.
"I'm actually going to kill him." Nico growled, looking feral. "I've wanted to kill him from the moment I met him." He then started muttering all sorts of names in Italian, all of them suiting Nathan pretty perfectly.
"Nico darling." I said sweetly. "Stop calling people names in Italian when two of the party cannot."
"You speak Italian?" Nico look impressed.
"You get bored in five years." I shrugged. "Learnt a few other languages too."
"You must have gotten really bored then." Thalia shuddered. "I hate learning languages.
"In between fighting wars and stuff, I read a lot." I honestly don't know why, but one day I picked up a book and started to read it." I explained. "Alpha, Heros, whatever you want to call him, dared me to read a dictionary in a different language one day. Chaos agreed to take away my dyslexia for a day so I learnt Italian. I annoy Alpha by speaking Italian for a day at the randomest of times."
"What's with the names?' Grover asked.
"Alpha is Heros' ceremonial name but it just kinda stuck. Heros is Hero in Latin, he died a hero no matter what he did in his lifetime. Alpha was because it was a new beginning for him, a chance to rewrite his story. Omega is my ceremonial name, my other one is never used though. The End it means. I'm normally the last thing my enemies see, so 'The End' is fitting. And it was to represent the life I had before that ended." I explained. "And everyone's name is unique in the army, something to represent the person."
"So if Nico joined, he'd be Death Breath?" Thalia asked.
"I'd let him pick something." I shrugged. "You'd be Thalia di Angelo by then, though."
"I'm going to kill you." She scowled.
"You really want to kill me, don't you?" I laughed. "Nico, can you stop your future bride from killing me?"
'So I guess you're not revealing your identity to anyone else?" Grover changed to a subject as he saw the stunned look on Nico's face.
"I don't know." I shrugged. "Probably just you three. Maybe Leo."
"Leo would set you on fire for leaving." Nico pointed out.
"Ahhhhh..." I bit my lip. "So I'm guessing he didn't my disappearance well then?"
'Well, after he set Nathan on fire several times, and decided that if Nathan even did one thing to annoy him, Leo would try and send him to Tartarus. Oh and Leo locked himself in his room in the Hephaestus Cabin and refused to leave until he had pinpointed any location we might find you at on a giant map that is now on the wall in Bunker Nine. And how did i forget, Leo-"
"Alright Nico, I get it. leo missed me." I cut Nico off.
"Missed you is an understatement.: Nico chuckled.
"So where is he? I didn't notice anyone getting set on fire in Capture the Flag." I realized he'd been absent from the games.
Noticing the growling scowl on Thalia's face, Nico spoke hastily. "Let's not bring those Capture the Flag matches up around Thalia. She might murder one of us."
"Right, ok, no mentioning Capture the Flag around Thalia." I nodded. "So where is Leo?"
"Find Jason tomorrow and ask him." Nico instructed.
"I will." I nodded, although I was curios as to where Leo was and why Nico wouldn't say it.
"How long will you be here for?" Grover asked.
"As long as were are needed, then maybe a week or so after that. Most of the Army went to Camp Half-Blood in their lifetime. There are just a few who are heroes of the myths." I explained.
"Heroes of the myths?" Thalia asked.
"People like Perseus, Thesus. Orion is in the Army too but he had to take a small group to go fight on a different planet a few weeks ago." I sighed. "Best shot with a bow and arrow in the whole army. And we've got ex-hunters in there too."
"Well, if he ever joins you guys here, do me a favor?" Thalia asked.
"And what would that favor be?" I questioned.
"Keep him away from Artemis. She'd immediately know it was him and then she'd get upset when he left again." Thalia grimaced.
"Ok." I nodded. "But he'd probably want to see her."
"Try to keep him away then." Thalia sighed.
"Hey Percy?" Nico frowned.
"Yea Nico?" I looked at his puzzled face.
"Did Bianca have to stop Mrs. O'Leary before because she had smelt you?" He asked.
"Yep." I nodded. "Why else would she have tried to knock me over if she didn't recognize me? I would of had a lot of questions to answer."
"Well, she missed you." Nico laughed.
"I could tell." I nodded. "I'll go say a proper hello tomorrow."
"You also need to say hello to a certain pegasus." Grover informed me.
"Blackjack?" A grin lit up my face.
"Which other pegasus would I be talking about?" Grover bleated indignantly.
"How is he?" I asked.
"Well, he refuses to let anyone fly or feed him. He bit Nathan, and also kicked him in the back." Grover explained.
"That really isn't good. The fly or feed part. I approve of the biting and kicking Nathan though. But personally I wouldn't like to bite Nathan. Probably tastes funny." I scrunched up my face.
"You're right, it's not good." Thalia agreed. "And Nathan does taste funny. One of the wolves bit him and told me he tasted like dirt."
"Looks like I need to go see a certain pegasus then." I put my mask back on.
"Go see mom too. It's been hell living with Sally and Paul the past few years. They've missed you so much." Nico sighed.
"I'll take Blackjack and go see them." I decided.
"Good, see you around." Grover smiled.
"I'll come find one of you tomorrow and catch up properly." I grinned. "Promise you won't tell anyone though?"
"You have our word on the River Styx. Now go!" They swore and Thalia pushed me.
Let's go see Blackjack...
