The New Demigods and...a mortal

Chapter 10: After school explanations

All nine of us trooped to Percy's house silently. Percy unlocked the door to his house and told us to make ourselves comfortable. We sat on the sofa while both Celeste and Natalia stared at us, waiting for us to talk. I looked at Percy and we started talking with our eyes.

Perce, get a cup of water now, they might want us to prove our powers... and I'll start the talking.

Okay...I'm on it, wait for me before you start.

Percy stood up and disappeared into the kitchen.

"Celeste, Nat, what we're going to tell you...it might come out as a huge shock, but don't be too afraid, there are many of us who are same like you both. As soon as Percy comes back, we're going to start explaining." I said, as Percy returned with a glass of water.

"Yeah, we'll let Annabeth do the talking, we can do the demo later, if you still don't believe us." Nico said.

"Okay. You know the Greek Gods and Myths we studies in class? Well, they're true."

"HA.HA.HA. Annabeth, this is not funny. Stop beating around the bush and come straight to the point!" Nat said, the looks on both twin's faces were incredulous.

"Well, it's true. The Gods have children with mortals, in which the children are called Demigods or Half-Bloods. Half God, half human. Percy and I, well, we both are Demigods. I'm a daughter of Athena, and the rest are demigods too. And we believe you two are also demigods. Most demigods are both ADHD and Dyslexic because ADHD helps us to react faster during a war, where monsters are out making you their targets. And yes, Wars. I'll get to that later. We have dyslexia because Ancient Greek is hardwired into our brains. You both have ADHD, Dyslexia, can see through the Mist, and can speak and read Ancient Greek fluently, thus both of you have a very high possibility of being a demigod, just like us." I said, silently hoping that they would believe it, though I knew with my experience of these explanations that they would doubt it at first.

"You want us to believe that? Well, I doubt so. What is the Mist anyway? And where are all the other so called demigods that you say are real? Show me some proof before we can believe it." Celeste said, a bit uncertainly.

Nat's eyes were as big as drachmas and her mouth was agape. I stared at Percy, giving him the cue to start his "act". I told the twins to stare at the cup of water that was right in front of them. Percy lifted his arms and concentrated on the glass of water. Suddenly, the water rose, and turned into a mini "Typhoon". There was a collective gasp from the twins as utter astonishment crossed in their eyes.

"That, was proof my powers. As a son of Poseidon, the God of the Seas, I can control water." Percy said.

Thalia summoned lightning and Nico summoned skeletons.

"I'm the daughter of Zeus, and Nico is a son of Hades."

Katie used her power over plants and grew a small flower on the grassy ground outside.

"And I'm a daughter of Demeter. And the Stolls are sons of Hermes."

"You both saw that. That was no magic, it was truly their powers as demigods. As the son of the Big Three, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, Percy, Thalia an Nico's powers are greater and more...obvious I guess. For Katie, it was a special power granted to her by her mother. All Demeter children have that power, except Katie's is particularly powerful.

The Mist is a veil of magic that prevents mortals from seeing the actual truth. Though very rarely, there are some clear-sighted mortals that can actually see through the Mist and of course, all Demigods can see though the Mist. For example, if I was fighting a Hellhound, from a mortal's Point of View, they could be seeing me fight a giant poodle, a truck etc. The Mist sometimes alter mortals' thinking, so that what they see is what they actually personally expect to see.

Have you encountered any monsters, those that you've seen in our Greek Mythology textbooks? Monsters are attracted to a demigod's smell, which are different from mortals'.

Percy offered, "You guys wanna sleep over tonight so yeah we can explain more? I don't think my mum will mind, then we can bring you straight to Camp Half Blood tomorrow morning. You three can share the guest bedroom."

Both of them nodded and Nat pulled out her phone to text her mom.

"I guess I believe you both now. So you're saying, our real Dad is a Greek God? Actually, we've been chased with what seems like a Hellhound last week...but it didn't really attack me and I thought I was going crazy then. And sometimes I see other monster-like creatures, but they also did not attack me. But why didn't it attack me?" Celeste questioned.

"Wait. That hellhound? Annabeth and I were attacked by it! It was after us instead of you! You see, monsters don't really go after those demigods who have no idea what they are...but they know that we know we're demigods." Percy explained

"Wow, I can't believe that Seaweed Brain actually knows some stuff! But it's true." I smirked.

We continued to explain the whole thing of Greek Gods and Demigods to them, how we had fought through two wars recently, against the earth and we saved the whole world. We all lowered our heads as we thought of the casualties...oh, Luke.

Also, I emphasized that we demigods had a 90% probability of dying every day, every moment, but that many of us survived until now.

"There are currently two camps for demigods, Camp Half-Blood for the Greek demigods, here in New York, and Camp Jupiter for the Roman demigods, which is in San Francisco. Basically, the Greek Gods are the Roman Gods with a different personality. I think we'll bring you to Camp Half-Blood tomorrow since today's a Friday. Also, you all need to be trained, there's something stirring." Katie continued.