"Who is that weirdo and why did he call you Peter?" Little Percy asked causing the entire camp including Hermes to explode in a fit of laughter leaving Dionysus with a headache.
"That mini me is Dionysus, the god of wine," Percy said as slowly the child of Pan started to pale a little, "don't worry, he might look me but underneath it all he's a big softie. And sometimes he purposefully calls you by the wrong name, but that's just because he doesn't like getting close to any demigods."
Percy then turned to Hermes, "and you see that thin dude in the red track suit, he's Hermes god of messengers, your grandfather."
Hermes blinked, "he's my legacy?"
Percy shook his head as his smile grew bigger, "nope. Percy," he turned to the kid, "why don't you introduce yourself?"
"A-ah, you sure?" The little boy asked uncertain.
Percy nodded, "go ahead man."
The boy nodded as he slowly walked forward, "ah, hi everyone. I'm Percy Decker, and I'm the son of Pan."
The camp went silent when suddenly Dionysis got off of his seat so fast Percy swore he heard the sound barrier break, "WHAT?! YOU'RE THE SON OF PAN?!"
"Percy are you sure?" Hermes asked as he zoomed up to the kid before looking at him with a keen eyes.
"Yeah, my powers for identifying demigods kicked in and told me so-"
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"-The kid felt like the forest, like Grover did. But it was more powerful, more.... Godly. So I put two and two together. Was I right?"
Hermes nodded, "he has Pan's eyes, I'm not sure, but I think he is Pan's kid."
Just then a green Satyr head appeared over little Percy's head lighting up the ground with it's forest green glow.
"Well that settles it," Percy said smiling, "you're definitely Pan's kid now."
The entire camp bust into chatter and whispers as everyone gave the boy side glances. Little Percy fell into himself in agitation and worry.
"Percy what's going on?" The kid asked.
Percy knelt down and placed his hands on the boy's shoulder, "it's simply mini me, you just got claimed."
"What does that mean?"
"Why don't you look up and find out?"
The boy did just that and when he did he saw the green Satyr head above him glowing brightly, "woah!"
"Yup, that means your dad just acknowledge you as his son, pretty cool right?"
"Yeah, but why does everyone act like it's a big deal? Their acting like I'm different. This is normal right Percy?"
The son of Poseidon nodded, "relax mini me it's perfectly normal. It's just.... remember when I told you that you were an extra special demigod because of your dad?"
The kid nodded, "yeah."
"Well you see mini me your dad is the lord of the Wild and recently he's gone missing. No one knows where he is, your mom was probably the last person to have even seen him and you are his son. You're a big deal kid."
"Percy the little one looks hungry," Hermes spoke up, "maybe we should get him something to eat."
Percy nodded, "that's right you haven't had anything except some french fries."
"It's okay, I don't get hungry often," little Percy said holding onto Percy, "if it's all the same with you can I stay here?"
Percy looked to Hermes who shrugged. Percy smiled, and turned to little Percy, "sure mini me, though you're going to have to let go my leg. I have a job to do and I need the leg to do it. How about this, see that pretty blonde girl over there with the know it all type of attitude?" Percy pointed to Annabeth who huffed in amusement at the know-it-all comment,"that's Annabeth, one of my best friends, why don't you wait with her and she'll make sure to make you feel at home."
Little Percy nodded and quickly walked away leaving Percy alone.
"Well if that was just the first one this might turn out to be a longer day than I originally thought," Dionysis commented as he took a swing from his can.
Percy nodded and quickly pulled out the second demigod, Jonathan Filius, his half brother.
The man wore a khaki formal soldier's uniform without the cap on top. Medals lined his left uniform and on his right hip was a holstered gun. The man had blonde hair but his eyes were a shade darker than Percy's. He looked around dazed and confused.
"Wh-where am I?" The man asked looking at all the kids, "who are you all?"
"Hello John, my name is Percy," Percy said drawing the man's attention to him, "can I call you John?"
The man blinked, "ah, yes, yes you may. Where am I?"
"John I need to ask you a few questions okay? What was the last thing you remember John? Before all of this, what do you remember?"
"I was-I was going back to the hotel," the man said as the visible struggle to remember things clouded his mind, "I was going back to my hotel when a friend dragged me into the casino. It was so nice there and...and.... I just stayed there. Oh good lord how long was I in there?"
"60 years, give or take," Dionysis commented.
"Dude! Not cool!" Percy cried out.
"60 years?!" The man shouted, "that's impossible?! How could I have been in there that long?! I remember being there only for a month! Two at the most!"
"Woah, woah, relax man everything's alright," Percy interviewed seeing the man going into a visible melt down over this, after all he just learnt that he outlived the era he grew in. "Your safe here, do you know who you are? What you are?"
"What?! Just what the hell are you insinuating boy?!" The man shouted.
"Wow relax man we are all friends here, none of use are insinuating anything," Percy quickly replied defusing the tension, "we just want to talk, that's all. So let's not do anything, irrational," Percy's eyes went to the man's pistol.
John looked at Percy and then at the rest of the camp, "where am I?"
"Your in place, a special place for people like you."
"People like me?" John asked again as his voice was layered with anger, "what do you mean people like me?"
"You know," Percy said motioning for the man to catch on but he never did, "wait.... You don't know do you?"
"Don't know what? That I'm a bastard?!" John's voice came out harsh, "yeah I know that alright, you people never let me forget it."
'Ah so that's why he was acting cranky. He must have been bullied in the army for being born out of wedlock. The 1940's must have been tough for him' Percy realized.
"Well then if you're bastards then so are the rest of us," Percy said motioning to the rest of camp, "aren't we guys?!"
"Yup!" Someone cried out.
"Totally 100% bastards!" Peter yelled out.
"And you're the biggest one Percy!"
"Shut up Michael!" Percy yelled again before turning to John, "look John we are all the same. We all share something in common. Each of us has a parent who was...well first tell me this, do you know Greek history?"
The man nodded dumbly still stunned by the entire camp openly admitted to being bastards, "yes, I learnt a little in college."
"Well then you know about demigods then."
The man nodded, "yeah, but what does that have to do with me?"
"Tell me John which deviation of the US armed forces were you assigned to? I'm guessing it was the Navy, right?"
John nodded, "yeah, how did you know?"
"It's because of who you are John," Percy said, "you chose the Navy because you felt a deep connection to the sea right? You feel so closely connected to it that sometimes when you swim it almost feel like you can breath underwater goth?"
John's eyes went wide in surprise, "h-how could you possibly know that?"
A few Athena kids had figured it out as well as some of the smarter campers. Dionysis simply just groaned out, "great, another one."
"It's because I'm the same as you John," Percy said as he approached the man, "I feel the exact same way you do when it comes to the sea. I feel it strengthen me, and do you know why John?"
"Why?"
"Because we are brothers," Percy said as he used his mana to call forth the moisture in the air to form a water trident, "and we are the children of Poseidon, the God of the Seas."
John looked stunned and with wide eyes at the trident as he slowly touched it. The monment he got a good grip on it Percy let go allowing John to control the water. Suddenly a bright green trident appeared over John's head acknowledging him as Percy's brother.
"T-This is amazing!" John exclaimed as he twirled the weapon around, "how is this even possible?"
"Because you are a demigod John, like everyone here," Percy said, "you are a child of the Greek Gods."
"God is real?!"
"Well the Greek gods are, so is the Christian God but we try not to think about him."
John still looked skeptical, "so the Greek Gods are real?"
Percy nodded, "yup, hey if you want proof just looked behind you. See that guy in the red track suit? That's Hermes messenger of the Gods."
Hermes smiled and waved as John waved back stunned, "he's a God?"
"Yup."
"Are you sure? Because I don't think that a God would dress like that."
After that little comment Hermes threatened to try and kill John. Eventually everyone calmed down and Percy had Nina sit down with John and explain to him what was going on. Percy wished he could do it himself, after all the man was his half-brother, but he still had 22 demigods to release.
Percy quickly went through the rest of the demigods. Luckily after the first five or so, calming them down and explaining the whole trapped in a place that diluted time story came to him easily. Percy first claimed the understandably freaked out demigod before one of their fellow siblings, or anyone who ventured, took them into the Big House and explained to them what was going on.
There were around 4 children of Ares, 1 daughter of Hermes, who was immediately hugged by the God of messenger, a daughter of demeter, a son of Hecate, 2 children of Morpheus, a daughter of Aphrodite that kind of resembled Marilyn Monroe, a pair of twin sons of Apollo, a daughter of Pothos (god of Lust, and gods was she lust worthy), a son of Nemesis, a son of Nike, a daughter of Hebe, a daughter of Notus, two children of Athena and two children of Hephaestus.
Needless to say it was a long process.
Luckily most of the people who Percy released didn't want to go back there, they hated the experience. Most of demigods were children, around 12-14, they had usually stumbled onto the Lotus Casino when they were being chased by monsters. Most say that when they were in trouble the casino would just magically appear in front of them and they would go inside to hide now knowing the dangers inside.
There were three adults in total, including John. The other two adults was the daughter of Demeter and the son of Nemesis. The only reason the demigods had survived so long without knowing their true origin was because they had all joined the military early on in their life and were protected from any monsters. The daughter of Demeter was a nurse while John and the son of Nemesis were old army buddies that got trapped in the casino together.
Eventually though there was only two left. Percy had been saving these for last.
The son of Poseidon reached into his inventory and pulled out a 12 year old girl dressed in a fancy dress. She looked at Percy and then to everyone else around her before stammering out a response, "where in God's blue Earth am I?"
"Somewhere safe Bianca," Percy promised her as he put her down making sure she was steady before reaching in and pulling out Nico as well.
"Let go of me asshole!" The little boy kicked and screamed as he tried to punch Percy the moment he came out of the inventory, "what did you do to my sister?!"
"Nothing!" Percy protested as he jumped away from the son of Hades fists, "see there she is safe and sound."
"Nico what are you doing?" Bianca yelled out causing Nico to stop and look at his sister.
"Bianca! Your safe! I thought he hurt you!" Nico jumped and hugged his sister.
"Hurt me? Why would he do that? In fact who are you? Where are we?"
Percy sighed and eventually gave her the now routine speech about her being a demigod and her being trapped in that casino from over 60 years, blah blah blah.
"Wait so you're all," Bianca said looked at all the people gathered around, "demigods?"
"Yup," Percy nodded.
"And so are we?"
"Yup," Percy nodded.
"I-I don't know what to say to that," Bianca said as she looked around in shocked.
'Her entire understanding of life had just been shattered. She had just learnt that not only did she have a dad, he was basically immortal and a God! She didn't know what to say, or do,' Percy thought to himself, 'it's reasonable she is having an emotional crisis.' He then turned to Nico who had his head hung down as he was visibly trembling, 'poor kid, he must be overwhelmed.'
"COOL!" Nico yelled out jumping up, "so wait am I a God too?!"
'Guess he was shaking in excitement then,' Percy told himself as he gave the kid a smiled, "well no, you're a demigod, half God, half man. And as cool as a god is, we are cooler."
"Ah-hum," Hermes cleared his throat.
"You should get that looked at Hermes, don't want a throat infection or anything," Percy said with a sly smile.
The god grumbled as Bianca then spoke up, "so wait, does that mean our father is a God?"
Percy nodded, "yup, but first tell me, how much do you know about the Greek Gods?"
"Lots!" Nico exclaimed, "there's the Olympians, Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, Ares, Hephaestus and his wife Aphrodite, Hera, Demeter, Apollo and Artemis, Athena, Dionysus! And then there are the minor Gods like Hecate and Morpheus, oh and spirits like the Satyrs and other things, wait is that guy Hermes?!" Nico yelled out charging the God who looked stunned, "so cool! I always wanted to meet a God! Hey is it true you onces stole Apollo's cows? How did their milk taste? Do you actually have winged sandals? What's your top speed?"
Hermes just blinked at barrage of questions, "ah, well, yes, their milk tasted great, like caramel, yes I do have sandals with wings on them though these days I prefer sneakers and my top speed is just below the speed of light, I think, haven't really tried."
Percy smiled and turned to Bianca, "Nico seems to be having fun."
The girl sighed, "my brother has always been....extremely obsessed with Greek Myths."
Percy nodded, "as he should be, after all he is part of them now."
"Okay fine you have said your piece about us being demigods and the like, but where is the proof?"
Percy snapped his fingers and formed a trident out of the water in the air and twirled it around, "proof enough for you?"
"Wow!" Nico shouted rushing towards Percy, "that's so cool! Your a son of Poseidon right? If not you're probably a son of Triton or something! Wait can I do that? Are we children of Poseidon too?!"
