Okay now it's starting to get awkward, I looked towards Thalia and my sisters for help with the situation and it seemed that only Thalia wanted us out of this situation because I swear I could hear my sisters making ship names for all of us making me blush.

"Um... I think we may need to tell their mom that we need to take them to camp. So please, put the girls DOWN!!!!" Thalia yelled towards the four boys and earning a glare from each boy and a grateful look from the four girls stuck in the situations of the boys starting at them.

Like I said awkward.

Once the boys released us girls we sprinted to the changing rooms to grab our bags and it was only then that I realized that my bow and quiver of arrows turned back into the necklace I have had since I was a baby, I had the design of the moon with an arrow going through it, which also happened to be the symbol of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, archery (along with Apollo) and the moon.

"Hey, Serena?" Piper said, so I turned towards her.

"Yeah, Piper? What is it?" I asked her.

"Where did the bow and quiver come from and where did they go?" She asked with a curious look that straight away had Annabeth and Thalia's attention and I just pulled out my necklace.

"I have had this necklace since I was a baby and I used to hear a feminine voice say comforting things to me in the orphanage when I was in Greece and say that when the time is right the necklace will help me. I thought it was a sign from the Gods. And a couple of minutes ago when I saw the boys unconscious and Annabeth and Thalia struggling to defeat the monster. I heard the voice say 'Pull on your necklace and help your friends, my deer' and when I did well.... that's where I got my bow and quiver and I'm guessing that it turned back into the necklace when the monster was defeated." I explained to them, when I was done Annabeth and Thalia both had wide eyes and were looking back and forth from me to my necklace.

"I think we better get going, because if that myth is real then I really do not want to meet any of his friends." I said snapping them out of their trance and back to reality.

"Yeah, your right there." Annabeth said while Piper and Hazel were trying to keep my sisters calm and explaining about all the different Greek myths and legends that I have heard from before I can remember.

"So, what other myths and legends are true exactly?" I asked Annabeth while waiting for the boys outside.

"Well, all of them, really." She answered.

"Okay, so, Medusa, Prometheus, Circe and the Gods are all real?" I questioned her not noticing Percy come up behind me until he answered the question I just asked.

"Oh, they are real all right me and Annabeth have had personal experience with each." He said and with my natural instincts of self-defense I flipped him over my shoulder and pined his arms behind his back getting an 'Owwwww' from said boy.

"Sorry, Percy. But seriously don't sneak up on me. Wait you have met Medusa, Prometheus AND the Gods and still live. Frank and the girls I can understand but you, Jason and Leo.... not so much." I said and was met by the girls and Frank laughing and Jason, Leo and Percy glaring at me.

"She's got you there, Seaweed brain." Annabeth said in between fits of laughter and Piper, Thalia and Hazel all nodded in agreement.

"So, wait if the monsters and gods are real, what about Demi-gods are they real??" I questioned because out of all the myths and legends, the legend of Artemis and the stories of Demi-gods were always my favourite. They all just toppled over in laughter and were met with the confused faces of Alice, Lily and myself.

"What?" The twins asked yet again in unison.

"Have you not guessed yet?" Thalia asked, to which I slowly started shaking my head but then stopped.

'OH MY GODS, the thunder and lightning, the lights turning off..'

"Ω θεοί του Ολύμπου" I muttered but of course they heard and started of another round of laughter.

"You're all Demi-gods?" I ask to see if I was correct.

"Ding, ding, ding" was Leo's response.

"So, just a question of pure curiosity now, who are your godly parents?" I asked while basically bouncing of the balls my feet, what you can't blame me I love the stories about Demi-gods such as Achilles, Perseus and Heracles.

"Athena" Okay so Annabeth is the daughter of the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy.

"Hephaestus" Leo is the son of the blacksmith of the gods and god of fire.

"Mars" Frank is the son of the Roman equivalent of Ares god of war.

"Aphrodite" Piper is the daughter of the goddess of beauty and love.

"Pluto" Hazel is the daughter of the Roman equivalent of the king of the Underworld and guardian of Tartarus.

"Poseidon" Percy is the son of the God of the sea and earthquakes and creator of horses.

"Jupiter" Jason is the son of the Roman equivalent of Zeus king of the gods and god of the skies.

"Zeus" And finally Thalia is the daughter of the king of the gods and god of the skies.

"Wait, doesn't that mean that Zeus, Poseidon and Hades broke their vow from having any children ever again?" I asked them after remembering the legend of the big 3 taking an oath to not have children after World War 2.

"Yes and it was twice for all of them but Hazel here doesn't count." Annabeth said but that just added more confusion to the situation.

"Huh?" Real classy, Serena. I scolded myself.

"I was born in the 1940s but something happened and well I went to the Underworld because I died and a few years ago my half-brother, Nico found me and brought me back." Okay, now it makes sense.

"Okay, so, you have Hazel who doesn't break the oath and you have Thalia and Jason that Zeus broke the oath, Percy that Poseidon broke the oath, this Nico, dude where Hades did break the oath but who are the other two?" I asked making sure that I knew about it before this camp or whatever.

"Well, you have Percy's half-brother/cyclops Tyson, who is actually a big kid more than anything. And you have Nico's sister, Bianca who unfortunately died on a quest." Thalia explained.

"Sorry, I'm just too curious for my own good." I told them as we stepped into my house and headed to the living room and knowing mum for a few years you learn that at this time of day she is either in the music room playing the piano or in the living room reading one of the mythology books that she got from me for Christmas because she was interested in Greek mythology.

"Mum, we're home early today." I called out as we stepped into an empty living room, just then I heard the piano in the music room playing, Skyfall by Adele, one of mum's favourite songs.

"Hey, Al, Lil's you thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked them, because like I said earlier we play our own instruments, actually, they took more of a liking to drums and bass guitar while I can play multiple instruments.

"Yep" and again with the speaking in unison.

"Okay, you grab your guitar, Lily and Alice set up the drums as quietly as you can behind mum and I will grab my guitar and the microphone for Lily seeing as she knows the lyrics of-by-heart." I told them and I showed our new friends (yes we decided to call each other friends on the way home) to the music room and put a finger to my lips motioning them to stay quiet, to which they nodded. And I raced off to get the guitar and the microphone that was in my room over the week because I make up my own songs.

Once I had both in my hands, I sprinted back to the music room which unfortunately is on the other side of the house and this house is huge, but I finally made it and still not out of breath.

"What took you so long? Alice and Lily are waiting behind your mum." Hazel asked.

"Well, my room is on the fourth floor on the other side of the house so I had to run up two flights of stairs and sprint down five hallways and get the guitar down from the top shelf in my bedroom and run back here." I explained while creeping into the music room and setting up the mic and sorting out the guitars and checking the drums and we started playing along with mum as it was one of the first songs we learnt together since I was adopted by mum three or four years ago.

By the end of the song mum still didn't realize we were there, she must have her headphones in.

"Do you reckon mum has the noise-cancelling headphones in or the ones where she has to have the volume on full to actually hear the song?" I asked the twins.

"Noise-cancelling headphones if she can't hear Alice on drums then it is definitely noised cancelling." Lily said while rubbing her ear that was closest to the drums, she's not wrong there though Alice is really loud on the drums.

"You're not wrong there." Then an idea came into my head and I swear that we will probably be shouted at by mum, but it's worth it.

"On the count of 3..." Lily said so that we knew when.

"1..."

"....2..."

"....3!!!!" We said in unison and started creeping towards mum.

"BOO!!!" We yelled while clamping our hands down on mum's shoulders simultaneously causing mum to jump out of her skin and whip around just to see the three of us dying of laughter and hearing the others giggling once she took the headphones out.

"Alice Harriet Jones, Lily Sophia Jones and Serena May Bella, what have I told you about creeping up on me like that?" Mum scolded us three that straight away stopped us laughing and have wide eyes as she has never full named us.

"Uhhhh.... mum, w-we have guests." I stuttered gesturing to the group behind mum "they're new to the country and we were hoping that we could introduce them to you." I finished after mum turned around.

"Hello, dears. I'm guessing that you are... oh, what do Americans call them, Ah... Half-bloods?" Mum asked, earning shocked faces from all of us teens. "Don't worry, I'm not a monster, but I am one of you, though I only see one of my half-siblings here." She finished once she realized that the others were looking back and forth from each other nervously.

"If you don't mind us asking, whose child are you?" Piper asked politely to mum.

"Well, I don't mind you asking, but I would have thought that you would have guessed with me and the music room and I doubt the girls have shown you the library, but I'm not a 'normal' Demi-god, I'm a daughter of both Athena and Apollo." Mum said to them, wait doesn't that make her a goddess, I'm guessing that the others had the same idea because they all asked simultaneously.

"Okay... Wait, what?!?!"

Published: 10/05/2019

Edited: 15/01/2021