Natasha fingered the green cloak at her shoulders. It had appeared after she had said the oath.

She looked to be about 20 now, with a smaller body and leaner build she was significantly faster now.

And that was before Percy had told about the blessing.

"Strength, speed, reflexes, agility, senses. The basics." He said flippantly before catching her gaze. "Mortal or demigod. I never want to loose a guard."

"And here we have the forge. Kayla said, petting her new pet chipmunk. "Leo will help replace and mortal weapons you have with immortal ones. I'll be waiting outside."

She Stepped back, a clear invitation.

Natasha or Nat as she was going by now, opened the tent flap.

To find everything on fire.

"Ah a Customer!"

The latino boy from earlier emerged from the flames, hair on fire but besides that he seemed unaffected by the flames.

"Best not let the new Guardian burn. Percy would get pissed. " He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Instantly, the flames went out, leaving nothing behind but the smell of smoke and metal.

"Alright." Lets see what you got." He held out his hands expectantly.

It felt wrong but Natasha gave him her throwing knives.

"Thats not all. Hand them over."

She grudgingly removed her near invisible widow stingers from her wrists. How had he known?

"Im Leo, by the way. Son of Hepheastus, god of the forge. I can make anything. And I mean anything short of magic but Jazz helps sometimes." He studied the knives. "I can have these done in a few minutes but the wrist things will take a bit longer."

"What are you going to do to them?"

"Nothing. I'm making copies with Celestial Bronze."

"Celestial bronze?"

Leo gave her an incredulous look before face palming. "Mortal! Sorry, forgot. Celestial Bronze is what we Greeks use to kill monsters and battle gods. But we mostly avoid the second one. Unless you're Percy. Anyways, its a divine metal that only cuts those worthy of the blade. Something with immortal blood. So it would pass clean through normal mortals. Unfortunately for you, your a Blessed mortal, about the equivalent of a legacy in the eyes of the bronze. But yeah, it doesn't hurt mortals and the Mist makes it look like something else. Baseball bats, crowbars. Travis was once in public and asked by a mortal why he had a yardstick strapped to his belt." Leo started to laugh. "That was funny. Anyways, mortal metal, like Iron and Steel don't work on monsters the same way Celestial bronze doesn't work on mortals. So I have to make you bronze stuff now shoo."

She was shoved out of the tent just as everything caught fire again.

Kayla was laughing. "Leo's crazy but good crazy. He's been here as long as Clarisse has."

"I didnt catch about half of that speech." Nat admitted.

"Its fine. Percy and the oldest Guardians are the only ones who can keep up with him. He's ADHD, even for a demigod. Ask away."

"Celestial Bronze?"

Kayla pulled a dagger from its sheath and handed it to her. "Stronger than steel, its mined from the heart of Olympus. A metal so divine that only Lord Hepheastus and his children can shape it. Slays monsters and hurts gods. Nasty stuff to be on the business end of. Other stuff that can kill is Stygian Iron but only children of Hades can use that. Artemiurian Silver, but only Hunters can use that. And Imperial gold. Greeks can use that but its mainly for Romans."

"Hunter?"

"The Hunters of Artemis. Eternal Maidens in the service of the Goddess of the hunt. Thalia is the Lieutenant."

"Oh. What about Legacies?"

"Kids of Kids of Gods. Quarter blood and below. They can see through the mist but they dont smell badly enough to attract monsters unless their one of their parents were a big three kid."

"Big Three?"

"Zeus., Poseidon and Hades. The three brothers."

"Oh."

"Alright. Enough Q and A. Let's see what you got." She tossed Nat a dagger and took a stance with hers out. "Quick Spar while Leo works."

Both took a stance and went at it.

"Told you , Clarisse." Percy said as he watched from the sidelines with the two lieutenants.

"If she was a maiden we would have snatched her up." Thalia said.

"We've sent plenty of girls your way, just like you've sent us people." Clarisse argued.

"Im just saying."

They were interrupted by Leo approaching them. "Thalia. Lord. Lieutenant."

"Hey Flame brain. What's up?" Thalia said.

"Just finished new girl's stuff. What do you think?"

Thalia picked pulled one of the bronze knives from its sheath. "Well balanced, sharp, decent weight. It'll do."

"Jazz enchanted the sheath to create a new knife every 10 seconds if its empty." Leo said, returning the blade. "I'll go give them-"

Something exploded, followed screaming.

"Clarisse can you give this to Nat. Bye."

Clarrise sighed and started heading for the Arena.

"Schist!"

"What?" percy said, jumping in surprise.

"I almost forgot. We brought a girl to Camp a few days ago. She has your-"

The ring of counch shells rang through the air.

Nat and Kayla stopped sparing as Percy started yelling for Camp to pack up and prepare for battle.

"We're eating at Camp tonight! Pack the tents, activate the traps. Weapons masters, man the lines. I want archers in the trees. Do not engage unless you must. Everybody else is on clean up. Now move. We're under attack! We move out in 5!"

"Oh gods. Those pesky mortals. They must have found us."

Kayla took off at full speed, dodging the stampede of Guardians trying to dismantle camp as quickly as possible before their teenaged God leader left without them.

"What's going on?" Nat asked Kayla as they rushed to the tents.

"Those guys you used to work for must be combing the last known place you were at. They cant see the camp but they can walk into it. Better safe then sorry."

She pulled a silver tab and her tent shrank to the size of a paperback book, which she stuffed in her back pocket.

"NO! SHRINK ME WITH IT!"

"I WILL NOT PULL YOU OUT LIKE AN OVERLY LARGE RABBIT LEO! GET OUT SO WE CAN PACK!"  Clarisse screamed back.

Kayla shook her head as the Guardian Lieutenant ran over. "Here." She said, giving Nat her knives. "You'll need these."

Nat strapped them on just as Kayla hoisted her pack up. "Ready!" She yelled. "Go get one of the bags on the ground. Make sure you haven't left anything or its gone for good."

Nat pulled on one of the bags, the med tent, onto her back and joined up with the rest of the group.

There were about fifty of them in total although she wasnt sure. Ten had swords drawn and were on the edges while archers stood just behind them.

"100 yards!" Jake, an archer, yelled. "I can see them."

"Lets go." Percy yelled, holding a bronze sword overhead, before it vanished. He knealt down and  picked up his mom. "Unless you know how to run at 150 miles an hour let me carry you."

Travis had Amelia on his back and the Guardians started to run, vanishing like they were going into hyperspace.

The group started to move, just as Connor picked Nat up and another boy picked up Wanda.

A squad of Shield soilders broke into the clearing just as everything went blurry, moving so fast that Wanda was unable to make out anything but her ride's face.

They left the mortals in the dust.

"Im Marc. Sorry. But unless your a hunter or Guardian there was no way you could keep up."

Nat could see Thalia running next to her, leaping gracefully over roots.

And more yet followed in the trees, jumping branch to branch at impossible speeds.

At one moment Nat could have sworn that moment that they were elves as they flew through the air like they had wings.

A few of the Guardians had sandals on, white fluttery wings attached to their ankles as they flew through the air.

Nat swore to ask about that later and enjoyed the ride.

They ran for hours, taking a break near the Pennsylvania border before taking off and running another 300 miles.

When the reached New York Percy called for the guardians to slow and soon they came to a stop in Central Park.

"Alright. We're here for two things." Percy yelled. "First. Our new Guardians things. I personally left my favorite shirt at the apartment."

The guardians laughed at his look of mock shame.

"Sally, Nat and I, along with Jake and Kayla will be doing that. Clarisse, you will be taking the Guardians on an important mission. Raiding all the New York candy shops between here and Camp for blue stuff. I wants bags."

A cheer went through the teens.

"I don't know why I cant make candy but I cant so heres a thousand dollars." He snapped his fingers and a huge wad of twenties appeared in his hand. "Split it evenly between the guardians and get everyone," He glared at Travis and Connor, "an equal part. We meet back here in an hour."

And with that, they split up.