°•° 3rd Person °•°

"What the hell is that?!" Clarisse sneered, grabbing her spear.

"I swear to God, if Percy isn't on that lump of metal-" Annabeth started, stopping as a giant green lion descended from the castle. It landed next to the strawberry field, roared, and opened its mouth. Out ran Leo.

"Holy shist! Did you guys see that?! That's a machine?!? Like, who built it?! I need to-" Leo's sugar induced rambling was stopped as Nico gave him a hug. "Since when have you been the hug type?"

"Well, it shut you up." Nico offered.

"Keith, how are you down there already? And did you change clothes?!" A boy in blue and white armor yelled, running towards Nico. He wrapped the son of Hades in a playful headlock.

"Lance, I swear to Gods-" Katie ran down and pulled Lance away from the confused half-blood.

"Katie?!" Annabeth asked, gasping. Pidge nodded slowly, a sheepish and somewhat embarrassed grin on her face.

"Uh, hi. Percy's in there, too, y'know." The daughter of Hephaestus said. Annabeth smiled and shook her head.

"I'm going to kill him." She said as tears filled her eyes.

"Please don't." Percy said, wrapping the daughter of Athena in a hug from behind. She smiled and turned around, bringing him in for a kiss.

"I would never." She said after a moment or two of passionate kisses (a moment heavily ignored by the surrounding demigods/paladins).

"So, what exactly-" Keith was cut off as the other four paladins, the six campers and the centaur stared at something just above his hair.

"Called it." Percy grinned as the symbol of Ares appeared over Keith's mullet.

"No fair, what about me?" Lance pouted.

"You're probably mortal." Clarisse said, turning to clap a confused Keith on the back.

"No, Riptide cut him." Percy said.

"Really?" Nico said, obviously impressed. "He looks a lot like Leo. Wonder what that's about."

"And you look a lot like Keithy boy. What of it?" Leo said, wrapping an arm around the red paladin's shoulder.

"Please never call me 'Keithy boy' again." Keith muttered.

"No problemo." Leo grinned.

"Aw, 'Keithy boy' esta muy-"

"Don't." Keith glared at Lance, who only shrugged. Suddenly, two symbols appeares over his head. Aphrodite and Hermes.

"Two godly parents?" Nico asked.

"Or godly grandparents." Percy suggested. Chiron nodded.

"Second generation demigod." He explained.

"Percy, I have a question." Annabeth pulled her boyfriend aside. Nico and Thalia shared a knowing grin. Leo smiled.

"Good thing I'm not dating anyone at the moment."

"So, did you know the whole camp thought you were dead?" Annabeth asked him. He bit his lip.

"Well, to be fair, there were days I thought I was dead too." Annabeth sighed.

"I'm going to literally kill you in capture the flag tomorrow."

Percy looked up at the castle. "I guess most of the campers know something's up."

"Okay, go back over there and talk to Chiron. Could you send Katie over, though? I really want to talk about that lion of hers! I've never seen anything like it, not even in Daedalus' notes..." Annabeth smiled as Katie walked up to her nervously.

"Hey." She said sheepishly. "How's, uh, life?"

"Pretty good. You left your staff here when you ran off. I figured you'd run away and try to find your family, but I never imagined that you'd be gone for three years. Or that you'd come back in a spaceship."

"Well, when I turned fourteen, I knew I needed to go to the Garrison to get answers. Seeing as I was banned from the premises, I had to make a fake name. I went by Pidge Gunderson for about six months before I got caught up in this big scheme with aliens, giant colored lions, and universe-conquering empires." Katie sighed.

"Sounds like a lot happened while you were gone." Annabeth smiled. She missed her friend. To be honest, she thought Katie was dead at first. If it weren't for Nico, she would've been under the impression that she was never coming back.

"Yeah. Well, it's good to be home. I wonder if anyone remembers me..."

"Katie, you helped save the world. You're a hero, just like Percy."

"And like you." Katie pointed out. "Don't pretend like you don't deserve any credit."

"Okay, okay. But don't worry about anything. Grover'll be happy to see you. Although I have to warn you, he's dating Juniper now."

"I'm not surprised. We broke it off months before I ran away." Katie scratched the back of her head awkwardly.

"Hey, Katie, right?" Leo grinned. "I'd burn you, but you're already smoking." (A/N - I have a valentine like this with Moriarty on it)

"I'm a daughter of Hephaestus. Judging by the dirt on your face and your obsession with my lion, I'd say you are too."

"Ew. Uh, sorry." Leo coughed and walked away, muttering something about "nobody being on Team Leo".

A/N - WHAT?!?! AN UPDATE?!?!?!?!

yep.

See? I don't lie about this stuff