Once we had captured Loki, Fury took him off our hands, with Thor staying to ensure that he did not escape again. The rest of us returned to Stark Tower, to 'rest and recuperate' as Tin Man put it. Clarisse and Nat had refused to be separated after a tearful reunion a few hours ago, which none of the Avengers had understood. No one had dared to argue with two annoyed Daughters of War who were holding sharp pointy weapons, so the others had to manage in the few undestroyed rooms.(A/N: Natasha is a daughter of Ares. She had left Camp when she had turned eighteen, but often visited her siblings. She returned to fight in the Battle of Manhattan against Kronos, and met Percy there.)

Leaving the others to clean up and get medical attention, I made my way to the beach. A few minutes in the ocean washed away all the battle fatigue and helped me feel fresh again, healing all the cuts and bruises I had got. Just then, I heard Dad's voice in my head. Percy, come to Olympus right now. Zeus wants to talk to you.

I teleported to the throne room, and joined Dad and Zeus, who were already there. Zeus looked annoyed. "Odin wishes to thank you, Perseus for your help in capturing the rogue Asgardian. He and I have talked it over, and agreed that you may reveal the existence of the Greek Pantheon to the Avengers, however, do not reveal the true might of the Olympians, including yourself. Or else, they will expect us to solve all their problems for them. " I was thrilled to hear that, for I hated keeping secrets from people I trust. We discussed a few other matters, before Zeus dismissed me.

I remembered my promise to Beth, and teleported to Cabin 0. She was sitting on her bunk, her face scrunched up in worry. "What's wrong, Bethie?" I asked her. She got up from her bed, and launched herself at me. "I was so worried Percy! I didnt know what had happened in the fight!" I felt guilty for not telling her sooner. "We're all fine. You didn't have to worry about anything. Besides, I'm an Olypian. Very few things can hurt me badly, and Tony, well he's more than capable of looking after himself, okay?" She sniffled and nodded.

"Hey Percy!" It was an IM from Chris. "We're going to have shawarma, at some place Tony knows, before Thor returns to Asgard with Loki. Are you coming?" I looked at Beth. She shook her head vigorously, mouthing, "Shawarma's horrible!" I turned to Chris. "Nah, you guys have fun, call me when you're back at the Tower, I'll meet you there." I swiped my hand through the Mist, cutting off the connection.

"Thanks for the tip, sis. Now where do you want to go?" I asked her. She shrugged. "How about we go meet my mom? I haven't seen her for a few months, and she'll love to meet you. And we can go to the Tower later?" Beth nodded eagerly.

Leaving her to pack a bag, I went to the Big House to talk to Chiron. I gave him the lowdown on the Battle, and told him about the stones. "I've seen three, Chiron. The one in Riptide, one in Loki's wierd stick, and I'm pretty sure the Tesseract has one too. They all have the same energy, but the stone in Riptide isn't doing anything special."

He looked thoughtful. After some time, he answered, "Percy, I have heard of the Infinity Stones, which, according to legend, possess the power of Chaos himself. Many say they were formed by the last remanants of his power, while a few, like me, believe that Chaos created them deliberately for a specific purpose. As for the Aether, I think that the threat you faced was not powerful enough for it to use its powers. Remember, each of the stones are sentient beings, but I am not sure as to what their purpose is. If my suspicions are correct, I cannot tell you about it, you must discover it yourself."

I huffed in frustration. Even though I was a God now, people still treated me like they had when I was twelve. "That is because you are still a Kelp Head like you were back then, Percy." Chiron joked. I had apparently spoken out loud. I left, before remembering something. "I'm taking Beth to the Tower for a few days, dont worry, she'll be safe. And the others will return sometime tomorrow. Bye Chiron! See ya later!"

Beth was waiting for me at Thalia's Pine. I teleported us outside the door of Mom's apartment. Beth rang the bell, and Paul opened the door. He looked happy to see me. "Sally! Percy's home, and uh-" he saw Beth, who waved nervously at him. "He's got a kid with him."

We went inside and sat on the couch, when Mom came out of the kitchen, wiping her floury hands on her apron. "Percy, it's so nice to see you!" she gave me a hug. "And you are..." Her eyes widened, "Poseidon's daughter?"

"Beth Stark. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Blofis."

"Call me Sally dear. Now if you'd excuse me, I've got to get the cookies into the oven." she yelled from the kitchen, "Yes Percy, they're blue!" The question died on my lips.

We sat with Paul in the living room, as he switched on the TV. It was a news channel, showing the Avengers fighting the Chitauri. The news anchor was saying, "The mysterious man fighting with the Avengers is unidentified, but it is quite obvious that he has hydrokinetic abilities-" As soon as I heard that, I switched off the TV. Mom did not need to know that the Avenger the people had dubbed Blizzard was me.

Paul raised his eyebrows, but did not say anything. Instead, he turned to Beth and started talking to her about Camp, and telling her embarrassing stories about me.

Beth's eyes went wide with awe when she heard what I'd done, and she was amazed that anyone could be so incredibly perceptive, but dumb at times. Finishing the story, Paul said,"That's all I know, but I'm sure Mr God here has done lots of other crazy stuff, right?"

I grinned sheepishly, before snapping my fingers. A set of ten books appeared on the Coffee table, all in Greek. She picked up the first one, and read the name, "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. It's about you?"

"All of them are."

Clarisse sent me an IM. "Thor's taking Loki back. You better get you butt down here, Prissy." She broke the connection. "Sorry, mom, gotta go. I promise to visit more, now that I'm gonna be in New York often."

"Why?" She asked.

Uh oh, she didn't know yet. "I kind of joined the Avengers, mom. Okay, good talk, see ya! Bye Paul!" I grabbed Beth's hand and left before she could explode. Mom does not take kindly to to me putting myself in danger.

We teleported inside the room Tin dude had given me and Jason. Superboy, who was sitting on a bed, and looking at a picture of him and Piper on the Argo II jumped six feet into the air. "Godammit, Percy! That's the fourth time you've done that!"

Bethie grinned, and answered before i could, "Well then, cuz, you should have been used to it by now." I high-fived her, "You stole the words from my mouth, sis. Great sassing!" Just then, JARVIS spoke up.
"Mr Grace, Percy, Mr Stark wants you in the lobby right now. Hello, Ms Stark."

"Hey JARVIS, Go on, bro. I'll be fine. Might as well set up a few pranks by the time you come back. JARVIS will help. Go on now, shoo!" She pushed us out of the door and slammed it in our faces. "So much for sisterly love." I sighed, before going downstairs.

Everyone was already there, dressed in regular clothes. "Let's get rid of the reindeer, so we can all go home, shall we?" Clarisse grunted. We made our way to the nearby bridge, where Thor was waiting, with Loki in chains and a muzzle over his mouth.

We watched as Bruce carefully transfered the Tesseract into a containment tube. Thor and Loki grabbed a handle on either side, turning them, and they were gone. Tin man turned to me and my friends. "Anyone willing to stay? I've planned a party for us. You kids interested?"

Chris and Nat grabbed Clarisse and stopped her from impaling Tony for calling her a kid. "No maiming the mortals, lil sis. We established that a long time ago." Nat reminded her.

"Mortal? What-" Spangles began, but I cut him off. "I'll explain. How about we go to the tower, and get settled in? It's going to be a long story. And I think there's someone you'll want to meet waiting for us there." He nodded.

I snapped my fingers, and vapour-travelled us to the 'Avengers' part of Stark Tower, depositing each of them in couches and chairs. All the others looked slightly green.

"W-wh-what w-was t-t-that?" Spangles managed to gasp out, before he stuck his head in the nearest trash can and lost his lunch.

"That, my inexperienced children, was vapour travel, and no Tin Man, you can't invent a way to vapour travel. The ability comes by birth." He shut his mouth which he had opened to ask a question.

"Let's get this over with. I'm not human." "I KNEW IT!!" That was Tin Man. "Neither is Nat, Clint or Phil." I continued. "Coulson? He seems normal, Widow and Feathers are a little wierd, that I agree."

"GODS, TIN MAN, GODS ARE REAL. Thor's told you of the existence of the Norse Gods, and I'm telling you that the Roman and Greek Gods are real."

"You guys are Gods?" Bruce asked. "Nah, we're just half-god. One of our parents is a God, the other is a human." The Avengers seemed dumbstruck.

"We'll introduce ourselves. I'm Percy Jackson, Son of Poseidon, that's-" "Percy, all your titles. All-of-them."Nico butted in. "Awww.. Come on, Neeks, we'll be here all day." I whined, but gave in.

"Perseus Jackson, Son and Lieutenant of Poseidon, slayer of the furies, Minotaur and Medusa. Recoverer of Zeus' lightning bolt, Saviour of the Golden Fleece, killer of the Nemean Lion, Saviour of Nicholas di Angelo, bearer of the weight if the Sky, saviour of Artemis, friend of the Hunters, Saviour of Pan, killer of Geryon, Antaeus, destroyer of St Helens-"

"Wait, that was you, kid? Destroyed half the mountain, displaced half a million people, and gave a lot of volcanologists a heart attack?" Bruce interjected. "Yours truly. To be fair, I was trying to escape from a lot of murderous dog-fishes. I didn't mean to blow it up!"

My friends sniggered. Steve looked hard at Nico. "Nicholas di Angelo, Nico? Lil Mythomagic obsessed Nico? The one who used to compete with me to see who was skinnier? Bianca's brother? H-how?"

Nico suddenly gave a grin. "Stevie the skinny! Wait, you're telling me that Captain America is the stick from Brooklyn whom a ten year old used to save from bullies? I still remember how you used to stuff newspaper in your shoes, and the times I had to half-carry you to Bucky's to patch you up after a pulverisation."

I stood there, shocked, seeing Nico give a smile of pure happiness to someone who wasn't Will, as he ran over and hugged Steve. Then slowly, the others introduced themselves, showing some of their powers, which they hadn't got to do properly before the battle. Leo lot himself on fire, and humming loudly, fixed Tony's broken suit in about five minutes. Jason flew a few feet into the air, and withstood a electric burst from Nat's stingers without even flinching. Piper charmspoke Spangles into wearing a joker's hat and singing the Captain America theme song with the accompanying dance moves.

Nico summoned a few skeletons, and melted into the shadows, passing out immediately after that. Sighing, I had to teleport him to Camp, and IM Will. Then Calypso used her magic to move objects around, while Chris and Clarisse pulled out their weapons, neither having any special demigod powers like the rest of us.

Nat and Clint also revealed their identities, causing Tony to freak out, and then start calling Clint "Sunny". He didn't dare give Nat a nickname, though. "Oh! I almost forgot. There's someone else waiting for you in my room! Just you, Tony. The others can meet him/her later. Shoo!" I shepherded him to the lift and pressed the button for him.

As the doors shut, an evil grin sprouted on my face, and I called, "JARVIS, show the video from the floor Tony is going to, please." A screen flickered to life, showing the empty corridor. "Watch carefully, guys, oh, and JARVIS, please record it as well."

"Will do, Percy." The AI answered.

The lift door opened, and Tony stepped out, to be welcomed by a neon pink paintball that hit him in the face. "What the-" he was cut off by another paintball, bright yellow this time, that nailed him in the gut.

"Offff.... Who's there? JARVIS?" When he got no answer, Tony took a few more steps forward. As per Beth's instructions, I snapped my fingers when he got to the first door, causing a bucket of slime to empty its contents all over him. He sputtered in anger.

"Awwww...Itty Bitty Tony's feeling all hot and bothered let's cool him down, shall we?" I said, in a fake baby voice, and all the others chuckled. I dumped a bucket full of freezing water on him. By then, he had reached the correct door. Throwing it open, a bucket full of feathers that had been balanced on the door fell on top of him, and all.the feathers stuck to the sticky slime.

Tony did look like a chicken. His flabbergasted face, open mouth and hands thrown out at his sides, all gave the impression of poultry.

"Hi Chicken! Nice to meet you! Have you seen Mr.Stark anywhere? He was supposed to come and meet me here, you see. I'm his niece, Beth Stark. Gods, I'm dumb. Chickens can't talk, can they?" Beth started rattling on, without pausing for breath, teasing Tony mercilessly. "Anyway, better go find my brother, then, if Tony isn't here. It was great talking to you, Mr.Chicken. Cluck! Cluck!"

She sprinted out of the room and into the waiting lift, dissolving into giggles once she was safely inside it. "He's her Uncle?" Leo asked. "Duh! I thought my brother was the Kelp Head, Leo, not you. Beth Stark? Remember?" Beth sassed, coming out of the lift.

"Hey, Beth! Nice to see you. You're a demigod too?" Nat hugged her. "Apparently. Dad was not lost at sea, he is the Sea." she deadpanned. "Let me guess, your Dad is Ares, and other half-blood is Clint? Apollo, I'd say, taking the bow into account." He nodded, looking surprised at her instincts.

Just then, Tony came barging in, still as Chicken Man. "BROTHER?? SINCE WHEN DO YOU HAVE A BROTHER?" He yelled, justifiably pissed.

"Since she was born, Tin Man. I'm her brother."

"Y-y-you? She's a daughter of Poseidon?" We demigods grinned and nodded. "How is she here? I thought that I had sent her to boarding school somewhere? A senior named Grover had accompanied her there."

"That was an illusion cast using the Mist. Grover is a satyr, and my oldest friend. He brought her to Camp Half-Blood, one of the only safe places for demigods in the world. The other being Camp Jupiter on the other coast, and anywhere in my presence. If not for me, your tower would have been attacked days ago, with four children of the Big Three here."

"Why are you so special?" "He's a God, Bruce. A demigod who became a God." Bruce looked at me in wonder, like a small kid who has found a new toy.

"What are you the God of, Percy?" Clint asked. "Heroes, Loyalty, Time and Swordmanship. Therefore, I'm the only God and Olympian who can help you. You all are a part of my domain." "Prove it" Tony demanded.

"You asked for it, don't blame me." Infusing my voice with power, I said, "Tony, run round in circles, doing the Chicken Dance." His will bent to mine, and he actually did it. All the Avengers, and demigods alike, burst out laughing.

I released my power, "Believe me now? I can control all heroes and most normal people by bending their loyalty to me. Don't like that ability much, though." He scowled, before disappearing to go clean up from the pranks. Once he was gone, Bethie grinned. "He totally forgot to scold me for the prank. I got away scot free!" She danced around, celebrating her victory.

Shaking my head at her antics, I asked the demigods, "Ready to leave?" They nodded.

"Wait, Percy. What if we need your help again? How do we contact you?" Steve asked.

"Nat, Clint or Phil can contact the others at Camp. As for me-" I was interrupted by Beth. "Uncle Tony can give you a phone! Your scent doesn't attract monsters anyway!"

I agreed, and teleported the others back to Camp. The Avengers slowly trickled out of the room till Clint and I were the only ones left. "Um Percy? Are those books by Rick Riordan about you?" He asked. Confused, I nodded. "They were published as a guide to demigods. Why?"

"Well, my kids are fans. Yes, I have kids, but please don't tell the Avengers. Anyway, they think its all fiction. I haven't told them about Dad, and I wondered if you would mind coming to my house with me, while I break the news to them. You're their hero, Percy. It's always Percy Jackson this, and Percy Jackson that. Laura and I don't know what to do."

I was shocked to hear that I meant so much to kids who didn't even know that I actually existed.

"Sure, Clint. Is your wife a demigod?"

"She's a daughter of Fortuna, Goddess of Luck."

"You have had no monster attacks?"

"None. As soon as we joined SHIELD, Nat, Phil and I did a favour for Hecate. She rewarded us by masking our demigod scent. But she did say that it wouldn't protect our families. The kids have been safe in their ignorance, but now, they're old enough to know."

"You were a legionnaire?" "Laura and I served in the legion together for twelve years. I was the centurion of the Second Cohort for ten years. I'm welcome in New Rome, but Laura doesn't want to go there. She does not want her children in the legion."

"What about Camp Half-Blood? I'm the director, they can come just during the summers and leave in August, or all four of you can move in full time. Beth would be glad to have some more friends." I asked him. He seemed to consider it, before nodding. He then told me where his home was, and I teleported us there.

We appeared outside a large farmhouse, surrounded by lush fields on all sides. I could hear loud giggling from inside the house. Clint knocked on the door.

"Daddy's home! Look who he's got with him!" He yelled.

There was a sound of running feet, and two kids, one girl and one boy, flung themselves out of the door at Clint. "Daddy! We saw you on TV! You were awesome!!" He chuckled, before gently pushing them off of him, and standing up.

"Kids, I want you to meet Percy. Percy Jackson. Say hi!" He said.

"Hi P-" the girl began, "Dad, you're joking. Is your name really Percy Jackson, mister?"

"Sure is. Your Dad tells me you are fans? Well then, here's your favourite son of Poseidon!" I waved. The boy seemed to be hyperventilating. His eyes rolled up in his head, and he fainted onto his father.

"That might have been a little too abrupt." Clint stated. "Just a tad bit, maybe." I agreed. I splashed some water onto the kid's face, and he woke up.

"Everything in the books is true?" He whispered. "Every last bit, except for how we defeated Gaea. Tell your Dad to tell you the story sometime. And I believe that you had something to tell them, Clint?"

He nervously scratched the back of his neck. "There isn't a simple way to put it. Your mom and I are demigods. My Dad's Apollo, and Laura is Fortuna's daughter."

"What???"