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.
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