brother's friend · sarcasm · insecure · mechanical genius · loyal · protective · empathy · self-worth issues · hidden feelings · romance
Golden morning light spilled across the bedroom floor as Sally drew back the curtains, her tone bright with announcement. "Rise and shine, you. Percy and his friends are starting at your school today." The words lingered in the warm, dusty air, jolting the drowsy teenager awake. *His entire circle?* The thought was vertigo. This wasn't a casual visit; it was the core cohort of Camp Half-Blood—Jason, Piper, Frank, Will, Nico, Annabeth, Hazel, Reyna, and Leo—infiltrating an ordinary high school. They stood out, older and edged with a tension that didn't belong in homeroom, guarding a dangerous truth. They hadn't come for trigonometry. They'd come because shadows were gathering in the corridors, and whispered agents of Gaia walked among us.