First off, thank you for making it this far. I know it has been an inexcusably long time since the last update. I was working more than full time for about a year at a physically and emotionally demanding job. Now, I am currently unemployed but a full time nursing student. It was very difficult to make it in the nursing program, and I hope to one day earn a graduate degree. that being said, thank you for your support and kindness. Bit by bit, this story is being written. 3

I stared at them all, and they stared back. "Why are you here?" I eventually asked.

"You invited me!" Jake reminded me.

"Me breaking some of your bones was an uninvitation," I said.

He shrugged and started to make his way inside, wrinkling his nose as he went.

"How could you even do that?" Embry asked. "Break his bones, I mean."

"I've had training," I said, and left it at that.

They spent a few moments looking at the dancing people before Jake turned back and announced that he had brought me a gift. It was a plastic rectangular box. Without a word, I grabbed the box, and shoved it in the trash can. I crossed my arms over my chest and stared them down.

"So you're here because you need to talk to Carlisle about something?" I asked.

"Nope," Quil squeaked, staring at the box in the trash can.

"They why are you here?" I asked again.

They looked vaguely nervous.

"Look," Quil said. "We know something's going on, we just don't know what."

"And you're here to find out what exactly is going on," I sighed. "Let's move this into the kitchen, okay?"

I herded them into the kitchen while keeping an eye out for Alice. They gathered in there, taking up a lot of space, both with their physical bodies and the awkward silence that followed them.

"Look Meda, we know something's up. Victoria hasn't been spotted for the past week or so. No scent, no tracks, nothing. It's like she's disappeared. Last time we picked it up, she was headed west. Since then, nothing," Quil said.

I looked over his shoulder for Alice. She saw something, I knew it.

"Why are you so distracted?" Jacob demanded. "What's so important you're ignoring all of us?"

"Alice saw something, I don't know what," I said with a shrug. I turned to pour myself a glass of water.

"Don't lie, Meda, of course you know what she saw," Jacob said, putting a hand on my shoulder.

I straightened my back. "Get your hand off me," I said.

"Jake," Embry said.

I smashed the glass on the edge of the sink, leaving me with a jagged edge. I spun around, bringing it millimeters from Jacob's neck.

"Back. Off," I warned.

He took a step back. So apparently he did turn out to have a sense of self preservation. Good for him.

"Meda," Alice said, appearing in the doorway with a terrified expression on her face. "The decision was made," she said.

"Are we going to Seattle?" I asked. Her silence spoke volumes. I sighed. "So they're coming here."

"One carried your shirt," she supplied, very unhelpfully. I rolled my eyes.

The wolf posse looked very confused. Suddenly Jasper was behind Alice.

"We cannot allow them to come this far, we have to stop them before they get to town," he said forcefully.

"I agree," I said. "There's a potential for mortals to be hurt if they come into town."

"Who is they?" Jacob demanded.

Alice looked at him as though she had forgotten his presence. "Our kind," she said eventually. "Many of them. And they're coming for Meda."

"Is it too many for you?" Jacob asked.

"It will be an even fight," Jasper said coolly.

"I doubt it," Jacob said.

He and Alice stared at each other before she grinned a vicious, feral grin. "Everything just disappeared, of course," she told everyone else. "But I'll take it."

"Just as long as you're a team player," Jacob said, "everything will be fine."

It took a few moments for me to catch up, but when I did, everything made sense.

"How many?" Quil asked.

"It depends, twenty one now, it may go up or down," Alice informed them.

"Why?" Quil persisted.

"Now isn't the time or the place," Alice started.

"And we were having a strategic meeting later tonight, you should come," Jasper finished. He paused and looked at the boys. "This will be odd, I never imagined working together."

"Think of it as a fantastic team building exercise," I said. Werewolves, vampires, demigods, oh my, I thought to myself.

"What time?" Jacob asked. "I need to tell Sam."

Jasper pondered this for a moment. "Three? Ten miles north of the Hoh Forest ranger station. Come from the west, follow our scent."

Jake, Embry, and Quil looked positively thrilled about following the scent but nodded anyway. "We'll be there," Embry said, turning to leave.

"See ya!" I called out after them.

"Will you tell them now?" Alice asked me. The party was going in full swing, the thudding bass sounding very far away.

I nodded. "I guess I'll have to."

Edward drove me back to my house in silence. I could see that Jacob's proposal had lifted the cloud of stress and worry that surrounded the Cullen's. Emmett was laughing, and Carlisle and Esme seemed lighter. Maybe the extra set of paws would go a long way.

"I'm going with you tonight-this morning, I mean," I told Edward when we pulled up to the driveway.

"You're going to tell him, aren't you?" he asked.

I paused, trying to figure out the wording. "It would be wrong not to say anything, then come out with my knives suddenly and expect him not to get distracted," I said. "You need to trust who you fight with. Your teammates are the ones that have your back. If you can't trust someone not to withhold information, you can't trust them with your life."

"I can't argue with that logic," Edward replied.

"I'll get some sleep, be here at 2:30 or so," I said while exiting the car.

"See you soon," he said before speeding off.

When I let myself in the first thing I saw was Charlie sleeping on the tiny couch, snoring like a chainsaw. When I couldn't wake him, I sighed, knelt down, and slung him over my back before climbing the stairs and putting him on his bed. He still didn't wake up, which was pretty impressive. But, I didn't need to see him in pain tomorrow from the strain on his back.

I changed into baggy sweatpants and a camp shirt before trying to get some sleep. It seemed like moments later I was being shaken awake by Edward.

"Ugh," I moaned, waking up eventually.

"You can always stay back," he said too cheerfully.

"Not a chance," I said, suddenly wideawake.

He snickered but allowed me to climb on his back before jumping out my window. The distance passed quickly, and before I knew it he stopped so I could get off his back. We walked to the clearing ahead, Emmett's booming laugh scaring the birds. I realized that this is the place where they played baseball, a year ago. I allowed myself to remember Percy and me, running from James. Keeping our secret.

"Meda, you're here!" Esme said with a smile.

"Hi Esme," I said.

"Are you practicing too?" Emmett asked.

"It'd have to be without weapons, unless you like the shish kabob look," I said and left it at that.

Rosalie thought that was hilarious, and Emmett looked vaguely offended. "I'd never let you get the drop on me," he said.

"They'll be here in a minute," Edward said suddenly, not giving me time to respond to Emmett's jab. "But not in their human forms. I'll be translating."

I briefly thought about ways I could delicately say that I'm a demigod, but couldn't think of the words. Oh well, I'm from New York, they'll just have to deal with my bluntness.

"Oh my," Edward said with a chuckle. "They've been holding out on us."

Everyone looked at him quizzically, but he just told us to wait and see for ourselves.

"Damn," Emmett said.

I saw them as shadows first, then they moved into the clearing. There were ten. Ten wolves. The pack had grown from six to ten in a matter of weeks.

"Welcome," Carlisle said courteously.

"Thank you," Edward replied on their behalf. "We will observe and listen, but our self-control will not allow more."

"We understand," Carlisle replied. "My son Jasper has experience in these sorts of things, but first, Meda has something to say."

When I stepped forward, the wolves moved forward as well, allowing me to make out their features some more. I took a deep breath.

"I don't know how exactly to phrase this so here goes," I started. "The Greek gods are not myths, they are real. Poseidon, god of the sea, earth shaker, and the father of horses, is Percy and my father. Any questions?"

The wolves looked between each other. Some snorted laughter, some tensed, possibly thinking that this was a trap of some sort.

There was a thick silence before Edward spoke. "What is the meaning of this?" he asked.

"I'm Poseidon's daughter," I said. "The Greek gods are real. I thought I made that very clear."

Edward moved toward me. "They all think you're insane." He said quietly.

I sighed. "All right dickheads, here goes."

I put my hands out in front of me, reaching to the river about a mile away. I called it toward me.

"Meda?" Edward warned while putting a hand on my elbow. "They think we're playing a trick on them, and they're really not happy."

"Well have some patience!" I snapped at the wolf pack.

They were suddenly howls and yelps of alarm from the pack. Some crouched down defensively, others bared their teeth at me and the Cullens. They probably heard the water. When it was only yards away from the furthest wolf, I split the path of the massive tidal wave, so it was crashing around us, a wall of water, leaving everyone perfectly dry.

I looked Sam in the eye. I knew that he was the leader, so I needed to convince him before the others could possibly believe me. The wolf stared back, eyes wide in alarm. I concentrated so there was no longer a wall of water around us, now all the water was concentrated above the treetops. The wolves and vampires were both staring at me and the mass of water in the sky.

"Bath time, Jake!" I yelled before dropping the water. Everyone was drenched, except for me of course. "Still think I'm crazy?" I asked them after a few moments had passed.

"My hair, Andromeda!" Rosalie moaned in despair.

I held my hand up and willed the water off her.

"Thank you," she said primly.

"You're welcome," I said in the same tone.

"So why did you do this, can you defeat vampires with the water show?" Edward asked me.

"Excuse you," I told the wolves. "But I am a highly-trained knives woman, and celestial bronze, the material my blades are made from, are very dangerous to vampires. I have killed a vampire before, and currently, because I have swam in the river Styx to save the entire western world, I am 98% indestructible."

"What blades? And what river?" Edward asked.

I pushed the buttons on my pencils and everyone, vampires and wolves, took a step back. "These blades. The river is a story for another time. But the show's over on my end. Jasper will take it from here." While walking back toward the rest of the family, jasper was grinning and held out his hand for a high-five. When I slammed my hand against his there was a loud clang that startled everyone.

They probably had more questions, but knew they couldn't afford to waste any more time. Jasper stepped forward. "The newborns will come across the mountains in four days. Alice will help us intercept their path. They are very new to this way of life, and have no skill, only brute strength. With both our forces combined, it shouldn't be difficult to wipe them out."

Jasper paused before starting again, to make sure he was being listened to very carefully. "Do not, under any circumstances let them get their arms around you. and do not go for the obvious kill. Emmett?"

Emmett moved so he was facing Jasper. "Emmett is the best example of a newborn attack, as he relies mostly on his strength. Try and catch me," jasper explained.

They were suddenly blurs, moving around the clearing, snarling the whole time. suddenly, Emmett froze, jasper behind him, hands around his throat.

Jasper demonstrated again, this time on Alice, then on Edward. Alice won her round, Edward couldn't win or lose, so it was called a draw. Everyone took another turn, the wolves watching. After plenty of time had passed jasper called me forward.

"I'm just curious," was all he said. I moved forward to where he motioned. "I'll move at a slower pace to even us out," was all he got in before I quickly punched him in the face, the noise echoing throughout the clearing. Everyone found this particularly amusing, but stifled their laughter.

"Okay, that's all for tonight," he said after a brief pause. He turned around to say goodnight to the wolves and I retracted one of my knives and poked his jacket.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Stabby stabby," I said, poking him again. "I have an uncontrollable thirst for vengeance. Also, I'm tired and possibly going nuts."

Jasper actually grinned for once, before turning around and giving instructions for the next meeting. When I turned around and walked toward Edward so he could take me back home, there was a shift in movement among the wolves. Jacob was following me, so I stopped and looked to Edward so he could tell me what Jacob was saying.

"He wants to know why you never told him," Edward explained.

"Like you would believe me. Besides, you have enough on your plate without this," I said, gesturing to my knife, now in its pencil form.

"Could you not tell him before?" Edward asked.

I thought about my answer before speaking. "No, it's not that, it's usually because mortals don't believe us. Many were put in mental institutions, or simply dismissed as pariahs," I said. I thought of Alice, and what she had to endure as a human.

"He's glad you did tell everyone though," Edward said. Jake took this moment to bump his nose against my shoulder.

"Will this change things?" I asked.

Jake shook his head vehemently.

"Good," I replied.