Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO. Rick Riordan does.

Percy Jackson walked into the arena on a bright Thursday morning. He was getting ready to instruct a master's sword class to fourteen kids who had arrived a week ago. Immediately they had found out that the kids were very good at sword fighting and had scheduled a class for them.

They would have started a while ago but some of them were injured and the others wouldn't leave them. They all had different personalities and looked different. Some of them even looked like the fourteen Olympians. (Since Hades and Hestia got thrones on Olympus.)

Today was the first day of the class. He would have to go easy on them because-

"Perseus Jackson put me down!" Annabeth yelled.

"No." He had woken Annabeth up that morning because she had overslept passed breakfast. Her cabin had already left to archery and she had insisted to go with them. He had stopped her because:

a) It was obvious that she was tired.

b) She was only tired because she had been up working on designs for Olympus late at night.

c) Her brothers and sisters were too scared of what she might do if they provoked her about her sleep.

and

d) What other person is best to talk to her about that other than her boyfriend.

"Percy, put me down now!" Annabeth whined. He had decided that he was going to carry her around all day long until she fell asleep. After she had gotten ready, he had slung her over his shoulder and ignored her protests to put her down.

He looked to the opposite side of the arena where the kids had already arrived and were laughing and looking in their direction. Percy decided to ignore them and do a check list to make sure that everything was ready for the sword fighting class.

Across the arena, one of the boys who had an elfish appearance, salt-and-pepper hair, and blue eyes tapped a boy who had green eyes and black hair. They both looked up at Percy who was ignoring Annabeth's protests and the boy who had green eyes smirked.

The boy who had blue eyes turned to a girl who had grey eyes and brown hair. "Look, Athena. I think your daughter and Perseus are getting along quite well and you can't do a thing about it."

"Oh shut up, Hermes."

A girl with silver eyes and auburn colored hair walked towards the group. "Oh I don't know Athena. From what I heard she's been staying up late to finish her designs for Olympus. She's done a great job so far. At least her boyfriend is taking care of her… no matter how ridiculous it looks."

A boy with black hair and blue eyes joined the group. "Look Artemis, Thalia is joining them."

Artemis watched her former lieutenant walk up to Percy and Annabeth. Thalia hadn't fallen in love like many other hunters had. She had chosen to quit the hunt because she wanted to spend more time with and look after her brother.

Thalia walked up to Percy and Annabeth with a funny look on her face. "Percy, what are you doing?"

Percy smirked. "Annabeth won't get any sleep at night and she's overworking herself so I'm going to carry her until she falls asleep."

Thalia rolled her eyes.

Annabeth looked up at Thalia which was kind of hard to do with her position on Percy. "Could you help me out Thals?"

Thalia grinned. "Sure. No problem." She surveyed Percy. "Percy, you might want to move her over to the right a little so she doesn't fall."

"Thanks."

"Thalia!" Annabeth whined, which was highly unlike herself but she really wanted to get back on the ground. She couldn't really do that because Percy had taken her knife away from her. Go figure. He'll forget to disarm me when I'm near the sirens but he'll remember to disarm me when it means he might get hurt.

Thalia smirked. "You'll thank me for this later Brain."

Nico shadow traveled from the corner and almost bumped into Thalia. "Sorry." He muttered. Thalia nodded.

Then Nico looked at Percy. "No. I'm pretty sure he has to move her up not to the right."

Thalia raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

Annabeth huffed. "So which one is it?"

Thalia and Nico stared at her confused.

"Well if you're not going to help me down, you might as well make sure I don't fall."

Percy shrugged, which moved Annabeth a little. Thalia and Nico took one good look at Annabeth and then finally they said, "To the right."

Percy smirked. "Thanks."

"I got to go find the Stoll brothers." Thalia said. "They owe me a new bow from the last prank they tried to pull on me."

Nico smirked. "I'm coming with you. This'll be good." The two left the arena. The kids across from it were suppressing their laughter.

"Percy, put me down!"

"No. Annabeth you work too hard. You need some time off, okay? Chiron said that you can relax for today and if you're not going to take up that offer then I'll take it up for you. Okay?"

Silence.

"Annabeth? Don't give me a cold shoulder."

No answer.

He slung her around so he was holding her bridle style and realized that she had fallen asleep during his rant. He watched her sleep for a while then muttered, "She can listen to a teacher lecture for six and a half hours but then she'll fall asleep when I rant on about her sleeping habits." He sighed.

Then he walked across the arena to the kids who looked like they were going to burst out laughing. He furrowed his eyebrows then he said, "You all can pick partners and start sparring." He turned to a kid with a buzz cut and brown almost red eyes. "No maiming. I'll be back as soon as I can."

Then he walked out of the arena and to the Athena cabin-ignoring the looks from other campers and the grins from the Aphrodite cabin- where he tucked Annabeth in.

As soon as Percy was at the Athena cabin, all fourteen kids burst out laughing. "Poseidon," Zeus breathed. "Your son's a rite."

A boy with sandy hair and blinding white teeth breathed through his laughter, "Six and a half hours."

They all burst out in laughter and Artemis rolled her eyes at Apollo.

Ares however, pouted. "He told me no maiming."

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