On the eve of the annual Gladiatorum, a contest held every year to celebrate the victory over the Giants and the meeting and friendship of the Egyptians; two boys sit outside the Demeter Cabin. The two boys are 2 of the 24 fighters of the Gladiatorum, only those who have proven themselves worthy are able to compete, the best of the best enter and only one may have the right to call himself the year's greatest hero. The best Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians come and fight in a Gladiator style arena, and this year Camp Half-Blood is hosting the event. As preparations are being made for the first match in the morning the two boys are lazily sitting around watching everyone else walk by.

"Wow look at her, I wouldn't mind stabbing her a bit, eh now what I mean." Said Mike Jones to his best friend Derrick James

Mike and Derrick have been friends since both of them were 12, they were both new at Camp Half-Blood and the two quickly bonded and became inseparable, they act more like brothers than anything else. But Mike and Derrick aren't actually brothers; Mike is the son of Hermes he has long blond hair, blue eyes, and a white tank top under a navy grey jacket and usually wears blue jeans. While Derrick is the son of Demeter and has wavy brown hair, blue eyes, a slight tan compared to the pale Mike, and he dresses like a typical skater.

"I haven't seen her here before; she must be new maybe Roman or Egyptian." Said Derrick

"Well whatever she is one thing is for sure, she is fine. Oh my gods they have blessed me." Said Mike

"You say that about every girl you see." Responded Derrick

"Whoa look at the pair that girl has, bouncy…bouncy….bouncy." said Mike

"Dude that's my sister!" Yelled Derrick

Natasha Ann Scott was 16 a year younger than her brother Derrick; the two were related by their mother Demeter. She is 5'4, has curly red hair, bright blue eyes, small plump pink lips, a thin nose, and has an hour glass shape figure. She is one of the more attractive girls in camp, but she herself isn't in on it. Natasha was walking back to the Demeter cabin to take a nap; she took a lot of naps.

"Hey Big bro, hey Ike." She lazily said

"Your going to take another nap, isn't this like your fifth one today?" said Derrick

"Yeah, I was training for tomorrow I'm in the fourth match of the competition, training gets me really tired." She said yawning

Right after she began to stretch showing off her hourglass body and her 34C breast, at that moment all Mike was really interested in was staring at them. Natasha then slowly walked inside the cabin and straight to her bed.

"Bro your sister's hot." Said Mike still staring were Natasha was

"Shut up." Said Derrick

"Oh my look at her over there, oh man." Said Mike

"Are girls all that you think of?" said Derrick

"Dude, we're half-bloods we have a short life span might as well enjoy the time we have left." Responded Mike

'That's just your excuse to not sound like a perv." Said Derrick

Just then a roman half-blood walked towards the two boys, she has sun kissed skin, has straight chocolate brown hair, hazel eyes, a "banging body" as most boys describe it. She knew the two friends, she'd known them since she was 12, she met them when the boys went to Camp Jupiter for the Gladiatorum. It was their first year in the competition so they didn't make it very far, three years later she's attending this year Gladiatorum.

"Hey look its Catalina." Said Mike

Catalina Cortez was a daughter of Venus; she is two year younger than Mike and Derrick. She gets along with them very well, and likes to harmlessly flirt with them especially Derrick.

"Oh man she looks hot." Said Derrick

"Man she 15 two years younger than us!" said Mike

"Hey she fall right in my two year rule, its fine if she's two year younger." Said Derrick

"Yeah and I'm the perv." Said Mike

"Hey boys" said Catalina as she sat down in the middle of the two

"You smell nice" said Derrick

"Smooth" said Mike quietly

"Thank you Derrick." Catalina giggled

"Oh no thank you for um…" began Derrick

"Wow ok, so um excuse me it's nice seeing you again Cat I'm going to see who my opponent is tomorrow." Said Mike quickly

Mike couldn't believe his best friend would even like a girl like her, she was nice and all but she could be a bit of a bitch sometimes, he had to get away he couldn't stand to see Derrick like that. Just then an Egyptian girl bends down to place her bag down and Mike couldn't help to stare with a stupid grin on his face. Mike then looked at the Arena he was ready for tomorrow, he had proven himself worthy to compete he was in the elite 24 and determined to be number 1, and it all began tomorrow but Mike couldn't wait, he was ready today. As the sun began to set Mike new he needed rest his match was the second of the day, but how could he sleep knowing his best friend Derrick was with Catalina, he was worried that Derrick wouldn't be focused on his match.

"Hey Mike c'mon you have to rest, your match is one of the early ones tomorrow I have money on you." Said one of his brothers

And with that he walked back to his cabin but not with out checking out some of the other girls.