Hey guys! There are just one or two things that I think I should mention: Anastasia's last name isn't 'Flame', it's 'Flight', and Claudine's character calls the Mistress 'milady'. Enjoy ;)

Claudine's POV

"Claudine!" pretty much everyone in the board room yelled when I walked in, the chosen twelve, because I was in their class, and Nico and milady, because they were good friends of mine, and I hadn't seen them for a while.

Grinning madly, I went up to hug my friends, and then started laughing when I saw everyone's faces.

"Guy's, seriously, you should close your mouths, you're going to catch flies!" I said, as all of my classmates looked like fishes out of water.

"Gods, you look so surprised!"

"We are!" Annika said, squinting slightly, as she had left her glasses on her bedside table. "Out of all the people I expected to walk in at that moment, you were at the bottom of the list, right next to the band members of MCR."

Annika is a huge My Chemical Romance fan, so I wasn't surprised that she had mentioned them after ten minuets of being on the Thloio.

I walked to the desk at the head of the table, leaped up onto it, and started swinging my legs, trying to decide on the best way to tell them why they had been kidnapped at three in the morning.

"Um…ok, I don't really know how exactly to break this news to you, but…"

They looked kinda freaked out, like I was going to tell them that they had been kidnapped by aliens, or something. Well, close enough.

I decided just to get it out all in one go.

"Greek gods are real, and they need your help," I rushed, leaving everyone wondering what the Hades I had just said.

Before they could rudely interrupt me in a way that I probably would to anyone who had spoke that fast, I tried to explain best I could.

"Do you guys know much about the Greek gods?" I asked, before swiftly moving on so that I wouldn't have to take all night.

"Well…they're real, and they really need an army, a secret weapon almost, to…"

"Whoa, hold up a sec," Tara, one of the bossier type of girls, butted in, just as I had feared. Dang.

"Are you saying…we are part of an army now?! We're kids, not super mutant freaks! I don't want to go to war, I want to go home!" She stuck out her bottom lip (On purpose, by accident, I don't really know)

I sighed. I had expected at least one of the chosen twelve to complain about being in an army, you know, because there is a high chance you would get killed? Actually, I'm surprised that only Tara was asking questions.

My eyes lit up as I had the perfect idea to show them what amazing powers they would get, if they stayed on.

I looked at milady. She took one look at me, before smiling and nodding, because I knew that she had figured out what I wanted to do. I turned back to the group of petrified faces, (except Tara, she was glaring at me) grin plastered on my face.

"First of all, Tara," I answered, looking pointedly at her.

"You aren't going to be part of an army; you are going to be one. But," I quickly got in as she was opening her mouth to answer back.

"You won't be completely mortal, either." I finished, allowing that to sink in to them. I waited for any questions, which was a bit stupid as the eerily quiet board room was soon filled with deafening noise. Jackson and Lewis were both on their feet, red in the face, and shouting out questions, both of them looking angrier than I had ever seen them.

Charlie stayed seated, and trying to ask Ana what a mortal was, except Ana wasn't listening, but instead squealing happily with Annika, like they were happy about going to war.

Annabel was laughing nervously as if I was joking, trying to encourage Victoria to join in, who was ignoring her completely and in turn was freaking out while Sophia was desperately trying to calm her down, whilst trying to remain calm herself.

Tara was demanding answers form a very bemused Nico, as he tried to edge away as far as possible. Bruno and Michaela had tried asking milady questions, but she couldn't hear them over the racket, so they were sitting down, shoulders slumped.

The only person who had remained quiet the whole time was Lusheeta, head looking down into her lap, and then tentatively raised her hand.

I smiled warmly at her, before pressing a finger to my lips and blowing a long shhhhhhhh…. Everyone but Lusheeta had lost their voice, some of them clawing at their necks in panic. I actually think Vicky fainted then, but all my focus was on Lusheeta.

"Yes?"

"Well, um…" She almost whispered, suddenly very aware that everyone's attention was on her for once. She cleared her throat before continuing.

"You…you said that we weren't going to be completely mortal," Lusheeta started, her voice getting louder now.

"What is exactly going to happen to us?"

I knew this was coming, so I just answered honestly.

"The Twelve Olympians are going to bless you themselves," I stated proudly, as this doesn't happen normally. In fact, I don't think it has happened ever.

"Twelve Olympians?"

"Yup," I clarified, wondering if my plan was going to work or not. I cold tell that milady was watching me, and in the corner of my eye, I saw her wink.

Lusheeta was looking completely confused now. "What are the…"

"They are the twelve main Greek gods," I told her, still keeping everyone on mute, because I knew that they would most likely freak out into crazy desperation mode. Still keeping good control on the muting spell, I held out my right hand, and made a blue energy ball.

"This," I explained to my classmates as their facial expressions started to look like dazed fish again.

"Is what some people would call a ki ball. In technical term, it is all my powers right here, in my hand. The twelve Greek gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Hermes, Ares, Hephaestus, Athena, Demeter, Artemis, Aphrodite and Dionysus will give each of you something similar."

Lusheeta carefully raised her hand again, as if scared to interrupt me, which was really sweet of her.

"You mean, Greek gods are real, and they want to give us a bit of their powers each? Wow, that would be awesome!" She breathed, her eyes shinning.

I shook my head. "You're right about the Greek gods being real, but they're not going to give you all a bit of their powers either. During the course of two weeks, you will all be examined and tested." I raised my voice a bit, now talking to everyone seated instead of just Lusheeta.

"At the end of the fourteen days, each of the gods will have chosen one of you lot each, and will pass a good amount of their powers to that one person. Therefore," I concluded, feeling that now was a good time to end my speech as I could see many people's eyes closing slowly.

"Therefore, that person will no longer be completely mortal anymore."

I could hear a couple of silent yawns now, so I decide to let them sleep. "Nico," I called over to a big mass of shadows where Nico was hiding from anymore pushy teenagers to come.

"Can you show everyone where their dorm is, please?"

After a few seconds of nothing, I saw Nico gradually emerge, glaring at me. I smiled sweetly in return.

"Thank you!"

When everyone was dragging their feet out of the doors following Nico, I almost forgot about the mute spell and snapped my fingers, loud and clear. Even though pretty much all of the sleepy teenagers were too tired to talk much, I knew that the spell had been broken, as Ana and Annika paused at the door before turning round to me and saying more or less simultaneous, "Goodnight, Claudine."

I really hoped it would be.

The Mistress was back in the steering room with Nico, gazing thoughtfully out of the widest reaching window.

"Claudine did a fairly good job at explaining the impossible," Nico noted aloud, making the Mistress to have an inside sigh.

"Quite correct, but there is still so much to explain."

"That's why I said 'fairly'"

She tried to think positive things about the bunch of so-called 'army' Claudine had chosen, but she couldn't help but feel sceptical about them. Well, tonight wasn't the night to think about that, the Mistress thought, as she tried to stifle a yawn. It was four o'clock in the morning, after all, and even the immortal need to sleep.

"Goodnight, Nico," the Mistress yawned loudly, and headed to her private quarters. Nico paused before saying softly,

"Goodnight, Hestia."

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