If you recognize it, it's not mine. Except Stella, she's all mine.

Greek is bold italics; mental conversations with Gods is italics.


The day finally ended shortly after gym and government, and I drove Alice and Jasper back to their place. "So how whiny was she this morning?" I finally asked, since asking during school would have caused a Broodward tantrum. "Annoyingly whiny. 'I thought I said no presents!'" Alice said, mimicking Bella's voice.

I had to repress a shudder at hearing the brat's voice coming out of my sister's mouth, it was just creepy. "She tried to protest the party as well, only Edward managed to put a stop to that by saying he'd bring her by around seven, so we have a few hours to set up and hang out." She said. I grinned at her in the rear view mirror, since Jasper had taken the front seat this time. "There is that at least." I said, laughing slightly.

Suddenly, I heard daddy Apollo's voice in my head. "Have Jasper go hunting. It's going to start tonight." He said, and my mind immediately figured out what he meant.

Momma Aphrodite's curse was going into action tonight, how dramatic. "Hey, Ninja?" I asked, looking at him for a second as I turned onto their long driveway. "Yeah, Star?" He asked, looking over at me. "Daddy Apollo just spoke in my head, he says that you need to go hunt." I told him. I saw his confused face out of the corner of my eye, but he nodded anyway, not wanting to go against the advice of a god.

A few minutes later, we were in front of the house and I parked, Jasper out and gone before I could even undo my seatbelt. I just shook my head as I grabbed my backpack and Alice and I walked into the house.

Alice opened the door, and I smirked at her before shouting my now customary greeting. "Hey psychos, we're home!" I grinned as I heard Emmett's booming laugh and ran up the stairs to the living room. "Teddy Bear!" I shouted, throwing myself into his arms. "Little Star!" He shouted as he spun me around. "I've missed you! How was Africa?" I asked as he set me down, only to be captured in a hug by my blonde soul sister. "It was fun, Emmett wrestled with a couple lions but didn't kill any, and I had fun shopping." Rosalie said, pulling me to sit next to her on the couch.

I smiled at her, even as Esme handed me my backpack. "I'm glad you had fun." I said, before grinning at Esme. "Hey, aunt Esme." I greeted cheerfully, before opening my backpack and pulling out my mercifully small amount of homework. "Hello, Stella. Where is Jasper, he usually comes in with you and Alice." She said, before looking at Alice in confusion as well. "Daddy Apollo spoke in my head and told me to send him hunting. As he is the god of prophecy, none of us thought it would be a good idea to ignore his words." I said, with Alice nodding in agreement. "Why don't you start on your homework while I set up?" Alice suggested.

I nodded and opened my math book and was about to start when an idea hit me. "Make sure there's lots of pink, the brat hates the color." I told her with a smirk, before starting in on my homework.

Luckily, with the small amount today, I was finished in about an hour and a half. I groaned as I shook my hand out after putting my things back into my backpack and stood up to stretch. Focusing for so long made me a little restless as I was now full of energy from sitting still for so long, so I followed my nose to the kitchen where I found Esme putting the finishing touches on Bella's cake.

I couldn't help the giggle that I let loose at the sight of it. It was a three tier cake with pink icing that would be way too much for me and Bella to eat, even with Charlie's help. "You do know that it will take us at least a week for me, Bella, and Charlie to finish that, right aunt Esme?" I asked. She turned and smiled at me, unconcerned as she moved the cake in a complete circle looking for imperfections that she wouldn't find. "I'm aware, however, I figured that you would sneak slices of cake to any of your parents who visited you at night." She said, and I nodded, knowing it was something I was likely to do. "Fair enough." I said, shrugging.

I started to look around, noting the nearly alarming lack of my soul siblings before turning back to face my aunt figure. "Where's my siblings? I've got a bit of energy stored up from sitting for an hour and a half focusing on the horror of high school homework, and I need an outlet." I said.

Before she could respond though, the door downstairs opened and closed, the sound audible even to me. I turned with Emse to face the kitchen doorway where Jasper appeared a few seconds later, his eyes a bright gold. "I fed until I felt sick, which should be impossible for a vampire. I hope Lord Apollo thinks I've hunted enough." he said, coming into the kitchen and plopping down in a bar stool at the counter.

I giggled at him before coming around to stand in front of him as he turned on the stool to follow my movement. "If you've fed that much, then even I know you've fed enough. Now come outside and spar with me, I've sat still for an hour and a half, and I've got some energy to get rid of." I told him, earning a groan. "Can't you call one of your parents to do it, why does it have to be me?" He asked, making me and Esme laugh at him.

We both found his whining funny, me more than her due to the fact that he couldn't win against me. "Because the more you lose to me, the more practice you get. If you keep practicing, you may beat me one day. I plan on teaching you archery once you beat me in a sword fight at least ten times." I told him. "Can't we just start on archery now?" He asked, even as he stood up and walked with me over to the stairs to go up to my room to get my protective gear and our swords. "No we can't. Jasper, you suck with using a sword, and I refuse to teach you another weapon until you can beat me. I'm not asking you to go up against one of my parents who have been using a sword for millennia, I'm just asking you to beat me ten times." I told him.

He sighed as we stopped at my room and came in with me, surprisingly. "If I suck at using a sword so bad, why do you want me to beat you ten times before you teach me archery?" He asked, as I went over to my closet and pulled out my protective gear, putting it on. "Because practice makes perfect Ninja. You bought yourself a sworde, and wanted to spar with me when you got me mine, so I will teach you. Honestly, you fought in the Civil War, I thought you would have known how to use a sword." I told him, as I grabbed my sword.

He sighed as we walked the short distance to his and Alice's room so he could grab his. "I never learned much swords play in the army. We worked more with guns than swords." He confessed as he grabbed his own sword off the wall that he had it proudly displayed on. "Seriously? You carried a sword in the army, didn't you? A major in the Confederate army, you would have carried one as part of the uniform. Why didn't they teach you to use it properly?" I asked, honestly feeling scandalized at the thought. "Because we had guns. You've heard the saying 'you don't bring a knife to a gunfight', we thought it was pointless to learn how to use a sword when we used guns." He told me, as we descended the stairs to head out to the back.

"Honestly Ninja, it's a damn miracle you didn't die before you came upon Maria. You carried a weapon you didn't even know how to use, if daddy Ares had stumbled across you, he would have had a conniption." I told him as we walked outside.

He paused for a second, making me look at him. "Come to think of it, there was a soldier who found out I didn't know how to use it that went nuts. He told me that when I got back from evacuating the women and children he was going to, quote, 'teach me how to use the damn thing'." He told me. I stared at him for a second, before laughing, as it did sound very much like my bloodthirsty father to say that. "Sounds like you did meet him then. Alright, into position." I told him, earning myself an exasperated look before Jasper dropped into his starting stance.

I smirked at him before dropping into my own stance, my muscles coiled familiarly like a cobra before I lunged forward, striking my blade out. Jasper managed to meet my strike and block it, making me smirk internally. We continued to spar, me landing more hits on him than I would like, but he blocked more than he had last time we had sparred.

Finally, after a few minutes, I disarmed him, making him scowl at me. I half smirked at him, my chest heaving slightly with my heavier breathing. "You lasted longer that time, that's good." I told him, reaching for the bottle of water that someone had brought out sometime during our spar, and took a huge gulp from it. "I still lost to you in four minutes." He told me in a deadpan tone, before picking up his fallen sword. "That's three and a half minutes longer than our first match the day of my party." I told him before wincing slightly at the look he sent my way. It was a touchy subject for him, since he had lost to a temporarily mortal goddess who didn't even have her full strength in thirty seconds.


Hi guys! Alright, since I posted this after midnight my time, I am able to say this. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I won't be home pretty much at all during the day, so I decided to post this as a little Halloween gift to my loyal readers before the craziness of the day. I hope you like it, and I'm sorry about making you wait for a while for this chapter. I've just been ridiculously busy the past few days making it damn impossible to get to a computer to update. Anyway, read and review my loyal readers. It's Jasper's point of view next!