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Without further ado, I present to you...

Chapter 4 – History, Macy and learning to use Fireblade

NPOV

Both families had been living in Dallas, Texas when the children had been younger. But as the demigods grew older and the threats they faced became bigger and bigger, the families decided to move closer to camp and Mt. Olympus and had moved to New Jersey the year before. Till then both Stella and the Lucas brothers had been home schooled and had never been to a public school before. On the first day of School, all four of the demigods had found it very difficult to fit in… Not only were they different from the others by virtue of being half-bloods, they had also never been to a school before and didn't understand most of the de-facto rules followed by students. That was where Macy Misa had come in.

She had befriended Stella on the first day itself, helping her with classes, forms and finding her locker. Proud that she had found a normal friend and wanting to introduce her to her other best friends, Stella had excitedly introduced Macy to the Lucas brothers at lunch. The result had been a disaster to say the least. Stella had barely opened her mouth to start her introductions when Macy had taken one look at them, given a high pitched squeal and fallen in a dead faint at their feet. Turned out Macy was none other than extreme JONAS fan and the President of the No 1 JONAS fan club in the world. After that things went further and further downhill with Macy being so nervous or excited around the guys that she either passed out repeatedly or injured them accidentally with some or the other sports equipment she always seemed to have around.

Over time, Macy came to understand the boys better and had started to control her fan girl impulses. Kevin and Joe had taken the initiative to get to know Macy better and things between Macy, Kevin and Joe were very much normal now but she was still quite nervous around Nick, who did nothing to ease her nervousness. She didn't hurt any of them even accidentally nowadays but she still stammered or started to hyperventilate whenever Nick was involved. Everyone who was around Macy even for a few minutes could figure out that she had a huge crush on Nick but the youngest JONAS member steadily refused to acknowledge the fact. Macy was too nervous and much too shy to approach Nick for fear of rejection and Nick's brothers knew him well enough to refrain from trying to get him to listen to them about Macy's feelings. They also didn't want to anger their little brother as he was the one who wrote most of their songs and he could be quite stubborn when he wanted….. Meaning, if Nick was angry with them about something, no more new songs until he forgave them or they groveled. They knew he wouldn't give in even if his dad got involved in it…It had already happened quite a few times and now their dad knew better than getting involved and just asked them to apologize already…. Everyone knew that Nick rarely got angry and usually had a very good reason when he did.

Back at the Training Center, Firehouse NPOV

Nick turned to Joe, pulling on one of the dog-tags he was wearing… It slipped out into his hands and quickly turned into a three foot long shining sword with an intricately carved hilt made of celestial bronze. Even though he was a son of Apollo and could shoot an arrow through a napkin ring a mile away, he loved fighting with his sword more than using his bow and arrows. His sword, Fireblade had been a gift from the Oracle of Delphi and his father given when Nick had succeeded in saving the Oracle's life during a monster attack. Rachel, the new Oracle, had been in New York to visit her family and had run into some monsters on her way back to camp… As it had happened near their house, Nick had been on hand to help her. Pleased with his bravery, she had asked Apollo to award him a new weapon and Fireblade had been his since then.

Nick had been extremely enthusiastic about learning to fight with his new sword so he had approached Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase, the best sword fighters at camp and heroes from the recent Titan war, to teach him. Both Percy and Annabeth had been delighted to teach but had warned him that it was going to be very difficult and quite arduous. Nick hadn't been ready to take no for an answer and they had started training… After a couple of weeks of bone breaking, muscle tearing practice and lots of injuries, cuts, stabs and slashes, both Percy and Annabeth had been astonished at the pace at which Nick had mastered the art of swordplay. Nick wasn't as good as Percy or Annabeth but was much better than anybody else at camp…even Clarisse.

The brothers didn't get many chances to take part in camp activities but the last capture the flag event would be etched forever in Nick's mind because he had been on the blue team with his half-brothers and sisters along with the Athena cabin, Percy and Nico opposite all the other cabins. During the race to get the red team's flag, Nick had found himself alone up against Clarisse and her electric spear. Using some of the moves Percy had taught him just that day, Nick managed to neatly capture the spear between his shield and sword and snap it in half, just like Percy had done in his first year at camp. Clarisse had been so mad at him that she had literally been smoking with fury and probably would've killed him with a glare if Percy and Annabeth had not chosen that precise moment to run across the creek with the red team flag firmly clutched in their hands. As it was, Clarisse had made dire threats that still made him shake in his shoes sometimes, but from that day on, Nick and his brothers had become firm friends with a lot of the demigods at camp… Something they had not been able to achieve before due to the fact that they didn't live in camp even for the summer and that they were now world famous rock stars. Once the kids at camp came to know that they weren't some stuck up snobs like some other famous demigods, they had come to accept the brothers and made good friends.

Now, as Nick grasped his sword in his hands and advanced toward his brother, Joe turned to him and groaned… Both Kevin and Joe hated fighting with Nick because he was much better at swordplay than either of them could ever hope to be and also, he took every fight seriously and never spared them, which led to a lot of cuts and bruises on their part.

"Do I have to?... We know what is gonna happen here…. I am going to end up on the mat with your sword poking into some part of my body.. So why don't we save you the trouble and get to that part already?... I'll jus lie down on the mat and you can point your sword at me and we'll call it a day…k? "

"Come on Joe… We all need to train… And I need some serious work on my sword skills.. I am getting totally rusty without practice… Oh btw… I took care of one of the Laistrygonians after school today… he thought he was cornering me but the second his concentration wavered he was dust… And we need to talk to Chiron.. The monsters are starting to roam freely again… We need to make sure nothing serious is brewing… come on bro… put your guard up and try to give me a decent fight this time…"

After exchanging a flurry of thrusts, parries and blows, as always, the fight ended with Joe on the mat, his sword skittering away from his hands and Nick standing over him with his gleaming sword point held at Joe's throat. Nick leaned down and giving his brother a hand, lifted him up to standing position. They both woke Kevin from one of his spontaneous naps and all of them went up to the house to wash up before dinner.

"I Think I'll go for a run after dinner… Didn't get much training in today…" said Nick as Kevin and Joe trudged up the stairs with him.

End of Chapter 4