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Nico's POV:

"So, she," the ugly guy jutted his chin to Mrs Lodas, "told us that you are the oldest kids here." The eight of us were sitting at the rectangular wooden table in the dining room, with Mrs Lodas and this ugly guy from Gaia.

"We're not kids," Luke butted in indignantly. I grinned and high-fived him under the table.

"Ah, good, you're fierce. We could use someone like you," the guy said, scratching a zit on his chin. Yuck. I wanted to vomit. "So, you know about out gang, Gaia?" he asked.

"Of course," Piper scoffed, "I mean, who hasn't?" She batted her eyelashes at him. Laying it a bit thick, Pipes, I thought. I saw Jason scowl next to Piper.

The guy blinked, "Yeah, exactly. Well, you're not dumb either. I've been told by the teacher that you know how to fight?"

I grinned, "Yep, want to see how well?"

"Not now," the guy said, hurriedly, "If you accept, you'll be taken to our training grounds. We'll see how good you are there." I saw him jot something down on his notepad.

"Ok, so do you agree to join?" the guy asked. We all looked at each other, pretending to be thinking. I turned to Percy and Thalia, who were sitting on my left.

"Do you think that we should join?" I asked uncertainly, since I was supposed to be the youngest.

"I'll only join if you two join," Thalia said, "I'm not leaving my little bros behind."

"Yeah, same with me and I'm not your little bro, Thalia. I'm older!" Percy replied.

"So we're joining?" I asked again, grinning. Thalia and Percy exchanged looks. They nodded.

Percy turned to the guy, "Will we get paid?" The guy nodded, still scratching that zit. "Okay, then, we're in."

The guy smiled, "Ok, cool."

"We're in too," Jason said, "My sis and I don't have any money. We need some."

"So you're all in?" the guy asked.

"Of course," Rachel said, "I don't have anywhere to go after I leave this place and if I can get some good money out of this gang, I'm in."

"Yep," Piper said, "Besides, my best friends are in, so I'm in."

"Yeah, my bros can't leave me," Luke smirked.

"Ok, pack your bags," the guy said standing up, "We're leaving in half an hour." All of us stood. Mrs Lodas and the guy started talking and handing over papers and money. The eight of us ran upstairs and started packing.

"All according to plan," Percy grinned.

"Yeah, he totally fell for it," Rachel agreed.

"I still hate that I'm your sister," Thalia said, bitterly.

I smirked, "Deal with it, sis."

Jason was still scowling, "Did you have to flirt with him, Piper?"

"No, I just did it cos I thought that he was pretty cute," Piper said sarcastically, "Of course I had to Jason. It gave us a better chance!"

"You still didn't have to do it," Jason muttered so that only me and Luke could hear him because we were right next to him.

"Might want to be a bit more careful if you want to win that bet, Jason," Luke muttered back. Jason punched Luke. I sniggered.

"Is everyone ready?" asked Annabeth, being the organised person she is. Everyone said yes and we headed downstairs with our bags.

We had packed one or two bags because orphans didn't have that much stuff. I had one backpack and one duffle bag. Luckily, this orphanage was one of the richer ones in New York, so we could bring our laptops and other technological pieces of equipment.

We walked downstairs, Luke and Thalia leading the way, with Annabeth and me following, then Piper and Rachel and Jason and Percy bringing up the rear.

"You nervous?" asked Annabeth.

I thought about it for a bit, "I guess a bit..."

Annabeth nodded, "Me too."

"I was just thinking, do you know why didn't Zeus make you, Jason and Luke siblings?" I asked her very, very quietly.

"Yeah, I asked him and he said that it was because it would have been too suspicious," she answered in the same volume. We stopped talking then because we'd reached the end of the stairs and were in danger of being overheard.

"Ready to go?" asked ugly dude.

"Yep," Percy grinned, popping the 'p'.

"Ok, let's go," he started walking to the door.

"Be careful," Mrs Lodas said, looking worried, "And good luck!" I guess it sounded like what any orphanage teacher would say, but we all knew what Mrs Lodas really meant.

"Ok, thanks, Mrs Lodas," Percy said, leading the way out of the door. I grinned as soon as we were out. The mission has officially started!

IIIGrAnTvIlLe and bLaCkMoUnTIII

The training centre was just a big warehouse. Inside there were all these different stations - martial arts, karate, hacking, fitness, target shooting and a school? Where did a school fit into all of this?

"Be polite, the leader's coming to greet you," hissed ugly dude. "He doesn't take kindly to rudeness." A muscular blonde guy, around 19-20 was heading our way. He had startling blue eyes and was pretty tall. I snuck a look at Annabeth and Piper. They were both looking at each other, trying to decide who would go for this guy. I have no idea who is.

Percy and Jason were both fuming, especially Percy, considering that Annabeth was already his girlfriend.

"Hey, you must be our new recruits," greeted the guy easily, grinning at us, especially at Piper. I guess Piper's gonna be trying to get him. "I'm Porphyrion, leader of Gaia." He grinned again.

Piper had an awestruck look on her face, "The leader? Wow," she gushed, "That's amazing, but I guess that I should expect it from a guy like you." She battered her eyelashes.

"She's laying it on a bit thick," Percy muttered to me. Jason was scowling.

"Yeah," I agreed, "but Porphyrion seems to be lapping it up." Percy nodded.

Porphyrion had a bit of a dazed look on his face, "Yeah, yeah, only hot, muscular guys like me get the privilege of being leader." He's so full of himself.

"Um, could we please get shown to our rooms or the place that we're sleeping?" asked/interrupted Jason.

Porphyrion blinked. "Uh, sure. Follow me." He led us to a ladder on the side of the warehouse. There was a another level up there that wound around the bottom floor of the warehouse, so we could look down from the top. We climbed up the ladder. I was at the back, behind Rachel.

"C'mon, hurry up, Rach," I called to her.

"Shut it, Death Boy," she called back.

"Whatever, I'm coming up now," I said, starting to climb the ladder. When I reached the top, the others had already started and were moving to a corner of the level. There were bunks, with three levels - one just above the floor, one a metre above it and the last one a metre above the middle bunk.

"You get three," Porphyrion nodded towards the bunks. Then he moved to the wall and pressed a bolt. A few of the metal flaps that made the wall opened revealing an empty space. "This is where you put your stuff. Don't unpack 'cos you might have to go somewhere quickly and then you'll be able to just grab your bags quickly."

He pointed to the curtains around the three bunks. "That will give you privacy." Then Porphyrion left.

"I call dibs on a top bunk!" Luke said in one breath, with his hand in the air, like he was answering a question in class.

"Fine then, I call dibs on the bottom," Thalia said. "I think that the siblings should not sleep on the same bunk cos we'll just torture each other."

Percy cocked his head, "Well, if it tortures you then we'll all sleep in the same bunk. Do you like that idea, Nico?" I grinned.

"Whatever makes our dear sis happy," I smirked at Thalia. She groaned and looked at the girls. They shook their heads smiling.

"Rachel, Annabeth and I can share a bunk," Piper volunteered. The other two girls nodded. Yep, looks like they're happy and Thalia's fuming.

"So that leaves me and Luke sharing one," Jason said.

"Is everyone happy with that?" Percy asked.

Everyone said yes except for Thalia who said loudly, "NO!"

Percy, however, decided to not hear what she said and said, "Perfect!"


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