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Time:Morning(A few hours later)

Location:Camp Training Grounds

3rd Person POV

"Can we have a break now?"asked Nico,leaning against his tsurugi. Axel snapped his finger,forcing the boy to stand.

"Don't lean against your sword"he ordered,repositioning the dummy.

"It too hard!Why do I have thrice the training the others have?" Asked Nico. Axel laughed.

"Oh,I'm sorry. Did you think this was going to be easy?Your instincts only help you to a certain extent. A majority of demigods don't make it here because of this."he said,pursing his lips.

"And how long did you expect to stay here?That is if you weren't joining us. Three years?Until you were eighteen? You'll have to go out someday."Axel said,summoning his sword.

"There are two types of demigods, ones being hunted and the ones doing the hunting. "Axel said swinging his sword,cutting across the dummy with a clean cut.

"Your current training is a mellowed down form of the training given to new recruits. I have decided to take you in my division once I rejoin. Your the first trainee to be recruited by pick up the sword and start swinging."Axel said,narrowing his eyes.

"A little water please. I'm dying of thirst."Nico panted. Axel nodded summoning a transparent bottle of water to Nico who took it gratefully.

"Here,this is it."said Axel giving Nico a biscuit shaped piece.

"Isn't this for treating injuries?"asked Nico.

"It's also used to relieve fatigue" he replied,taking the bottle back.

"What's that?"asked Nico,seeing Axel summon a small pastic cylinder.

"Vitamin one?'asked Axel,Nico shook his head.

"I'm fine thanks"he replied.

"Alright,another round. After that I'll teach you to throw knives."said Axel.

"What about guns?"asked Nico

"Vincent has 'll be exploring that area to make a few calls,bring back a some old friends into the organisation."said Axel.

"But,I can teach you about buff magic and stealth magic. Mana flow and all that if you want"said Axel,

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Nico's eyes lit up.

"Really?!"he asked,Axel nodded.

"Once we finish the knife throws."he replied.

"Also we leave for Xecution tomorrow night"replied Axel,Nico's eyes widened.

"We're leaving?"asked Nico.

"Yes. If you want to say goodbye to your…...blood related sister,you might want to hurry up."replied Axel

"Now back to training"ordered Axel,making Nico groan.

"Okay,okay. I"m on it!"he replied.

Vincent POV

"Grover, are you sure?" Thalia asked,as we exited the convenience store.

"Well… pretty sure. Ninety-nine percent. Okay, eighty-five percent."

"And you did this with acorns?" I asked sceptically.

Grover looked offended. "It's a time-honored tracking spell. I mean, I'm pretty sure I did it right."

"And if your wrong?"I asked. Zoe nodded.

"True" Amanda said. "We should go straight west. The prophecy said west."

Oh, like your tracking skills are better?" Thalia growled.

Zoe stepped toward her. "You challenge our skills, you scullion? You know nothing of being a Hunter!"

"Oh, scullion You're calling me a scullion? What the heck is a scullion?"

"Arguing will get us nowhere" I said,sighing. "Unfortunately,unless anyone else has a actual particular place in mind it would be better to try out the satyr's location"

"Hey!"exclaimed Grover, indignantly.

Zoe didn't look convinced, but she nodded reluctantly. "Very well. Let us keep moving.

"You're going to get us arrested, driving," Thalia grumbled. "I look closer to sixteen than you do."

"I'll drive. Let's just go" I interjected,somehow it felt like we were being watched.

We all got in the van and continued sat in the shotgun seat while the others sat in the back.

We rode in silence until Zoe spoke.

"How long have you been doing this….job?"asked Zoe.

"Since 1925,me Axel and another friend started a sort of organisation dedicated to maintaining peace between monsters,demons,humans,angels. Then Axel started out numbers increased and here we are" I replied.

"So you hunt monsters?"asked Thalia. I laughed.

"No. We hunt anything that gets out of control. Monsters,humans,demons"I replied. "Angels are usually peaceful so we don't really bother them"

"A lot of our staff were monsters actually"I 's eyes widened.

"But they need-"she began to say.

"Food?There's a lot of people who don't deserve to live. Monster's killing monsters. Ironic isn't it?" I replied.

After that most of the trip remained silent except a few snores from Amanda and a Grover who was crunching a can.

"It's close"said Grover suddenly perking up.

"Where?" I asked. "Park it in the side" Zoe replied.

I turned the wheel,immediately parking the can in the right.

"Pass me the case" I said,grabbing it from Amanda.

Opening it I swiftly took out the handguns loading the magazines into the said weapons and grabbing a grenade and 2 knives.

"I'm done"I replied,turning towards the others before throwing the case back inside the van.

"It's in there I think" Grover interrupted,Zoe nodded.

"NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM." Thalia read out.

"What about metal detectors?"asked Amanda,as we started walking towards the building.

"I'll handle that" I replied.

As we entered the building,I flashed my ID to the nearest group of guards.

"Vincent Storm,Homeland security,we have reason to believe the building is harbouring potential threats. I would like entrances to be monitored,any suspicious individuals to be….dealt with" I said snapping my finger,making their eyes glaze over.

"What did you do?"Thalia asked.

"Used an old ID but made sure they wouldn't remember my name. Let's get going we don't have much time. I can smell the stench of something greek"I replied.

"Hey!"said Grover others smiled,evenZoe.

"Let us make haste. We have a lot to cover"she said.

Axel(3rd person POV)

Night time

Axel stiffened as his phone rang for the first time since he arrived to camp.

"Yup vibrate mode is way better"he muttered flipping it open. The light of the screen illuminated his face as he scrolled through.

"A message?Oh just grea-"he said before he skimmed through the contents of the message.

'Warehouse breach!'

"Oh god "he said,before warping to the location.

The warehouse was situated four kilometers off the main placed prevented any mortals form accidentally warped 200 meters from the entrance,crouching down.

"Yup,not human"he said as he made his way through the bodies of guards hired to guard the place.

"Excalibur"he muttered,summoning the sword into his hand.

'Foresight' he thought,trying to sense any supernatural being,he detected he wasn't convinced.

'Wound's somewhere around here'he thought

"But what level of cloaking magic would be able to counter mine?"he muttered aloud,he was starting to regret coming alone.

"Can't do anything about it now"he told himself,pushing through the slighly opened door. The warehouse was dark,even though the lights were always meant to be lit.

Axel's instincts screamed as he rolled behind a rack filled with boxes as a ball of energy hit the area he was crouching at.

' . know I'm can't I sense them?!'he thought,controlling his rapid breathing.

'Excalibur won't work in a closed space'he thought summoning a shotgun,loading the retraced his memory to the time of the attack.

'Three rows ahead'he thought,wiping the sweat off his brow.

'Lurk'he thought,before he made his way towards the attacker from the opposite reached the row in mention leaning his back against the side.

Taking a deep breath he swung his body forward to finish off his attacker.

To find nothing,no one.

Axel's eyes widened in realisation.'I got ambushed'he thought before he felt something pierce the back of his neck,the slight pain as the fluid went was losing a last attempt to identify his attacker he turned his head towards his assailant.

'Face covered,mask,'he thought,before recognising the hilt of the sword.

"You should be dead"he tried to say, before he was knocked out from a blow from behind.

Finally!Was breaking my head over how I would continue assured I will see this to the end at least what I would consider an review. Will try to update as soon as possible. Hope you like this chapter and see you in the next.