Third person P.O.V.
It was approximately 5:00 in the morning in Earth Eastern Time, and our newly formed group members were all sleeping peacefully, albeit two certain individuals. These two individual had an agenda, and they were bound to make these newbies suffer, especially Percy and Stephanie. These two were Arista and Minerva, and one of them was hellbent on revenge. She was thinking of all the different methods Chaos had used to wake her and Minerva up back when they were the trainees, and one idea came to mind that made her grin like the Cheshire Cat. Meanwhile, Minerva was thinking of ways that could be beneficial for the newbies, but also made them work hard. As they reached the hallways of their soon-to-be victims, they turned on their work face and Arista began making clones of both her and Minerva, sending each one of them to a certain room, armed with a trumpet. Each clone stood ready at the doors, waiting for the original's command. Arista walked up to the very special door of her little sister, and proceeded to kick down the door, her clones mimicking her actions at the exact same time.
Stephanie's P.O.V.
You ever been awoken to the most annoying sound in your life? Well, today was a first for me, and it wasn't a fun or pretty one. Both me and Percy were rudely awoken to the sound of my door getting kicked down, followed by the very annoying sound of a trumpet. I could hear many other trumpets being played at the same time, which only meant one thing: Training has begun…
I looked over to the door, only to find that both my sister and Minerva were standing right there. Minerva had a cold, calculating look on her face, while my sister had a malicious and stern look on hers. In that moment, I didn't know if I should be scared of Minerva, my sister, or both. Percy arose next to me, somehow shirtless, and looked over sleepily at the two women standing at the door. He cracked a slight grin and said, "Hey guys, what time is it?" Arista then proceeded to rush forward and kick Percy straight in his chest, having him fall off the bed. He got back up quickly, now fully awake, and said, "What the hell was that!" She walked over to him and said, "That, maggot, is your wake up call! You will not address me or my colleague here as guys, or even by our names! You will address us as ma'ams, or our codenames! Is that clear, soldier?!" She leaned in closer as she said this until she was staring him in the eyes. Percy made a quite clear gulp and stuttered, "Y-Y-Yes, ma'am." She stood up straight and walked back over to Minerva, who had somehow gotten a clip board and was writing something down, until she stuck the piece of paper on the door and walked out, with Arista following her. I went over and looked at what the piece of paper said. It read, "Report to throne room at 06:30. Those who arrive late will be punished." I looked over at Percy and said, "We're so fucked." He looked over at me and said, "Oh come on, it can't be that bad. Plus, I think I've already on her good side. What could go wrong?"
Everything went wrong after he said that. After a good shower and breakfast, we arrived to the throne room a few minutes before we were due. One by one, everyone else made their way into the throne room, except for one person. Leo ran in a scurry, right as Arista arrived, but Minerva had caught him in her peripheral vision. She walked up to him and said, "Leo, you were late. Therefore, your punishment is to walk over to Chaos' throne." He looked at her in confusion and said, "Well, that's an easy punishment." and began to start walking over to the throne, until Minerva stopped him again, applying some sort of braces onto his arms and legs, and then let him go. Leo looked at her once again in confusion, but shrugged it off…. Well he tried to shrug at least. His arms didn't even look like they moved, even though Leo had a pure look of concentration and pain on his face. He tried walking once again, but he could hardly move his legs an inch. Minerva looked back over and said, "Those braces are specifically designed to become 3 times the weight of your body, therefore making it harder for you to move." She walked over to him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, then walking off while saying, "Good luck." Leo looked like he was trying hard to not drop to the ground, even though his arms were slowly dropping down. We all winced in pain for him, but looked back over to where Arista was standing. She paced back and forward, looking at us with cold eyes. She stopped in the middle and said/shouted, "Today is the first day of Hell for you boys and girls, and I am the Devil incarnate! For those of you thinking that this will be easy, it will not. For those who believe you can be late, you will suffer a fate similar to your friend over there, or even one worse. I am your instructor Arista, but you will speak to me as Chaotic Knight, while my partner MInerva over there will be spoken to as Dreamslayer. UNDERSTOOD?!" We all immediately nodded our heads while listening to the sounds of Leo moaning as he tried to get to Chaos' throne. Arista looked at Minerva's clipboard and started calling out certain names such as me, Percy, Luke, Leo, Cameron, Alexa, Hunter, Jessica, Piper, and Frank, to go to one side of the throne room. Arista then said "The people I called out will be assigned to me, while the rest of you will be in Minerva's group." Everyone in our group all groaned in disdain, but quickly got quiet whenever Arista turned around and gave them/us an icy glare. She smiled and continued on, stating "We will meet back here at 14:00 hours to have a quick lunch, and then we switch to the other team for more training." This brought about even more groaning, but we started walking with Arista to the Arena, where the nightmares began. She first started us off by doing 150 pushups in a row.. Or at least me and Percy had to do that many. The others had to only do half as many pushups in a row as us. I guess this is what we get for trying to see what Arista and Dravyx were doing, but it was worth the fun. This continued with the situps, laps around the arena, and even the jumping jacks, which you would think would be easy. They were not. Afterwards, she had us sit down while she showed and demonstrated the many different techniques we can use with our hands to take down an opponent, from Earth and alien-like. This led to all of us stating how easy it looks, and now we have to actually learn the hard way, which means getting our asses handed to us by my near and dear sister. It's not fun getting dropped on your ass so many times by the same person. We all even tried to jump Arista all at once, only for us all to get picked apart and defeated easily. Arista glared at us and shouted out, "Really?! This is the best you all have?! I thought Dad had recruited good warriors, not some measly punks who limped their way to survival! C'mon, give me a goddamn fight! In fact, use your abilities on me, and I promise you I will still beat your sorry asses all the way to Kingdom Come!" That really pissed me off, and I could tell everyone else was pissed too. All at the same time, we charged towards my sister, abilities charged and ready to attack. The only thing I didn't know was that two people had actually stayed behind.
Percy's P.O.V.
Before I could go in and attack Arista, Luke grabbed my shoulder and said, "Wait right there, fireball. She wants you all to be pissed. I've seen this strategy before, and you've utilized it almost every time you fought a monster or enemy." I looked over at where the fight was happening, and realized he was right. Each of our friends were getting pummeled by Arista, and I mean that literally. Currently, Leo was halfway put through a column, PIper was on the floor, Frank, Stephanie, and Cameron were all piled onto one another, while Alexa was going for a very dizzy spin as Arista spun her round and round, before suplexing her across the arena. Hunter tried for a sneak attack, only for Arista to grab his hand, spin around, and get him in a headlock before giving him one Tartarus of a DDT. She turned over to the two of us and shouted out, "What? Have you two decided to go butt-fuck while I was taking care of these guys?!" I grew red in anger, while Luke just laughed and shouted back, "Yea, but we made sure to add Dravyx to the mix and he was sure willing to go first!" She grew red, and charged towards us with a very familiar guttural yell. She leaped up into the air, ready to bring her fist onto Luke's face, but he dodged the attack easily, making her land and almost trip. She spun around quickly and tried to go for a low sweep, but he simply jumped out of the way and landed a mean right hook into her ribs. She gave a quick yelp and jumped back, cursing silently. I looked at Luke, and we both nodded, while getting ready for a match we wouldn't want her to forget.
I activated my empathy powers and continued trying to make Arista feel angry, while Luke started getting ready to run towards her. I covered my fists in a metallic coating and charged towards Arista while having swords made from solid water distract her, giving Luke some time to do whatever he had planned. Arista looked up and smirked, blowing away the swords with just her fists, before coming towards me with her own fists put up. We charged towards one another, and when our fists hit, a shockwave blew us back. After the shockwave happened, Luke chose that as his opening to land a enhanced hit on her, only that's not what happened. Right as he swung towards her head, Arista grabbed his fist before jumping onto him and bringing him down with his arm behind his back, her legs wrapped around his other arm, and bending his back before giving a headbutt that knocked him out entirely. I looked up in shock, as she slowly got up and dropped his body, before the last thing I saw was a foot coming straight towards me. I woke up to ice sliding down my back, making me jump up very quickly while not giving out a girly scream. Arista, who was the culprit of said ice attack, smirked and said, "Get up soldier, that was only the first of many times I'll be kicking your ass." She turned to the others, and said, "This was a pure test of how you control your emotions. All but two of you failed to show me that you could see through my ruse of simple making fun of you all and attempt to fight me with a cool head. The two that were clever, or should I say Luke, attempted to fight me with my own trick, and it worked for a minute before I realized what had happened. That was very smart Luke, and I have some little belief you may be skilled, if at a lower level than me." Luke just nodded, while rubbing the back of his head. Arista looked over at all of us, before stating, "Well, that's it for the fun stuff. Now you all get to learn the different weapons we have in our arsenal, and boy it will be interesting." Everyone seemed to relax a bit, until we actually got to the area with the weapons. I thought I hated fighting Arista, but that was nothing compared to getting detailed in depth about a weapon, before being put up in front of a target sign and trying to remember what said information was. The only terrifying part was, that if we couldn't remember something about the weapon, she would either throw or shoot said weapon at us, barely missing our bodies. This led to Leo literally remembering everything we learned, while everyone else tried their best. After getting scared so many times from the swords, knives, and bullets that were shot at us, we learned to remember the weapons by the end of the time. Arista put the freshly used M16 away and said, "Well that's all for me today, punks. You all will go to lunch, and the you can go do the semi-educational and a little bit of fun stuff with Dreamslayer, and then tomorrow we'll be bringing in actual criminals for the torture, seduction for information, and murder sessions!" Everyone looked at her with different reactions, some ranging from glee from Hunter to nausea from Leo and Piper. We all got up from our resting positions, and walked towards a nearby forest. Piper must've realized something before we got to our destination, because she grew a look of worry and chose to hide behind Leo. I just shrugged, and looked back at the trail, until we arrived at a big clearing, where Min-Dreamslayer- was waiting with the others. Everyone but Arista, Minerva, and Piper seemed to have looks of confusion, while Piper looked scared and Minerva and Arista looked calm. Cameron walked up to the middle of the two groups and said, "So, where's the food?" Arista turned to him and said, "We're doing this Lost style. It's time for you all to take what you have learned so far and go find your food out there in the woods." Piper literally fainted, while the rest of us looked at them with scared and shocked looks. Oh boy, this is going to be one Tartarus of a lunch break.
Piper's P.O.V.
I woke up to Jason looking at me with a look of worry as he asked, "Are you all right?" I nodded and said, "It's funny, I had this crazy dream that we had started training and for our lunch break, we had to actually go kill animals and find our own food." Jason looked away, while saying, "Uh, yeah, that's actually what we have to do." I sat up real quick and stormed over to Dreamslayer, while practically shouting, "You know I'm vegan, right?! I don't eat meat at all!!!" Both her and Chaotic Knight looked over at me and said in unison, "Relax, all you have to do is find the proper foods that you would eat and be able to feed yourself. You aren't the first vegetarian or vegan we've met before." I sighed in relief, and then realized I have another problem. I don't really know much about berries and fruits besides the basics. I groaned at how much this was still going to suck for me. I looked over at the Stephanie de Boux and realized that she may be my saving grace. I walked over to her and asked, "Hey Stephanie, do you happen to know anything about berries and stuff?" She looked over at me and said in a clear French accent, "Yes, I know a little bit." I sighed in relief and said, "Great, do you think you could help me out a bit?" She nodded her head, and we both started walking into the forest, searching for anything that could satisfy our needs. As we were walking, we could hear plenty of different sounds coming from the woods. Stephanie looked uneasy, and I couldn't blame her. My nerves were on edge just in case anything tried to pop out and make us it's meal for the day.
I walked over to a bush that had berries, but before I could grab them Stephanie shouted out, "PIper, no!" I quickly turned around to see what was wrong, but it was too late. A snap could be heard, and the next thing I knew, I was in a net dangling up in the air. A voice spoke in my head and said, "Oh yeah, did I forget to mention the traps and wild animals here? You best find your own food before they find you, and hope you don't let me catch you in my traps, or you're punishment's going to be waaaay worse than Leo's!" I shuddered at the idea of a worse punishment, and quickly yelped to Stephanie, "Get me down from here quickly!" Stephanie just rolled her eyes while throwing a knife at the rope, immediately dropping me back to the ground with a loud thud. I groaned and got out of the net, while saying, "Well, let's hurry up and get out of here before Arista or some wild animal finds us. She nodded and gave me some berries. I munched down on them and said, "These are really good.. Wait, when did you get these?" She just shrugged her shoulder and merely said, "When you were dangling in the net, of course. Come on, we'll need a few more berries to satisfy our hunger." I nodded my head, and we ran off into the woods, determined to find our food while not getting caught.
Cameron's P.O.V
I. HATE. ARISTA!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, I really don't like her at all right now. First, I got my ass handed to me both with and without my powers. Now, I'm out here in the woods, fighting a pig, all while Alexa laughs on and on at my expense. I just glared at her, while the pig continued to squirm and squeal, while shouting, "This isn't funny, Alexa!" She giggled and said, "No, this is hilarious considering how you laughed at me when I got caught in that trap." I got an idea and said, "But it's funny to see a cute Westerner scream and struggle while in the air." She grew red and dived towards me, in which I let go of the pig as she jumped onto me, and we wrestled on the ground for a bit before she pinned me down, making it hard for me to get out of her grasp. She pretended to knock me out, in which I pretended to act knocked out, while she picked up my right leg and count out "1, 2, 3!!!" She jumped up in the air while screaming out, "And you're winner: Alexa!!!!" I just chuckled and picked myself up before giving her a hug and said, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. I could totally beat you in a one on one match." She just replied with sticking her tounge out, and we both just laughed our asses off. It felt good to act like a kid again, especially since our childhoods involved fighting monsters and surviving in a Greek world. All of a sudden, something tackled Alexa, and started attempting to bite her arm, which led to loud screaming. I immediately reacted by tackling the down and trying to wrestle it into submission, but it got a big bite on my arm, which made me back up from it for a moment, until I started punching it and trying to avoid its huge swipes. It got a few deep cuts in, and it tackled me back to the ground and we rolled around before I was able to hold it down and snap its neck. I got up off the dead carcass, and gave it a good look. It had been a wolf twice the size of your usual wolf. I looked over at Alexa and said, "You okay?" She nodded her head, and I just grinned at her, before the fatigue and blood loss took over and I passed out.
When I came to, I was in the middle of the field again, and everyone was standing over me, while Ari-Chaotic Knight was bandaging some of my wounds up. She looked at me and said, "Good, you're awake, soldier. Almost thought we lost you there for a second." I just groaned while replying with, "Nope, it takes more than a few scratches and bumps to kill me. Where's Alexa?" Everyone parted aside, and Alexa tackled me back to the ground. She was punching me and crying out, "You stupid idiot! I almost thought I lost you to a stupid wolf!" I picked the both of us up and just wrapped my arms around her, in which she stopped punching me and just started crying into my chest. I looked at the others with a meaningful look, and they got the message. They all walked off, giving me and Alexa some space. I rubbed the back of her hair, while whispering to her, "Hey, I'm fine. Remember our promise? I would be your guardian Angel, and…." "I would be yours", Alexa finished. I nodded my head, and we just sat there quietly for a few minutes, basking in each other's presence. My heart was telling me, 'Dude, you should totally tell her how you feel about her.' I thought about it, and my brain also took the time to agree with my heart for once. I picked up her chin and said, "Hey, I got something important to tell you." She sniffled and said, "What could you possibly need to tell me at a time like this, you big doofus? I just replied with a deep, meaningful kiss. Alexa seemed to be surprised at first, but she eventually leaned in with her own passion. We kissed for probably a good 5 minutes, but I promise you that those five minutes had fireworks and trumpets playing in the background. When we finally separated, everyone else started cheering and clapping their hands. I had forgot that they were all there, and apparently so had Alexa, because we both blush tomato red. Percy was handing Leo some money, and Dreamslayer just looked on with a smirk. Our lovely Chaotic Knight decided to take this moment to pull us apart and say, "Alright, lovebirds. Time to get back to getting your asses kicked. I'll give you all five more minutes and then the groups switch." We all nodded and took this opportunity to lay on the ground in exhaustion, while Alexa laid close to me, still shaken from the attack. Percy suddenly just asked, "Soooo, who else is in immediate and utter pain and exhaustion?" His response was plenty of groans and moans, which pretty much gave him his answer. We all laid there for the rest of the time we had, until we got up and went with our new trainer, Dreamslayer.
I thought Arista was stern, but boy was I fucking wrong. It turns out that Miss Miner-Dreamslayer…..not trying to get smacked with the ruler again… is definitely more sterner than Arista. Makes me miss getting my ass kicked...oh wait, it still is getting kicked because Dreamslayer hits us with these crazy combos and moves that would have made a ninja cry. After the wonderful assakickings we recieved, it ws to the classroom with history books and lessons. I thought the one benefit of being in the Greek world would mean no more school, but here I am, learning about the culture of the Khanraquians and the war they had against the planet Thyrall when their princess was kidnapped and forced to wed their king. The fact that I'm actually learning this is terrifying, and what' worse is I'm actually intrigued by these many planets and their people's history. I hate history. What is happening to me?!?!?! The only other brightside is, I can sit next to my beautifully amazing girlfriend (Yes, we're now a thing! Achievement Unlocked: Get A Relationship!) and get distracted in those bright eyes of hers, and think about the next thing I'll be able to do with her. Wait, no no no, I didn't mean it like that, heh heh. I just meant that we can go like the movies or somethi- I'm rambling again, aren't I? Whoops, well I guess it's back to the books for me then. After about three hours of nonstop learning and butt-getting-whooped, we were all finally relieved of training and went straight to our beds. As soon as I got into my room, I belly flopped right onto my bed, only for something to hurt me as I landed. I groaned out in pain, and so did the object beneath me. I sat up on my bed, and pulled the cover off only to find my dear girlfriend Alexa hogging my favorite blanket! I immediately gasped perfectly and started to play wrestle her for the honor of my favorite blanket. We rolled and rolled around on my bed until we both fell off, and continued our endless battle on the ground. Finally, I stood up in victory, blanket in hand and shouted, "Finally! The War Of Blankets is over! The army of Saint Cameron have retrieved the Holy Grail!" A loud BANG was heard on my wall, with a muffled voice that I recognized as Dravyx's, "Shut up! I'm trying to sleep here, asshole!" I shut my mouth quick and slightly giggled a bit. Alexa was still on the floor, pouting at the loss of a good blanket. I smirked, and picked her up bridal-style while dropping the both of us onto my bed. I wrapped us both with my good blanket, and kissed her on her nose. She just giggled and did the same to me, before we both fell asleep together peacefully, with any bad nightmares.
Third Person's P.O.V.
It is late at night, and a figure is zoning in on his target. The terrified tyrant is doing everything in his power to try to escape this monster, especially after what he saw the beast do to his best men in a few seconds. The tyrant nearly dodges a dagger aimed for his head, only for one to impale itself into his right calf, stopping him in his tracks. The tyrant quickly turned around, and blasted off three bullets towards his predator. The predator dodged each blast, albeit a bit slower than his usual rate. The tyrant looked up at the.. the thing in front of him and pleaded, "Please, sir, let me live. I haven't done anything wrong, I swear!" The figure appeared from the shadows, donning a black torn up outfit with his eyes hidden from his prey. The figure growled out, "Cut the bullshit, Joseph the 'Merciless'. Abusing women and children, mass murdering villages and families for your own beneficial gains? Hehehehe, I think that you deserve every inch of pain that's coming to you." The assailant rushed towards the murderer, and pins Joseph to the nearest tree with three more knives in each of his wrists and calf, missing the vital arteries and veins, inducing more tormenting pain on Joseph. The being pulls out a butcher knife, while saying, "This little piggy went to the market…" The being chopped of one of Joseph's hands. "This little piggy stayed at home.." The other hand was chopped off. "This little piggy had a roast beef." The left foot was torn with the assailants bare hands. "This little piggy had none…" The right foot was broken off with a kick to the ankle bone. "And this little piggy DIED DIED DIED ALL THE WAY HOME. hEH HE HEH.. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!" The being cut open Joseph's stomach, ripping out his intestines all the while the so called 'Merciless' screamed on in unrelented pain. The being became annoyed by the constant sounds, so he snapped Joseph's neck a literal one hundred and eighty degrees while continuing to laugh. Once he was finished with his masterpiece, he left it there for others to see what he had done, and what he planned to do so long as he continued to breathe.
Woah… That was brutal. Who is this mysterious person, and what will he do next. What of these new relationships forming? How will the team fare with the training? Will Arista quit being so hard on Stephanie and Percy? Who knows? But find out in the next and later chapters! Also, frequent reviews would be appreciated. I love to hear your opinions and ideas on how to make this story better for you all!Badboysupreme: To answer your idea on Stephanie getting taken down by a few prisoners, do take this into consideration: Stephanie had recently discovered her true heritage and just received her new abilities, which she does not know how to fully harness yet and is not that adept in hand-to-hand combat, hence the training required. But I do love how you pointed that out. Thanks, man!