A/N: Dang…A lotta months went by… So, this is Resatice. We're sorry for the delay, but PurpleGoddess never has time to write due to the fact that her brother is always on the computer. She also has a new baby bro, so that's another reason as to why no updates have been up. What we've decided is that I will be doing most of the writing from now on, but we will be talking over Skype or something as I write, so you will still have all of our combined ideas. I'm usually the one who writes the plot related chapters, while she often writes all the filler chapters. Anyways, we hope you enjoy chapter 10!

EVERYONE THANK I-am-East FOR CREATING OUR EPIC COVER.

Iona PoV

Oh gods, Arty is going to kill me. I'm too young to die! I sneaked through the hallways, trying to make my way to Eri's room. If I'm dying, I'm dragging her down with me.

I walked a little farther, but I was suddenly met with a warm body in my face. Instantly I thought it was my twin sister, and of course me being me, I was down on my hands and knees begging for forgiveness.

"Please Arty, I know you're mad at me and want to kill me for spying on you but please let me explain! I'm too young to die! I have so much more to live for! Think of all the little kids who would be helpless without their Slurpee's! Think of the children Arty! The childr-"

"Babe, what are you talking about?" Well this is embarrassing. I looked up and met the eyes (that were filled with amusement) of my super-hot boyfriend. He held out his hand to help me up and I graciously took it. There was a spark, like every other time I held his hand. Warmth crept to my cheeks.

"Sorry about that, Arty's out for my blood. She knows that I overheard her conversation with Percy. I just thought that you were, you know…Her." I responded.

He chuckled. "I feel honoured that I was able to confuse you with your twin sister. Do I really look that girly?" He was mocking me. I playfully punched his shoulder.

"Nah, you're my knight in shining armour."

A mischievous glint caught his eyes. "Why my beautiful princess, let us off into the sunset and finally find peace!" He then carried my firefighter style and ran down the hallway. Everyone we passed only smiled at out antics. The entire time I couldn't stop laughing.

After we turned a corner, we ran into them.

They stood hand in hand, laughing together.

It was Percy and Arty, who both wore a mischievous grin.

"Hey, Vi, Aether. How are you guys doing?" My twin asked me.

"Oh uhm I'm fine you know, knowing only what I'm supposed to know and nothing of you and Percy going out now oh no, not at all!" I blabbered. "Oh hey look its Eri!"

And thankfully, there she was saving me without even knowing it. Good ol' Eri. She walked in a straight line, always staring at her feet. She hated being unsymmetrical.

"Hello, peasants." She stated simply.

"Uh, Eri… I'm a titan, Aether is a god, and Arty and Vi are goddesses. I'm pretty sure we're not peasants." Percy stated.

"Pay no mind to her, she always calls us peasants. I think it's awesome actually." Arty said to her boyfriend, then kissed the small crease on his forehead. He easily relaxed at her touch and kissed her cheek. I wonder what his intentions with my sister are…

"Anyways, we got a class to help teach today. Sarkastikos will be leading it. You know what that means." She had optimistic look in her eye.

You see, Sarkastikos was mine and Arty's teacher, but we like to call him Mr. Sticks. He taught us all we needed to know about the universe, training, being princesses, all that good stuff. But he was very sarcastic, thus the name Sarkastikos. He became immortal at the age of 50, when dad decided that he would be the perfect teacher for us.

"Oh gods, I haven't seen Sarkastikos in years." Arty sighed.

"Am I the only one who doesn't know this Sarkastikos? Should I be worried?" Percy asked. I swear he can be more clueless than me sometimes.

"You'll see. You'll see." I creepily said, and started to walk into the shadows off to the gym. I was able to see Arty pat Percy's shoulder, but still not telling him who Mr. Stick is. He'll just have to hear about the most sarcastic teacher in the world himself.

This is gonna be awesome.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the Gym~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Mr. Sticks! Where are you?" I called out. Suddenly someone tapped my right shoulder. I turned around instantaneously, conjured a poison flavoured Slurpee, and was ready to dump it on the person who dared to scare Iona, the great goddess of- Oh my gosh, it's Mr. Sticks!

"Calm yourself Iona. You would want to kill your awesome, fantastic, math obsessed teacher now would you?" My mentor asked in a carefree tone.

"Oh, course not. If I did who else would be able to agonize every single person in this castle with your sarcasm?" I replied smoothly.

"Oh I don't know, you?" He sarcastically replied.

"I learn from the best."

He was grinning when the rest of the crew (Eri, Percy, my awesomely hot boyfriend Aether, and the other goddess of randomness and awesomeness) walked in. Arty burst into a sprint and hugged Sarkastikos in a giant bear hug.

"Hey, I'm an old man you know, these knees won't last forever!" He shouted.

My twin let go of him as she stated "You're immortal. Your knees can't possibly turn to dust."

Suddenly a horde of kids ranging from the ages of eight to eighteen walked into the room. I guess these are the people that are going through their monthly training.

Again I quote myself. This is gonna be awesome.

When the kids noticed Aether, Arty, Eri and I their faces paled and they instantaneously fell silent.

"I knew there was a reason I told you guys to come." Mr. Sticks told us. We laughed lightly at his comment.

"So, noobs. How's life?" I asked.

There was some nervous chatter amongst the troupes, but no one seemed to answer my question. Are they afraid of us? That must change!

"Hey Arty, put plan BSU into action? They're way too serious for my liking." I muttered to her.

"Course, lemme tell Eri." She leaned over and told Eri of our plan. It was something we created long ago, but never used it in a long time.

Arty and Eri nodded towards me, signaling that the plan was into action.

"So, today we'll be going over the reasons why there will be no using sharp objects in this class or any sort of weapon, even though there is a huge sword in my hand, and Shish Kebab is in Artemis', and Eri has a samurai sword, Percy for some reason, has the legendary sword Riptide, which can only be wielded by the future king of Chaotic, and Aether is wielding his dual swords, and well…Iona has a…poison Slurpee…" Mr. Sticks trailed off.

"Hey! It's a weapon too!" I shouted.

"Anyways, her ACTUAL weapon is a big huge machine gun that shoots out platinum bullets." Mr. Sticks concluded.

"Yeah…Stay out of her sight when she has her gun. That's the last thing you want hitting you." Arty said as she rubbed her shoulder where I once shot her. It wasn't my fault she almost pushed me into a pool. She should know that I only float and can't swim. She got the survival skills, not me.

Percy patted her shoulder and kissed her forehead, and she beamed back at him. They were truly my best match yet.

Someone in the class spoke up; I think his name was Randy. "Wait…So if we're not using weapon what are we doing?"

Sarkastikos had an evil glint in his eye, and smiled his creepy smile that reminded me of an evil clown. "Everyone," He even looked at us, "Will be running 5000 laps around the field unless someone in this room can tell me the first 50 digits of pi."

Sure Sarkastikos was our trainer, but he used to be a math teacher back when he was a mortal.

"Uhm…3.14159265358979323846…Uhm….uh… Yeah I forgot…" Arty tried. She once knew the digits, but it's not like we ever needed pi to save our life.

"Well, START RUNNING!" Mr. Sticks shouted at us. Ugh, I hate running.

"Yeah, I'm outta here." Percy said.

He walked out of the room, and I envied him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After my 5000 laps~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, I finished second with a minute separating first place, which was Arty. Sometimes I hate her being the hunter. Eri was third being a few seconds behind me. Aether was fourth with 30 seconds separating him and Eri. You see, we had this small bet going that I would finish before him. He didn't believe me, so in order to win; I kissed him on the lips, dazing him and ran ahead to the finish line while he stood in his spot, apparently unable to move. The soldiers however, all came at different times, but we had a good five minutes in there before the first one came.

"How do you guys finish so fast?" One of the soldiers asked us.

"Well, it's quite simple actually. There are three crucial steps. The first is that balance dictates." Arty started as she moved her hands out in front of her, creating two balanced scales.

"Symmetry is key." Eri continued. Her hands moved together in front of her, each on top of the other.

I dramatically raised my fist to my forehead, stuck out my pinkie finger and shouted "UNICORNS ARE AWESOME!"

Everyone burst into laughter at my antics, but balance (Arty), symmetry (Eri), and unicorns (me) only shared high-fives at the success of plan BSU.

Sarkastikos called everyone in, and we formed a circle beside him once everyone had calmed down.

"So, due to your guys' laughter, I think you guys can run a few mo-"

"No! We are not running anymore! All I want to do is start the actual training with long range, short range, and all those other ranges. I will have Iona create a math Slurpee for you if it means no more running!" Arty shouted, then smacked my arm (really hard by the way) telling me to make the Slurpee.

"Deal." Mr. Sticks responded instantaneously.

I gave him the red 'math' flavoured Slurpee. He took a deep gulp, then clutched his head and shouted "Arghh! MATH OVERLOAD!"

"Sorry, want a different one that's less extreme?" I asked as I conjured another one of my awesome drinks.

"No thanks." Mr. Sticks answered when he recovered from the over load of math.

"Give it here, sis. I can use some math and physics and all that good stuff. It helps with my aim." My sister said to me. I handed the beverage over, thinking of how nerdy she is.

She took the straw out, and used the other end as a spoon. She took a scoop and popped it in her mouth. "Hey, is this cherry flavour?" She whispered to me.

"SHHHH! Don't tell anyone!" I whisper/yelled at her.

"Hey! Why can't we get a free Slurpee?" A soldier named Angela asked.

"How about this?" I thought of a solution. "If any of you can beat Arty, Percy, Aether, Eri, or me in a competition of your choosing, I'll give you any flavour of Slurpee that you desire."

"What about me?" Asked a voice filled with so much power. We all turned and saw a man who looked like he was in his seventy's due to the fact that his hair was as white as snow. There were quite a few wrinkles on his face, which seemed to have once been beautiful. His eyes were the most unique part of him. They were a mix of all colours, depending on the lighting. From my angle, they seemed to shine a chocolate brown. This was man I knew all too well, yet one that I haven't seen in centuries. This man was Order, mine and Arty's grandpa.

But, I noticed the most peculiar thing. There was another male beside gramps. He appeared to be nineteen, with hair that was a really dark shade of brown, and the bluest eyes I have seen; almost like the ocean, and they appeared to moving like the waves. His posture seemed confident and laid back, but it suddenly went rigid. At the same moment I also notices that Arty was as pale as a ghost and as still as a statue. They were staring right at each other. I gave it no thought, but ran to my grandpa.

"Hey gramps!" I said as I practically hugged him to death, even though that could never happen. He's immortal, the father of dad and mom. They were forced to take over the world when the first ruler (Order) retired. Over time mom and dad fell in love. So in other words, he's too awesome to die.

"Hello, my little flower. How are you?" He asked me. His voice was filled with the love only a grandfather can hold.

"I'm great! Who's this?" I gestured to the weird boy who was still staring at Arty, and she was still pale in the face and staring right back.

"This is Hunter. Your father and I agree that he would make a wonderful addition to the army. We were hoping he would be in either yours or Artemis' sector. Where is she anyways?" Order asked.

Artemis finally broke eye contact with the person named Hunter to answers gramps.

"Hey grandpa, I've missed you!" She muttered into his chest as she too, have him a huge hug.

"And I you. So, who will take Hunter?"

Arty and Hunter created eye contact once again, but I went to address Hunter.

"So, Hunter, which planet are you from?" I asked him.

Still keeping eye contact with Artemis he answered "Earth."

I was pissed. I knew my sister was hot, but she was taken. I don't understand why she's acting weird either, but this douche was acting anything but kind. I mean, I AM the goddess of kindness.

"Look here, you little douche. When I'm talking I expect to be looked at in the eye. It's a sign of respect you know." I lectured.

He looked from Artemis' eyes to mine, and answered, "My humble apologies, I was just… Distracted."

"You can take him." I said to Arty.

"Oh there is no way I will take him in my sector you are free to take him, I will be the happiest person in the world if I don't get him. I will not stand for it." Arty said in a hysterical mini-rant.

"I'm standing right here you know." Hunter responded. Artemis only glared daggers at him, yet only a small smirk rose to his face. What a douche.

I looked at Order, but he simply stared at me waiting for me to be the person he knows I am.

"Ughh, FINE! Be that way. I'll take him, but I'm not happy about it!"

"Thanks!" My sister happily said to me, gave me a small hug then made her way to the targets that were in the corner of the room. As she walked she twisted her ring to form her favourite bow and arrows.

"May I be excused?" Hunter asked gramps. He only answered with a nod. I saw him follow Artemis as he too took out his bow that was strapped to his back.

"Gramps…Do you know what's wrong with them" I asked.

"Yes child, I do." Order responded.

"Well, you mind shedding some light on the situation? I'm worried about Arty; she's never acted like that before."

"I'm sorry, Iona, it is not my place to say. When the time is right, you shall know the deep history between the two."

I sighed. "I guess you're right… Well, I'm going to go back to my sis, I have a feeling she needs me." I told my grandpa.

"Of course child, go with your sister. I shall see you at dinner." He kissed my cheek, hugged me then walked out of the room. I made my way to Artemis and Hunter, who were shooting arrows at an alarming speed. The entire class seemed to be watching them. Curious as I was, I went to go ask one soldier what happened.

"Well, I'm not sure what they said, but I think the new kids dared Artemis to an archery competition. They each get one hundred arrows each and the one with the best score wins." A soldier by the name of Data said to me.

I figured if I asked Arty what was happening she would give me all the details, so I didn't ponder any longer.

The fact that Hunter and Artemis finished shooting at the same time wasn't what surprised me. What did, however, was the fact that both of their targets looked exactly the same. Not a single difference. How odd.

The two competitors shook hands in, and I swear I heard Artemis say to Hunter "Just like old times right?" The response she got was just a single, genuine smile that made Hunter not appear so douche-baggy.

They parted ways, and my twin made her way to me.

"C'mon, let's go. I have the worst headache ever." She said to me.

I was worried. She never had gotten a headache unless she was under a lot of stress, which only happened once before, the night of the war.

"Okay."

We walked in silence to our rooms. Before we parted I decided to ask about Hunter.

"Hey, Arty… What's the deal with you and that Hunter kid? I've never seen you so pale before, and the way you two were staring at each other was way creepy."

She didn't answer me immediately, almost as if she was deciding on whether to tell me or not. When she did finally answer it appeared that she was hesitating.

"It's noting, really. It's just this feeling I've been having about him...Almost like his being here isn't good news."

I accepted her answer, and we parted ways getting ready for dinner. As I did so I realized my sister was lying to me

I felt a pang of hurt in my heart that I've never felt before.

A/N: Well, that's chapter 10 for you guys, I hope you liked it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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