A/N Okay, sorry. I started to post this, but then realized I hadn't typed all of it up yet... Heh heh. Anyway, R&R peeps.

Disclaimer: IF I owned PJatO, I would be out making millions with my stories, not sitting here, posting it on FF. C'mon poeple really?

Chapter 9: SERAPHINA

'Thanks for the spells," I told Brenna as I walked past her at breakfast. She sniffed and tossed her silvery blonde hair over her shoulder. I smirked.

"So I'm guessing Brenna isn't very happy you finally decided to call in that favor," Annabeth said as I dropped next to her.

"Nope," I said, grinning brightly. "It's worth a little hostility, though."

The more I thought about it, I realized I was right. Spencer had been a natural with a sword. She said the balance was off with the swords she used last night, and I didn't know how she knew, but when Percy looked them over, he'd confirmed this.

Even so, Spencer had learned fast and was even sparring with Ash by the end of the night.

"Percy said he would talk to his dad about Tyson today. So we'll have to stretch out our training schedule even longer," Annabeth informed me. "Maybe a day of weapons, a day of forge stuff, then a day off?"

"Yeah, that sounds good. We'll wear ourselves out trying to do it every night. That was a stroke of brilliance, training every other night."

"Thanks!"

Our siblings were starting to look at us funnily, so we hurriedly started eating.

"Hey Shiloh, Spencer, what's up?" I flopped down on the sand next to them.

"Sand is my enemy," Spencer said.

"What?" I asked, thoroughly confused.

"She dislikes sand because to gets in between her toes and sticks to her feet," Shiloh clarified.

"Oh, sorry Spencer."

"Meh. I'll deal. So what are you doing down here?"

"I wanted to go swimming. It's way hot out to say. Apollo must be in a really good mood." I grinned and winked at Shiloh.

"It's not that hot. But I wanna swim too," Spencer said. She shimmied out of her t-shirt, now only in a tank top and her basketball shorts. Before I could say anything else, she ran out into the surf.

"Whoo!" She yelled in pure joy. Shiloh and I grinned at each other. We laughed and followed her into the water.

A/N So how was it. SOrry it's late. The rest of teh story will be up soon, becasue I want to start on the sequal and work on some other stuff too. Review please! I dunno how many of you read this... so Imma put in a question! I need a couple of OC's for the sequal, soooo, the ones to answer the question will eb able to submit a character. And I may, or may not, use it in the sequal. Okay ready? The question is: HOw much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris?