'Drew thinks we are going to have a girls day at the spa.'

'That's not going to work, Piper. We are going to the gym and we are going to like it.'

'Aye aye, Reyna.'

'Reyna! Piper! Stop quibbling and get over here!' Annabeth yelled from the stairs. Reyna and Piper decided to join forces this one time, by walking up the stairs in the most louché fashion they could manage, going on with it slightly too long for Annabeth to still think it was funny.

Annabeth opened the door. Hazel ducked under her arm and hopped into the gym. 'I've never been to one of these before!'

'It's like training, but you have to make the program yourself and it's on machines,' Reyna explained.

'I know that. I have just never done it before.' Hazel skipped to Annabeths' side, whom was standing by the counter.

'Yes, hello, here are our passes.' She slammed her own pass and three accumulated guest passes on the counter. The girl behind the counter nodded and waved them away.

'Good luck.'

'Thanks.' Annabeth grabbed Hazels' hand, waved to Reyna and Piper to follow her and walked to the changing rooms.

'Wow! It's big!' Hazel cheered. She padded to a treadmill. She stopped when she saw the computer attached to the top of the thing. 'Eh...' Annabeth followed her.

'Come, I'll show you how it works...'

While Annabeth and Hazel both got busy with the treadmills, Reyna and Piper decided to go to the weight lifting side of the gym. 'You have never done this before, right?' Reyna asked. Piper shook her head. 'I have done this before, Reyna, don't worry, I won't drop a dumbell on your feet,' she answered while she picked up a dumbell of five kilograms.

Reyna looked like she didn't believe it while she picked up a weight and lifted it onto her shoulders. She started squatting at an incredibly quick speed. Piper realised she was trying to lift her weight quicker than usual. When Reyna saw that, she started squating even faster than she already was.

Annabeth and Hazel weren't being that competitive. Hazel was trying to keep up with her treadmill and Annabeth was trying to help her with that. 'Come on! You can do it!' Annabeth cheered. Hazel looked at her and smiled. 'Yeah, yeah, it's going alright! I think I could try to...'

She was stopped by a clunk. She and Annabeth turned their heads towards the sound. They saw that Piper had dropped a weight onto her foot. While trying to see what was wrong, Reyna had dropped her own weight. They were now both massaging their arms. Hazel looked at the pad on her treadmill. 'Annabeth, this is the stop button, right?'

She just heard a yelp and something falling to the floor. Hazel just pushed the button and looked over to the floor when the machine did, in fact, stop. Annabeths' treadmill was still on, but she herself was lying on the floor. 'Ouch.'

Hazel jumped off of her treadmill. 'Annabeth! Do you need help?' Annabeth blinked and sat up. 'Ugh. No, I am fine.' She trembled back onto her legs. She tried walking, which went badly at first, but became more smooth the longer she did it. Hazel followed her towards Reyna and Piper, who tried to get up as well. Piper had stopped massaging her arms and was holding her foot while leaning against the wall.

'This doesn't feel very good...' she muttered. She moved her foot around. Hazel stepped next to her. 'Come...' Piper put her arm around Hazels' shoulder.

'Thanks.'

'There is an ER just down the street. Maybe that's why they put the gym over here,' Hazel said, trying to sound upbeat. Piper gave her a dark grin. 'I think going there is not a bad idea.'

'I'll help you. Reyna, Annabeth, don't feel like you have to wait for us!' She said, before helping Piper out the door. Annabeth turned towards Reyna.

'Are you alright?' Reyna stretched an arm out.

'Yeah. I saw you fall of that treadmill - is everything still in the right place?' Annabeth nodded absentmindedly. 'Hm-hm.'

'Let's... go on, then. Safely, this time.' Annabeth nodded again, before shaking her head.

'Yeah, we should, let's begin with the exercise bikes.' Almost robotically, Annabeth turned on her heels and marched towards the bicycles.

Her march was stopped when reyna sighed. 'I am not a big fan of cardio machines.'

Annabeth looked over her shoulder. 'I thought the romans were famous for their marches.'

'Yeah, and I thought the greeks were famous for running like crazy and still getting things done.' Annabeth gave her an angry look. 'I am going to the exercise bikes. I don't care what you are going to do.' She turned her head the correct way again and continued her march towards the exercise bikes. After a few seconds of inner war, Reyna followed her and sat down on the exercise bike next to Annabeths'.

Hazel maneuvered Piper to a chair after they had told the lady behind the desk what the problem was. 'Alright. We'll have to wait for some time. If we're in luck, monsters will leave us alone,' she said in a soothing voice. Piper rolled her eyes.

'We're in a hospital. There is no way there aren't at least four chimera's in this ER waiting room. I can feel it.' She snickered. 'I put my bet on the lady with black hair over there.' She nodded towards an almost invisible woman that was reading a magazine in the corner. Her eyes shot around the room now and then. Hazel shook her head.

'No, I don't think so. The blond guy, in the middle, by the plant.' Piper acted like she reached for a gossip magazine, secretly looking towards the man. 'Could be, but I don't feel the aura,' She whispered to Hazel, while opening the random magazine she had picked up. 'Yet, the woman with black hair doesn't really have that either. Maybe those two?' She looked over her magazine, at a mother with a five year old child. Hazel shook her brown curls.

'No, that is just an entitled person, I think,' Hazel muttered. Piper laughed.

'Ha. Totally. Just you wait, she is going to pull a stunt in the next few minutes,' she whispered slightly to loud.

As if triggered by Pipers' slightly to loud tone, the woman huffed, stood up and marched towards the bench. 'Hello? Can we get a room sometime today?' She screeched. The woman behind the counter looked like she had heard this times and times again. 'Yes, but you will have to wait, ma'am. If I remember it correctly, your child only has a mild bruise on his leg.'

'His leg is broken!' Piper looked over at the little boy, who was just calmly sitting in his chair. The desk ladies' eyes rolled a back into her skull a little, as if she was zoning out.

A man came walking out of the bathroom. 'Do we still not have a room!?' He yelled over everyones' head. The other people in the ER looked stared at him. The woman by the desk turned around. 'No, the little twerp here thinks it isn't horrible enough!'

The desk lady looked like she wanted to push them both out of the emergency room. 'Ma'am, there is nothing I can do. There are people in here waiting longer than you.'

'Well, maybe we have an issue that is more important than whatever is wrong with them, right?' The man asked, looked smug. The desk lady stood up.

Piper and Hazel didn't know how what the others saw, but they saw perfectly well that the desk lady extended her arms until they became tentacles. Without getting up from her seat, she wrapped the tentacles around the waists of the family members and put them outside of the ER. The three people looked like they were paralyzed.

When they were gone, Piper put her magazine down. She wobbled to her legs and slowly dragged herself to the counter. '...eh, ma'am, are you by any chance...'

'A monster? Yes. Don't worry, I am the only one here,' she whispered, and winked. Piper just nodded, before wobbling back to her chair.

Reyna slithered of the exercise bike. 'Alright. enough.'

'We have been in the gym for less than an hour...'

'I don't mean with working out. I meant with this cardio nonsense.'

'Cardio is...'

'Tut tut. How many push-ups can you do?' Annabeth stepped of her bike, rolling her eyes.

'Sets of thirty, usually, but I can push it to fifty.'

'That can be better.'

'No way.'

'Sixty push-ups.'

'In two sets, yes.'

'No, in one.' Reyna dropped to her hands and feet. Annabeth sighed deeply, but started pushing up as well.

It was after twenty-two push ups that Reyna realised that she had hurt her shoulders worse than she thought when she had dropped the weight sort of weird. After twenty seven push-ups, she fell to her face.

Annabeth looked over, while going on with pushing up like there was no tomorrow. While Reyna slowly got up, looking defeated, she pushed herself to sixty push ups. She fell to the floor, breathing heavily.

Reyna stared at her. 'I'll go get water,' she said, while standing up. Annabeth took a deep breath.

'Thzanks.' Reyna rolled her eyes and walked off.

Piper and Hazel got out of the ER. Pipers' ankle was bandaged and she had been given a crutch, but they had told her to try and walk on it. She was doing that right now, while slouching back to the gym. Hazel was looking around. 'Hey! An ice cream shop!' She pointed across the street. Piper looked over. 'I have this weird craving for a chocolate sundae...' she muttered. Hazel looked at her and smiled. 'You deserve it, I think. Come, let's go get Reyna and Annabeth.' They walked further to the gym, suddenly feeling way better.

Reyna and Annabeth were sitting on the floor, calming down from their push-up 'contest.' They were completely on board with going to get ice-cream and training more another day. Fifteen minutes later, when they were sitting in front of a few huge ice-cream sundaes, Piper 'Honestly, if this is what training in the mortal world can be like, I would do it all the time,' Annabeth said, while taking a bite of strawberry ice cream.

'Agreed,' Reyna answered, agreeing with Annabeth for the first time that day.