Amanda's POV
I know I don't like Abigail, but I couldn't stand to Katelyn bullying another person. I had once been in her shoes and I hated it. I got picked on. And that is the only reason I helped her. I tripped Katelyn just before she got to Abigail and she fell, knees scraping against the wood benches, blood gushing out. The other girls stood there, dumbfounded, while Abigail started whistling and walking away, sneering at Katelyn sobbing on the ground. Not gonna lie, that kind of surprised me. I didn't expect Abigail to take joy in people's pain, but I followed her out.
The gym teacher started to yammer on and on about how to throw a ball- oh no. Dodgeball. Great. We were totally going to get pummeled by those girls who were now coming out of the locker room looking very. Very. Angry. Then the teacher blew his whistle, and we took our teams. Even worse, Abigail and I were against those girls. We started to just dodge their fastballs, but soon that wasn't an option. I heard a hiss and- wait, what? That's when I noticed that Katelyn had become awfully pale. Her friend, Gilda, was that a goat leg? Abigail's eyes widened and she cursed about demons never staying away. I suddenly wished I was at camp half-wit. That place was a lot safer. Abigail cursed. "Those stupid mortals won't be able to see anything, but we better do something." Gilda laughed. "There is nothing TO do, Daughter of Athena. Just for us to create your death." She snarled. "I'd like to see you try." Slowly, some of the girls on Katelyn's team had goat and bronze legs. I counted quickly, four… what were they called? Oh, empousa. "Jay!" I shouted, and he comes running over. Kace looks around and says, "Shoot. Oh well, one for each of us, guys!" and together we charged at our targets.
Fascinating. I get Gilda. I slid under Gilda's legs and tried to stab her back, but she caught the knife and twisted her my arm, letting the knife fall out of my grip. She whipped down and grabbed it, pressing it down on my throat. I tried to hypnotize her, but she smiled at me and said, "Foolish demigod. Hypnosis does not work on empousa." I peeked over and saw an empousa flirting with Kace, who kept shaking his head and blinking his eyes fast. Abigail was on the ground with a metal leg on her chest and the empousa she was trying to fight was leaning down, ready to sink her fangs into Abigail's throat. She noticed Kace slowly being charmed and tried to warn him, but the empousa hissed, silencing her. I looked around and saw Jay cornered, blasting purple fire at his empousa. Jay accidentally set fire to the gym mats and everyone began evacuating. Kace was trying to blast empousa with water and attempting to cut her down, but the empousa was too fast and he was still half-charmed. I had given up when Gilda lowered my knife, slightly, and I saw a point pass through the empousa Jay was blasting. I watched as a blur whizzed around the room, stabbing the other empousa. I realized that it was a person. I couldn't see it's face, only that it was a boy. Gilda didn't die, but disappeared in a blaze of fire after hissing, "This isn't over."
Jameson's POV
Well, I think it was a good thing that hypnosis and charmspeak have no effect on me. Soon after they were gone, we regrouped. "Well, what'd you know? Abigail's nemesis' minions were evil monsters?" "Great observation, Jay! Way to notice that," Kace said, sarcastically, while cursing at Abigail for almost having her throat ripped out. "So what now? I hear an alarm has been raised, and I doubt anyone will ignore the students at the scene of the crime." Amanda said. "Don't worry, the Mist covers up everything. Besides, we have Thalia, Piper, and Abigail to charmspeak, manipulate, and whisper into these stupid mortals mind." Annabeth said, who appeared after the fight. "Well then, I guess we just change quickly and leave and pretend we were never here," I replied.
Somehow the rest of the day moved on as normal. No empousa, demons, or police officers in sight! Though I was glad Katelyn's "friends" were long gone- for now. I know well enough that killing a monster is rarely permanent, though there is a skeleton I defeated once, and never saw again. And yes, I do recognize the different skeletons. Hey, we all have our quirks! Soon enough, the day had ended, and we had reached dismissal. Throughout the day, though, I noticed someone glancing at us, and was in all of our core classes...