A/N: Hey guys! I probably won't update until next week, so hang in there! Cya!
Amanda's POV
It turns out that we all just did a mini show and everyone sang or dance and Jameson sang "Don't Stop Believing". He actually wasn't too bad! And I have to admit, we all did pretty great. The next day was pretty much the same as every day. Go to class, try to avoid Katelyn, go to soccer practice, come home, homework, practice fighting skills, dinner, and then do whatever I wanted until I went to sleep. The whatever I want in this case was hang out with Raymond, Jameson, Abigail, and Kace in Jameson's room and listen to music, practice auditions, and just hang out in general. Or in some cases, I went to do some peaceful creative writing. I finally had the guts to share it to Abigail and she sent hers to me. It was interesting, something how if you told the truth and you weren't supposed to, terrible things would happen. Like, oh I don't know! Death maybe or a loss of something important! Same if you told a lie and you weren't supposed to.
Anyhoo, the next day, all I wanted was second, fifth, and sixth period to arrive. English because I actually understand it! Gym because, hello?! Who doesn't like to run around and be active?! Foreign language *cough* Greek was something that was always easy for me. I never knew why and now I know. Fast forward back to the present. After lunch, we were all like, LET ME BE MYSELF AND RUN AROUND THE GYM. We created a plan and decided that Hazel would use the Mist (whatever that was) to create an illusion that we were walking to gym, when we were run-, no, run-, no. That's not it… um, it was-, um-OH! We weren't running or walking, we were SPRINTING to the gym and some of us decided to knock down some of Katelyn and Marietta's "crew".
When we got to the gym, we were in a surprise. Standing next to Mr. Felisha, was a short man with a goatee. Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Reyna, and all of the other demigods (besides us new demigods) ran over and hugged him. Annabeth dragged him over to us and I noticed something I didn't before. The man had goat legs, and I stifled a scream. Reyna came over as well and said, "Guys, this is Coach Hedge." She dropped her voice to a whisper. "He's one of the protectors at Camp Half-Blood. Oh, he's also a satyr." I nodded. "Explains a lot. All except for one… WHY THE HECK IS THERE A-" I dropped my voice a bit. "satyr IN OUR SCHOOl?!" Annabeth turned to Coach Hedge. "You know Coach, that is a good question." He winked at us and said, "That's a surprise, cupcakes. But since I'm here, DROP AND GIVE ME TEN!" Jay, Kace, and Ray were about to when Abigail punched them. "You idiots! We're not actually going to do the push-ups!" she scolded. She glanced at the satyr and her eyes lit up. "Wait. are we actually gonna be doing sw-" "ALRIGHT CUPCAKE! SHUT UP! YOU'RE GOING TO RUIN THE SURPRISE!" Coach Hedge yelled over her. "But yes. We are going to do tha- wait a second. Did you read my mind? Are you a monster?!" He raised his bat over his head and yelled, "DIE!" Abigail managed to catch it before it caused any other damage. Annabeth said, "No Coach. She's not a monster, she's a daughter of Athena!" He frowned and lowered the bat sadly. I heard a stream of voices and footsteps and I turned. All of the other students arrived and Coach Hedge yelled, "ALRIGHT CUPCAKES! LISTEN UP! I'M ONE OF YOUR NEW COACHES AND YOUR OTHER COACH, MR. FELISHA HAS AGREED TO LET ME TEACH YOU SWORD FIGHTING AND ANY OTHER FIGHTING STYLE!"
Abigail's POV
"But! Coach! We can't fight! And for starters, why would we even need to learn HOW to fi-" Marietta said, but Coach Hedge interrupted. "GET YOUR SISSY BUTTS UP, CUPCAKES, AND FIND ANOTHER ONE TO ASSIST YOU IN FAILING!" I partnered with Kace, Jameson partnered with Raymond, and Amanda partnered with some girl named Asha. The problem was, we were doing sword fighting and Kace and I were both at the same skill level and none of us had an advantage over each other. Same with Raymond, Jameson, Amanda and that other kid named Asha. Coach Hedge saw and decided to switch us up. "ALRIGHT, CUPCAKES. KALE CAN GO WITH RONALDO, ABIGANNE CAN GO WITH AMAZONA AND JALESON CAN GO WITH ASHER. CHOP CHOP, CUPCAKES!" Oh well, whatever. Eventually, I won, and then we started again and she won, and then it happened over and over and over. Coach Hedge saw and said, "ALRIGHT, CUPCAKES. THAT IS PATHETIC. YOU BOTH KEEP WINNING? I'M DOING A DOUBLE PAIR! YOU TWO VERSUS YOU TWO! GO!" he pointed to me and Amanda, then to Raymond and Kace. Alright, I said into Amanda's mind. Let's do this.
I decided to keep Ray busy so that Amanda could fight Kace. Ray jabbed at me with his sword, and I easily sidestepped. Before he could recover, I twirled around and smacked him with the flat of my sword. He stumbled, but recovered, and came back at me with renewed strength. Meanwhile, Amanda was kind of crushing Kace. He was very good with parries, though. Amanda knocked him to the ground with the butt of her sword. I was paying attention to their battle when Raymond almost got me. So, while Kace was on the ground, Amanda kicked him in the stomach. "Hey, that's cheating!" Raymond protested on the ground. "NOTHING IS CHEATING IN A BATTLE, CUPCAKE! IN A REAL BATTLE, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, HUH? ARE YOU GONNA ASK THE OPPONENT NICELY NOT TO KICK YOU?" Amanda was back to Kace in a flash, and they were both doing pretty well. But Kace wasn't very normal… his eyes were glowing.
"Uh, Kace? You all right, buddy? Uh… dude?" asked Raymond. Kace snarled and glared at him. "Son of Hades, do not call me, buddy.". "We should go tell Coach Hedge," I said, turning. "No, you idiot! He's going to beat the living Hades out of him so when he snaps out of it, you'll have to send him to the freakin' emergency room!" snarled Amanda. Kace was still fighting her. I glanced over at Coach Hedge. He was yelling at another group who was still trying to figure out how the heck to use a sword. "I can help, I think," said a voice behind us. It was that Asha girl. "I'll just simply strike him with lightning."
Raymond's POV
Wow. So, a random person comes up to Abigail and tells her that she can strike her boyfriend with lightning. Being a demigod so far is WEIRD. Anyway, I would never have guessed what Abigail's response to that would be. "Are you crazy? You must be- nope never mind. GUYS, WE GOT A NEW DEMIGOD!" I was shocked to hear this. Amanda groaned and said "ANOTHER one?! Godamn it!" Kace took a jab at Amanda and she kicked him in the stomach. Unfortunately, he managed to take a slash at her arm. She yelped as a trickle of blood ran down her arm. "If you guys are going to zap him, can you do it fast? Because I am REALLY running out of stamina, patience, and a lot of curses."
Jay suddenly ran up to us and said, "I see your- I mean our friend is hypnotized, or something along those lines. I believe I could provide some assistance.!" With that, he ran up to Kace, who became knocked out from the pommel of Jay's sword. He crumpled and I thought our issues were over when Abigail and Reyna advanced at us, with their weapons at the ready. "Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me!" Amanda yelled. Abigail's eyes were pure gold, as were Reyna. "Who are you?!" Piper asked. Abigail growled and looked at her. "Daughter of Aphrodite, your charmspeak doesn't have any effect on me." Reyna, however, grimaced and said, "We are eioldons. You, daughter of Aphrodite, told us not to possess your crewmates, but you never said anything about anyone else."
"Are you kidding me?" yelled Piper. Meanwhile, I had no idea what the Hades was going on. That's when I turned around and saw Kace back to normal with a bump on his head. He groaned and said, "What the Hades is going on?" Then he doubled over and moaned. "Wait, everything is upside down and red. Is it supposed to be?" I looked over at Jameson. "He's going to need water poured over him." Meanwhile, Abigail and Reyna were still advancing on us. And Amanda's cut was was black and ugly. I did NOT want to look at it.
I charged into battle with Amanda and Jameson and we were doing pretty well. That is until I felt a horrible sharp pain in my stomach and I fell to the ground.