Chapter 1

Elle

Abandoned warehouse- 9 years later

The abandoned warehouse was packed ready for the fight against the Ghost Assassin and the Clobbering King. Everyone who was anyone in the street fighting business was here to watch the Ghost Assassin fight, The Ghost Assassin being the most infamous and mysterious fighter that no one knew her true identity and the fighter that had only turned up just one year ago and had so far been beaten by no one, and oh did I mention I am the Ghost Assassin and I was about to kick some ass.

"Elle you sure you want to do this?" Freya my best friend was looking at me l was crazy, I was already strapping up my wrists and putting on my costume for tonight and my mask. I had to put on a mask before I enter the arena. Why the mask you ask, it was to keep my identity a secret because I was supposed to be dead, once you become apart of the the Clann some people fake their deaths to hide there identity and protect there family from ever getting involved in Clann business and also because my mask made me look bad ass and cause I loved the mysteriousness and upper hand that comes with being unknown.

"Come on Frey where's your sense of adventure, I am pumped tomorrow is my first day of my first solo mission and I get to go to school for the first time ever and I need to take out some energy out before I go mad".

She shook her head at me like I was nuts, well I kind of was, to be part of a non government run association that protects Australia and the world is scary enough, yet to be eighteen and to be one of there best spy's and recruiters is even crazier, then add the fact that I fight monsters and is half-God is even slightly more crazy.

"You are an absolute nutter my friend you could go beat up some monsters but NOOO you have to fight a human," she checked my mask to make sure it was on nice and tight.

"And then said human is twice your size, twice your weight and looks twice your age is bad enough, so you better know once we get out of the lockers you know I can't no won't help you right? Because I can barely watch these fights without cringing every time I see you take a hit, and I have taken to many scares this week with you making me watch that bloody horror movie yesterday, my nails are chewed to the quick and every time I go out at night for practice missions I constantly get the heebie jeebies from watching that film, not ALL of us have nerves of steel like you Elle, and not all of us are as fearless as you" she said with slightly sad voice.

I was in mid-stretch when she said this and I turned to Freya with a slight frown on my face, she had a slight forlorn expression on her face. "Frey you may think that I don't get scared but I do, I just don't have the same fear as you maybe I'm afraid of bunnies like that chic off Buffy the vampire slayer, wait whats her name" I say the last part while tapping my chin with my finger. I know that talking about Buffy will cheer her up she absolutely loves Buffy and has made me watch it so many times that I could probably recite all the episodes backwards while sleeping, so I know saying that I don't remember some characters will get her into the mood for a Buffy marathon.

Freya looks at me with a fake horror expression on her face "that PERSON that you FORGOT the NAME OF is Anya and she is one of my favourite characters and if you don't remember her then I am obviously doing something wrong and must make you watch Buffy all of Saturday afternoon after training" she says all this with now a big smile on her face, she also looks like she is trying very hard not to laugh. "so is that a date than Your HIGHness?" I say just to really piss her off. "Oh its on miss warrior" she teases and grabs a wet towel from the change room floor and begins to flick me with it. "Oh mercy, MERCY!" I laugh and fall onto my side, so Freya stops, suddenly know serious.

"So are you ready for this, remember a lot of people are betting on this fight and we need to wrack up as much cash as possible to get the money to go to America next year for your little mission" Freya imitates quote marks with her fingers at 'little mission'. I know what I want to do in America and I need Freya by my side when I confront Percy and my dad next year, I want to make them pay for not helping me, to yell at Poseidon and ask "why is he more important than me? Why is he more important than your other child, your daughter?" The only reason I know about Percy is because he defeated Kronos when he was Sixteen same age as me at the time, except he was having adventures in America, while I had been training to be the perfect soldier and the best spy in the far away place of Australia.

I jumped up and down a little bit and stretched my arms and wrists practising a couple of jabs I was ready, Laurence had trained to be the best I could be and now he claimed the best Warrior and demi-god he ever trained and coming from the clan one of the worlds most renowned guild of Warriors in Australia that was saying a lot. And I was prepared for anything that came at me I had my own magical weapon kept hidden on me my dagger nightshade named in honour of the berries in the hunger games because like how those berries look innocent when you find them and eat them, thats what I am and when the berries kill fast, so will I

I quickly critically looked at the costume I was wearing tonight, sometimes I liked to shake things up and would sneak through the audience stands and scare the crap out of audience members when I popped up next to them before I fought because I loved doing that for shits and giggles. So tonight I was wearing black sport sweat pants and a black zip hoodie while underneath I was wearing a Blue Sports bra slash Crop top and black shorts so that I would be able to move fast and nimbly around my opponent, I also had my hair in a pony tale with my dark hair hiding a bronze dagger just in case of Monsters. Freya hugged me in good luck then got a referee that was outside the door and told him I was ready and was as she put it "shit stirring with the opponent" The referee gave a half smile while looking me up and down to see my costume for tonight, the guy looked like he was in his fifties and looked way to nice to be in an underground fighting ring "You ready kid" He said, I nodded and I followed him outside to the hall way were I then snuck into the roaring crowded stands.