As of right now Natalie and Makendra are in my room with their companions watching Mortal Combat (yes the extremely cheesy movies from the 80's, they are a good source of amusement) and are most likely breaking my second rule, no fooling around in my bed. Augh. Family. Oh well, its Christmas eve tomorrow so I have to bare with them. Not that I mind, I love them! They practically raised me. Am I feeling better? Not in the least but at least I can smile. Thanks cuz!

I'm not doing disclaimers anymore, you people know I don't own.

Kiley woke up that morning with three goals in mind. One, to talk to a Hephaestus kids about the metal ore Hecate had gave her and ask for assistance in making different things. The second, was to make blue prints for different weapons while Melina talked to Rachel and have Erin and maybe her mother help her design them. Her third and last objective of the day was to train Melina. All of these objectives had to be accomplished within a weeks time frame due to Melina's impatience. Her first goal she would finish before breakfast.

Upon walking out the door with Erin, Kiley saw Melina standing on the porch outside with Amber, both of them talking to each other quietly. Walking up to them, only a few feet away, was little Jade, bronze dagger in hand. Kiley wasn't sure what was going on but she had this feeling it had to do with Melina's mother.

"Good morning dangerously armed group of people outside my door! How are we this fine morning?" Erin got a lovely glare from each girl in response to which she just rolled her eyes at, "Anyways, I'm going to go eat. Kiley come find me when your ready to talk to mom about those blue prints alright?" Kiley nodded and waved Erin off as her twin began to sprint towards the dinning pavilion.

"What blue prints?" Jade asked once she had reached Amber and Melina, her knife now strapped to her forearm.

"Nothing. So why are you all out here? To see my lovely face so I can brighten your day a little?"

"Afraid not," Amber answered for them, "Melina told me last night what went down in the Big House. Aphrodite is my grandmother and I feel like its my obligation to help rescue her. Don't trouble yourself either Jackson, I can fight. I can even help you train Melina if you want."

"I'm coming too," Jade spoke up before Kiley could answer Amber, "As a favor to Melina. I owe her. I'm small so I won't get in the way. I promise. You can say whatever you want, I'm coming anyway."

"Well I can't argue with that reasoning. Besides I'm sure Melina wants you two along anyway. I have no right to say no. And as long as you two can defend yourselves then I will allow it because I can't waist time training you as well. I have no time to train you even if you didn't. Logical question though, Amber what do you fight with?"

"A staff."

"Alright. And you Jade?"

"I can use a knife pretty good but that's only if I run out of bolts. I prefer a crossbow. Don't have a good one though. Broke my last one over one of those brute Ares kids heads." Kiley nodded, motioning for the small group to walk with her towards the dinning pavilion.

"I can get you a new one Jade. And Amber," Kiley pulled the staff from Amber's grip, spinning it a couple times to judge it, "I can get you a better balanced staff. One that's fit to fight for you instead of it fighting against you. I'll just have to watch you fight a couple rounds so I can judge it accordingly. Melina…well, I'm not sure about you yet. We'll try out a few different weapons when we train today." The four girls continued to talk about different tactics that would accommodate their weapons and fighting styles when Kiley heard her name being called out. Kiley turned in time to see Jasmine, Ariel, and another girl running up to them.

Jasmine had changed into leather armor and had a birch longbow strapped to her back and a quiver full of thick birch arrows with green-blue feathers. Her blond hair was French braided with gold ribbon in her hair. Kiley assumed it was an Apollo thing. Hence the gold ribbon. She wore a belt of gold, a sun of white gold as the belt buckle, and had a few pouches of medicine and one long hunting knife hung from it. Another Apollo thing Kiley guessed.

Jasmine's sister, Ariel, was dressed for battle as well though her armor was blue. More than blue. It was water. The outer shell of the water was crystallized like ice and inside it was shimmering, moving water. It was like the ocean itself had formed around Ariel's body and hardened to that of a diamonds strength only that it was still liquid inside the hardened outside. Ariel's sword was the same as her armor, hardened water on the outside like a shell and liquid water on the inside except that along the edges and tip of the blade was trimmed with bronze and the hilt was wrapped in leather. A single sapphire set in the cross guard. It was a beautifully crafted blade. Obviously only from one place. Poseidon's palace undersea. Ariel sheathed the blade in a black leather sheath hanging from her hip and reached up to tie her hair back.

The third girl Kiley didn't recognize but, like the other two, was dressed for battle. She was thin. Very thin but extremely muscular. All muscle even. She had shoulder length brown hair with feathered bangs and warm brown eyes that, if you looked close enough, had rings of gold in them. She was dressed in all black with knee high combat boots and a bronze Greek breast plate over her black tank top. She wore leather gauntlets with bronze plates sew into them and the symbol of a spear etched into them. On one arm she adorned a round shield and in the other hand she had a very odd sword with celestial bronze blades. It was like a standard Greek sword but where the pommel should have been sprouted another blade so that it was duel bladed. Jasmine introduced her as Franchesca, cabin leader of Ares, but she preferred to be called Chelsea or Chels.

"So whats with the giddy-up?" Amber asked smiling at her friends, even though Chels regarded them all with cold eyes.

"We are coming with you. We know your leaving. On a mission," Ariel looked at Kiley while she spoke not at Melina or the others, "and we believe we could be of help. We will train Melina in shifts. We know you are on a set time frame and training someone in that short a time is nearly impossible. So, we will help. My sister will teach her to shoot a bow. I'll help train her with a sword. And Chels," Ariel paused to look at the Ares leader who looked back at Ariel with a blank look, "Chels can teach her just about anything from street fighting to hook swords. Do you except?"

"Absolutely not." Melina was quick to answer. There was an obvious grudge here between Ariel and Melina, judging by the glare-down they were giving each other.

"Trust me Glamour Princess, I don't like it anymore than you but-"

"But we have no other choice," Kiley finished, "Ariel makes a logical point. I can't teach you everything there is to teach within a week. With their help, we can speed things up and I'll be able to speed up the process of making us weapons worthy of gods within a week as well. Welcome aboard." Melina immediately started to disagree, Amber jumping on board with this but Kiley silenced them all. He made it clear what was said was set and their was no changing it. With a lot of grumbles the crew walked off to the dinning pavilion to eat a breakfast that was more than satisfying.

Kiley sat at the Poseidon table between Ariel and her sister, pushing her eggs around with her fork. She had a lot on her mind. She was already mapping out what Jade's crossbow would look like, how much torque would have to be put into it so it could fire a bolt at least a 100 yards back and still have deadly accuracy. She was thinking how she would have to use a special wood that could host metal willingly and still be balanced enough to help Amber out instead of weigh down on one end and mess up her whole fighting stance. She didn't think she was going to be able to optimize Ariel's outfit. Glancing sideways at her armor and her sword she realized Ariel was set. An idea of making her a helmet crossed her mind but she quickly dismissed it. If Ariel had wanted a helmet she'd be wearing one. Jasmin was fine too. She was obviously set for battle. It was best to not even tinker with Chelsea's outfit. Kiley hadn't been here long but she knew just by natural instinct not to mess with a child of Ares when it came to battle or war. Melina….well, Kiley wasn't sure about Melina. And for herself? Kiley would worry about that last. But it was so much work. Beside her Erin cleared her throat to get Kiley's attention.

"What are you thinking about so hard Sis?"

"The blue prints. it's a lot of work. I-"

"We." Erin corrected quickly.

"Right. We have to make a crossbow for Jade, a new staff for Amber, who knows what for Melina and a new sword for me. Its going to be a lot of work. We are def-"

"Going to need moms help. Yeah. Want to go talk to her right now? You haven't touched your food and I'm done eating."

"Sure. Let's," Kiley got up to leave but stopped and turned back around to face Ariel, who looked up from biting into her green apple, "Ariel I need you to make sure that if Melina gets done talking to Rachel before I'm done talking to my mom and the Hephaestus crew that she does not touch a sword or spear in that arena. Understand?" Ariel groaned, tossing her apple aside as if she had suddenly lost her apatite.

"Why do I have to baby sit the Lipstick Queen?"

"Because you signed up to help me out and part of my training is key that she doesn't touch a weapon down there. Can I count on you?"

"Sure but don't expect me to take good care of the Pompous-"

"And one more thing, enough of the mean names. I don't know what you two are fighting about but I doubt you understand the crap Melina has been through so I want you to promise you wont call her another name until you ask her why she is so driven to get her mother back." Ariel rolled her eyes but Kiley took that as a yes in annoyed daughter of Poseidon. Satisfied Kiley followed Erin over to the head table and found their mother speaking with Grover about things past, from the sound of it they were talking about some broken down thrill ride called the Thrill Ride of Love or something like that. Kiley hated to interrupt but she had no other choice, Erin was already doing it for her. She leaned her hip against the table and leaned over to kiss her mother on the cheek.

"Good morning mummy!" Annabeth pulled herself from her conversation long enough to give her daughter a strange look.

"Alright what do you want?" Erin pretended as if her mother had just shot her.

"Now come on mom why-"

"We need your help. With designs mom." Kiley was to impatient to wait through Erin's games. Annabeths eyes lit up with a mixture of pride and joy.

"What sort of designs?"

"Looks like the apple doesn't far from the tree." Grover said as he got up from the table. Annabeth laughed at the comment but didn't take her attention off her girls, waiting for their response.

"Blue prints for weapons. A crossbow. A staff. A sword. And…a mystery item. The last one hasn't really been decided yet since I'm not sure what fits her right. Can you…not I'm sure you can, but will you help us?" Annabeth tapped her chin as she thought this over.

"What do you need these for?" Kiley hadn't thought this part of plan out. She didn't figure on her mother asking why! That, of course, was poor planning on Kiley's part. She be sure to scold herself for that later when she had spare room to think.

"I'm going with Melina to rescue Aphrodite and kill Victor who just happens to not only be the man who tricked us into killing people but is also Melina's father. Please don't be mad? It's something I have to do." Annabeth dropped her head and folded her hands in her lap. She was obviously fighting with herself. Battling over the thought of letting Kiley go on this dangerous quest.

"I," Annabeth paused in mid-speech, watching herself run her thumb over her index finger as she thought, "Alright. I'll agree to all this. Helping you and allowing you to go but only because I realize that I can't protect you all your life and I'm sure you've done much more dangerous without my knowledge but don't you dare think that makes me approve of any of this because I don't. I just simply see that it would be silly of me not to let you go. I was doing just as dangerous if not more at your age. So, with that said, when do you intend to start working on the blue prints?"

"Right now You and Erin talk it over. I'll join you later, I have one more person I need to talk to then I have to go start training Amber-"

"Do you mind, sweetie, if I come watch?" Kiley hadn't expected her mother to ask this. It caught her by surprise if you will. Blinking rapidly as she processed this Kiley nodded.

"Sure mom. See you down there. Now I really need to go, I'm on a tight schedule. Love you!" Kiley's sister and mother waved as she ran off to the Hephaestus cabin but stopped when she realized she had no clue where she was going. She was past the pavilion, standing amongst the cabins, where all the people she knew here were. Biting her lip as the panic of losing precious time set in Kiley looked around for someone she recognized. Thankfully, by the grace of the gods, she saw Oliver who was the cabin leader of Hades cabin from last night, walking by her. Kiley quickly grabbed his arm and begged him to show her where the cabin was. He gave her a warm smile accompanied with a small amused laugh.

"Sure thing kiddo. Follow me." As they walked Kiley decided to make small talk to pass the time.

"So….you and Jasmine, you're a thing?" He blushed immediately.

"Well not officially. She hasn't told her sister yet. Kind of scared to I guess but yeah-oh don't tell her I said that please? She'd kill me."

"Of course. How long have you two been secretly dating?"

"Oh, um, bout a month now. Which reminds me, Jazzy said she is going with you to get Aphrodite?"

"Yep."

"Can you try and keep her safe for me? I can't be there to do it myself-"

"Why can't you? I don't see why not."

"You already have a lot of people coming."

"That's true….but I could use your talents."

"Such as?"

"I dunno. You're a child of Hades right? Can't you like…do stuff?"

"Stuff? Hahahaha sure you could call it that. I can summon the dead. Underworlds fire. Steal life and trap death. But I think I'm going to stay behind."

"Why?"

"To teach your boyfriend, his brother N…N something-"

"Nate."

"Right. Nate. And their little sister how to use their powers as a child of Hades. Or…grandchild. I want to come but it's my job to stay behind. Oh, look, we're here. Later Jackson! Keep an eye on my girl will ya?" Kiley nodded before entering the cabin in front of her, not even bothering to knock. At first all she saw was bunks but Kiley noticed a set of stairs and followed the workshop smell down them to the shop below.

Going in there it felt like Kiley was standing in the metal shop class at her high school back in New York. The air was filled with the acrid smell of acetylene, oil, and sweat. Work benches were pushed to each corner and wielding stations were set up at each. Tools decorated the walls like art in a collectors home. Though Kiley didn't focus on the rest because her attention was drawn to the group of kids, big beefy kids huddled over one work bench. They all seemed to be staring at the same thing sitting on the work bench in front of them though Kiley couldn't see what it was from where she stood. Curious Kiley crept closer and peered over one of their shoulders.

They were all staring at three wicker baskets. Though the wicker was made of bronze instead of wood and each basket had a silver padlock on it without a key hole making the baskets inaccessible. There was muttering among the campers, about how the baskets had appeared there in the middle of the night and no matter what they did they could not break the locks to see what was inside. Kiley smiled and silently thanked her goddess for placing them exactly where she needed them and making them only accessible to her. Without a word Kiley parted the group gathered there and reached out to touch one of the locks. For some reason she already knew how to open the lock. Gently Kiley pressed her thumb to the lock where a key hole should have been and the silver rippled then the lock opened. There was a round of gasp around her but Kiley ignored them and repeated the process with the next two locks, pressing her thumb to them and watching them click open.

"How did you-" One began to ask but Kiley cut him off.

"They were mine. Sorry about the surprise but Hecate didn't give me much warning either. Anyways, inside I'm sure you'll find some goodies that will mean a lot to you but just look like a rock to me. I have a favor to ask." Then Kiley went on to explain why the goddess has bestowed the gift on her and the importance of the metal. They all seemed to understand and were more than eager to handle to ore. She told them that they could extract the rare metals from the ore if that's what they had to do first but she wouldn't have the blue prints for them to begin their work until later that night. They seemed to understand. Kiley slipped out of the cabin as they sorted through the different rocks and powders in the baskets, heading straight for the Arena as fast as she knew how.

At the Arena a group of people had gathered. Chels, Jasmine, Amber, and Jade were all leaning against the railing watching Melina pace in the fighting circle and Ariel guard the weapon rack. A little ways tot eh left of them Kiley could see her mother, her father, Erin, DJ, Izzy, Brennion, Nate, Thalia, and Nico all standing there as if they were about to watch a movie. Great, Kiley complained to herself as she hoped the fence to the arena and drew everyone's attention, now I have the pressure of an audience. Awesome.

"Your late." Melina growled as soon as Kiley stepped foot into the fighting circle. Kiley cracked both her wrist, and all her knuckles before answering Melina who had scrunched her nose in disgust at Kiley's actions.

"No I'm not. Your early. There's a difference. Now I need four broom handles and rope. Stat." She got a few weird looks but her companions acquired what she asked in a surprisingly quick amount of time. As Kiley tied the broom handles ends to Melina's wrist Melina started asking Kiley what all this was for, what weapons they were going to train with first, a sword or a spear, a-but Kiley cut her off with a motion of her hand and went on to tie the broom handles to Melina's ankles.

"Can you move your ankles and wrist? Here roll your wrist for me…good. Now your ankles. Perfect. Give me a few more seconds." Kiley bent and tied the other ends of the broom handles to her own ankles then the other ends to her wrist, connecting Melina and Kiley to where there was only about a foot of space between the two and where ever Kiley moved Melina would move too just backwards because Kiley had tied Melina off to face her.

"How is this going to help me Kiley? I need to learn how to fight with a swor-"

"You need to learn to how to move first Melina. Any daft idiot can pick up a sword and swing it around. It's the smarter fighters who can move with their sword that survive. You need to be able to dance with your blade because you two are companions. Together united in a battle, a dance of death and if you can't dance with your partner you will die. Simple as that." Melina looked down at the ropes tying the broom handles to her wrist as she considered this then nodded, "Alright then lets get started."

Kiley intended to start slow but her body moved at its own pace, battle hardened. She picked her feet up and pushed Melina's back while Kiley had made fist and was pushing her right hand forward in a punching manor. Kiley turned her fist to palms, facing them towards Melina, moved them in various circles pretending there was a sword in hand that she was blocking an enemy's attack with. Melina tripped over Kiley's movements and hit the arena floor, taking Kiley down with her.

"I'm sorry. That was my fault, I'm sorry. I'll try harder. I'm-" Melina stopped apologizing when she heard Kiley start to laugh.

"Don't apologize hun. Part of learning is failing. Besides, I was moving way to fast. I should have been going slower. Just that you could keep up with me for that long is outstanding. Now come on, lets try again." The pair got back to their feet and Kiley again started to push and pull on the broom handles in the movements of a sword fighter, forcing Melina to move along with her. A better part of an hour passed and Melina only fell twice, each time apologizing profusely and promising to do better, but after that long Kiley could feel her own wrist and ankles burning from the rope rubbing against them so she couldn't even think about how Melina felt. Kiley informed her that this part of their training would only be in the beginning to warm her up and from this point on it wouldn't be an hour long. Melina understood and untied her bonds but, as Kiley hadn't expected her to do, Melina didn't leave the arena. Kiley stared at the girl as if she were a peculiar gem she had found lying by the beach. Melina was breathing heavy, sweat dripping from her forehead, her face had paled from the great amount of energy she had just burned, and her wrist were chapped were the rope had rubbed against them (her jeans had saved her ankles) yet there she stood as if she expected more. Kiley had intended for the lesions to be over for now so that Melina could rest but she made it clear this isn't what she wanted. She was defying her own exhaustion and her own pain.

"What are you doing Melina?" Kiley asked as she tied the four broom handles together with the rope for safe keeping until tomorrow.

"I'm awaiting my next lesion from my teacher." Kiley didn't let Melina see but she smiled to herself out of pure pride for her strong pupil.

"That's it Melina. It's our only lesion for today. Your tired." Melina dropped her chin to her chest and clenched her fist at her sides.

"Yes. I'm tired. But that doesn't mean we have to stop., We only have a week and there is more for me to learn. We don't have the luxury of stopping and waiting for me rest up. Can you keep going?"

"Of course."

"Then so can I. So I ask again, what's next for me to learn Teacher?" This time Kiley did let Melina see her smile out of pride. It seemed to set well with Melina because she smiled back, weakly. The girl really was tired but she refused to stop and Kiley couldn't make her because she had brought up a valid point. They didn't have time to waste. So, seeing no other option, Kiley decided to push Melina harder.

"Come here." Kiley ordered. Melina did as told. Once Melina was close enough Kiley smacked Melina hard enough to knock her down. Melina barely flinched to it as if she were used to being smacked but made more of a reaction to the pain when she slammed down on the arena floor.

"Kiley! What are you doing!" Her mother screamed from where she was standing. Don't argue, Kiley repeated to herself in her mind, I know what I'm doing. I have to build up her pain tolerance. If she gets hurt in battle she could waste a second to flinch out of pain and that second could get her killed. Kiley didn't like it much but it had to be done. Though feeling guilty Kiley bent down and touched the spot on Melina's cheek where she had smacked. It was folly to baby your students but Kiley couldn't help it.

"Why did you hit me? Am I not doing good enough? I'll try harder I swear…" Melina whispered, her voice thick like she was on the verge of tears and judging by the glisten in her eyes she was.

"No your doing amazing," Kiley whispered back so that only Melina could hear, she felt less guilty for babying her student if only Melina could hear it, "It's just another exercise. To build up your pain tolerance. See my sister over there? Erin? We use to do this to each other all the time only we used big thick sticks we hit each other with. She fractured my rib once. This one, right here." Melina seemed to understand and nodded.

"Can we use sticks then?" Kiley looked at Melina oddly.

"It's very painful Melina, you could get scars-" Melina shoved her wrist in Kiley line of sight, displaying the deeply cut 'X's in both wrist.

"I have scars Kiley. I'm not a beauty queen, I can handle scars. I can handle bruises and I can handle pain. I want to fight. I want to be the best I can be for my mom. Please, you promised to train me and I agreed so it's your obligation to train me to the best of your abilities." Kiley found herself being awed by this girl for the second time today.

"Your just a little golden tongue aren't you?" Melina smiled painfully, excepting Kiley's help and was pulled to her feet.

"Family trait. On both sides I'm afraid." Kiley took that as a personal blow since Victor had convinced her to kill her own family using his power of words to influence her. With a heavy sigh Kiley looked over the weapons rack until she found two wooden swords. Not exactly sticks but well enough. The were both hand-and-a-half, both equally heavy for being wooden, but Kiley was confidant in her pupil.

Melina excepted Kiley's help in being told how to hold it, where to place her feet, and how far apart she should keep her shoulders. Then she picked her eyes up from the sword to Kiley and Melina was fighting. She had a hunters gaze that made Kiley want to laugh and laugh. Not because it was funny but because her student was strong willed, not willing to give up, and sure that she could beat Kiley. Melina didn't get credit enough being a child of Aphrodite. She was just as strong as an Ares camper. Well, Kiley watched Melina swing the sword and accidentally hit herself in the forehead with it, mentally anyway.

They walked along the edge of the fighting circle, pointing the swords at one another until Melina became eager and charged Kiley. A quick step and Kiley avoided her attack. Kiley intended to play the defense for this fight, only hitting Melina if she found Melina being far to sloppy for acceptance. Melina corrected herself quickly and swung at Kiley's head. Kiley fell back a step and whapped Melina's rib cage with the flat side of the blade. Melina made a sound of sucking in air that didn't reach her lungs and doubled over.

"Kiley come on!" She heard Erin yell though her prime focus was on Melina who was struggling for air, "The sticks! Really! She's just a baby! Your not being fair! She's not ready!"

"Yes she is! Get up Melina!" Melina whimpered in pain but got to her feet and poised her sword in ready position, even if it was a half an inch lower than it should be because her ribs ached.

"I am ready." She growled defiantly and charged at Kiley again. Kiley gave her props for getting back up but she wasn't being smart so that cancelled out the rest. She wasn't learning from her mistakes. Charging hadn't for her before so it was best for her to try something else but she repeated her mistake. A classic Greek. Kiley punished her by painfully sweeping her legs. When Melina was running at her, Kiley ducked under Melina's guard and swung her sword at Melina's thighs hard enough to cripple her weight and send her tumbling to the ground again. Melina didn't make any pain noises this time, just a hard thud when her body slammed onto the ground.

"Keep your guard tight Melina. Don't let me slip past you. Had that been a real fight you would have just had your legs cut off." Kiley offered her no advise against repeating her mistakes purposely. Melina was going to learn on her own. Kiley would only offer her so much, Melina had to come the rest of the way. Teaching was a push pull relationship. Give and get. Melina nodded and tried to stand so that she could go again but she collapsed and squeaked in pain as she accidentally struck herself with her sword again.

"Kiley!" Erin's voice sounded much closer this time. Confused Kiley looked over only to see her sister nigh upon her. Kiley had no time to ask Erin what she was doing because Erin had already shoved Kiley down, her wooden sword sent skidding away.

"Stop picking on her Kiley. She is just learning. This is her first day of training and you are already forcing her to work with swordsmanship? She's. Not. Ready. She may say she is but she is only a student. They don't know when they are ready. Stop this now or I will fight you and make you leave with the same bruises you are going to make her leave with." Kiley chocked on her own pride at being told what to do when she was the teacher, not Erin. Though, looking over at Melina who was being helped up by Jade because she couldn't stand on her own, Kiley saw Erin's logic in this. Kiley had pushed Melina far to hard for her first day. She had gotten worked up in all of it. Melina showed such promise and refused to back down that Kiley's own fighters sprit excepted it as a challenge. Kiley had acted as a poor teacher, pushing her student to the point of breaking. Shamed Kiley stood back up, biting her lip so hard she could taste blood. She had been a terrible teacher. She picked her eyes up to see Melina try and reach for her sword so she could try again but flinched in pain and touched her hand to her ribs where Kiley had hit her. That pained Kiley more than anything.

"I'm sorry Teacher," Melina begged, "I'm sorry please forgive me. I'll try again just allow me to catch my breath."

Touched Kiley shook her head, "No Melina this time you really are done for the day. I pushed you to hard. Forgive me, I was a bad teacher. Go back to your cabin and rest for the remainder of the day. Maybe I could ask Jasmine to heal some of the bruises I've given you?" Kiley looked to Jasmine with pleasing eyes and saw Jasmine nod.

"No! I mean, no thank you. I don't want them healed. I want to learn Kiley, healing them is not learning. That just teaches me I can weasel out of my pain. I don't want that. And if you don't mind, I'd like to stay and watch you and Erin fight."

"What?" The twins said simultaneously.

"Well," Melina winced and Jade winced with her, as if Melina's pain was her own pain, "I think it would benefit me if I saw other people fight to. Like was an exercise movie. Please?" Kiley debated this in her mind quietly. It would benefit her, Melina was correct about this, but she needed rest. Melina would not be able to train tomorrow if she was in poor condition and un-rested like now. Then again….

"Alright Melina. Go stand by Ariel." When Melina had done what Kiley told her too, with Jade's help, Ariel eyed Melina closely. The daughter of Aphrodite sighed.

"Say it. I know your going to say it. 'Stupid Aphrodite, you did terrible' or 'Your should have stuck to the lip gloss Princess' Just say it already." Again all Ariel did was stare until she touched a hand to Melina's shoulder and said,

"You did good Lollipop. Although you should work on keeping your guard tighter." Melina smiled after the shock of being complimented by Ariel wore off.

Meanwhile in the fighting circle Kiley and Erin had both found a celestial bronze Greek style sword and were pacing each other with them. Erin was slashed at each time she went in and Kiley got stabbed at if she advanced just an inch. Erin quickly figured her way around this by fake charging but as she went forward she fell on one knee and spun while swinging her sword at Kiley's legs. A perfect sweep. And a quick match because Kiley hit the ground hard enough to knock her sight dizzy and while she tried to recompose herself she felt a cold tip against her throat.

"Sis," Erin said bending down to Kiley's level, "top trying to beat me. You know you'll never win. You never have." Kiley searched her head for a brilliant comeback but nothing came so she asked for Erin to help her up which she did without hesitation.

"I will be you some day Erin. Promise."

"I'll hold you to that Sis."

Sorry for the abrupt ending. I was mad at myself because the writing was starting to suck so I stopped. Plus I'm real, real, real tired. I stayed up all night talking to Manny then Nat and Makendra punished me for it by making me stay up all night next night. They said it was to teach be a lesson so I wouldn't stay up that long again. They are going to make GREAT parents. Just not mine. Tee Hee.