Chapter 5: Fighting practise
Riley's POV:
I walked into breakfast and immediately fell down with laughter. In fact I was laughing so hard I was almost crying, my sides hurt and I rolling around on the ground, all of this with my usual battle amour. The Slytherins were glaring at me, the girls in their new pink uniforms and boys in hand-me-downs, just causing me to laugh even harder.
"RILEY STOLL, WHAT ON EARTH HAVE YOU DONE? YOUR ARE REPRESENTING CAMP HALF-BLOOD, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR ONE WEEK AND YOU'VE ALREADY PULLED A PRANK!" an all too familiar voice screeched. My laughter died in my throat and I looked up in fear. Towering above me was Annabeth… a very scary looking Annabeth!
"Um… I refuse to say anything on the basis that I may incriminate myself" I rushed, crawling backwards slowly before standing and fleeing as quickly as possible. After hiding behind the twins – much to their distaste – I peeked out and looked at my training crew, rather surprised to find people that I didn't want here. There was an Aphrodite girl that I never really knew, an Apollo camper who had his bow slung over his shoulder – in clear view of all the wizards – and Pollux from Dionysus' cabin.
Percy and Thalia were laughing at my misfortune as Annabeth formally apologized, as did Chiron as he entered not moments later.
"As for you Miss Stoll" Chiron started, I gulped taking yet another step backwards. "You have to train. Also, if I catch you with pink dye one more time, I will have to punish you"
"Yeah, like last time?" I asked with a grin on my face. Travis, Connor and I got grounded, so we basically destroyed the cabin by building a Ferris wheel with the beds, no planning, we just winged it… Chiron wasn't too happy about being made to test it!
"No, this time I'll take your shield, your swords, daggers, arrows and bow. I'll also be taking your shoes!"
"B… b… b… YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT TO ME! YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ME!" I screamed in absolute horror. The other schools looked confused, shocked and horrified that I'd have such things around me and the other half-bloods just grinned in anticipation.
"I haven't forgotten the last time Riley!" he said. I was unable to formulate a good and quick come back, so I did the next most logical thing. I fainted!
When I woke up I was still in the great hall, and everyone was watching me. Also turns out before I landed on the floor someone caught me, I still don't know who but I'm guessing the Apollo kid as he was above me when I woke up! Turns out, luckily for me, I was only out for about 3 minutes if not less than that.
I also still remembered Chiron's threat and immediately started sobbing hysterically.
"You can't take from me… you just can't it's all my father ever gave me please… you just can't… they're the only things I don't have to share with my siblings… please you can't" by the end of it Chiron was looking at me like I'd completely lost it, which I probably had but that's not the point at the moment. It would be like banning an Ares kid from fighting!
About five minutes later –
After they had successfully calmed me down, they took back everything about taking my weapons away from me, which made a very happy me! The bad part was training started right then to show the others that we could take care of ourselves. The first part was my running practise, as a child of Hermes you always have running practise… then again we're really good at it!
"Go" Annabeth shouted. I immediately started running, thanking all the lords above that I wasn't making a fool of myself and was actually setting a record! "And STOP! Clarisse, go" I noticed Clarisse charging towards me after Annabeth said the latter and finally realized what was going on when Clarisse pulled out her electric spear…
I dodged the first blow with ease, tapping my bracelet and pulling off my necklace – my shield and sword. I parried another blow she tried to land but soon realized that unless I took things the way I wanted it to go, I'd have no chance, especially since I was having trouble whilst she was still holding back.
"Maia" I shouted, turning my back on her and breaking into a run. I didn't have much more space to run so I took the gamble of jumping. Thankfully, this gamble didn't go that bad. I mean, I managed to jump over Slytherin table and kick off of the wall behind them, which did activate the shoes, on the bad side though, I almost had to use my hands to push my myself off the chair so I wouldn't hurt myself and almost kicked the Slytherin with the shaggy black hair in the face!
I heard a gasp come from the wizards as they noticed I was flying, they didn't realize that it was actually my shoes as my pants hid the wings from view!
"That's unfair" Clarisse shouted.
"No, I'm allowed to use them, Dad even told me to use everything I had… on this occasion I used the shoes!" I pulled the legs of my pants up showing the joggers with wings flapping on either side of them. In response to this Clarisse threw a couple of throwing knives at said shoes. I dodged, losing my balance and almost falling out of the air. "Are you trying to kill me?"
"No, evening out the advantages!"
"PERCY" Annabeth shouted. He nodded and pulled out his own pair, which my traitorous brother gave him and put them on. Annabeth meanwhile threw two jugs of water on him...
"Now that's unfair, but if that's happening I demand that I get a good healer after this!" Percy nodded in confirmation and ran, joining me up in the air. Within a couple of minutes he had his sword at my throat. I growled and dropped into a nose dive, picking my own up from the ground and landing. We fought furiously on the ground and I think that the wizards noticed that – neither of us – were holding back. That was definitely confirmed for them after he swiped my face and I closed my eyes defensively.
His sword caught me above my nose, coming down across my right eye and diagonally to cheekbone. He paused, probably seeing what he did while I felt a slight stinging and something warm flow down my face whilst my right eye could only see red.
I reached up and touched the ache with my hand and touched where his sword had hit not moments ago, and like I thought when I looked at my hand from my right eye I saw blood… a lot of blood. I let out a furious shriek and attacked with renewed force. The power he got from the water was leaving him now, leaving him more vulnerable to an attack. Though, that didn't help me much as he was going towards my blind spot now.
Several minutes later I adjusted my style slightly, luring him to my blind spot. I hit him with my shield and he fell backwards, sword in hand. Quickly I kicked the sword out of his hand, placed my foot on his chest and my sword at his throat.
"Yield" I smiled as he said this. Putting my 'necklace' back on and changing my shield to a bracelet I offered to help him up. People were still staring as we laughed together in good nature and I sat next to the twins, where our current healer – the person from Apollo's Cabin – was sitting talking to them and the golden trio, seemingly interested in their game with brooms, whatever it's called anyway!
I grabbed food and again threw some in the fire like the others were doing as well; all in all, the smell of chocolate and strawberries filled the hall making my day a lot better. I sat down again and suddenly the talk stopped, the Gryffindors all staring at my eye.
"Anyway, I can't seem to locate our current healer from camp. He looks exactly like the person sitting beside me right now but that can't be. I guess I'll have to let it heal naturally now, I wonder what Apollo will think about this!" I said in laughter. The Apollo camper let out a bit of a grin and got to work cleaning my wound out. I'd like to say I was completely still and quiet though, I have to admit that I winced as soon as the water touched the wound and shrieked in pain after getting caught by a surprise paste placed onto the wound.
He started singing a song in Ancient Greek, a hymn to his father and I felt the familiar warmth that came with the healing and relaxed. He put another paste on and put something that covered the… healing wound, muttering something about me having to wear it to protect it… boring… apparently it would scar though, so now I, like Luke would be stuck with a scarred face. What was it with us children of Hermes getting scarred during a fight?
"So did you enjoy watching the fight, or was it a bit too violent for you?"
Ok, I said I would give you the choice of pairing but I refuse to write a Nico/Thalia. Either way you look at it one of them is too old for the other and Thalia is a huntress! Maiden forever people, she's a chaste huntress of Artemis. Anyway please review!
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