It turned out that Aaron was right. She didn't like who was going to teach her.

After everyone got a chance to eat a proper breakfast, (bacon and eggs made by Leto) they had gotten Leto's car and, were driven in a house that was red on the outside and, had a motorcycle in the driveway.

Leto rolled down her window and, gave her kids a one armed hug. "Have fun and, please no accidents, nice to see you Athena."

Then she drove off, leaving Sophie to ask Diana "what accidents?"

Diana frowned. "Were at Adams house, I don't like it here either but, he is the one guy who can train you with no problem."

"Why does he even want to? I'm sure he doesn't like me and, I don't like him either." By this time they were at the doorway.

As Aaron explained it, "The guy has a problem with defeating an enemy that can barley hold a sword. According to him it's, 'less fun'"

"So, he's going to train me just so he can kill me later."

Before anyone could answer her, the door was opened but, not by Adam. There were two boys in front of the door, looking to be around the age of ten. They were wearing army cameo shirts and pants and, both of them were holding Nerf guns.

Aaron put on a fake smile, "Hi Damien, Parker is your brother home?"

In response, both of them shot Sophie, Diana, and, Aaron in the face with several Nerf bullets then, slammed the door in their face.

Even though none of the bullets did more that ricochet off their faces, Sophie felt an unexplainable shot of fear course through her.

"Who are they?"

Diana grimaced. "The main reason why I don't like coming here, there Adam's brothers Damien and Parker."

Aaron didn't look happy at all. "They used to be Deimos and Phobos, sons of Ares and Aphrodite. They often show up as Adams younger brothers now."

Sophie was starting to get the picture "Like Harmony, she's Harmonia right? I think that she was Ares and Aphrodite's kid too."

"That's right. Eros is living with them to under the name of Edwin."

Their conversation was cut short by Adam opening the door. "You're lucky I expected you to come. My brothers were being nice." Then he walked away calling over his shoulder, "lets go Shorty, I want to see how well you are going to do with a spear." Sophie was reminded way too much of Clarisse for comfort.

A minute later, everyone was in the cellar that, had been renovated into a practice area with all types of ancient weapons, practice and real scattered around the room.

Sophie was tossed a spear that reminded her of the ones back at the camp. Minus all of the extra dangerous stuff installed in it, that no kid should be allowed to run around with.

"Now," Adam said. "Since you are at a beginner's level, I'll start at the basics. Pay attention because, I won't say this again .This is a spear. It can be used in combat situations. This was your weapon of choice back in Greece so, hopefully, you won't completely suck at it."

Sophie was reminded strongly of the daughter of Ares back at camp. She didn't think that was a good thing.

"Now, put one hand on the non pointy of the spear and, the other half way to the top." Sophie did what he said.

"Your grip's right, you might not be a complete disappointment."

Thanks, Sophie thought sarcastically.

"To thrust, grip both hands on the spear shaft and, push in a frontward direction."

Sophie listened to his advice, having a vague idea of what he was talking about.

"Since someone will get mad at me if we use them as targets." He pointed to Diana and Aaron.

"Hey" Aaron shouted, obviously not liking the idea of being used for target practice.

Ignoring him, Adam continued. "We'll use the wall." Sophie was shown a wall that was covered with a blue covering that had foam in it. Seeing that it had plenty of holes in it already, Sophie guessed that it was well used.

"Alright, so I just go?" Knowing of her past failures, Sophie wanted to stall her use of the spear as long as possible.

"Yes, what do you think your here for? This should be coming back to you as we speak so, hurry up before I get Parker to give you a little incentive to do it."

Remembering that Parker used to be the god of fear, she walked up to the wall, took her aim at it and, she managed to get her spear to hit the wall, then it came out of the wall due, to the crooked angle it was in .

At Adams ordered of "Try again." She kept trying for a few minutes. When it got to the point that spear stayed stuck most of the time, she was told that she could stop.

"Good job Sophie!" Aaron called. He and his sister were sitting on a bench that was on the opposite wall from where Sophie was. Diana was reading a book while Aaron was playing a game on his phone.

She had stopped just in time to see Herman and Peter come down the stairs. "We heard from Aaron that you were here and, we decided to come and see how Sophie's doing with weapons. I had to get Peter to drive me here though. Hi Sophie, how did it go?"

"Turns out I'm ok with the spear."

"That's good, Adam do you brothers have to shoot me with something whenever I come here?"

Adam was smirking. "I'm not going to stop their fun."

Just then, a crash resounded from outside. "I told them not to go near the shed. Peter, you're going to have to start the sword lesson. I might be gone for a while." Then, Adam sprinted outside.

"Why is he so worried about the shed anyways?" Ignoring the fact that she was going to have to go near a sword again; Sophie decided to ask a question first."

Peter walked over. "That's where he keeps a bunch of dangerous weapons in case the monsters take notice in us again. Now, pick up a practice sword and lets start and keep in mind, as much as you don't like this, I don't like it more."

"Then why are you doing it?"

"I'll feel guilty if you die due to not knowing how to use a sword." In Sophie's opinion, that was better that possibly killing her after she learned how to use a weapon.

Then they started. It took a total of ten seconds for Peter's sword to find its way to her neck.

After giving her some pointers, they started again. After a while, they got to a point when Peter had his sword at her neck again but, this time, Sophie had her sword at his.

When they were about to move their practice swords away from each other, a gold flash sounded both of them and, the next thing that they knew, they were in the throne room with seven gods staring at them.

Yesterday, I was rereading this story and realized, I am not very good at this. Since people read this, I just spent the day editing all of the chapters in this story. I mostly fixed grammar and spelling mistakes but, I added a few things in there. If you want to read the revised chapters, be my guest. If you really don't care about it, don't worry you probably won't be able to tell the difference anyways.

Since I gave you instructions on how to use a spear, please don't try this at home. This might be hard to believe but, the pointy end can really harm people.

Anyways, I got the information on how to use a spear off the internet so, I you really want to know how to use one, check there.

Deimos and Phobos were the gods of terror and fear.