Piper,

I looked down at the scratchy skirt. It was annoying me like hell. I liked the uniform, it was really nice and smart, quite expensive, but flexible. I was able to move in it and there was a small pocket where I could keep a weapon. Handy if we came across any stray monsters…

Annabeth already loved it here, but I wasn't so sure. Partly because I was only half as smart as many of the girls here. It was the first day back and at least ten girls had walked past talking about something school related. One started talking about a test coming up on COW – I still had to find out what that might actually mean. Another girl walked past talking in algebraic and another talking using intense formulae. It was crazy! I had always really caused trouble. This was weird, and I knew that here I wasn't going to be able to mess around like we did with Coach Hedge. How I missed that old satyr.

Cammie came back to our room, as she had said, in exactly 5 minutes. I wasn't really counting, but it was probably the correct timing. I didn't understand how they ran this school. There seemed to be no real end of term goal except to ace all of your classes and I know that must be hard. It was not a regular school, and I still had so much to learn in such a little time.

"Are you guys ready then?" Cammie asked with a slight urgency.

Annabeth, being the natural leader spoke, "Yup, we are ready." She spoke for all of us. "I bet it will be amazing," she almost said this to herself.

Macey looked at me when we walked out of the room. I think I had sort of freaked her out by wearing a Hello kitty top when we arrived. I didn't know what to tell her, it was sort of a statement, but then again, it was kind of my mother's fault. (And it was really comfortable! But don't tell anyone I said so!) I ended up telling her that my mother was a small town fashion designer and I hated her style. To annoy this 'made up' mother I wore embarrassing tops, which just irritated her. My actual Mother thought it was very chic, but still a bit weird. Macey kind of grinned at this as if she had mother problems too. But when she asked about my dad, I had no idea what to say. Should I tell her about him being an actor- Tristan McLean or should I just say he was a lawyer or something, but left work to pursue his dream of acting… After a substantial debate in my head I just told her the truth, she probably knew anyway.

I wanted to make friends with all of these girls, and that could be quite easy with my Charmspeak. Macey was ticked off the list; our lives were similar in parental ways. I believed we could be good friends. However, I wanted to talk to Bex. I knew Bex was English, but trying to sound American. She had almost perfected her American accent, but one word tripped her up, and gave her away straight away. Well, she gave herself away to me anyway. Chiron had made me study different voices and accents to use my Charmspeak to the best of my ability. Which helped with fake accents, as well.

We began to walk as a group; no one really talked at the start. We all were sort of awkward. So Calypso being the fun girl she is asked "So where are we actually going?" she giggled when she said this. I realized that I too had no idea where we were going.

Cammie started to clear it up for us, "We are going to the great hall…" Calypso and Hazel listened to what Cammie was saying. But Annabeth seemed to become sidetracked by something about the school. It just left me. I wasn't really excited about learning where we were going and to be honest, even though the school was truly magnificent it didn't really interest me. I just continued to walk not really looking or listening to anything…

"Um, excuse me." Someone tapped on my shoulder; I turned to see the blonde, skinny girl. Still walking she took her place next to me "I don't believe I have met you properly yet, I'm Liz." She said with a genuine smile. She was quite a lot taller than me, and had short, straight blonde hair. Her blue eyes weren't as bright as Macey's blue eyes. Liz had a soft, southern accent it was quite sweet the way she spoke.

"I'm Piper, it's lovely to meet you Liz." We continued to walk next to each other in silence. It started to get awkward, and our silence was rather annoying. I tried to think of things to say to this girl.

"Um…" we both began to speak in unison, laughing it off I said, "Please you first…"

She blushed "Well, I was going to ask if you've ever been to a school like this before?" that shocked me. What was I going to say!

"Um, what do you mean? Such an academic school…" I suggested, "Or do you mean the spy aspect?" I sort of whispered this, I'm not sure why but it felt like a huge secret. And don't get me wrong, it is a huge secret! But not in the school where they train and all!

She giggled, "Sorry I should have specified!" she said with a half grin, "I meant like an academic school, but have you been to a spy school before then? I would be incredible if you had. Technically there are only two of these spy schools in the US currently, but I'm sure there are more." I looked at her quizzically another school? "Oh, sorry I should really tell you…" she looked mischievous as if she wasn't supposed to tell anyone. "You saw that boy earlier, Zach, who took the boys to their room?" I nodded almost getting excited. "Well, he used to go to a spy school for only boys, but not like Gallagher. It was a school for assassins, the ones who are trained to kill someone and live with it." She continued to explain about this school in the middle of nowhere. I zoned out.

I was slightly shocked by what Liz was saying. I mean I had killed quite a few monsters, were they really any different to humans? Well of course they were, they stayed away for a while and then suddenly showed up again. I know Percy had seen and defeated the Minotaur twice. But being able to live with it, wow, killing someone must be a huge task and you would feel so bad about it. All these thoughts clouded my brain.

Liz woke me up from my zoned outness. "Piper?" she looked at me, concerned.

"Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about your question…" my mind went blank. "Um, what was your question?"

Liz laughed at me, "Don't worry!" she stopped laughing, but still smiled "I just wanted to know if you had been to a school like this before? In both aspects…" she reminded me still grinning…

"Oh! Right, well, I've been to loads of schools. But never to a spy school. I've been to a few academic schools in the past, but I've never stayed there long." I explained this to her. Her smile slowly faded, but not in a bad way, as if the joke was over. And I was glad that it was, I felt so embarrassed.

Jason,

"Here you go, this is your room." Zach stopped at the door, dropped some bags and opened it so that we could see our room. "Because there aren't that many boys, here you guys got an old teachers' lounge. They have too many lounges anyway." He laughed at his joke. We walked inside our new accommodation, and it was like the Gods wanted us to have a nice education and a luxurious room.

The room was huge, it was an old room with sofas and its own little kitchen. Our four beds were placed in the four corners of the room; we had wardrobes and drawers, each having more than enough room inside them for clothing. There was an area with beanbags and loads of books on shelves that sat right by a flat screen TV. There was a fireplace, it looked like it would work, and Leo would be in charge of that. There was a bathroom on the left side of the room, opposite the fireplace. It was quite a big bathroom, but to be honest, there were 4 boys planning to use it.

"Ok, I hope you like it. It's a bit bigger than the girl's rooms, but there are only five boys in this school. Therefore, there are some privileges, such as having a big room, and the girls technically aren't supposed to come down here." Zach told us this whilst we were still searching our room. He stopped by the bookshelf; "I asked if I could get some of these books for you. You guys have started quite late in the year, which means you will have to catch up on a small amount." He looked at us, waiting for someone to object.

"Do you have any books in ancient Greek?" Percy asked calmly.

Zach sort of looked surprised and unsure of what to say, so to cover him up I explained to Zach, "We all go to this summer camp place, and we learn Ancient Greek. It's more of a hobby, but I think it would be awful to give it up now. And also, I'm sorry but are there any Latin books?" Zach wasn't convinced; he nodded at my answer and slowly headed towards the door.

"I'll have to look into it, but I'm sure I can find some for you. We have like three minutes to get ready and to the welcome back meal. I'll show you guys around the school afterwards." He left the room closing the door behind him.

"Where are our uniforms?" Leo looked towards me for an answer and then to Percy.

Percy grabbed his bag and started pulling out clothes; he murmured something in Greek about disappearing clothes. I looked through my bags and pulled out my uniform, Frank pulled his out as well. At this point I might have said something about romans being more organized than the Greeks, but I'd probably get a sword through my sternum. Frank and I silently got changed in our corners, whilst Percy and Leo still rummaged through the bags. Percy had found his trousers and tie, but the rest of his uniform was apparently missing. Leo pulled out a plastic bag, and with all this searching he got quite excited when he finally found his uniform. His hair caught on fire.

I started to get worried; that I the smoke from his hair would set off the fire alarms, no doubt there were smoke detectors that most probably worked really well. Leo could potentially blow our cover within 20 minutes of us being here.

"Leo, your hair is on fire!" Percy shout whispered at Leo. Percy had almost got himself dressed, but he was missing his left shoe. Then all of a sudden, water- luckily in a controlled manner- travelled from the bathroom towards Leo's hair. Percy made it stop just above his head, before dropping it instantly putting out the fire. Also making Leo instantly wet.

"What in Hades was that for?" Leo screeched at Percy, who had found his left shoe and was putting it on rapidly. Leo suddenly lit his whole boy on fire, but then put it out quickly after. "Thankfully, I can dry myself off! I had complete control!" Leo's face was bright red, maybe from the fire or maybe of anger.

"I'm sorry dude, but do you want Zach to walk in to see your hair lit. Or maybe even worse, you set off the fire alarms and we are all instantly expelled." He had a point, but I didn't want to say so- Leo was my best friend; although we weren't as close as we were before.

Leo chucked his uniform on, still red in the face. When we were all ready all we had left to do was wait for Zach, so we explored our room a bit more. I moved all of my stuff to my corner and started to unpack a little.

But then a rapid knock came to our door, without waiting for someone to answer Zach rushed in, "We literally have 30 seconds to get to the Grand Hall!" stunned we didn't do anything really, but when the words finally processed into my brain I moved towards the door following Zach through the hallways.

Hello Happy Readers (I hope!),

Thank you for reading this new chapter, I'm sorry about the hiatus, but here's the new chapter (finally). Lots of things have been going on, suddenly school has intensified- like double the homework and to make it better we have to choose our options by March 5th! (For GCSE that is- for all you English lads that know what that means... Do you take GCSE in America or anywhere else around the world?). I've also had the dreaded bug, and was away from school for two days- this is unusual because I hardly ever get ill! It was my birthday last week (woohooo! I love birthday money and presents! :D), but we also had to attend my grandpa's funeral R.I.P.

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