Ms. Yparraguirre pursed her lips. "Good enough. Specifically, he was stuck in a pool with an apple tree hanging right above his head, but whenever he tried to get to either the water or the fruit they would move away."

I noticed Nathan was raising his hand. That was a teacher saw and squinted suspiciously. "Mr. Di' Angelo," she finally said.

"Um, Ma'am..." He was interuppted by the door slamming open. In walked the Stinkers. I saw Nathan groan. They looked like pugs and bulldogs with their quivering jowls and smashed in noses. They started to walk around the room, sniffing the air. Wait a sec. Sniffing? Maybe they acted like dogs as much as they sounded and looked like them.

One walked up to Nathan's desk and just stood in front of it. With a sudden movement, it brought down it's fist and smashed the desk in half, probably killing Nathan. Then, I noticed Nathan was already halfway across the room, running towards the teacher, with sword drawn. Oh, god. A sword. It was black, all black, except for the real looking human skull on its hilt. And it seemed to suck all the light from the area around it. Oh, great, I thought, my friend is a psycho maniac, with a sword, who's gonna gut my teacher for no apparent reason.

Then I saw something that made my jaw drop. Ms. Yparraguirre was changing. Into a sixteen year-old girl blonde girl with a dagger. And Nathan and her were fighting back to back. Nathan had never liked the teacher much less been on her side before. Nathan noticed me staring. He shouted something, maybe "GO!", but the door was blocked by a huge Bulldog. I mean as huge as the average Honda Pilot. It might've been cute if it didn't have a murderous rage in its eyes, like it came from the depths of hell. Then the name hit me: Hellhound. So the greek myths were true. Wow, that really made my day.

I glanced around the room looking for the Stinkers, but all I saw were 5 hellhounds. Nathan had a scared, sad look on his face- like he was killing family. The teacher-if I could still call her that-was on defense with 2 attacking from both sides. I knew they couldn't keep up much longer. I prayed to Zeus, to Hera, even to Hades. I pictured a sword in my hands, a perfectly balanced one... and it came true.

I don't know what happened next, except that I somehow killed all of them. Nathan and the girl gaped at me. "How?" Nathan blubbered. I started towards them, and they backed away, staring at the sword in my hands. I set it down and waited as they did the same.

"Now tell me,"I ordered," What the bloody hell just happened?"

"Hellhouds"(Tell me something I don't know, I thought bitterly)"On the enemies side," The girl snapped," Maybe you are too!" She made a grab for the dagger at her feet, but Nathan blocked her.

"No, she's a good kid. She wouldn't hurt a fly."

"And she just killed 4 hellhounds," the girl retorted.

"Who the BLOODY HELL are you guys?" I interuppted.

"Oh," Nathan said. "This is Annabeth and I'm Nico."

"No," I said, shaking my head. "Your'e Nathan."

This is all I could think of for today.