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Anyone guessed who Veronica and Tom's parents are? Because you, and them, are about to find out...

This chapter is dedicated once again to ChildOfWisdom but also to her friend Sam! :)

-Silverhand9028

Tom's POV:

"Tom Wright!"

I stepped up to the arena. A son of Athena, and a son and daughter of Ares were giving sword-fighting lessons.

"I've never done this before," I muttered.

"Don't worry," the daughter of Ares told me, "I asked a Hephaestus kid to make a sword based on your measurements."

I nodded as I received a Celestial bronze sword. The son of Athena stepped up. "I'm about your height," he said, "so spar with me. I'll try a simple stab, try and block it. Then you try a lunge on me – don't worry, I can take it."

He slowly went for me, I put up my sword and defended it.

"Not bad, work on power – that was very light. Now, try on me."

I stepped forward, swung the sword with deliberately more power, and it clanged down on his sword.

"Good, I like your footwork. Very nimble."

Suddenly, a yell was heard from the crowd: "Maia!"

"Agh!"

I'm not sure what happened, but the next thing I knew, I was floating.

In mid-air.

"Aaagh, what the hell?" I yelled.

"His shoes!" gasped someone. I looked down at my favourite Adidas trainers. From the heels, two pairs of ivory-white feathered wings had appeared.

"What?" I muttered.

Then, I heard: "A caduceus! A Son of Hermes!"

Above my head was a glowing staff, entwined with twin snakes.

A caduceus, symbol of the god of roads, thieves, merchants and travellers. Hm, I guess I fit right in!

The shoes dropped me back to my feet.

"What shoes were they?" asked a voice. I turned to see Veronica, wearing a newly-pressed orange camp tee. Summer was beside her, hair golden hair tied back into a high ponytail. The sun had bought out a maze of cute little freckles on her face.

"I don't know!" I gasped, scared. "They just flew!

"Hmmm..." Veronica put on her wise face (well, her normal face is her wise face, but she had her double wise face on). "I can deduce that the word 'Maia'-"

"Agh!" the shoes briefly fluttered off the ground.

"Idiot!"

"The shoes look fun," giggled Summer, a happy, summery little giggle.

"Anyway, we now know for certain those words cause the shoes to fly. So we need to work out who said it."

"The voice sounded disguised, like someone was trying to change their voice." Summer suggested.

"Alright, we should do a search."

"Wise choice, Veronica," I shrugged.

Suddenly, a glowing owl appeared.

"Athena!" cried Veronica.

"Well, you are the clever one," Summer smiled.

Veronica blushed as some new half-siblings took her away, leaving just me and Summer.

"Well, Snake-face?"

"Huh?" I asked.

She giggled again, like wind chimes in the midsummer breeze.

"Well, Caduceus-face doesn't work," she smiled.

"Yeah, erm... Arrow-head?"

We exploded in giggles, then stopped instantly together, which made us laugh even more.

Little did we know, someone was watching us...

Oooh... cliffhanger! Are you scared? Because in the next update, things get even weirder...

-Silverhand9028