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ROMANCE WILL BE COMING SOON! I SWEAR ON IT! I just need a few more matches!

Arabella x Jrek

Anabella (maybe a magician?)

Andrew x Saffron?

Erin (Whoever...)

Xavier x Ammy?

Silver?

Saffron's POV
I was running hard from the tjesu heru, with Lia right next to me. I know, I know, I'm a daughter of Hermes, and she hates us, but, Lia's blind and the tjesu heru's heads had somehow sensed that. We, as fast as we could, navigated our way through the confusing woods. Up ahead, I saw a light beam, indicating a building. I told Lia to meet me there and I'd take care of the tjesu heru by myself. She tried to protest, saying, "Oh, yes. It's every girl's dream to get ripped to pieces. Please, don't let me prevent you from following that dream." Nevertheless, when the beast almost snapped her in half (I pushed her out of the way) Lia obliged, reluctantly, and ran towards the building.

Around to my right, I heard a scream. I, as fast as I could without the tjesu heru killing me, ran around to see who was there. There were two girls there. One had jet-black hair and fire-y red highlights, she carried a lot of weapons, but seemed unsure which ones to use, seeing as she had a hammer, sword, and bow and arrows. The other girl had reddish gold hair and when she looked my way, I saw that her eyes were the color of amber. I swallowed hard, if I failed, these two new students were toast. Not that I'm saying they can't handle themselves, they probably can...I just would feel bad if I failed and then the tjesu heru got dinner.

"Hey!" I called, as softly as I could so, maybe the tjesu heru wouldn't hear me. "What're your names? You going to the school?" They nodded and spoke their names. Shy, very shy, I could tell that much, or perhaps paralyzed with fear. I'm not exactly sure...

"I...I'm Taylor. Taylor Johnson, daughter of Hephaestus."

"Ammy. Short for Amaterasu." Short and to the point, excellent I don't have to waste their time making chit-chat. I was about to start fighting the tjesu heru when Erin and Tori burst into the clearing. Relieved (only slightly, I like a challenge) that I didn't have to battle it single handedly, I went to go and talk to them, ushering Ammy and Taylor to where Tori was standing. Erin apparently could beat the monster on her own, or at least thought she could. So I quickly explained the situation to Tori.

I messed up on Ammy's name. *face palm* Well, it was going to happen eventually, wasn't it? When Erin's messenger buzzed, we started to head out to go and help Janie. I remembered Lia, and that we needed to go and get her. So when I ran ahead to the clearing – I was shocked. Lia was gone. I searched all over the clearing...no Lia. I swore under my breath. I knew I shouldn't have left her! Still, it was either that or get killed, but Erin showed up!

Angry with myself, Lia and just everything in the world, I followed Erin, Tori, and the new students (who really should be escorted back to the school, we can't let them put themselves into danger more than once right away!) to where Janie had sent out her distress signal. I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going – until I ran into Austin. Blushing furiously, I apologized, and Austin said, "Ah, don't be sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going; too lost in thought."

"You and me both," I said, without thinking. How ironic, before I was lost in thought and now I'm not thinking. I still wasn't thinking when he (styx!) caught me staring into his endless grey eyes.

"Um...Saffron? You okay?" I didn't snap out of the trance thing (curse you Aphrodite!) until Austin was (in a polite/concerned way) shaking my shoulder gently.

"What? Oh, yeah, I'm fine just...lost in thought." I said, smirking a bit as (maybe I was hallucinating) he blushed a bit. "Come on, Austin, let's go and catch up to the others."

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Anabella's POV

After the whole crazy fiasco with the fury and the Minotaur, I could've done with some peace and quiet. It never works out the way you want it do, though, does it? Instead, I got, probably the exact opposite. First, there was Derek, who, by the way, was practically my archenemy since the first day at the school, suddenly acting...decent? I mean, why were we more important than his best friend was? Then, there was the hydra and the chimera.

If you'll remember our training session, not too long ago, you'll remember that the chimera would multiply itself. This time both the hydra and the chimera were multiplying itself. I could see why Janie needed help. To top it off, she had 4 new students to deal with too! Sadly, the daughter of Athena with the hyper-senses had to go and escort the new students to the school. And that included the ones Erin, Saffron, and Tori had just met.

I like a challenge! I mean, come on! Although, I can see why they (Janie, Erin, and Silver) would choose me to get the new students to the school safely: A) I have [as my brother calls them] the "inane hyper senses." B) I could take charge if a monster were to attack us. And C) I have a soft spot for younger kids. Although, one person was actually a year older than me, but that doesn't matter!

Gripping the hilt of my knife as hard as I possibly could, I listened for any sounds of monsters and/or people. I heard a twig snap and a low canine growl that sent unreal chills down the back of my spine. I turned slowly, placing myself in front of the students, bracing for what was coming. I could feel it stalking me, like a bird of prey; I wasn't going to let someone be the prey today. I wasn't going to fail...not this time.

With a lunge the hellhound jumped from the bush, it's gigantic claws swiping the air, looking for me to slice to little Anabella bacon bits. The hellhound would've been hard to see in the dark, since it was pitch black and blended into the night very well, but I had hyper senses. I could hear it, see it, and (although I didn't want to) smell it better than the average person. I pushed a stray strand of hair out of my eyes and waited for the hellhounds next attack. Almost on cue, it charged me, I side-stepped and pushed my dagger through the middle of it's back, disintegrating it into sand.

It reminded me of that night, the night my sister died. It was hard, but I've learned that sometimes in order to do better, you need to move on. But that doesn't mean her death doesn't still hurt me.

Knowing that we needed to move faster now, I made sure that I had all the students whom I was escorting. I had them all. All 7 of them, not a single life lost by a different beast sneaking up on us. I sighed in relief and looked forward, seeing the faint outline of the school. We were almost there! As we started to run there, I asked the new students, (who I didn't know) for their names, parent, royal line, and such...

There was Taylor and Ammy I had already met them. Then there was Cassandra who was a daughter of Apollo she had long bright red hair with blue streaks and a look on her face that read "I'll talk back, even if you weren't insulting me." Alice was a different story, she had dark brown hair and purple highlights, she said her father was Poseidon, she was very...cheerful. Next to her stood Lallie a proud daughter of Hermes. She said she was very...into computers. *cough* hacking *cough* She didn't say that exact word, but I'm making sure to upgrade my firewall on my laptop now. The last student had the same name as me, only shortened. Her name was Ana and she didn't really want to get into the fact how she had 2 dads and 1 mom, so I decided to let the matter drop. Overall, nice bunch, quiet, but, then again, everyone is at first. Maybe that's because their lives were morally threatened. That could be a very good reason why.

I felt something I watching me, I turned my head in the direction it was coming from, but I didn't see anything. It was so...unnerving. How could my brother stand that? When I, using my hyper senses see/hear a monster watching us, when he would probably be blind enough in the dark!

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Two characters in one chapter! Woo! I am starting school (all I have is a conference today though) today. But, I will try to keep updating! Weekends, especially!

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