Once again, I'm so sorry for not updating sooner. My internet went down the day after I uploaded chapter 12, so I wasn't able to put one up. To Taffeh., you better believe that she said it, remember Coach is still an Ares kid.

On another note, I've gotten a second wind on this story, so I've been writing more of it in my notebook, and I feel like it's coming along great. Also, my Chaos story has t the first two chapters typed up, I haven't had much time to do so. They're pretty long, so I won't update it as often as this, but it'll still have a lot of content in each chapter. Keep an eye out for it, since it'll be up soon, you'll know when if you have me added to Author Alert =).

Disclaimer: Dear Diary, after many months of pestering, stalking, and spying on Rick Riordan, he is still no closer to handing me the rights to PJO, or HoO. SO unfortunately, he is still the owner.

Chapter 13

3:52 PM, Goode Gym

Percy's PoV

To say I was surprised when I saw all the demigods from school in the gym was an understatement. I was shocked.

But when I saw some people from camp come in with Henry, my head nearly exploded, what was Henry doing with them?

I sighed and mumbled to myself. "What is he doing here...?" I guess Annabeth heard, but before she could talk, the coach began talking.

"Henry, sit down, you four," she pointed to Annabeth, Nico, Thalia and I, "stand up over there." We walked over to stand next to the people who came from camp.

"Okay, now that you're all here, time to start your training!" She walked behind the bleachers, I guess she flipped a switch or something, because the gym started to morph into a coliseum, it looked exactly like the one at camp, but it was a lot bigger.

"Before we start, I want everyone to make their introductions, name and parent." Coach stated.

Great, Henry's a demigod, just my luck...

"Okay, I guess I'll start. Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus."

"Will Solace, son of Apollo."

"Clarisse la Rue, daughter of Ares." Henry looked up at Clarisse when she finished saying that.

"Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena."

"Nico di Angelo, son of Hades."

"Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, lieutenant of Artemis."

"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."

The four demigods sitting down just were staring at us with their jaws dropped open. "Well, I knew we had new demigod students, Chiron never told me they were kids from Zeus and Hades. Okay, now you four."

"Emily Anderson, daughter of Hermes."

"Jessica Quinn, daughter of Nemesis."

"Stacy Langdon, daughter of Apollo."

"Henry Bendings, son of Ares." I snickered at Henry's last name.

"Okay, now that introductions are out of the way, time to start training. I'm under direct orders from Lady Athena and Chiron to have you four trained. Jackson, la Rue, you're teaching close combat. Jackson's got swords and daggers, la Rue, you have heavy weapons, shields, and hand-to-hand. Grace, you and Solace have Archery. Chase, Valdez, di Angelo, you're helping them with speed, stamina and agility. Any questions?" Coach asked after finishing assigning jobs.

"Yeah, how are we supposed to learn how to handle weapons without actual weapons?" Henry asked.

(A/N: In Chapter 12, it said that Lero walked in with a wagon of weapons, that was a mistype, I meant to say stuff for fighting, like archery targets, automatons, and a whetstone. So with that said, this next part will make a little bit more sense.)

"Here, I made there before we left." Leo pulled out a bag and dumped out the contents, they were all small objects, like jewellery, and school supplies.

"Okay, so we have cheap jewellery, pens and markers, we still don't have any weapons!" Henry exclaimed.

"Di immortales, are you that dense?" I took Riptide out of my pocket. "What do you see here?"

"That stupid pen you're always carrying around, what about it?"

I pulled off the cap of Riptide, it grew into the three foot long bronze sword that I know and love. "Now what do you see?"

"What the hell? How did your pen turn into a freaking bat?" Henry exclaimed.

"Oh my gods..." I turned to the coach. "He can't even see a sword through the Mist! How is he supposed to learn to fight as a demigod if he can't even see it?" I yelled at the coach.

"That's why you're here! You're going to teach him to see through the Mist. While you're teaching him, everyone else is going to teach the girls, now get going, Jackson!" She yelled back.

"Fine, you," I pointed at Henry, "come with me." We walked over to the stands and sat down.

I spent the next 45 minutes explaining the Mist, what it is, why it exists, and the basic idea of how it works. I didn't even bother trying to teach him how to manipulate it, since it'd probably take forever.

"Get it now?" I asked, my patience nearly gone.

"Yeah, I get it, now let's go before I punch your face out."

"You can see the sword?" I held up Riptide.

"Yeah, I can see your stupid sword." He spat.

"Thank Zeus... alright, head down to Clarisse, she'll teach you the basics of fighting." I sighed.

Henry walked off to Clarisse. I sighed and fell back in my seat. Finally, who knew it'd be so hard to teach someone about the Mist? I know Ares kids aren't the smartest, but I swear, Henry makes me look like an Athena kid compared to him.

6:25 PM, GHS Gym (...Coliseum)

"Okay, kids. That's enough for today!" Coach called.

The sound of a buzzer went off, the same one used during the basketball games. As soon as it finished, the arena morphed back into the school's gym.

"Before you leave, I'd like to thank Solace, Valdez and la Rue for coming today. Tomorrow, new campers will be coming, as well as Clarisse, since she volunteered after I asked for extra help. For the next two weeks, we will have training here after school, 3:30 PM sharp. I want you all to get to know each other so you won't try to kill each other. Next week on Thursday, you'll be telling your demigod past, so gather your memories. Any questions? Good, you can leave now."

We all got out of there, ready to relax at home.

Wednesday September 14, 4:45 PM, GHS Coliseum

Nico's PoV

The week and a half of training went by quickly.

We found weapons for all four of the demigods, except for that blithering idiot, Henry.

The girl, Emily, decided on using some kind of spiked ball on a chain, what were those things called? I think it was a flail. She's also using a basic 3 foot long sword, and a dagger.

Jessica, the Nemesis kid, was using some really weird weapon that not even Annabeth or Clarisse could use. Percy tried, but let's just say it's a good thing he has the Curse of Achilles. It's like a whip, but it's made of a really thin, flexible metal. But even though it's like that, it's extremely durable, Leo had a hard time making it from Celestial Bronze. She called it an Urumi, some weapon she saw on a TV show called Deadliest Warrior (That's where most of these weapons came from. =P).Her backup weapon is a mostly regular, double edged sword, but halfway up the blade it bends at a 45ยบ angle, it's called a Sica. Everyone has trouble fighting against it, because of the angled blade, it can reach around shields and our line of defense.

Stacy, as a child of Apollo, naturally went with a bow. But, just like everyone else at this school, she too decided to use some really weird weapon. She called it a Yumi Bow, it was taller than even Percy. IT was probably 6 and a half feet tall, a good 12" over her head. The grip was about a third of the way down from the top of the bow. Although it's extremely accurate and powerful, it's really hard to use. She can only use it when she's stationary, so she's like a turret. Her secondary weapon is an Assegai, a javelin with a rope locked in a niche in the back. When she slings the rope, it throws the weapon really far, and powerfully. For close range, she sticks with a simple 10" dagger.

For that Henry guy, it's impossible to find a weapon to fit him. We tried every conventional weapon, but still nothing, knowing these guys though, he's gonna have something weird to fit him. We tried heavier weapons to fit him, at a point, we thought we had it when he was using a 7 foot broadsword, since he was swinging it like it was nothing, but after awhile, he said it wasn't for him.

Percy said that he had an idea last night, and took off before training started.

10 minutes passed before he came back, for some reason, he had a smug look on his face.

"What are you happy about? Glad you missed a good hour and a half of training?" I asked as I went up to him, ready to punch his lights out.

"No, that's not it, just wait, you'll see why I was gone for so long. Give me a second." He walked over to where Henry was punching an automaton and started talking for a few minutes. After a while, Percy went into his backpack and took out four things, each of them covered in cloth, so I couldn't see what they were.

He took the cloth off, and revealed a set of gloves that were long enough to extend down to mid-arm, and two daggers, both of the sheathed.

I went over to Percy to remind him that we've tried dagger already. "Percy, did you forget already? We tried daggers, he sucks with them! And what's with the gloves?"

"These are special gloves that I had Tyson make. I told him the idea last night through an Iris Message, but I had to give him specifics today, which is why I was gone for so long." He handed Henry the gloves.

"It's made of cured, and reinforced leather. They have a thin layer of Celestial Bronze, so you won't break your hand when you punch the monsters with harder skins. If you press right here," Percy pressed down on a spot on the back of the glove, spikes then grew out of the knuckles of the gloves, "then spikes grow from the knuckled, making your punches more deadly. They're forgotten weapons from Greek times, made even more deadly during the Roman times, since they had metal studs on them. I had Tyson make them even MORE deadly by putting in spikes. Usually you only need one for your dominant hand, but since you seem to be equal with both, I had Tyson make two. They're called Cestus." He explained as he handed the gloves to Henry.

"Wow, this is perfect, Jackson. Thanks." Henry said, I could tell by his voice that he was grateful.

"And the daggers? What are those about?" I asked him, picking one up.

"Oh, those are called Katars." I looked at the dagger, it had a wide base that quickly went into a sharp tip. The blade itself was about maybe 6". The handle of the blade was an "H" shape, where Henry would grab it, the blade would be right above his knuckles, meaning the blade was more like an extension onto his fist and the sides of his hands were protected for the most part.

"I got the ideas for these weapons when I saw that he was mainly good with his fists. I started to think of weapons that he could use and came up with these." He pointed out.

"Well, for once, it seemed like you had a good idea, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth said as she walked up to us. "Come on, let's let him test out his new weapons."

Henry slipped on his Cestus, and strapped the Katar daggers to his thighs. He then pushed the spot on the back to let out the spikes.

Everyone gathered around to watch Henry fight against 10 automatons. "Okay, Henry, start!" Coach yelled out.

Henry proceded to punch at the automatons, the spikes were ripping them apart, after he had taken out 5 of them, which felt like no time at all, Percy yelled out for him to switch to the Katar daggers.

He pulled out the daggers after having the spikes recede back into his gloves, not missing a beat. He then started to stab, slash, and genuinely destroy the automatons like they were nothing. When he finished, they were nothing but wires and bitesized pieces of Celestial Bronze.

Wow, I can't believe it, those weapons are perfect for him. His idea actually worked!

Everyone started clapping Percy on the back, saying it was a good idea.

"Okay, looks like everyone has their weapons. Tomorrow we're telling our stories, so no training! You can leave now." Coach announced.