I'm so sorry, I know I said that I'd be updating more often! And I would have, but I have been working on this really awesome PokeSpe fic, if anyone is interested. I'm putting it up in a bit, because it's not quite finished yet, but I have been obsessed with that.

Either way, enjoy!

Fawkespower

Once I had comfortably situated myself in one of the plushy wheely chairs around the table, a couple of skittles in one hand, I decided that I probably should listen to what Chiron was saying. After all, I am being deprived of my sleep because of whatever he's saying.

"Now that we are all here," I swear Chiron looked right at me, "we can continue on the important tasks that must be completed by the end of this summer, which is arriving rapidly."

My sleepy brain didn't function quickly, and Chiron was already in the process of handing out clean up jobs before I finally realized the purpose of this 'very important meeting'.

"Woah, wait!" I burst out. Chiron stopped mid sentence, and everyone in the room looked at me; even Travis and Connor Stoll, who were determinedly ignoring me, stared at me in shock. But I was too pissed, or awesome to care. You pick which one.

"You mean to say that this very important meeting that I was required to attend by missing my well-needed-beauty-sleep-since-I-am-a-growing-14-y ear-old is about CLEANING DUTY BEFORE THE SUMMER ENDS!" I was literally spitting with rage. Ok, call me dramatic, but that's what happens to you after years of being excluded from society—you go a bit insane.

"My dear boy," Chiron started, but I cut him off.

"HONESTLY CHIRON! I'M EXHAUSTED! I'M LEAVING RIGHT NOW AND GOING TO SLEEP AND NOTHING YOU SAY WILL MAKE ME STOP!" I got up from my chair, spun around, and headed towards the door.

I mean, I thought that my exit was rather nice. Y'know, I had to whole tantrum, interrupt the person who keeps on trying to talk, and then march out the door. But of course, Annabeth had to ruin that as well.

"Nico, we're sending you to school" I heard someone say.

That stopped me.

I whirled around, swaying. Black dots clouded my vision, and I gripped the top of my chair to steady myself. Again, I know it's dramatic, but I haven't gone to school since Bianca. You can see how I must have felt.

If you couldn't see, I didn't feel so good. Hence, the dizziness.

"But, why?" My voice sounded whiny, and I could see Travis and Conner sniggering at the desperation in my voice. I made a mental note to get back at them later, but then again, they do deserve the laughs. I mean, I did kind of desert them last night.

Annabeth sighed. "Nico, you're 14 already. Demigod or not, you need a proper education."

"I'm getting an education!" I unsheathed my sword and waved it around, causing Katie, who was in front of me, to duck and shoot me a deadly glare, which I just waved off. I mean, if I can survive Thalia's death glares, I can survive Katie's. Thalia is a queen of death glares.

My thoughts were interrupted by Annabeth sighing.

"A proper education, Nico." She said, rolling her eyes as I lowered my sword. "As in math, chemistry, the law of independent assortment, derivatives and slope fields—"

Chiron cut her off. "I think he understands, my dear." He looked amused, and Annabeth smiled sheepishly, taking a seat again. Chiron continued, "And Nico, our new school program was what this meeting is about. I simply assumed that it would have been more practical to hand out the cleaning schedules first. Of course, if I had known that you would react like this, I would never have done so." Chiron finished, chuckling.

Oops. Guess I was wrong about that. I racked my brain for a reason why I couldn't go to school. "Well...that isn't going to work...because...I'm a son of Hades, right!" The idea struck me suddenly, and I held up my pointer finger, almost smiling. Of course, I don't smile in public. It would give people the wrong idea. They might think that I actually like them. "If I go out of the camp borders, I'll be attacked by monsters!" I finished triumphantly. Of course, I didn't notice their skeptical expressions until a little later. "What?" I asked, confused.

Annabeth spoke up. "Nico, you've gone out of the camp borders before. Alone. And if you didn't go to school, you would probably be wandering around anyway, like before, don't try and deny it. And Chiron thinks that the monsters won't be as much of a problem as before, since we just survived the Second Titan War. They would want to keep their distance for a while" Annabeth sounded worn out, like memories of the Titan War would damage her mentally. Percy, who was unsuccessfully trying to poke holes in his impenetrable skin with a pencil in his boredom, took her hand reassuringly. I almost gagged, but then I remembered the problem at hand.

Damn. I was stuck.

"Nico, it's for the best. You'll have to go to school sooner or later, and this is the best time for you." Chiron said pleadingly, obviously trying to avoid an argument like the famous Percy—Thalia stand off the other summer.

So far, the rest of the camp counselors had been watching this discourse like a tennis match. Travis and Conner had completely forgotten about their new hatred for me, thankfully, and they looked sympathetic.

"It's OK Nico, I doubt that it would be that bad" Travis said, shrugging, but obviously trying to hold back a grin. I sent a level 10 glare at him, but he didn't seem to notice.

"You'll be here in memory." Conner said, not even trying to fight the grin stretched across his face. "I just can't believe you're going to miss all of the neat tricks Travis and I planned out!" Conner said with an evil grin, but then glanced worriedly at Chiron.

Chiron smiled, and he almost looked as if sympathetic that the two twins couldn't perform the 'neat tricks' they had planned out. But, of course, we all knew him better. "I'm sorry boys, but you're going to school as well. I have a list of a couple of chosen campers and the schools that they are going to."

Travis shot a hand gun at Katie, winking and said, "I don't care what school I'm going to Chiron, as long as Katie's there too." To this, Katie scooted her chair to the right as far as she could away from Travis,

Unfortunately for Katie, as far away to the right knocked Clarisse over. "Watch it, punk!" Clarisse growled at Katie, and accidently pushed an open can of soda into Drew's lap.

"What did you just do?" Drew shrieked indignantly. She immediately popped open another soda, and poured it over Clarisse's head, fuming.

Clarisse stared at the daughter of Aphrodite for a moment, and then narrowed her eyes. "Oh, this is war."

This caused a full fledged war to break out in the Big House, Chiron on the side pleading for peace, Percy trying to be the ultimate peacemaker, Annabeth trying to talk logic into everyone until she got hit by a stream of cheez-its, and etcetera.

Oh, joy. I almost couldn't wait for school, to get away from these lunatics.

Almost, of course.

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