Sparring with a Hephaestus

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Percy POV

Thalia, Nico, Katie, and the Stolls all together in one place. This year would definitely be an interesting one.

"Please tell me one of you have second period Calculus." I said as we walked to our lockers. Papers shuffled as people looked at their schedules.

"I don't."

"Not me,"

"Sorry,"

"Great, so I'm still stuck with Calypso and Victoria that hour." I groaned. Annabeth patted my shoulder sympathetically.

"There's always…"

"No weapons," She pouted.

Calculus that day was (to use a word Annabeth had taught me earlier) excruciating. Calypso sat in the desk next to mine and the entire time she kept trying to pass me notes asking about that morning. I read the first one, just to make sure the mortals hadn't seen anything too terrifying like Nico suddenly stepping out of the shadows or Thalia shooting people with arrows. Apparently it looked like Nico had just snuck up on me, and Thalia had stuck me up on a branch, which was good. Then she kept pushing little folded pieces of paper at me, which I crumpled up and threw back at her. But the thing about Calypso: she's persistent.

"Stop it!" I hissed. She just passed me another note. I gave in, and read it.

What could you possibly see in Annabeth? I mean her tan's obviously fake, her hair's too bright to be real, and she's so… controlling.

Lets see… she's half-goddess, of course she's gorgeous, but that's not even why I like her! I mean sure it helps that she always smells like lemons and her hair shines like a new drachma in the sun. Annabeth's strong, and she's brave. She makes me laugh, she has my back (literally) in fights. She's not controlling, she's just a natural born leader. It's a good thing she's around, otherwise I would have been killed my first quest.

Calypso wasn't worth explaining all this to, so I just crumpled the note and threw it at her like I did the others.

I was definitely looking forward to gym that day. Calypso had been irritating me all day and I needed to let off some steam.

Annabeth met me outside the gym wearing our uniform of black shorts and a t-shirt.

"I heard gym today is pretty entertaining." She said with a smirk, like she knew something I didn't. Of course she always looked like this so I didn't suspect anything.

"Why?" She shrugged.

"I guess we'll find out…" She drawled and opened the door.

The first thing I noticed was a rack of steel swords on the opposite wall of the room.

"Sword-fighting?" I asked, and turned to Annabeth who had a big grin on her face, "We're doing sword-fighting in gym today?" She nodded.

"Yep, and that's not even the best part." Her smile kind of reminded me of the Cheshire cat; sneaky, yet happy.

"What ho, Perce! Think fast!" Battle reflexes mode: on. I spun just in time to catch the hilt of one of the cheap swords on the rack. The person who tossed it, you ask?

"Beckendorf*!" He was standing proudly with an arm around Silena Beauregard*.

"Hiya Percy!" She said brightly, "I see you two are still together," She said, nodding towards Annabeth, "Good! If that ever changes, my mom will kill you both." Aphrodite was a big "Percabeth" supporter. The other, more ditzy, Aphrodite girls had come up with that name for us and it had, sadly, stuck. Beckendorf reached out and shook my hand while Silena kissed my cheek.

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