Chapter 9

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Welcome to Chapter 9 - will Stiles start to finally remember what is happening or is Percy lost forever - read on to find out - enjoy!!!

Third person POV

Stiles was found an hour later fast asleep at the Nematon, Scott picked him up and drove him back home, after they all decided that it is probably best for him to wake up at home.

The next morning Stiles woke up rubbing the sleep out of his eyes trying to remember the bizarre dream he had last night but then realise that he was home when the last thing he remembered was going to the station. Glancing at his phone he noticed he only had ten minutes until school had started. He quickly got dressed and ran down stairs grabbing an apple as he left before remembering that the first lesson had a change of location.

Stiles arrived at the Beacon Hills Museum with a couple of minutes to spare and met up with Scott and Lydia before they headed inside noticing that not only were the newer students wasn't there but the only ones present were Stiles, Scott and Lydia.

"Welcome to Beacon Hills Museum, now this is not going to be an ordinary lesson as you may have noticed only a select number of you were chosen to come here today. Now if you would like to follow me and I will explain what is to happen next." Mr Brunner explained as they met in the entrance.

Mr Brunner lead the assembled group to the back room were Annabeth, Nico, Piper, Thalia, Will, Jason, Hazel and Frank were waiting with Apollo and Artemis. As soon as they entered the room the room went quite and waited to see how Stiles would react to so many people been present and whether it would spark something. Once Stiles looked up from the ground and noticed the assembled group he suddenly stopped for no reason and went into a low bow directed towards Apollo and Artemis.

"I am sorry I don't know why I just did that, it just felt like the right thing to do for some reason." Stiles stated as he brought himself back to a standing position.

"It's no problem, it happens all the time." Apollo joked.

"So you are all here as we thought you may need to let some steam off and gain new skills at the same time. Now I am going to partner you all up and then you are going to chose a weapon from the table behind me and have a friendly battle." Mr Brunner advised the assembled group.

"So the pairings we have decided on are as follows Scott and Lydia, Hazel and Frank, Jason and Piper, Nico and Will. That should leave Annabeth and Stiles as Apollo and Artemis are here to observe only and Thalia is here on behalf of the Sheriff's department due to us using proper weapons."

As Mr Brunner called out the groups everyone went to stand next to there partner, Stiles noticed that all of the pairs of the new students were holding hands which made him think that they were all together. When Stiles's name was called to pair up with Annabeth he couldn't help but notice the blush that appeared on her face as he went and stood next to her.

"Please take a few moments to discuss in your pairs which weapon you are going to battle with and then come select them of the table over by where Artemis, myself and Apollo will be waiting and then if required you will head to Thalia for safety equipment." Mr Brunner instructed.

"Well which weapon do you want to work with, I normally swing a baseball bat around so I will let you chose." Stiles stated to Annabeth noticing her grey eyes shining in the light.

"I am happy to go with swords, we helped Mr Brunner set up a ring near to a river for sword fighting before you arrived, it will be a shame not to use it." Annabeth suggests which received a nod of approval from Stiles.

Once they reach the table Annabeth collects a sword and heads over to collect her safety equipment but Stiles seemed to struggling finding the right sword, all of them felt unbalanced to him.

"Are you okay Stiles? You seem to be struggling to decide on which sword to choose even though there are only two options." Mr Brunner enquires.

"I can't seem to find one that feels right for me, don't get me wrong they are great quality swords but this one has too heavy of a handle so you need to put more effort in to make the simplest of moves effective, where this one is the opposite its to light, so the slightest twitch can change completely what you are trying to achieve." Stiles explains seeming to shock himself with his knowledge of swords.

"Ah I see, I think I may the perfect solution for you. Here!" Mr Brunner states while passing Stiles the pen from his pocket.

"This is a pen, what do you expect me to write her a letter saying sorry there wasn't a suitable sword so please don't hurt me?" Stiles joked his sarcasm soaked in the words.

"Well they do say that the pen is mightier than the sword but no this is a special pen that can transform into a sword. Here let me show you." Mr Brunner explains removing the pen lid allowing Riptide to show in its full glory.

After Stiles recovered from the shock of the pen changing, something seemed familiar with the sword been shown to him but he couldn't workout why. Stiles reached out his hand to accept the sword, once he held it something felt right about it, he gave it a gentle swing over his shoulder and felt the balance of the sword.

"Yeah that's better, this sword is very well balanced and is beautifully made. I like the symbol on the handle, is that a Trident if I am not mistaken it has the words Riptide written in Greek just below it." Stiles pointed out before heading to Thalia to get some equipment.

After everyone was ready it was decided that Annabeth and Stiles should go first as the arena created was the furthest away from where they were.

"I must warn you, I am very good at battle strategies so I never lose!" Annabeth states as the arrive at the arena hoping to spark some memories in Percy from the first time they did this.

"I always lose, maybe we are both wrong." Stiles states without thinking holding his hand out. As he held his hand out, Annabeth sliced a cut in hand and then quickly on his cheek which seemed to surprise Stiles.

"OW!!" Stiles cried out before swinging his sword at Annabeth who effortlessly dodged out of the way and landed another strike against Stiles chest plate.

Stiles tried again to land a strike on Annabeth but she seemed to be able to counter any attack he seemed to come up with, as he was thinking of what move to make next Annabeth sliced at his legs which connected causing Stiles to fall to his knees.

"Stand up and fight. Hero!" Annabeth said from behind him with some venom in her voice as Stiles regained his footing only to receive a cut across his mid section which sent him down again to his knees causing Annabeth to kick him in the back so he was lay flat on his stomach near the river.

Annabeth headed towards where the others were stood cheering except for Scott and Lydia who were stood there with there mouths wide open.

"I thought you were going to kill him then, is he okay I don't think he has actually moved since that last hit." Scott said in a panic tone starting to make his way to Stiles.

"Wait and watch, the first time we fought we did exactly what had just happened, this was also the first time Percy listened to what his Dad was saying to him. Lets just wait and see if history will repeat itself." Annabeth explained looking towards Stiles who was slowly heading towards the river.

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