The Untold Truth

Chapter 14- Preparing For War

Hermione's POV-

After I fought Percy he asked who was going to fight him next, Harry immediately stepped forward. Percy smiled at him, "When ever you're ready," Percy said. Harry lunged and Percy dodged, and this continued for a while before Percy caught the blade of the sword between his hands. "You need to be more spontaneous, less predictable. Don't let yourself be surprised either. Expect the unexpected." He continued doing this for everyone till only the achers had not fought him. While we had been working on fighting Percy, Nico had gone and raised a bunch of dead archers. They were all in Roman armor and were in this weird formation. Nico gave a speech about the art of archery and then told them to start shooting. Every time a student was hit by one of the skeleton archer's arrows, it would go right through them. Soon they started aiming better and the skeleton soldiers went down every time they were hit. When there was none left, Percy walked to the middle he pointed at the other archers, which had reappeared, and said, "Now see if you can take them out when they're weapons do damage." Within the first five seconds six of the twenty students hit the floor. Everyone immediately stepped forward but Percy raised his hand, "They're fine, just unconscious." The students managed to take out the rest of the skeletons without much trouble. "Okay guys keep practicing. For the archers we have moving targets and for everyone else we have each other." Percy then stood across from Draco. They got into their fighting stances and started hacking and slashing and ducking and all kinds of other moves. They moved like one person. Granted Percy was much more graceful but Draco kept up fairly well. Suddenly Nico jumped out of nowhere. He also started attacking Percy. They moved like a regularly oiled machine. Percy made a move at Nico and Nico's reaction shocked everyone who was even slightly paying attention. He did a quick backbend and then a backbend kick over to his fighting stance. Percy just stood there shocked. "I had no idea you were so flexible!"
"I did gymnastics or something similar before World War II and it stuck with me. Plus Persephone makes me do yoga now that she doesn't want to turn me into a flower."
"More like a corn stalk," Percy muttered.
"Like you were a guinea pig?" Nico retorted.
"You did not go there!" Percy said taking a step towards Nico.
"Boys! Boys! Settle down, we don't want to wake the neighbors," Draco said.
"You can't talk ferret," Ron said from the crowd.
Draco made a move towards him but Percy held him back. "Guys none of us are as embarrassing as the Graces. Thalia was a pine tree and Jason has a tough looking scar that he got from biting a flipin stapler!"
"Your right! That's classic," Nico and Draco chimed at the same time.
"Okay creepy twin like boys, let's get back to work, we were just in a very amazing battle!"
Nico didn't answer but just charged Percy. Draco soon joined in. At some point we all turned and started practicing ourselves.
And that was us preparing for war.