When we finally got to the gym I saw my second favorite satyr, Coach Hedge.
"Hey Coach! How's Chuck?" I asked him.
"Chuck's good. Clarisse is taking care of him while me and Mellie are working," He replied.
"Listen Up Cupcakes! I'm Coach Hedge, and I will be your combat teacher."
"Why are you wearing shaggy pants?" Someone called out from behind me.
"These aren't pants! I'm a satyr!"
"Oh! So you're half donkey."
"Half goat!"
"You know this crazy satyr?" Izza whispered to me, as Coach kept arguing with that kid.
"Yep."
"How?" Lily whispered to me.
"He chaperoned my cousins and I when we traveled last year."
"Oh."
"Today we will start our sword-fighting unit. I will need two volunteers for a demonstration!" Coach Hedge called out. Everybody raised their hand except me.
"Okay! Jackson! Peterson! Come on up Cupcakes!"
"Which one?"
"Jake."
"Coach! I'm trying to stay low," I whisper yell at him.
"To bad Cupcake. Just say I taught you some on our "little trip"."
Hedge tossed us our wooden swords. I hate not fighting with Riptide, the sword just feels off-balance to me.
"Go ahead Cupcakes!" Coach yelled at us while leaning on his baseball bat.
Jake ran at me and swung his sword. I simply sidestepped and knocked his feet out from underneath him.
"Sorry," I told him as he stands back up.
"You're going to lose Percy," Jake says and goes at me more determined, he hates losing. We fight for about a minute, him going like crazy and me relaxed and in my element, until I disarm him with my sword at his neck.
"Yield?"
"Yield," he admits grudgingly.
"Good job Cupcakes!" Hedge said. I look at everyone else in my class staring at me.
"What?"
"WHAT?! WHERE THE HADES DID YOU LEARN TO FIGHT LIKE THAT!?" Izza shrieked at me.
"Coach taught me that for self-defense while we were traveling," I said.
"Okay Cupcakes Pair up! Me and Jackson will be helping you with style and strategy."
I saw Jake pair up with Izza and Lily pair up with some curly red-headed girl with a ton of freckles who seemed familiar, but I couldn't place her. After about an hour we're dismissed to go to Greek Mythology. When we get there we find our seats and wait for Paul.
"Okay class. Today we are going to be starting with the basics, The Olympians," Paul started.
"Athlete?" Someone asked.
"No. The Gods," Paul replied.
"Oh."
"Who can name the Twelve Olympians?" Paul asked. Everyone but me raised their hand.
"Percy. Please name the Twelve Olympians."
"Poseidon, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Hades, Aphrodite, Demeter, Ares, Zeus, and Hera," I replied glaring at Paul. Thunder rumbled outside.
"Yeah, yeah," I muttered under my breath.
"Percy, you listed Thirteen Olympians," Paul said.
"Well Hades isn't always considered an Olympian," I amended.
"Okay then."
After that I just tuned out, I mean I already know all this and I can't read what he's writing, so I just wait for the lunch bell to ring until I get up and walk up to Paul.
"Thanks a lot for telling me that the gods have been discovered, Paul!" I whisper-yell at him.
"I didn't tell you?"
"No! I get here and Izza is going "Styx" and "Hades" and talking about the Great Perseus who happens to be me! And then you go and call on me for an answer about my family! And Coach calling on me since he knows I'm good with a sword! I am trying to stay on the down low, and you guys aren't helping!
"Sorry about that," Paul said.
"It's okay, just next time give me a warning," I told him and went to lunch.
"What was that about?" Izza asked me.
"Nothing, my mom needed me to tell him something," I said dismissing the question.
