Siren's Song: A Percy Jackson Fanfic ON HOLD

~CHAPTER 4~

(PERCY’S POV)

Demitri looked so hot in only his boxers I… wait, uh I’m doing it again! I’m not like that, I mean I have nothing against being gay, I know a few of the Aphrodite boy are and their good friends of mine.

Besides I’m supposed to meet my soul mate soon.

‘Idiot’, a voice said, I whirled around but no one was there, but it sounded really familiar, I shrugged and got my orange shirt on and came out of my room to meet Demitri, he was all ready to go so we went on our way. I was strangely excited to spend so much time with him, I had him all to myself.

“so where do we start?” he asked me as soon as we made it to the arena.

I shook the thought I was thinking out of my head, “well we should get you fitted with some armor first, and then we’ll get you a weapon.” I suggested, he thought it was a good idea, so we walked over to the armory and tried on a few different breast plates, he finally felt comfortable in a simple rough leather one, we next got him a few guards for his arms and legs and he was all set.

We then walked farther in to let him choose a weapon, “try a few things out and choose the one that feels right to you.” I explained.

He walked around a little then picked up a long sword, I looked like it should have been heavier for him, I must have been right because he put it down and moved on. After a few minutes of looking he said, “found it!” he came over to me and my eyes widened, he held in his hand a gladius, but it was way different than the normal ones, this one was had black blade that had blue veins running through it almost like water, and on the other weird side, it was a Roman weapon, not Greek, I mean we had Roman weapons here for when they came over and wanted to spar, but I had never seen a blade like that.

“where’d you find that?”

“it was in the very back collecting dust, I picked it up and these blue vein thins shot out of it, weird huh? So what’s this sword called?”

I stared for a moment before answering, “uh, it’s called a Gladius usually it’s used by Romans.” I explained.

He nodded in understanding, “cool, so when do we start training?”

“now.” I smiled.

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“are you serious?” he asked when I showed him my weapon Riptide, it was still in pen form, “you’re gonna fight me with a pen?”

I chuckled, “it’s not just a pen,” I said while uncapping it and a bronze sword formed in my hand, “it’s my sword, its name is Riptide.”

His face was in awe, “that’s so cool! I wonder if mine has a name.”

“Maybe, but for now we get to train.” I said and got into my fighting position, he did the same, and we started, I showed him the basics, stances, parries, and simple block maneuvers which he caught on quickly, and started his own attacks which were small and quick, he stabbed more than swung, like a Roman. I would ave to tell Chiron about this, and contact Jason to see when he was coming so he could see this.

After a few hours of that we were both sweating, a group of people were already out and about training as well, I even saw Piper showing a few of the Aphrodite kids a few things, though most of them were more focused on their reflections in their daggers or swords to care.

“hey Piper!” Demitri shouted, she looked over and smiled before dismissing everyone who were out of there faster than she could get the words out, and came over to us.

“hi you guys what’s up?”

“nothing much just training the newbie here, he’s doing really good.” I explained and he blushed.