The Next Chapter of Our Lives

The Day Before

Persi's P.O.V.:

I couldn't be more done with this. Aphrodite was making me try on countless dresses, and it was not even noon.

"What about this one?" She asked as she turned me around to face the full body mirror.

"Meh. It's too poofy." I began slipping it off. Next dress I guess. Yesterday, Aphrodite got the bridesmaid dresses and the day before that was the groomsmen tuxes and the day before that Apollo got his tux. Speaking of Apollo, we hadn't seen each other in a week (As per Hera's orders) and I was going by other gods and goddesses on updates.

Finally, I found a dress that I liked. After taking it off and putting it in a bag, I took it in hand and looked around the room. It was a room I didn't know existed in Camp Half-Blood. The walls were a light pink and racks of dresses lined the walls except for one. On that wall, there was a full body mirror, a vanity, bags for the outfits and, of course, some measuring tape and tools and such.

"Thanks 'Dite!" I yelled as I exited the room. I went to my cabin and hung up the dress in my magic closet.

I checked the time, and apparently, it was nearly lunch. I sighed as I laid on my bed. I should probably explain. Last week Hera came to us and told us to work something out so we wouldn't see each other for a week. When questioned she explained that it'll "recreate the feeling of seeing each other for the first time."

The rituals would begin tomorrow at dusk, and it'd be overseen by Hera. First, we take baths (alone and in different homes of course) then Apollo will ride in a car from Apollo's (and my) house to a beach house Dad owns where we'll have a feast. Apollo and I will go home, and we'll be greeted/congratulated by Leto and Zeus. They'd leave, and we were supposed to get down and dirty (Aka: have s-e-x).

Why do I both love and hate life? Oh yeah, that's why.

Lunch came and went followed by my sparring match with the rest of the Seven, Clarisse, Reyna, Nico, and Annabeth's boyfriend, an Ares kid named Everit Savege. Powers were allowed, but they told me that I could only use the abilities I was born with. I thought it was a tad bit unfair as it was all of them against me, but I still did it. A camper blew the whistle which began the match.

They all charged at me in sort of a line formation. I drew Riptide and began pulling water from the air and balling them up. I fired my water balls and proceeded to create a low-level earthquake. Reyna and Nico got up the fastest and charged at me with their weapons in hand. When they got to my position, I ducked under their swords and ran through them, so I was behind them. I swiped under their legs, so they fell. I quickly controlled the drinking water from the corner of the room, so it bound them to the floor.

When I finished with that, I barely had time to evade Jason's strike as the rest ran toward me. I began calling water from the ocean because it was so far away and I went on defense. The familiar tug in my gut calmed me more than sparring matches as I eased into the raging battle. One the water came I split it into seven parts and formed it into warriors with swords. They all went after a person, leaving me with Jason. We both smirked at each other as our weapons collided. He had the upper hand as he started on offense which meant that, one wrong move and I would lose. I desperately tried switching, but he wouldn't take.

"You know Jason," I smirked, "You really shouldn't have been so stubborn." I swung my leg at his legs, just like I did with Nico and Reyna, and successfully took him down. I put my knee on his chest and my sword at his throat.

"Yield," I whispered in his ear.

"No."

"Yield, Jason." I made a nick on his throat.

"Fine, fine. I yield."

I got off of him, and he sat on the bench to watch the rest of the match.

I went to Nico and told him to yield. It required a tad bit of convincing, but he eventually did. He repeated Jason's actions of sitting on the bench as I went to Reyna, she took more convincing but, like Nico and Jason, went to sit down.

I observed Everit's battle and assessed all his weak points. I made the water soldier strike his side and bring him down. It pinned him, and I told him to yield. He struggled against the hold but eventually gave in.

My next target was Hazel. I called back the water warrior, and we clashed weapons. We fought for a few minutes before I twisted her around. She struggled against my grip as I told her to surrender. Less than a minute later, she stopped and went to the bench.

Next was Frank. He was currently in human form, which made this ten times easier. We went at it for a few minutes before he slipped up causing me to place my sword at his throat and him to surrender.

I decided to make this harder and allowed water fighting Piper and Leo to go back to the ocean. They both charged at me after a stunned moment. Leo shot a ball of fire at me, which I countered with a water ball. Piper came full force with her dagger. I felt it slice my shoulder and I returned the favor with my own blade. I formed a water shield around Piper and me, so, if Leo wanted to fight, he would have to go through water. Within 15 minutes, Leo and Piper were sitting on the bench. This left Clarisse and Annabeth. I drenched myself in water to heal and energize myself and let down Clarisse's water dummy.

I looked at Annabeth while my sword met with Clarisse's spear and it seemed like she was about to win the water battle, I smirked and doubled it in size while also setting up the difficulty. All in all, Clarisse's and my match lasted twenty minutes, fifteen used for fighting, five for us just arguing.

"My, my, Annabeth," I announced as I got closer to her, "You seem really tired. Want help with that?" She just grunted in reply. Beads of sweat trickled down her forehead, and on her face, her shirt was soaked in the same substance. I quickly dried her off while circling her.

"Thanks," She panted.

"Oh don't thank me yet." I made the giant water warrior collapsed into a giant puddle, but when it fell, it drenched Annabeth.

"Dammit Perce!"

I smirked as she lunged at me. Her movements were slow and weighed down by the water and exhaustion. We engaged in a deadly dance, one slip and we'd be on the floor.

Twenty minutes later and we were still going. Annabeth's moves were still sluggish, whether they were more or less I could hardly tell. It took an additional ten minutes before I could bring her down.

"Yield," She whispered, a smile painted on both our faces. I stood up and helped her stand as we walked to the bench.

"Thank you, everyone, for sparring with me. Blah, blah, blah, we all need showers, and I need a nap. Come get me when it's dinner in like two hours." They all laughed at my speech and went to their cabins.

The rest of the day was uneventful, I showered, napped, ate, got visited by Hera, and slept. (Hera's visit was just going over tomorrow's plans once more.) Tomorrow is when the real fun begins.

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Whoo! I've been busy and sick (at least since yesterday) and I hate it. My nose is stuffy and then it's runny amd then the classroom has no tissues and I'm stuck in advisory for 3 hours because of testing. Help me.

If you like Supernatural go check out my one-shot book, it has attempted suicide and a depressed devil and some fluff (AKA: two oneshots of Sabriel fluff).

There's some sort of fog clouding my mind, oh yeah! It's called being sick and sleep deprived. Also, it's like 2:18 AM in my timezone and I slept from like 7 PM to 12 AM so...

I'm totally sane I swear. I also think the Feds have me flagged because I'm a scary writer kid who searches up medival torture methods.

Is that enough? I think it is, BYE!!!!

(PS- the picture above is Everit.)