"If you can't tell be the way we are talking most of the time, we are from America and we all went to the same school. So, please if anyone has any questions about us you can ask away." She said but as soon as she finished her sentence almost all of the popular clique of the school put their hands up.

"Yep." She said pointing towards Gwen Willows, another person who makes it her daily mission to torture me.

"Why did you help the freak up?" At this a majority of the hall nods in agreement, I guess that's what they were all thinking of asking.

At that question Thalia, Jason, Leo, Percy and Frank all glared and Annabeth, Hazel and Piper all had to hold Jason, Percy and Frank back but no one was quick enough to stop Leo and Thalia.

Out of nowhere, there was a lightning storm outside and the lights went out.

"We helped her because she is a human being and we have all been in a similar position to her before so leave her alone." Thalia said in a scarily calm voice that made me want to hide in the depths of Tartarus and stay there for the rest of my life.

Okay note to self, do not anger Thalia.

"So, if you are only going to insult others, take their feelings into account." She added to the end and once she finished there was a final 'CRASH' of thunder and final 'flash' of lighting and the storm went away as well as the lights turning back on.

At their actions of trying to stop the others from being mean to me, I just went over to Thalia and Leo.

"Σας ευχαριστώ, κανένας άλλος εκτός από Alice ή Lily έχουν σταθεί ποτέ για μένα (Thank you, no one other than Alice and Lily has ever stood up for me)" I thanked Thalia and Leo but what I didn't know was that I thanked them in Greek.

They turned towards me from giving the others death glares and smiled at me.

"Παρακαλώ (your welcome)" Thalia replied, but surprisingly she replied to me in Greek.

"εσυ ξερεις ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ? (you know Greek?)" I said in shock that she knows my birth language but she just smiled at me and nodded her head.

"και εμεις το ΙΔΙΟ (so do we)" the other new kids said in unison.

"Ω θεοί του Ολύμπου (oh gods of Olympus)" I muttered but knew that they could hear me as they started laughing their heads off, just then the bell for the school lessons of the day to start went off.

"Could Serena Bella and the new students please stay behind?" Mr James announced while dismissing the rest of the hall. Once everyone left Mr James walked towards us which made the others stop laughing.

"Serena as you can understand the language they were just talking in and know this school like the back of your hand, could you please be their guide for the first few weeks and they are in your classes so I hope that you can help them catch up." He said towards me and then motioned for us to go to our first class which happens to be my favourite in the school which is P.E.

"Okay well, we better get to our first lesson otherwise coach will have our heads." I told them while starting towards the gym. "Follow please." Then a thought occurred to me. "Have you got a P.E kit?" I questioned.

"Yeah, we had a feeling we would need them." Jason said. I was just smiling because no one in the school has been better at anything in P.E than me, Alice and Lily - as we were the coach's favourite students.

"What are your favourite sports?" I ask them with curiosity in my voice.

"Sprints." was Jason, Percy, Leo and Frank's replies while Annabeth, Hazel, Piper and Thalia rolled their eyes and replied with "Gymnastics."

"Cool, we do a range of activities in P.E." I explained to them about the running track, the gymnasium, the tennis courts, the football (soccer)/rugby fields, the weights room and of course my most favourite own is the climbing wall as I was finishing my sentence we had just arrived at the gym where we were having P.E today.

And like always I still manage to make it to class first.

So, I showed the boys which changing room to use and took the girls to ours so we could change and when we were done we all went into the gym where coach Phil, was setting up the different apparatus that we were using with the help of Alice and Lily so I went over to help and bring out the crash mats and the practice swords (today was a battle imaginative class) and when we were finished the rest of the class came in so I decided to ask the coach if Alice, Lily and myself could do the demonstration for the class.

"Coach Phil, could me and the twins do the demo? as we have new students and knowing what you are as you would want to show off." I asked him while whispering the last part in his ear and when I finished all he was doing was nodding his head frantically.

"You know what the answer will be, Serena. But first, let's see if everyone is here." And with that, I walk back over to Thalia, Jason, Leo, Percy, Frank, Hazel, Piper and Annabeth to introduce them to Coach Phil, Alice and Lily.

"Hey guys, I have three people I would like to introduce you to." I tell them and we walk over to Alice and Lily first.

"Hey Al, Lil's these are Thalia, Annabeth, Hazel, Piper, Leo, Percy, Frank and Jason, guys these are my adoptive twin sisters Alice and Lily." I introduce them and they all shake hands.

"Thanks for helping..." Lily started.

Oh no, they're doing the twin thing.

"...Serena earlier." Alice finished, yep twin thing.

"I asked you guys - how many times have I asked you two to stop doing your twin telepathy thing, it's annoying." I scolded them. They just held up their hands in mock surrender.

"So are we doing it today?" They asked in unison AGAIN.

"How many, Θεών να μου δώσει δύναμη (Gods give me strength) and yes we are." I replied starting annoyed and finishing with a sly smile creeping onto my face, at this the others seemed to get fidgety suggesting that they were nervous.

"Alright, one person left to show you then it's time for the 'thing'." I told them while directing them towards Coach Phil.

"Coach Phil, these are the new students, guys this is our P.E coach, Coach Phil." I said.

"You ready to show 'em what you got Serena?" Coach asked while a Cheshire cat-like grin appears on his face.

"Coach you know the answer better than anyone, I'm always ready. Well, you lot better sit down and Coach whenever you are ready to blow the whistle." I said while motioning for the group of people to sit down and winking at my sisters (our secret signal) and once everyone was seated Alice, Lily and myself all put the protective amour on and got in position.

A minute afterwards Coach blew the whistle and both Alice and Lily came after me and tried to tackle me and injure me with various kicks and punches but I managed to either block or return them and then to take the twins down long enough to grab a sword or to get to another part of the gym and use the apparatus set up I round-house kicked their ankles and they landed hard on their back sending a 'BANG' reverberating through the room.

I then sprinted as fast as I could and picked up two twin-blade swords and when I turned around I saw the twins right behind me so I held the blades to their necks and they stopped and started panting to try and get their breath back while I wasn't even breaking a sweat.

The rest of the class started clapping as none of them other than Coach Phil has seen us do this or anything remotely close to it before.

"Anyone else wants to try and beat Serena?" The twins, as well as Coach Phil, called out while I just smiled and took a mock bow, surprising everyone in the room apart from the rest of the newbies, Thalia put her hand up and stood up coming towards me.

"How about we see how much better you are without amour, shall we?" She asked once she reached me.

"Deal" I replied while holding out my hand for a handshake, but before we could even take our stances, the wall to the left of us demolished and in its place stood a... MINOTAUR?!?! What in the name of the gods?????

"A-A-Am I crazy or is there a Minotaur standing right in front of us?" I ask no one in particular but surprisingly Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Jason, Thalia and Frank all run at the creature while Hazel and Piper stayed by the twins and me.

Annabeth with a dagger and a baseball cap, Thalia with a bow and arrows that have literally appeared out of nowhere, Jason with a coin that changed into a sword, Leo with a hammer???, Percy with a ballpoint pen that also changes into a sword and Frank just running and changing into a.... tiger!!!!!

What in Hades is going on?!?!?!

"Uh..... Al, Lil are you seeing what I'm seeing?" I asked my sisters while walking back towards them.

"Y-y-yeah, we think so." They answered uncertainly looking in the same direction as me.

As I re-concentrated on the scene in front of us I realized that the Minotaur had thrown Percy, Jason, Leo and Frank across the room and rendered them unconscious and that Thalia and Annabeth were struggling to try and kill the beast.

It was just then that I heard the feminine voice in my head that I haven't heard since I was young.

'Pull-on your necklace and help your friends, my child' was all she said before vanishing and so I did as told and a beautiful silver bow and quiver of arrows appeared with the bow in my hands and the quiver on my waist on both the bow and quiver was a print design of the moon.

So, with my natural archery ability coming in handy I strung an arrow and raised it towards the heart of the beast.

"GET DOWN, NOW!!" I yelled to Thalia and Annabeth and they did as told not even questioning why and I let the arrow loose and I hit dead centre of the beast's heart and it vanished into a golden mist.

Afterwards, I helped Annabeth and Thalia up all us girls ran to the boys to make sure they were alright. With Piper and Alice checking Jason, Annabeth and Lily checking Percy and Hazel, Thalia and I checking Leo and Frank.

"Hey, Frank, Leo you two okay?" I asked, all I got in reply was grunts of pain but also heard them coming from Percy and Jason as well making all us girls roll our eyes.

"BOYS!!!!!" We yelled in unison scaring the Hades out of the boys and causing them to jump to their feet and knock heads with Piper, Annabeth, Hazel and myself which caused us to start falling backwards.

Luckily, however, the boys caught us which turned out to be Percy catching Annabeth, Frank catching Hazel, Jason catching Piper and Leo catching me, it was only now that I realized he had a beautiful shade of chocolate brown eyes that seemed to sparkle in the light...

Published: 10/05/2019

Edited: 15/01/2021