Author's Note: Hey Peeps. Sorry about how short the last chapter was. I will make the next one longer. *Hint hint: Percy and Gian collide again!* In this chapter there are gymnastics references adn I just wanted to tell you that I am a level 9 gymnast. There are explanations and all, but they probably aren't all that great. You can search on the internet for videos of people preforming the skills so you can get an idea. Anyways, I hope you all are still enjoying this. Also, please continue to R&R and leave suggestions. ENJOY!

Oh wait! And there are some words with little stars before them. They are acrobatic skills. THe description of each is at the bottom.

Piper's POV

Thank the gods. Only one more week that I have to deal with the mortals milling around camp. And more importantly, one more week with Gian. That jock, player, idiot doesn't know who he is messing with. He keeps trying to flirt with me and get me to go out with him just so he can get his hands in my pants. Ugh! Just ew.

It was Monday morning and I strolled out of my cabin wearing long athletic shorts and a Camp tee-shirt with running shoes. My dagger dangled from my waste. Today I was teaching knife throwing and acrobatics. So, I had two knives strapped to each of my arms, one on each calf and one on each thigh near my knee. I pulled my hair up into a pony tail and walked to the arena to set things up.

Now normal, sane people don't do acrobatics and gymnastics with throwing knives. But demigods aren't normal or sane. I would be teaching the mortals a few flips and tricks to use in order to distract your opponent while chucking a knife with perfect aim. What could go wrong? Well, let's just say, a lot of things.

Finally I finished setting up when the mortals began to show up. Go figure Gian was the first one there.

"Hey, Babe," Gian purred while approaching me. I gagged. "So, Honey. I know you say you love that blonde boy, but let's face it. You are just playing hard to get. Dump him and I will take you on an amazing night. We can-" Gian was cut off by an angry looking mom.

"Gian Knippenburg. You do not flirt with this young lady while she is trying to teach," She said crossly. The thing that ticked me off was the fact that the mother only said while I was trying to teach. Ugh. Mortals.

"Thank you," I said through gritted teeth and a menacing glare. "Now go away so I can teach." The two nodded and went to the group of mortals. I looked around for Clarisse. She was supposed to be helping me. I finally spotted her and urged her to get up at the front to teach. "Finally," I muttered before beginning the lesson. "Hello, mortals. Today Clarisse and I will be teaching you knife throwing with acrobatics. I know that over the past few weeks that you have been working on both of these skills separately. But today, they will be combined. I now turn to Clarisse so that she may perfect your knife throwing skills." I nodded to Clarisse.

"Thanks, Beauty Queen," Clarisse grumbled. "Get five knives and begin throwing at the targets. I want two in the middle ring, one in the yellow, and the other two in the white. This is for accuracy in all different ranges. Go!" Clarisse looked like she would rather be anywhere else, but I had to keep her here. I watched from the side. Clarisse was helping an older man with the rotation of the knife not paying attention to anyone else. A group of teens were goofing around and little children were running around with the knives like they were dolls with their mothers chasing them. I grumbled and went to the teens first.

"Get back in line," I charmspoke. They quickly did as I said. "Now do not play with the knives and get your accuracy. Do not stop until I tell you to." The boys nodded together and began chucking the knives. I then went to the children. "Do not run with the knives. They are not toys, young ones. Give the knives to your mothers and go create a flower chain over there," I said pointing to a patch of daisies. The children happily walked to their mothers, then to the flower patch. I grinned at the children. One girl in particular. Cameron, Percy's half sister. She had beautiful brown hair and blue eyes like Sally, but her figure was clearly that of Paul's. "Come on, Clarisse. We have more to teach." I said to the grumpy girl. "Now," I said to the group. "We will now be combining this with the acrobatics. Please warm up your best skills." The mortals nodded. I saw a lot of *cartwheels and hand stands. One girl did a *back handspring and another did a *front flip . "Okay, I will give a demonstration and then you will try."

I launched into the routing I had prepared. I did a *one-handed cart wheel and chucked the knife from my right arm hitting the bulls eye. Then I preformed a series of *back handsprings  and ending it with a *backward flip. During the flip, I tucked my legs and grabbed a knife from my calf then hurling it before I hit the ground. I then did a *front walkover and grabbed the knife from my other calf hitting the bulls eye once more. I had four more knives to throw and an already awed crowd. I prepared for my final throwings. I ran two steps before executing a *round-off, *back handspring,  *backward full. As I spun in the full, I threw the remaining knives at the targets easily getting the center circle. I stepped back and brushed a free strand of hair from my eyes. I hadn't broken a sweat. The mortals looked awestruck.

"That was AWESOME!" a mortal thirteen year old boy shouted. That began the rapid applause. Even Clarisse looked impressed. I smiled sheepishly.

"Okay," Clarisse began cutting off everyone. "That's enough applause for the Beauty Queen. Everybody spread out. Piper and I will come around and help you if needed." The mortals frowned wanting to see more, but left anyways. I was walking around and felt someone grab my arm. Being a hyper active demigod made me super jumpy, so I quickly grabbed the arm and judo flipped the attacker and pressed my knee on their chest and dagger to their throat. I learned this from Annabeth, one of my closest friends. I looked at the astounded mortal. It was Gian. Ugh!

"You just flipped me," he stated bluntly. No duh Sherlock. "I should be on top of you." he murmured. I was shocked.

"What in Hades!" I growled. It was then that I saw Annabeth and Percy walking by with Jason. Oh, Styx. The three of them looked over. None of them looked surprised. Annabeth looked proud that I had used her skills. Jason looked irritated that someone would get on my nerves enough for me to judo flip them. And Percy looked plain out mad. Here comes Captain Loyal. He struggled out of Annabeth's grip and stalked over to us. The other mortals cowered at one end of the arena. Tip: Get out of the way of an angry demigod. Especially if it's Percy.

Even I have to admit that Percy is scary. Mostly his eyes. When Percy was chill, which was most of the time, his eyes looked like a lovely day at the beach. The ocean's waves are perfect for surfing. the sun beats down onto the already warm sand. The sky is clear of any clouds and it is clear that there is no sudden form of destruction. But when he was mad, his eyes became a totally different story. They become a dangerous dark color and swirl around like a churning hurricane. The day at the beach is destroyed. The waves begin to raise and crash with extreme force on the cold sand. The sun is blocked out by the dangerously dark clouds. Complete and utter destruction is clear. So yeah. Get out of the way of angry Percy.

I looked up and saw Annabeth and Jason rushing after him. Percy could literally become a hurricane, and they probably didn't want that to happen. Gian gulped and the tip of my dagger dug deeper into his throat. Then, Gian did the most stupid thing possible. He used his weight against me and flipped me over. Then, he leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. His lips slammed against mine. My eyes were open with shock and Gian's were closed with pure delight. His lips tasted like sweat and drugs. His lips were hard and chapped. Very unlike Jason's who's taste like a fresh breath of air and his soft smooth lips. I shoved Gian off of me and ran over to intercept Jason and I kissed him.

"I have a boyfriend, Gian," I growled. Gian looked around innocently. That's when he saw the abgry Percy stalking up to him and the worried Annabeth running up behind him. He gulped again. Now normally, I don't like people to fight my fights. But I was curious to see what Percy would do.

"What did you do?" Percy growled scarily. Even I was frightened.

"I put an arm on her shoulder and kissed her. Then that little jerk flipped me and pressed her knife against me." So much for wanting me anymore... yay! I glanced at Annabeth. A smile lingered in her eyes. Ooh! A smile for me. But she kept a straight face as she approached. "Keep your crazy boyfriend away from me," Gian spat to Annabeth.

She shrugged. "Personally, I want to see what he does with you." I laughed and Annabeth shot me a smile. Thankfully not a glare. Gian looked dumbfounded.

"You are very lucky." Percy whispered to Gian. "I will go easy on you because you mortals are like egg shells." Then, Percy punched Gian square in the nose. "You are unlucky though, because this is my last straw with you messing with my friends."

"His fatal flaw is loyalty, Gian. It takes a lot for him to get aggravated," Annabeth said nonchalantly while looking at her grimy nails and the fight. Gian began to struggle. Eventually, Percy got up and held Gian by his shirt collar.

"Don't mess with my friends," he growled and took Gian's arm and dragged him to the wall that was marked with holes from where knives had pierced the wall. "I wouldn't move if I were you," Percy stated looking at a knife he held in his hands. Then, he chucked the knife. Gian's mother screamed as the knife hit the wall right next to Gian's head. Percy was killer at throwing knives. He couldn't use a bow and arrow, but he could throw knives and use swords. Another knife was thrown on the other side of Gian's head. I glanced around and saw that multiple campers were gathered. As well as some gods. They all knew that Percy wouldn't actually hit Gian, but he could come deadly close. More knives were thrown until they framed Gian's face. Then Percy threw a knife and pinned Gian's loose shirt and shorts to the wall. Then, Percy turned to Gian and whispered. "You are so lucky, Mortal. I easily could have killed you. Unfortunately, I am on strict orders not to. I can toy with you, but no killing or actual fighting. I hope you learned your lesson." Then, Percy turned and walked toward Annabeth.

"I think he will be hiding in a hole from now on, Perce," Jason said. Percy smirked.

"Let's go. I am starving," I announced. We ran into Ares along the way.

"Hey, Punk. I saw your work. Nice job. Also, why didn't you at least pierce him a little bit?" Ares asked.

"Strict orders," Percy said simply. Ares nodded and headed off. That'll teach any mortal not to mess with us. Or so I thought.

* cartwheel/handstand- Hopefully you know what a cartwheel and a hand stand is. If not leave a review

*back handspring- a skill where you jump backward in an arch. You are in complete air for a moment before landing on your hands and popping off of them to your feet

*front tuck- a skill where you jump then throw you body forward in the air and rotate in a tucked position before kicking out you feet and landing

*one-handed cartwheel- a cartwheel with one hand

*backward flip- similar to a front flip, just backwards. Jump up and rotate backwards in a tucked position before opening to land on your feet

*front walkover- A skill where you kick into a handstand with you legs split and arch into a bridge position and come up on one leg with the other one in front of you

*round-off- similar to a cartwheel, but you close you legs at teh top and land with your two feet together

*backward full- a backward flip in a layed out position where you twist once before landing facing forward.

I'm pretty positive that you can look up these skills online and watch videos of them. I'm not all that great at explaining them