"You are out of shape, Blondie." I gasped out as our blades clashed.

"Oh yeah?" Luke huffed. "We'll see about that, Fish Tails."

"Observe." I kicked him in the gut. "No tail."

He spun out the way and aimed another blow at me.

I was vaguely aware of someone walking into the Arena. She sat down at the benches and watched us amusedly.

When we finished sparring we went by her and sat down next to her on the benches.

"Isn't it dangerous to spar like that without your hoods on?" Bianca asked us, pulling her own hood down, knowing that no one would be here at this early hour.

"No one's gonna see us." I said, picking up a water bottle and casually poured it all over my head, as if it was the most natural thing to do, which for me, it probably was.

"Uh huh." Bianca said. "And Piper definitely wouldn't know about you."

Luke's mouth dropped open and he stared at me.

"She saw me going in to the water." I defended. "Of course she'd know it was me. I mean c'mon! How am I supposed to hide my identity from someone who fought beside me for months?"

"Then how are you hiding it from someone who knew you since you were a drooling 12 year old?" Bianca asked.

I sighed. "I have no idea. But she's distracted these days so it's easier to hide something from her."

"Hey!" Bianca said suddenly. "What if I accidentally reveal my identity to Nico?"

"Not bad." Luke agreed sarcastically. "And I could just pop out from behind Thalia with my hood down and say BOO!"

I smirked. "And admit your undying love for her."

Luke glared at me. "Oh yeah? Well, Aqua Man, how 'bout you declare your undying love for Annabeth?"

"You have a very wide array of insulting nicknames for me." I said, carefully dodging his teasing words.

Luke smirked. "Oh yeah." He said victoriously. "You like her."

I flicked my hood back up and stood up. "I don't like her." I said simply.

"In denia-" Luke started to sing teasingly.

"I love her." I finished reminiscing the moment when Luke's jaw unhinged and fell to the ground. Not literally but you know...

With that I walked away from the arena smugly, ignoring the yearning pain in my chest.

Well, I was walking smugly till I bumped into someone and trust me; I consider my self really unlucky that my hood was up. If my hood was down, then... Why couldn't it have been Annabeth who saw me instead of Piper?

Out of my peripheral view, I saw Luke and Bianca quickly put their hoods back up.

"What are you doing at this hour, Miss Chase?" I asked. "It's one in the morning."

"Couldn't sleep." She muttered and pushed past me. She I unsheathed her Drakon Bone dagger and started hacking away at one one of the dummies, not caring the slightest about us still lingering around.

The soldiers of Chaos's army could see through each other's hoods so I saw my friends' expressions perfectly.

Bianca was watching Annabeth with a soft, understanding expression. Luke had a frown upon his face.

"Where's your other dagger?" He blurted out suddenly.

Annabeth turned around slowly and narrowed her eyes at him. "What other dagger?" She asked innocently.

"The one that I-" Luke started but I cut him off with the first thing that came into my mind. "Sheesh. It's pretty chilly today, huh?"

Annabeth shot me a look. I had to stop my self from smirking at the familiarity of it all.

She turned back to Luke. "You were saying?" She asked sweetly.

Luke shook his head, still frowning. "Nothing."

"How did you know about my other dagger that very conveniently fell into- just- how do you know about it?" Annabeth demanded.

"Chaos's soldiers tend to know everything." Bianca stated.

Annabeth scowled and went back to annihilating the poor helpless dummy.

"You are very good at fighting." I complimented, seemingly nonchalant, after a few minutes of silence.

Annabeth stopped, her back to me and heaved a heavy sigh. She turned around, aiming the full force of those beautiful grey orbs at me. "Are you going to interrupt me every five minutes?"

"If it bothers you," I replied. "I'll try and do it every two seconds."

Annabeth glared at me again. "I don't think I'll get any practise done here." She said gruffly and walked away. I was tempted to follow her out but I stayed rooted to the spot.

When she was out of ear shot, Luke and Bianca took down their hoods and motioned for me to come sit with them. I stayed where I was.

"Where is her dagger?" Luke questioned with a frown.

"It's in Tartarus." I replied.

"Tarta- say what now?" Luke said in surprise.

"It's a long story." I said.

"We have plenty of time." Bianca said.

***

Breakfast went smoothly.

Chaos's army ate at a separate table that I conjured up and it was pretty much like it had always been at camp half blood.

Ariel was sitting at the Athena table and Annabeth was feeding her with a big smile plastered on her face while Ariel played with a pink stuffed dolphin.

At the Hades table, where Bianca was intently gazing at, sat a glum looking Nico. A little baby girl in a cute little orange dress and diapers was crawling around on top of the table. She had frizzy black hair and golden eyes.

She gazed at Nico intently and giggled. Her nose morphed into the trunk of a baby elephant and she let out a tiny trumpet, giggling madly.

Nico's forehead met the table in exasperation. When he looked up again, his eyes caught those of Will Solace, sitting at the Apollo cabin. He raised a hand in greeting which Nico obliged to with a rare smile.

Bianca, Lee and Michael shared mischievous smirks with each other at this exchange.

At the Zeus table, sat Jason and Piper trying to get a little two year old boy to sit at the table without flying away. Across them sat Leo laughing like a madman. Calypso was eying him wearily and his own son was bursting randomly into flames.

Overall, it was a normal morning.

Then a thirteen year old satyr came running in followed by a very short other satyr.

"Chuck!" Coach Hedge shouted at his son. "Get back here with my megaphone right now."

"Die! Die! Die!" Chuck yelled as he ran around the tables.

Well, apart from that, it was a perfectly normal morning.

"Hey, Per- Omega." Beckandorf said from across the table. "Pass me the jam."

"Please, do not interrupt me." I said. "I need to drink my blue coke. My precioooooooooouuuuuussssssssss!"

"Your glass is empty of any blue coke, Golem." (A/n is that how you spell it) Castor remarked.

I scowled at him. "Do not speak ill of my blue coke you imbecile."

Zoe shook her head miserably. "Even after eons, thou art still acting like a little deformed nut."

"Thoooo shall not call me a deformed nut! And thoooo are in no position to speak. After eons, thoooooo have failed to understand modernised English!" I said.

"It's thee." Silena corrected. "Not thoooooo."

"Whatever." I grumbled and poured myself some more blue coke.

"If you become hyper after drinking so much coke," Lee said. "Don't blame me, okay?"

"Okay." I said. "I shalt not blame Thongs."

"It's thee! Not thongs! Not thoooo! Thee!" Luke exclaimed.

"Thorns." I said with a smirk.

"Thee!" Luke corrected.

"Tree."

"Thee! Thee! Thee!"

"Theenk."

Luke groaned.

"I don't know how I put up with you for millions of years." He grumbled.

Being the mature person I was, I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Silena, my dear." Beckendorf said amusedly. "I think it would be wise to flee this place before they corrupt our innocent minds." Selena laughed at him.

"You guys sound like an old married couple." I told them.

"Technically." Bianca said. "They are an old married couple."

Zoe gagged.

"Stop ruining the fun, Zoe." Michael said.

"Humans art too preoccupied with their love lives. I don't see it as wise to-" She started playfully.

"No Zoe." I said slowly, as if talking to a toddler. "Humans are not art. They are humans. And art can't have love lives anyways."

"Thee would do well with thou mouth shut."

Yep. Just a normal morning.

***

A/N

That was a random chapter. Kind of a filler, I guess. :)