Mount Olympus

Rayah

She slams me across the face and I hold my cheek, a tear forming in my eyes.

Come on Rayah, I know you're stronger than that. Her voice echoes in my head and my fathers fury lights up inside me. I look back at her, my eyes turning crimson.

"I can," I mutter before turning my hands to fire. She smirks and runs for me but I side step, tripping her, and grabbing her arm, putting her in an arm lock. She kicks me and I swear, turning my fire to it's highest level. Level 8. "Don't get burned!" I warn with a smirk. She jerks back, swearing and I chuckle, my eyes turning even more red.

"Come at me 'princess of Olympus'," My moms attitude shows.

Tahira

I fly away and get to one knee as I held my arm with my free hand, I had been burned by this woman. And it felt like I got stung with a needle, the electrity in my hand begins to heal me of the burn as I watch her as that fire sword carefully. I stood and knew I had to crack up my power for this, I swing the sword over my head, and created my lightning touch.

I couldn't create enough lightning to throw it, but I sure can create it in hand my hand to give my opponents and electric shock. It was black in my hand like my mothers lightning, I breathed deeply and allowed my black aura to show readying a shockwave to fire off when I needed it most.

"Lets turn this battle up a notch, no more holding back." I said.

Rayah

I glance around, everyone's stopped and watched us, even Coach was just standing there with a clipboard. My eyes catch Jace and I try to look away, shaking my head at myself as I look back at Tahira.

"I don't know if I want to do that," I say, crossing my arms. "I don't wanna end up in the hospital...My mom will kill me if she finds out I burn the school down and i kind of don't want to get suspended," I smirk, crossing my arms.

The coach looks up at me, "Are you serious?" He asks, chuckling.

I shrug, "You want me to start a fire?"

He shakes his head. "Then I'm not fighting like that."

He jolts something down on his clipboard and I bring my hand to the side of my face where she slammed me. "Can I go to the nurse to get some ice?" I ask.

He sighs. "There's ice in the locker room. Use that."

I nod and flash a cocky smile at Tahila before walking into the locker room, looking for the ice.

Tahila

I look at her as she flashes a cocky smile at me, as she walks away I know I needed to whip that smile off her face at some point or another. Fighting was just no fun if you couldn't go all out and fight with everything you got. I watch her as she goes into the locker room, I soon look to the coach as he writes something on his board.

"So do I win or what?" I ask.

"I'll consider it that Rayah had forfeited the fight to you, you get the points on today." He said.

I nodded as I look to the locker door expecting Rayah to come back out, the coach walks away as the bell rings and Rayah comes back out flashing another one of her cocky smiles.

"What a cocky *****!" I said though gritted teeth.

Jace

The fight ends and I release the breath I didn't realize I was holding. Standing, I head over to the locker room to see if Rayah was alright, since she appeared to take the best of the beating both physically and mentally, only to find Tahira waiting there already. Sh*t. I dug myself in a freaking hole with this. How do I talk to one without pissing off the other?

"Hey, Tahira," I step beside her after Rayah departs from the locker room, "Um, I'm going to go talk to Rayah for a few minutes, alright? She's my best friend...so it's normal."

Nice going, smart one.

"Anyway, that's where I'll be if you need me," I say, heading off to find Ray.

Tahira

Jace heads off and with the knowledge of him being Rayah's best friend, suddenly my chances with him didn't seem to bright. I go back into the locker room and put the blade on the holder as I soon close it, I suddenly realize I was alone in the locker room. No one around to keep me company. I wished my brother or Jace was around for once, I soon move though the halls even the big crowds weren't bringing me up as I see Jace talking to Rayah, my anger flared but I kept it under control not wanting to cause a scene. I move to my last class as it soon starts, I felt alone that Jace wasn't here with me, all I could do now was wait for school to end.

Rayah

I head to my next period - Lunch/ studyhall, an icepack held to my jaw.

That really hurt...

I get to lunch and stand in the lunch line. It feels as if my face is throbbing and I close my eyes, taking a deep breath. Jace walks up to me and I look away, trying to hide that I wasn't in pain.

Jace

I follow Rayah to the lunchroom, not even sure if that was my next class to be honest, and walk up to her. She looks away from me and I swallow, knowing she was either pissed or embarrassed. The latter isn't as likely as the former.

"You alright?" I ask, "I...You aren't mad at me for hanging around with Tahira, are you? 'Cause..."

Pausing, I swallow again and scratch the back of my head nervously.

"Um, she's my Prom date," I mumble, looking away from her.

Rayah

I sigh and shrug. "A little," I say, "Do you even know who she really is?"

I bring the ice pack off my jaw, feeling it throbbing and I shake away the pain, thinking I'll have a huge bruise there in the morning.

Jace

I sigh and look back up at her, "We talked a lot today, so mostly, yeah. I didn't know you two would sooner kill each other than get along...but that isn't exactly a light topic."

I shrug and sigh again.

"I don't necessarily like Alex, so I guess we're even," I mutter.

Rayah

I shake my head, looking away again as the line moves and check what was on the menu. Pizza. I look back at him. "Of course you've talked with her alot today," I mutter. "You guys make a perfect couple." I turn away so my back in facing him and look at the ground as the line moves again.

Jace

Perfect couple?

"You think we're the perfect couple?" I ask, "Tahira and I, I mean."

She's not facing me anymore, which makes me feel a little worse about whatever I did.

Rayah

I nod, remembering how she has the same classes as him...and he has the same classes as me.

Ugh. Great. I'm going to have to spend study hall with her...Ugh.

I have to think about what he says again before nodding again. "Yeah. Now go find you're little girlfriend or date or whatever. I bet she's waiting for you in study hall," I say, getting my pizza.

Jace

I tighten my jaw and look away, hurting more than I realized by that comment.

"Are we - "

She leaves me in the line before I can finish, heading off somewhere else. A mix between pissed and depressed by this, I shake my head and forget about lunch. I walk to the study hall room and look around for Tahira, sitting at her side once I find her.

"Hey," I flash a halfhearted smile, "You don't want lunch?"

Tahira

I was surprised when Jace had come in and sat at my side, he gives me a half hearted smile as he does.

"Hey, You don't want lunch?" He asks.

I shake my head no as I smile myself, my once depressed self now gone with him here. I brightened up quickly as he sits there, I take a deep breath as we begin to talk.

"Na, not hungry, what happened to Rayah?" I ask.