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”Don’t I? All demigods have some form of powers. For example if I wanted to I could put a little curse on you to make you speak in rhyming couplets for…maybe the rest of the day?” Jay replied back teasingly to her, sticking his tongue out playfully to her. Teasing people was one of his favourite things to do because it came under being silly and joking around, two things that Jay thrived on. ”And I can control light, I’m not great but I’m working on it.” He replied with a shrug, that was his favourite power and he had a feeling one day his ability to control light would be needed in a deathly situation.

He shook his head at her comment as he re-evaluated her next stance. It was better and Jay wanted to see how she’d do firing an arrow. ”Nope, I use a spear, or javellins. I’m good with a bow but I prefer javelins. Now, grab and arrow and fire at the haystack again, using the things I taught you.” He said as he changed the topic to stop them getting too side-tracked, especially since she was holding a weapon.

Jay mused at the fact Hope slightly teased him by calling him ‘dummy’. It was a childish mock-name but it still made him grin a bit. ”Dummy? Don’t make me use my super-hero powers against you.” He replied jokingly to her, running a hand through his hair as he took a glance around the arena to see if anyone else had came along since they started their conversation. He didn’t care if they had done as he was sure that he’d manage to talk his way out of anything serious happen, if it came to it he’d take the blame for Hope.

As the young girl tried to imitate Jay’s posture he observed her close. Her stance was good, her legs weren’t too close together, her chest was pushed out just enough to allow breath to come in. ”Raise your elbow up so it’s behind, but in line with your jaw.” Jay said as he used his finger to point at the tip of her jaw, following along her jaw with his finger to her arm so she knew how high to raise her elbow up to. Jay wasn’t an expert but he had seen people be taught how to use a bow before so everything he was saying, were things he’d heard before. His ‘talent’ with a bow came naturally so he didn’t have to learn it.

The smile that had made its way onto Hopes’ face was adorable and Jay really couldn’t hold back his smile either. It was as if her smile was making him smile, and he thought he normally had that effect on other people. So she wanted to be a hunter? That was pretty cool. He was sure she’d grow up to be a good hunter but he wasn’t sure if he was old enough to know the whole deal with being a hunter. They can’t exactly leave easily and they also have to renounce all relationships with boys, which means if Hope finds a boy she likes when she gets older then she’ll have to end it. It was good to have aspirations at a young age but Jay wondered if she really would want to be a hunter so early on in life. ”Well Artemis is technically my aunt. Since she’s my father’s sister. But yes, hunters are pretty badass.” He replied with a small laugh, deciding to let her continue her dream.

Jay examined Hopes’ stance as he did a little and unintimidating circle of her. It wasn’t a bad stance but it wasn’t exactly ‘hunter’ material just yet but he figured she hadn’t done this much. ”Not bad, but you need to straighten your back more. Breathe in with every arrow, exhaling once you shoot.” Jay said as he imitated shooting an arrow with his hands so that Hope would get a visual representation of what he meant. ”Your posture should be tall and nothing should be cramped over. Now show me your posture again.”

Once again it was time for Jay to venture to the arena to hone in on some of his skills. He hadn’t been in a while out of pure laziness but he felt today would have been a good day. He woke up feeling motivated and determined to at least do something today, he couldn’t sit around doing nothing forever and he wasn’t sure if Mel or Logan were around to talk to so his best option was to train. At least this way he’d actually be doing something useful and something that could save his life one day blah blah blah.

When he got there he realised there was a young girl there too. He hadn’t seen her before but he also hadn’t exactly been about camp for a few days so she could have turned up at any point. What caught his attention was the fact she was holding a bow, he leant behind a tree to stay out of sight whilst he inspected what was going on. He didn’t want to moan at her for trying out the weapons, after all he practically gave a weapon to Lucas and it was good to start training young. The thing that concerned him was if she were to hurt herself through lack of experience. When the girl hit the hay bale with an arrow, Jay smiled to himself at the look of joy on her face.

Deciding to go and talk to her Jay stood up straight, walking up behind her slowly and casually with his hands in his pockets. ”You know, if it was any other camper who caught you, you’d be sent back to your cabin to bed. However since it’s me, I’m going to say. Nice shot kiddo.” Jay said in a soft tone from behind her as he continued walking up until he was stood next to her, glancing over at the arrow stuck in the hay bale. ”You took your time but you got there in the end.”