Starting fresh...

Ryder couldn't believe he'd knocked into a student and a girl at that. "I'm so sorry miss. Please allow me to make it up to you." Ryder helped her up and then gave a slight bow. "Ryder son of Erebus, at your service." Warily he glanced at her and tried to give her a weak smile. He was so stupid sometimes, feeling alone he fought the urge to hide himself away from her and stood tall before her.

Sawyer was invisible again. Slipping threw the crowds of people she thought she was alone she reappeared and sighed deeply before she heard the sweet hyper voice. "Oh um hi." Sawyer said squeeking slightly before turning and giving a shy smile. I'm Sawyer West daughter of Hades." Sawyer felt her face turning scarlet and all of the sudden she felt herself starting to turn invisible and tried to force the feeling aside but her hands and arms were already gone. "So umm you're in Third year, do you like everything?"

Cora and Nora were walking hand in hand in their matching uniforms. "So Sunshine what classes are you taking that are different than mine?" Cora asked as they walked into another hallway and the others scattered, they had that effect on people. "Choir, and I know you're doing the horse thing again." Cora nodded and the twins began to skip and giggle. They skipped into the next hallway and saw a seething boy who looked about ready to kill anything. "Hey you, with the face what's got your goat?" Nora yelled at the boy, the hall echoing with her loud voice. Nora smiled and said "What she means is you look upset would you like to talk about it?" Nora elbowed her sister and told them in their secret twin language to mellow out. "I'm Nora and she's Cora, daughters of Hephaestus..."

Ryder managed to catch her before she fell to the pavement. Grimacing slightly he picked up the girl, her instrument and class schedule which was thankfully sticking out of her pocket. "Why do I always do this to myself?" He asked himself as the limp girl flopped in his arms as he took her back to what he hoped was this years dorm room. Walking in he recieved stares and wished that he could cloak himself, but all cloaking himself would do was bring his father down on them and that all he needed, someone important to catch him with an unconcious very pretty girl. "Ryder where in god's name are you taking that girl?" The stern matronly voice of the principal was suddenly hard and sharp as she addressed Ryder. Turning very slowly Ryder broke out into a sweat and let out a nervous grin. "Ms. Mitchell, this girl just fainted and I was trying to take her back to her dorm." The daughter of Hera before him looked espically dangerous in her purple suit today, and her green eyes flashed. "I'll take that student off your hands its time for your weekly session with your father." Ryder nodded and handed Lilith to Ms. Mitchell before bowing to show his respect to the older woman. "Thank you, I'll see you at dinner." Ryder nearly ran to the room where his father was sitting. The god smiled and embraced the boy as soon as he set eyes on him. "It's good to see you son." was all that was heard before the door closed.

Sawyer rolled her eyes and spit the petals out making a sound that resembled 'taau'. "You haven't been paying attention in history have you?" Sawyer smiled what she thought was warmly but was actually slightly creepy and a passing freshman was soon covered in goose bumps and ran for cover. "It's not a problem I do this all the time, most of the time I'm invisible it's normal like you working with plants...just a part of me that sometimes people don't understand."

Cora and Nora each looked at each other with shock on their faces. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!" They both shouted at each other at the same time. "Well what are we going to do about it?" Again they were both speaking at the same and furious they each had their hands clentched and at their side. "Well I'm not taking responsibility for it." Nora said finally crossing her arms and turning away her head. "Well it certainly wasn't my fault!" Cora said back mimicing her sisters movements. Then almost as if they were a mirror each twin turned to look at the other and sighed. "You carry his bottom half." Cora said and Nora groaning picked up Kelvin's feet. Cora grabbed under his arms and together they were able to swiftly get him back to their dormroom. Laying him on the king size bed they shared Nora went to boil hot water 'Cause that's what they always do Cora!' while Cora stayed by Kelvin's side. He was handsome when he wasn't being menacing and in this unconcious state he was quite adorable. Nora flopped a cold compress on his head and Cora smiling bribed the girl next door to heal him though the bribing was something along the lines of 'Do you really want to aggravate us? We are your neighbors...' So Kelvin's bruises were healed and both girls took a steady watch on him Cora on the right and Nora on the left to see when he would wake.

Sawyer rubbed her eyes with her now partially visible hands. "Very few children of Hades can speak to the dead actually, we can see them but he has to allow you to drink from the river to speak to them, I unfortunately for both of us, fell into the river one summer when I came to visit." Sawyer gave out a light nervous giggle when Savannah still babbled. "Umm no it never upsets me I actually prefer being invisible most of the time, there is something very serene about being in the invisible state." Sawyer blushed and started going invisible again "Sorry I'm babbling a bit."

"Well obviously you're here." Nora stated placing her hands on her hips. Cora eyes eyes flashed and suddenly they were both the molten gold she'd been born with. "Go, go, make some tea please!" Nora gave a light growl but her blue eyes twinkled as she skipped off. Cora took the folded pile of clothes off the base of the bed and handed them to Kelvin. "You're in our dorm room, you punched yourself probably because my sister, as always likes to run her mouth. I took your clothes off so we could have the healer next door fix you up and we wanted to make sure you didn't break anything else when you fell." Cora sat on the bed and touched his jaw lightly "You're all fixed up now, and I'll ask you to stay for tea but it's your choice whether you do or not." Cora stood and went to her closent grabbing an outfit she went to the bathroom to change. Once the door was closed she slumped to the floor to catch her breath. Did the boy have to be devilishly handsome on top of being so sexually charged. Laughing a bit she began to pin up her hair before slipping it into the long orange wig that she'd dyed and styled herself.

Nora made the tea just as Cora had told her, and watched Kelvin from the corner of her eye.

It was amazing that Sawyer managed to escape from Savannah with nothing but an invitation to have dinner later that week. God did daughter's of Persephone have to be so god damn perky!? Keeping herself visible on the way to her room Sawyer figured she'd have a few relaxing moments alone to herself before dealing with her new roommate. Hopefully it wasn't a son of Hades because they always clashed (Hades favored his female children) as did the children of Zeus and Poisedon (The big three seemed to always have child clashes) but normally people were afraid of her or teased her because hey death is something weird apparently. Sawyer was in her room and sliding against the door before she realized that there was another person in the room. Touching. Her. Things. Standing Sawyer strode over to the girl and hands on her hips said "You shouldn't touch what isn't yours." She was trying to stay calm she really was but already a part of her was plotting to steal the girl's pillow, turn it invisible and hide it.

Sawyer twitched slightly and cooled down her rising temper by thinking about what her father would do in the situation, be calm and rational. "I just didn't expect you to go threw my things without asking, I have quite a few things that wouldn't do in any hands but mine." She was talking about her sword of course which poisoned any who held it but a daughter of Hades. "I'm Sawyer daughter of Hades." Sawyer rummaged threw her ruffled trunk and pulled out her sword, "This was given to me by my father, it will poison any who touch it, I would hate for you to be poisoned your first day back." Giving a sweet smile Sawyer put the sword under her bed. "I play the violin and I guess themost important thing you should know about me is that I spend most of the time invisible so if you see a floating towel don't be surprised." Sawyer laughed and then laid on her bed "So a daughter of Ares huh that's fasinating...what's your weapon of choice?"

After his lesson with his father Ryder was feeling emotionally light until he stepped into the halls of the emotionally tortured teens he had to live with. In an effort to clear his mind he wandered into the gardens perhaps he'd visit his roses? There silent approval and encouragement always left him in a great mood. He wandered past a blonde boy who's emotions were so calm that Ryder nearly stumbled in disbelief. Staring over his shoulder he smiled at the drawing the boy was making, "You have raw talent, it's good but you're a little heavy with your shading, lighten it a bit." Ryder heard him speak before he sat down, a good distance away from the boy but where he could still see the work. "You're eye is good...I'm Ryder son of Erebus." He offered the name but no handshake joined it, Ryder still didn't do touching.

Sawyer gave a faint grin "I don't sneak up on people that would be like cheating, if I'm going to win I'll win fair..." Watching the flames dance for that moment had Sawyer wondering if the girl's mother had a bit of Hepheastus in her. Shrugging the thoughts off Sawyer drummed her fingers on her bed and shook her head "Really and here I thought evil was supposed to be my shtick you know daughter of the devil and all...." When the boy comment came up Sawyer closed her eyes "Most of them are, apparently my father's genes are meant to produce male children unlike the others for some strange reason...However there are occasionally girls about two percent of all of my siblings." Sawyer sat up on her bed and cocked her head to the side, besides for hearing the occasional wails of the dead that always seemed to penetrate her dreams she could hear and smell something cooking in the dining hall. "Would you like to get something to eat? Move in day always leaves me starving.." Sawyer held out her hand and let the gold coins that lay their shine "I'm buying."

"Drawing is certainly an art for the patient, but have you ever considered sculpting? Just judging but this drawing I think you'd have a nice hand with that as well and it might be a little easier..." Ryder stopped and stared at the nearly cloudless sky, his pale skin warmed nicely with it and lightened his heart a bit more. "Yes, I'm surprised no fights have broken out, move in day is normally so...hectic." Ryder would have said more but in that moment a winged student was blown threw a window with a jet of water. "That'll teach you to insult my father you winged peice of trash!" Ryder felt the bubble of anger from the daughter of Poiseidon as well as the humiliation of the winged boy..."I spoke too soon it seems..."

"The next day, more will be arriving tomorrow apparently more have come out of hiding than they expected." Sawyer walked into the crowded lunch room and happily turned her hands and feet invisible, it made her feel better for the reason it always had. Grabbing a tray Sawyer followed Larissa and nodded "I do very much so." They walked around each picking out something tastey and walked to check out. The Centaur on lunch duty took the gold coins and handed Sawyer a few bronze peices back before the two went to find a table. "I like how we still use coin money here I think it makes things easier to handle." Sawyer said picking them a table out.

"You should know by know the fighting never stops, like the gods our parents are we are fickle half bloods." Ryder said glancing at the pair and shivered he'd be feeling their anger for weeks to come, espically if the winged boy retaliated. Listening to Nick talk about his sketching Ryder nodded and gave a rare smile impressed "The gift of foresight, that must be usefull I can see why you'd like to sketch them out, to give you more clarity. I would say sculpting when you're tense or uneasy, it's relaxing...but I can tell you're often calm...That's my gift." Didn't want to freak the boy out but Ryder always tried to be as truthful as possible.

Sawyer looked at Larissa "I know how to party just fine thank you." Sawyer said taking a large bite of her salad. As Larissa spoke Sawyer couldn't help but nod with her, but she didn't want the popularity and she told Larissa just that. "I have no problem doing that...but I would rather not anyone know it was me. I like that I only rise to the top of the popularity pool when I win sword fight against our rival school or when my father comes to visit." Sawyer pointed her fork at Larissa her hands back to the way they should be "I'll get the goods and you can have the credit what a good deal aye?"

Ryder nodded "Yes I do have the ability to change the emotions of others, but because my gift is so...not to be boastfull unusually strong which is why I haven't yet passed out of school." Managing to look embarassed and yet stoic at the same time Ryder continued "I might change more than the current emotion the target is feeling if I loose focus I could change their entire emotional make up...But I could give you a slight demonstration." Ryder flexed his index finger and a barely noticable strand of silver just emmerged from his finger tip. It was as thin as a spider web and with it Ryder was able to enter into Nick's emotions, soon he'd be able to do it without the use of the thread. "Now I'm going to make you unusually happy, only for a moment don't be frightened." Ryder tweaked his finger again and Nick broke into a huge smile and errupted in giggles.