Chaos With A Cup Of Coffee discussion

Lya walked in with Nemo and Liah. She grabbed her sword and said, "Who wants to go?"

Nemo kept his eyes down and whistled while he worked on a project.

"Nemo, you wanna try?" she said with a smile.

The don't-make-eye-contact method didn't work. "Not particularly."

"I'll take that for a yes, then," Lyanna said. She tossed him a sword. "Come on. Just try. I'll go easy on you."

"I'm a little busy." Nemo gestured to his odd metal trinket in his lap.

Lya frowned. "Just once. Please?" she said. Her golden eyes bored into him.

Adaliah noticed how hesitant the son of Hephaestus was to combat Lya. During Capture The Flag, she remembered him telling her that he wasn't too good at sword fighting. She wondered why he wouldn't want to participate, though. Liah reckoned he needed some encouragement and support. "Come on, Nemo, you can do it!" She wore a small smile on her face and gave him a pat on the back.

Nemo sighed and got up. "If you guys really want to see my awesome skills then i suppose."

Lya grinned. "Do you want to use the sword I gave you or something else?"

"I guess a sword unless grenades are allowed. Not the one's that'll kill of course." He said brightly.

Lya faltered, then straightened up. "Swords it is. Ready?" She fingered the designs on the hilt of Chryses.

She wasn't going to lie to herself: Liah had seen Lya in combat, and she was easily one of the best sword fighters in the camp. Though, Nemo was quite amazing with mechanics and those deadly trinkets Hephaestus kids normally carried around, she had never seen him fight before, so she didn't know what to think of him yet. She backed up a few feet, so Lyana and Nemo had enough space to fight, and bit her lip as she waited for them to start.

Lya took a deep breath, focusing on Nemo. He had the advantage when it came to those trinkets of his, but she could easily dodge them with her superspeed.

Adaliah held her breath as she watched the two get into fighting stances. She caught Lyana's eye and silently signaled her to go a bit easy on Nemo. Not that she didn't have faith in him or anything, but if Nemo was going to lose, she didn't want him to look like a complete sore loser, especially on his first try.

Lya nodded. She understood. Only a couple of people had ever beaten her before. She had to go easy on Nemo.

A smile formed on Liah's lips, she sat on the grass with her legs folded and yelled: "Good luck, you two!" Giving them both the thumbs-up sign.

"Yep!" Lya yelled back, waiting for Nemo to start. She flashed a quick thumbs-up back.

((Ava, do you know if Lyn's going to be on GR today?))

((I don't know :( I wish!))

((Same... though no pressure on Lyn, I hope she's doing well!))

((Do you want to maybe do a rp that happened between Lyana and Adaliah before heading to the Sword Arena, like maybe in one of the cabins or outside, for some progress on their character arc's?))

((Yeah, me too. MISS YOU LEEN))

((Okay, so do you wanna rp in the Notus Cabin? I'm down for anything))

((Like, move our characters there and RP?))

((Yes, but it's like a rewind so it's basically like a filler rp between Liah and Lya before they came to the Sword Fighting Arena with Nemo, so it won't really affect the plot much))

((Sure! Can you start?))

((Sure, so do we do it in the Notus Cabin?))

((Yeah, that sounds good :D))

((Kk! :)))

((Hi! what's happening?))

Nemo tightened his grip on the hilt. He advanced towards her swinging the sword awkwardly at her chest.

((nothing much. Continue! :D))
Lya blocked easily and twisted her sword, trying to force him to drop his weapon.

((Omg, hi, Lyn!! We missed you! 🥺))

((yah!))

((Awww me too guys!))

Nemo retreated back a few steps. The sword felt heavy and unbalanced. He struck out again this tome he ducked to get closer.

Liah noticed Nemo having trouble, and though she wasn't an expert sword-fighter like Lyana herself, she knew a thing or two about close-range combat. "Nemo!" She called out to him. "It's best to stay on defense till you get a good opening to strike!" She couldn't strategize as well as the Athena kids, but she did know when facing an impressively skilled opponent, it was best to lay down low, rather than to expose yourself.

Lya smirked, moving closer. She ran at him with a burst of super-speed, dodging his swing, and flipped over him, knocking him down with the flat of her sword.

"Sheesh what'd I ever do to you?" He joked laying prostrated on his back.

Lya leaned back and gave him a hand. "Nothing. Winning is my nature." She smirked.

Nemo took it trying not to focus on the fact that he'd been beaten by her not even lasting long enough to say fire the ballistae.

She pulled him up and sheathed her sword. "Well, that was fun, wasn't it-" In the distance, she heard a conch shell sound. Liah was called up to the Big House. Lya looked at Nemo, eyes wide.

He frowned puzzled. "Why?" Was all he could say.

"I dunno," Lya said, shrugging. She froze. "A- a quest. That's why." She scowled in envy. Despite being the best sword-fighter in camp, she was denied a quest for being too... "headstrong".

Liah heard the conch shell's sound and jogged up to Lya and Nemo. "Everything alright? Lya, I think the Big House wants to see you." She gestured to the large sky-blue administrative cabin standing a couple of yards away from them.

Nemo had a puzzled look. "A quest...." He muttered

Lya stopped moving and stared at Liah. "I thought they called your name." Finally. A quest.

"M-my name. . . for a quest?" Liah looked at Lya in shock. "Well, our nicknames are pretty similar, so I think it's you. Besides, you're way more suitable for a quest than me. " She laughed nervously.
"I think we should go and see whom they've called." She told Lyana, unsure.

((Do we have to write a prophecy for the quest, or can we just make something up?))