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Susan frowned at the in her definition "mayhem". She pressed her back against a wall, but made no moves to attack. She had never trained with weapons, in fact she had refused to. The only thing she had a shot at was defensive.

Chris blocked the blade, and a loud ringing noise echoed in the arena. The impact made his arm twist at an awkward angle, and the tip of the knife grazed his elbow slightly. Luckily, it had just been a touch.

Anita had near forgotten about the other girl. Susan was her name, right? She headed toward her, sword held out in front of her.

Anita felt grogginess pressing in on her like fog, but tried to resist. She remembered a monster she and Chris had run into when they had known nothing about Camp Half-blood, that had made them nearly fall asleep. Anita made sure not to make eye contact, even though she didn't know if it would strengthen Susan's powers, and continued to head forward with the sword. She was used to doing extreme things while she was half asleep, since Chris had always woken her up during the middle of the night for one of his stupid experiments.

Lauren saw Anita advancing on Susan, and her first instinct was to defend her. But, she thought to herself, this is only practice. Susan has to do this herself. Cr*p. Does Susan even have a blade? I can give her my styngian iron.... it can't hurt non-monsters, but it can block celestial bronze... No, she decided. If I threw it, Susan probably wouldnt catch it. She re-focused on the advancing Chris. Stepping back, Lauren seemed to melt into the shadows. Knowing she vas invisible for the time being, at least while she stayed in a shadow, she stepped around the areana and into chris' shadow. Abandoning the power, she re-appeared and jumped onto his back.

Lauren groaned. Chris was very tall, and so was the fall from his back. Plus, using her power had drained some of her energy. Flipping back onto her feet, she faced chris again, blade at the ready.

"I'm fine" she said panting. She needed space. Looking over at Chris and Lauren, she frowned she had an idea but she wasn't happy about it. Judging from how Chris and Anita acted around each other, they probably weren't the closest friends. For suggestive mind control to have a higher chance of working, it had to be a at least a belivable suggestion. She grit her teeth again, having second thoughts, but she choose to go through with it. "I'm so sorry.." She thought to Chris even though he wouldn't hear it. Still clutching her side, she put the other hand against her temple and closed her eyes. She needed more concentration for this to work. Picturing Chris's face she sent the thought to him. "Forget about Lauren, This is your chance. Get Anita."

Chris could already tell that Susan was using her powers, although he couldn't resist her magic. Even though Susan was telling him to "get Anita," he could do that and talk to Susan. "I thought this was battle practice," he complained.