Clarisse and Chris had been working on the Ares Defence Program for a while. They had a place. It had been transformed into a huge operation. There was a fencing stadium, a boxing ring, punching bags, a gymnastics gym complete with equipment, a martial arts studio, and an equipment room. One of the retired Mercury campers had been hired to help out with planning, and a whole range of older campers had volunteered to help teach.

The program was aimed at kids ages five to seventeen. There were also going to be some adult classes later on.

Chris and the Mercury guy, Ryder, had printed out posters and created a website. It had a link on the official Olympian Companies website.

On opening day, Clarisse was pretty excited for her first class. It was supposed to be a group of eleven year olds doing fencing.

Reyna has volunteered to teach gymnastics, so her class was at the same time as Clarisse.

Jason took the boxing groups.

Somehow Katie was a black belt in karate. So she took karate.

Thalia said she would do an archery workshop whenever she was in town.

Of course, Clarisse could have done all of those (accept archery), but it would have had to be shorter classes and one at a time.

The program gained popularity, and eventually, Clarisse was getting her siblings to help out. She was extremely happy with her program.