So this is my first PJO/HP crossover, even though they are my favorite fandoms. I hope you like it!
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I sighed contentedly as I sat on the beach, looking out at the waves. Today was a good day, a fairly normal day. Well, normal for a demigod at least. You know, it had sword fights, and lava rock walls, capture-the-flag, the whatnot, but no monster had invaded the camp, and that was always a plus in my book. Then again, monsters hadn't been that active at all since the second Giant war had ended.
No one had expected a happy ending, after all, we're demigods. There were more casualties that I wished to remember. After me and the rest of the demigods of the prophecy defeated Gaia in Greece, we sailed back to what we thought would be a somewhat peaceful camp, seeing as Reyna, Nico, and Coach Hedge had gotten the Athena Parthanos back safely. However, when we arrived that was not the case.
The Argo II had landed in what could be mistaken for a massacre. Bodies from both the Roman and Greek sides littered the ground. It turned out that Octavian had not believed Reyna and Nico when they told him the statue was real, and he branded them as traitors. He had ordered Camp Jupiter into battle, and had been having them fight relentlessly until the moment the ship landed. All fighting had stopped when Annabeth and I had walked out of the ship, but still too many had died. Drew, Jake, and Malcom were gone, along with countless more. But the one that had hurt the most was Reyna.
I wiped away a tear that had formed just thinking about her. We had come out of the ship, our faces frozen in shock at the sight before us. On the ground in front of us was Nico, crying over Reyna's dead body, Octavian's spear protruding from her chest. It was like when Gwen had been stabbed during the War Games, although this time, no one could be brought back. The scars the war had created were still fresh in everyone's memory, despite everything that was looking up.
The camps had called a truce, and a portal between had been set up between them allowing the Greek demigods a chance to go to collage and lead more peaceful lives in New Rome, while it offered a new and free way of life for the romans that had grown up in the strict cohorts. Octavian had been thrown out of office, and a new augur had taken his place.
The rest of the seven coped pretty well after the war ended. Frank and Hazel had gone back to New Rome to run the camp, as Hazel had been made Praetor to take Reyna's place, and also for all the things she had done in Greece. Jason had decided to stay at Camp Half-Blood with Piper, although he went to visit Camp Jupiter often. Leo had immediately gone to bunker 9 and started to work on something, though no one knew what it was. Whenever someone would ask, he would say, "Something to find a friend," and then hurry back to what ever he was doing.
Despite having just come out of a war, Annabeth had gone straight back to work redesigning Olympus. I, along with others, had told her to take a break, but she insisted that this project got finished, and although I wanted to stop her, I could easily tell that she loved what she was doing and let her work. However, this didn't mean that she didn't leave time for me.
We have been trying to make up the time that we lost together while was I had been abducted to Camp Jupiter. We were pretty much inseparable, as the other campers were saying, and Clarisse had gone and stated "You might as well get married, Prissy", and although it sounded good for a second, I almost instanly realized that I'm still only 17, and that is way to young to get married.
So for the past month life has carried on as normally as possible, no matter how unrealistic that seemed.
I looked out at the waves from my spot on the sand. It was quiet, the only sound being the rolling of the waves. Well, that was until Conner Stoll's voice broke my peaceful tranquility.
"PERCY!" came a shout, making me cringe, "CHIRON WANTS YOU AT THE BIG HOUSE!"
"COMING!" I yelled back, before sighing again. What now? I thought, cant I ever get a break?
I pushed myself up from the sand and made my way towards the big house. When I reached the front porch, I took a deep breath and closed my eyes before pushing open the door.
When I opened his eyes, I was surprised to say the least. Not only were Annabeth, Piper, Jason, Leo there, but Frank, Hazel, Nico, and Thalia were there as well. I looked to Chiron for an explanation as I sat down.
Chiron took a deep breath.
"You are probably all wondering why I have called you here." He said.
A chorus of 'yeah's' and 'uh huh's' came from around the room.
He sighed.
"I am just going to tell you all now that you have all been chosen for a quest."
The reaction was instantaneous. Complaints broke out around the room. Nico groaned and Thalia started to bang her head on the table. Annabeth jumped up and slammed her hands down.
"Chiron, you can't really be asking this of us right now, it's only been two months!" she said angrily, most of the room backing her up.
Chiron sighed again.
"That's the thing, I'm not, Hecate is."
Everybody shut up at that.
"Hecate?" Hazel asked nervously.
"Yes," Chiron said, "Hecate issued you all a quest. I personally would not like to put it on you so soon after the war, but apparently she is in need of you."
There were grumbles heard throughout the room, but Chiron was allowed to continue.
"You see, long ago, Hecate blessed a group of mortals with magic power. As the time passed, the community grew into a full fledged society of magic users."
Thalia snorted.
"So your telling me that witches and wizards are real?" she said sarcastically.
"That's exactly what I am saying," He said to her with a smile. "Now, as I was saying, the magic community today is very large. Some wizards however, are not born into wizarding families. These children are what are called muggle-borns, which are children with wizarding powers born to mortals, muggles as they call them. Children who are born to both wizarding parents are called pure bloods, and Children who are born to one wizarding and one muggle parent are called half-bloods."
Chiron's expression turned dark.
"However, some pure-bloods think they are better because of their heritage and believe that there shouldn't be muggle-borns. One terrible man by the name of Tom Riddle, despite being a half-blood, agreed with these views and took them to an extreme. He changed his name to Voldemort and started killing off the muggle-borns"
At the mention of Tom Riddle's new name, most of us burst into laughter yelling, 'Voldemort' which somehow turned into 'Mouldyshorts'. However, Nico's face twisted up with distaste.
"That man is awful." He said disgracefully, effectively making us all shut up. "He has caused dad loads of paperwork and trouble with his whole 'cheat death' thing"
Piper nodded.
"It seems he is really into it, after all, Voldemort means 'flight of death' in French" she agreed.
Chiron nodded at them before continuing on.
"One day, he went to the house of James and Lily Potter. He killed them both before turning on their one year old son Harry. However, when he tried to kill the boy, he failed and the curse rebounded onto him and he disappeared. However, this past summer he has returned and is out to kill Harry Potter. Your mission is to go protect Harry while he is at school this year. You shall pose as exchange students from the Olympus Academy of Magic."
I looked around. Most of the people in the room looked unsure of exactly if they wanted to go or not. He looked back at Chiron for more information.
"Hecate had agreed to bless you all with magic for the time being." He said.
My eyes narrowed. No gods are that nice.
"I know it's for her quest, but she seems awfully kind to do that. What's the catch?" I asked, my arms crossed.
"I was afraid you would ask that." Chiron said with a sigh. "The 'catch', as you put it, is that for this year you will all be reverted when you were fifteen, although at the end of the year she will change you back to your original ages."
At that, half the room groaned. Hazel, Thalia and Nico didn't seem to care, seeing as they were 15, but Frank and Leo looked horrified. Leo had finally grown out of his scrawny stage, and he did not want to go back into it, not to mention Frank not wanting to look like a 'baby man', as Arion once put it.
"Now, anymore questions?" Chiron asked.
"Will Hecate train us at all?" Jason asked.
"Yes, both in spellwork and knowledge of the magical world, as well as providing you with wands and supplies"
Annabeth quickly looked up.
"I've got two." She said, "Where is this school, and what's it called?" she asked.
Chiron pinched the bridge of his nose.
"This is yet another question I was afraid you would ask." He said, his eyes not meeting our now confused gazes.
"The school is in England," He said, pausing for our groans, " And its called…"
We all sat on the edges of our seats, looking at him with anticipation. He sighed again.
"...Hogwarts…" he said, as he covered his eyes, not wanting to watch our reaction.
For a moment we all just sat there letting hat sink in. Leo was the first break the silence, slowly falling out of his chair onto the floor, with Jason, Thalia, and I soon following. Nico leaned against the wall, cackling the way only a son of hades can, while Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel practically banged their heads on the table. From what I could see through my tears of laughter, Frank actually managed to stay in his seat, but he was laughing as hard as the rest of us. Once we calmed down a bit, Leo looked at Chiron.
"Anything else we need to know so we don't look like idiots in front of the wizards?" he asked through his giggles.
Chiron nodded.
"Just one, I believe." He said. "Voldemort calls his followers Death Eaters"
That started another round of laughing that brought Piper and Frank down to the floor to join us.
"Who…would…eat…Thantos?!" Hazel somehow managed to say through her laughter, and even Chiron had to smile at that
"I do not know, but I am going to leave you for now, while you calm down. Come to the sword fighting arena tomorrow morning at 8:00, where Hecate will be to bless you and teach you about the wizarding world." He said, before turning and walking out the door.
Most of us nodded, and over the course of the next half hour, we sat there trying to calm ourselves down. Once we could keep a straight face again, we all said goodnight and headed back to our cabins. I changed into a pair of clean pajamas and slipped into bed, thinking about what I learned today and what I could possibly learn tomorrow.
Well, this year will surely be interesting, I thought to myself as I drifted of into a for once blissful sleep.
I'm sorry about killing Reyna, I actually love her, but I wanted to show that wars don't have happy endings. Also, in this I am going to have NicoxLuna. I am not against him being gay or anything, but I love that pairing, so its happening. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, you don't have to read it then.
I'm going to try to update this sometime in the next two weeks, but most likely next week 'cause I have camp this week. Comment below if you like it!
- TC