I didn't feel like writing the whole airplane thing because it would get boring. Sorry if you're unhappy about that. Go to .com/cgi/set?id=40462707 to see what clothes Annabeth is wearing on the train. The link is also in my profile if this somehow doesn't go through.
We all crowded onto the train the next day and found an empty compartment. "These british accents are so annoying…" Percy grumbled.
"I think they're cool!" Connor said excitedly.
Before Percy could argue, the compartment door burst open. In swooped three boys. Two were giant with mean, rat faces. One was smaller and had bright, almost white blonde hair and a pale face. He sneered, "Who are you? I haven't seen you around, and you don't seem like first years. Well, except for you." Blondie said sneering at me. Immediate hatred coursed through me.
"I'm thirteen."I snapped. I had no idea how old first years were but I said it anyways, "And why don't you go-" Annabeth kicked me under the table before I could tell blondie to go do something physically unappealing to himself.
"We're transfer students from America. We've been homeschooled by our parents, but they finally wanted us to experience an actual school. Nico-" she added gesturing to me, "Is advanced for his age so he'll be in-" Annabeth paused for a second trying to remember, "sixth year with all of us." She finished sounding very rehearsed.
Blondie smirked at the word advanced. I flushed and glared at him. I wanted to say something like, "I don't even want to go to your stupid school but Hades is forcing me to!" but I stopped myself. I didn't think it made the best impressions to say your Dad was Hades.
"So if you didn't want anything, you can get out." I pointed out bluntly.
Blondie's smirk widened, "Make us." He taunted. That was it. I could feel energy pulse through me as my temper flared. Our shadows seemed to grow longer and the air went unnaturally cold and dry. Blondie's smirk faltered, "C'mon, let's go." He muttered to his giant rat friends and they were out the door.
"Great. All the British witches must be like this." I muttered, still angry.
"O c'mon. They're probably not all like that. And I think the guys are called wizards. Nico, try not to give us away the moment we step in the train." Percy said, rolling his eyes.
"Sorreeee!" I snapped, my temper still running high.
Malfoy's Point of view
"Weasley." I sneered at the weasley girl as I walked away from the new student's compartment. "Those Americans are freaks. Did you see what that boy did to the air and our shadows? It was weird! Keep an eye on them." I muttered to Crabbe and Goyle.
They grunted and nodded but then Crabbe spoke up, "B-but what if that freak boy does that shadow again?" he asked fearfully.
"Don't be stupid, you're really not scared of a child are you?" I asked trying to sound snappish. But his weird power still put me off a bit.
Ginny's point of view
I stopped talking to Harry for a moment to go get a drink of water. Outside the compartment, in the corridor I stopped.
Malfoy was just walking out of the compartment across from us, "Weasley." He sneered at me.
I ignored him and glanced at the compartment he'd been in. Possibly first years? Though from their voices it didn't sound like it. I didn't recognize any of the voices so, curious, I opened slid open the door.
"What do you want n-" he broke off.
A boy who looked around thirteen stared awkwardly at me. He had dark hair, olive skin, and was wearing a black t-shirt, ripped black jeans, a silver skull ring, combat boots, black stormy eyes that made me think he was a mad genius, and something in his belt. It looked like a sword but I have no idea why he would have a sword. Like that would protect him.
"Uhhh, sorry. Thought you were blondie-I mean that blond guy who was just in here." He said quickly.
"You mean Malfoy? Was he bothering you guys?" I asked glancing around at all of them.
There were five of them in the compartment. Sitting across from the dark haired kid was an older kid with black hair. It had a streak of gray in it. He looked about sixteen and had sea-green eyes. His eyes instantly reminded me of Harry.
Next to the green eyed kid was a girl who also looked sixteen. She had curly honey blonde hair and gray eyes that made me feel like I was being analyzed. Somewhat like Dumbledore's. She also had a matching gray streak in her hair, which was weird. She also had something in her belt, only it was shorter. Like a knife, or a dagger maybe? But why would they need those?
Sitting across from her were two tall identical boys. They had elfish ears, light brown hair, and looked about my age. They had freckly faces that said they were going to stick firecrackers down your back. They reminded me a lot of my twin brothers, Fred and George. I just hoped they weren't anything like them.
"It's fine." The boy in all black said sharply.
"So are you guys Americans?" I asked curiously. They had American accents.
"Yeah, we transferred here from New York. We've all been homeschooled together." The blonde girl said.
"So I suppose you all will be going into sixth year? And you're going into third right?" I guessed.
Nico's point of view
"Actually all of us will be in sixth, including Nico." Annabeth gestured to me, " He's really advanced for his age." She explained for the second time. I cringed. The next time someone said I was advanced for my age, I was gonna throw my magical stick at them.
"Oh, ok." The red headed girl said, looking surprised, "I'm Ginny by the way, Ginny Weasley."
"Annabeth Chase." Annabeth said.
"Nico." I said wearily, "But you already knew that."
"Travis." Travis said. "Connor" Connor said. "Stoll." They both chorused together. I sighed, they always said their names like that.
"Percy Jackson." Percy said. Ginny seemed to wince at the name Percy. I stifled a laugh. Percy was used to have his name winced at. "What?" Percy asked, looking annoyed.
"Sorry it's just that my brother's named Percy. He kind of-well-abandoned us last year…It's sort of complicated…" she trailed off, clearly not wanting to talk about it. She looked as if it was much worse than it sounded.
"Sorry, nevermind." Annabeth said quickly like she understood family problems.
"So anyways, you'll have to be sorted won't you?" Ginny asked.
"Oh, yeah Chiron said something about being sorted from a hat?" Percy said.
"Who's Chiron?" Ginny asked interestedly.
Annabeth kicked Percy under the table, "Ow…"he muttered, glaring at her, "Uhhh, Chiron is our homeschool teacher." He said quickly.
"Huh, interesting name. But yeah, the sorting hat sorts you into a house. There are four houses. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. I'm in Gryffindor." Ginny explained.
"Hufflepuff? Sounds like some kind of marshmallow!" Travis sniggered while Connor laughed. I personally agreed but said nothing.
"Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin…" Ginny muttered darkly.
"Why?" Annabeth asked.
"Well they say all the future dark wizards go to Slytherin. That's where You-Know-Who went too." Ginny shivered.
Something stirred in my memory. Chiron had said Tom Riddle was called Voldemort by few, You-Know-Who by most. I thought it was pretty silly to be scared of a name, but then it wasn't my place to say.
"To- I mean You-Know-Who went here?" Annabeth asked.
"Yep, no one really knows much about him when he was a kid though." Ginny shrugged then looked out the window, "Hey we're almost there. You guys should change into your robes. I gotta go, my friends will be looking for me. See you later." Ginny said, standing up. She left the compartment. We all shrugged on our robes over our clothes.
"So do you think we'll have to get sorted? I mean, it's not like we're gonna be here for the entire year." Percy asked nervously.
"We better not be staying here for the entire year…" I muttered.
"Hey, it could be fun! Think of how many pranks we could do with magic stuff!" Connor said excitedly.
"Oh no, we're on a quest, remember? No getting off task! We find out as much information as we can about Tom Riddle, then we try to help them. Chiron mentioned something about a guy named Harry Potter. Dumbledore said he knew a lot. Maybe he's trying to kill Tom Riddle too and we have to help him?" Annabeth suggested.
"Why can't they ever make quests with clear instructions?" Percy sighed, running a hand through his gray streak of hair.
"I feel really stupid in these robes." I commented dryly, but no one paid attention.
"Hey look, we're here!" Travis exclaimed suddenly, pointing out the window. We all looked, there was a huge castle in the distance. You could see bright flames of torches in the distance.
"Oh, wow! It's beautiful! The structure of the castle is just…wow!" Annabeth said, looking over-excited. Everyone looked at her funny, "What?" she said defensively.
Percy laughed, "It definitely looks nicer than camp."
"Looks nicer than camp? Are you kidding me?" Connor exclaimed while Travis said, "It's a freakin' castle!"
I sighed, looking out the window at the giant castle. Time to see what awaited us here.
