Hey, guys! So here's the next chapter. It's not so good; I had to do it in sort of a hurry. Also, someone asked if I like PJO or HP better. PJO for the win! I'm obsessed with Percy Jackson. I always find myself saying 'oh, my gods!' and 'Styx!' and 'what the Hades?' I've read Harry Potter, but I have to be honest: it's not my favorite. I think it's because everyone was telling me how good it was before I read it and kind of putting words into my mouth and giving me all these great expectations of it, but when I finally read the series I was disappointed. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be. But I'm not going to be bias in this story! If I am, you can tell me. I'm never bias (or at least I try not to be). So if I am, don't be afraid to tell me. I actually want you to, so I can fix it. Anyways, enjoy the next chapter!

Annabeth got her dagger ready and shouted at the dragon, "Hey! Come catch me if you can!"

That got the dragon's attention and it started to move towards Annabeth.

"Run!" Percy exclaimed and he pulled Annabeth's wrist along with him, running down the street.

"Don't run, fight!" Harry shouted as the two demigods ran.

"That's not the strategy!" Annabeth called back.

Percy and Annabeth turned a corner into a dark alley that had no mortals in it.

"Okay, how do we kill it now?" Percy turned to Annabeth.

"Uh…can you do something with water? Your hurricane thing?" Annabeth asked.

"I don't have any water." Percy said glumly.

"Then we'll have to fight the dragon with combat. I'll go invisible and try to find the dragon's weakness while you distract it." Annabeth said sternly.

The dragon appeared down the alley and roared. Annabeth put on her Yankees cap and turned invisible.

Percy charged the dragon and stabbed at its claw. He managed to stay away from all eight of the heads, but then the dragon spit poison out of its main head. The poison didn't land on Percy directly, just a few drops did. But it still burned and hurt his shoulder.

Percy cried out in pain, but didn't stop fighting. He continued to distract the dragon while Annabeth was looking for a weakness.

Then the British couple appeared. They were holding there sticks and aiming the sticks at the dragon, which seemed to do nothing. But then Harry shouted a weird word and a red thing flew out of his stick, hitting the dragon. It didn't do anything; it just made the dragon mad.

"What?" Harry exclaimed. "That didn't do anything!" But he and Ginny didn't give up on whatever they were doing. They kept shooting lights out of their sticks, but it never affected the dragon.

Finally, the dragon made a strangled noise and it disintegrated into dust. Percy heard a thump on the ground and he saw Annabeth lying and clutching her leg. Her hat must've fallen off, because she was visible.

"Annabeth!" Percy called out and he ran over to her, ignoring the searing pain in his shoulder. He knelt at the side of his girlfriend and looked at her leg. It was twisted and bent the wrong way, making it obvious that she fell on her leg wrong and broke it.

"We need nectar!" Percy mumbled. "I don't have any!"

"What happened to Annabeth?" Ginny asked as she and Harry ran over to the two demigods.

"Broke her leg after she fell." Percy told them.

"Do you think that Nico could get us some nectar?" Annabeth asked, her face grimacing in pain.

"Probably. Do you have a drachma?"

"Yeah." Annabeth handed Percy the gold coin but then Percy cursed.

"I don't have any water!" Percy started saying some curse words in Greek, but then Harry said, "You need water?"

"Yeah." Percy nodded. "I'll explain why later."

Harry said another weird word and water came shooting out of his stick thing.

"Oh, gods, thank you!" Percy said gratefully. He lifted his hand and turned the water into mist. He threw the drachma into the mist and said, "Oh, Fleecy, do me a solid. Show me Nico di Angelo!"

As the picture began to show up, Annabeth said, "I thought you were supposed to say that to Iris."
"Nah, Fleecy likes it when you address it to her." Percy explained, leaving Annabeth (for once) confused.

An image of Nico appeared in the mist. "Percy? Annabeth? What do you need?"

"There was a dragon." Percy said quickly. "We need nectar and ambrosia. Can you bring some?"

A new voice on the IM said, "Nico? Who's there?"

Thalia came into view and then smiled at Percy and Annabeth. "Guys! What's up?"

"Oh, you know, I just broke my leg fighting an eight-headed dragon." Annabeth said sarcastically. "Can you guys shadow travel over here with some nectar and ambrosia?"

"Of course!" Nico nodded. "See you guys in a minute." With that, he slashed through the Iris Message and the mist dissolved.

"Who was that? And how do you know what a dragon is?" Harry demanded.

"We're half-bloods." Percy said quickly and then turned back to Annabeth's leg.

"So you are like us!" Ginny summed up.

"Like who? We don't fight with sticks." Percy snorted. "We use real weapons."
Their conversation was interrupted by Nico and Thalia stumbling out of the shadows.

"We're here!" Thalia announced.

"No, really?" Percy asked sarcastically. "Just bring over nectar and ambrosia!"

Nico pulled out a canteen and a baggie of ambrosia. He brought it over to Percy.

Percy gave a small corner of ambrosia to Annabeth. She chewed on it for a moment and then her leg started to look less deformed.

"Percy!" Annabeth gasped. "Your shoulder! It's all green."

"Oh, yeah. The dragon was poisonous." Percy said. He ate some ambrosia and the pain in his shoulder decreased.

"How did you do that?" Harry asked in disbelief.

"Guys, who are they?" Thalia pointed to the two British teenagers.

"They're people that we met at Starbucks." Annabeth said slowly. "But I'm not sure if they're completely mortal."

A new voice shouted down the alley, "Harry? Ginny? What are you guys doing down here?"

A red-headed guy and a girl with frizzy brown hair came running down the alley. They both sounded British and looked like they knew Harry and Ginny.

"There was a dragon." Harry explained to the new people.

"Who are they?" Annabeth asked.

"Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Ron and Hermione, meet Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson." Harry said quickly.

"Wait, Percy Jackson?" Hermione gasped.

"Yeah, why?" Percy asked warily.

"You're the kid that was a terrorist when he was twelve!" Hermione exclaimed. "You blew up a national monument here!"

Percy grimaced. "You know about that?"

"And then you blew up your school twice!" Hermione continued. "Then you went missing for almost a year!"

"How do you know that much about me?" Percy exclaimed.

"You were on the news so much!" Hermione said.

"Can you explain how you know about the dragon?" Ginny asked the Americans.

"You first." Thalia said, glaring.

"Fine. We're wizards." Hermione told them.

The Americans looked at each other warily. It seemed pretty farfetched, but made sense at the same time.

"Wizards?" Annabeth raised an eyebrow. "Okay, I can live with that."

"Now, explain how you know about the dragon." Hermione demanded.

"We're demigods." Annabeth said shortly. Percy noticed she was still on the ground and pulled her up.

Only Hermione seemed surprised. The others were confused.

"What are demigods?" Ron asked.

"Children of the gods!" Hermione answered for him. She looked like she was going to die of shock. "But—how?"

"All the Greek myths are real. And the Roman ones." Percy explained. "Do you really think that just because years have past that the gods don't come down to earth and fall in love?"

"I guess not…" Hermione said slowly. "Who are your parents?"

"Daughter of Zeus, king of the gods and the sky." Thalia said.

"Son of Hades, god of the Underworld." Nico added.

"Daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle strategy." Annabeth said proudly.

"Son of Poseidon, god of the seas." Percy finished.

Hermione was still in shock. "This…this is amazing!"

"Maybe we should explain somewhere else." Annabeth suggested. "Let's go back to Percy's house."

"We left the food coloring at Starbucks!" Percy realized. "We must go back!"

"No, we're not." Annabeth rolled her eyes. "You'll have to have normal cookies this time."

Percy pouted but just said, "Fine."
"Sally is making cookies?" Thalia exclaimed.

"Best. Day. EVER." Nico agreed. "I love Aunt Sally's cookies!"

The demigods started walking out of the alley, but the wizards stayed behind, still confused about the whole the-

Greek-myths-are-real thing.

"Come on," Annabeth called to the wizards and they caught up with the Americans.

"Man," Percy started to laugh. "First the Greeks, then the Egyptians, now wizards! Octavian is going to freak out."

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