AN: Oh. My. Gosh. Over 20 views of Chasing Kaleps! I am so happy right now. I'm in I'm reading Sisters Grimm. I think I found a new favorite. I've ordered the books, they're coming in a few weeks. But here is chapter 2 of Chasing Kaleps!
"Expelliarmus!" shouted Hermione, Ron, and Harry. Two figures dodged the spell, but one fell backwards. The other two helped him up. Because of the light coming from the sword Hermione heard, she could see what the three figures looked like. The girl standing directly in front of her had a long, blonde ponytail, an orange t-shirt, tan skin, shorts, and piercing gray eyes that squinted with suspicion. The boy in front of Harry look similar to him. He had black, messy hair, an orange t-shirt like the girl, green eyes and held a three foot long sword. The boy on front of Ron was quite short. He wore an orange t-shirt, (Americans must really like this color!) and a baseball cap. He had lots of hair, and when Hermione looked down to his feet, she saw... Goat legs?!
"Who are you people? Are you working with a man named Adrian Kaleps? Answer us!" Harry barked. Whenever the golden trio interrogated someone, Harry always played bad cop.
"Funny… we were just about to ask you the same thing… what, are you hiding Kaleps under that big cloak of yours?" Sneered the boy across of him. He had quite the attitude!
"Hey! let's just calmly handle this like adults," Hermione said as she looked pointedly at the guy with the sword, "My name is Hermione."
"Ugh… fine," groaned Harry. "I'm Harry." the boy across from him snickered. "Ron. Tell them your name." ordered Hermione.
"Why?! You just said it out loud!"
"Ron! Don't be rude! Just tell them your bloody name!"
"They just tried to murder us with knives! they're murderers! why should I tell them my name?!" Ron yelled as he motioned to their weapons.
"Ahem! The 'murderers' have names, ya' know! I'm Annabeth, daughter of Athena," The blonde said.
"Daughter of Athena? Like the Greek Goddess?" Hermione asked.
"Yep," Annabeth explained the concept of demigods and introduced the other two people, "That's Percy, Poseidon's kid," She pointed to the guy with the sword, "And that's grover. He's a satyr." they all stood silently for a few minutes.
"Um, not to be rude or anything... but what are you guys if you're not half-bloods? Mortals?" asked Grover as he munched on can from his backpack.
"No... we're wizards. Or, Harry and Ron are wizards; I'm a witch," Said Hermione as she looked around the area for Kaleps, "My parents are both Muggles, non-magical; that makes me muggle-born. Harry's parents are both wizards, but he has Muggles in his family, so he's a half blood," The three demigods laughed, "Ron's family is all wizards and witches, so he's pure blood." the 6 of them mad a quick look around the area, looking for Kaleps and making idle chitchat. After not finding him, they returned to in front of the alley. They all felt they had known each other for years now! Hermione wasn't going to tell the others this, but she was starting to doubt that Kaleps was even here anymore.
"So... we're both looking for Kaleps, then?" Harry observed awkwardly.
"Guess so... wonder why?" Percy wondered aloud. Ron and Grover shrugged; when all of a sudden, Hermione and Annabeth had the exact same thought at the exact same time. "I know why we're both looking for Kaleps!" They said together.
"He's a demigod-" "AND he's a wizard!" "He can do wandless spells-" "because he's a son of Hectate! And he says all the weird words when using the stick-" "because he's casting an ACTUAL SPELL!" They finished together excitedly.
"Bla-ha-ha-ha-ha! We solved the mystery!" Grover shouted happily.
"Quiet down, Grover! Adrian could be near by and hear us!" Percy warned. But Percy was too late. Hermione could already hear rustling in the alley from which her three new friends came out of. _
"It's a bit too late, sea-salt. Now that you guys have 'solved the mystery', I'll have to kill you." said a raspy voice. And out came Adrian Kaleps, twirling his wand around his finger. He walked up to Annabeth and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear.
"Well, well, aren't you pretty? I might spare you and keep you with me… you could be my little slave…" He said to Annabeth as he smiled evilly. She was about to judo-flip him, like when she and Percy had reunited at Camp Jupiter, but Percy beat her to it.
"Don't. Touch. Her." He growled at Adrian as he pushed him against a building wall and pressed the tip of sword to Adrian's neck.
"Hold it, Percy; we need the git in one piece," said Harry, "But if you make one wrong move, it's one of the unforgivables for you!"
"Harry!"
"Sorry, Hermione," "Look, he's getting away!" yelled Ron as he cast the Stupefying spell. Percy summoned a tidal wave that he forced onto Adrian. But he used some of Hectate's magic, and set the wave in our heroes' direction! Luckily, Percy made them all water-proof right as it came at them. Annabeth was through with this lying, evil, spawn-of-hades Adrian Kaleps. No one, demigod or wizard or mortal or muggle, tries to hurt her friends, even though they hadn't even been talking for even 20 minutes. She was going to do something about it, and she had a feeling that Hermione felt the same! She stole a quick glance at Hermione, and the both nodded. They were in sync. Annabeth ran up to Kaleps and flipped him on his back while grover summoned the wild to make stay off his feet.
"Petrificus Totalus!" casted Hermione, making Kaleps's legs and arms snap together. Ron and Harry levitated Kaleps with magic, while Percy helped up Grover. Summoning the wild always tired him out.
"Hey guys, should I snap the stick- er, wand in half so he can't use it anymore?" asked Percy. He gingerly picked up the wand from where it fell and waved it around, muttering gibberish.
"NO! Shaklebolt might want to see it when we take Kaleps to Azkaban," said Ron as he snatched the wand out of Percy's grip.
"Bla-ha-ha! Who says you guys are taking him? It's more important that Zeus sees him, not some Minister," said Grover stubbornly.
"Please, give me a break! If we don't take Kaleps, we could lose our jobs!" Said Harry, as if saying that might make the Golden Trio win the argument. Annabeth and Hermione shared a look that said: these boys are so immature!
"Boys! Calm down! We can just do this the mature way-" said Annabeth as she looked at Hermione to finish. "-we will battle. Choose your best member to go fight! Winner takes Kaleps." The two groups separated and murmured about who'd go to fight.
"Okay, we need to send someone they won't expect…" strategized Annabeth. As much as she liked Hermione, she wanted to win! Little did Annabeth know, her newfound friend was thinking the same thing.
"We need to send some one unexpected. Someone who's the underdog... Someone with less-than-average ability…Ron, you go!" joked Hermione. Ron playfully shoved her; but it went without saying. Both groups had silently picked someone. "For our side, we send… Annabeth!" Announced Percy. As the only one without powers out of everyone, her group thought it was a wise choice; after all, Annabeth was a great fighter. "And for ours, we send... Hermione!" Hermione's group was hoping that the demigods would send a boy, which meant that it would be boy against girl. The boy would hold back, as to try not to hurt the girl (Hermione!) and then the Girl would give it her all and win! But not today. Today was pure skill.
"Sorry, Annabeth. I might have to lengthen your teeth a little bit…" said Hermione before they started.
"And I'm sorry, too… sorry that you won't be able to use magic!" Said Annabeth, not-at-all sorry, "since I don't have powers, you won't either!" Hermione glanced worriedly at her group. And Annabeth knew what they were thinking. How was Hermione going to win a duel without magic? And luckily, Annabeth knew the answer: It was a trick question. Hermione couldn't win. Annabeth was playing to win, and she wouldn't go down easy…
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