Hey guys, I'm so sorry I haven't updated sooner. I have everything planned out I just haven't had time to type it all up. But it's the Easter hols now YEAH. So I have loads of free time. As I type I am sitting in my bed listening to my radio through headphones so I don't wake my sister up as she's trying to sleep in. I however cannot sleep in so here I am typing to you guys!
I decided now might be a good time to reply to some reviews so here are my replies;
Sanity: It will become a slash in the next few chapters; I just had to do this bit so you could understand the story.
Bloodredfirefly: Thanks for all the moral support and ideas, it's really helped; also your guesses were really good as to the meaning of the prophecy. They were close, but not quite there.
Percabeth03: There are guaranteed percabeth moments throughout this fic.
Suzuki-sama1234: As you can see I am now continuing after taking a break because my art teacher has found the need to give us a mountain of homework!
Gryffindor.123: Thanks for the title idea, I'm going to adapt it slightly as you will see when I get round to changing the title.
Nock and bolt: To answer your questions, the wizards know they have guests coming and the campers want to make a big entrance to show them what they can do and why they are there. Also not all 28 Americans will be staying, but that's all I'm saying.
I hope that has answered everyone's questions, your reviews are really nice to read so keep it up.
Now on with the story
And oh yeah- I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter
***Stupid page breaks didn't show up for the last 3 chapters!GRRRRRRRRRR****
Chapter 4 The journey and betting
Nico POV
I was woken up by Annabeth at the ungodly hour of 5 in the morning. 5 o' clock I tell you! I mean who gets up at 5 in the morning. Not even Apollo was awake I mean come on… Sorry got a bit off track.
Anyway, Annabeth woke me up from my nice comfortable sleep by storming into my newly built cabin and literally throwing my out of my bed.
"What the Hades do you think you are doing?" I yelled
Annabeth put a finger to her lips in a shush signal then replied
"Getting you up"
I grabbed my clothes I'd left out the night before and pushed Annabeth out of my cabin on the way to my bathroom so she could go and terrorise someone else.
Just before I pushed her out of the door I asked "Is Percy awake?"
"Well… Now that's a different matter completely, besides it's your fault he needs loads of sleep" She shouted the last pat through my door as I had pushed her out of my cabin.
How it was my fault I had no idea but I didn't have the energy to argue with Annabeth and all I really wanted to do was get back into my warm comfortable bed. However if Annabeth found me asleep again I would prefer eternal torture to what she would do to me so I had a quick shower and got dressed.
I ran out of my cabin into the semi-darkness, I ran as fast as I could not wanting to be late, we had to be at Thalias' pine tree just before dawn. When I arrived at half-blood hill, true to tradition, I was the last one there except for Percy. I looked around and saw that Annabeth was missing as well; she was probably still struggling with Percy to get him here on time.
I settled down next to Thalia leaning on the base if the pine tree to wait, Thalia was starring into the distance looking at the moon. I decided she was probably daydreaming that she was in some forest glade somewhere with the hunters.
Annabeth walked wearily up the hill followed by a very tired looking Percy. I could hear his complaining from here;
"It's Nico's fault I need 3 more times sleep than the rest of you"
Annabeth was doing a good job of ignoring him, something Thalia and me have never been able to do, but when they reached us Annabeth shook her head in exasperation.
"I swear Nico" She said glowering at me "if I can ever find a way to get back at you for what you are putting me through, I will."
I wisely adopted my 'what I'm innocent?' face causing Annabeth to snort in disbelief then turn to Chiron who had joined us at the top of the hill.
"I have been informed of your entrance plan by Annabeth this morning and will send the appropriate apparatus along with Mrs O Leary this afternoon when I am informed by the headmaster that you have arrived" Chiron said
When Annabeth had got the time to talk to Chiron along with getting everyone else up I had no idea but at the present time I was more worried about what Chiron said next;
"Argus will be driving you to JFK, behave yourselves whilst in England. You are setting an example of camp half-blood" Chiron said. He scanned the faces of the campers checking for any problems, when he reached my face he took in my expression and laughed.
"Sorry Nico" Chiron said between laughs. "I told Percy but not you; Zeus has given you permission to fly as much as you need during this quest."
I relaxed, that was one good thing coming out of this quest; I could find out what it was like to fly! Percy had already flown 3 times as far as I had heard and he hadn't been blasted yet but I had always decided not to push my luck. Percy had always given the impression of not enjoying flying much and I was hoping that was just because every time he had flown he had been in danger of being blasted out of the sky. I sincerely hoped I would enjoy it more than Percy had.
I and the other demi-gods followed Argus down to the van and all got in. We all began to settle down and go back to sleep. Clovis was first followed by Percy whose head was leaning on Annabeths shoulder. Annabeth was the only one of us who did not give the impression of being sleepy; she had her laptop out and was looking something up. I leaned my head against the wall and let myself drift into sleep.
However being a demi-god means I never, ever have normal nice dreams.
Don't know how but in the space of time I've been typing this, I've gone from angry to hyper P.S this is a page break
I appeared in kings cross station, the very place we were meant to be going later today. The clock read 10 to 11 which meant this event would be happening about half an hour before we were due to get to London because if the time difference and everything. I decided to look around and hope I saw something suspicious to look for. I eventually saw something suspicious. There was a boy who looked like Percy, just with lighter eyes, surrounded by many red headed people, a brown bushy haired girl who looked about his age-15, and a man wearing a cape and bowler hat. There was also a big shaggy black dog walking beside him who to me looked a bit too human. I then realised that maybe these people were wizards and witches and this dream was to show me how to get to the school from kings cross.
I followed the weird crowd through the station until they reached a barrier between platforms 9 and 10. They stopped and looked around then the red haired woman said, right let's get going we can't be late for the Hogwarts train (I know she didn't say this in real life but I need her to for my story o.k.?) There was the proof I needed; Chiron told us yesterday the school was called Hogwarts.
What happened next though was completely out of this world, the group began to form a line and then 1 by 1 they ran straight at the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. The weird thing was, they didn't crash instead they disappeared straight through the wall! Deciding it would probably be a good idea to follow them I took my chances and followed them through the wall.
I emerged on a crowded train platform trying to figure out where I was I looked around and found a sign. PATLFMOR 9 it read. I deduced it probably meant platform 9 I located the group I'd been following and watched as they loaded their luggage onto a big red train. I couldn't be bothered to look at the name knowing I wouldn't be able to read it but I heard someone say
"All aboard the Hogwarts express"
Suddenly I felt myself being dragged away from the dream and I slowly felt my eyes open
I just realised that I's gone 11am and my whole family are still in bed This is a page break
When I opened my eyes I fund Thalia right in front of my face trying to wake me up, I looked straight into her eyes and she blushed then moved back realising how close she was to me. I turned to see everyone else was waiting outside of the van.
"Come on" Thalia said, "We're at the airport"
I followed her and out of the van to join the others who were all waiting expectantly. I quickly looked around but my eyes focused on one face Percy's; his face was a turmoil of emotions, fear, worry, a bit of excitement and many other things that would take forever to sum up. It would be the first time he'd ever been in the air with permission and it would be the first time I'd ever been in a plan. As we walked into the airport I heard Annabeth talking to Percy.
"Stop worrying, you know that if Zeus wants to strike you and nico down he'll have to strike down 26 other demi-gods including his own daughter and if that doesn't start a war I don't know what will, so just chill." She said.
Percy promptly shut up but whether it was because what Annabeth said made sense or because she had said 'chill' I will never know.
I don't know why I'm writing lines as page breaks but hey? It works!
Nothing particularly interesting happened on the plane, Annabeth made us practice the lines we would say to introduce ourselves and taught us all the hand gestures Percy would use when directing us in our entrance so he wouldn't have to shout orders. However I doubted Percy would use any of them; he tended to get caught up in the moment and improvise.
By the time the plane reached London all I wished was that Annabeth would stop talking, Percy and Clovis as the most heavy sleepers had somehow managed to get to sleep but the rest of us where somewhat sleep deprived; Annabeth had talked non-stop for the whole flight.
Anyway we caught a pre-booked taxi to kings cross and Annabeth opened the envelope of tickets Chiron had given us, written in Greek was platform 9. She frowned but I smiled, I knew I'd had that dream for a reason. I looked around everyone looked really confused whilst I just grinned; I knew exactly where to go. I turned and began walking towards platforms 9 and 10 with my luggage.
"Are you guys coming?" I asked over my shoulder.
Since they had no other leads the others shrugged and followed me Annabeth and Percy in the lead.
"What do you think you are doing?" Annabeth hissed when she eventually reached me
"Taking us to school" I answered calmly.
When I saw the matching frowns on their faces I sighed and stopped, we found a secluded area of the station and I repeated my dream. Everyone was speechless but luckily they carried on following me to our destination. I then turned to Percy.
"What?" he asked
"I told you, in my dream people ran through this wall. You are invulnerable, therefore, you go first" I explained slowly to him.
Percy looked at me like I was crazy then gave in at mine and Annabeths glares. He turned to the wall and ran as fast as he could; the other demi-gods gasped as he reached the wall but Percy ran straight through and disappeared. I gestured for everyone else to follow. Annabeth went first, obviously the thought of being with Percy outweighed the thought that this shouldn't be possible. I made sure everyone got through then I followed them by casually leaning on the barrier and falling through.
Thalia POV
We all waited until nico had come through the barrier and then looked around the platform. I looked around the corner and found an extra platform with a red train. I stepped round the corner and stood next to the train, then jumped back in shock as it began to move itself around the corner. I heard everyone else gasp as the front came into view and decided to make a rash decision; I hopped into the driver's seat of the train. As the train came round the corner everyone gasped when they saw me waving, when we reached the rest of the gang I jumped off and cushioned my fall with a roll.
Everyone's mouths were wide open as they took in the train, I turned round and realise the train was firstly only two carriages long and secondly, completely covered in writing in every language known to man. I scanned the train and found ancient Greek. Finally something I could read! I looked and read, it said 'Hogwarts express foreign exchange'. Everyone boarded the train in excitement leaving me nico and Percy to handle the luggage; we sighed and began levitating the luggage into the train using our various powers. It took forever but we were eventually able to join the others inside. As soon as we all got in and had shut the doors the train began moving, deciding this was probably some kind of magic we left to find the others.
When we entered the carriages we were speechless, the carriage was split into 12 areas, and one for each of the Olympians except Hades took Hera's place which I smiled at. There was another room in the middle of the carriage which had a huge TV in and that was where everyone else was sat. The boys began to fall asleep and about halfway through the journey the girls left to go look in the other carriage. This one was dedicated to the minor gods and was much comfier, less imposing.
We all sat in a big circle and began to talk.
"So what are you looking forwards to the most?" I asked
"The library" Annabeth answered
"The relationships I can break up" Drew answered
"The fights" Clarisse said
"The gardens" Katy said
"The magic" Said Lou-Ellen
I rolled my eyes, they all answered in the exact way their parents would've, and sometimes it was scary how much they were like their parents.
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After about 2 hours we heard a voice saying we would be there in half an hour. I decided that we should go back and wake-up the boys and the others agreed. However when we got back we discovered that our job had already been done for us. We all took our original seats, Annabeth sliding in next to Percy who was one of the 2 people still asleep, the other was Clovis.
Butch had his trusty pencils out and was playing a new game he and the Stolls had recently invented; they had creatively called it how-many-pencils-can-you-fit-up-a-sleeping-boys-nose?
The Stolls were walking around taking bets as to today's amount; they did this on a regular occasion. The Stolls would take in bets then butch would fit as many pencils as he could into Clovis' nose without Clovis waking up.
When the Stolls had finished collecting bets butch began putting the pencils in one by one, the others all watched with a sick fascination as they held their breaths, not daring to make a sound.
I shook my head; this was the kind of behaviour that made me hate boys. I looked over at Annabeth who was watching the boys with a look of disgust that mirrored the one upon my face. As I watched her expression changed and I could almost see the gears turning in her head, coming up with a plan.
AN
Sorry guys got to break from writing this, to help you understand here's what just happened
"Come on" I hear from down stairs
"What?" I yell
"We've got to go to football" my dad yells
"But I don't like football" I whine
"You can have KFC afterwards" my dad yells in hope of getting me down
"Yay" I say and skip of downstairs to football.
6 hours later…
"Why did I go why!" I yell storming into my room and setting up my laptop
"For KFC" my sister says trying to be helpful
"Grrrrr" I say. Wisely my sister shuts up
Now I can continue writing Yay!
Ohh, FYI; I will do ANYTHING for KFC!
I was shaken out of my thoughts by Clovis starting awake; he looked around sleepily and then went straight back to sleep. The Stolls looked gleeful as butch began to remove the pencils and count them.
After a short pause butch announced "30"
This caused the Stolls to dance around in glee and everyone else to sigh and shake their heads dejectedly; presumably they'd lost their bets. Nico had not betted this round but he seemed to have a glint to his eye when he looked up now.
"How about we try it on Percy, he sleeps so heavily I reckon you could get loads of pencils in his nose" Nico suggested
This idea was met by a loud cheer that was quickly hushed so they didn't wake Percy, the Stolls began to collect bets and everyone was being very ambitious. Meanwhile butch went to go wash his pencils for hygiene reasons.
I looked over at Annabeth expecting her to be horrified at the idea but instead I saw her smiling like this was going along with her plan all along. The Stolls had got completely round the circle; they just had me Annabeth and nico left.
I shook my head in a disgusted gesture and the Stolls began to walk past Annabeth to nico but she stopped them, they turned to her surprised.
Annabeth smiled smugly then said "what would you give me if I gave you 10 drachmas and said that no pencils will get in Percy's nose?" they looked at her disbelieving then looked at each other.
"Well the odds would be 9:1 so you would get 100 drachmas out of it" they said, still not quite believing Annabeth was going along with this.
"In that case then I'll do just that" Annabeth said
Everyone but the Stolls looked suspiciously at Annabeth but the Stolls happily took Annabeths money and turned away muttering about the stupidity of children of Athena when it came to betting and moved on to nico.
Nico POV
Ever since Annabeth had made her bet I'd been thinking, she'd seemed so sure that her bet wouldn't fail, like she knew something we didn't. I'd always had a rule; never go against children of Athena.
… O.k. maybe I made up that rule just now but it's a good rule!
And so I thought quickly, 'what might Annabeth know that would help he?' she knows a lot but not anything as far as I know that could help her wake up Percy. It was impossible to wake him up since his dip in the Styx… Oh My Gods, she knew his weak spot! Surely if someone touched his weak spot then he'd instantly wake-up! I'm sure that's it, I'm sure I'm right. I smiled as the Stolls reached me which they probably found creepy, me being the son of the god of the underworld and all.
"Same as Annabeth, but … 5 drachmas not 10" I said smugly. They looked at me like I was mad then shrugged.
"Your loss" the Stolls said in unison as they collected my money. They swiftly turned and marched eagerly to their seats, I paid attention to Annabeth as butch stood in front of her and Percy and brought his first pencil. She shifted her arm a little bit until it was behind Percy and seemed to tense waiting. Just as butch was about to put the first pencil in Percy's nose she shifted very slightly and Percy shot up.
In a split second he had drawn riptide, split the pencil butch was holding clean in half and had butch kneeling before him with a sword point to his throat.
Percy shook his head to properly wake himself up then looked down at butch. Embarrassed he said sorry and sheathed riptide, meanwhile everyone had gotten over their shock and was now rolling on the floor laughing uncontrollably me included.
Percy sat back down and leaned over to Annabeth, I heard him ask what he had done and she whispered a reply in his ear. Suddenly he too was rolling on the floor laughing.
Eventually we all calmed down and managed to drag ourselves back to our seats.
Annabeth smiled at the Stolls who were still having trouble controlling their laughter and stood up.
"I believe you owe me 100 drachmas and Nico 50 drachmas for that wonderful performance by Percy" She said smirking.
That sure shut them up
Everyone was instantly reminded of the bets and turned to me and Annabeth in disbelief, the Stolls reluctantly stood up and removed all the money from their pockets which totalled, luckily for them, 150 drachmas. Me and Annabeth took our share and sat back down again.
Just before Annabeth sat down the Stolls asked her a question "How did you know?"
Annabeth smiled mysteriously as she sat down "Children of Athena always have a plan" She said
There, I've finally finished, it's my longest chapter yet so whoopee!
I can finally get some rest and continue yelling at my dad for dragging me to a stupid football match!
Anyway keep reviewing please I really value your comments and I also want to know whether you think Dumbledore should be a demi-god or not?
Thanks again and please keep reading.
Oh yeah, sorry that this chapter took so long to get written.
Jewelzla