A.N. I just wanted to let you know that Jason, Leo, and Piper will be a big part of the story, and no there is no Rome, I couldn't see a way to fit that in the story.
disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter
Chapter Six: I get a new Wand
Harry's P.O.V.
I passed out shortly after I was claimed; I had lost a lot of blood, and had a concussion: from when my head hit the ground when I crashed my broom. I was in and out of conscious for a couple of days, having weird dreams, I don't remember much about them, but they went from dreaming about giants to dreaming about the dirt women.
The first time I woke up, there was a very pretty girl feeding me pudding that tasted like treacle tart, she had chocolate-brown hair, that was cut, short, choppy, and uneven, she looked to be a little shorter than me and thin. I couldn't tell you what color her eyes was, I didn't know if my eyes were playing games with me, or if it was a trick of the light, but they seemed to keep changing color, like that color changing ink Hermione had bought one time, when I first looked, her eyes were brown, then blue, then when she noticed me looking at her she smiled and handed me my glasses they had changed to green.
"How are you feeling?" She asked.
"My side hurts." I said. Then winced when I moved a little. "How's Hedwig?"
"Do you mean that white owl?" She asked. I nodded then stopped because it hurt my head.
"She's fine." The girl said, shoving another spoonful in my mouth. "The Apollo cabin fixed her up, she is currently resting in the Athena cabin, Annabeth has been taking care of her." She again shoved pudding in my mouth, then sat the rest on the table by my bed. "I don't think we should risk anymore, to much of it can burn you up."
"What is that stuff?" I demanded, giving her a weird look.
'Ambrosia, food of the gods," she answered. "Demigods are able to eat it to help heal their injuries, but too much can kill us, burns us up."
I couldn't really understand what she was saying, but since thinking hurt my sore head, I didn't really try too hard, I'll just ask Annabeth if I remember later, when it didn't hurt my head to think.
"My name is Piper, by the way." she smiled again.
I didn't really register what she was saying as my eyes were closing again, I think she told me her name, as I was falling back to sleep, I couldn't really tell you what she said it was. I think she said her name was Pepper or something like that.
The second time I woke the girl was gone, instead there was a tall blonde guy, with eyes all over his body, I mean he was covered head to toe in eye balls, I know I should have been a little crept out by being stared at by so many eyes, but after all the weird things I have seen in the wizardry world, like dementors to Voldemort's face sticking out of the back of a teacher's head, plus there was Voldemort himself, the way he looked like he had got stuck half way turning into a snake, besides, believe it or not that wasn't the first time I have seen a guy covered in eyes. From the time I was about six to two years before I had started Hogwarts, there was this guy; that looked a lot like the guy that was watching me now, would pop up ever now and then, he wouldn't show up too much, but when he did he never talked, I would chat with him, I would spill everything to him, but he never said a word, when I was through with my chores, I would walk down to the park to avoid Dudley and his gang, then he would show up, if it was the summer he would have an ice cream for me, if it was winter he would have hot chocolate. But right before Hogwarts he just disappeared, I never knew what happened to him or even his name, but I hated when he had left, he had been my only friend back then.
When I woke up the next day and stayed awake no one was there. And I was now on a front porch in a deck chair, there was a glass of something sitting on a table next to me. I figured it was for me so I took a drink it tasted like pumpkin juice. I went to sit it back down when it slipped out of my hand, but with my seeker reflexes, I caught it before it hit the ground.
"Nice reflexes." Someone said. I looked up to see Percy walking toward me. He had on jeans, and a light blue t-shirt, that had a picture of a beach on it, under the picture it read Montauk Beach, he was carrying an orange t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a brown belt.
"Hey, Percy." I smiled at him. "How did I get out here?"
"Argus carried you." Percy said. "Here I thought you would like to shower, before I show you around," he handed me the clothes he had, which I now noticed he also had a towel, boxers, a pair of socks, and a little Ziploc bag, that contained a small bottle of shampoo, soap, toothbrush, and a small thing of toothpaste. "Oh, and Chiron wants to see you."
"Thanks," I said, getting to my feet. I had just realized I still wore the outfit I came here in, which now stinks, and my shirt was covered in dry blood.
"Thank Annabeth, she's the one who got you the clothes, and stuff." Percy said. "Come on I'll show you to the showers."
I took a thirty minute shower, I couldn't help it once I got in there, the water felt so good, I would have taken longer, but I remembered Percy was waiting on me, so I got out, put on the jeans, Percy had said Annabeth guessed at what size to get me, and had got me the smallest she could find, they were size fourteen in juniors, but I still had to use the belt, there were a little baggy, and a little too long they covered up my shoes. Before I put my shirt on I took a look at my side, the cut had healed , and I now had a scar there, to go with my other scars I already had, like the one on my, forehead, and then the two scars on my arm, the one were the basilisk fang went through it, and the one I got back in June when Pettigrew cut my arm. I sighed before slipping the camp-half blood t-shirt on. I then brushed my teeth, then tossed my old clothes in the trash, I didn't tuck my shirt in, because I looked even skinnier when I did, now that I didn't have on Dudley's giant size clothes, you could really see how skinny I was. The shirt I was given was a medium, and it was a little big on me. I took one last look in the mirror, and ran my hand through my wet hair, then carrying my Ziploc bag I went to find Percy.
Percy was waiting for me outside, leaning up against the building. with his arms crossed, he had a frown on his face as he watched some large girl with stringy brown hair fighting with some other kid.
"Ready to go see Chiron?" Percy asked, when he noticed me. I nodded then followed him as he walked off. "I'll show you around after Chiron speaks with you." He was a little in front of me so he had to turn to talk to me, and then stopped so suddenly I almost walked into him. He just stood there a moment looking at me, his mouth hanging open in shocked at how skinny I was, I guess he hadn't noticed while I was in my cousin's old things. I felt my face burn in embarrassment, and looked down.
'Well.. umm.." Percy said, awkwardly, "Chiron is at the big house, it's this way." I had a feeling he wanted to say something about my weight, but held it in.
"Hey, Percy," I said, walking a little faster so I was walking next to him "Do you know how Hedwig is doing?"
Percy sighed slightly like he was glad of something to say in the awkward silence. "She's doing okay," he said "Annabeth is taking care of her," he suddenly smiled. "If you're not careful I think you might loss your owl to her."
I smiled a little at that, it was true Hedwig had taking a liking to Annabeth. Then I remembered something.
"You wouldn't happen to know what happened to my broom and bag?" I asked. Hoping he did.
"I think they were put in your cabin." Percy said.
"My cabin," I asked.
"Yeah, there is a cabin for each god, for their kids to stay in, they use to only be a cabin for the 12 Olympians, but that changed after the war, and now each god has one, you will stay in Hera's cabin, which is cabin two, I stay in the Poseidon cabin, which is cabin three, you will get the cabin to yourself". Percy said.
"You said every god?" I asked. Percy nodded. I was trying to think of some of the Mythology I learned in muggle school before going to Hogwarts, which wasn't much. "But, wasn't Artemis a virgin goddess or something, she didn't like guys." I think it was Artemis anyway my memory of it is kind of fuzzy.
"Yeah, but she doesn't have any children, but her hunters do come to camp sometimes, and they stay in her cabin."
"Her hunters?" I asked.
"Yeah, the huntress of Artemis, they go around hunting monsters, and they swear off guys, and get to be immortal unless they die in battle."
"Oh". I said, I didn't know if I would want to be immortal never to die just living forever as your friends got old, and died in front of you, I didn't think I could do it. "I don't think I could do that, be immortal, while my friends grow old, and die." I wondered how the gods could stand to watch their kids die, I couldn't do it, if I was a god I wouldn't have any demigod kids.
Percy looked at me for a minute then mumbled. "I think Annabeth was right." He was talking more to himself then to me, but still I asked.
"About what?"
"Oh, just that you remind her a lot of me". He said. I looked at him in shock.
"I do?" I asked, wondering what about me could remind Annabeth about Percy, sure he had black hair, and green eyes like me, but he was a head taller than I was, I barely came to his shoulder and he had a slight muscular build.
"She also told me I would like you, once I got to know you and we would become good friends." Percy suddenly smirked. "Come on, Shorty, Chiron is waiting."
"Not you to." I said, following Percy into what he said was the big house.
"Hello, Harry." Chiron smiled up at me, he somehow was sitting in a wheelchair, at a table playing a game of solitaire. "Why don't you and Percy have a seat, there is much to discuss; as we took the seats across from him, he looked down at his cards and sighed. "I do miss Mr.D's pinochle games when he is away, solitaire, just isn't the same." He sat the cards he had in his hand down on the table, then looked back up at us, and his eyes went to the lighting scar on my forehead.
"You know I was surprised to see The-Boy-Who-Lived crash-land his broom at a camp for demigods." He said, picking his cards back up, and flipping one over and frowning.
"The boy who what?" Percy asked, confused. I guess I didn't tell him that part when I told him my story.
I didn't answer him instead I asked Chiron. "How do you know who I am?"
"What? You think the gods don't know about your little wizard world?" He asked amused, he then laid an eight of clovers on top of a nine of hearts then flipped another card over.
"There was a time many years ago, some of the gods choose to have their affairs with witches, Zeus was real fond of them, something about mortals with magic powers turned him on."
"Gross, Chiron," Percy exclaimed, making a face, "I didn't need to know that." I snorted
Chiron choose to ignore Percy's little out burst, and kept talking as if he hadn't said anything.
"For centuries he went for witches over mortals." He stopped talking a minute to lay a seven of diamonds on top of the eight he had laid down a moment ago. "A lot of your well-known wizards were sons of Zeus."
"Like who." I asked.
"Merlin, for one", Chiron smiled at my shocked look, and I believe he even fathered one of the founders of Hogwarts." Chiron went on. "Godric Gryffindore, ".
"Gryffindore was the son of Zeus?" I asked, shocked.
"And, Rowena Ravenclaw was a daughter of Athena, and Helga Hufflpuff was a daughter of Hermes." Chiron told me.
"What about Slytherin?" I asked.
"He was just a normal wizard, that's one of the things that drive him a part from the others." Chiron answered "The pur-blood wizards as they liked to call themselves are just descendants of Hecate's demigod children; sometimes, Hecate has descendants in half-bloods, it depends on if one side of the family was pur-blood, and muggle-borns are just children that Hecate sees worthy of blessing with magic. Why do you think muggle-born are sometime more powerful than pur-bloods, it's because they have magic gave to them by the goddess herself, not magic that has been pasted down through a long line of family members."
"I didn't know that." I said
"I have trained many of demigods who were also wizards, they had a choice they could live in the wizard world or live in our world, most stayed in the wizard world; because the magic makes it a lot harder for monsters to find them, there was some who stayed in both worlds, they went to Hogwarts or some other magic school, and during the summer holiday they came to camp." Chiron said.
"What about my dad?" Percy asked.
Chiron smiled at him. "No, as far as I know Poseidon never had any witch lovers, he liked none magical mortals."
"Anyway, the last known demigod with wizard blood was born back in the 1926, he was a son of Zeus, we have been forbidden to speak his name, as far as I know, he never knew of being a demigod, or of the greek gods, his mother died giving birth to him, and he grow up thinking that her husband, that had walked out on them, had been his father, Zeus was quite fond of him , he was: handsome, smart, and a very powerful wizard. Zeus thought best if he stayed hidden in the magical world, so he could stay safe. " Chiron told us.
"What happen?" Percy asked." I mean for his name to be forbidden."
Chiron's face suddenly darkened, and just for a second his eyes went to my scar again, "He broke Zeus's heart." Chiron answered,
"What?" Percy asked, his mouth hanging open.
"You got to understand, Percy, he was Zeus favorite child, he was even more fond of him then he had been of Hercules, that's way Zeus kept being a demigod from him, he wanted him to have a normal life outside of fighting monsters."
"What did he do?" I asked.
"He had become evil, he wanted to rule the world, he thought he had ever right, claimed to be the most powerful wizard of all time, even changed his name, tried to find a way to make his self immortal, and didn't care who he had to kill to get what he wanted, he was as bad as Kronos. I hate to think of what he might have done, if he knew he was a son of Zeus." Chiron said.
"What ever happened to him?' I asked.
"He was thought to have died, little over a decade ago, but for some reason his soul never showed up in the underworld, but then a few years ago a small part of his soul did show up, nobody can figure out how or way the rest of his soul didn't, but Zeus no longer believes him dead; which I'm sure your mother Hera doesn't like, for some reason she really hated him, more than she had ever hated any of Zeus kids even Hercules."
I opened my mouth to ask something, but then there was a loud crack of thunder that made both me, and Percy jump.
"Maybe we should move on to another subject before we all get incinerated." Chiron said, so I decide to bring up the quest Hera had mentioned to me.
"Um, Chiron, before I came here, Hera spoke in my head." I started "She said I was to tell you that I would need a quest soon, that she would need my help."
"Yeah, Annabeth mentioned something about that." Chiron answered, laying down another card.
"You wouldn't happen to know anything about it would you?" I asked.
Chiron frowned "Sorry, Harry, but I'm not sure since nothing has happened yet."
"But, you do have an idea of what it could be?" Percy asked.
"It could be a number of things, Percy, but yes I do have a few theories, but I wish not to say them right yet, we just have to wait, and see. Train Harry best you can, so he will be ready when time comes." Chiron said.
"Train me?" I asked.
"Yes, young Percy here has agreed to stay at camp a little longer then he normally does, so he can help in your training." Chiron explained.
"Anything to get out of school." Percy joked.
"Now, Harry, do you have your own sword and shield?" Chiron asked.
"My what?" I demanded.
"No, I guess not," Chiron mumbled, and Percy snorted, "Don't worry, we will find you something. Now, Percy, why don't you go ahead and show Harry around, he can begin training tomorrow." Chiron counted.
"Wait, a minute, Chiron." Percy said. "How do we know if we can trust Hera?"
"What do you mean?" I asked Percy. Looking for him to Chiron, I lend forward laying my Ziploc bag on the table, I was playing with the top off it nervously, folding it, and unfolding it.
Percy glanced at Chiron, before answering me, "Well..umm, Harry, you see Hera, she's never really liked demigod heros very much, and has been known to lead them into traps, or even cures them."
"Oh," was all could say, I didn't like the thought that my own mum might be trying to trick me. "Then if she didn't like demigods, why she have one?"
"I have never tried to figure out why the gods do what they do, Harry, but Hera would have had her reasons." Chiron said. Which didn't make me feel any better.
"Meaning you don't know," I said, then felt guilty for snapping at someone who was just trying to help me. "Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude." I sighed. "I guess all I am is a bloody accident then."
Chiron laid down his last card, making him win the solitaire game, then reached over and laid his hand on mine.
"You see, Harry, I don't think that's true, " Chiron said. "Hera isn't known for having affairs, in fact as far as I know she has never cheated on Zeus before, and gets real angry when ever Zeus dose."
"Maybe she wanted to show Zeus what it felt like," I suggested. "Merlin knows I wouldn't like being cheated on."
"Perhaps," Chiron said, letting go of my hands and pulling his away. "I do not think that is the case , it seems like to me, Hera knew something was going to happen to her, and needed a demigod she could trust."
"You think she has known all along that she would need my help", I asked.
"It seems you're not the only one she has singled out for help." Chiron said, "do you know how Annabeth recognize, that Hera was your mother after the name Tia Callida was mentioned."
I was going to ask how he knew about that, but then figured Annabeth told him, so instead I shook my head no.
"When Leo Valdez first got here he mentioned an old babysitter of his, when he was little that went by the name Tia Callida, we soon realized that the babysitter had been Hera." Chiron explained. "It seems like Hera has picked out who she wants to go on this little quest of hers, because both Jason Grace, and Piper McLean have had dreams about her, usually only three people go on a quest, but it looks like four will be going on this one."
"So, I'm suppose to sit here, and wait teal I'm needed". I said, not liking that one bet.
"You will be training." Chiron said. "Now, why don't you go ahead, and let Percy show you around."
I would have protested, but I knew a dismiss when I hear one, this guy put me in the mind of Dumbledore so much I almost said yes Professor to him, instead I just nodded my head, and stood along with Percy, and together we left the big house.
"So, how are you taking all of this?" Percy asked me.
"I don't know, it's kind of all confusing," I said. "My birth is the most confusing, but at lest there was a reason I was born, even if it seems I shouldn't have been."
"I know how you feel," Percy told me. "You see back around World war 2, the big three gods, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, made a pack, not to have anymore demigod kids, but Zeus, and Poseidon broke their oath, in fact it turns out Zeus did twice, anyway, there was one time the gods had voted on rather or not to kill me, and this daughter of Zeus, Thalia, she's a good friend of mine and Annabeth, and a hunter for Artemis."
"Do you think they will want to kill me?" I asked, not really worried about it, after all I was use to people wanting me dead, but then again this was gods we were talking about, not Voldemort, so if they wanted me died then most likely I would be dead.
"Don't worry about it things have changed since then." Percy said.
Percy showed me everything there was to see at camp: first, we passed a volleyball pit, were a few people pointed at me, and whispered, it made Percy scowl, but being use to it. I was able just to ignore them, there was campers of all ages, some were older than me, maybe eighteen to nineteen, some were younger, and some looked about my age, and most of everybody was in an orange camp half-blood t-shirt, a few wore shirts with their favorite bands, some had on shirt that showed what god their parent was. Percy took me though a strawberry field, were kids was picking strawberry's. Percy explained that the strawberries help found the camp, then he took me though a huge forest that took up a quarter of the valley, with trees so tall, and thick, it could rival the forbidden forest at Hogwarts.
"If you come into the woods alone you have to be careful," Percy said. "There stocked with monsters, for kids can train but don't worry they can't come into camp without being summoned." Percy said.
After the woods Percy showed me an archery range, "I suck at archery," Percy told me, then he showed me a javelin range, a sing-along amphitheater, and an arena where he said they held sword, and spear fights, and then he showed me the mess hall, it was an outdoor Pavillion framed in white Grecian columns on a hill overlooking the sea, with dozen of stone picnic tables. if Annabeth hadn't already explained that it didn't normally rain here, I would find it weird that it had no roof or walls. Then Percy took me to the stables were he gave Blackjack a sugar cube, before finally showing me to the cabins.
It was rather a bizarre sight, arranged like a greek omega, with a loop of cabins, ever cabin was different. Number four had tomato vines on the walls, and a roof made of grass, seven was solid gold, they all faced a commons area, dotted with greek statues, fountains, flowers beds, and a couple of basketball hoops, (Which somehow made me miss Quddictch all of a sudden) There was twenty cabins in all, and the pair at the held of the field, numbers one, and two looked like his-and-hers mausoleums, with big white marble boxes with heavy columns in front, my eyes fell on cabin two, it was the most graceful somehow, it had slimmer colummns garlanded with pomegranates, and flowers, the walls were covered in images of peacocks, and there was a pile of stone laying in front that looked like it use to be a statue, renumbering what Percy told us when he came to Grimmauld place I realized who this cabin belonged to.
"That's my mum's cabin isn't it?" I asked, pointing at it.
"Yep, and the one next to it is Zeus'." Percy answered, as I watch a blonde haired boy walking out of the cabin.
"Who's that?" I asked.
"That would be Jason Grace," Percy answered. "He's the son of Zeus."
"Isn't he one of them that Chiron said would go on the quest with me." I asked. I had hoped Percy, and Annabeth or maybe even Tyson would be going with me.
"Yeah, that's him," Percy told me. "Come on I'll introduce you to him."
"Hey, Percy, if Jason is a son of Zeus, and Zeus is married to Hera, and I'm a son of Hera, wouldn't that make Jason my stepbrother or something?" I asked. Percy stopped, and thought a minute.
"Yeah, I guess you can say that." Percy smiled, "I never really thought of that before, " Percy counted walking, "You see gods don't have D.N.A, so we really don't count the ones that's not your siblings , but I never really thought about the children of the gods that were married being step-sibblings, you see my dad's immortal wife doesn't have any demigod children, so I never gave it any thought before."
"Well, look here," someone said from behind us. "Another newbie."
I turned around to see a large girl standing behind me, she had stringy brown hair, and wore a XXX large camp-half blood t-shirt, under a camouflage jacket, she was shorter than Percy, but taller than me, and behind her stood three other girls, and two boys, just as big, and ugly as she was.
"Get, lost Clarisse," Percy snapped, hand going in his pocket. I realized this was the big girl who Percy had frowned at earlier.
"Stay out of it, Prissy," The girl Percy called Clarisse said.
"His name is Percy," I snapped at her. I didn't like this girl, she reminded me to much of Dudley, and I didn't like it when people made fun of my friends, and I thought of Percy as my friend now, I owed him, Annabeth, and Tyson, for helping get away from the Dursley's, and getting me to camp.
Percy laid his hand on my shoulder, "It's okay, Harry, she calls me that all the time. Clarisse and I don't really like each other."
Clarisse rolled her eyes at us as one of the other girls mumbled understatement.
Clarisse sneered at Percy before turning to me "You're Harry Potter right?" she asked.
"Yeah". I answered warily.
"Cabin 5 has been given orders to beat you to a pulp," she said, looking me up, and down. "This will be easy."
"Umm, what?"
"Let me guess, orders from Ares," Percy said, stepping a little in front of me. "Well, sorry, but you'll have to go through me to get your hands on Harry."
"And me." Annabeth had come running over, and stood by my other side, but a little in front of me, so I was now in between them, and a little embarrassed, I didn't need them to protect me, and I have never hide behind anyone in my life and I wasn't going to start now.
"Guys, you don't have to try, and hide me." I stepped in between them to get right in front of Clarisse. "Look, I don't know what this Ares god has against me, I haven't even met him, so I'm not going to fight you."
She got right in my face making me take a step back. "You have no choice, Brit," she sneered, then gave me a push making me bump into Annabeth.
"Why don't you get lost." Annabeth told her, she just ignored her.
"Like I told Prissy when he first got here we have an initiation ceremony for newbies." She told me.
"Thanks, but I'll pass." I said, but before I could do anything, Clarisse had me by the neck, and was dragging me toward the loos, making me drop my Ziploc bag, her friends were laughing, and Percy said something I couldn't understand, but I had been in a hold like this by Dudley, I was use to it, and knew how to get free, I kicked her behind the knee, and she went down like she had been stupefy, still having a hold on me I stumbled back, but stayed on my feet. Clarisse looked up at me and growled, she got on her knees and then tried to tackle me like an American football player, but I easily dodged out of her way with my Quidditch reflexes.
By now more kids had gathered a round watching us, as she once again made to tackle me, but I dodged that to. She glared up at me as I smirked down at her.
"I've lived all my life with the biggest bully in England, I know ever bully trick you can come up with, and I know how to avoid them, so your just wasting your time, Clairsse." I told her, which she didn't like very much, she jumped to her feet so fast I was startled a little, that was all she needed to get the upper hand as she came at me again, I didn't have time to move as I was tackled to the ground. I was sure she would break my rips, as she sit on top me with her legs on either side.
"Clarisse, you're taking this too far." Annabeth said.
"Nobody, makes a fool of me." Clarisse yelled in my face, as she punched me.
"You don't need me to look like a fool." I glared up at her, which she didn't like. I tried to get out from under her, but this girl most of weighed more than Buckbeck.
"You're going pay for that." Clarisse said, she punched my face, making my glasses fly off, then one of the big ugly girls with her brought a long spear, which she raised it up.
"Clarisse, stop it now." Percy tried to get to me, but some the guys that was with Clarisse blocked his path, even from the ground I could tell he was holding back some, as not to really hurt the boys, and Annabeth couldn't get free of the two girls who were now holding her back.
"I don't know what you did to my father, but he really hates you," Clarisse said. "That means cabin 5 hates you."
"Join the club," I told her. My lip was bleeding and I just knew I was going to end up with a black eye. "You're not the first to hate me."
She raised her spear, I realized the stupid thing was electric, the only thing running through my mind was, this is really was going to hurt.
"Stop, Clarisse," a new voice yelled, and the girl who had fed me came over, "You don't want to attack Harry."
She most have a way with words because even I believed her, and Clarisse lowered her spear a little.
"That's right," she said in a soothing voice "You don't want to hurt him."
Then Clarisse suddenly shook her head, and glared at her, "How dare you try to charmspeak me, Princess." she stood up as if she was going to go after the girl, she had raised her spear at her, as if by instinct, I raised my hand,
"Expelliarmus,"I shouted, and a jet of red light shot from my hand, and hit Clarisse she went flying back and landed hard on the ground, and her spear went flying all the way into the woods, and out of sight.
"You're going to pay for that, Runt." Clarisse jumped back to her feet as I got to my feet, she grasped my shirt, and slammed me into the building behind me.
"Clarisse, let him go." Percy had gotten by the two ugly guys and had made it to us, I didn't see what he did to them, but they were both on the ground, one holding his face, and one holding his head. "Go find your spear or something." He took her hand off me, and gave her a little shove, so he had room to step in front of me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw that Annabeth had also gotten loose and was by my other side, and she handed me my glasses and I put them on.
"You watch your back, Britt", Clarisse said "I'm not through with you." Then she walked off with her friends. I was still to shocked to move, I looked down at my hand as if I had never seen it before.
"Harry, how did..." Annabeth swallowed, "um.. how did you do that?"
I didn't answer, how could I, I didn't know how I had done that, but after a minute I got over my shock and put my hand down and looked up then winced as I saw everyone still standing there staring at me, mouth hanging open, I was hoping not to stand out here, why wherever I go I'm always the different one, just for once I would like to be normal, the same as everyone else. I just put my head down so I wouldn't have to look at anyone. I should have been use to this by now, at Hogwarts all anyone did was stare at me, like I was something you gook at in a zoo.
My thoughts most of showed on my face because suddenly I heard Percy shouting, "Alright, shows over everyone get back to what you were doing, go on get." I looked up to see everyone walking off. I reached up and wrapped the blood from my mouth, how embarrassing, my first day here and I get beat up by a girl in front of; all the campers, the very pretty girl that had fed me and my two new friends. Percy must think I'm some kind of wimp.
"Harry, are you all right?" Annabeth asked, looking at me with a worried look.
"I'm just fine, Beth." I tried to give my friend a reassuring smile, but I don't think it worked, because she just counted to look at me worried. I suddenly wanted to be alone, for Percy, and Annabeth to stop staring at me like my head was about to fall off.
"I'll see you two later, I'm going to go to my cabin for a while." I said, and before either of them could stop me I walked past them and toward the Hera cabin.
"Harry," Annabeth called after me.
"Let him go, Annabeth," I heard Percy say, "He just has to be by himself for a while."
When I got up to the cabin I noticed the front steps was dusty like no one has ever been inside before, the door was colorful like a peacock, and was changing colors, I took a deep breath before opening it, and going in.
The first things I noticed was the cabin had no windows, the second thing it was cold, I shivered, and hugged my self, I knew right a way I wasn't going to like it in cabin two. I was reminded too much of the chamber of secrets, there was no beds, no furniture of any kind, just a circle of white columns around a central statue of Hera, that was about ten feet tall, she sat on a throne in flowing golden robs, instead of plain white, like the ones outside it was brightly painted a hawk was on her shoulder, and in one of her hands was a lotus topped staff. At her feet a fire burned in a bronze brazier. The most shocking thing in here was a middle-aged guy standing in a corner in was in a postal carrier outfit, leaning against the wall, he was slim, curly black hair. a mailbag was slung over his shoulder.
"Hullo," I said, "Um, I'm not in the wrong cabin I'm I?"
"No, this is cabin two." The guy said, as he got off the wall and stood up straight. "Do you not know who I'm?" He asked smirking at me, and for some reason I suddenly felt like I should check my bag and make sure everything was there. But before I could do anything his phone rang.
"Can't even go one minute." He mumbled, pulling out a phone that glowed blue, two green snakes no bigger than earthworms were writhing around. " I got to answer this just a sec...Hello". He listen, "Well, she is just going to have to wait, I'm in the middle of a delivery right now." He listen again, "I don't care if her daughter is going to have to go back to the underworld soon, she's not going right now, she can wait a day or two, why can't she take the package her self...well she's just going to have to wait..cereal again, just tell her to talk to customer service.. I know she wouldn't like it." with that he hung up his phone.
"Sorry, about that." He said. "But as the messenger of the gods I'm always busy."
"Messenger of the gods?" I asked, "Wouldn't that make you Hermes?"
"You guessed faster than Percy did." Hermes said. "Now the reason I'm here is your mother sent me to make a delivery."
"My mother?" I asked.
"Yes, Hera has two things she wanted me to give you." Hermes said. He went to put the phone back in his pocket when it rang again, but this time Hermes ignored it, and it turned into an electronic signature pad, "Please sigh here." I picked up the stylus, and the little green snakes was now entwined around it, they wriggled around my fingers. It kind of tickled a little.
"You don't have any rats do you?" a male voice said. I almost dropped it.
"George, a female voice scolded, "You are being rude the boy doesn't even know you."
"But, I'm hungry." George said.
"Don't you two start" Hermes said, as I handed it back to him, it immediately turned back into a phone, and started ringing. Hermes rolled his eyes.
"You have made Poseidon mad." the female said. "He has been on hold for ten minutes now, and Aphrodite is calling."
"Martha, can't you see he's busy." George said.
"I'm just letting him know." Martha said.
"Here you are," Hermes handed me a long thin box and a note "The other gift is over there." He pointed to a large bird-cage in the corner that had a tiny gold bird about the size of a snitch.
"I well leave you now, little step-brother," Hermes said. "I'm very busy, say bye to Harry, George, and Martha".
"Bye, Harry," both snakes say together.
"Bye." I said as light glowed, then Hermes was gone.
I looked down at the long box, it was a little under a foot long and thin it looked somewhat like the boxes in Ollivander's shop.
I opened the note first it was from Hera it read,
Darling,
I know by now you most be confused, but don't worry you'll understand everything soon, as soon as you go on that quest, I will tell you what ever you want to know about your birth, the time is coming soon I can feel it, there is something big about to happen, anyway I sent you the bird, he is a snidget, and his name is Goldie, he was a think you gift from your father to me when you were born, take good care of him for me and the wand in the box is my gift to you it was forged by the Cyclopes, the core is a feather from one of my own sacred peacocks, and it is more than it seems to be, I most go now before Zeus finds out I'm sending this things to you after all Olympus is closed at the moment.
Your mother Hera.
I looked up from the letter in shock, and went to the little bird in the cage, and smiled I realized were I saw this little bird from. Quddtich through the ages, they use to use them, before they were snitches, they were near instced now, of course his dad would give someone one as a gift, he had been a huge Qudditch nut if he went by what Sirius told him. I looked closer at the little bird it was now sitting on the edge of its food bowl eating bird seeds. I just hoped Hedwig didn't mind me having another bird around.
I folded up the letter and put it in my pocket, then remembered the wand in the box I was still holding, I opened it and my mouth dropped, the wand was made of celestial bronze, the thin handle was covered in little emerald. I took it out of the box it felt weightless, I pointed it over to the corner were my bag was,
"Accio, bag," The bag came flying at me before I could even blink. I smiled I was really going to like this wand, but I wondered what Hera meant that it wasn't all it seems, I look it over, but I didn't find anything, so I just stuck it in my back pocket, and went over the corner were there was a sleeping bag, a pillow, and a couple of covers, my broom was propped up against the wall.
I sat down opened the front pocket of my bag, and got out Sirius' mirror.
"Sirius Black". I said in to it at first nothing happened , and then Sirius was smiling up at me.
"Harry," he greeted, then his smile faded as he looked at my face. "You've been in a fight." I shrugged, "Nice Shiner," I reached up and felt of my eye, then winced. "I was getting worried about you."
"Sorry, I have kinda been out of it for the last few days, are you alone?" I through in the question at the end so he wouldn't ask about why I had been out of it the last few days.
"Yep, just me and Buckbeak up here," Sirius said. I could tell he knew I had changed the subject on purpose, but he didn't press it, "So, how do you like that camp so far."
"I think I'm going to like it here," I said.. "As long as Clarisse stays away from me."
"Who?"
"Clarisse, she's a daughter of the war-god Ares, She did this." I pointed to my black eye, and Sirius started laughing thinking it was funny, that I got beat up by a girl. I then told him what happen. "Sirius, I used magic without a wand, how could I do that?"
"Your magic is in you, kiddo," Sirius said, "Not your wand, or else a muggle could pick up a wand and do magic, if you remember there was a time before there was any wands, wands have magical cores, but they're useless without a wizard's magic. Merlin himself used a staff, some older magical places still do, stuff like that just makes your spells less dangerous, you see wands started being used because wizards spells were to powerful without them, they absorb some of the magic so the spell isn't so powerful, hell wands have been used for so long most wizards now a days can't do magic unless it's accident without a wand, but then your also a demigod so your most likely more powerful than most if not all your normal wizard."
"Did you know Merlin was a son of Zeus?'" I asked Sirius. "So was Gyffindore, Ravenclaw was a daughter of Athena, like Annabeth, and Hufflepuff was a daughter of Hermes.
"The god of thieves, and travelers?" Sirius said. "Explains why her house takes all the ones no one wants."
"He is also the god of messengers, I thought you didn't know anything about muggle greek mythology." I said.
" I don't know much, but your mum..I mean Lily was always talking about it, and telling stories, she was so sure that the gods were real, her favorite was the goddess Hera, she kind of worshiped her, and I already told you about the little silver peacock she wore on a neckless,".
I suddenly frowned at that "Sirius, Hera is my mum, she's the one that claimed me."
"But, I thought Lily always said Hera is the goddess of marriage, " Sirius asked, looking confused. "I wouldn't think she would cheat on her husband, now who was she married to I don't remember?"
"Zeus, so I guess he is my step-father, though he not very happy about me." I answered.
"Something, is not adding up," Sirius frowned even more. "There is something missing here, I thought James would never cheat on Lily like that, and with the goddess of marriage."
"She said I will be told everything soon." I told him, then explained about meeting Hermes, and the bird. he barked out laughing when I told him what kind of bird it was.
"Only James would give a goddess a Snidget." He smiled.
"Look what she had made for me." I pulled out my wand, and showed him Sirius's eyes got big.
"Is that bronze?" He asked. I nodded. "I like to see Fudge try, and snap that wand."
"So, what is happen there any news on Voldemort?" I asked, putting my wand away.
"He still isn't showing the world he's back." Sirius sighed. "He's not doing much of anything."
"I think he is up to something" I said, but before Sirius could answer someone was knocking on his door.
"Sirius,' I heard Hermione voice call, "Lunch, is ready if your hungry."
"I'll be right down." Sirius called, "I better go pup, before Molly comes looking for me." He rolled his eyes at that making me smile, "You need anything just call and I'll be there faster than a snitch."
I"ll be fine, Padfoot, you just worry about staying out of Azkaban." I said. Sirius just waved his hand, then he was gone, so I put the mirror away, feeling kind of lonely, I purposely left out what Chiron said about that son of Zeus, I didn't need my godfather worrying anymore then he already was, and I had a bad feeling on who that son was, and I didn't want to think about it right now.
That night I couldn't get to sleep I tossed and turned, it wasn't because of not having a bed to sleep on I was used to sleeping on the floor, I spent the first ten years of my life sleeping on nothing but ragged old blankets on the floor of my old cubboard, it was the fact I'm a little claustrophobic, after I was giving Dudley's second bedroom, I hated small spaces, I had a fear of being locked back up, and the Dureleys locking me up in my bedroom all the time with bars on my windows didn't help anything, I thought I would never make it through the chamber of secrets, to save Ginny Weasley back in second year, I still don't know how I could stand it, and I could only stand the dorm back at Hogwarts because my bed was by a window, it was a good size dorm, but there was still five beds, and four other boys in there, it made it kinda crap.
I sighed , and rolled over there wouldn't be a big deal if the cabin had windows, it may just be one big room, but it was huge, the fact it had no windows is what bothered me, and there was no ligh.t I couldn't even see my hand, in my dorm, and back in my old room at the Dursleys, I felt better beacues light came through my window, I hated not being able to see not even a bit, if someone was going to attack me. I wanted to be able to see them coming, I tossed and turned some more, but ever time I closed my eyes I felt like I was in the chamber of secrets, and any minute now a gaint snake was going to come out and strike me.
I had couldn't stand it anymore so I got up grabbed my sleeping bag, and my pillow, then went outside, I fix me a bed by the door and laid down to sleep, harpys be damned I wasn't able to spend one more minute in that cabin, I don't care if I did get in trouble, or if I did get eating by a harpy, I wasn't sleeping in that cabin into it got some windows, being outside helped my nerves, and I was able to get to sleep, to the sounds of crickets, and the weird sounds coming out of the woods.