Percy

First stop, the book shop. "Come on Percy, hurry up!" Annabeth called. "Coming!" We went past a shop selling cauldrons and a pet store. The owls in there looked at me simultaneously and I did not like the look in their eyes. Gulping, I hurried after Annabeth.

The book store was called 'loiFrsh dna loBtts?' Leilah muttered something under her breath. We could suddenly all read the sign perfectly. The store was called Flourish and Blotts.

Inside were books. A lot of books. "Excuse me sir! Could you help us find these books?" Leilah asked. As she talked with the assistant, Annabeth whispered to me, "Look at all these books! There's one about the history of Hogwarts, oh and one about all the wizarding schools in the world."

"Yeah, the books are great." I said, not really paying attention.

"Percy. Percy? Perseus Jackson, are you listening to me?"

"Wha-oh, sorry."

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Gods Percy."

I was about to retort, when Leilah cut in.

"Alright, we got the books."

I watched, slightly amazed as she put the huge stack of books into a bag, which she swung over her shoulder with ease.

We walked out of the shop and into the busy street.

Leilah took out the list of things we would need for Pigwarts. Sorry, Hogwarts.

"Next up are 3 sets of black robes each, a pointed hat? Wow, seriously? A pair of protective gloves, a winter coat, a cauldron, some crystal phials, a telescope, and a pair of brass scales. You know what, I'll get the cauldrons and stuff, the rest of you go to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. It's right next door." She said.

She headed back to where we came from.

"To Madam Malkin's Robes we go." Nico said.


In the shop was a friendly looking squat woman who was attending to a boy with pale blond hair, and a sneer on his face. "Hello dears, just step on a stool and one of my assistants will help you."

I did as she told us to do, and so did Annabeth. Nico hesitated before doing so, however.

As the assistants adjusted our robes ("Ow." Nico muttered.), the pale haired dude talked to us.

"So, where are you from? I've never seen you before."

"We're American exchange students." Annabeth lied smoothly.

"I'm Draco Malfoy, my father is Lucius Malfoy. I'm sure you've heard of him before, after all he does have some American contacts."

"Er, no." I said.

"You haven't?" Draco sneered then muttered something about 'mudbloods'. I had no idea what that was, but it didn't sound good.

"Well, my father is very influential." Draco continued. "You wouldn't want me as an enemy, after all, I could ruin your lives with one word to my father."

The not-so subtly hidden threat made me tense.

"Okay, you're done." Madame Malkin, I assumed, told Draco.

Draco handed her some galleons before stepping off his stool and walking out of the shop.


"Where to next?" I asked. Leilah shrugged.

"I'll go get my robes and you guys can go buy whatever you want I guess. After that, we get our wands."

Annabeth, of course, headed back to Flourish and Blotts.

"I'll meet you at the wand shop." She said.

"Do you wanna go buy some pets?" I asked Nico.

"The animals will probably all hate me, but I guess."

We went down the alley, stopping in front of a shop titled Magical "Menergerie? Meanagerie? Menergie?" I tried to figure out how the second word was pronounced.

"Percy, it's pronounced menagerie."

"Oh. I knew that."

"Suuuuuure you did. And I'm Zeus."

The sky rumbled, and Nico muttered under his breath. "Jeez, can't you take a joke?"

It rumbled again. "Apparently not."

We walked into the store, filled with all sorts of creatures. There were giant purple toads; a bunch of cats that eyed Nico warily, but rubbed against my leg; and custard-colored furballs making cute squeaking noises.

I looked around, and spotted a penguin. He had a white belly, but his back and head was blue.

Lord! Oh, he was a she. Oops.

Er, hi.

It's an honor to meet you my lord!

Call me Percy, 'lord' makes me feel..uncomfortable.

Of course my lo-Percy.

So what's your name?

I...don't have one.

Well then, I'll call you...Dorien.

Yaay! She waddled around on the table.

"Making friends?"

I turned around. Nico stood behind me, a raven on his shoulder. It tilted it's head to one side and cawed.

"Yeah." I picked up Dorien. "Let's go."

~~[Time Skip]~~

I stood outside Ollivanders, waiting. Nico was talking softly to his raven. I wondered if he could hear it's thoughts, like me and anything aquatic or equine.

"Hey guys." Leilah walked over to us. "Nice pets." She said.

Annabeth came out of the crowd, looking a bit annoyed. "What's wrong?" I asked.

She scowled and shifted her bag of books. "One of the assistants tried to hit on me. He kept trying even after I told him I had a boyfriend. Luckily, a customer came in and asked him a question. I just went out after that."

"Wands." Leilah reminded us. We went inside the musty old shop.

"A bit old to be looking for a wand aren't you?"

The old man, who I guessed was Ollivander, was a bit...creepy to say the least. "Er, yes. But you see, we're exchange students from America and decided that if we were going to come here, we might ax well get a wand from the local shop." Annabeth replied. I was impressed by her story. Then again, she was a daughter of Athena.

"Alright." He waved his wand and a bunch of tape measures flew out of nowhere and began to measure Nico. "Wand hand?" He asked, ignoring Nico's surprised face.

"Uh, left hand."

Ollivander nodded and wrote something down. Boxes flew out of their spaces, opening, wands coming out of their confines. Ollivander picked one up and held it out to Nico. "Hawthorn, dragon heartstring, 12 1/2 inches, slightly swishy."

Hesitantly, Nico touched the wand, but Ollivander pulled it away. "No, no, not that one. How about this?" He held out another wand. "Yew, unicorn hair, 11 inches, firm."

Nico took the wand and Ollivander yanked it away. "You seem like a Yew sort of person...hmmmm." He waved his wand again, and more boxes came out and opened themselves. "Yew, dragon heartstring, 14 inches, bendy." He said. Nico managed to actually hold the wand before the old man grabbed it away again.

After more wands, some Italian cursing, and me knocking over some boxes, Ollivander seemed to be, if possible, happy that Nico was taking so long to get a wand.

"Now, onto the experimental wands.."

"Experimental? Sei pazzo!?"

"Don't worry, they aren't dangerous...I think."

A dust-covered box came out, and we coughed. "Yew, raven's feather dipped in belladonna, 13 inches, slightly springy." Nico took the wand, and the whole room seemed to get darker. Shadows were drawn toward Nico, enveloping him in a shroud of darkness and, faintly, we could hear the screams of the damned...

"That will be 7 galleons."

I blinked.

"Oh, okay." Nico took out seven galleons, after carefully counting them, and handed the gold coins to Ollivander.

"Now," he turned to me. "What's your wand hand?" He asked as his measures went crazy on me.

Extra long chapter! My hands hurt now...

What did you think? Next chapter will be the rest getting their wands, and the girls get pets!