Oh look, it's an update! I thought I'd never update again. I'll try to get it done faster next time.

Percy POV:

As we walked to the courtyard, where Leo and the others were arriving, I saw that Valkyrie was fiddling with her uniform. I could understand her, though, because meeting other Demigods than me and Annabeth for the first time would have to be a little bit scary. I wondered how they where coming, because for all I knew, they where walking all the way from Long Island.

When we arrived in the courtyard after a very fast walk, it was deserted. Good, because we didn't need any other suspicious rumours to spread, there were enough of them as it was.

Suddenly, there opened a square hole in the ground, and out of it climbed Leo with a flashlight. He looked around until he spotted us, and yelled down into the hole.

"You can come up guys, were at the right place." Before he kneeled down and grabbed a suitcase the size of a small fridge. He obviously had some minor trouble lifting it, so I stepped forward. But before I could reach him, Leo looked like he had gotten a great idea, and pressed a button I hadn't seen. The result was that the suitcase started spewing fire at the end, like a rocket, and the sound of yelled curses and insults.

Jake Mason, Leo's half-brother, stuck his head up from the hole.

"We are not fire-resistant, Leo! Do you remember that little fact?" he had soot all over his face.

"Sorry." Leo answered. "I didn't harm you intentionally."

Jake dragged himself out of the hole, before he as well reached down to get out his suitcase, which was even bigger than Leo's. After him Annabeth's three siblings came out with all their computers, blueprints, books and notes. Malcolm didn't think it wise to come himself, as he was head counsellor in Annabeth's stead. So he sent Hanna, Dan and David, as they were the best at architecture and crafts aside from Annabeth.

"Be thankful I was here, Leo, or you would be held responsible for eight less inhabitants in camp. Mr D wouldn't be mad, though." Lou Ellen said when she came out, followed by her siblings Mary and Alex.

"Why don't you have suitcases?" I asked.

"They are back at camp. We'll transport them here later." Mary answered.

The last one to exit where Harley, who pulled his suitcase out before he closed the hole with a bronze key. We then walked inside to put all their things in their rooms, which we had found in a hallway close to our apartment. There where obviously more teachers here earlier.

While Annabeth and her siblings walked ahead and discussed the architecture of the castle, and all the improvements and upgrades they were planning, I introduced Valkyrie to the rest.

"Leo, Jake, Harley, Lou Ellen, Mary, Alex, this is my sister Valkyrie. She was claimed today."

"Nice to meet you, Valkyrie. You could do worse than have Percy for a brother." Jake said and shook her hand. Her hand almost disappeared.

Everyone else said "Hi", "Hello" and "Nice to meet you", but where too distracted by the castle to start a really long "get to know each other" conversation.

"Lou Ellen, can you come here? I need to have you in on this discussion." Annabeth called over her shoulder.

"Yes of course, Annabeth." Lou Ellen answered.

We continued to talk about nothing in particular, and I answered some more of Valkyries questions. She insisted I should call her Val. The conversations stopped short when we heard Lou Ellen go into a fit after seeing some of the wizards and witches.

"Annabeth, please, let me hex them into the next century. They are a disgrace to my mother." She pleaded, while she tried to get away from Annabeth's grasp.

"No, Lou Ellen. They are under the protection of your mother, and I'm sent here to protect them. So I will not let you harm them."

"Oh, it wont be harmful, just annoying. I'll make them itch all over for a month, or something. Please." She now sounded desperate, and it seemed she wanted to writhe out of her sweater to get away. Truth be told, the wizards looked ridiculous in their outfits, and I was ashamed I had to dress in a similar way.

"Lou Ellen, listen to reason." Dan said. "We are not supposed to look suspicious, nor draw attention. Hexing all the students and professors alike all at the same time would indeed look suspicious."

"Fine, I'm not going to do anything to them. You can let go of me Annabeth." She said resigned, but I was sure she would insist on "helping" Annabeth in tomorrows lesson.

"Here we are." Annabeth said. "We prepared three rooms, so those who are siblings must share a room."

They went inside with their suitcases, except from the Hecate-kids, who snapped their fingers and summoned their bedside trunk.

"You guys go with Annabeth, she'll give you a tour of the castle. I have a lot of assignments to read trough. Val, you'll do as you please, but I'm sure they'd want to get to know you better." With that said, I went to read trough that blasted amount of assignments.

Harry POV:

The day after the strange symbol appeared over the first-year girl, we had Professor Annabeth after lunch. We were as usual early, just sitting there talking, but that stopped the moment she walked in the door. We had had many strange lessons with both of the Jacksons, but her equipment today reached a new level. Because she was dressed in full ancient armour, and I'm not talking the dull brown things of leather, this was of a kind of bronze, decorated with gold engravings and grey gemstones in a complicated pattern all over. She had leg-shins over her purple trousers, golden sandals on her feet and a red cape attached to her shoulders. In her hand she had a spear, and strapped to her other arm she had a shield picturing a female head with serpents for hair. Her helmet where topped with a comb of orange hair and a golden circlet looking like some sort of leaves.

When she reached her desk, she turned towards us, put down her shield and spear, before taking of her helmet.

"I am attending a very important meeting directly after classes end today, and I have no time to change then. Now, today we are going to transfigure a daisy into a small oak."

Professor Perseus' class, Hermione POV:

I was curious to see if Professor Perseus were all dressed up as well. Because if Professor Annabeth had looked more intimidating than usual in her armour, what would Perseus look like? I was sure of one thing though, and that was that I knew two things about that particular type of armour. One, it was not intended on combat, it was intended for a commander or for formal occasions, and two, it originated in the designs from ancient Greece. I had to get to the library.

Perseus came down from the training area, and I wasn't disappointed. He was also clad in armour, and I heard all of the girls in the classroom sigh. I almost couldn't help it myself, despite knowing that his wife was pregnant, and that I had a boyfriend. But to all of our defences, he did look beyond handsome, and the boys weren't actually hiding how they looked at Annabeth, either.

As opposed to his wife, Perseus wasn't armed, nor did he have a helmet on but add this to his muscular build and classic features, and you got yourself the perfect image of an ancient commander. The only thing was that he wasn't ancient; he was of the twenty first century. But at least I now had a new lead, as I had decided to look up ancient Greece in the library.

"If you wonder about the outfit, I have an important meeting this afternoon, and you won't believe how long this thing takes to get on the right way. Now, instead of training today, I thought we could practice some of the things you can get on your owls. We've covered the basics, am I right?" he asked us. We all answered yes, because we had. He was surprisingly effective in his teaching.

"So I thought we could take something a little bit more challenging today. How many of you know how to cast the Patronus charm?"

All of Dumbledores Army raised their hands, but no one else did.

"We have someone to help teaching, that's good. The Patronus charm is effective against dark creatures like Dementors. To make it effective, you have to fill your mind with good memories and speak the words Expecto Patronus. Let me demonstrate. Expecto Patronum."

As he said the words and waved his wand, a silver light streamed out of the tip. It started to form into a figure wich was half cow, with the tail of a gigantic serpent.

"I still can't believe Bessie is my Patronus." I heard Percy mutter, since I was sitting in the very front.

"Now, can those who are familiar with this spell work with someone who are not familiar with it. Remember, the more powerful your memory is, the more powerful is your Patronus."

I worked with a girl from Gryffindor named Sara, who at first didn't get the hang on it, but as the class she had managed to conjure up an semi-see through falcon.

As I walked out off the room with my hand in Ron's and chatting with Ginny, Who had her hand around the waist of Harry, Professor Perseus called us back in.

"Could you three come to my study at half past six tonight? I need to know about all of the secret passageways and hideouts in the castle, and I heard you four knew about most of them."

"Of course we can, Professor. Is there a special reason you need to know this?" Harry asked. I was rather curious as to why he needed to know this himself, but we couldn't refuse to help him, nor could we deny our knowledge of the schools secrets. It was a too well known fact for that.

"Oh, McGonagall asked Annabeth to do some minor changes to the schools defence systems, and it would be good to know the school a little better than we have been able to. Now, you should go, I'm sure you have enough homework to do so ill not keep you from them." He said, and exited the classroom himself.

"Is it wise to show them all of the secrets we know of?" Ginny asked.

"I think they would know if we held anything back." I said. It was somewhat disturbing the way they seemed to know everything.

Thank you for reading my story! And for sticking with it, despite my ability to "never" update. That…. was all I had to say. Ta-taaa. :D