Helloooooo, long time no see! (sorryyyyyyyyy...)
Thank you to all the readers that urged me to update until I finally got off my lazy ass and typed up a chapter. :)
I'm going to try and create a schedule so I update at least once every two weeks.
Disclaimer: Nope, never have, never will.
Percy
So far, Percy was having a really bizarre day— even by demigod standards. And the skeletal, winged-dinosaurs were not helping matters.
"Not dinosaurs," Nico sighed, when Percy pondered about the possible danger of these creatures to him. "horses. Winged horses."
Percy stared. "Pegasi?"
Nico rolled his eyes. "Threstrals."
The others demigods listened closely. Luckily, their new wizard friends were walking a few metres ahead, assuming they wanted some time to look around.
"Threstrals?" Annabeth asked, rolling the word around her tongue. "How do you know that?"
"You spend time in the underworld, you get to know things. I've met a few wizard and witch spirits down there." Nico shrugged nonchalantly.
Thinking back on it now, Nico had seemed the only one not surprised about the wizarding community. Everyone else seemed to have reached the same conclusion, judging by their gaping mouths.
"Well," Leo finally said, being the first to regain his ability of speech. "First Romans, then wizards, how many other secret worlds do you know about?"
Nico furrowed his brow. "So... the Egyptian and Norse gods exist as well, which of course Annabeth and Percy know about already, and I've heard a few things about some place called Narnia—"
"What—Annabeth and Percy—how?"
"When did this happen and why was I not informed?"
"Yet more gods to ruin our lives!?"
"I once saw this really cool book called the Hug—Hus—Hungry Games! What do you reckon, Neeks? Any chance of it being real?"
"Leo! LEO! Your nose! On fire!"
The wizards looked back and saw the demigods staring at the threstrals.
"So, you've all seen death, huh?"
Hermione winced at her boyfriend's lack of tact.
"Met him in person," Percy muttered in a low voice, carefully picking his way past the creepy not-pegasi and into a carriage.
"No way," Thalia said.
"Yeah, I know," Percy agreed, a smile tugging at his lips. "The school really is pretty spectacular. Look, I reckon Annabeth might wet her pants with excitement!"
Thalia punched him lightly. "Not that, Kelp Head. Well yes, Annie does look on the verge of exploding, but over there. Monsters."
Percy's smile froze in place. He slowly turned his head around and sure enough, there they were: a group of hellhounds, plus some empousaias well, because why not make their lives a little more difficult?
Another half-dozen hellhounds prowled out of the shadows, eyes glinting menacingly.
His smile dropped to his feet.
At the school gates, the demigods made a dash straight for the hellhounds and the female demons from hell. With dawning horror, Percy realised they were heading straight into the (very) dark, (very) monster-infested-looking forest. He'd hoped they weren't going to end up in there anytime soon, but he should've known his luck wouldn't hold out.
The demigods trudged slowly into the castle as not to attract too much attention. A stern-looking teacher introduced as Professor McGonagall fixed them with a stern glare and told them to sit wherever they pleased and be sorted at the end. Nobody noticed as a few extra Gryffindors joined the table that night.
"Gods, this hall is amazing," Percy wondered, gazing around.
Annabeth leant over and squeezed his hand. "According to one of the books I read, the ceiling's enchanted to look like the sky above. Pretty cool, huh?"
A few seats down, even Nico smiled.
"Over there, look. It's Zoë."
"What's with the golden dust?" Ron asked absentmindedly, reaching for chicken.
Percy piled his plate high with sausages and roast potatoes and held it out to Annabeth, who obligingly used her wand to turn it blue.
"Spell gone wrong. These... beetles were trying to... eat us so... I jabbed them with my wand and they exploded."
Ron grinned. "Don't worry, happens to the best of us. And arriving late as well. Back in grade two, well... did you notice that dangerous-looking tree out there? Folks call it the Whomping Willow."
Percy hoped to never encounter a tree with such a name and told him so. Ron laughed delightedly.
"We had the first-hand experience. Flew my Dad's car right into it, almost got Harry and me expelled. Car was an absolute wreck. We even made the front news!"
He clapped Percy on the back then eyed his food warily. "Speaking of accidents, I think another spell went wrong. Your lamb chops just turned a remarkable shade of blue."
"We don't need to do our prayers, do we?" Leo asked, midway through a bite of chicken.
"Well," Piper said, shrugging. "This is a quest, so I don't really see why we should. "
Leo blinked. "I'm not sure I want to take my chances."
Percy thought about that and decided he quite agreed with him. He didn't need another reason to get on Zeus' bad side.
"Hey, I dropped my fork!"
Leo dove under the table, before his hand snuck up again and snatched down a plate of food.
Everyone stared.
"I'll go and help him look for it!" Percy dove down as well, with a plate of blue pork chops.
As the feast faded away on the table, Professor McGonagall stood up and cleared her throat. She nodded politely at each table.
"I think, now that we are all fed and water, it is time to introduce our new exchange students."
The entire chapter told in drabbles again like the shopping one, because I am a lazy writer and that is my style (lazy-writing).
I've recently started reading the Marauder/Wolfstar era fics, and I got addicted. Those fics are sooo good, and there are some really good writers out there! Does anyone have any recommendations?
I'm going to start editing earlier chapters, because Thalia is pretty OOC. I made her a little too much like Clarisse. Also, I think I've been pretty biased towards the demigods, so I'm going to revise some parts and let spells affect monsters, and that demigods have no immunity to spells (but they still cannot take wizarding potions and healing spells).
Question:
If you had to pick one monster to go up against in PJO, which one would it be? How do you think it would turn out?
Honestly I don't think it'd matter what I pick. I'd die anyways. XP
Trivia for HP:
1. Which house was Tonks sorted into?
2. Buckbeaks had his name changed to '_'
3. Who did Scabbers belong to before he was given to Ron?
Thanks to everyone for all the comments!
My titles just keep getting lamer and lamer. Any suggestions?
DEMIGOD SORTING NEXT UP! I still do not know who's POV it will be in.
Last chance to vote on my poll for which the demigod houses!
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