Hello everybody! This is a liar here, who's been telling you that I would update regularly when summer break comes. Instead, I had to go to my summer courses. Now, more tutoring sessions to prepare me for my next year in school. Just great. And all of my extra time, I spent it on watching, "Black Butler," and "Sword Art Online." Wonderful animes. But now I'm here! Extremely sorry for the constant wait. If you have any suggestions, like some events you want to include, go ahead and message me. I appreciate all the support you have given me.

P.S. I'll try to make this chapter extra longer ^-^

Disclaimer: To the wonderful Rick Riordan and J.K. Rowling 3

Nico's POV:

After guiding the nauseous Hazel out of Gringotts, I noticed that the Harry kid and his friends keep whispering to one another.

"Probably talking about some petty crush," I thought, smirking- but then I frowned. I bet 10 drachma that they're suspicious. Going to have to do some eavesdropping later...

"Listen up!" shouted Hermione, standing in front of the group. "Now that you have money from your … lovely vault... Sorry- We'll be going to Madam Malkin's Robes shop for your uniforms. Then, while we're waiting to pick them up, we'll visit Flourish and Blotts for your books, then head over to Ollivanders to buy wands. For those who want pets, we'll visit Eeylops Owl Emporium. Keep in mind that Hogwarts-" snickers from us demigods, "-allows only cats, toads, and owls, which mail your letters. Once we're done, all of us will pick up our uniforms. Any questions?"

Ron spoke up, "H-Hermione..." He blushed, "didn't my mum say to meet at Fred and George's shop?"

"Oh, yes. I forgot. We'll head over to Weaslys' Wizard Wheezes, a joke shop owned by Ron's twin brothers. Any other questions?"

"Yes, Hermione," replied Annabeth, "I forgot to ask you what kind of subjects we would take in our new school."

"In Hogwarts, mandatory classes are transfiguration, charms, potions, history of magic, defense against the dark arts, astronomy, and herbology. Since you all are in your 5th year, you must choose 2 additional classes from this list. Arithmancy, muggle studies, divination, care of magical creatures, and my favorite, study of ancient runes," explained Hermione, "If you don't mind answering, but don't you have the same classes as we do in America?"

"Um..." muttered Jason, "Ugh, we-"

"-The magic we are accustomed to are different," interrupted Piper. "Combat is tied into it. These subjects are quite different, so we're going to need a bit of assistance throughout the year."

"Combat, eh?" muttered Harry. "Hm..."

Yup, going to have to eavesdrop. They're definitely suspicious. I rolled my eyes and said, "We're wasting time now. Shouldn't we go to that robes shop?"

Harry, interrupted in his train of thought by me said, "Hm? Uh... yeah. Let's go, everyone!"

Annabeth's POV:

Oh. My. Gods. This place was even better than Gringotts! After giving Madam Malkin the measurements for our uniforms, we all proceeded to Flourish and Blotts. Shelves and shelves of books of all kinds took up almost the whole room. Books that were covered in silk; books as large as paving stones bound in leather; books that had nothing in them at all; books that were even flying! As a child of Athena, or just any mortal bookworm, I was amaze- no, in awe.

A book on display was titled, Death Omens – What to Do When You Know the Worst Is Coming. Curious, I picked it up. As I was about to open the book, a hand lunged to take it away from me. Reflexes kicking in, I seized it. Looking up to see the face to which the hand belonged to, I saw Harry Potter.

"Um," said Harry nervously, "Could you let go?"

"Oh, sorry," I said as I released him. "Why did you try to take the book from me?"

Harry replied while he ran his hand through his hair awkwardly, "Uh, that "Omen Death" book is no good. The first time I saw it, I got interested in it, but the manager of this bookstore told me not to. 'You'll start seeing death omens everywhere. It's enough to frighten anyone to death,' is what he said."

"Well, I appreciate the warning," I told him while putting the book away. "Hey, do you mind helping me out by finding the books we need together? I'm going to have to know where they are to guide the others"

"Sure thing, Annabeth. Follow me."

Following Harry around, we got almost all of the books we needed.

"Now we need..." I checked the supply list, "The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5, and Defensive Magical Theory, by Wilbert Slinkhard. You go ahead and get the spells book. I'll find the magical theory one."

Walking around the shop, I found the "Defensive Against the Dark Arts" aisle. Going in, I accidentally bumped into a blond haired boy of my height (A/N Annabeth is tall, I think). He fell.

"I'm so sorry," I apologized, "let me help you up."

"Get away from me!" shouted the boy. "How dare you do that to a pure-blood like me!"

At that moment, Harry came up to me. "Hey Hermione, I heard shouting. Are you- Malfoy."

The Malfoy boy smirked. "Hello, Potter. Is this your new girlfriend? Moved on from Ginny?"

Blushing Harry stammered, "No! What do you mean m-move on from G-Ginny. We aren't even in a relationship! Besides, Annabeth here already has a boyfriend."

Just as Harry says that, Percy, being his overprotective self, comes up with a grim face. "What's going on? I only heard the words Annabeth and boyfriend in a sentence together."

Replying, I explained that this guy was messing with me and Harry, but it wasn't big of a deal. "He was just being a b*tch," is what I said.

Hearing this, Malfoy exploded. "I'm going to report this to my father! Your parents will be sent to Azkaban, and you'll become lowly orphans like Potter, here! Then, I'll take whatever little fortune you have; leaving you nothing!"

Percy and I weren't really affected by his insults, but until he involved Harry, we stared at him with our death glares. Seeing the fire in our eyes, the blond boy backed up, fear in his grey eyes. Those grey eyes didn't reflect intelligence like mine, but of pomposity and arrogance. Now, fear dominated.

"How dare, you use a person's weakness against them," growled Percy. "You don't know how it was for that person- how they suffered when you didn't." Malfoy backed up even more, a hand grabbing for his wand.

Then, Percy stepped forward and stood in front of Malfoy, to intimidate him (because he's a lot more taller and muscular). "If I hear you do this kinda thing again... Oh, you better pray to the gods, because my friends and I, don't like bullies."

Hearing the end of his threats (which sounded hilarious, coming from him), I turned and waved goodbye. "Guys, we should hurry up and buy our books. I want to study as soon as I can."

As we left the aisle, leaving the blond boy speechless, I quickly swiped the books we needed and heard Harry mutter, "God, another Hermione... But what was that about?"

I already knew that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were suspicious. It was obvious. The other demigods probably noticed too. But since they haven't made a move yet, I'll ask Nico to spy on that group later.

Leo's POV:

"Wooo! Let's go get wands!"

I was jumping up and down like a little kid, acting childish, but I was so excited! Learning magic in a magic school; maybe using magic to prank people- I can finally get Percy back for pranking me last week!

During the war, we kinda got bored because nothing was happening lately. We only had about an hour of free time before the monsters come. Yeah, irresponsible of us cause we had to save the world and all that crap, but we were really bored. All this time, we were always busy. Used to swarms of baddies coming our way saying, "Die!"

The Argo II was sailing on the ocean, and there happened to be dolphins swimming nearby. With a grin on his face, water-boy next to me asked if I wanted to ride on a dolphin. I immediately answered yes because, who wouldn't? Using his Poseidon powers, Percy told them to come over to where we are. Obeying, they swam towards us. Then, Percy whispered to one of the dolphins. Grinning, he said that I can ride on the one he whispered to. I knew something was up, so I cautiously jumped over the railing, and swam to that dolphin. The dolphin didn't do anything. He or she was just swimming in place, waiting for me. As soon as I got closer, maybe 2 feet, that dolphin suddenly turned towards me, with mischief in his or her's eyes. Then, it swam closer towards me. I kinda got scared, so I tried swimming away. The dolphin, however, swam even faster. Then, it was chasing me around. Soon, the whole crew saw me being chased by a dolphin! They were all laughing their guts out, similar to how we were all laughing to the name, Moldy-Shorts- no, Voldemort! I silently laughed at this.

I can't wait for revenge!

After leaving the Flourish and Blotts, going down the street, and side stepping a witch like a pro, the group and I arrived at Ollivanders. It was a old-looking place, with a old-looking sign that said, "Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands Since 382 B.C."

"Didn't know Hecate had descendants since so long ago..." muttered Frank. Shaking his head, he said, "Whatever, let's go in."

"You scared, Frank?" I said grinning. "Will some old lady beat the living day-lights out of you with her wand?"

"Shut up, Valdez."

Still grinning, I ran in, ahead of everyone.

While everyone was entering, I studied the wand shop. Tons of shelves with little boxes inside. Old-fashioned furniture. Tons of dust, tons of cobwebs, tons of old things, and a old looking dude. He was short, and had a mass of white, wild hair on his head.

"Hello," I said, bowing. "we are travelers from distant lands. May we please acquire and purchase your fine sticks- I mean, wands!"

The old mean chuckled. "Welcome, travelers, to my wands shop. I am Mr. Ollivander, the owner. We have a saying here. "The wand chooses the wizard", and will you be chosen by one of my wands?"

Leo's POV:

I am so excited! For some reason, I was the last to get my wand.

After telling Mr. Ollivander that we were exchange students, he got really excited. He whispered to us that he knew what we were. Jumping excitingly, the old man went to the back. Coming back with 8 different colored boxes- one for each of us- Mr. Ollivander said, "Because of Dumbledore, he has asked for custom wands based on your... backgrounds. I have chosen the finest materials! But don't worry about the price. Dumbledore already paid for them."

Setting the boxes of wands on the table, he called everyone one, by one. The last one was me.

Materials of the Wands:

Percy: Orford Cedar, Heart String of a Sea Serpent, (1 ft, 8 ¾ in)

Annabeth: Red Alder, Feather of Athena's Sacred Owl, (1 ft, 4 ½ in)

Piper: Mahogany, Hair of a Veela, (8 in)

Jason: Maple, Feather of Zeus's Sacred Eagle, (7 ¾ in)

Frank: Birch, Hair of Mar's Sacred Wolf, (1ft, 10 ¼ in)

Hazel: Teak, Heart String of a Sacred, Underground Dragon, (1 ft, 2 in)

Nico: Ebony, Feather of a Black Phoenix, (10 ½ in)

Leo: ~

"And now, Leo, is your wand..." Mr. Ollivander took out a thin, dark brown colored wand out of it's bronze colored box. Like all of the other custom designed wands, my wand had an engraving. The handle had an engraving of flames with little sparks. It's amazing! MUST. CONTAIN. URGE. TO SET EVERYTHING. ON FIRE.

"Hickory wood," announced Mr. Ollivander. "with the feather of the first phoenix as the core- tricky little bugger. The wand is 9 inches long. Bendy and springy, but unyielding to flames- I set a spell on it to be resistant to fire."

I stared at it in wonder. "Give it a wave," I heard. And I just did that.

Then, everything set fire...

Everybody who knew magic said a spell, and then water was ejected from there wands. When Percy tried it, a blast of water came out! I would've laughed, but I was kinda down. My over-powered excitement most likely did all this fire... No one got hurt, but I was still down cause someone could've.

"I'm such a mess..." I thought while looking at the ground.

Annabeth POV:

"Help!" I screamed while flailing my arms around. As soon as I entered owl emporium, a mass of flying objects swarmed towards to me. They were owls! They weren't scratching me or anything, just up in my face. I wasn't attacking because they may be the property of the store.

When things calmed down, I heard hysterical laughter behind me. Turning around, the whole group was roaring in hysterical laughter. Clutching one another for dear life, some even on the ground with tears of mirth in their eyes.

Infuriated, as fast as an arrow, I punched and slapped every guy, including the wizards (I couldn't do anything to the girls. Guys are just morons). Coming back to the entrance, next to Percy, I gave him one more slap at the back of his head. Giving everyone a glare, they immediately stood up and apologized.

Smirking, I turned and headed in. Without turning my head, I said in a irritated voice, "You better be sorry." (A/N That SASS! XD)

Nico's POV:

I expected this. There are some pros, but a lot of big cons, being a child of Hades or Pluto. One con is being shunned by humanity. Apparently, that includes animals.

Stepping into the emporium, I saw all the animals near me suddenly shrink back. One moment, they were chattering, chirping, making so much noise, the next moment, complete silence.

The owls however, were going completely nuts over Annabeth. Some were sitting on her shoulders and arms- one was on her head! Looking completely overwhelmed, Percy tried to shoo them away. Instead of flying somewhere else, the owls simply ignored the son of Poseidon.

Taking a step towards Annabeth, most of the owls turned my way. Another step, all of the owls charged towards me with open claws. Probably a threat to their "queen" is what they probably think.

Nico's POV:

After a commotion of owls scratching at my face, I just headed to the back of the room. Everything on this planet is rejecting me, even my friends! They don't show it, but I can tell.

Leaning against the wall, where there aren't as many pets, I see my friends laughing and enjoying each other's company.

Next to me, weirdly, is a black, fiery bird in a cage. It wasn't leaning away from me, like the other creatures in the emporium, but looking at me with curiosity and understanding in its eyes. Looking around, I saw these gerbils pushing one another to get to the corner, away from the bird. Their eyes were at it. The bird then looked at the gerbils, then back to me, nodding its head. Probably telling me that he/she understands loneliness too.

Smiling a bit, I took a step forward, cautious to what it might do. I didn't want another owl incident, even if it's in a cage. Getting closer, until I was right in front of it, I slowly stuck my hand in the cage-

"Stop!" shouted a person behind me.

Turning around, I see a person working here rushing to me.

"Stop, sir! That phoenix is bad news." She caught up with me. "It's a very hostile phoenix. It has already bitten 3 fingers off so far. I suggest you stay away from it."

A phoenix? Explains the fire a lot. But I'm feeling sassy so, I stuck my hand in the cage while staring at the worker mockingly.

Even if the black phoenix was hostile, I knew it wouldn't bite me because we understand each other. Unwanted, lonely creatures finally meet one another. But, say the bird didn't agree, I would think that it would've played along with me as well. Whatever it thought of, the phoenix nuzzled my hand, surprising the lady.

"I think I would like to purchase this bird," I announced to the worker. "What supplies do I also have to buy?"

Nico's POV:

I looked at my new pet which was perched on my shoulder. Ebony, is what I named my bird-friend. Apparently, he was brought to Eeylops Owl Emporium after getting one of his feathers plucked for a wand. And apparently, that wand was mine. Sensing his feather, he dug through my bad and found my wand, holding it in his beak.

"Hey!" I shouted sarcastically. Grabbing for my wand, Ebony dropped it in my bag on the last second, and gently bit my finger. "Ow, little devil bird," I laughed. It was great to finally have a companion that finally understands me.

Everyone else, except for Frank, sadly trudging behind us, got a pet. Unfortunately, Frank was allergic to cats and owls.

Annabeth, Jason, and Hazel got cats, while the rest got owls or phoenixes (A/N except for Frank ;-;).

Percy: Spectacled - OWL

Annabeth: Egyptian Mau - CAT (She didn't get a owl because she didn't want a pet to constantly fly to her face)

Piper: Saw-whet - OWL

Jason: Russian Blue - CAT

Frank: (Nothing ._.)

Hazel: Munchkin - CAT

Nico: Black Phoenix - Phoenix ;P

Leo: Phoenix - Phoenix

3 Person POV:

The group left to the Burrow, all happy and full of laughter, but the wizards are as nosy as ever...

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