Long story short, I haven't been uploading for the past like 3 weeks because school started up. The first three weeks have been absolutely hectic, and I'm not sure how long I will be able to update from this point forward. I think I'll aim for one chapter every one or two weeks. That'll be my goal.

Chapter 25:

Hermione:

Flashback to last chapter:

"Yes, the one and only," Percy smugly replied. He then plucked a coin out of his pocket, and summoned some water from a nearby goblet and created a rainbow. Oh Iris, god of the rainbow, accept my offering.

As Percy threw a single, rusted, gold coin, that despite the rust and the metals eroding, glinted widly cascading colours of gold across the room. Upon further inspection, I assumed that this was a drachma, an ancient Greek coin. I personally thought that it's shape and size was quite similar to a galleon. Large, with a sparkling gold colour everpresent on the circular object's surface.

As Percy threw the coin into the rainbow, he mumbled something that was audible. Possibly telling this 'Iris' to show us Chiron at Camp Half-Blood. My attention was dragged back to the rainbow as the coin that was thrown didn't disperse the water or disfigure the rainbow, simply disappearing into the mixture of bright colours. From those bright colours, an image was conjured. First, it appeared to look like an middle-aged, slightly aging man, with friendly crinkles adorning his face. His white skin constrasted drastically from his thinning brown, hair, and extremely bushy eyebrows that further accentuated his face's features, complemented wonderfully by a scruffy, shaggy beard that appeared as though it hadn't been shaved in a while. At first, he looked like a very basic man, who was getting on in years. Until, Harry and Ron audibly gasped, and my eyes panned downwards, revealing a brilliant white stallion body. Strong white legs, perfectly built for a long run. He was the perfect combination between horse and man… Wait what? Horse and man?

I slowly put two and two together and saw that the old man that was smiling towards me was a centaur. Not any centaur, but Chiron the Centaur. Trainer of Hercules and Jason. He was standing in front of me. I drew in breath, trying to suppress my immediate instinct to start blurting out facts. My face must've looked hilarious as Percy and Leo snickered, and held in their laughs. Annabeth was grinning at all of us, as if she expected this reaction from us. I turned back towards the IM of Chiron, and I caved in, I started spewing information at him.

"Are you really a son of Kronos? Are you actually 3000 years old? How are you still alive? What was training Jason li—"

"Child," once he started speaking my body straightened and I stopped spewing facts at him. I looked up at his face, and he still looked amused, but his eyes held an icy stare, that told me that he wanted me to get serious. I nodded my head.

"Wow. This is hard to take in," Ron blurted out. I mentally cringed. Ron always had the habit of doing this, randomly interjecting in the middle of the sentence. I sighed, before strengthening my resolve and turning to Chiron.

"Hi Mr. Chiron sir. My name is Hermione Granger, and I'm the friend of the seven demigods you sent to protect Harry," I expected Chiron to be surprised that we knew about demigods, but he just smiled as if he knew that we would find out.

"Ahhh… Miss Granger. Dumbledore told me that it would only take a matter of time until you found out. After all, it's true. You truly are the brightest witch of your age." I blushed at the compliment, only to be shaken out of my stupor by Harry.

"Dumbledore? You know Dumbledore?" He asked, bewildered.

"Of course I know Dumbledore. I've known him for a long time and I've found his advice very useful through my life."

Harry's jaw dropped, Ron's face assumed his regular confused expression, but I turned to look at Annabeth and everyone elses reaction, only to promptly realise they had left the room. Well isn't this great? I thought.

"Why did you Iris Message Camp?" Chiron inquired. Seeing Ron and Harry's blank expressions, I decided to ask the question that we all wanted to know.

"Well, Chiron sir. I was wondering if we could talk to you about the seven demigods and v-verify their s-story?" I stuttered out. Chiron stayed silent for a moment, and then regretfully started speaking.

"Well, I guess you deserve to know everything about them," he sighed out. "Okay, so I'll start off with the Romans, Jason, Frank and Hazel as I know them the least. So as it goes… Jason, he is the son of Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Zeus king of the ski—"

"Sorry sir!" I interrupted. "But, I thought they were all greek demigods?" I questioned, until a foreign thought simmered in my brain. "Unless, there are roman demigods as well?" I croaked out, afraid my brain would explode from all this new information. Chiron nodded, before continuing.

"That's all well and good, but I'd prefer it if you didn't keep interrupting me Miss. Granger." I blushed, and nodded, embarrassed by that being pointed out."

"Well, Jason's father is Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Zeus. Jason has the power to call down lightning and fly. When he was 2, he was taken to Camp Jupiter and trained to be a warrior in the legion. He used to be praetor of the twelfth legion. He slew the Trojan Sea Monster. He toppled the black throne of Kronos, Titan of Time. He also fought the Titan Krios with his bare hands in the 2nd Titan War. In the Giant War, he fought the twin giants Otis and Ephilates. He also fought Pophyrion, king of the Giants and the anti-Jupiter twice. He's also done countless near-impossible tasks that are too numerous to count."

My head felt dizzy. He fought titans? Sea monsters? Titans were extremely powerful in Greek Mythology and Jason fought them? He even fought the king of the Giants? Whose power was said to rival the gods. If this was just one of them what was their power combined.

"Then there's Hazel. Her father is Pluto, the Roman equivalent of Hades. She has control of gems and all the precious metals in the Earth. Oh, she also came back from the dead after she died saving the world from Alcyoneus. She also went on the quest to Alaska where she encountered many perils and released Thanatos. Then, she killed Alcyoneus and raced back to Camp Jupiter where she fought against a giant army."

Came back from the dead? Killed a giant? Released the incarnation of death? Hazel, who seemed so sweet and caring had done so many death-defying tasks. Despite some of those things paling in comparison to Jason, that didn't change anything.

"Then there's Frank. His dad is Mars, the Roman form of Ares. Additionally, he has the blood of Poseidon due to Poseidon being an ancestor. Due to this, he can shape-shift into many animals. He also went on the trip to Alaska and did the same things as Hazel: killing Alcyoneus and freeing Thanatos."

Their amazing powers never ceased to amaze me. I didn't know how to react after hearing all of this? I felt.. inferior. I paled in comparison. I was intelligent yes, but they had faced so much.

"Next is Leo. Leo is always a troublemaker, but his father is Hephaestus, the Greek god of the forges. He is immune to heat and can control fire. In addition to that, he is a technical genius, he can basically create anything from anything. He fought Clytius at the Doors of Death has saved the Seven's lives more times than I can count." (I just can't remember what the heck Leo else does and what he kills? There's like nothing on the internet either!)

Oh god. This just kept get crazier and crazier. I couldn't even think what else would come next? A guy with powers over like metal? Something ridiculous!

"After that is Piper. She has charmspeak, and is the daughter of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of Love. Using her charmspeak she can convince someone to do anything that she wishes them to, which came in useful multiple times throughout the Giant War. She slew the sorceress Medea and her weapon, Katoptris is used to see events that are happening which makes her a valuable asset to the Seven."

Being able to control people's will? That was an amazing power. She had killed a sorceress, that would mean that she could easily destroy a witch like herself, but Piper was a good friend, she wouldn't do anything to harm me.

"After that is Annabeth…Where do I begin. Well, Annabeth is a daughter of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. She has no specific powers but her wisdom and battle strategies are truly exquisite. She's travelled to the Underworld. She's navigated the Sea of Monsters, taken Atlas' burden and held up the sky, navigated the Labyrinth, witnessed the fading of Pan, fought in the Battle of the Labyrinth, the Battle of Manhattan, received the Mark of Athena, retrieved the Athena Parthenos, survivor of Tartarus, which is basically the greek form of hell, and fought in the second Giant War." After that, Chiron let out a big sigh, as if he was out of breath.

I turned my head to look at Harry and Ron, both of whom looked like their eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. I felt the same way. Annabeth had done so many things. She had encountered in a few years what the entire of Hogwarts combined wouldn't experience in a life time. AND she literally trudged through hell? WHAT? These demigods are truly the most powerful beings on this planet, no doubt about it. After what they've seen, they could probably fight Dumbledore! Chiron let out a sigh, before continuing his monologue.

"Percy Jackson has probably experienced the most out of everyone else. Well, he's the son of Poseidon, Greek god of the seas. He has powers over water and can control it to create many structures such as hurricanes and tidal waves. He is the defeater of Ares, god of War, retriever of the Master Bolt, retriever of the Helm of Darkness, Sailor of the Sea of Monsters, Retriever of the Golden Fleece, bearer of the weight of the sky (like Annabeth), witnessed the fading of Pan, former bearer of the Curse of Achilles, Saviour of Olympus, Hero of Olympus, subject of two Great Prophecies, survivor of Tartarus, fought in the Battle of Manhattan and the Giant War, and so much more…"

I think I would've fainted upon hearing that. Percy Jackson… had done all that? He had faced so many things, the rest of the demigods had done some pretty impressive stuff but Annabeth and Percy had done so much more! What could we have done that compared to them?

"Well, that's basically all I've got. Anything else you want to know?" Chiron inquired, marveling at our gob-smacked expressions. None of us appeared that we were going to speak or move for the next hour after multiple bombshells were dropped repeatedly onto our fragile skulls. After what felt like an eternity, Harry, Ron and I all faced each other, with our faces still etched with disbelief.

"So… they've done a lot of things…" Ron lamely mumbled.

"Some things? Ronald! They've done more than anyone else. But now that their story is verified, we have nothing to be scared of, we can go back to treating them normally!" I exclaimed. Ron looked up at me, and responded, his bright attitude seemingly coming back.

"Yeah I guess," he responded. Ron, Harry and I parted ways and crawled up to our respective dorms. I laid in my bed, trying to sleep after all that new information saturating my brain.

New chapter. Sorry for not uploading for a while, reason was stated above. One Chapter every 1-2 weeks. Yeah. Next chapter I think we'll do a timeskip and skip to where stuff gets interesting. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks,

~RedGods