So I wrote this in like five different go's just because I got stuck all the time otherwise it would have been online at like 10 this morning… But yeah…. So hope you like it and now you are going to see why I made some details in the last few chapters! Oh and I recommend reading what I told others while I thank them for the reviews. I sometimes ask them something or give something away what could be important in the future. Maybe even spoilers so if you really don't want that don't read it, but I keep it as vague as I think I should. ;)
Third Person View
To say Percy had been surprised when Frank suddenly stood in front of them, apparently convinced it was perfectly normal to wait for someone who would step out of a wall, would be an understatement. Not that he really minded, of course, but still. Why was the boy here?
Suddenly it hit Percy. Of course! How could he have been so stupid! When it hit him? When he saw the look in Frank's eyes. The day before Percy had talked with Chiron, he would think about a solution, had the centaur told him. And suddenly Frank was waiting for them. Not to mention that, if you knew what you were looking for, the boy seemed sad, worried and angry.
Hazel hugged Frank for a few seconds, but afterwards she didn't leave his side. Frank smiled down at Hazel, he really loved her, everyone could see that. Piper, who was smiling at the two of them, hugged Frank to and grinned at them.
"Frank, what are you doing here? Why aren't you in New Rome? Not that I am not happy! But I … well, don't understand!" Percy chuckled. "Those are my words, Pipes." Piper rolled her eyes but smiled.
"Chiron thought it would be good for you to know what was going on at camp and he told me about your quest, so yeah. I'm not blessed or anything, but seeing you can't use magic during the holidays makes it go unnoticed." The others nodded.
Percy clapped the other boy on his shoulder. "Well, it's good to have you!" They looked each other in the eye and for a moment some kind of agreement was made. They would talk once they were alone. "So where are we going?"
Frank shrugged. "Orders are to go with you guys." They stayed talking for a while until Hermione joined them. "Hey guys, uhm, I heard from Mrs. Weasley you were going to spend the holidays with them and I am to, but I don't really know where to wait. So can I wait with you?"
She felt rather awkward. She never really talked with Percy or Hazel, there was a new boy who seemed really close to the other three and every time she talked to Piper it was about homework. Percy, noticing but ignoring, Hermione's tense aura smiled at her. "Yeah, we were told by professor Dumbledore that it would be a good idea. That way we wouldn't have to go all the way back to America for just two weeks and sure, why wouldn't you wait with us?"
Hermione relaxed a little when Percy talked to her so friendly. She never really payed attention to him, but up close, he was just as tall as the Fred and George, so he kind of towered above her and looked pretty intimidating.
It wasn't that he was super tall, well he was, but that wasn't important, she was just short. Piper, who was just as old as Hermione, was at least two inches taller, maybe even three? This made that Hermione would look at Pipers chin when she looked straight ahead and Piper would have the same with Percy. Hazel came to Pipers shoulder, even as the thirteen year old, she was short.
The other boy, who was almost as tall as Percy, looked like a fifteen year old, maybe sixteen? Probably sixteen. Hermione studied the boy for a second before Percy interrupted her thoughts. "This is Frank, he comes from America. He is my so so somewhat cousin from my dad's side, really weird, but he is. He is Sixteen and Hazel's boyfriend."
Hermione wasn't a girly girl, but even she just had to smile at how cute they looked when the two of they started to blush at that statement. They just radiated happiness. "Good to meet you, my name is Hermione Granger." The boy smiled at her, while his face slowly became his normal colour again. "Frank Zhang, good to meet you to." He sounded nice.
"We just heard he would be spending the holidays with us." Said Piper. Hermione just couldn't help but notice that Hazel seemed to beam when her friend said this. "Really?" Why would he come with them? Weren't they going to the Order? He wouldn't be a Death Eater or spy right?
Frank nodded. "Yeah, our Headmaster, Mr. Brunner, told me professor Dumbledore told him it would be okay if I would stay here in with the same family they went to." He gestured to the other three. Hermione relaxed again. If Dumbledore told him it was okay, then he wasn't a bad guy.
They talked for a little while and the tension that was still present in the air started to defuse into nothing. Then minutes later, what was way to long for the demigod's liking, a woman with bright bubble gum pink hair came up to them.
"Hey, Tonks!" Percy waved and she grinned. "Hey guys, how are you?" Her eyes fell on Frank and she grinned. "You're Frank right? Heard about you from Molly. She said you were coming to." Frank nodded and they shook hands.
"Call me Tonks." Percy mumbled something under his breath that sounded a lot like 'Nymphadora' and Tonks glared at him for a second. "Well let's go!" They walked out of the station.
"Percy, you can apparitiate right?" Percy nodded. "Yep, who should I take?" "Take Hazel and Piper, I'll take you to." She looked at Hermione and Frank who both nodded.
Tonks held out both of her arms, Percy followed her lead. The four others grabbed their respective appariater and a second later they were all gone.
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"Why do we have homework while it's holiday season?"Piper glared at her book. They had gotten a lot of homework and because of that even the special spells couldn't keep her dyslexia away. Percy had an even worse case of dyslexia and he had given Hermione at least three heart attacks by throwing a book across the room. ("They didn't even hit you!" "You threw with books! What did they ever do to you?" "They-" "Don't even try Perce, Hermione dearest is very attached to her books." "Shut it Fred!" "I am George!" "I don't care!")
Sirius had found it was hilarious, Remus just sighed, Molly had wanted to scold Percy, but had remembered he wasn't her son just in time and the rest just cracked a smile. "I don't know ask Umbridge or something." Grumbled Percy. He really was not in the mood. He still had to talk to Frank and there had already passed three days!
Frank was lucky he was a likeable guy and everyone trusted Hazel so much. The Order members, especially those who didn't really know the three new students, were really suspicious of him at first. That changed really fast when he just kept asking if he could help. He, even without the ADHD of the normal demigod, was bored out of his mind sitting still doing nothing.
Sirius had gladly accepted the help with cleaning the house and Molly would let him help with cooking. After a day everyone had liked him already just because he looked a little like a big teddy bear and because he was Hazel's boyfriend, and everyone just loves Hazel, nothing else to say about that.
Piper just huffed and went on with her homework. Percy sat in the middle of a sofa in the living room. Piper sat next to him, with her legs over his, again. Hazel was studying on the ground and Frank was just bored out of his mind in the corner of the room.
Percy glared at the book, again, and put it down. He stood up, what caused Piper to shriek because she almost fell of the sofa and he turned to Frank. "Hey Frank, want to help me with something?" Frank shrugged. "Sure." He stood up and followed Percy down to their room, or the attic.
Percy couldn't help but think about Annabeth whenever he went up there, not because it was romantic or anything, just because it was full of spiders and every time he saw one an image of a terrified Annabeth appeared in his mind, but just for a moment.
He couldn't help but find it hilarious. Of course he knew about how Athena's kids had to endure the hate of all the spiders, but the fearless Annabeth Chase was afraid of a little bug. (of course they weren't really bugs, he knew that, but those minor details didn't matter to Percy.)
"What do you want me to do?" Frank and Percy had decided that they would renovate their room. It was boring and there were boxes everywhere and sometimes, at night, they would hair things shuffle around in them and they really didn't like it. With their demigod reflexes they weren't able to fall asleep anymore. (not that you would normally fall asleep while something was alive in a box next to your head, but they didn't care… again.)
Sirius had agreed it was a good idea and they had started the day before with just finding out what exactly was in the boxes, all ways a good start of course. "Two things. One, why are you really here and two, can you help me move the beds, they are too heavy to get by myself and I swear something is under them." Frank smiled at his friend and nodded.
"Sure and I am here to keep an eye on things. Chiron did some investigating along with the Athena cabin and even some Romans. There are just a few things that could possibly defy ambrosia and it's not good." Percy's face hardened as he listened to Frank. He was worried about Hazel, but now was not the time they had to find out what it was and what the medicine is.
"One.. Two… Three… Pull. Okay, do they know what it is or not? And what is the medicine? Or are there none?" Frank grimaced, both from the effort of pulling the bed to the side and from the answer to the questions.
"They do know what it is, but there is no medicine. It is a slow killer. If you get just a little bit in your blood there is no problem. It's a poison that attacks the ichor in our blood, so it only works on demigods or gods, but seeing gods can't die, just demigods. If it is a little bit the body can get it out by itself before all our blood is gone, but if it is too much, you die and very painful at that." Percy froze.
"So you mean to tell me that Umbridge knows about us?" Frank shrugged. "Wizards normally don't have these kinds of blood and for them it isn't even poison. They can use it as ink, but also, sometimes as medicine when they prepare it a little different." Percy was in shock.
"But the point here is, the poison is illegal. People, undercover demigods, died when it was used on them, so they banned to poison/ potion. The problem here is that it is hardly recognizable until someone dies. It looks and smells a lot like a medicine that never caused any problems." Percy grumbled something what Frank didn't catch.
"So let's say she doesn't know about us, why does she have that potion? It doesn't do any good against wizards and she uses it with her punishment. It just doesn't make sense … unless" He glanced at Frank who nodded and finished for him. "She thinks it is the legal variant and someone gave her the illegal one." Frank was surprised when he saw Percy's expression. No anger, no hate, no distaste not even determination. Percy looked defeated, broken and tired.
"And when that is the case, someone else knew we are demigods and wants us dead. So we have to figure out who it is and why they want us dead." Percy sounded tired, but he also looked a lot older suddenly and Frank could see what the war had really done to the upbeat, happy and positive son of Poseidon. He was tired of fighting, losing his friends and family. Tired of having to fight for his life.
"It'll be all right, Percy. You actually don't really have to do anything except the mission you already have. Nico is currently trying to find out more about the ingredients. The two of us will be the ones researching this. You have to stay alive and keep Harry and his friends alive. We are going to do some research outside of Hogwarts, while you do it on the inside. No one will be in real danger."
Percy just nodded. He wasn't convinced. Didn't they say he just had to find the Lighting Bolt and stop WW III? Didn't that result in so many deaths he doesn't dare to count them? Let alone ask who actually died? He sighed. He still had to do his detention for a month, he hoped his body would be able to resist it.
"Are you sure it's that poison? You said there were more options." Frank's face darkened considerably. "Let's just hope it isn't one of the others otherwise we are in a lot of trouble."
So it's a little shorter again…. Not really happy about that but I thought this would be a good time to cut it all off. Hope you like it! Please leave a review!
Guest: I actually expected someone to point that out earlier with the houses and stuff, but it is important for the story. It had to be something else then Slytherin or Gryffindor (reason will be later on in the story) And I really hope you'll see my reasoning then.
Guest: I loved Percabeth in the books actually, but then came the fanfiction… The first few times I thought like yeah sometimes he does some stupid things, but after a few weeks it was just irritating like, he isn't a toddler! SERIOUSLY! And HIS NAME IS PERCY NOT SEAWEEDBRAIN so I kind of stopped reading it at all. Also when I am rereading the books I am favouring Perachel or PercyxPiper. Jasper is just too perfect and they aren't made for each other… But that's my opinion of course. Then there is PercyxLuke I actually think this should be like a bromance and then with Lukes betrayal Percy is super angry at him, but he still sees him as his friend in the end… wow… I really just needed to say that xD So yeah my reasoning xD Hope you like the story ;)
Shiningsilverwolf: Thanks!
siblingloveF2: yeey longest review I am not sure about all the witches and wizards yet. I do want to tell like the order and stuff and I actually plan on letting the story continue in another book so this story will contain the final battle and that kind of stuff, but I am not sure. I would like to hear (or read) what you have in mind, I can always use extra inspiration/ ideas!
: here is another chapter! I always try to update every day.
Thereader16: I do think about a monster attack, but not sure about what kind of monster yet, maybe 'just' a few dementors?
ICE-THE-CRITIC: You're welcome! I try not to take the credit from others, it used to happen a lot to me and I hated it, so I won't do it to others ;) I am surprised myself actually. I don't really think what I want to write in each chapter. I just know what I want to happen in the story and when and I am just going to write what comes up in my head. Sometimes I have to delete a whole chapter or have very short chapters, but that's because I write like that. Hope you like how I used Frank and I also brought in Nico as you could read. There won't be much focus on them, but there will be letters and stuff like that. I try not to make too many filler chapters, but well some have little details for later on ;) And I do agree on the ass kicking. It won't happen to soon, but when it does they are going all out!
JelloGirl323: I really try to include everything I want, but it's so much at the moment not everything works out. I actually want to have a few important chapters with a lot of bonding in them, but I don't know how it will work out yet. I am going to do soma major Percy and Draco bonding, I am going to have a lot of fun with that xD(big plans for Harry, Percy and Draco fighting and the whole school has kind of a war.. but not totally sure ;))
