Welcome to yet another edition of "Demigod Turned Wizard." I hope that you all are enjoying the story so far, Thanks for all the favorites and follows.
Any questions, make sure to review them. Thanks for reading.
Percy collapsed into a chair in the living room of his new house. It had been a long day of shopping, walking around, searching for stores and all that stuff. Percy was lucky that Dumbledore put a spell that transported all his purchases to the house or else he would have had to lug around everything he bought, and he bought a lot.
He bought sets of robes, quills, his wand of course, about forty books, scales, a cauldron, and a bunch of other magical stuff. Percy stood up and walked over to where his stuff was and started to sort his purchases out. He hung his robes up in the closet upstairs in his room, and he started putting his other things away as well.
After all his other items were away, Percy started looking through the books he bought. He put the books that said year 4, year 3, and year 2 away. When he did, he was left with about 12 books that said beginners. They were for seven different subjects. Transfiguration, charms, defense against the dark arts, astronomy, herbology, potions, and history of magic.
The first book that Percy picked up was "Charms For Beginners." He stacked the other books up on the table and started reading.
Two hours later
For the first time in his life, Percy was actually enjoying reading. He had spent the last two hours reading the charms book and it had completely fascinated him. The book was for beginners, so it only mentioned the most basic charms. It was focused mainly on wand movement and specific hand movements that caused the charm to be more powerful. Percy practiced the specific wand movements and hand movements that were necessary for charms and eventually, it felt more natural to him.
Percy decided that since he technically had the basics down, he didn't want to use the basic charms book for beginners or the second year book for that matter. Instead, he went to where he kept the other books, his closet, and started rummaging through them, looking for a specific one. After a few minutes, he found it. "The book of charms and spells."
He took it downstairs, opened it, and began looking for charms that interested him. The first one he noticed that he liked was the accio charm. According to the book, it was supposed to make any object you want fly towards you. Percy looked around the room and spotted the other charms book he had been reading earlier. He shrugged and pointed his wand at it. "Accio" he said. The book didn't move. Percy frowned. He walked over to the book and opened it. In the wand movements section it talked about how you should focus on swishing and flicking. Percy walked back to where he was standing and took a deep breath. "Accio" he said again, swishing his hand and flicking it towards the book as he said accio. This time, the book twitched towards him but didn't make any more movements. Percy growled in frustration.
"You cannot begin with a 400 page book, Percy" a voice behind him said. Percy spun around and raised his wand. It was Dumbledore.
"I see you are struggling" Dumbledore said. "Did you read the whole charms book?" Percy shook his head.
"Most of it. I thought I had everything down" Percy said. "I didn't think there was much else to know before I started casting spells."
Dumbledore smiled. "See, that's where you are wrong. In the book, on page 389 precisely, it says that in casting charms you must start small. I understand that you want to push yourself but magic is different. You cannot force magic. When you try to force magic, magic fights back against you."
Percy sighed. "Here" Dumbledore said, holding up an orange feather, "try this. It's a feather from my phoenix." He walked over to the table with the charms book and placed the feather down. "Go ahead" he said, nodding at Percy. Percy took a deep breath again and said, "Accio feather" while swishing and flicking his wand. The feather rose off the table and floated towards Percy but halfway to him, it dropped to the floor.
"Concentration is important for a beginner. As you go along it will get so easy that you won't even have to think twice when you do the charm, but as for now, you have to focus. Now, as always, I have important business to take care of. I will return tomorrow night to check on your progress. I have learned over time that sometimes, it is best to let a student learn on his own. It makes it more of an achievement when he gets it right" Dumbledore said. He then apparated away.
Percy placed the feather back on the table and walked back to his position. "Accio feather" he repeated again. The feather lifted off the table and floated towards him. As he reached towards it, though, it dropped to the floor. Percy sighed. It was going to be a long night.
Twenty minutes later
Percy smiled as the feather floated into his hand for the third time in a row. He placed the feather on the couch and looked back at the book, then at his wand. After he purchased it, Ollivander had told him that getting claimed by a wand was one thing. Winning the alliegance of a wand was another. For most wizards it took three to six months but for some rare cases, it took years of mediocre magic to gain the wands alliegance. He had said that winning the alliegance of a wand with a core of basilik heartstring would no doubt take longer than average. Percy looked down at the wand again. Maybe the problem with the summoning charm wasn't the weight of the object. Maybe it was the wand.
"Alright, if the wand is going to give me problems, I might as well try my hardest to win it over."
Percy got in position. "Accio charms book" he said, focusing as hard as he could on swishing and flicking. The book slid forward about an inch. Percy growled in frustration again, then he remembered something.
Back when he was on the labyrinth quest, the nymph had told him that the sea was always inside him, he just had to reach inside him and focus. When he did that, the sea had obeyed, so much in fact, that he found it hard to control. Maybe it was the same thing with magic. Maybe he just had to reach inside him, where the magic was. Percy faced the book. This time, he closed his eyes and reached inside of him.
As he did that, though, something strange happened. Percy's vision seemed to fog up and get very blurry, He felt as if his entire body was numb. Then all of a sudden, the fog cleared and his vision focused.
Percy looked around and was astounded at what he saw. It was some sort of giant wasteland.
"What the hell?" he said. looking down at his hands and feet.
Whe he looked up, Percy saw an extremely beautiful woman walking towards him. She walked towards him and stopped in front of him. Percy blushed as he looked into her black eyes.
"Um.. uh... who are" he stuttered, not sure what to say.
"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon" she said. That shocked Percy back to reality.
"Who are you, and how do you know who I am?" he asked.
"I am Hecate, of course. goddess of magic" she answered.
"Where are we?" Percy asked.
"We are inside you" Hecate said. "Just not inside your physical body." Percy was confused.
"What?"
"You see, you have a physical body, and a divine body. All demigods and wizards have one. The physical inside of you has intestines and esophaguses and all that nasty stuff. The divine side of you holds your divine powers. For wizards, it is their magic and for demigods, it is their powers they receive from their godly parent and magic. I believe Chiron told you that demigods can become wizards as well if they choose to" she said. Percy nodded to show that he had been told that.
"When a wizard is born" she continued, "their magic is unlocked. Same for a demigod when it comes to their power from their godly parent. But when a demigod chooses to become a wizard, they must first unlock their magic inside their divine body before they can actually perform any magic. It is truly astonishing that you were even able to do any magic at all without unlocking your magic in your divine body. That means that when you actually unlock your magic you will be extremely powerful, especially with that basilik heartstring wand."
Percy looked at Hecate confused. "How do you know about my wand? And how do you know that I performed magic?" Hecate rolled her eyes.
"I am the goddess of magic. Do you truly believe that I don't know these things?"
Percy shrugged. It made sense. "So, how do I unlock my magic?"
"You literally have to unlock it" she said, pointing to the right of where they were. What she was pointing to was a gigantic chest about the size of a house. in the middle was a keyhole about the size of a front door. "You must reach the chest. Climb up to the keyhole and walk into it. It's obvious what to do when you get there."
"So all I have to do is that. That's easy" Percy said.
Hecate shook her head. "Trust me, it's not."
Then she disappeared. Percy looked at the giant chest and shrugged. Seemed pretty easy to him. The chest was about a football stadium away so Percy started to walk. He had only taking twenty steps when he heard a low growl behind him. He froze.
'Of course there would be monsters what was I thinking?' Percy thought. He thought about turning and fighting the monster but then he reasoned that it would be best if he got as close to the chest as possible without actually fighting. So Percy kept walking. About fifty steps later, he heard the growl again, only louder. It was really close now. Percy sighed and pulled Riptide out of his pocket. He might as well get rid of it before it could sneak attack him.
Quick as a flash, Percy whirled around and activated Riptide. The monster behind him was "The minotaur! Nice to see you again buddy" Percy said. The minotaur cocked his head in confusion. Why was the little demigod happy to see him?
The minotaur shook his head and charged at Percy. Percy leaped to the side and swiped at him with riptide. The minotaur jumped over the sword and aimed a heavy punch at Percy's head. When Percy dodged, the minotaur clumsily stumbled forward. Percy smiled. 'Just like the old days' he thought. 'Clumsy and stupid.'
He ran at the minotaur and acted like he was going to swing riptide at him before jumping high in the air. The minotaur, expecting Percy to attack, dodged to the left. Percy was expecting this and slashed at the minotaur while he was still airborne. The minotaur roared in anger as he felt the celestial bronze cut into his skin. Percy landed and kicked at the minotaur's feet. The minotaur stumbled and Percy stabbed him directly in the side. The minotaur screamed in rage as sand poured out of his side. He tried to punch Percy but it was too late. His hands were turning into dust. Seconds later, he was gone. Percy was breathing heavily. He stood there a couple of seconds before turning back to the chest. He was met with a surprise though. Monsters were emerging from everywhere. There were earthborn, empousai, all kinds. Percy sighed and charged at the monsters.
Thirty minutes later
Percy was on one knee as he took deep breaths. All around him was monster dust. He had cut down hundreds of them and was immensely tired. On the bright side, he was just a fifty yards away from the chest. Percy stood and trudged towards the chest. As he walked he spotted a lone figure standing at the base. The closer he got the more Percy recognized the features. The sandy hair, the scar on his cheek, and most importantly, the four foot double edged sword he held in his hand.
Percy stopped walking 15 yards away from him. "Luke Castellan" he said. He got no response. Instead, Luke just lifted backbiter and charged at Percy. Percy lifted Riptide and waited for Luke to reach him. When they met, their swords clashed and they fought like beasts. Luke was every bit as skilled as Percy remembered. Percy was a little bit rusty but as the fight went on, Percy let his old instincts take over.
At first no one was winning the fight as they were so evenly matched, but Luke started to beat Percy back. He got a couple of hits in and took advantage of Percy's tiredness. Percy tried his best to keep up but Luke was not slowing down at all. Finally, Luke smacked Percy in the nose with the flat of his blade and Percy was sent flying back. He landed hard on the ground. Luke stalked towards him. Percy crawled backwards and picked up riptide, which had fallen out of his hands when he landed.
As he stood to his feet, bloody and bruised, he knew there was only one thing he could do. He closed his eyes and closed his fist. There was a rumble from somewhere under the ground. Luke ran at Percy, trying to stop him from what he was doing but it was too late. A jet of water shot up from under Luke and sent him flying high into the air. Percy took the chance and sprinted as fast as he could towards the chest. As he ran, Luke landed hard on the ground somewhere behind him. Percy could here him struggling to get up but Percy just closed his fist again and sent Luke flying again.
When Percy reached the base he didn't even try to climb it. He closed his fist a third time and this time, a jet of water lifted him up and propelled him into the large keyhole. Percy stood up and looked around. The keyhole was like a large hallway, and at the end, Percy could see a door. As Percy began to walk, he heard Luke starting to climb the chest. Percy wanted to blast him again but he had used the last of his energy to propel himself up the chest. He was dead tired. He staggered down the hall, barely able to stand. Hecate had said it would be easy once he got into the hole but he didn't know how. As he looked around, confused, he saw, Luke's hand come into the entrance. Then the other hand. Luke had climbed the chest. How, Percy didn't know, but he couldn't worry about that.
Suddenly, Percy spotted it, a key dangling off a hook on the wall. He grabbed it just as Luke pulled himself up and started sprinting down the hall trying to reach Percy. Percy quickly ran to the door and just as Luke's hand grabbed the back of his shirt, he inserted the key into the door.
Luke was blasted back as soon as the key went into the hole of the door but Percy remained just where he was.
Percy stood there for a couple of seconds, not sure what was going on, then suddenly, the door melted away and a golden, mist like substance started to seep out of the room behind the door. It surrounded Percy and started seeping into his body. The process lasted about two minutes and then finally, the mist had all entered Percy's body. Percy suddenly found that he had all his energy back. No, more than that. He felt ten thousand times better than he felt that morning.
All of a sudden, a bright light shot out of the room and slammed into Percy's chest. The light encased him and he completely disappeared.
Back in the room of Percy's house, where Percy had not moved a muscle for the past hour, Percy blinked. Then he collapsed to the floor. Sitting on the couch in front of him was an amused Hecate.
"So you're back" she said. Again, Percy blushed as she smiled at him.
"I have a few questions for you Hecate, but first of all, why do you look so different?" Percy asked.
"You mean like this?" Hecate asked, running her hands over her large breasts. Percy blushed and tried to discreetly cover his pants, where a tent was slowly growing.
"Yes like that" Percy said.
"Well this is my true form" Hecate said. Percy, once again, was confused.
"So why am I not incinerated?" he asked.
"Well we are not in America" Hecate said. Percy was still confused. "No one ever told you?"
"Told me what?" Percy asked.
Hecate sighed. "Once a god leaves the place where their ties are, in this case America, their true form is not lethal to a demigod anymore."
"That's kind of what my next question is about. Don't gods lose their power when they leave the country their ties are in?" Percy asked.
"That does not work for everyone. You remember how Aphrodite and Dionysus and those guys weren't effected by the whole personality split thing during the second giant war?" Hecate asked. Percy nodded. "Well it's kind of like that. When Aphrodite leaves America, it doesn't make her completely lose her power because love is everywhere. She is obviously not the level of an Olympian Goddess but she isn't completely weak either. I can come here with no problem because my people, the wizards and witches, exist here. Am I at full strength? Not even close. Buy I'm not close to mortal either."
"Oh" Percy said.
"So I am assuming you unlocked your magic?" Hecate asked.
"Yes, literally" Percy said.
"Good, now you will be able to do magic without much of a problem. Dumbledore was wrong. It's not about starting small and all that bullshit. That's for regular wizards. You, as a demigod, are held to different standards. Your magic is far greater than any old wizard. Dumbledore should know that he is a demigod himself. A son of Athena."
"Yeah Chiron told me" Percy said.
"Oh, so I can safely assume he told you of the other demigod wizards" Hecate said.
"No. He only told me that some are good and some aren't" Percy said.
"Well then let me educate you" Hecate said. "Yes, some demigod wizards are good and some are bad. The most notable bad one is a son of Hades. He goes by the name Lord Voldemort."
"So Voldemort is some evil lord son of Hades that decided that he was going to take over the wizarding world and eventually, muggles?" Percy asked to clarify. Hecate nodded. "And apparently, he's dead." Hecate shook her head.
"He's not dead. His soul still lives because he has split it into pieces" Hecate said.
"What?" Percy exclaimed.
"I will explain later" Hecate said. "For now, you must learn your magic. The school year starts soon and you have to take your OWLs before the school year starts to see which classes you will take next year."
Percy sighed. "Alright."
"Before I go, try to do magic now" Hecate said. Percy faced the charms book and flicked his wrist.
"Accio charms book" he said. The book sped towards him and he barely avoided it as it crashed into the wall behind him.
"Ollivander did tell you that it was an extremely powerful wand" she said. "Alright, I think it's time for me to go." She gave him a wink and then she disappeared. Percy went back to practicing the accio charm. After that he started practicing the bombarda charm. There were two versions of the bombarda charm. Bombarda and bombarda maxima. Bombarda maxima was for massive explosions while bombarda was for small explosions.
Percy went outside to the backyard of his house and walked over to a little garden that was in the backyard. He pointed his wand at a flower and said, "Bombarda." Instead of just making the flower explode, though, the whole flower bed exploded. Percy stumbled back in shock as he watched the flower petals float around the yard, then he stared at his wand. It was that powerful? He wanted to see what would happen if he did bombarda maxima but that would probably destroy the whole garden so he decided not to.
Percy stayed up until 2 a.m reading the different charms books he had, trying to perfect every charm in the book. He was almost finished with the fifth year charm book when he finally fell asleep on the living room couch.
The next day
Percy went right back to studying the next day. He was on the fifth year curriculum of charms, where the students learned about stuff like the stunning spell and the silencing charm. Percy needed Dumbledore to help him with that stuff because you can't stun an inanimate object, right? While waiting for Dumbledore to come, Percy decided to start a different subject. After learning about Voldemort from Hecate the previous day, Percy decided to start defense against the dark arts.
As Percy read the different defense against the dark arts books, they started to bother him. It wasn't the monsters that bothered him. Big spiders and long snakes were nothing compared to what he'd faced. What bothered him were the dark wizards. Bellatrix Lestrange, Gellert Grindelwald, and of course, Voldemort. What bothered Percy about them was their muggle murders. He didn't like how the dark wizards attacked and killed muggles when they had no ways to defend themselves. It was cowardly.
Percy couldn't practice a lot of the defense spells without a partner so he spent a lot of the time reading and not physically doing spells.
Eventually, Percy heard someone apparate outside the house. Percy, assuming it was Dumbledore, didn't look up as the door opened and he heard someone walk into the living room. Then, Percy heard the voice.
"Percy Jackson" it said. Percy frowned and looked up. The person in front of him was definitely not Dumbledore. He stood at around 5"10, much shorter than him. He had shaggy black hair that fell to his shoulders and a black beard and mustache. He wore a dusty black leather jacket and black pants.
In the blink of an eye, Percy leaped out of his chair and pointed his wand at him. "Everte statum!" he said. The man was blasted back and he slammed into the wall and slid downwards. He was still conscious, but barely.
"Who are you" Percy growled.
'My name is Sirius Black" he said, his words slurring together because he hit his head on the wall. "Dumbledore sent me here to check on what you are doing and how you were doing." When he heard the name Sirius Black, Percy's eyes widened, then they narrowed.
"You lie. You are a convicted criminal, one of Voldemort's most loyal supporters" Percy said. He had read it in one of the books.
"I was framed. Framed by a man named Peter Pettigrew. He betrayed... a close friend of ours and then blamed it on me loudly while he stuck a wand behind his back and blew a whole street apart. I swear it" Sirius said.
Percy had an idea. "Swear it on the river styx."
"The what?" Sirius said, thoroughly confused.
"Just do it!" Percy growled.
"I swear on the river styx" Sirius said, "that every word I said just now is true." Percy lowered his wand and offered Sirius a hand to get up. He took it and stood up.
"What the hell is the river styx?" Sirius asked. Percy ignored the question and asked his own.
"So why did Dumbledore send you here again?" he asked.
"I was sent here to check on your progress and make sure you're actually studying" Sirius responded.
"There's not much else to do here" Percy said. "All I can do is study."
"I was also sent here to help train you. There are certain spells you can't do without a partner" Sirius said.
"Perfect timing. I just started studying defense against the dark arts this morning and I can't even practice any of the spells" Percy said.
"Well show me some of these spells" Sirius said. He pulled out his wand and said, "When you shoot the spell at me I'll just make a shield charm and block it so that I don't get hurt. Ready?"
Percy nodded. "I'll start off simple" he said. Sirius nodded. "Flipendo!" A purple jet of light shot towards Sirius and erected a shield charm around himself. The spell hit the shield but instead of rebounding off of it like a normal spell would, it cracked the shield as if it were glass. Sirius stumbled back.
"Whoa" he said. "That was a powerful ass spell. How did you do that?" Percy shrugged.
"Next one" he said. Sirius prepared himself again. "Expelliarmus." Sirius' wand whizzed out of his hand and Percy caught it.
"Pretty good" Sirius said. Percy tossed him his wand back and got ready for the next spell.
"Glacius" Percy said. The air in front of him suddenly turned ice cold. In a matter of seconds, Sirius was on the floor shivering.
"S-s-s-s-stop it' Sirius said.
"Incendio!" Percy said. A stream of fire flowed from the tip of his wand and warmed the air until the room was room temperature. Sirius got to his feet, still shivering a little bit.
"Stupefy" Percy said. A jet of red of red light shot from Percy's wand and completely shattered Sirius' shield charm sending him flying into the wall. He did not move. Percy walked over and knelt next to him.
"Rennervate" Percy said. Sirius' eyes fluttered open and he sat up.
"Huh?" he said, looking around confused. He blinked then stood up and stared at Percy for a couple of seconds before asking "What is your wand core?"
Percy thought about it for a couple of seconds before deciding that it wouldn't hurt. "It's basilik heartstring." Sirius' jaw dropped. He snatched Percy's wand and stared at it hard.
"Are you serious?" he said. "You do know that there is only three wands with the core of a basilik heartstring in existence right?" Percy nodded. "Where did you get this?"
"Um, Ollivanders" Percy said. "Where everyone in Britain gets their wands."
"Ollivander never told me about this" Sirius muttered.
"I mean, I don't think he would tell random people that he has very powerful, expensive, rare wands in his store" Percy said. Sirius shook his head.
"Forget I said that" he said. "Right now, I cannot let you cast spells on me if I know that you have a basilik heartstring wand. A well aimed stunner could put me in a coma." He half joked. He handed Percy his wand back and took a seat. "For now, show me the other spells. Lumos, aguamenti, oh and, I want to see if you can do a patronus."
Percy nodded. He had read about patronuses in the defense against the dark arts book. A patronus was an incredibly difficult spell that was used to fend off dark creatures called dementors that could apparently suck the soul out of your body.
An hour later
Percy had ran through the whole charms and defense against the dark arts curriculum from year 1 to year 5. The only thing left to learn was patroni. They weren't in the curriculum and only about 10% of wizards could do them but Percy was confident he could and Sirius was pretty sure he would be able to.
"Now Percy, patronusi are extremely difficult so please, if you don't get it the first twenty times, please, don't get frustrated. Most grown wizards cannot do this" Sirius said.
"What's your patronus?" Percy asked.
"It's a big dog. That's my animagus too" Sirius said.
"You're an animagus!?" Percy asked. Sirius nodded. "Cool. I have always wanted to be able to turn into an animal. So, how does this whole patronus thing work?"
"You have to think about something happy. Something really really happy. The happiest thing that has ever happened to you in your life. Now I want you to think about it while you say expecto patronum" Sirius said.
"What do you think of?" Percy asked.
Sirius didn't respond for a couple of seconds before finally, he said, "I think of my time back at Hogwarts with my friends, James and Remus." Percy nodded. He understood. This Hogwarts school was kind of like camp half blood.
Percy closed his eyes and tried to think of something happy. He couldn't think of anything related to camp half blood because that just made him angry. He tried to remember anything in his past that made him happy but it didn't work. He was coming up blank. Finally, he though of the times when he was little. Really little. When it was just him and his mom and no Gabe. Percy winced. The thought of Gabe messed up his happy thoughts. He refocused on the time when he was little. His mom taking him to Montauk, their trips to museums, her bringing him back blue candy from her job, all that good stuff.
Percy raised his wand and said, "Expecto patronum!" Percy opened his eyes and saw a stream of blue light flow from the tip of his wand. It didn't have a discernible shape but at least it was something.
"Wow" Sirius said. "You managed to do that on your first try? Impressive. Very impressive. I know multiple ministry workers who can't even do that. The reason you can't produce a discernible shape is because either your thought isn't happy enough, or there is something related to that thought that is stopping it from being completely happy."
Percy nodded. He knew it was Gabe. He had to use a different happy though. But what other thought could he use. His whole life after that was just horror, pain, and... Annabeth. He sighed and thought as far back as he could. When he was a baby. It was a faint memory but it was just enough. He closed his eyes and though about him lying in his crib and his mother and his father, Poseidon, standing over his crib. He remembered his father's big laugh and his warm smile. Percy raised his wand once more and said, "Expecto patronum."
There was a warm rush in his right hand as he opened his eyes and saw the blue, misty light again flowing from his wand. This time, though, the misty light began to form into a shape. It was a horse. But then something started to grow from the horse's back. They were... wings. It was a pegasus. Percy glanced at Sirius excitedly. His jaw was on the floor. "Y-y-you're patronus is a-a a pegasus" he stuttered. Percy was practically jumping up and down.
"I did it I did it I did it!" he yelled over and over again. Sirius still hadn't picked his jaw up. "Alright Sirius, I think that's a wrap for now. I'm going to take a nap because I need some sleep. I slept at 2 a.m yesterday. I'll be up in about three or four hours. Help yourself to whatever's in the fridge and all that stuff."
Sirius snapped out of his stupor and looked at Percy. "I'm not staying. I'm have to tell Dumbledore about this. He'll be here in a couple of hours. Goodbye. No doubt we'll see each other again sometime this summer." Percy nodded and stuck out his hand for Sirius to shake. Sirius shook the hand and smiled at Percy. Then he turned and left the house. As he left Percy heard him say something like "... a lot like Harry."
Percy shrugged and went upstairs where he flopped on the bed in his bedroom and immediately fell asleep.
