Heyyy!! Here is today's chapter. I hope you like my characters! ;) Also, trust me, I am extremely thankful for all your nice reviews!
Thalia's POV
The day after the first task was November 25th -almost December. Thalia was exhausted from doing absolutely nothing. She wished she knew why. She thought back to the previous day.
All she did was watch the first task and talk to Cedric and his friends. After the task, Cedric called her over to thank her for visiting him in the small medical tent. Soon after that, some of Cedric's friends came over to congratulate him but found him talking to her.
Thalia saw a group of students -five to be exact. There was one girl and four boys.
"Blimey! You must be Thalia, right?! I'm Carson Grey!" one of the boys said. He had dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
"Er, yeah, I'm Thalia. Uh... How do you know me?" Thalia said.
"Because Cedric won't shut up about you. I'm Hugh Gibson by the way", a boy with sandy blonde hair and pale blue eyes said. He put his hand out forward and Thalia lightly shook it. Then paused.
"Wait. Wha- "
"Ignore my brother," the girl said. She had blonde hair as well but it was more of a honey blonde. She had lively green eyes.
"I'm Esmeralda but for the love of all things please call me Esma. We just know you because you're one of the Olympus students," Esma said pointing at Thalia's very obvious orange robes, "You guys are a pretty big mystery for us Hogwarts students".
"Oh that's nice... " Thalia said.
"Way to make her uncomfortable, Esma" another boy said. He had black hair and grey eyes.
"Very funny," Esma said making a face at him. Then she turned to Thalia, "That's Beckett. Don't worry, he's always like that".
Beckett shrugged.
Thalia turned to Cedric who mouthed 'sorry'. She smiled and mouthed, 'it's fine'.
Thalia turned back to the others. The last boy made his way up to the front of the group.
He looked up at Thalia, "I'm Jayce Julian. It's pretty cool to meet an Olympus kid. Considering how Rita Skeeter seemed to have it out for Percy, it's nice to see that you guys aren't actually jerks".
Thalia nodded, "Yeah, she was a bit... "
"Cold?"
Thalia chuckled, "Yeah".
She looked back at the castle, "Uh, I think I should head back now".
"Or, you can come chill with us" Beckett said, "If you want".
"Uh... " Thalia looked at Cedric who shrugged.
"Sure".
Thalia spent a lot longer than she thought she would getting to know Cedric's friends. They all seemed pretty nice. After a few hours, they all sat near one of the many staircases at Hogwarts.
"Wait! Say that again" Jayce said as Thalia was talking.
"Er, banana peppers?"
"Haha! I find your accent really cool!"
Thalia was surprised, "My accent?"
Esma laughed, "Yeah! It sounds so different from ours".
"In America, most people think that European accents sound cooler" Thalia said.
"Yeah, when I visited California once, everyone kept looking at me everytime I talked" Beckett said.
They chatted for another bit and the most confusing part of Thalia's day started by Hugh asking Thalia a simple question.
"So, how did you meet Cedric anyway? Besides the Olympians eating at the Hufflepuff table".
Cedric chuckled, "Yeah, tell them Thalia".
Thalia playfully glared at him, "It wasn't my fault you came out of nowhere".
Hugh was visibly confused.
"It was before the Quidditch World Cup. Cedric jumped down from a tree behind me and I was surprised so I had a reflex to- "
"To jab me in the side with her elbow," Cedric finished for Thalia.
All of his friends howled in laughter.
"I said I was sorry!" Thalia said, also laughing.
"I wonder when he started fancying you," Jayce said.
"Fancying?" Thalia said.
"It's a British term" Beckett said, "I'm wondering when too".
Still don't know what that means.
Thalia looked at Cedric in question. He made it very clear that he was trying to not look at her.
"Anyone can see that Cedric becomes randy when you're around," Carson said.
Randy?
Cedric grabbed the closest thing to him, which was a book, and threw it at Carson.
Cedric's face was incredibly red, "I do not!"
Carson doubled over laughing and Jayce was shaking his head in amusement.
"Oh. My. God. Carson!!!" Esma yelled at him. He was still laughing.
Thalia still didn't know what was going on.
"Er... What does randy mean?" Thalia said.
Cedric quickly said, "It means nothing. Nothing at all".
Beckett started chucking too, "It's best if you don't know".
"Oh... 'Kay?"
Cedric looked at his watch, "Oh! We should head back to the dorms. It's already seven".
"I should do the same", Thalia said, also standing up, "After all, my friends don't know where I am".
Esma nodded happily, "Alright, well it was fun meeting you Thalia!"
"Yeah, you guys too!" Thalia smiled.
"I'll go with you," Cedric said.
"See ya" Beckett and Jayce said.
"Bye!" Esma said.
"Peace" Hugh said.
"Try not to take any detours!" Carson laughed.
Thalia turned back for a second and saw Esma smacking Carson.
Needless to say, it was a very interesting meeting but she found them fun to be around.
"Hey" Nico said snapping Thalia out of her memories.
Thalia looked at him from the couch, "Hm?"
"Are you going to come with us to one of those spell lessons? Flitwick said that he would teach us a new round of spells today".
Thalia quickly nodded and stood up, "Yeah, I was just thinking about something".
"Hm. I know everyone asked you this already and it's not my place to know but... Why we're gone for a few hours... "
Thalia looked at his eyes and for a split second, Thalia thought that she saw a flash of concern in them. But he turned away.
Thalia smiled at Nico's care, "I was... with a few people".
"Deity or normal?"
"Normal. They all go to Hogwarts. Some of the wizards here are alright".
"I guess so.. " Nico said. He turned away from her and started to walk but then he paused.
"Thanks for telling me... I guess".
Thalia smiled to herself.
Nico's POV
The demigods exited the Olympus part of the Gryffindor dorms and went through the common room. The demigods waved at Harry, Ron, and Hermione who were sitting in chairs near the fireplace.
They smiled at them and quickly went back to talking.
Well that was... Strange.
He shrugged it off and they all continued walking to the Black Passage since that was where Professor Flitwick wanted to meet them next.
On their way there, they had an encounter with a being that Nico knew too well. It was a ghost.
A large, chunky man-ghost popped up from around the corner.
"Hello stu- " the Fat Friar started and quickly stopped after noticing Nico.
The Fat Friar got down on his knees and said, "I'm sorry for being in the way, Master Di Angelo!"
Nico groaned, "Stop calling me that! You're lucky I haven't told me father about you yet! Beings like you cause him headaches".
"Please don't tell him!" the ghost pleaded.
"Stay out of the way and I won't," Nico firmly said.
The ghost nodded and scurried away.
"Geez, Nico. Don't you think you were being a bit harsh?" Will asked.
Nico gave a dead-panned expression, "Almost everyday a ghost comes up to me calling me 'master', 'lord', 'king' and at least eighty other things. It's starting to get on my nerves".
Jason eyes twinkled, " I would say understandable, but none of us actually understand that".
The demigods started chuckling, except for Nico fine problem very funny.
"Whatever," he sighed. He tilted his head back and saw a flash of frizzy brown hair.
Nico quickly followed it but when he turned the corner, there was no one there. Except for a feeling. That same feeling that had happened at Hogsmeade was occurring right now. That feeling seemed to be going farther every second but Nico still felt it.
"Nico?" Reyna said.
Nico turned around. He saw Reyna standing there looking a bit confused and worried at the same time.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah. It was nothing".
...
And done! By the way, Cedric is in his 6th year and is seventeen (like he should be). How was Esma, Carson, Beckett, Jayce, and Hugh? They aren't really supposed to be that big in this fanfic. But I still have have some random facts.
Esmeralda 'Esma' Gibson:
Year 5
Ravenclaw
Likes: Art, Reading, Fairy lights
Carson Grey:
Year 6
Hufflepuff
Likes: Comedy, Esma, Charms
Beckett O'Connor:
Year 6
Gryffindor
Likes: Horror, Classical music, Heroes
Jayce Julian:
Year 6
Hufflepuff
Likes: Transfiguration, Sweets, Sports
Hugh Gibson:
Year 7
Hufflepuff
Likes: Family, Friends, Animals
See ya! Next update 3/14/20
-E.V
