Chapter 8: The Arrival

It's still Ashley, guys. I'll just have a short part with the demigods, then Skia will take over.

*Line-break by hippocampi while they drag the head of the Colossus Nerosis to Poseidon's palace*

As they dissolved into the shadows, the demigods felt… weird. It was like instead of travelling to another country, they were travelling into another world (which they sort of were). They felt stretched apart, rather than the usual togetherness they felt in shadow-travelling. But soon they were standing in the shadow of a wonky-looking house, and they brushed it off. After all, they had bigger things to think of. For example, Leo's fireworks.

Leo grinned. "You guys ready?" He asked in a hushed voice.

The others nodded, and suddenly there was a great BANG!

Welp, at least they 'arrived with a bang'.

Time for Skia to take over!

Chapter 8.5

Hey hey people, it's your favourite sword in the spotlight again! Hope you brought the popcorn, because it's time for Harry and Percy's first interaction! OoOooOo!

*Uncreative line-break*

Harry, Ron and Hermione were apprehensive. They'd just been told that the exchange students, who would undoubtably be the fronting gossip topic for the entire school, would be living with them. And they'd been informed of this on the same day that said exchange students would be coming to them.

Oh boy. I don't know about you, but to me, that's just a recipe for disaster.

The Golden Trio and Molly went outside (since Fred and George had decided to meet the exchange students inside, after they were done with their Weasley's Wizard Wheezes work), only to suddenly step back in shock at what was going on in the sky. It seemed to be… fireworks? The sky was filled with blue, green, red and blue sparks. It was… magnificent.

They looked back to the ground to notice a bunch of teenagers staring at them, grinning like maniacs. And there was a certain air around them. Not one of arrogance like Malfoy, but one of power. Harry was a bit worried that they'd turn out to be right gits, but he still maintained high hopes. He stepped forward with his hand extended.

"Hello," he said. "I'm… Harry Potter." He hesitated at the last words, because he wasn't sure what their reaction would be. But they seemed to be unaffected. A handsome boy of around 17 or 18 stepped forward and took his hand in a strong grip. "Hello," he said quite cheerfully. "I'm Percy Jackson."

Ron blurted out, "Don't you know who he is? He's Harry Potter!"

Hermione gave him a pointed look and said "I'm sure Ronald said that without thinking. You all obviously have your own country and own problems to deal with. Anyways, I'm Hermione Granger. He," pointing to Ron "is Ronald Weasley and that," pointing to Molly, "is Mrs. Weasley, Ron's mother."

Molly said, "Please, call me Molly!"

Annabeth stepped forth. "I'm Annabeth Chase, and these guys are Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Nico DiAngelo and Will Solace," pointing to the respective people. "May we come in?"

Hermione quickly said, "Of course! But first, can you tell me how you arrived?"

Harry hissed, "Hermione! First let them come in!"

Annabeth said, "No no, it's no problem. We arrived using Apparition, and Side-Along Apparition for the ones without a license." She said these words so easily, you could've believed she'd been living with wizards her entire life. The other demigods gaped at her, then gathered themselves.

Hermione said, "Ah, of course! I should've known. Now please, come in!"

The demigods glanced at each other, then stepped through the threshold.

*Line-break*

That's it! You'll have to wait now to know what happens next! Mwahahaha! I do be kinda evil tho.

Laters!

Word count (minus A/N): 634