Percy Jackson

Percy had restless sleep, like always, but when the day dawned, it seemed sufficient. The purple glow scared him a bit as he woke up, and for once, was awake before Annabeth. Looking around, he checked to see if anyone else was up.

Four was, of course, looking quite suspicious, along with Tris. They looked like they'd been up for hours, maybe time was different where they came from, wherever that was. Katniss was also awake, but Peeta wasn't. The wizards all looked like they'd been awake for quite a while too, but all the other demigods were asleep, except for Nico. He was looking out the window, probably thinking about something.

There was a small spider in the crack near a Libra constellation. Percy thought for a minute, before smiling. The room was quiet, apart from soft whispering emanating from the wizards, Katniss, Tris, and Four. Nico, like always was silent. He knew what to do. It'd probably wake everyone else up, anyway.

He crept out of bed, inching towards the spider, and picked it up the leg, before moving over to Annabeth. Tapping her, he dropped the spider on her and woke her up. Her eyes opened, and she almost immediately yelled. Percy laughed, and the rest of the sleeping demigods sat up, awoken by Annabeth. The others in the room looked over, Percy almost crying on the ground, as she slapped him. "Swear on Zeus I'll murder you," she muttered.

After this ordeal, they all headed down from their room and nearly ran into the older man from yesterday, who'd introduced himself as Vixonious Midoria, the Marquess of the kingdom. Vixonious also explained loosely how the system worked: he and the woman who had stood next to him, Luxiosiris Midoria were the parents of the Empress, Elyssae-Lydian. They were the Marquess and Marchioness of Primordia. The younger man, who was on Elyssae-Lydian's other side, was the Sire, Aristotle Chopra, who was the Empress' partner. Not present in the room yesterday were the Heiress, Lynnaria Midoria, who would inherit the throne, and the two squires, Renusous and Cancoure. He led them all to a dining room with quite a large and elaborate dining table. On one end, sat Elyssae-Lydian, Vixonious, Luxiosiris, Aristotle, and who they assumed were Lynnaria, Renusous, and Cancoure. There was also a man and a woman not present yesterday and not mentioned by Vixonious, but they seemed to be some sort of advisers or people who were somewhat important. There were two guards at the door, one of them seeming to know Harry, although he looked like the boy from yesterday at the gate.

Suddenly, a small stream of what seemed to be servants entered, carrying trays of exotic food. Placing them down rhythmically on the table, they swiftly exited the room with a grace unparalleled by virtually anyone Percy had seen.

Placing food on her plate, Elyssae-Lydian turned to the group of them. "So-" She eyed them regally. "-Let's have you start at the beginning."