Chapter 5:

Hazel:

The past few days were absolutely hectic. The freakiest? Being in my own body, but feeling like it wasn't my own body. Being aged up a year and being thrown into a new body but not recognizing it as my own. Everyone else was aged back a year or two but I was aged a year forward. Anyway, enough on that. Today, no one could relax whatsoever. We were all fidgeting, but everyone, including Leo were silent. We were all listening and waiting with bated breath to see when Chiron would come knocking and tell us it was time for our quest. One hour, two hours. In almost three hours, I heard the faraway sound of hooves clopping against the soil. I think I was the only one who heard it though. I then heard the rap of a hand against the cabin door. Everyone, including myself jumped. Annabeth and Percy ended up five feet away from each other and Frank. Poor Frank was the laughing stock of Leo as he turned into an Iguana.

Frank morphed back into a human and sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. He then ran to get the door. Chiron peered through and had an extremely worried expression on his face. He uttered the words we were all expecting.

"Children, it's time for the quest."

Everyone's face assumed a grave expression. Except of course, Leo.

"Oh yeah! We're finally going to do magic!" he shouted, at the top of his lungs. He then rushed up to Chiron and got right in his face. "When are we getting on the plane, when are we going to get wands, do you have any food, who will meet us and how will we be going?"

"Child, you are going to get on a plane in three hours and you will get your wands in Diagon Alley in a few days. No, I don't have food, you will be meeting Alastor Moody, an Ex-Auror. He stated that he would be meeting you exchange students at the airport and that he would be wearing a bowler hat, tipped low over his artificial eye and a long flowing cloak. and Argus will drive you to the airport in the Camp Van." Chiron sighed.

"Hurry up guys!" he said as he walked back to the Big House. Right after we said that we all rushed to pack all our stuff. We mainly didn't have much as our textbooks for the year would be bought in Diagon Alley. We had to take the key to our shared Gringotts vault that was installed by Hades, who filled it with money. We took enough nectar and ambrosia to last for a year. We packed all our things and loaded them into the truck. Argus, our hundred eyed security guard smiled and drove us to the airport. Our weapons had been disguised as our new beads on our Camp Necklaces. Percy couldn't even use his pen disguise as wizards used quills instead of regular pens. We checked in at the airport after we said our farewells to Argus. We didn't have any check-in baggage and we only had a few bags of carry-on. Going through the security was an absolute nightmare. Even though our weapons were disguised as beads, they even felt like beads, but Hecate couldn't change the actual metal components in our swords and knives. After about ten minutes, they decided that since they couldn't find any metal, it must be our clothes. Once we got through security we got our boarding passes and went to Terminal K12. Our flight left at 6pm and we had about 1 and a half hours to kill. Oh and by the way. Having 6 ADHD demigods (Frank's not ADHD or Dyslexic) sitting still, in an airport with nothing to do for almost two hours is a recipe for disaster. It will almost always end poorly. As it did this time. Leo ended up staying still for a solid five minutes before absolutely losing it and running about like a maniac. We decided to revise all our magical subjects for an hour because Leo was reasonably interested in a few. We spent the whole hour doing some revision from memory as our books were going to be waiting in Diagon Alley. We finally heard the boarding call from our plane and we boarded. The seats were in threes and fours, three different columns and four seats in the middle column. We were all in one row, three on the left and four in the middle. Piper, Jason and Leo were to our left while Percy, Annabeth, Frank and I were in the middle. We all ended up watching a movie and we were told our flight was about eight hours. Even though it was afternoon, Annabeth and Percy fell asleep on each other's shoulders two hours in. Frank and I persevered for five hours and through two movies before we nodded off as well.

I awoke, three hours later to the sound of the cabin crew encouraging us off the plane. Leo, who looked likehe was heavily caffeinated which indicated that he had slept had literally bounded off the plane and forgotten his bag. He scrambled back and picked it up with his signature grin dancing on his face.

"Come on guys, it's time to meet this Alastor Moody!" He shouted enthusiastically. Everyone shook their heads and rolled their eyes and I reluctantly followed him off the plane and into the airport. We sped through immigration as all our papers were ordered by Annabeth. We followed on to the baggage claim area. We didn't check anything in and we sped off to the pick-up area. I scoured around and looked for a man fitting Mr. Moody's description. We spent about five minutes looking until I found him.

"Eureka!" I shouted. I got odd looks and turned around to face my friends.

"Sorry," I muttered. "They don't say that anymore, do they?"

"Yeah they don't Hazel." Jason replied.

"That's Alastor Moody over there I think," I said gesturing to the cloaked man with a bowler hat tipped low over his head.

"I'll handle, this," Annabeth said. We walked up to Mr. Moody and Annabeth approached him.

"Uhm, are you Mr. Alastor Moody?" she asked, nervously.

"Yes, I'm Moody," he replied. "You'll be the American Exchange Students from Mr. Brunner's Academy for the Magically Gifted, I presume," he grunted. There was a general murmur of assent and Moody gestured in front of him and began hobbling down the road. We walked around a street corner where an old boot lay at the end of an alleyway.
"Excuse me Moody, but why are we standing in an alleyway with an old boot?" Percy asked apprehensively.

"This boot's a portkey Jackson, and it leaves in a minute"

"What's a portkey?" Frank asked mystified. I was going to answer but Annabeth beat me to it.

"A Portkey is an object enchanted to instantly bring anyone touching it to a specific location. Most of the time, a Portkey is an everyday object that would not draw the attention of a Muggle." She chanted.

"Cool, so we touch it and we teleport to… what did Mr. Brunner call it? Grimmy Plack?" Percy asked.

"No, Grimmauld Place is what he said Seaweed Brain," Annabeth replied, rolling her eyes. Leo was jumping around in excitement and exclaimed.

"Guys, I think we need to touch it in the next ten seconds or we're stranded!"

"Yeah, hurry up." Moody grunted. We all held onto the boot and we were whisked away. Can I just say that it was not a pleasant experience? I was usually sea-sick, but this was something in itself. It felt like I was on a boat in the middle of an ever-lasting hurricane. When the feeling went away, it was the best feeling in the world. I immediately noticed an error though.

"Uh Moody, there is Number 11 and Number 13 Grimmauld Place but Number 12 doesn't exist." Moody chuckled

"Wait for it." As if by magic, the space between Number 11 and Number 13 lengthened and a new door appeared, labelled Number 12.

"Welcome to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, American Exchange Students.

Boom! Chapter 5 out of the way. I'm going to start the Harry Potter portion of this now. I'm going to skip the Dementors and the hearing, I'm just going to recount them from Harry's POV, the present day story will pick up with the Golden Trio meeting the "American Exchange Students" and suspicions arising. BTW Only Dumbledore and McGonagall know that they are truly demigods. Hope you enjoy chapter five. We hit 200 views, hooray. I don't know if it's good or bad but I'm happy.

~RedGods