Harry and Merope Meets Percy Jackson

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Chapter 7

After only a month of training, the other campers had begun to notice a remarkable difference in campers of Potter Cabin. They held themselves with more confidence. They fought mock battles with a gracefulness that only someone with experience could know. Nothing could touch them when it came to games of Capture the Flag.

Chiron remarked upon the changes to Harry one morning and Harry just chuckled and said, "All I've done was taught them how. It was because they had the desire to succeed that they are doing so well."

"If you can do that for your cabin in the space of a week, what could you do with the other campers in the space of a year?" Chiron wondered aloud. "Your cabin is doing better than even the Ares Cabin in the war games."

Harry chose not to tell him that not even the Ares Cabin had the same drive that his kids had. He knew that his kids were driven by the need to prove themselves to the other kids whose godly parents weren't ashamed or too lazy to claim them.

Harry considered what he could say in response to Chiron. He wasn't going to turn down what was obviously a request to help train the other campers, he fully intended to help with their training as well, but he wasn't going to share the secret of the RoR with anyone except members of the Potter Cabin.

"Chiron, my kids are training so hard and doing so well because they want to prove to their "godly" parents that they were wrong to abandon them, that they have worth, that they can do great things if given the opportunity," Harry said carefully. "The training they've gone through with Merope and myself have been geared towards teaching them to survive. We want them to beat the odds of the typical demigod and live to and through adulthood. We want them to be able to grow up and raise families."

"It is true that demigods seem to be cursed with a short life," Chiron nodded sadly. "Very few of them live long enough for their hair to turn gray."

Harry nodded. "This camp is a wonderful safe haven for young demigods," Harry said, "The problem is that it's generally only a safe haven during the summer. At the end of the summer, kids with living mortal parents are sent back to live with them throughout the school year, which I'm not against, they should be spending time with their parents while they can, so long as they're not the abusive type.

"But it's still dangerous for them out there in the regular world. They don't have a safe haven out there. They have to constantly be on their guard. That's no way to live life. I had to live that kind of life and I wasn't even a demigod. Battles with monsters shouldn't have to be fought by children." Harry growled in frustration as he waved his hand towards the children fighting mock battles to emphasize.

"The gods need heros to do their will down here on earth," Chiron explained.

Then Harry turned to look at Chiron. "So they keep having demigod children with mortals so they can, what, stay relevant? And what happens to the demigods if they make it to adulthood? This camp is only for children. It's not a safe haven for demigods who have reached adulthood. No, once they're adults, they have to survive on their own."

Harry thought perhaps he and Merope should set up safe havens around the world for the demigods to rest while in the normal parts of the world. Warding parts of major cities shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish.

Chiron was silent while he considered everything that Harry had said. "Well, my understanding is that even when the regular mortal children reach adulthood, they also have to survive on their own."

Harry rolled his eyes and said, "The regular mortals are not the ones having to fight literal monsters in order to survive."

Nodding, Chiron was silent for a moment before he asked bluntly, "Will you train the other campers as well?"

"I'll help teach them how to fight, Chiron, but my kids are my first priority. I just want you to remember that."

"I understand, Harry. Thank you." Chiron said with a slight bow of the head.

Months passed as summer turned to autumn then turned to winter, when the action started picking up.

The gods had gone completely silent and Mr. D was even recalled from the camp. New campers were getting claimed as they arrived, but that was the only type of communication they would have with the gods.

While Harry and Merope weren't exactly impressed with the gods, even they were getting a bit worried about the silence. And the campers were looking to them more and more for guidance and comfort. Having the feeling that something big was coming, Harry and Merope increased training.

"Has anyone seen Percy?" Annabeth was heard asking the other campers frantically. "Please, has anyone seen Percy? I can't find him. We kissed each other goodnight, but then this morning he was gone!"

"Have you tried an Iris Message?" One of the other Athena campers was overheard asking.

"None of my messages are going through," Annabeth responded in worry.

The following weeks were chaotic, well, more chaotic than the life of a demigod actually was.

After Percy had been missing for three days, Annabeth had had a dream telling her to find a guy with one shoe. She found the guy with one shoe, whose name turned out to be Jason Grace, and he was accompanied by two others, Leo Valdez and Piper McLean.

During the campfire that night, it became clear that their appearance had something to do with the Great Prophecy: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call. To storm or fire the world must fall.

An oath to keep with final breath and foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Along with a prophecy specifically for Jason: Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

Which didn't sound ominous at all.

No one knew what the Great Prophecy meant. They didn't know what challenges the demigods would face, but they expected it to predict something at least as bad as the Titan War.

Jason turned out to be the son of Jupiter/Zeus, while Leo was a son of Hephaestus, and to the shock of many, Piper was a daughter of Aphrodite. The three teens had barely been at the camp before they were given a mission to save Hera. Hera had somehow been captured and had to be rescued by sunset on the winter solstice, which was four days away, in order to prevent some sort of king from rising.

Chiron was tightlipped about the whole ordeal, he knew more than what was going on and refused to speak of it. Harry was annoyed that of all the times for Chiron to behave as mysterious as the centaurs of The Forbidden Forest that he had chosen this time to do so. Then again, he claimed to have sworn an oath to not speak of it, so there was no telling what would happen to him if he did speak of it.

Harry and Merope were torn between understanding what they had been sent here to help do. Were they supposed to follow the kids on their quest, or remain at the camp to help prepare them for the danger that seemed to be coming?

In the end, they had to trust that the three teens would be able to complete their mission, as they had been handpicked by Hera herself to do it. The Potters would be needed at camp to keep the rest of the campers safe.

Annabeth spent most of her time leaving the camp on her self-imposed mission to find Percy. It was as if he had fallen off the face of the earth. And even if Harry or Merope had offered to send a patronus message to Percy on Annabeth's behalf, Percy would have had no way to return the message.

Harry and Merope felt very lucky that the two of them could always find each other, they couldn't imagine how awful Annabeth must feel without having a way to contact Percy just to know he's okay.

Drew from the Aphrodite Cabin proved herself to be a nuisance. Instead of trying to work with the other campers and learn how to fight, she spent her time using her charmspeak to attempt to boss everyone around. Merope could tell she was making the other campers miserable, especially the ones in the Aphrodite Cabin.

Harry and Merope had taken to randomly hitting her with hexes that would make her break out in zits, just to knock her down a peg or two in the hopes that her ego would deflate a tad, but they mostly stayed busy helping the campers train.

With the use of the RoR, they had managed to train their kids about as far as they could go. Not everyone was proficient in potions, just as not everyone was proficient with ancient runes; however, all of them could now produce usable potions and the knowledge of how to use protective runes without blowing anything up.

Now the Potter kids were working with the Apollo kids to help boost the medical supplies with the potions, and the Hephaestus kids with enchanting battle armor with protective runes.

Merope took a few cuttings of their magical plants and worked with the Demeter kids to show them how to plant and take care of them, so that the campers wouldn't have to always rely on Harry and Merope to provide them with those ingredients for potions.

The enchantments around the camp had begun to unravel and they would have completely collapsed if Harry and Merope had not warded the boundaries of the camp, which turned out to be a good thing considering the news that the Roman Army was in their way to destroy their camp.

Word managed to trickle back that Annabeth had found Percy, and had joined Jason, Leo, and Piper along with two others. It turned out that Jason had been a member of the Roman's version of Camp Half-Blood. He had had his memory wiped, so that he could come to Camp Half-Blood free from prejudice, because the gods and goddesses needed both the Romans and the Greeks to unite and work together to save the world from the threat of the rise of Gaea.

All they could do in the interim was wait and train and train and wait.

This was the first time since Harry and Merope started traveling time and worlds that they were not the ones out there actively trying to save the world. For some reason, it seemed important to allow the demigods to complete the quests they were given, that it wasn't yet time for them to step in and fight.

So they trained and they waited. The end was coming nigh and come Hell or high water, they were going to make sure the children survived, even the Romans that were coming to try to wipe them out.

A/N: Okay. So not as long of a chapter as I was hoping to produce, but it is what it is.