Hey everyone,
Challenge #3 and again it will be a mix of two different categories; one Harry Potter and one, this time, Percy Jackson. I KNOW, I KNOW, It's overdone, but I think this is a very different and very special one. It's pretty much my A Divine Hogwarts challenge, but then different – with Harry STILL going to Hogwarts.
It also takes place much sooner than fifth year and has a few other attributes that are PJ related to it. It also has one attribute to it that you will find in almost ALL of my stories and that I'm sure some of you are getting pretty darned tired of seeing, but it is something I will constantly and forever believe in.
See for yourself,
Venquine1990
Challenge #3
Child of All
Zeus' POV
I should have never named my child Herodus, it is much too similar to Hercules, the child of mine that had to go through all those trials before he found peace by taking down both the Emperor of Rome and the King of Thrace. I just realized this error too late, only after my son had actually been stolen from his crib here on Olympus.
This had been something that I had never been able to believe even possible, yet it had happened and I had send out all of my fellow Gods and Goddesses, giving them only one order; to find and return me my son. Yet two of the Gods had refused this, Apollo and Hecate and their reason behind this refusal had shocked me greatly.
Herodus was not to be just my son, he was to be a Child of all Gods, claimed by them and having been given one of their abilities each on the day he was born. He was also meant to remind the magicals of the English Isles where their gift actually came from and to peg down their actual growing arrogance back to acceptable levels.
To know that my son is actually now on the British Isles, so far away from his American home, is a thought that hurts and haunts me, but not as much as the news that had followed after I had heard of this prophesy; the news that some strange, powerful magical mortal had actually managed to turn my son mortal as well.
Even Hecate and Apollo had been shocked at hearing this, yet a year after his kidnap had Hecate discovered how this was possible. The kidnapper; a man named Albus Dumbledore; had stopped at the border to Camp Halfblood after he had kidnapped my son and had levitated my child through the barrier a couple of times.
How this had made my son mortal I still don't understand, but according to Hecate was my son now a true Demigod instead of an Immortal God as he had been born and was he not to get his Immortality back until all of my brothers, sisters and cousins had claimed him as their own and trained him in their gifted abilities.
I had not been pleased with hearing this, yet this news receiving had been ten years ago and right now I am just waiting for the train of Hogwarts to finally arrive at the castle and for my son to – as the Magicals at this school call it – be Sorted into one of the four Houses through which this strange school apparently operates.
The reason I am here is not just to claim my son as my own again, but also to prove to the Headmaster – the same Albus Dumbledore – that you can't steal from a God and not expect to be punished. I already have a little bit of my own powers ready to punish him and the way the punishment works is definitely fun to my beliefs.
Dumbledore not just stole my son from me and turned him mortal, he also gave the child to a pair of people who, after taking in my son, had been targeted and murdered by some magical maniac named Voldemort, the two of them actually sacrificing themselves to save my son while they were fully aware that he wasn't even theirs.
James and Lily Potter had been granted instant access to Elysium after the Judges had discovered this and I know that Hades is anxious to claim Herodus – or Harry as the magicals call him – as it will allow the little Demigod entrance to his Domain and give him the chance to reunite with these amazing people.
I then hear the grinding of wheels coming closer and can almost sense how the magical smoke of the train is polluting and disappearing into the air as it comes closer and closer to Hogwarts and when I feel the smoke rising up from the same location for some time, do I know that the train has reached its Hogsmeade station at last.
At feeling this do I sit up a little straighter, being hidden by the magic of the enchanted ceiling of Hogwarts and while hiding myself in the wooden framework that the ceiling is actually made off, do I wait patiently as first all the second to seventh years and then, ten minutes after this, the First years enter the Great Hall.
Setting myself up to jump down and claim my child, do I easily take him out of the rest of the group, the glamour old Dumbles put on him making him stand out like a flashlight with his mop of wild Potter hair and his weak looking frame, proving once again that what Hera told me about his Mundane Upraising is true.
Both of us had been beyond furious and had caused for quite some commotion in the Mortal realm due to our anger in the year we discovered that Herodus was being abused by his Mundane caregivers, caregivers that, also, knew he was not related to them, yet took him in only to bully and pester him for years on end.
This they had done for two reasons, one we had quickly stopped from happening after finding out. The first was because both adults hated the magical realm of their world with a passion, including all of its inhabitants regardless of their age. The other was because they were paid to hurt our child, payment we quickly turned to our advantage.
Athena had been the one to make this idea and while I had not wanted to keep allowing for the money to be transferred from my son's adoptive family vaults, had her plan convinced me as the coins, upon the right signal, would become cursed, making it so that the Dursleys could only speak of their crimes and feel my son's pain all the time.
By now all of my Divine family is waiting for this punishment to take place, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Ares the most as all of them feel purely disgusted with how the Mundane Mortals are treating their Divine child, yet I agree with Athena that the best time to activate the curse is after we have taken Herodus away from England.
This is exactly the reason why I am here and while it pains and aggravates me, do I wait patiently for Herodus to be placed, feeling silently proud when he goes into the House of the Brave, after which I wait for him to eat his fill and – with anger in my heart – wait for the old geezer to finish his little Start of the Year Speech.
Then, when the man speaks of some kind of danger in the school, do I smirk as I see my chance and when the man speaks of the Third Floor Corridor and the painful death, do I say: "Death to mortals, perhaps." Making the man halt in his speech and making everyone look up as I hop down from the banister I sat on.
Landing softly due to my control over the air that blows ever so softly around the Great Hall, do I walk from one end of the tables to the other with grace, my face a mask of glaring calmness while the glare in my eyes electrifies and terrifies all those who gaze at me, even going so far as to make the man before me whiten.
This makes me work hard not to smirk in victory as I continue my spiel and say: "But then again, what could ever attempt to kill an immortal being – but the magic to make such a being mortal, am I right Albus Dumbledore?" And by focusing on how cold my clouds feel during winter do I hiss the name with a freezing power of anger.
The man shudders at hearing his name be spoken like that and I hiss: "Did you truly believe you could get away from us? That – at any point in time, any point at all – we would not try and avenge our fallen child? That we would not try to take back that which you took from us? Did you truly believe yourself above such chances?"
And while my questions are heard all over the Great Hall, does the man whiten more and more as he must be realizing that the questions are only rhetorical, something the woman beside him does not as she turns from me to the elder man beside her and then back as she asks: "What in Merlin's name are you talking about?"
And before any of the other teachers can speak their minds or try to defend the man before me, do I raise my hand at the next witch, one that is quite plumb and who I know is Head of Hufflepuff and I say: "You know darn well what I mean, don't you Dumbledore? Just like I know exactly where my missing child is right now."
And while the man has never been whiter than he is now, do I ignore him and the other confused looking faculty and do I instead turn to Gryffindor table, my eyes searching and finding my son before I raise my hand and allow for a large sign, a white and gold thunderbolt, to be raised and shown for all to see – above Herodus' head.
The boy is the first to look at the sign, his eyes widening while many of the students – who I know are Muggleborn and have been raised with History lessons about this sign – gasp and after looking at the sign, does my son look back at me and I smile at him with love as I speak loud enough for all to hear as I say: "Welcome home, my Herodus."
Okay cliffhanger,
But this story is pretty much the sole reason I made these challenges as I don't really know how to continue this story. I know how to start it and I know what I want from it, but how to put it into words or how to make a respectable story out of it, my fingers and imagination just aren't able to get that done.
That's why I am leaving this story to all of you. Harry is to lead Magical England back into a world that Heralds and Honors the Gods just like they did when Hecate blessed them with the gift of magic. Also, and this is not in the rules, but the Greek and Roman Gods have to be separated at some point during the story.
This doesn't mean that there can't be a Heroes of Olympus series added to the story, it just means that there can't be any inner conflict taking place within the Gods unless you plan to have them separate from each other and then have them – by some form of magic – be merged back together during the HoO series.
Anyway, onto the rules:
When Herodus was born, all of the gods felt one of their powers or abilities be transferred to the child, but alongside this did both Apollo and Hecate foresee what was to be the child' s future and because of this, were they aware – before anyone else – that Herodus would not remain with his immortal parents, Zeus and Hera.
However, while they were able to locate the child swiftly after his kidnap, were even they shocked and baffled to find that the child was suddenly mortal and that he was to remain this way until the day he turns eleven.
Now Herodus – aka Harry – is eleven, has met Hagrid the groundskeeper, Tom the barkeeper, Griphook the goblin, Quirrel his Defense Teacher and Ron Weasley and is he on his way to Hogwarts, not knowing that he will only remain at the school for a short time or that his true home – will be Camp Halfblood, where one at a time, the Twelve Gods of Olympus will claim him for their own – as is his destiny.
Rules:Harry must have a Divine Name – example: Herodus, Heracles, etc.
Zeus and Hera must be Harry's original birth parents
Lily and James must be aware that Harry is not truly theirs
Harry must be allowed to visit Lily and James in Elysium
Dumbledore must be the one to have kidnapped Harry
Dumbledore must have a reason to be against the Potter line – they have ancestors who are Demigods, their Neutral behavior goes against his plans, they tried preventing the seventies war, they were against his actions as teacher/headmaster, etc.
Harry must be in Camp Halfblood for most of first year – other years are for your own choice.
Harry must have a friendship with either Percy, Annabeth or Grover – all three NOT ALLOWED!
Harry must have friends in both worlds – magical and divine
Harry must have one talent given to him by each of the gods – swimming from Poseidon, crafts from Apollo, speed of Hermes, etc.
Voldemort must surrender before war breaks out – either because he believes in the Gods, because he fears Harry's full strength, because he wishes not to murder a son of Zeus, etc.
Harry must remind all of the magical world where their magic originally comes from (Hecate)
Guidelines:powerful!Harry
Clever!Harry
Intelligent!Harry – make your pick if you decide there's a difference
Crafty!Harry – as in Apollo's gifts being the first to be revealed
Slash/Mulitpairings
Harry, Ron friendship
Harry-Hermione friendship
Ron-Hermione friendship
Supportive Heads of Houses
Supportive Hogwarts Houses – only one or two, not all!
Manipulative Dumbledore
Greedy!Ron – See Harry-Hermione friendship
Arrogant!Hermione - See Ron-Harry Friendship
Confident Neville – See Ron-Hermione Friendship
Gods coming and staying at Hogwarts for extended periods of time
Forbidden:Golden Trio
Olympus trio aka Percy-Annabeth-Grover
Supportive Dumbledore
Wizarding war
Political!Harry – he believes in the Gods, not Fudge or politics
All of the Weasleys opposing Harry
Immortal!Harry – ONLY AFTER THE CLAIMING BY ALL GODS!
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