Chapter 1: Uncovered
Lot of liberties will be taken such as skipping over Cali and Percys traumatic childhood and the prophecy being for their 15th birthday instead of 16 so Kronos is defeated by the time the twins need to go to Hogwarts.
Chapter 1: Uncovered
Hadrian Sirius Potter was born in the early morning hours of July 31st 1993 (fuck you HP canon that's why) to James and Lily Potter, two of the most renown wizards of their generation. His black hair and green eyes were very much reminiscent of his parents, and his bright smile and erratic movements brought much joy to his parents as they gazed upon their firstborn.
After half an hour more of painful pushing, they were blessed with another baby. A beautiful little girl, black hair like her father and brother but with hazel eyes instead of green. They named her Caligula Lily Potter.
They thought it was over and were ready to properly meet their children until Lily's contractions started back up and she keeled forward in pain. The nurses quickly took Hadrian and Caligula back out of the room and set to work delivering this unexpected third child. Surprisingly, even though Cali had been an easier birth than Hadrian simply because her womb was now stretched and ready, the birth of this third child felt like she was starting from square one.
James feared the worst as his wife wailed at the pushing, desperate to give birth and rid her body of these annoying fetuses. It took another hour of labor but eventually a third baby crowned and popped out. A boy they named Nero James Potter. He was an almost exact clone of his father, who was also his second namesake. The boy had a cheeky grin plastered on his face from birth and the same messy black hair and hazel eyes.
All were named after famous Roman Emperors. Lily had chosen Hadrian as she thought it would bring good fortune to her oldest son if she named him after arguably the most successful emperor. James had chosen Caligula for their girl saying that it was a unisex name and Caligula was loony. Lily hadn't liked it at first but relented. Upon finding out they had another son, James chose Nero on the spot as it was just a cool name.
After a while all three were presented to the friends of the parents, and godfathers were named. Sirius was godfather of his namesake Hadrian Sirius, Remus over Cali and Peter was to be godfather to young Nero.
And now here they lay 15 years later minus Nero. The other twins were both in Hadrian's bed in his hot and smelly room in their NYC apartment owned by their adoptive mother Sally. Hadrian, or Percy as he now referred to himself, wore only a pair of basketball shorts while Cali had on a white tank top and some jogging shorts. The twins' black hair was sprawled all over the bed, nearly tangling in each other's.
In between them a girl lay actually under the sheets, her auburn hair equally spread over the pillow. Her creamy skin glistened in the early morning sunlight as she buried herself in Cali's embrace. The former Potter girl was in an unconscious happy state as Artemis, her brother's girlfriend, cuddled into her tight.
It was an unusual sight for the Greek goddess of archery and virginity to be snuggling with an actual man but it was the reality that had been for around a year now. Ever since the twins had saved her from Atlas and the Weight of the Sky she had held feelings for the demigod and she had finally gotten the courage to admit them to him after the twins were celebrated as heroes in the Battle of the Labyrinth.
The three were in bed the morning after a night of passion, barely a week after the twins defeated Kronos and saved the Greek world. The night before, Artemis had been all too happy to continue with her incessant 'rewarding' of her hero for saving the world and Percy was happy to take the reward. Then early in the morning California Jackson had returned from a night of partying and had likely found the wrong room and couldn't be bothered turning around. Thankfully by the time she arrived Percy and Artemis were out cold so she wasn't traumatized again.
When the sunlight destroyed Percy's eyelids he opened them only to groan at the space rays attempting to murder him. The demigod rolled over in bed towards his girlfriend and sister, wrapping his arms around the two. He checked with one eye first to see which one was pressed up against him before leaning down to kiss Artemis' neck. If he accidentally did that to Cali it wouldn't just be awkward and gross, but painful after she turned around and sent him through the window.
Artemis felt the lips on her neck and squirmed, a drowsy smile on her face. She rolled over so she was now in Percy's embrace, her head buried into his naked chest. He grinned as he pulled the girl into a hug. "Morning, baby." He greeted, and Artemis lifted her head to look at him. "Morning." She whispered back, leaning up and pecking him on the lips.
Percy looked past her to their dresser where there lay an empty bottle of whiskey, drunken by the couple the night before in the hour or so preceding their affairs. He sighed and lay back down, shutting his crusty eyes. "Mom'll notice that by tonight. Needa go get a replacement." He said, since they had taken the bottle out of Sally and Paul's stash. Thankfully Percy had a fake ID and the local store was convinced by now that he was 21. All thanks to that Jackson speech skill. Playin' it off cool.
"Have fun. I'll get us breakfast." Artemis said tiredly. Percy sat up and shook his head. "No need, mom's probably already making some for Estelle so no doubt she's getting some for us just in case." He assured her.
Artemis shrugged, rolling over and stretching. "Then I'll go see if she needs help." She told her boyfriend. Percy nodded and stood, looking around the floor for a shirt. He'd shower when he got back. Replacing that bottle and not getting lectured on the dangers of underage drinking was Percy's highest priorities. He'd leave Sally's lectures for Cali.
He didn't end up finding a shirt since they were all either dirty or in the wash, so he decided to just put on a hoodie and zip it up. Percy left the room and jogged through the living room before his mom could see, but Estelle did anyway. "Hi Pewrcy!" She yelled, making Sally poke her head in from the kitchen. "Morning." She said, and he could hear the sound of something sizzling in the kitchen, maybe pancakes or bacon.
Before she could ask where he was going, he interrupted. "I think Artemis wanted to help you do breakfast. I'm just running down to the store for a sprite." He said, and Sally nodded. "Oh then get two! One for you kids and one for the rest of us." She told him, for some reason excluding Estelle from 'kids'. Percy nodded, glad she wasn't suspicious, and left quickly.
He checked his wallet to make sure he had his fake ID before descending the stairs. He had in his pocket a familiar pen, still capped, as always. He didn't believe he needed it considering few monsters had been spotted since the war's end but in a place like New York you could never tell.
In New York on Ministry business, aurors Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were on lunch break and decided to just go buy some crisps from the shop down the road. As Remus fished around his pockets for enough American muggle money he let Sirius continue on his rants about the news from that morning.
"-and not only do they do all this to poor Nero, they make up bullshit just to try and get him expelled, but they have the gall to send us overseas on this stupid mission! Who cares what the bloody Cherokees are up to! They have an American Ministry for a reason, why can't they deal with it!?" The Black heir fumed in the streets, uncaring of the Muggles passing by.
Remus counted the dollar bills in his hand. Why did Americans use entire bills just for a single dollar? What was the point? Not to mention the horror that was the penny. "Don't be insensitive. You're not allowed to shout 'who cares about the Cherokees' anymore, that's how you get fired. You know the American Ministry is understaffed as it is. The wizarding population is not as dense over here and they're busy, we're not." He explained to his best friend.
Sirius scoffed as they approached a store. "We should be busy! You-know-who is gallivanting around Malfoy manor right now and that oaf Fudge has nothing on his mind other than ruining a boy's life! Absolute disgrace."
Remus smiled at his brazen friend's rage. Generally this would be the part where the lycanthrope stepped in and calmed his friend down but he was too busy trying to decipher American muggle money to really care.
They walked into the shop and went straight for the junk food. Remus looked at his friend and nodded at the crisps. "You choose. I'll get us a drink each." He said, and Sirius nodded before being left to look at the various flavors. What on Earth was Lays? Pringles would probably do.
He grabbed two tubes of green pringles and stood up, looking down at the can. He looked up and saw a man was directly in front of him on the opposite side of the aisle. Man was a strong word, the guy looked about 16. He was inspecting the lollies on the other side, trying to decide between dinosaurs and snakes, when he noticed Sirius staring at him.
Sirius felt something was familiar about the boy but he also felt he had never seen this person before. The latter was highly likely considering this is America. Percy suddenly got self-conscious as a feeling of familiarity or deja-vu began to seep in though he didn't immediately recognize the man.
Sirius' eyes drifted upwards to the man's forehead, where something caught his eye. A scar on his forehead, like Nero's bolt, but this one was shaped like a pitchfork or something. "Nero." He whispered faintly, remembering his godson's scar.
As the familiar name reached Percy's ears his heart sank, and it clicked in his head. He turned and rushed to the counter, fishing all the money he had in his pocket and slamming it on the bench, turning to see Sirius walking over. "Hey!" He yelled, and Percy got spooked.
The teenager ran with his drinks, booking it out of the store and down the sidewalk. Sirius was angry and confused at the same time. "Hey! Come back! I need to talk to you!" He yelled, booking it out of the store with the pringles can, though he had not paid. This caught the attention of Remus, who cursed as chased after his friend- leaving the drinks behind of course- like Sirius was his dog chasing after a cat.
Percy ran for his life down the street, panic flooding through his mind. He would not go back to that world, he could not. Neither would Cali. He was doing his best to flow with through the New York crowd like water itself. Sirius had no such skill as he bowled through civilians on their commutes, shocked at how the boneless stranger was able to move without shoving people over. Remus was busy damage controlling as he picked fallen muggles up and apologized profusely.
Percy somehow still held onto both bottles as he reached his apartment building and booked it inside. He turned the corner to the stairs and immediately turned around to catch the strange man off guard. When Sirius came rushing around the corner he was met by a 2 litre bottle of Sprite catching him in the face.
Sirius cursed as he felt blood trickling down from his nose and he fell into the wall, now properly enraged. "Sirius! Are you okay?!" Remus asked frantically as the lady at the front desk screeched at them but Sirius waved him off. "Not now, Moony! Get that prick!" He snapped, rushing up the stairs after the kid trying to ignore the pain in his face.
With the Sprite bottles properly shaken up, Percy put all his strength into hopping up each stair until he reached his floor about four or five storeys up. Seeing that the two men weren't yet on the floor, he booked it down the hallway to his room and snapped his wrist to open the door.
Though the door was open and Percy was a step inside it, he felt his weight and the force of gravity completely disappearing as his feet left the ground and he was pulled in the air. He thought for a second that a giant had grabbed him until he looked back and saw nothing was holding him up.
Completely freaked out by this blatant display of wizardry, the likes of which he hadn't seen since he was a young boy, Percy gave an un-Percylike screech which caused everyone in the apartment to come rushing out. When Estelle saw her older brother literally floating in the air she squealed, rushing over to her older sister for shelter.
Cali was confused when Estelle bowled into her crying until she looked to the doorway and saw her twin floating in the air like an abandoned astronaut helplessly flinging his limbs around. Sally and Artemis both had the same reaction, shouting "What the fuck?!" when they saw him there.
Panting, Sirius and Remus both appeared in the doorway, the former with his wand out pointed at Percy. Horrified, thinking the wand was a gun, Sally rushed to her handbag to get the pepper spray. Artemis and Cali both summoned their weapons, thinking due to the magic that this was a Greek threat.
Remus' eyes widened as he saw Sally approaching, but instead of warning Sirius he just yelled "Muggles!" Watching as Sally ran up to Sirius and violated his eyes with pepper spray. The animagus dropped his wand screaming as he jammed his hands into his eyeballs hoping to stop the spraying, only serving to hurt himself further.
With the wand on the ground, Percy quickly fell too and he scrambled away from the men chasing him. He pulled himself up on Artemis and withdrew Riptide, knowing full well it would not hurt them nor could they see the sword but hoping they'd think the pen was a switchblade or something.
As Sirius continued to rub his eyes Remus pulled him back. "Woah! They have weapons! They have weapons!" He said frantically, pulling Sirius back. Sally had two scimitar and boning knives ready, waving at them as he nudged Estelle back with her foot. "Who the fuck are you and why are you chasing my son! I'm calling the police!" She threatened, moving to the phone.
Remus held a hand up. "Ma'am! Ma'am please! It's all a big misunderstanding! My friend here is not well in the head. He thought the boy was shoplifting and tried to stop him. He means no-" The werewolf was cut off by his friend who stood up and grabbed him. "It's him, Remus! I saw him! It was Harry! And the girl must be her too!" He said, pointing at the wall next to Cali, unable to see.
Remus and Cali were shocked at his accusation while Artemis looked confused as hell. Sally and Percy both have grave looks on their faces as they knew the implications of this encounter. Remus shook his head. "No… no, they look different." He reasoned, but Sirius was adamant. "It's them, Remus! I know it! I swear it!" He cried.
Suddenly Cali blew their cover, lowering her sword and speaking quietly. "Remus? Sirius?"
This made everyone snap their heads to her. The wizards were shocked while Percy seemed pissed. Artemis was still confused as always. Remus slowly separated from his friend and stood up. "Merlin's beard. It is you. My goddaughter, Caligula!" He said happily, running over and encompassing her in a hug. Cali's breath hitched at the assault as she was hugged by the man she had not seen in years.
He pulled back and looked her over, his missing goddaughter looked up at the tall man with confliction in her eyes. "Wow. You've grown into such a beautiful young woman." He complimented, and Percy was about to tell him to stop hitting on his sister when Sirius spoke. "Harry."
The boy in question's head snapped to the right as he lowered his sword. The mid-thirties man looked at him with a mixture of relief, anxiety and pride on his face. All Percy could muster was confusion and resentment.
He felt a tug on his sleeve and turned to his left where Artemis stood with Estelle's hand in hers, her silver bow vanished. "Percy, what's going on?" She asked her boyfriend, and Percy just smiled sadly. "Nothing, babe. I'll explain later." He said, kissing her on the lips, something which surprised the hell out of Sirius.
Remus suddenly stepped back. "I- you two need to come with us." He said. Cali stepped away from his sudden advance warily. "What?! Why?" She asked, and Sirius nodded. "Right! James and Lily will need to see this. Dumbledore too!" He said, walking over to Percy.
The teens both grabbed the weapons and threatened to unsheathe them if the two came any closer. "Hell no! I'm not going back to that shithole of a country!" He said, which made Sally and Artemis step to their defence.
"Get the fuck out of my house right now!" She said, even though it was an apartment. Sirius and Remus both froze as they looked at each other warily. Then Sirius ever so slightly nodded and they leapt forward, grabbing their god children and apparating out.
Sally and Estelle both screamed at the crack noise, and all three girls looked around for their missing family members. "What the- where the fuck did they go!?" Sally wailed, uncharacteristically cursing a lot today.
Artemis was livid, thinking some monsters had just kidnapped her boyfriend and friend. No monsters could match to an Olympian goddess. "Don't worry Sally. I'll find them." She said, flashing out as Sally covered her daughter's eyes.
As the Goddess of the Hunt, it wouldn't take long to track her missing friends, and when she did there would be Hades to pay for the people who took her.
This took weeks to write lmao and BearWarrior has already read ⅚ of it lmao. Anyway, here ya go everybody, another story to add to my shitstain pile.
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