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Piper's P.O.V.

It was the day of the First Task.

Over the last week or so, Percy had been training hard. During breaks he was usually seen sparring with Jason, Nico, Annabeth, or Reyna. Thalia gave him plenty of practice in dodging arrows, meant to represent spells.

In addition, Nico had somehow found out that there were dragons involved.

I remembered how he'd come running into camp around 2 in the morning that night, calling us to get up...

~Flashback~

I'd groggily stumbled out of my tent and immediately bumped into Hazel. "Sorry!" I yelped.

Hazel had just given me a grin. "It's fine, Piper."

"What's the deal that you are calling all of us up at this ridiculous hour?" Annabeth had asked.

Nico then told us what he'd seen. Apparently, he was taking a midnight walk around the grounds (Chiron looked quite annoyed at this and murmured something about curfews and rules), and how he'd seen 5 dragons. All had nests, and a whole group of wizards were dealing with each one.

Nico hadn't been able to make out faces but he was sure that the two half-giants (namely, Hagrid and Madame Maxine) had been there.

Chiron had looked half-amused. "Yes, that first task does involve dragons. I won't give you all the details, but I expect you can handle it. I believe Karkoraff knows as well, and if it was indeed Hagrid you saw, he will be sure to tell Harry."

"And he'll probably tell Cedric, because those two seem like they know each other to some degree. Yeah, great. So is that the whole reason you got us all to wake up at the wrong time of night? You realize we still have annoying classes to attend tomorrow, in what, 5 hours?" The half-asleep Will was not very pleased to have been woken up this early.

Nico had just shrugged. "Yeah...sorry guys...Oh and I forgot to mention, I found a hellhound. Nothing to worry about, it was in the Forbidden Forest on the other side from the dragons and I took care of it, no sweat."

"Probably attracted by the scent of fresh demigod. Lovely." Reyna muttered.

"Now can we go to sleep or is that all, Death Breath" Tlalia asked.

Nico nodded. "That's it. Sorry to wake you guys...I'll make it up to you later."

I was pretty sure that Thalia would get him back later on anyways though.

~end flashback~

I wasn't too worried. Compared to a Minotaur at the age of 12 (with almost no battle experience, in addition), as well as having a lot of battle experience with giants and titans under his belt, Percy would ace this easily.

But the other champions...We hadn't had time to properly plan out who would protect whom, since everything had seemed so rushed before. Reyna was swamped in homework, Calypso and Lou were cramming for N.E.W.T.s, and the rest of us had been just trying to figure out everything. The little help Hecate gave just barely gave us passing grades.

We New World students sat near the front. Lou Ellen sat between us and the Hogwarts students he was friends with. I seemed to remember their names as being Cho and Luna. Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and Ron from Gryffindor were next to Luna.

Frank had opted to sit behind the majority of our group with a Durmstrang boy. H

"Welcome, everyone, to the first task of the Quad-wizard Tournament!" The voice of Barry Crouch Senior bellowed over the crowd of students and teachers, who cheered. I noticed a good number of them wearing things to support their champions. Krum's face glared from the various groups of Durmstrang boys scattered around, the girls were cheering for Fleur Delacour, a large amount of Hogwarts students had "Potter Stinks/Cedric Diggory" badges, Luna wore a giant hat that roared like a lion (probably for Harry,, I suspected).

As for Percy...Well, I could see several girls that were worthy of Aphrodite herself holding up "Support Percy" signs. And those were the least obvious ones.

I mean, sheesh, he has a girlfriend.

Us New World students had choson to simply wear the emblem of the trident on our uniforms. No need to be crazy. It was just a dragon. Kronos was way worse, according to Annabeth. Heck, we had two of them at Camp.

I turned my attention back to Mr. Crouch as he announced, "...Fleur Delacour against the Common Welsh Green!"

Fleur came out. She looked pretty determined, as she fired spell after spell and finally managed to get the golden egg in the dragon's nest, albeit with some minor troubles involving her hair being singed. As well as a broken arm, which was quickly mended.

"..Viktor Krum against the Chinese Fireball!"

That round took quite a while and Jason looked like he wanted to screech at Viktor. "He's completely letting down his guard...Faux pass, do a fake-oh shit, no don't do that!" was one of his more audible comments.

At last, the egg was claimed. And Viktor lost a boot, not to mention burns.

"Idiot show-off." Jason muttered. I stared at him, since Jason rarely talked bad about anyone. Guess that that last fight had just been torture for him.

"..Percy Jackson against the Ukrainian Ironbelly!"

This fight wasn't even fair. Percy, being the reckless person he is, decided to jump onto the dragon (which was extremely Percy-like) and seemed to be having fun while the annoyed dragon thrashed around. "Oh c'mon, Beef Head was more engaging than you!" "That wasn't even a close shot, you'll just burn your nest or something with aim like that!" I have better accuracy with an arrow then you do with your firebreath, Snake-tail!"

I saw Chiron massaging his temples from the box where the judges and headmasters sat. Beside me, Leo, Thalia, Hazel, Jason, and Will were all trying to hide their laughter and amusement in various ways. Annabeth was screeching at Percy to just get the egg already and stop torturing the dragon.

I for one was 100% sure Percy was just going easy on the thing, he could've stabbed her with ease within the first few minutes. After a while, he finally jumped down, picked up the egg, and jabbed his sword into the dragon, which finally made it fall over. Not dead, but incapacitated.

Some fight. Most of it hadn't involved Percy swigging around his sword, just a lot of him taunting the dragon and doing acrobatics. But yet the girls were swooning.

Like seriously? Sure, Percy's buff, he's well-toned, he's got skill. He's powerful too, but most don't know that, of course. He's kind, funny, loyal-everything a girl wants in a husband.

Except he's taken.

I was so lost in my thoughts that the only thing that drew me from my mind was the gasps of the crowd as Harry took off on a broom. That kid was good, with a capital G. And apparently I'd missed watching Cedric's fight, but by then I was pretty sick of the fighting.

Hearing all 5 had made it through alive was enough for me. And it must've been the same for Nico, who shadow-traveled off the moment everyone started moving around. Taking one very confused Jason with him.

I just watched the Son of Hades dragging off my boyfriend to some unknown place, wondering. But passed off a dreaded weight in my stomach, instead going to congratulate Percy on his victory. At least until Rita Skeeter, some news lady, dragged him off for paparazzi stuff.

Good thing wizarding people knew nothing about the American muggle world, because I did not care to get my own picture on the front of a newspaper.